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15 Great Moments in Sexually Suggestive Pop Music

15 Great Moments in Sexually Suggestive Pop Music

  IN 1985, Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) released their “Filthy 15” – ...
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The Russia Empire In Color 1905-15

The Russia Empire In Color 1905-15

What did the Russian Empire look like between 1905 and 1915? Thanks the Sergei Mikhailovich ...
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1930: The Mechanical Hen Demonstrates The Anatomy Of A Chicken

1930: The Mechanical Hen Demonstrates The Anatomy Of A Chicken

FLASHBACK to 1930: The hen with the mechanical internal organs, who surprised visitors at the ...
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Swearing Peppa Pig Presents The World’s Rudest Toys

Swearing Peppa Pig Presents The World’s Rudest Toys

  PEPPA Pig was in the news again this week, and once again the news ...
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Jackie Magazine 1982: ‘Rebel’ Bev Is Banned From Using The New ZX Spectrum

Jackie Magazine 1982: ‘Rebel’ Bev Is Banned From Using The New ZX Spectrum

FLASHBACK to 1982, and the go-ahead new ZX Spectrum is making waves in the Jackie ...
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Kray Twins Auction: A Bible, A Charles Bronson Painting But No Copy Of A Blue Jeans Love Story

Kray Twins Auction: A Bible, A Charles Bronson Painting But No Copy Of A Blue Jeans Love Story

AH, those were the Krays, those halcyon days when a villain was proper villain, a ...
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March 1951 In 25 Classic Photos: Spies, Mobsters And Jumping Beans Horses

March 1951 In 25 Classic Photos: Spies, Mobsters And Jumping Beans Horses

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Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party – When Manhattan Cable Television Went Punk And Debbie Harry Taught Us To Pogo

Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party – When Manhattan Cable Television Went Punk And Debbie Harry Taught Us To Pogo

"I was the Ed Sullivan of the avant-garde." It was 1979, and Manhattan public access television was hitting its eccentric stride. ...
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Dutch Gone Wild: 10 Insane Record Covers From The Netherlands

Dutch Gone Wild: 10 Insane Record Covers From The Netherlands

THE Internet has certainly done its fair share of mockery when it comes to vintage ...
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1985: Tony Benn And Mr Rough, The Tramp Living In His Wicker Shed

1985: Tony Benn And Mr Rough, The Tramp Living In His Wicker Shed

FLASHBACK to December 4, 1985: Paddington-born tramp Dennis Rough, beside his new home, a wicker ...
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Their Last Known Photograph: Five Found-Footage Horror Movies That Deserve a Second Look

Their Last Known Photograph: Five Found-Footage Horror Movies That Deserve a Second Look

  THE found-footage horror film genre is one that isn’t often appreciated. The late Roger ...
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The Blind Beggar And The Bloody Killing of George Cornell by Ronnie Kray

The Blind Beggar And The Bloody Killing of George Cornell by Ronnie Kray

  ONE hundred and one years after the evangelist William Booth preached his first open ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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