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1940: Hattie McDaniel’s Stirring Academy Award Winning Speech As The First Black Oscar Winner

1940: Hattie McDaniel’s Stirring Academy Award Winning Speech As The First Black Oscar Winner

  ON February 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an ...
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Ralph Ginzburg’s 1960s Taboo-Busting Eros Magazine ‘Entirely Devoted To Love and Sex’

Ralph Ginzburg’s 1960s Taboo-Busting Eros Magazine ‘Entirely Devoted To Love and Sex’

  BETWEEN January 1968 to Spring 1971, Ralph Ginzburg (October 28, 1929 – July 6, ...
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February 28 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Is Assassinated

February 28 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Is Assassinated

ON February 28 1986: Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated on a Stockholm street. ...
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1959 Photos: Candy Barr Teaches Joan Collins To Dance Burlesque

1959 Photos: Candy Barr Teaches Joan Collins To Dance Burlesque

August 1959: Candy Barr tutors a young Joan Collins on how to dance to jazzy saxophone music, ...
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36 Classic Photos I Found From November 1980

36 Classic Photos I Found From November 1980

FLASHBACK to November 1980. We’ve trawled the archives to bring you a look at life ...
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Beauty And Fitness Adverts: The Fine Art of Preying On A Bad Self-Image

Beauty And Fitness Adverts: The Fine Art of Preying On A Bad Self-Image

IT'S the job of advertising to capitalize on human insecurities, primarily focusing on easy targets ...
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The Roots Of Ska: From Tennessee, Through Jamaica To The Best of British

The Roots Of Ska: From Tennessee, Through Jamaica To The Best of British

  SKA music gets into your bones. In is essay The Chop On The Upbeat, ...
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Listen To 13 Of The Absolute Worst Songs Of The 1960s

Listen To 13 Of The Absolute Worst Songs Of The 1960s

  I HESITATED using the word “worst” since many of these are novelty songs, which ...
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February 26 1993 In Photos: Omar Abdel-Rahman And His Followers Bomb The World Trade Center

February 26 1993 In Photos: Omar Abdel-Rahman And His Followers Bomb The World Trade Center

ON this day in photos - February 26 1993:  At 12:18 local time a large ...
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Manchester United’s 11 Worst Defeats (And Counting)

Manchester United’s 11 Worst Defeats (And Counting)

    SOBS and moans filled the air from Plymouth to Plymouth Rock, from York ...
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Gay J. Edgar Hoover, Bad Sonny Liston And The Fixed Fight That Made Cassius Clay A Star

Gay J. Edgar Hoover, Bad Sonny Liston And The Fixed Fight That Made Cassius Clay A Star

    WAS Cassius's Clay shock victory over Sonny Liston in the heavyweight championship of ...
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Sick and Full of Burning: 13 Regrettable Book Titles

Sick and Full of Burning: 13 Regrettable Book Titles

Far be it from me to stifle creativity – an author should be able to ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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