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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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November 1972: Liverpool’s Steve Heighway And Brian Hall Read A Greek newspaper in Athens

November 1972: Liverpool’s Steve Heighway And Brian Hall Read A Greek newspaper in Athens

FLASHBACK to November 1 1972: Liverpool's Steve Heighway (left) and Brian Hall (right) read a ...
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1960s Horror Food: The Luminous Metrecal Diet In A Can

1960s Horror Food: The Luminous Metrecal Diet In A Can

IN the 1950s and 1960s, Mead Johnson's Metrecal promised to get you into shape. What that ...
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Clowning Around With Christopher Walken And His Brothers In 1955

Clowning Around With Christopher Walken And His Brothers In 1955

Photos from before Ronald became Christopher Walken in 1964 ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

This Is What George Washington Drank At His Constitution Signing Do

THIS is what George Washington drank at his leaving do: ...we still have available the list of ...
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February 25 1964 In Photos: Cassius Clay Crowned World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

February 25 1964 In Photos: Cassius Clay Crowned World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

ON February 25 1964: Cassius Clay crowned world heavyweight boxing champion. Clay, then just 22 - ...
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Great Moments in Phallic Occurrences

Great Moments in Phallic Occurrences

HERE are a few vintage phallic instances (either real or inferred) which have gained a ...
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1950: The Search For Mr Appollo And A British Man With Great Teeth

1950: The Search For Mr Appollo And A British Man With Great Teeth

IN 1950, Britain's most gorgeous men competed for the title 'Mr Apollo'. The judges feature the ...
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1810: Friedrich Kauffman of Dresden’s First Robot In History

1810: Friedrich Kauffman of Dresden’s First Robot In History

FLASHBACK to April, 30, 1950:  An elderly Bavarian inspects what is said to be the ...
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Your Guidebook to Creating a Proper Heavy Metal Album Cover

Your Guidebook to Creating a Proper Heavy Metal Album Cover

Let’s tour through some metal covers from the 1980s, a time when heavy metal was king, and learn from their successes and failures ...
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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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    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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    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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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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