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Bands Without a Face: When 70s Rock Stars Went Behind the Curtain

Bands Without a Face: When 70s Rock Stars Went Behind the Curtain

Can you name these bands from the 1970s? ...
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Bread and Circuses at the Movies: The Six Most Savage Games of the Near Dystopian Future

Bread and Circuses at the Movies: The Six Most Savage Games of the Near Dystopian Future

  IN Ancient Rome, the poet Juvenal coined the term “bread and circuses” (panem et ...
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Elton John Trains With George Best And The Los Angeles Aztecs In 1976

Elton John Trains With George Best And The Los Angeles Aztecs In 1976

ELTON John is 67 years old today. In looking through the archives here at Anorak ...
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This 17th century Chinese Abacus Ring Is The World’s Oldest Smart Ring

This 17th century Chinese Abacus Ring Is The World’s Oldest Smart Ring

  Forget Google Glass, Android Wear, Smartwatches or contact lenses that give you night vision. Instead let’s talk about the ...
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1970: Brighton and Hove Albion Manager Freddie Goodwin ‘Run Til You’re Too Tired To Puke’ Training Rules

1970: Brighton and Hove Albion Manager Freddie Goodwin ‘Run Til You’re Too Tired To Puke’ Training Rules

FLASHBACK to March 1 1970: Football League Division Three - Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton ...
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Hello News: The Story Of The Most Popular Song In America

Hello News: The Story Of The Most Popular Song In America

IN 1989, the City of Calgary, Canada, promoted the place with a song. It featured ...
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10 Fantastically Awful Retro Toys From Your Corrupted Youth

10 Fantastically Awful Retro Toys From Your Corrupted Youth

AS things heat up in Ukraine and the ever-precarious Middle East continues its pattern of ...
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Lip Tester, Circa 1948

Lip Tester, Circa 1948

THIS Lip Tester is from circa 1948: (more…)
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Watch The Nazi-Musical Mash-Up: ‘Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk, Assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats’

Watch The Nazi-Musical Mash-Up: ‘Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk, Assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats’

IN 1941,  Charles A. Ridley of the British Ministry of Information added footage of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the ...
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Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old

Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old

Julie Newmar was Catgirl. On April 27, 2013, we went to see Julie take questions ...
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Watch This 1979 Kate Bush Documentary On Her Liverpool Empire Show

Watch This 1979 Kate Bush Documentary On Her Liverpool Empire Show

  KATE Bush is touring again. Why did she ever stop? (more…)
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1958: Anti-French Cartoons Showing A Fat Marianne Murdering Algerian Children

1958: Anti-French Cartoons Showing A Fat Marianne Murdering Algerian Children

FLASHBACK toMarch 30, 1958: Algeria's war of liberation from France. An anti-French cartoon, showing French ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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