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1943: Tallulah Bankhead Flashes The Crew And Hitchcock Calls The Hairdressers

1943: Tallulah Bankhead Flashes The Crew And Hitchcock Calls The Hairdressers

FLASHBACK to October 6 1943: Actress Tallulah Bankhead, who won the Drama Critics Award in ...
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TV Nightmares: 10 Highly Disturbing Sitcom Episodes of the 70s and 80s

TV Nightmares: 10 Highly Disturbing Sitcom Episodes of the 70s and 80s

THE trouble with American situation comedies in the 1970s and 1980s was that you never ...
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1964: Beatle Cult Hater Lord Willis Listens To The Yardbirds In His Back Garden

1964: Beatle Cult Hater Lord Willis Listens To The Yardbirds In His Back Garden

FLASHBACK: 17/05/1964. Music - Lord Willis listens to the Yardbirds in his back garden - 1964 Lord ...
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1964 Photos: Vietnamese Soldiers Torture A Viet Cong Guerrilla

1964 Photos: Vietnamese Soldiers Torture A Viet Cong Guerrilla

FLASHBACK to 22/05/1964: A Vietnamese soldier ties the hands of a Viet Cong guerrilla to an ...
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A Mighty Histotry Of The Famous And Infamous Who Took A Tumble In Public

A Mighty Histotry Of The Famous And Infamous Who Took A Tumble In Public

A BIG (helping) hand please for the fall guys… A month of extreme weather and ...
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33 Classic Photos I Found From May 1964

33 Classic Photos I Found From May 1964

FLASHBACK to May 1964. We've trawled the archives to bring you a look at life ...
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February 20 1993:  John Venables and Robert Thompson Charged With Murder Of James Bulger In Liverpool

February 20 1993: John Venables and Robert Thompson Charged With Murder Of James Bulger In Liverpool

ON This Day in photos - February 20 1993:  John Venables and Robert Thompson (both ...
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Portals of Light, Portals of Dark: The Yin and Yang of Contact (1997) and Event Horizon (1997)

Portals of Light, Portals of Dark: The Yin and Yang of Contact (1997) and Event Horizon (1997)

  EVERY now and then, Hollywood comes up with a good concept, and then competing ...
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1950: Test / Not A Test (The US Navy Windtunnel Experiment)

1950: Test / Not A Test (The US Navy Windtunnel Experiment)

FLASHBACK to 1950: test / not a test:
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1980s Band Names Demystified

1980s Band Names Demystified

HAVE you been wasting precious hours of your day wondering where A Flock of Seagulls ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

The Internet Is Muddling The Past And The Present

  Are sites like flashbak and @historysphoto muddling the line between past and present”? Paul Ford says they are: Pick ...
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1899: When Flooded London Became Bride di Middlesex, The Cockney Venice Of The North

1899: When Flooded London Became Bride di Middlesex, The Cockney Venice Of The North

  In 1899, Signor Somers L. Summers answered the question ‘If London Were Like Venice: ...
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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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