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The Baby Boxing Championships of 1942

The Baby Boxing Championships of 1942

IN 1942, fights fans surrounded the ring to see the toddlers slugs it out.  If ...
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Weasels Ripped My Flesh! 10 Awesome Pulp Headlines

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! 10 Awesome Pulp Headlines

IS there anything better than a mid-century men’s action magazine?  They were chock full of ...
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25 Photos I Found From 1970

25 Photos I Found From 1970

TODAY I trawled the archives for pictures from 1970 worth looking at again. All captions ...
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50 Years Ago, The Beatles Landed at JFK: 10 Great American Beatles Rip Offs

50 Years Ago, The Beatles Landed at JFK: 10 Great American Beatles Rip Offs

OF course, The Fab Four's time in America is very well documented. No-one needs to ...
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Childhood’s End: The Five Most Terrifying Movies Made From A Child’s Perspective

Childhood’s End: The Five Most Terrifying Movies Made From A Child’s Perspective

  ALFRED Hitchcock once remarked that every person understands fear, because everyone was once a ...
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Groovy Vintage T-Shirt Adverts

Groovy Vintage T-Shirt Adverts

  MY MOST BELOVED possessions in the 1970s were my T-shirts.  They were my identity.  ...
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World War One: The Bible That Saved Pte Hacket in 1915

World War One: The Bible That Saved Pte Hacket in 1915

  THIS is the bible that saved Pte Hacket in 1915. This Testament saved the ...
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Vintage Sexism: BALLS – ‘Candy To Give You Courage’

Vintage Sexism: BALLS – ‘Candy To Give You Courage’

VINTAGE sexist advert presents Balls. Who says women don't have balls? Women do? INTRODUCING BALLS ...
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12 Stupendous Movie Tagline Fails

12 Stupendous Movie Tagline Fails

THEY had one job. Just write a single sentence about a movie.  It’s not quantum ...
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Three Hats For Lisa: Swinging London And Sid James Gives The Greatest Musical Performance In Cinema History

Three Hats For Lisa: Swinging London And Sid James Gives The Greatest Musical Performance In Cinema History

  IS this the greatest musical performance in cinema history? Joe Brown, French-born Sophie Hardy ...
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Inside Woody Allen: When The Comic Was A Syndicated Cartoon

Inside Woody Allen: When The Comic Was A Syndicated Cartoon

  BETWEEN 1976 and 1984, Woody Allen was the 2D star of Stuart Hample's comic ...
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One Hit Wonders: When Ryan Paris Lived La Dolce Vita In A Giant Red Shoe

One Hit Wonders: When Ryan Paris Lived La Dolce Vita In A Giant Red Shoe

WHATEVER happened to... Ryan Paris, the singer born Fabio Roscioli in Rome who gave full ...
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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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