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10 Dream Jobs For 1970s Men

10 Dream Jobs For 1970s Men

CONSIDER me your 1970s guidance counsellor. I’m not going to recommend civil engineering or medical ...
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Communism, Hypnotism And The Beatles: The Master Plan To Defeat America And God

Communism, Hypnotism And The Beatles: The Master Plan To Defeat America And God

In 1974 the Reverend David A. Noebel put  own in words his thought on The Beatles. ...
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How The Beatles Hypnotized Western Youth To Fight For Russia In The Cold War

How The Beatles Hypnotized Western Youth To Fight For Russia In The Cold War

IN 1974 the Reverend David A. Noebel put  own in words his thought on The Beatles. ...
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The 1921 Pugilettes: Berlin’s Boxing Burlesques

The 1921 Pugilettes: Berlin’s Boxing Burlesques

FLASHBACK Photo: on 11/06/1921, the AP told us that boxing competitions between women were exciting interest ...
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Epic Cars: The 1972 Toyota RV Passion Wagon

Epic Cars: The 1972 Toyota RV Passion Wagon

  IN 1972, Toyota unveiled the greatest RV never made.   (more…)
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Flashback: Feeding Soup To The Orphans In Canning Town Soup 1931

Flashback: Feeding Soup To The Orphans In Canning Town Soup 1931

FLASHBACK Photo: A 1931 picture of children eating soup at a Children's Home in London's Canning Town.
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15 Wonderfully Awful Album Covers For Your Viewing Displeasure

15 Wonderfully Awful Album Covers For Your Viewing Displeasure

THE 1960s through the 1980s saw a flood of low budget albums released around the ...
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Tech Rewind: Before Phones Got Smart

Tech Rewind: Before Phones Got Smart

TECHNOLOGY has been rocketing along so quickly, it’s difficult to put on the breaks, stop ...
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Samuel Beckett Took André the Giant On The School Run

Samuel Beckett Took André the Giant On The School Run

ONCE upon a time Samuel Beckett was waiting for André the Giant, nee André Roussimoff. Geekologie notes: ...
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How To Behave In 1920s New York: An Illustrated Guide

How To Behave In 1920s New York: An Illustrated Guide

VISITORS to 1920s NYC  could study the Valentine's City of New York: A Guide Book. As ...
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15 Senseless Acts of Sex Sells

15 Senseless Acts of Sex Sells

I COMPLETELY understand that the “sex sells” approach makes sense for certain consumer goods:  sports ...
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Faces of The Day: German Sculptor Kathe Kollwitz’s Grieving Parents Of WOrld War One

Faces of The Day: German Sculptor Kathe Kollwitz’s Grieving Parents Of WOrld War One

FACES of the day: Visitors view a photo of the 'Grieving Parents' statue during an ...
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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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