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1944: Lt. J.B. Keeley of Houston, Texas, Is Raised By Ukrainian Girls In Celebration of Their Liberation From German Slavery

1944: Lt. J.B. Keeley of Houston, Texas, Is Raised By Ukrainian Girls In Celebration of Their Liberation From German Slavery

FLASHBACK:  20/12/1944: Lt. J.B. Keeley of Houston, Texas, is raised by Ukrainian girls in celebration of ...
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May Day 1937: The Red Army Rolls Through Principal Square, Kharkov, Ukraine

May Day 1937: The Red Army Rolls Through Principal Square, Kharkov, Ukraine

FLASHBACK to 01/05/1937: In a mass May Day demonstration of military might, the Red Army rolled ...
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Read Morrisssey’s Snippy, Snide And Spot-On Record Reviews For Smash Hits 1984

Read Morrisssey’s Snippy, Snide And Spot-On Record Reviews For Smash Hits 1984

In 1984, Smash Hits magazine invited Morrissey to review the latest pop sounds... ...
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It’s Time Football Moved Into Time The Twentieth Century And Talked About The ‘Calculator Pass’

It’s Time Football Moved Into Time The Twentieth Century And Talked About The ‘Calculator Pass’

ANY  idea what this is?     If you are younger than Gary Lineker and ...
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1940: Hattie McDaniel’s Stirring Academy Award Winning Speech As The First Black Oscar Winner

1940: Hattie McDaniel’s Stirring Academy Award Winning Speech As The First Black Oscar Winner

  ON February 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an ...
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Ralph Ginzburg’s 1960s Taboo-Busting Eros Magazine ‘Entirely Devoted To Love and Sex’

Ralph Ginzburg’s 1960s Taboo-Busting Eros Magazine ‘Entirely Devoted To Love and Sex’

  BETWEEN January 1968 to Spring 1971, Ralph Ginzburg (October 28, 1929 – July 6, ...
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February 28 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Is Assassinated

February 28 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Is Assassinated

ON February 28 1986: Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated on a Stockholm street. ...
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1959 Photos: Candy Barr Teaches Joan Collins To Dance Burlesque

1959 Photos: Candy Barr Teaches Joan Collins To Dance Burlesque

August 1959: Candy Barr tutors a young Joan Collins on how to dance to jazzy saxophone music, ...
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36 Classic Photos I Found From November 1980

36 Classic Photos I Found From November 1980

FLASHBACK to November 1980. We’ve trawled the archives to bring you a look at life ...
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Beauty And Fitness Adverts: The Fine Art of Preying On A Bad Self-Image

Beauty And Fitness Adverts: The Fine Art of Preying On A Bad Self-Image

IT'S the job of advertising to capitalize on human insecurities, primarily focusing on easy targets ...
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The Roots Of Ska: From Tennessee, Through Jamaica To The Best of British

The Roots Of Ska: From Tennessee, Through Jamaica To The Best of British

  SKA music gets into your bones. In is essay The Chop On The Upbeat, ...
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Listen To 13 Of The Absolute Worst Songs Of The 1960s

Listen To 13 Of The Absolute Worst Songs Of The 1960s

  I HESITATED using the word “worst” since many of these are novelty songs, which ...
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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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