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Ironic last words – what they said right before they died

Ironic last words – what they said right before they died

IN a textbook case of tempting fate, Californian rapper Erwin McKiness – aka Jew’elz and ...
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1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter

1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter

1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter. Those helmet will never catch on....
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Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940

Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940

FLASHBACK: Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940. The message on ...
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Planet Of The Knobheads: the robot always gets the girl

Planet Of The Knobheads: the robot always gets the girl

FLASHBACK to 1939: all the cool kids re reading Planet Of The Knobheads: Spotter: Its Dark ...
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1889: The Oklahoma Land Rush

1889: The Oklahoma Land Rush

FLASHBACK: The Oklahoma Land Rush. Settlers race across the border into Indian Territory as a signal ...
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1993: The Independent salute peacenik Osama bin Laden

1993: The Independent salute peacenik Osama bin Laden

SNAPSHOT: On 6th December 1993 issue, The Independent had news on the work of peacenik Osama ...
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Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick

Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick

FLASHBACK remembers Eddy Huntington, the model discovered by Italy's Baby Records. Eddy's biggest hit was ...
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1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed. In SWEETHEARTS ‘I Was a Musician’s Girl’

1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed. In SWEETHEARTS ‘I Was a Musician’s Girl’

FLASHBACK to 1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed. In SWEETHEARTS "I Was a Musician's Girl", ...
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The corset: before and after photos

The corset: before and after photos

BEFORE Spanx, Body Magic, liposuction and Lycra, there was the corset. With the right amount ...
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1948: the Hard Skin Club convenes in Japan

1948: the Hard Skin Club convenes in Japan

FLASHBACK to August 29, 1948: The first meeting in nine years of the Hard Skin ...
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Naked Royals: Czar Nicholas II and Courtiers bathe in the nude at Tsarskoye Selo

Naked Royals: Czar Nicholas II and Courtiers bathe in the nude at Tsarskoye Selo

PRINCE Harry wasn't the first Royal to go naked. He won't be the last. In ...
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1953: The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips

1953: The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips

FLASHBACK to 27/2/1953 - The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips ...
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    Photographs of London’s Kings Cross Before the Change – c.1990

    Photographs of London’s Kings Cross Before the Change – c.1990

    Before the money moved in, Kings Cross was a place for born-and-bred locals, clubs and crime ...
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    Photos of Topless Dancers and Bottomless Drinks At New York City’s Raciest Clubs – c. 1977

    Photos of Topless Dancers and Bottomless Drinks At New York City’s Raciest Clubs – c. 1977

    See what really went on during that time in NYC's topless go-go bars ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

    Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

    In a book that became to be known as 'The People of the Abyss' London described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and even on the streets. ...
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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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    Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

    Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

    "I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. Cheerfulness kept creeping in." - Douglas Percy Bliss on his friend Eric Ravilious from their time at the Royal College of Art   Eric Ravilious loved ...
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    Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

    Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

    Yes I have a dark side, doesn’t everyone? I’ve played a lot of evil, ball-breaking women. And, if you’re honest, you’ll just drag up from the depths all the times you’ve hated or felt passionately about something and play it. ...
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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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    Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

    Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

      At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - an unexceptional and damp space that was once a sort of rest room for taxi drivers and an occasional tea bar - Ronnie Scott opened his first jazz club. Along with Ronnie himself and his ...
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    The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

    The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

    "It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." - Alexander Rodchenko, 1921 ...
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