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Clowns Look Like Serial Killers And Perverts In Black And White Photos

Clowns Look Like Serial Killers And Perverts In Black And White Photos

CLOWNS.  Why is it that in black-and0-white photographs, clowns always looks like serial killers and ...
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Celebrities Pose For Paul McCartney’s Band On The Run

Celebrities Pose For Paul McCartney’s Band On The Run

  Back to 03/11/1973: celebrities in various walks of life illustrate the cover of a ...
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The Story Of Sonja Suder And Germany’s Armed Revolutionaries: From Opec To Entebbe

The Story Of Sonja Suder And Germany’s Armed Revolutionaries: From Opec To Entebbe

  SONJA Suder is 80. She has been on trial at a court in Frankfurt, ...
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The Dionne Quintuplets Story In Photos: Kidnap, Freak Shows And Hollywood Glitz

The Dionne Quintuplets Story In Photos: Kidnap, Freak Shows And Hollywood Glitz

  ON May 28, 1934, the Dionne Quiontuplets were born. They became the first quintuplets ...
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Terrible Food: WeightWatchers Crown Roast of Frankfurters

Terrible Food: WeightWatchers Crown Roast of Frankfurters

TERRIBLE Food: WeightWatchers Crown Roast of Frankfurters. Because nothing says 'slim' like being sick:   More ...
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Ray Davies Reviews The Beatles Revolver: ‘Really It’s A Load Of Rubbish’

Ray Davies Reviews The Beatles Revolver: ‘Really It’s A Load Of Rubbish’

IN 1966, The Kinks; Ray Davis reviewed the The Beatles’ Revolver for Disc and Music Echo magazine.   Here's ...
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Eva Braun’s Looted Knickers Are On Sale

Eva Braun’s Looted Knickers Are On Sale

PSST! Want to get into Eva Braun's knickers? And  - yep  - they are brown, ...
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Not Up To Dick: 100 Wonderful Victorian Slang Words You Should Be Using

Not Up To Dick: 100 Wonderful Victorian Slang Words You Should Be Using

'A Dictonary of Heterodox English Slang & Phrase' - 1909 ...
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Nazi Uniforms: Sid Vicious, Peter Rabbit, Prince Harry And Other People Who Still Wear Them

Nazi Uniforms: Sid Vicious, Peter Rabbit, Prince Harry And Other People Who Still Wear Them

PAUL Dutton, 48, was ejected from his local branch of Asda in Cambridge, after a ...
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Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Study: Could Science Explain The Holocaust?

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Study: Could Science Explain The Holocaust?

IN 1961, Yale University’s Stanley Milgram, a Jew, tested how compliant humanity was. Could any of us ...
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Flashback To 1967: African Schoolteacher Sanderson Chirambo And His Man-Powered Aircraft “Limba IV”

Flashback To 1967: African Schoolteacher Sanderson Chirambo And His Man-Powered Aircraft “Limba IV”

FLASHBACK: African schoolteacher Sanderson Chirambo is with his man-powered aircraft “Limba IV” on the road ...
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On This Day In Photos – Rhodesia In Crisis: Ian Smith Issues A Unilateral Declaration of Independence

On This Day In Photos – Rhodesia In Crisis: Ian Smith Issues A Unilateral Declaration of Independence

ON This Day in photos: November 11 1965:  The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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