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In 1988 Angela Lansbury Took A Bath And Swam Standing Up In A Dress

In 1988 Angela Lansbury Took A Bath And Swam Standing Up In A Dress

IN 1988, Angela Landsbury took a bath and went for a swim on her patio ...
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WTF: 29 Weird and Suggestive Retro Photos

WTF: 29 Weird and Suggestive Retro Photos

IF you've not yet tuned into Anorak's new writer Yeoman Lowbrow, then please click her ...
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3 Highly Disturbing Vintage Ads From The 70s And 80s

3 Highly Disturbing Vintage Ads From The 70s And 80s

EVER been scared by an advert?   Have Her In Stitches (literally)   THIS advertisement ...
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Pearl Harbor: The Photo Story Of Japan’s 1941 Attack Before, After And During

Pearl Harbor: The Photo Story Of Japan’s 1941 Attack Before, After And During

ON December 7 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the US navy base on Oahu, Hawaii. The ...
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A.A. Milne Reads Winnie The Pooh In 1929 (With Photos Of The Writer Playing With ‘Christopher Robin’)

A.A. Milne Reads Winnie The Pooh In 1929 (With Photos Of The Writer Playing With ‘Christopher Robin’)

  In 1929 A.A. Milne (above) was recorded reading aloud a passage from his book, Winnie-the-Pooh.   ...
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Apartheid South Africa In the 1960s – Photos Of The Black And White Years

Apartheid South Africa In the 1960s – Photos Of The Black And White Years

IN the 1960s, South Africa was ruled by white supremacists. South African political expert Stanley ...
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Journalism Under Apartheid: ‘You do realise you will be working for a kaffir paper?’

Journalism Under Apartheid: ‘You do realise you will be working for a kaffir paper?’

I WORKED in pre-Mandela ZA as a young sub and chief sub and briefly, in ...
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Nelson Mandela: The 12 Years Of Trials In Photos

Nelson Mandela: The 12 Years Of Trials In Photos

THE TRIALS of Nelson Mandela - in photos. The trials last 12 years...   The ...
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1977: Her Majesty The Queen Meets A Huge Inflatable Golliwog

1977: Her Majesty The Queen Meets A Huge Inflatable Golliwog

  Flashbak to August 8, 1977:  A giant inflatable golliwog in the crowd greeting Queen ...
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8 Profoundly Unpleasant Songs by Actors and Actresses

8 Profoundly Unpleasant Songs by Actors and Actresses

Famous faces who gave full throat to lamentable lyrics ...
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Incredible Secret World War 2 Room Found In Norway House (Photos)

Incredible Secret World War 2 Room Found In Norway House (Photos)

IN Norway, the owners of a home found a secret room. It appears to have ...
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Top 5 Fashion Offenses of The 1970s

Top 5 Fashion Offenses of The 1970s

Before launching into the typical “Oh, aren't those Seventies fashions so terrible” spiel, let’s get ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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