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Crime Fighting with Twinkies: Comic Book Superheroes Turn To Sugary Cream-Filled Cake

Crime Fighting with Twinkies: Comic Book Superheroes Turn To Sugary Cream-Filled Cake

  MANY of you will remember the Hostess snack adverts that appeared in comic books ...
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When Acid House Freaked Out Fleet Street: Tabloid Horror Stories From The 1980s

When Acid House Freaked Out Fleet Street: Tabloid Horror Stories From The 1980s

ONCE upon a time, acid house music was huge. In 1988, the tabloids saw the ...
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Flashback To 1985: Khamis Abdel Motagally Cures Rheumatism By Burying Egyptian Women In Hot Desert Sand

Flashback To 1985: Khamis Abdel Motagally Cures Rheumatism By Burying Egyptian Women In Hot Desert Sand

FLASHBACK to August 18, 1985: Women clients of Khamis Abdel Motagally sit outside their tents ...
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10 Regrettable Examples of 1970s Occult Lameness

10 Regrettable Examples of 1970s Occult Lameness

THE OCCULTISM explosion which overtook North America and Europe in the 1970s ushered in a ...
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The 15 Most Depressing Songs of the 1960s and 70s

The 15 Most Depressing Songs of the 1960s and 70s

THE LATE 1960s to mid-70s were a manic depressive time period in music, populated by ...
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Chewing Gum: Psychedelic Treats And Assorted Oral Wonders

Chewing Gum: Psychedelic Treats And Assorted Oral Wonders

  BEN Wilson is the chewing gum artist. We say 'the' because we can't find ...
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How Did The Grateful Dead Get A Huge Archive Of Material? Jerry Garcia Is Unsure But The LSD Helped

How Did The Grateful Dead Get A Huge Archive Of Material? Jerry Garcia Is Unsure But The LSD Helped

    GRATEFUL Dead fans for whom Jerry Garcia is more than an ice-cream pun ...
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On This Day: January 20 1942 – Nazis Meet At Wansee To Plan The Final Solution

On This Day: January 20 1942 – Nazis Meet At Wansee To Plan The Final Solution

  ON January 20, 1942  "The following took part in the conference on the final ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Epic Adverts: The 1981 Mitsubishi Mirage

HERE at Anorak, we love looking at old adverts. Take this one for the 1981 ...
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Embarrassing Endorsements: When A Famous Name Damages Your Brand

THE Nicolas Anelka ‘quinelle’ controversy has taken a dramatic new twist, as West Bromwich Albion’s ...
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Illustrations From L.A. Vaught’s Practical Character Reader: How To Know A Person’s Character By Their Looks

Illustrations From L.A. Vaught’s Practical Character Reader: How To Know A Person’s Character By Their Looks

IN 1902, L.A. Vaught saw his Vaught’s Practical Character Reader published in Chicago. This book ...
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Flashback To Mach 11 1977: Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten Gives The Double V-Sign After He’s Fined For Drugs

Flashback To Mach 11 1977: Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten Gives The Double V-Sign After He’s Fined For Drugs

FLASHBACK to 11/03/1977: Johnny Rotten, lead singer with the Sex Pistols, giving a double V-sign to journalists ...
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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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