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Samuel Beckett Took André the Giant On The School Run

Samuel Beckett Took André the Giant On The School Run

ONCE upon a time Samuel Beckett was waiting for André the Giant, nee André Roussimoff. Geekologie notes: ...
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How To Behave In 1920s New York: An Illustrated Guide

How To Behave In 1920s New York: An Illustrated Guide

VISITORS to 1920s NYC  could study the Valentine's City of New York: A Guide Book. As ...
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15 Senseless Acts of Sex Sells

15 Senseless Acts of Sex Sells

I COMPLETELY understand that the “sex sells” approach makes sense for certain consumer goods:  sports ...
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Faces of The Day: German Sculptor Kathe Kollwitz’s Grieving Parents Of WOrld War One

Faces of The Day: German Sculptor Kathe Kollwitz’s Grieving Parents Of WOrld War One

FACES of the day: Visitors view a photo of the 'Grieving Parents' statue during an ...
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Sublime Footage Of Berlin In 1900

Sublime Footage Of Berlin In 1900

AS the world gears up for the First World WAr Centenary remembrances, we bring this ...
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The Beatles 1964 First Tour Of The  United States – The Photos And The Mania

The Beatles 1964 First Tour Of The United States – The Photos And The Mania

7th February 2014 marked 50 years since The Beatles first toured the United States. The band were ...
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6 Awkward and Bizarre Game Show Moments

6 Awkward and Bizarre Game Show Moments

  WE'VE all seen the lists of top ten outrageous game show moments.  This isn't ...
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2014 -The Future Is Now: Infographic Shows 1950s and 1960s Technology Predictions Come True

2014 -The Future Is Now: Infographic Shows 1950s and 1960s Technology Predictions Come True

THE good people at Vital Findings have looked at predictions made in the 1950s and ...
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Flashback Photo 1968: Beatle Paul McCartney Watches The FA Cup Final Between Everton and West Bromwich Albion

Flashback Photo 1968: Beatle Paul McCartney Watches The FA Cup Final Between Everton and West Bromwich Albion

FLASHBACK photo: Beatle Paul McCartney is escorted by friends through the crowds outside Wembley Stadium, ...
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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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    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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