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In 1933 Helen Keller Wrote This Open Letter To German Students Planning To Burn ‘Un-German’ Books

In 1933 Helen Keller Wrote This Open Letter To German Students Planning To Burn ‘Un-German’ Books

  IN 1933, German students planned to burn "Un-German" books. Helen Keller wrote this open ...
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Behind Enemy Lines: Over 100 Photographs Of German Soldiers Fighting World War One

Behind Enemy Lines: Over 100 Photographs Of German Soldiers Fighting World War One

WHAT was life like behind enemy lines during World War 1? What was it like ...
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As Hitler’s Boxer Said To The Actress: Silent Anny Ondra Was Hitchcock’s Star Of Britain’s First ‘Talkie’

As Hitler’s Boxer Said To The Actress: Silent Anny Ondra Was Hitchcock’s Star Of Britain’s First ‘Talkie’

IN1929 almost everyone in the British film industry was convinced that the newfangled talking films ...
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Singers and Swingers In the Kitchen: The 1967 ‘Scene-Makers Cookbook’

Singers and Swingers In the Kitchen: The 1967 ‘Scene-Makers Cookbook’

“Give it a try, the recipes are mostly easy ones and remember a year ago, Barbra Streisand couldn’t cook at all”. ...
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Barry White’s Animated Thoughts On Making Love And Not Blowing Up A Nation

Barry White’s Animated Thoughts On Making Love And Not Blowing Up A Nation

  THIS animated interview with late great 1970s singing love walrus Barry White, throbbing growler of ...
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Elizabeth Cotten Plays In The Cotten Picking Fashion

Elizabeth Cotten Plays In The Cotten Picking Fashion

ELIZABETH Cotten wrote Freight Train, the song for which she is best remembered,  in her early teens. ...
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Paul Simon’s 1992 South Africa Tour Was In Another World To His 1985 Graceland Mission

Paul Simon’s 1992 South Africa Tour Was In Another World To His 1985 Graceland Mission

ON January 11 1992, Paul Simon kicked off his South Africa tour. He'd visited the country ...
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10 Intensely Disturbing Public Service Announcements

10 Intensely Disturbing Public Service Announcements

PSAs in the 1960s–80s wanted to scare the hell out of children ...
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Tom Mix Was Hollywood’s Original Cowboy Tough Guy (Photo)

Tom Mix Was Hollywood’s Original Cowboy Tough Guy (Photo)

TOM Mix - January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940 - was an American silent ...
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A Stripper Performs For God At The Toronto Stock Exchange

A Stripper Performs For God At The Toronto Stock Exchange

"All my memories of Bainey on the floor are a pleasure and watching him do a slow dance with a stripper" ...
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Can You Practise French Kissing On The Dog?

Can You Practise French Kissing On The Dog?

CAN You Practise French Kissing On The Dog? Did anyone really ask that of Jackie ...
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Trading Cards Of The 1970s: The Bay City Rollers Versus The Village People

Trading Cards Of The 1970s: The Bay City Rollers Versus The Village People

THE Topps Company didn't just make baseball cards with a stick of chewing gum in ...
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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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