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10 Mad, Sexist And Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads

10 Mad, Sexist And Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads

HERE are ten Christmas adverts from decades past; some good, some bad.  The common denominator ...
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1959 Louis Bleriot Race: Lt Commander W.G Boaks Sets Off From Marble Arch By Rollerskates

1959 Louis Bleriot Race: Lt Commander W.G Boaks Sets Off From Marble Arch By Rollerskates

FLASHBACK to July 13, 1959:   Lt Commander W.G Boaks setting off from Marble Arch ...
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5 Small Ways Christmas Has Improved

5 Small Ways Christmas Has Improved

IT'S inarguable that Christmas has snowballed into a giant hulking materialistic bezerker over the past ...
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Flashback: The Nuclear Bomb Alarm In Washington

Flashback: The Nuclear Bomb Alarm In Washington

FLASHBACK to 05/03/1960: The nuclear bomb alarm in Washington is shown. The robot '“sensor'” detected the ...
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10 Wonderfully Insane VHS Action Movie Covers

10 Wonderfully Insane VHS Action Movie Covers

HERE are some particularly interesting examples of VHS box art in the  action genre.  And ...
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British Intelligence File: ‘Michael Collins Will Stop at Nothing’

British Intelligence File: ‘Michael Collins Will Stop at Nothing’

IN around 1910, British Intelligence noted that Michael Collins  "Will Stop at Nothing".     ...
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Miss Great Britain 1971: Carolyn Moore Wonders How ‘Kingly Old Santa WIll Enter Her Home’

Miss Great Britain 1971: Carolyn Moore Wonders How ‘Kingly Old Santa WIll Enter Her Home’

REGULAR Anorak readers will know that we are always on the look out for interesting ...
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12 Terrifically Awful Christmas Album Covers

12 Terrifically Awful Christmas Album Covers

I SUPPOSE I could have compiled a list of the “best and greatest Christmas album ...
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A Tour of Groovy 1970s Sofas

A Tour of Groovy 1970s Sofas

The 1970s sofa came and went. For a while it was glorious ...
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5 Unforgivably Awful Christmas Songs

5 Unforgivably Awful Christmas Songs

THERE have been so many awful, bowel shaking Christmas songs over the years, it’s hard ...
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Photographic Proof: Santa Misbehaving In The 1970s

Photographic Proof: Santa Misbehaving In The 1970s

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE has been unearthed which solidly proves Santa Claus enjoyed the company of beautiful ...
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The People V The Chicago Seven In Photos: When Yippies Scared The USA

The People V The Chicago Seven In Photos: When Yippies Scared The USA

ON December 31, 1967, the world saw the birth of The Youth International Party.  The ...
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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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