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Huge Catfish Trigger Earthquakes In Japan (1855)

Huge Catfish Trigger Earthquakes In Japan (1855)

What causes earthquakes? The Japanese thought it was a giant catfish. One thrashed about and triggered ...
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The Catfish That Triggered the Tokyo Earthquake – Pictures

The Catfish That Triggered the Tokyo Earthquake – Pictures

What causes earthquakes? The Japanese thought it was a giant catfish. One thrashed about and triggered ...
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B Movie posters: young women being violated by fish, plants, monsters and men

B Movie posters: young women being violated by fish, plants, monsters and men

IN the 1950s and 1960s, posters for B movies routinely featured scantily dressed young women ...
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The most sexist and funny comics of Dan DeCarlo

The most sexist and funny comics of Dan DeCarlo

DAN DeCarlo was an American cartoonist who created the looks of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, ...
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The pin-ups of Rigid Tools (the subtle photos)

The pin-ups of Rigid Tools (the subtle photos)

FLASHBACK looks at the women used to sell Rigid Tools, an actual brand selling tools since ...
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Ironic last words – what they said right before they died

Ironic last words – what they said right before they died

IN a textbook case of tempting fate, Californian rapper Erwin McKiness – aka Jew’elz and ...
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1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter

1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter

1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter. Those helmet will never catch on....
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Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940

Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940

FLASHBACK: Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940. The message on ...
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Planet Of The Knobheads: the robot always gets the girl

Planet Of The Knobheads: the robot always gets the girl

FLASHBACK to 1939: all the cool kids re reading Planet Of The Knobheads: Spotter: Its Dark ...
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1889: The Oklahoma Land Rush

1889: The Oklahoma Land Rush

FLASHBACK: The Oklahoma Land Rush. Settlers race across the border into Indian Territory as a signal ...
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1993: The Independent salute peacenik Osama bin Laden

1993: The Independent salute peacenik Osama bin Laden

SNAPSHOT: On 6th December 1993 issue, The Independent had news on the work of peacenik Osama ...
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Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick

Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick

FLASHBACK remembers Eddy Huntington, the model discovered by Italy's Baby Records. Eddy's biggest hit was ...
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    1960s: This Japanese Sex Guide Is Bizarre

    1960s: This Japanese Sex Guide Is Bizarre

    In the 1960s cool cats in Japan were reading this how-to-do-sex book. From how to hold hands, rub noses, chuck chins, remove excess polish from shoes, mate with an artist's flexible wooden figure and jerk off a test tube. This book has the lot:         Spotter: Anorak ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

    When Ark 33 Got 1960s Youth Culture

    The publication of issue 33 of the Royal College of Art’s magazine ARK in the autumn of 1962 hit the moment in terms of the turbo-charging of contemporary youth culture.   ARK 33, which was declared to be “mainly about young people… [a] somewhat oblique exposée of the Young Ones”, celebrated the lives of ...
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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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    Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

    Basic Shelter: Slum Life And Squalor In British Cities 1968-72

    We still want decent housing for all ...
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    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)

    People I like can be divided into two groups: a) those who enjoy and get Charles M. Schulz’s wonderful Peanuts comic strip; b) those fools who don't. All of human life is in the artist and writer's 17,897 comic strips. In 1968 Schulz noticed the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King ...
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    The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

    The Groovy Age of Flight: A Look at Stewardesses of the 1960s-70s

    Here is the copy from an ad that aired on Los Angeles radio in the summer of 1969: Right now PSA, the airline that is famous for its stewardesses, is looking for girls. Yes..girls to fill a cute orange mini-uniform...girls who smile and mean it...girls who give other people a ...
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