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Wanted dead or alive in 1899: Reward offered for escaped prisoner Winston Churchill

Wanted dead or alive in 1899: Reward offered for escaped prisoner Winston Churchill

FLASHBACK to 01/01/1899: A wanted notice put out for Winston Churchill after he escaped from a prisoner ...
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John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum –  A 1976 film

John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum – A 1976 film

JOHN Smith directed 32 episodes of Grange Hill between, 1985 and 1990. He also produced Play ...
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September 1 1939: Germany invades Poland

September 1 1939: Germany invades Poland

ON September 1 1939 Germany invaded Poland and set the ball rolling for World War ...
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RIP Hervé Vilard: Capri c’est fini

RIP Hervé Vilard: Capri c’est fini

RIP Hervé Vilard (nee René Villard, 24 July 1946 in Paris, France). He sang Capri ...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to his pregnant wife

Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to his pregnant wife

THE author Kurt Vonnegut wrote his wife a letter. It's dated January 26, 1947. They had ...
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A history of bystanders injured watching sports (videos)

A history of bystanders injured watching sports (videos)

THE tragic death of a German athletics referee this week – speared through the throat ...
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The Ghost in the Stereoscope: Faking it before Photoshop

The Ghost in the Stereoscope: Faking it before Photoshop

FAKING It - “Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop” – runs at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of ...
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In 1954 Dr Vladimir Demikhov created a two-headed dog (video)

In 1954 Dr Vladimir Demikhov created a two-headed dog (video)

HERE'S a cute Russian video about making two-headed dogs:  In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the ...
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June 21 1969: Buzz Aldrin takes Communion on the moon (the letter)

June 21 1969: Buzz Aldrin takes Communion on the moon (the letter)

JUNE 21 1969:  Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, 19 minutes after ...
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Snapshot: Bernie Ecclestone and Michael Schumacher are sitting on a wall

Snapshot: Bernie Ecclestone and Michael Schumacher are sitting on a wall

FLASHBACK in a snapshot: It's 12/08/2000. Formula One Motor Racing has arrived at the Hungarian Grand ...
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China in photos before 1914

China in photos before 1914

SNAPSHOT of life in China before 1914: A family scene in China. In October of ...
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Super Fuzz was the super hero for 1980

Super Fuzz was the super hero for 1980

IT'S 1980 and Super Fuzz  (Poliziotto superpiù) is the newest sueprhero in town. If he sees ...
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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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