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Mildred (Cyclone) Burke defeats Leona (Babe) Gordon to become women’s wrestling championship of the world

Mildred (Cyclone) Burke defeats Leona (Babe) Gordon to become women’s wrestling championship of the world

FLASHBACK Photos of the Day. The AP reports: "Mildred (Cyclone) Burke of Kansas City, Missouri, ...
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1966 and all that keyring craze in Paris

1966 and all that keyring craze in Paris

IT'S 1966. It's Paris. And keyrings are a craze among the cool kids. Cue the ...
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Miss World of the 1940s and 1950s – the changing face of beauty

Miss World of the 1940s and 1950s – the changing face of beauty

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Violet and Daisy Hilton – The World’s Only Strip-Teasing Siamese Twins

Violet and Daisy Hilton – The World’s Only Strip-Teasing Siamese Twins

FLASHBACK Photo of The Day: October 6 1933 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, "Siamese Twins", ...
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A history of politicians crying

A history of politicians crying

The art and artfulness of crying lik a politician: Ken Livingstone NORMALLY, one would feel ...
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Peter Rand’s Faces of the 1960s

Peter Rand’s Faces of the 1960s

A Collection of photographer Peter Rand's 1960s subjects are on show at the National Portrait ...
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How racist American comic books won World War 2 – 20 photos

How racist American comic books won World War 2 – 20 photos

IN World War 2, the US called up Superman, Captain America, Batman and others to ...
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Police in action 1939-1945: photos of a time or racism, riots, murder and joy

Police in action 1939-1945: photos of a time or racism, riots, murder and joy

WHAT was it like for the police between 1939 and 1945? We've raided the archives ...
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Amphetamines are good for you – selling drugs to the fat and depressed (photos)

Amphetamines are good for you – selling drugs to the fat and depressed (photos)

AMPHETAMINES were once legal. They were advertised as being good for you and yours. Appetrol ...
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Blue Jeans magazine and naming those 1980s heartthrobs

Blue Jeans magazine and naming those 1980s heartthrobs

BLUE Jeans magazine was great. There photo casebooks were how a generation learnt about sexual ...
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1937 – How wives should undress before their husbands, by a burlesque stripper

1937 – How wives should undress before their husbands, by a burlesque stripper

IT'S 1937, and Life Magazine is running a feature on how housewives undress in front ...
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The AKAI ‘portable’ VTR 1/4″ video tape recorder – the birth of home-made porn

The AKAI ‘portable’ VTR 1/4″ video tape recorder – the birth of home-made porn

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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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