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On This Day In Photos: Japan Begins Invasion Of China

On This Day In Photos: Japan Begins Invasion Of China

ON This Day in 1931, A railway explosion is faked by the Japanese as a ...
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1978: When Punk Saved The English Language

1978: When Punk Saved The English Language

Ed Barrett looks back at this day in history: 1978 - When Punk Saved The ...
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Rudolph Hess Pollutes The Seas: The Nazi Is Reburied (Amazing Photos)

Rudolph Hess Pollutes The Seas: The Nazi Is Reburied (Amazing Photos)

RUDOLPH Hess is no longer buried in a grave at Wunsiedel, Bavaria, southern Germany. His ...
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Photos On This Day In History: 1974 – Greece And Turkey Wage War Over Cyrpus

Photos On This Day In History: 1974 – Greece And Turkey Wage War Over Cyrpus

ON July 20, 1974, Turkish forces invaded Cyprus in response to a coup by supporters ...
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Queen Visits Bletchley Park: How The War Was Won (In Photos)

Queen Visits Bletchley Park: How The War Was Won (In Photos)

THE Queen has unveiled an 8ft memorial which carries the words "We Also Served" during ...
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The Titanic: 100 Years Of Films And Photos

The Titanic: 100 Years Of Films And Photos

ONE hundred years ago today, the Titanic Karl left the quayside in Belfast. Who could ...
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The Brixton Riots: Photos Of An Eruption – 1981

The Brixton Riots: Photos Of An Eruption – 1981

On April 11, 1981, weeks after 13 young black people had been killed in a fire at a house party in New Cross, London – an act of suspected arson for which no-one has been arrested - a riot erupted ...
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Hardcore History: Teddy Roosevelt Shoots 50 Cent To Pieces

Hardcore History: Teddy Roosevelt Shoots 50 Cent To Pieces

THE Smithsonian's Hardcore History places characters from the past against those from the present. Anorak ...
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Pimlico Playground Death Trap of the 1970s

Pimlico Playground Death Trap of the 1970s

In the 1970s, playgrounds looked a lot like this one in Pimlico, London. The picture ...
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Alberto Granado RIP: Che Guevara Got The T-Shirts, You Got Old

Alberto Granado RIP: Che Guevara Got The T-Shirts, You Got Old

IT was Che Guevara’s biographers and marketeers good fortune that the revolutionary died before he ...
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Midge Hadley: The Pregnant Barbie Doll Who Posed For Playtoy

Midge Hadley: The Pregnant Barbie Doll Who Posed For Playtoy

Midge Hadley was the pregnant Barbie who hit the shelves in 1963. She hooked up ...
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London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

LONDON Olympics 1948: These Games were the second to be staged in London. In 1908, ...
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    Photographs of London’s Kings Cross Before the Change – c.1990

    Photographs of London’s Kings Cross Before the Change – c.1990

    Before the money moved in, Kings Cross was a place for born-and-bred locals, clubs and crime ...
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    Photos of Topless Dancers and Bottomless Drinks At New York City’s Raciest Clubs – c. 1977

    Photos of Topless Dancers and Bottomless Drinks At New York City’s Raciest Clubs – c. 1977

    See what really went on during that time in NYC's topless go-go bars ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

    Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

    In a book that became to be known as 'The People of the Abyss' London described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and even on the streets. ...
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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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    Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

    Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

    "I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. Cheerfulness kept creeping in." - Douglas Percy Bliss on his friend Eric Ravilious from their time at the Royal College of Art   Eric Ravilious loved ...
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    Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

    Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

    Yes I have a dark side, doesn’t everyone? I’ve played a lot of evil, ball-breaking women. And, if you’re honest, you’ll just drag up from the depths all the times you’ve hated or felt passionately about something and play it. ...
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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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    Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

    Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

      At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - an unexceptional and damp space that was once a sort of rest room for taxi drivers and an occasional tea bar - Ronnie Scott opened his first jazz club. Along with Ronnie himself and his ...
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    The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

    The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

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