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Vintage Americana: 35 objects that sold the American dream

Vintage Americana: 35 objects that sold the American dream

THESE objects represent the American Dream, the stuff that when I was growing in suburban ...
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Political memories: Hang Nelson Mandela before it’s too late (and Saddam Hussein was a ‘friendly’ guy)

Political memories: Hang Nelson Mandela before it’s too late (and Saddam Hussein was a ‘friendly’ guy)

AS the mawkish and ghoulish media hover around Nelson Mandela's hospital bed, we look back ...
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Conversations with my hotdog – an anti-LSD and meat film from the 1960s

Conversations with my hotdog – an anti-LSD and meat film from the 1960s

ONCE upon a time, LSD was the housewife's trip of choice. British soldiers had tested ...
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Sexy politicians: Ronald Reagan poses in his knickers

Sexy politicians: Ronald Reagan poses in his knickers

IN the interests of fairness, we balance the Top Ten Sexy Left Wing politicians ever ...
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In 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre took mescaline – that’s when the crabs started to follow him

In 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre took mescaline – that’s when the crabs started to follow him

IN 1929, Jean-Paul Sartre met  Simone De Beauvoir and took some mescaline. These two events were not linked. He ...
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The Great Train Robbery – the story in photos

The Great Train Robbery – the story in photos

THE Great Train Robbery was the 1963 crime immortalised in film, books, TV shows and ...
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1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl’s Court flat

1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl’s Court flat

FLASHBACK snapshot: 1980 - "Lady Diana Spencer's look of astonishment as she stalls her car ...
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Egotism, ‘female disease’ and other ways to get locked inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (photos)

Egotism, ‘female disease’ and other ways to get locked inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (photos)

THE  Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is shown in Weston, W.Va. is a former psychiatric hospital now ...
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Cocksucker Blues – Groupies sex and shooting up heroin: The Rolling Stones epic and banned documentary

Cocksucker Blues – Groupies sex and shooting up heroin: The Rolling Stones epic and banned documentary

IN 1972, long before The Rolling Stones were pop's Establishment act headlining Glastonbury and making ...
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1973: Jimmy Savile hid in a Womble suit on Top of The Pops to leer at young girls

1973: Jimmy Savile hid in a Womble suit on Top of The Pops to leer at young girls

OPERATION Yewtree calls The Wombles. Mike Batt wrote their music. He went on the record: ...
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The 22 most unusual names in American political history

The 22 most unusual names in American political history

THE 22 most unusual, suggestive and bizarre names in American political history: [imagebrowser id=5817] Spotter: The ...
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11 terrifying beauty treatments from the 20th Century

11 terrifying beauty treatments from the 20th Century

BEAUTY is a brutal business. From silicon in your bum or your todger and lips that look ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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