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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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Virginia Wade heads a list of British Wimbledon champions erased from the record books

Virginia Wade heads a list of British Wimbledon champions erased from the record books

WHEN Andy Murray won Wimbledon some of you might have picked up the whiff of ...
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Michael Caine explains the power of blinking in this acting workshop

Michael Caine explains the power of blinking in this acting workshop

  MICHAEL Caine shares with us the power of not blinking,. He keeps on going.... ...
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Fartgate: The Great ‘Iconic’ Wind-Passing Moments from the Cultural Archives

Fartgate: The Great ‘Iconic’ Wind-Passing Moments from the Cultural Archives

As The Archers Fartgate rumbles on, we look back at those great ‘iconic’ wind-passing moments from ...
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In 1978 Sex Pistol John Lydon told the BBC he’d like to murder Jimmy Savile (audio)

In 1978 Sex Pistol John Lydon told the BBC he’d like to murder Jimmy Savile (audio)

IN October 1978, when Jimmy Savile was in his paedo pomp, seducing kids on the ...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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