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October 30: On This Day Father Jerzy Popieluszko Is Found Murdered By Poland’s Secret Police

October 30: On This Day Father Jerzy Popieluszko Is Found Murdered By Poland’s Secret Police

ON This Day: October 30:  Jerzy Popieluszko was found. He'd been murdered. Photo above: Solidarity union ...
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In 1976 Margaret Hamilton Terrified The Children Of Sesame Street

In 1976 Margaret Hamilton Terrified The Children Of Sesame Street

HEY, kids, ready to be scared? Sesame Street thought so.  On February 10, 1976 , ...
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Footballers Forever Associated With Certain Items Of Food

Footballers Forever Associated With Certain Items Of Food

FOOTBALLERS Forever Associated With Certain Items Of Food "Mark Bosnich was a terrible professional," claims ...
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Do You Believe In Witches? A Photos Essay On The Fabled, The White And The Wicked

Do You Believe In Witches? A Photos Essay On The Fabled, The White And The Wicked

DO you believe in witches? (All captions below are of their time.) The White Witch ...
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The Roma Gypsy Holocaust: The Enduring Lie Of An ‘Inherent Criminal Character’

The Roma Gypsy Holocaust: The Enduring Lie Of An ‘Inherent Criminal Character’

THE hideous reaction to "blonde angel" Maria found living in a Roma camp in Greece ...
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Children In Tobacco Adverts

Children In Tobacco Adverts

WHEN British American Tobacco ran an advert for Vype e-cigarettes in an iPad game aimed ...
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Skigi: The World’s Youngest Critic Sees The Rise Of Motion Pictures At New York’s Vaudeville Show

Skigi: The World’s Youngest Critic Sees The Rise Of Motion Pictures At New York’s Vaudeville Show

IN December 1905, the first issue of Variety magazine featured an article by Skigie. Who ...
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Mod Cinema: Hard-To-Find 60s, 70s And 80s Films

Mod Cinema: Hard-To-Find 60s, 70s And 80s Films

ANORAK loves Mod Cinema, a home for hard-to-find 60s, 70s and 80s films you never ...
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Soviet-Era Anti-Alcohol Posters

Soviet-Era Anti-Alcohol Posters

IN the Soviet-era, anti-alcohol posters were artful. The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters has a fine collection. (more…)
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Cruel Men Critisising Their Wives’ Coffee In 1950s And 1960s Adverts (And Her Revenge)

Cruel Men Critisising Their Wives’ Coffee In 1950s And 1960s Adverts (And Her Revenge)

SHE makes terrible coffee. Sure, she has nice hair, pretty ankles and takes her prescription ...
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Gertrude Stein: A Great Rejection Letter And A Study Of The Back Of Her Head

Gertrude Stein: A Great Rejection Letter And A Study Of The Back Of Her Head

ON April 19, 1912, Gertrude STrine received this letter from Arthur C Fifield, Publisher. (more…)
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Terrible Taglines: The Day Of The Dolphins (1973)

Terrible Taglines: The Day Of The Dolphins (1973)

TERRIBLE Taglines: The Day Of The Dolphins (1973): "Unwittingly He Trained A Dolphin To Kill ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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