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Vintage weight-gain adverts – when fat was fulfilling

Vintage weight-gain adverts – when fat was fulfilling

FAT. The Government, the press and the fat hate it. Once upon a time, the ...
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A history of Olympic gender scandals

A history of Olympic gender scandals

GENDER has been an issue at the Olympics for some time. Not every athlete fits ...
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Flashback: Tom Hancocks of High Wycombe invented The Segway in 1962

Flashback: Tom Hancocks of High Wycombe invented The Segway in 1962

FLASHBACK: Tom Hancocks of High Wycombe invented The Segway in 1962
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FLASHBACK: Parliamentary punch-ups

FLASHBACK: Parliamentary punch-ups

AS concerns grow about the possibility of an intolerant reception for black players and supporters ...
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Vintage ad of the day: Change your Y-fronts every day of the week

Vintage ad of the day: Change your Y-fronts every day of the week

FLASHBACK to April 1971 - the cool kids are wearing Y-fronts every day of the week! ...
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Whirl magazine – the 1960s lads mag scans

Whirl magazine – the 1960s lads mag scans

WHIRL magazine was a short-lived US publication for men who liked their women available for ...
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The 1951 Festival of Britain – maps, thrills and the Skylon (photos)

The 1951 Festival of Britain – maps, thrills and the Skylon (photos)

THE 1951 Festival of Britain aimed to break all that post-war austerity with a display ...
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The Iter Avto was the world’s first SatNav

The Iter Avto was the world’s first SatNav

THAT SatNav not working as it should? Have a heart for the orginal version, the ...
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Stars and their vinyl records – photos

Stars and their vinyl records – photos

VINLY was once the coolest thing around. The famous faces posed with their hit parade, ...
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Flashback to 1934 – How to mesmerise a chicken

Flashback to 1934 – How to mesmerise a chicken

FLASHBACK to 1934 - How to mesmerise a chicken:
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The story of Prince Charles’ comedy – from The Goons to nowhere

The story of Prince Charles’ comedy – from The Goons to nowhere

IN his introduction to Andy Secombe’s book, Growing Up With The Goons, Prince Charles has declared ...
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The British Council archive – 120 films of life in the 1940s

The British Council archive – 120 films of life in the 1940s

THE British Council is the "UK's international cultural relations body", delivering cultual propaganda to make Britain great in ...
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    Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s

    Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s

    The boy I had been following in particular was Fernando Madrid, one of Lydia Madrid’s six kids. Fernando played hooky a lot ...
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    Ernest Hemingway’s List of 16 Books Any Writer Should Read as a Part of Their Education

    Ernest Hemingway’s List of 16 Books Any Writer Should Read as a Part of Their Education

    Plus Hemingway's tips on how to write as told to his one and only protégé ...
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    Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

    Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

    Gerda Wegener caused a sensation with her gorgeous images of beautiful women - her art is equal to it ...
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    Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

    Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

    For Christmas 1960, Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) designed greeting cards for Hallmark ...
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    Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

    Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

    Gerta Pohorylle adopted the professional name of "Gerda Taro" after the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto although initially Taro and Capa shared the name "Robert Capa" derived from Endre Friedmann's Budapest street nickname "Cápa" which means "Shark" in Hungarian. A significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was almost certainly photographed by Taro. ...
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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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    ‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

    ‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

    Much of the food we tried in London -- and in England generally -- was bland, tasteless, and (in restaurants) overcooked, as we'd been told it would be. Saying no to it was easy. ...
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    Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

    Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

    How Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter brought down the Tory Government! ...
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    The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

    The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

    In 1961, The New Yorker commissioned Arendt to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem ...
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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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