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In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote this letter in praise of ‘the bottle’

In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote this letter in praise of ‘the bottle’

IN 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote to Ivan Kashkin, a Russian translator and critic,. The Post ...
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The 1982 Blade Runner convention reel

The 1982 Blade Runner convention reel

BLADE RUNNER is one of my all-time favourite films. The director's cut is even better. Future ...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting in a Gif

Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting in a Gif

SIX weeks after Bert Stern took these pictures in June 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. The ...
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The sickening thrill of the Vietnam Selective Service lottery

The sickening thrill of the Vietnam Selective Service lottery

FLASHBACK to The Vietnam War: Draft Director Curtis W. Tarr spins a plexiglass drum containing ...
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Mirosalc Tichý: the eccentric photographer who recorded young women with his cardboard camera

Mirosalc Tichý: the eccentric photographer who recorded young women with his cardboard camera

  MIROSLAC  Tichý  (1926 - 2011) was the man with the homemade cardboard, plywood and tin ...
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Car time capsule up for sale in Nebraska – the  Lambrecht Chevrolet story

Car time capsule up for sale in Nebraska – the Lambrecht Chevrolet story

THIS is your chance to buy a nearly-unused classic car. Lambrecht Chevrolet of Pierce, Neb., (prop. Ray ...
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2004: Chris Morris and Alan Partridge discuss the deaths of JFK, Princess Diana and September 11

2004: Chris Morris and Alan Partridge discuss the deaths of JFK, Princess Diana and September 11

IN 2004,  The Day Today in 2004, Chris Morris & Alan Partridge were discussing the ...
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Men of the People: when pasty-faced politicians who pretended to be just like the rest of us fail

Men of the People: when pasty-faced politicians who pretended to be just like the rest of us fail

WHAT has George ‘lifelong Chelsea fan’ Osborne learned this week? That passing yourself off as ...
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The K-tel Bigfoot commercial

The K-tel Bigfoot commercial

K-TEL didn't just make K-Tel Record Selector, non-stick frying pans and fight with Ronco for ...
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In this 1968 video Mickey Mouse gets killed in Vietnam

In this 1968 video Mickey Mouse gets killed in Vietnam

It's 1968. Mickey Mouse is in Vietnam. The film was made by Milton Glaser Shows ...
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Posters from British wrestling’s glorious heyday

Posters from British wrestling’s glorious heyday

ONCE upon a time, 4pm on Saturday afternoond meant wrestling on the telly. You could ...
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John Steinbeck on the male beard versus the female beard

John Steinbeck on the male beard versus the female beard

JOHN Steinbeck on the beard: I cultivate this beard not for the usual given reasons ...
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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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