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1978: Douglas Adams hitches a lift with glamour model Sheree Boyland

1978: Douglas Adams hitches a lift with glamour model Sheree Boyland

FLASHBACK to 29th November 1978: Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, posing ...
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In photos: the changing face, hair and statues of Lenin

In photos: the changing face, hair and statues of Lenin

THEY erected statues to Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin, In all of them he looks aged ...
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1944 in photos: French shave heads of women who collaborated with the Germans

1944 in photos: French shave heads of women who collaborated with the Germans

AFTER the Second World War, the French shaved the heads of women who collaborated with ...
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Kenya’s epic jumpers present a history of high jumping before Dick Fosbury flopped

Kenya’s epic jumpers present a history of high jumping before Dick Fosbury flopped

  BEFORE Dick Fosbury (above) flopped in the mid-1960s, high jumpers took on the bar ...
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Brazil v England: the ten most interesting encounters

Brazil v England: the ten most interesting encounters

WITH the renovated Maracanã stadium reduced to well under half its previous capacity, and finally ...
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1974 T-shirt slogans: ‘I Dreamt I was Raped by Mick Jagger in my David Bowie T-shirt’

1974 T-shirt slogans: ‘I Dreamt I was Raped by Mick Jagger in my David Bowie T-shirt’

In 1974, Lonely Ladies T-shirts presented "I Dreamt I was Raped by Mick Jagger in ...
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Sexy Vinyl: 91 photos of when music was for swingers

Sexy Vinyl: 91 photos of when music was for swingers

SEX and music go hand in hand. But only with vinyl is sex always on ...
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Extracts from Joanna Rohrback’s Prancercise (with inner horse video)

Extracts from Joanna Rohrback’s Prancercise (with inner horse video)

IN 1989, we, like you, were getting fit with Joanna Rohrback's Prancercise. As she says: ...
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The Mount Everest Story In Photos (1953)

The Mount Everest Story In Photos (1953)

On May 28, 1953, Edmund Hillary told the rest of the expedition that never made ...
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The Mount Everest story in photos

The Mount Everest story in photos

ON May 28, 1953, Edmund Hillary told the rest of the expedition that never made ...
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Oscar Wilde Explains His Comment That ‘All Art is Quite Useless’

Oscar Wilde Explains His Comment That ‘All Art is Quite Useless’

  In 1890, Bernulf Clegg wrote asked Oscar Wilde to expand on a line in ...
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The Creepy Mattel Roller Skating Doll Returns From The 1980s

The Creepy Mattel Roller Skating Doll Returns From The 1980s

  The Mattel Roller Skating Doll was creepy:  
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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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