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It’s Atari and PONG’s 40th birthday

It’s Atari and PONG’s 40th birthday

HAPPY 40th Atari! Amber Frost reminds us that "40 years ago today, with only a ...
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Identify the object

Identify the object

CAN you identify this object? The answer is on page 2.
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Paris 1914: colour photographs

Paris 1914: colour photographs

THESE colour photographs of Paris in 1914 are from the Albert Kahn Museum, based at Kahn's former ...
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The Anthology album of Rolling Stones secret songs

The Anthology album of Rolling Stones secret songs

No Stone Unturned As the Rolling Stones begin their 50th Anniversary with a tour, TV ...
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Lord Fisher uses first example of ‘OMG’ in letter to Winston Churchill

Lord Fisher uses first example of ‘OMG’ in letter to Winston Churchill

IT'S 1917 and Winston Churchill receives a letter from Lord Fisher. It contains the earliest ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

How the Hit Parade moved from phonograph needles, platters and sleaze to MP3s

SIXTY years ago, the first British singles chart – or “Hit Parade” as it was ...
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When Hercules the bear was Scotland’s Number 1 star

When Hercules the bear was Scotland’s Number 1 star

HERCULES was born in a captivity near Aviemore in 1974. Wrestler Andy Robin paid £50 ...
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1965: A film on London’s members’ only clubs

1965: A film on London’s members’ only clubs

IT'S 1965, and the Rank Organisation has produced a film called Look at Life - ...
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Sexism watch: Daredevil slips into ‘something barely legal’

Sexism watch: Daredevil slips into ‘something barely legal’

EVERYDAY sexism looks at this still from a Daredevil comic book. Norman Saunders thought it tame. (more…)
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The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s

The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s

WERE you around in the 1970s? Did you keep fit with the latest kit? We've ...
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1949: the walls of Hitler’s ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden

1949: the walls of Hitler’s ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden

FLASHBACK: The walls of Hitler's ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden, Germany are covered with the ...
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1985: House spiders on drugs

1985: House spiders on drugs

FLASHBACK to 27/04/1995: EXPERIMENTS BY NASA SCIENTISTS HAVE SHOWN THAT COMMON HOUSE SPIDERS SPIN THEIR WEBS IN ...
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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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