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1961: Ham the chimpanzee is shot into space

1961: Ham the chimpanzee is shot into space

IN 1961, Ham the chimpanzee was removed from his home in at the Holloman Aerospace Medical ...
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1965: Discotheque Dances with Dick Blake

1965: Discotheque Dances with Dick Blake

FLASHBACK to 1965. All the cool kids are learning Discotheque Dances with Dick Blake: (more…)
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1936: Dimples are made to order

1936: Dimples are made to order

IT'S 1936 and dimples are made to order:   Spotter: Modern Mechanix
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Norman Rockwell’s Models Pose Meet Their Immortal Selves

Norman Rockwell’s Models Pose Meet Their Immortal Selves

Norman Rockwell, the great American artist, used models. They’ve grown up. Tom Paquin of North Bennington, ...
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The best and worst practical jokes: arrested development for winners

The best and worst practical jokes: arrested development for winners

DO you know the practical jokers who glued the doors shot of 25 homes in ...
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Muhammad Ali: Fans In Fur At The Bonavena Fight (1970)

Muhammad Ali: Fans In Fur At The Bonavena Fight (1970)

On December 7, 1970. Muhammad Ali fought Oscar Natalio Bonavena from Argentina, at New York's Madison ...
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FLASHBACK to 1970: fabulous furry fight fans for Muhammad Ali

FLASHBACK to 1970: fabulous furry fight fans for Muhammad Ali

FLASHBACK to December 7, 1970. Muhammad Ali was fighting Oscar Natalio Bonavena from Argentina, at New York's ...
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Cannon Towels Adverts: For Naked Soldiers and Other Men

Cannon Towels Adverts: For Naked Soldiers and Other Men

Those vintage gay adverts did not feature the work of Cannon Towels. With a Cannon Towel, ...
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Cannon Towels put the gay into the Army

Cannon Towels put the gay into the Army

THOSE vintage gay adverts did not feature the work of Cannon Towels. With a Cannon ...
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Before health and safety: The Candy Knife slices like a razor

Before health and safety: The Candy Knife slices like a razor

WOWZA! Life before health and safety: A  cheap cut-yer-legs-off razor-style blade and candy bars! What ...
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These vintage gay adverts were our little secret

These vintage gay adverts were our little secret

BEING gay was not always as difficult as it is now. It used to be ...
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From 1976 two Swine Flu films to scare the life out of you

From 1976 two Swine Flu films to scare the life out of you

WINTER is coming. And that means swine flu. Be afraid. In 1976, you were very ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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