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How carrots won World War Two

How carrots won World War Two

CARROTS played their part in World War Two. Carrots would win the war. And, as ...
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When Kathrine Switzer Broke The Sex Race At the Boston Marathon, 1967

When Kathrine Switzer Broke The Sex Race At the Boston Marathon, 1967

When Kathrine Switzer showed up to run the Boston Marathon in 1967, she wasn't there to make a political statement about a woman's right to compete in a men-only event ...
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The story of the Klu Klux Klan in pictures: racism, civil rights and murder

The story of the Klu Klux Klan in pictures: racism, civil rights and murder

THE Klu Klux Klan was once powerful. The Far Right, anti-immigration, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jew, anti-anything ...
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1931: State Superintendent closes American Union Bank New York

1931: State Superintendent closes American Union Bank New York

FLASHBACK: Depositors gather outside the closed doors of the American Union Bank in New York ...
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Santa Claus sold cigarettes for Christmas

Santa Claus sold cigarettes for Christmas

SANTA Claus used to sell cigarettes for Christmas. The old roue: [imagebrowser id=5413 template=fancy]
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1971: the Mars selection box

1971: the Mars selection box

FLASHBACK to 1971: the Mars Christmas Selection Box offers a packet of Treets (chocolate-coated peanuts), ...
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1957: ‘Build Throbbing Vibrato’ with Popular Electronics

1957: ‘Build Throbbing Vibrato’ with Popular Electronics

IT'S 1957 and all the young cats are buying Popular Electronics to create that "Throbbing ...
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When John Lydon appeared on Judge Judy

When John Lydon appeared on Judge Judy

BEFORE eating kangaroo anus on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, chewing off politicos on ...
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Bullseye: Contestants Who Played A Bit of TV Darts With Bully (1980s)

Bullseye: Contestants Who Played A Bit of TV Darts With Bully (1980s)

BULLSEYE was a popular British television programme. Between 1981 and 1995, your host Jim Bowen ...
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Junior’s Navy Academy Yearbook

Alan Bartlett Shepard Junior’s Navy Academy Yearbook

SNAPSHOT: Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. showed same flashing smile and engaging personality as a ...
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1963: Lenny Bruce is banned from Britain ‘in the public interest’

1963: Lenny Bruce is banned from Britain ‘in the public interest’

  In April 1963 comedian Lenny Bruce (nee Leonard Alfred Schneider) was refused entry to ...
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Highlights from the Victorian circus freak show (posters)

Highlights from the Victorian circus freak show (posters)

THE VICTORIANS loved a 'freak': (more…)
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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