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Max Factor showcases the Beauty Micrometer

Max Factor showcases the Beauty Micrometer

FLASHBACK to January 1935: Max Factor showcases the Beauty Micrometer, a device "perfected" by the make-up ...
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The Hitler pin cushion (photos of Roosevelt’s desk toy)

The Hitler pin cushion (photos of Roosevelt’s desk toy)

IT'S 1941 and for just $1.49 you can own an Adolf Hitler pin cushion. As ...
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Flashback: The Indoor League – 81 pints and the Terry Yorath table-football fight

Flashback: The Indoor League – 81 pints and the Terry Yorath table-football fight

THE Indoor League was broadcast live from the Leeds Irish Centre. Your host was Fred ...
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A modern history of Vandals: why do they do it?

A modern history of Vandals: why do they do it?

VANDALS: why do they do it? No sooner had the first golden post box been ...
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Groucho Marx endorses lightbulb snatching and more

Groucho Marx endorses lightbulb snatching and more

GROUCHO Marx was a funny man.But could he make you buy thing? Would a Groucho ...
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The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

CONTINUING Anorak's look a bicycles and cycling, we bring you the 1955 Huffy Radio Bike. ...
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Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes

IT'S 1953 and Groucho Marx's television show You Bet Your Life is on the magic box. But not ...
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The cycling sewing machine of 1939

The cycling sewing machine of 1939

CYCLING. CYCLING! That's good, Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton. But can ...
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A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

ITS as easy as riding a bike. So they say. It turns out that the ...
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A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

SIR Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins have got us all on our bikes. But a ...
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The best and worst Olympic protests

The best and worst Olympic protests

WHEN the Spanish water polo coach considered ordering his team to stay in the pool, ...
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Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

WHO was the mystery woman in red top and jeans, marching proudly at the front ...
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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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