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Photos On This Day In History: 1974 – Greece And Turkey Wage War Over Cyrpus

Photos On This Day In History: 1974 – Greece And Turkey Wage War Over Cyrpus

ON July 20, 1974, Turkish forces invaded Cyprus in response to a coup by supporters ...
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Queen Visits Bletchley Park: How The War Was Won (In Photos)

Queen Visits Bletchley Park: How The War Was Won (In Photos)

THE Queen has unveiled an 8ft memorial which carries the words "We Also Served" during ...
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The Titanic: 100 Years Of Films And Photos

The Titanic: 100 Years Of Films And Photos

ONE hundred years ago today, the Titanic Karl left the quayside in Belfast. Who could ...
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The Brixton Riots: Photos Of An Eruption – 1981

The Brixton Riots: Photos Of An Eruption – 1981

On April 11, 1981, weeks after 13 young black people had been killed in a fire at a house party in New Cross, London – an act of suspected arson for which no-one has been arrested - a riot erupted ...
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Hardcore History: Teddy Roosevelt Shoots 50 Cent To Pieces

Hardcore History: Teddy Roosevelt Shoots 50 Cent To Pieces

THE Smithsonian's Hardcore History places characters from the past against those from the present. Anorak ...
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Pimlico Playground Death Trap of the 1970s

Pimlico Playground Death Trap of the 1970s

In the 1970s, playgrounds looked a lot like this one in Pimlico, London. The picture ...
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Alberto Granado RIP: Che Guevara Got The T-Shirts, You Got Old

Alberto Granado RIP: Che Guevara Got The T-Shirts, You Got Old

IT was Che Guevara’s biographers and marketeers good fortune that the revolutionary died before he ...
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Midge Hadley: The Pregnant Barbie Doll Who Posed For Playtoy

Midge Hadley: The Pregnant Barbie Doll Who Posed For Playtoy

Midge Hadley was the pregnant Barbie who hit the shelves in 1963. She hooked up ...
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London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

LONDON Olympics 1948: These Games were the second to be staged in London. In 1908, ...
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Decimalisation: 40 Years Ago Britain Did Away With Pounds, Shillings And Pence

Decimalisation: 40 Years Ago Britain Did Away With Pounds, Shillings And Pence

FORTY years ago 87-year-old Alice Robinson closed the doors of her general store for the ...
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Royal Weddings In Photos: A Pictorial History Of British Royals Marrying

Royal Weddings In Photos: A Pictorial History Of British Royals Marrying

ROYAL Wedding in Photos: Kate Middleton and Prince William are to marry. It’ll be great. ...
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Vintage Ads: Go Gay Hair

Vintage Ads: Go Gay Hair

GO GAY was "The first holding pray with shine right in it". Brought to you ...
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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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