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How racist American comic books won World War 2 – 20 photos

How racist American comic books won World War 2 – 20 photos

IN World War 2, the US called up Superman, Captain America, Batman and others to ...
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Police in action 1939-1945: photos of a time or racism, riots, murder and joy

Police in action 1939-1945: photos of a time or racism, riots, murder and joy

WHAT was it like for the police between 1939 and 1945? We've raided the archives ...
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Amphetamines are good for you – selling drugs to the fat and depressed (photos)

Amphetamines are good for you – selling drugs to the fat and depressed (photos)

AMPHETAMINES were once legal. They were advertised as being good for you and yours. Appetrol ...
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Blue Jeans magazine and naming those 1980s heartthrobs

Blue Jeans magazine and naming those 1980s heartthrobs

BLUE Jeans magazine was great. There photo casebooks were how a generation learnt about sexual ...
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1937 – How wives should undress before their husbands, by a burlesque stripper

1937 – How wives should undress before their husbands, by a burlesque stripper

IT'S 1937, and Life Magazine is running a feature on how housewives undress in front ...
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The AKAI ‘portable’ VTR 1/4″ video tape recorder – the birth of home-made porn

The AKAI ‘portable’ VTR 1/4″ video tape recorder – the birth of home-made porn

WHEN was user-generated pornography born? Before the camera phone it was 1972 and amateur filmmakers ...
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A history of national anthem disasters

A history of national anthem disasters

A HISTORY of National Anthem Diasaters: 2012: Kuwait When Kazakhstan’s Mariya Dmitriyenko received her gold ...
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1967 Holiday Camp Music – Joe the baby gorilla takes a bath

1967 Holiday Camp Music – Joe the baby gorilla takes a bath

IN this edition of Holiday Camp Music Classics, we listen in as baby Gorilla Joe ...
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The 10 best Superman comic book covers ever – Superman being a dick

The 10 best Superman comic book covers ever – Superman being a dick

THE ten best vintage comic book covers of Superman behaving like a dick: [imagebrowser id=4433] ...
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The Fever Pitch Years: two decades of English football’s gentrification

The Fever Pitch Years: two decades of English football’s gentrification

THE Fever Pitch Years: two decades of English football's gentrification. It started 20 years ago with ...
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The Liverpool Overhead Railway – The Dockers’ Umbrella

The Liverpool Overhead Railway – The Dockers’ Umbrella

THE Liverpool Overhead Railway was the world's first electric elevated railway. Trains ran 16feet above ...
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Nightmare On Fleet Street: Action And Battle In The Comic Books

Nightmare On Fleet Street: Action And Battle In The Comic Books

HALF a century ago, an influx of lurid American horror comics prompted a major backlash ...
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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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