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Illustrated Lists of Great Writers and Artists

Illustrated Lists of Great Writers and Artists

From Picasso's best artists to fining love in New York City, lists make sense of the incomprehensible ...
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Photographs of Staten Island and New York Harbor in 1973

Photographs of Staten Island and New York Harbor in 1973

Let's take the bridge and the ferry to Staten Island in 1973 ...
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The Long Good Friday –  How The Great British Gangster Film Got Its Name

The Long Good Friday – How The Great British Gangster Film Got Its Name

The struggle between a freelance gangster and idealists in 1980s London ...
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Hugh Mangum Portraits: The Itinerant Photographer Who Captured Black and White America

Hugh Mangum Portraits: The Itinerant Photographer Who Captured Black and White America

Mangum worked in the American South at the height of Jim Crow segregation laws - he welcomed blacks and whites alike ...
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The Bizarre, Human-Animal Hybrids Imagined by Lucien Rudaux – 1938

The Bizarre, Human-Animal Hybrids Imagined by Lucien Rudaux – 1938

When a famous French artist created visions of alternative human evolution ...
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A Hundred Fables by Jean La Fontaine Illustrated by Percy J Billinghurst – 1900

A Hundred Fables by Jean La Fontaine Illustrated by Percy J Billinghurst – 1900

Fontaine's 239 fables are a composite blend of Western and Eastern stories adapted into French free verse ...
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Buy Prints Educating the Masses: Pages from ‘The Finding Out Treasury’ 1964

Educating the Masses: Pages from ‘The Finding Out Treasury’ 1964

The book was intended to encourage children's enquiring minds and instil a sense of wonder at the world, its histories, cultures, and peoples. ...
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Why Kids Loved Shell Oil in the Early 1970s: The ‘Man in Flight’ Series of Collectible Coins

Why Kids Loved Shell Oil in the Early 1970s: The ‘Man in Flight’ Series of Collectible Coins

In the 1970s Shell Oil produced a series of collectable coins. Our writer got them all ...
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Ernst Kirchner’s Degenerate Masterpieces

Ernst Kirchner’s Degenerate Masterpieces

Kirchner's work was branded “degenerate” by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his creations were sold or destroyed. ...
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Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit

Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit

"In the course of their training, scientists are equipped with a baloney detection kit. The kit is brought out as a matter of course whenever new ideas are offered for consideration" - Carl Sagan ...
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Brilliant Celeb Photos from the 1970s by Carinthia West

Brilliant Celeb Photos from the 1970s by Carinthia West

“I would come down the stairs as a child and be greeted by visiting British VIP’s such as Beyond The Fringe’s Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Julie Christie," ...
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The Runaways – When Dominick Elwes and Tessa Kennedy Shocked The World

The Runaways – When Dominick Elwes and Tessa Kennedy Shocked The World

Caroline Kennedy tells the story of a scandalous love affair in the 1950s ...
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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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