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Rosa Parks’ Snapshots: Candid Photos Of ‘The Girl On the Bus’

Rosa Parks’ Snapshots: Candid Photos Of ‘The Girl On the Bus’

Rosa Parks, the 'Girl on the bus' whose courageous act of defiance triggered the Montgomery bus ...
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Mid-Century Hotel Postcard Models Living The American Dream

Mid-Century Hotel Postcard Models Living The American Dream

  Trying to look natural on camera is one of the hardest tasks. Trying to do ...
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Take Your Pick from these Vintage Book Clubs

Take Your Pick from these Vintage Book Clubs

This book club advertisement from 1985 lets us pick six for 99 cents... plus a ...
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Anita Pallenberg In Underwear, Boots And A Bag: 1967 And All That

Anita Pallenberg In Underwear, Boots And A Bag: 1967 And All That

  A couple of years back I interviewed Anita Pallenberg (6 April 1942 – 13 ...
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The Vanilla Fudge Room: The Lost Chapter from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Vanilla Fudge Room: The Lost Chapter from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie Bucket got up to more than we read in the final for-print edit of ...
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The Day the Music Died: A Closer Look at the Lyrics of “American Pie”

The Day the Music Died: A Closer Look at the Lyrics of “American Pie”

Ten years after the plane crash which killed Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie ...
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Pretty Publicité: Swinging Mademoiselles in 1960s French Fashion Ads

Pretty Publicité: Swinging Mademoiselles in 1960s French Fashion Ads

French fashion advertising for women in the late sixties/early seventies is nothing short of dynamite. ...
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Artist Visualises The Magnificent Tree of Languages

Artist Visualises The Magnificent Tree of Languages

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel ...
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David Ogilvy’s 5 Lists For Better Writing, More Money And Great Sex

David Ogilvy’s 5 Lists For Better Writing, More Money And Great Sex

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals" - ...
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Frida Kahlo’s Stunning Tribute To Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo’s Stunning Tribute To Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) and Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886–November 24, 1957) shared ...
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Vehicular Vinyl: 25 Vintage Records Featuring Cars

Vehicular Vinyl: 25 Vintage Records Featuring Cars

We recently toured through some obscure vinyl featuring motorcycles on the cover (See: Motorcycle Vinyl: 25 ...
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Amat Te Mehercle: The 1960s Classics Teacher Who Translated Beatles Songs Into Latin

Amat Te Mehercle: The 1960s Classics Teacher Who Translated Beatles Songs Into Latin

Eddie O'Hara (1 October 1937 – 28 May 2016) helped students at Perse School, Cambridge, ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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