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Getting WAY Too Excited About Computers: Open-Mouthed Wonderment in 80s Tech Adverts

Getting WAY Too Excited About Computers: Open-Mouthed Wonderment in 80s Tech Adverts

Look at these people.  Judging by the levels of shock-and-awe, you'd think this man just ...
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Sex, Slavery And A Father’s Rotting Corpse: The Secret of Diary William Byrd II, Gentlemen And Planter (1907 – 1912)

Sex, Slavery And A Father’s Rotting Corpse: The Secret of Diary William Byrd II, Gentlemen And Planter (1907 – 1912)

"September 3rd 1709 … I ate roast chicken for dinner. In the afternoon I beat Jenny for throwing water on the couch" ...
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Newfangled Diamond Portraits (1890s)

Newfangled Diamond Portraits (1890s)

"I have this idea that photo genres spread like fads," says John Van Noate. "You went ...
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Benjamin Franklin Forced Enlightenment On Isolated Prisoners Inside The World’s First Penitentiary

Benjamin Franklin Forced Enlightenment On Isolated Prisoners Inside The World’s First Penitentiary

  Thrown into solitude... [the prisoner] reflects. Placed alone, in view of his crime, he ...
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The Man Whose Mind Exploded: Drako Oho Zarhazar’s Was Salvador Dali’s Angel And Other Extraordinary Events

The Man Whose Mind Exploded: Drako Oho Zarhazar’s Was Salvador Dali’s Angel And Other Extraordinary Events

I can’t wait to see documentarist Toby Amies’ envoi to his extraordinary friend Drako Oho ...
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The Rolling Stones’ All Night Rave at Alexandra Palace – June 1964

The Rolling Stones’ All Night Rave at Alexandra Palace – June 1964

Organised by The Rolling Stones' fan club, the show coincided with the release date of the band's hit 'It’s All Over Now'. ...
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Audrey, Celia, and Olive’s Joyous Days At The Beach (1927-1928)

Audrey, Celia, and Olive’s Joyous Days At The Beach (1927-1928)

"Several years ago, I obtained a photographic album with pictures of an British family dating ...
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Found Photos: Mid-Century People Standing By Modern TVs (Volume 2)

Found Photos: Mid-Century People Standing By Modern TVs (Volume 2)

In this gallery of mid-Century people posing for the camera with their modern TV sets, ...
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Lady Day And Mister: Billy Holiday’s Canine Partners In Crime

Lady Day And Mister: Billy Holiday’s Canine Partners In Crime

Jazz singer Eleanora Fagan, aka Billie Holiday and Lady Day, (April 7, 1915–July 17, 1959) ...
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Live Long and Prosper: Mr. Spock’s Greatest Achievements in Star Trek’s Prime Universe

Live Long and Prosper: Mr. Spock’s Greatest Achievements in Star Trek’s Prime Universe

  This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of Gene Roddenberry's space opera, Star Trek (1966-1969). ...
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Sassy Women In 1970s New York Purgatory, By Meryl Meisler

Sassy Women In 1970s New York Purgatory, By Meryl Meisler

  "You can never go to heaven, the best you can do is purgatory” That ...
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Andy Warhol Eats A Burger King And Asks ‘Where is the beautiful McDonald’s?’

Andy Warhol Eats A Burger King And Asks ‘Where is the beautiful McDonald’s?’

"It couldn’t be more Warholesque. That’s of course why he agreed to do it" ...
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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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