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When Peter Hicks Electrocuted Traffic Wardens in London

When Peter Hicks Electrocuted Traffic Wardens in London

  On February 23 1963 Peter Hicks, a 40-year-old farmer and verteran of Bomber Command, ...
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“If Husbands Only Knew”: Mid-Century Book Adverts of Sexual Anxiety, True Love and Smut

“If Husbands Only Knew”: Mid-Century Book Adverts of Sexual Anxiety, True Love and Smut

  If you have the chance to pore through some vintage pulp magazines, you'll find ...
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Tsar Nicholas II’s Photographs of Daughter Anastasia Romanov Wearing Joke False Teeth

Tsar Nicholas II’s Photographs of Daughter Anastasia Romanov Wearing Joke False Teeth

In 1915, Russia's Tsar Nicholas II (18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918) took photographs ...
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Fantastic Etiquette Screen Cards for Unruly Cinema Goers In 1912

Fantastic Etiquette Screen Cards for Unruly Cinema Goers In 1912

You think going to the cinema now is hard work, dealing with the smart phone ...
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Snow Bound: A Survey of Ice Planets at the Movies and on TV

Snow Bound: A Survey of Ice Planets at the Movies and on TV

  Much of North America, particularly in the northeast, is currently digging out from one ...
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A Look at 5 Saturday Morning Shows of the 1960s and 70s

A Look at 5 Saturday Morning Shows of the 1960s and 70s

Back before there were 24 hour kids networks, children cherished Saturday mornings as that brief ...
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Culture of Fear: Six Times that Fear was a Deadly Weapon on Sci-Fi TV

Culture of Fear: Six Times that Fear was a Deadly Weapon on Sci-Fi TV

According to an online article in Wired Magazine published on August 24, 2012, Darpa -- ...
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Ice-breaking Acquaintance Cards From The 1870s and 1880s

Ice-breaking Acquaintance Cards From The 1870s and 1880s

Long before tweets and pokes, the way to instant message a dame and break the ...
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Like Punk Never Happened – Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1977

Like Punk Never Happened – Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1977

  Kay and Co Ltd was actually originally founded in Worcester in 1886 when William ...
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Teens Behaving Awkwardly: A Look at the 1970s High School Dance

Teens Behaving Awkwardly: A Look at the 1970s High School Dance

Ah, yes.  The High School Dance.  A source of much anxiety, subtle humiliation, and maybe ...
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Sydney Dernley’s Gallows Humour: At Home With Britain’s Last Surviving Executioner

Sydney Dernley’s Gallows Humour: At Home With Britain’s Last Surviving Executioner

  Nobody finds it odd that footballers and rock stars line their walls with framed ...
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In November 1938 ‘Homes and Gardens’ Visited Hitler’s Home in the Bavarian Alps

In November 1938 ‘Homes and Gardens’ Visited Hitler’s Home in the Bavarian Alps

  On the evening of 10 November 1938 many people all over Britain would have ...
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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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