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4 Ways Air Travel Has Become Objectively Terrible

4 Ways Air Travel Has Become Objectively Terrible

  ONCE UPON A TIME, air travel went something like this: You leisurely walked from ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Cashing In On Christmas: The Biggest Rip-Off Albums Ever

IT'S Christmas! Time for a rip-off… The historic album charts are full of magnificent Christmas ...
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1944 In Photos: Making Cheese With The Trappist Monks Of Rochefort, Belgium

1944 In Photos: Making Cheese With The Trappist Monks Of Rochefort, Belgium

BLESSED are the cheese makers: On November 3, 1944, the Associated Press's Bert Brand recorded ...
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In 1966 The Beatles Burned For Jesus

In 1966 The Beatles Burned For Jesus

  ON March 4, 1966, John Lennon, 25, was talking to Maureen Cleave, reporting for the ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Christmas Disco! The 70s Songs Played At Christmastime In Hell

  DISCO music started with a fair amount of street cred; it wasn’t until it ...
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A Quick Message And Death Threat From Doris Day

A Quick Message And Death Threat From Doris Day

DORIS Day has something to say:
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5 Funky Black Yuletide Grooves

5 Funky Black Yuletide Grooves

  LET'S face facts: Christmas in 1960s and 70s pop culture was presented as lily ...
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‘Our Nelson Mandelas’ – The IRA’s Balcombe Street Gang

‘Our Nelson Mandelas’ – The IRA’s Balcombe Street Gang

ON May 10 1998, four men made a dramatic appearance on the platform at a ...
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Before The War: Europe’s Royal Family In 1913

Before The War: Europe’s Royal Family In 1913

WHAT did the Royal Family look like 100 years ago? 1913 was the year before ...
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In 1988 Angela Lansbury Took A Bath And Swam Standing Up In A Dress

In 1988 Angela Lansbury Took A Bath And Swam Standing Up In A Dress

IN 1988, Angela Landsbury took a bath and went for a swim on her patio ...
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WTF: 29 Weird and Suggestive Retro Photos

WTF: 29 Weird and Suggestive Retro Photos

IF you've not yet tuned into Anorak's new writer Yeoman Lowbrow, then please click her ...
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3 Highly Disturbing Vintage Ads From The 70s And 80s

3 Highly Disturbing Vintage Ads From The 70s And 80s

EVER been scared by an advert?   Have Her In Stitches (literally)   THIS advertisement ...
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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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