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Pearl Harbor: The Photo Story Of Japan’s 1941 Attack Before, After And During

Pearl Harbor: The Photo Story Of Japan’s 1941 Attack Before, After And During

ON December 7 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the US navy base on Oahu, Hawaii. The ...
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A.A. Milne Reads Winnie The Pooh In 1929 (With Photos Of The Writer Playing With ‘Christopher Robin’)

A.A. Milne Reads Winnie The Pooh In 1929 (With Photos Of The Writer Playing With ‘Christopher Robin’)

  In 1929 A.A. Milne (above) was recorded reading aloud a passage from his book, Winnie-the-Pooh.   ...
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Apartheid South Africa In the 1960s – Photos Of The Black And White Years

Apartheid South Africa In the 1960s – Photos Of The Black And White Years

IN the 1960s, South Africa was ruled by white supremacists. South African political expert Stanley ...
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Journalism Under Apartheid: ‘You do realise you will be working for a kaffir paper?’

Journalism Under Apartheid: ‘You do realise you will be working for a kaffir paper?’

I WORKED in pre-Mandela ZA as a young sub and chief sub and briefly, in ...
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Nelson Mandela: The 12 Years Of Trials In Photos

Nelson Mandela: The 12 Years Of Trials In Photos

THE TRIALS of Nelson Mandela - in photos. The trials last 12 years...   The ...
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1977: Her Majesty The Queen Meets A Huge Inflatable Golliwog

1977: Her Majesty The Queen Meets A Huge Inflatable Golliwog

  Flashbak to August 8, 1977:  A giant inflatable golliwog in the crowd greeting Queen ...
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8 Profoundly Unpleasant Songs by Actors and Actresses

8 Profoundly Unpleasant Songs by Actors and Actresses

Famous faces who gave full throat to lamentable lyrics ...
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Incredible Secret World War 2 Room Found In Norway House (Photos)

Incredible Secret World War 2 Room Found In Norway House (Photos)

IN Norway, the owners of a home found a secret room. It appears to have ...
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Top 5 Fashion Offenses of The 1970s

Top 5 Fashion Offenses of The 1970s

Before launching into the typical “Oh, aren't those Seventies fashions so terrible” spiel, let’s get ...
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Disney’s Laugh-O-Grams Films – Little Red Riding Hood (1922)

Disney’s Laugh-O-Grams Films – Little Red Riding Hood (1922)

    IN 1922, Walt Disney brought us the Little Red Riding Hood laugh-o-gram. This was ...
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Flashback: Epic Political Gaffes From Experts In Their Field

Flashback: Epic Political Gaffes From Experts In Their Field

The Gaffer Tapes THIS week Sports Minister Helen Grant became the latest politician to execute ...
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Cheese Whiz: A Potted History Of The Food that Gets America Glowing

Cheese Whiz: A Potted History Of The Food that Gets America Glowing

CHEESE Whiz - aka Cheese Billy Whizz - was once sold as the product that ...
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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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