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Jane Elliott’s experiments in racism – blues eyes v brown eyes

Jane Elliott’s experiments in racism – blues eyes v brown eyes

  LET's talk about discrimination.YouTuber LudwingMedia harks back to 1970. Blue-eyed people are smarter than brown-eyed people. ...
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Vintage Americana: 35 objects that sold the American dream

Vintage Americana: 35 objects that sold the American dream

THESE objects represent the American Dream, the stuff that when I was growing in suburban ...
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Political memories: Hang Nelson Mandela before it’s too late (and Saddam Hussein was a ‘friendly’ guy)

Political memories: Hang Nelson Mandela before it’s too late (and Saddam Hussein was a ‘friendly’ guy)

AS the mawkish and ghoulish media hover around Nelson Mandela's hospital bed, we look back ...
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Conversations with my hotdog – an anti-LSD and meat film from the 1960s

Conversations with my hotdog – an anti-LSD and meat film from the 1960s

ONCE upon a time, LSD was the housewife's trip of choice. British soldiers had tested ...
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Sexy politicians: Ronald Reagan poses in his knickers

Sexy politicians: Ronald Reagan poses in his knickers

IN the interests of fairness, we balance the Top Ten Sexy Left Wing politicians ever ...
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In 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre took mescaline – that’s when the crabs started to follow him

In 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre took mescaline – that’s when the crabs started to follow him

IN 1929, Jean-Paul Sartre met  Simone De Beauvoir and took some mescaline. These two events were not linked. He ...
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The Great Train Robbery – the story in photos

The Great Train Robbery – the story in photos

THE Great Train Robbery was the 1963 crime immortalised in film, books, TV shows and ...
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1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl’s Court flat

1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl’s Court flat

FLASHBACK snapshot: 1980 - "Lady Diana Spencer's look of astonishment as she stalls her car ...
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Egotism, ‘female disease’ and other ways to get locked inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (photos)

Egotism, ‘female disease’ and other ways to get locked inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (photos)

THE  Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is shown in Weston, W.Va. is a former psychiatric hospital now ...
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Cocksucker Blues – Groupies sex and shooting up heroin: The Rolling Stones epic and banned documentary

Cocksucker Blues – Groupies sex and shooting up heroin: The Rolling Stones epic and banned documentary

IN 1972, long before The Rolling Stones were pop's Establishment act headlining Glastonbury and making ...
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1973: Jimmy Savile hid in a Womble suit on Top of The Pops to leer at young girls

1973: Jimmy Savile hid in a Womble suit on Top of The Pops to leer at young girls

OPERATION Yewtree calls The Wombles. Mike Batt wrote their music. He went on the record: ...
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The 22 most unusual names in American political history

The 22 most unusual names in American political history

THE 22 most unusual, suggestive and bizarre names in American political history: [imagebrowser id=5817] Spotter: The ...
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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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