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11 terrifying beauty treatments from the 20th Century

11 terrifying beauty treatments from the 20th Century

BEAUTY is a brutal business. From silicon in your bum or your todger and lips that look ...
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Virginia Wade heads a list of British Wimbledon champions erased from the record books

Virginia Wade heads a list of British Wimbledon champions erased from the record books

WHEN Andy Murray won Wimbledon some of you might have picked up the whiff of ...
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Michael Caine explains the power of blinking in this acting workshop

Michael Caine explains the power of blinking in this acting workshop

  MICHAEL Caine shares with us the power of not blinking,. He keeps on going.... ...
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Fartgate: The Great ‘Iconic’ Wind-Passing Moments from the Cultural Archives

Fartgate: The Great ‘Iconic’ Wind-Passing Moments from the Cultural Archives

As The Archers Fartgate rumbles on, we look back at those great ‘iconic’ wind-passing moments from ...
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In 1978 Sex Pistol John Lydon told the BBC he’d like to murder Jimmy Savile (audio)

In 1978 Sex Pistol John Lydon told the BBC he’d like to murder Jimmy Savile (audio)

IN October 1978, when Jimmy Savile was in his paedo pomp, seducing kids on the ...
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In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote this letter in praise of ‘the bottle’

In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote this letter in praise of ‘the bottle’

IN 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote to Ivan Kashkin, a Russian translator and critic,. The Post ...
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The 1982 Blade Runner convention reel

The 1982 Blade Runner convention reel

BLADE RUNNER is one of my all-time favourite films. The director's cut is even better. Future ...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting in a Gif

Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting in a Gif

SIX weeks after Bert Stern took these pictures in June 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. The ...
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The sickening thrill of the Vietnam Selective Service lottery

The sickening thrill of the Vietnam Selective Service lottery

FLASHBACK to The Vietnam War: Draft Director Curtis W. Tarr spins a plexiglass drum containing ...
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Mirosalc Tichý: the eccentric photographer who recorded young women with his cardboard camera

Mirosalc Tichý: the eccentric photographer who recorded young women with his cardboard camera

  MIROSLAC  Tichý  (1926 - 2011) was the man with the homemade cardboard, plywood and tin ...
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Car time capsule up for sale in Nebraska – the  Lambrecht Chevrolet story

Car time capsule up for sale in Nebraska – the Lambrecht Chevrolet story

THIS is your chance to buy a nearly-unused classic car. Lambrecht Chevrolet of Pierce, Neb., (prop. Ray ...
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2004: Chris Morris and Alan Partridge discuss the deaths of JFK, Princess Diana and September 11

2004: Chris Morris and Alan Partridge discuss the deaths of JFK, Princess Diana and September 11

IN 2004,  The Day Today in 2004, Chris Morris & Alan Partridge were discussing 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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