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Sammy Davis Jr. Sings Mary Hartman for New Year’s Eve: Plink Plink Fizz

Sammy Davis Jr. Sings Mary Hartman for New Year’s Eve: Plink Plink Fizz

  Did you have a Sammy Davis Jr. Christmas?     Not to worry if you ...
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Christmas Cards from the Soviet Union space race

Christmas Cards from the Soviet Union space race

IN this collection of Christmas cards form the Soviet Union, the space race is glorified. ...
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1978: have yourselves a Sammy Davis Christmas with Alka-Seltzer

1978: have yourselves a Sammy Davis Christmas with Alka-Seltzer

BACK in 1978, the good folks at Alka-Seltzer needed a famous face to make their ...
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Elephants behaving sadly in the 20th Century: photos

Elephants behaving sadly in the 20th Century: photos

THERE are few things more pathetic than a mighty elephant being misused. We've gone through ...
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What your Afro moustache says about you

What your Afro moustache says about you

FLASHBACK brings you this look at what your Afro says about you. The moustaches make ...
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Retro advert: ‘Introduce Me to 10 Ladies And I Pay You Cash’

Retro advert: ‘Introduce Me to 10 Ladies And I Pay You Cash’

RETRO advert of the day: "Famous genius" C.W. Van Der Mark - has an offer: ...
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Evel Knievel is here to talk about Bicycle Safety

Evel Knievel is here to talk about Bicycle Safety

BECAUSE if ther is one man who knew about bike safety it was ...Evel Knievel:
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Feb. 16, 1978: The Sex Pistol meet Ronald Biggs and ‘Nazi’ Jim Fetter

Feb. 16, 1978: The Sex Pistol meet Ronald Biggs and ‘Nazi’ Jim Fetter

FLASHBACK to Feb. 16, 1978: Malcolm McLaren, center top, is seen with British rock group, ...
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How carrots won World War Two

How carrots won World War Two

CARROTS played their part in World War Two. Carrots would win the war. And, as ...
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When Kathrine Switzer Broke The Sex Race At the Boston Marathon, 1967

When Kathrine Switzer Broke The Sex Race At the Boston Marathon, 1967

When Kathrine Switzer showed up to run the Boston Marathon in 1967, she wasn't there to make a political statement about a woman's right to compete in a men-only event ...
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The story of the Klu Klux Klan in pictures: racism, civil rights and murder

The story of the Klu Klux Klan in pictures: racism, civil rights and murder

THE Klu Klux Klan was once powerful. The Far Right, anti-immigration, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jew, anti-anything ...
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1931: State Superintendent closes American Union Bank New York

1931: State Superintendent closes American Union Bank New York

FLASHBACK: Depositors gather outside the closed doors of the American Union Bank in New York ...
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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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