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Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick

Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick

FLASHBACK remembers Eddy Huntington, the model discovered by Italy's Baby Records. Eddy's biggest hit was ...
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1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed. In SWEETHEARTS ‘I Was a Musician’s Girl’

1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed. In SWEETHEARTS ‘I Was a Musician’s Girl’

FLASHBACK to 1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed. In SWEETHEARTS "I Was a Musician's Girl", ...
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The corset: before and after photos

The corset: before and after photos

BEFORE Spanx, Body Magic, liposuction and Lycra, there was the corset. With the right amount ...
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1948: the Hard Skin Club convenes in Japan

1948: the Hard Skin Club convenes in Japan

FLASHBACK to August 29, 1948: The first meeting in nine years of the Hard Skin ...
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Naked Royals: Czar Nicholas II and Courtiers bathe in the nude at Tsarskoye Selo

Naked Royals: Czar Nicholas II and Courtiers bathe in the nude at Tsarskoye Selo

PRINCE Harry wasn't the first Royal to go naked. He won't be the last. In ...
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1953: The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips

1953: The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips

FLASHBACK to 27/2/1953 - The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips ...
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1992: The Sun said the internet would never work

1992: The Sun said the internet would never work

THE Sun, the declining tabloid that gets its news from the internet, wrote in 1992: ...
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The best and worst political campaign slogan ever

The best and worst political campaign slogan ever

IS this the best politcal campaign slogan ever? It might be the worst. It looks ...
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Wanted dead or alive in 1899: Reward offered for escaped prisoner Winston Churchill

Wanted dead or alive in 1899: Reward offered for escaped prisoner Winston Churchill

FLASHBACK to 01/01/1899: A wanted notice put out for Winston Churchill after he escaped from a prisoner ...
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John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum –  A 1976 film

John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum – A 1976 film

JOHN Smith directed 32 episodes of Grange Hill between, 1985 and 1990. He also produced Play ...
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September 1 1939: Germany invades Poland

September 1 1939: Germany invades Poland

ON September 1 1939 Germany invaded Poland and set the ball rolling for World War ...
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RIP Hervé Vilard: Capri c’est fini

RIP Hervé Vilard: Capri c’est fini

RIP Hervé Vilard (nee René Villard, 24 July 1946 in Paris, France). He sang Capri ...
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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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