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The best and worst Olympic protests

The best and worst Olympic protests

WHEN the Spanish water polo coach considered ordering his team to stay in the pool, ...
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Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

Intruders – a history of unwelcome guests at big events

WHO was the mystery woman in red top and jeans, marching proudly at the front ...
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1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man

1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man

AS Old Mr Anorak knows, you can always trust man who tucks his vest into ...
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A history of Olympics cock-ups

A history of Olympics cock-ups

THE Olymics got off to a jittery start this week, when the North Korean women’s ...
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Corporate song of the day: when Burnley Building Society gave savings a disco soundtrack

Corporate song of the day: when Burnley Building Society gave savings a disco soundtrack

CORPORATE song of the day - It's the late 1970s and Burnley Building Society are ...
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Ambush advertising in sport – a history

Ambush advertising in sport – a history

AMBUSH! Olympic boss Lord Coe put his well-shod foot in it this week by announcing ...
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1972: Bettie Page has her mug shot taken (photos)

1972: Bettie Page has her mug shot taken (photos)

BETTIE Page was the hotness who never let her fans down. Until 1972, when the ...
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1948: A Naked Woman Shocks And Entertains In Paris

1948: A Naked Woman Shocks And Entertains In Paris

Flashbak to 1948: The Romy Gallery in Paris placed a photograph of naked woman in the ...
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Mormon bondage, a horse with a false leg, kidnap and cloned dogs: The Joyce McKinney story

Mormon bondage, a horse with a false leg, kidnap and cloned dogs: The Joyce McKinney story

WAS this the best tabloid news story ever? Readers of a certain vintage will recall ...
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Boxing Brawls: A history of the most famous and infamous

Boxing Brawls: A history of the most famous and infamous

BAD blood, insults, pre-match scraps and warnings of crowd trouble have all helped stoke the ...
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March 21, 1956: The Oscars, as presented by Grace Kelly

March 21, 1956: The Oscars, as presented by Grace Kelly

FLASHBACK to March 21, 1956: Award presenter Grace Kelly, center, poses with Oscar winners at the ...
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March 21, 1956: The Oscars, as presented by Grave Kelly

March 21, 1956: The Oscars, as presented by Grave Kelly

FLASHBACK to March 21, 1956: Award presenter Grace Kelly, center, poses with Oscar winners at 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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