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The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

Belgian scientist Léon Becker and French artist Fortuné Méaulle enlist insects to teach us our A to Z ...
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Watching ‘The Most Dangerous Animals In The World’ – The Bronx Zoo in 1963

Watching ‘The Most Dangerous Animals In The World’ – The Bronx Zoo in 1963

In his book 'The Animals', Garry Winogrand photographed life in New York for the outsiders and other species ...
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Augurs And Soothsayers: Glory To The Ancient Chicken

Augurs And Soothsayers: Glory To The Ancient Chicken

Chicken Feed. Chicken Poxed. Playing Chicken, And you're just Plain Chicken. Chicken is an insult ...
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Illustrations from American Spiders and Their Spinningwork (1889)

Illustrations from American Spiders and Their Spinningwork (1889)

Knows spiders by their webs a Victorian-era guide by the Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia ...
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Brilliant Pictures of a Trip to London Zoo in 1967

Brilliant Pictures of a Trip to London Zoo in 1967

I've long admired these dark, mysterious and brilliant colour pictures of a trip to London ...
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The Story Sounds And Melodies From Joe Camp’s Family Film Benji (1974)

The Story Sounds And Melodies From Joe Camp’s Family Film Benji (1974)

  Remember those story records? You'd sit by your crummy kiddie record player and listen ...
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Weird Trippy Sex Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Weird Trippy Sex Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Visions of the hellish hereafter ...
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inHUMAN: Unnerving Portraits of Emotional Apes (2014)

inHUMAN: Unnerving Portraits of Emotional Apes (2014)

  We look at life though a human eye. What an animal sees is largely ...
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23 Extraordinary Photos of Circus Performers in Strabane, 1910-11

23 Extraordinary Photos of Circus Performers in Strabane, 1910-11

  The three main circus shows photographed by Herbert Cooper were Duffy's Circus, Buff Bill's American ...
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When Animals Attack!  A Menagerie of Deadly Beasts of the Pulps

When Animals Attack! A Menagerie of Deadly Beasts of the Pulps

In 1970, Frank Zappa immortalized the famous pulp declaration "Weasels Ripped My Flesh!"  Indeed, midcentury ...
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D-Day’s First Reporter: Gustav The Pigeon And The Message He Brought Home

D-Day’s First Reporter: Gustav The Pigeon And The Message He Brought Home

  THE first war-correspondent dispatch from the D-Day landings came from Gustav, an RAF Coastal Command homing-pigeon, ...
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1930: The Mechanical Hen Demonstrates The Anatomy Of A Chicken

1930: The Mechanical Hen Demonstrates The Anatomy Of A Chicken

FLASHBACK to 1930: The hen with the mechanical internal organs, who surprised visitors at the ...
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