When AC/DC First Arrived In London (and nobody cared)
"There were about 30 people in the audience, but the band didn’t seem to care." In the early weeks of 1976, AC/DC were inside Albert...
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My dear Gauguin: Letters from Vincent Van Gogh to his friend Paul Gauguin
My dear Gauguin, Thanks for your letter, and thanks most of all for your promise to come as early as the twentieth. Agreed, this reason...
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Dirk Bogarde and Belsen
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, by the British 11th Armoured Division. Inside the fences, the soldiers...
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The Amazing Life Of Julie D’Aubigny, The Bisexual, Sword-Fighting 17th-Century Opera Star
On stage, she was known as La Maupin. Off-stage, Julie D’Aubigny caused so many scandals that she had to plead for a royal pardon –...
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The Duel Fought by the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea
On 21 March 1829, the Duke of Wellington and Earl of Winchilsea fought a duel at Battersea Fields in South London. At this time, the Duke...
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The History of Plas Newydd
From its earliest known resident in 1470, Plas Newydd has changed through various shapes and sizes and has been passed by inheritance and...
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Why The Rumble In The Jungle Was A Lot More Than Just A Fight
In 1974, the Rumble in the Jungle world championship heavyweight fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman was to be an event like no...
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John Lennon's Last Day
It was, as they say, a day like any other: Monday, December 8, 1980. The nation was gearing up for another long work week, heading down...
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The History of Women Bootleggers
Way back in 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was passed, making alcohol illegal to produce, transport, and sell in the United...
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Christmas In Prison - 1872
Photographed in Wandsworth Prison, London in December 1872, these images show the faces of the people arrested just before Christmas,...
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Michael Caine: A Stylish Boy
Michael Caine in the 1960s was a force to be reckoned with. A poster boy for British cool and the swinging sixties, he was a new genre of...
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The Day The Temptations Auditioned for Mowtown
Otis Williams, the one original member of a legendary soul group got to reminiscing one time about their pre-history. “We were the Elgins...
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Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll of 'On the Road'
Legend has it that Kerouac wrote On the Road in three weeks, typing it almost nonstop on a 120-foot roll of paper. The truth is that the...
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The Spitalfield Nippers
Photographer Horace Warner took these portraits to highlight the East End living conditions in 1900. Horace was the Sunday School...
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The Band Behind The Blues Brothers
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s act as “Joliet” Jake and Elwood Blues was always split between comedy and music. On the one (tattooed)...
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The lovingly mean eulogy Bill Murray wrote for John Belushi
Bill Murray was really great friends with comedy great and Saturday Night Live star John Belushi at the time of Belushi’s demise due to...
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The Story of Sameera Moussa: World-Renowned Egyptian Nuclear Scientist
Born on March 3, 1917, Sameera Moussa was Egypt’s first female nuclear physicist and has served as a role model for Arab women in STEM...
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That Time When The Isley Brothers Gave Jimi Hendrix His First Gig
Before Jimi Hendrix became one of the most era-defining musicians of the 1970s, he was a struggling session musician called Johnny Allen....
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