Pregnancy Dolls From 18th Century Japan
In the 18th and 19th century, sideshow carnivals known as misemono were a popular form of entertainment for the sophisticated residents...
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The Orgone Accumulator: A Glimpse Into The 1950s And The Search For Vital Energy
The concept of orgone energy was first introduced by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in the late 1930s. Reich, a former student of...
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Lavrentiy Beria: Stalin's 'Right Hand Man', Serial Murderer, Prolific Rapist, Absolute Monster.
When it comes to Russian history the first names that usually come to mind would be Lenin, Trotsky. Stalin and Khrushchev. Lenin, the...
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A Sculpture That Doubles As A Handrail
Public art is a wonderful way to help passersby engage with their environment. It adds a layer of interest and whimsy to busy public...
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The Mad, Brilliant Military Tactition, Major General Orde Charles Wingate
The British armed forces in WWII were famous for a number of reasons, one of which was a large number of truly unusual officers… Two such...
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Operation Foxley: The Plot To Kill Hitler In His Mountain Retreat
There is probably no figure as hated in European history as Hitler. His twisted ideology led to the attempted genocide of an entire race...
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Colour Photos Show How The World Looked Like in the Early 1900s
The history of colour photography dates back to the mid-19th century when photographers first experimented with ways to capture the full...
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The Murder Of Maurizio Gucci
A scion of the Italian fashion empire, on the face of it, Maurizio Gucci had it all. He was raised in luxury that would eventually take...
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Portraits Of Bedouins: Photographed By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898
In 1898, American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service, named after G. Eric Matson), took these pictures of Bedouins...
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Victorian Burlesque Dancers And Their Bizarre Costumes
The term “burlesque” means a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of...
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Rebel With a Cause: When Percy Shelley Got Kicked Out Of Oxford
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792, the eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley, a Member of Parliament, wealthy landowner and Justice of...
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Mug Shots From The 1800s And The Criminal Stories That Accompany Them
Mug shot photography revolutionized crime investigations and enabled the police to keep visual records of the arrested criminals....
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Bhagat Singh: A Fighter For Indian Independence
Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) was an Indian revolutionary and socialist who played a significant role in India's struggle for independence...
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Heaven's Gate And The Mass Suicide Of Its 39 Members.
It was one of the strangest and saddest news headlines of 1997. Inside a San Diego mansion, authorities discovered the remains of 39...
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The Lumière Brothers And The Birth Of Film
The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France to Claude-Antoine Lumière and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière. They moved to Lyon in...
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Rural Life In England, Photographed By William Morris Grundy In 1855
These photographs, taken by William Morris Grundy, capture the rural life in England during the Victorian era. Born in Birmingham in...
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Will and William West: The Identical Inmates That Showed The Need For Fingerprinting
On May 1, 1903, a man named Will West entered the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth. Like any other new prisoner, West was...
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A Thug's Life in 19th Century India
Thuggees, from the Sanskrit word meaning “concealment”, were an organised gang of professional assassins – sometimes described as the...
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The Tragic And Ridiculous Story of the Berberovs, a Soviet Family Who Raised Pet Lions at Home
The Berberov family from Baku of Azerbaijan became famous throughout the Soviet Union in the 1970s, holding two pet lions inside their...
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Remembering The Brief, Prolific Career & Death Of Guitar Master Randy Rhoads
On March 19th, 1982, a joyride went horribly wrong, and the music world lost one of the most explosive players to ever pick up a guitar,...
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Bonkers Reasons For Divorce That Made US Headlines Between 1910 And 1920
This photo collection shows historic newspaper clippings that feature weird and, sometimes, funny reasons for divorce in the US that made...
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The Grim World Of 'The Mamas And The Papas' Singer, John Phillips
John Phillips is best remembered as the catalyst behind one of the most memorable bands of the 1960s, The Mamas and The Papas. It was...
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Street life of Victorian London Shown In John Thompson's Historical Photographs, 1873-1877
These historical photographs were taken from 1873 to 1877 and are part of Street Life in London, a book that was one of the first...
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The Day A 17-Year-Old Marcus Sarjeant Shot Blanks At The Queen In 1981
On 13 June 1981, Marcus Sarjeant joined the crowds for Trooping the Colour, finding a spot near the junction between The Mall and...
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