Grace Kelly's Costumes In Rear Window
In the universe of Alfred Hitchcock heroines, it would be difficult to top Grace Kelly. In fact, the actress is literally ranked number...
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The Rather Odd Life of Guccio Gucci, Founder of Gucci
The Early Life of Guccio Gucci Guccio Giovanbattista Giacinto Dario Maria Gucci was born on the 26th of March 1881 in Florence, Italy. He...
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The $420m Production That Almost Bankrupted Fox
It had all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: adulterous love affairs, broken marriages, millions of dollars in squandered funds and...
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Illustrations From Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
“The human race has been marching upward from the first ages of history. Under what law has that mighty procession of the ages taken...
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Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame
Tucked away somewhere, maybe in a pocket notepad, scribbled on some paper in your wallet or buried in an obscure app you rarely use, is a...
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Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Map of the Hitchhiking Trip Narrated in On the Road
Surely most ardent readers of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road have tried to map Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty's American journey....
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Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts
In A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart – Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers...
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13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s
Geographical fun: being humorous outlines of various countries, with an introduction and descriptive lines is a 1860s book compiled by...
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Letterhead Designs Well Known People Used Throughout History
We’ve all seen letterheads before—the text and design at the top of a letter—but we rarely stop to think about it. This roundup of famous...
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19th Century Atlas Visualises the Expansion of Geographical Knowledge Over 4000 Years
The age of the “universal history” has come and gone. The genre flourished in times when it seemed possible to assume a vantage point...
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My Two Favourite Frank Lloyd Wright Houses
Built in 1935, Fallingwater is Wright’s crowning achievement in organic architecture and the American Institute of Architects’ “best...
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A Look Back At The L'Oeuf Electrique Concept Car
Electric cars have almost made a mainstream debut and we are getting used to the new silent mode of transportation. But things were not...
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The Weird Butcher Beatles Album Cover
The Beatles decided to use this photograph for their Yesterday and Today album cover. The four normally squeaky clean Beatles had dressed...
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Humphry Davy, the first person in history to inhale laughing gas, and he never stopped!
History has taught us that the combination of a thirst for knowledge and personal sacrifice is the most powerful force behind some of the...
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Salvador Dalí And Walt Disney Cooked Up A Film Together. 70 Years On, You Can Now Watch It.
In 1946, the Surrealist artist created a short film with Walt Disney that didn’t see the light of day for 58 years It’s difficult to...
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“Because innocence is sexier than you think.” – Love’s Baby Soft Awful Ads From the 1970s and 1980s
Baby Soft was born in 1974. The company that brought it to market, Menley & James, an imprint of the pharmaceutical bigwig Smith & Kline,...
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The Wonderful Symmetry of Wes Anderson’s Movies
Video essayist Kogonada previously made some brilliant observations about the visual obsessions of some of cinema’s greatest formalists....
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The Village Of Abandoned Disney-Like Castles
Near the small town of Mudurnu in Turkey's northwest region sits Burj Al Babas, a ghost town of Disney-like castles. The more than 500...
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You Can Now Travel On A Train Carriage Designed By Wes Anderson
Angular, symmetrical and intricately designed, Wes Anderson films are known for their exquisite aesthetics and predilection for panache....
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The Vintage Erotic Photography ofJacques Biederer
Czech photographer Jacques Biederer began his Parisian career in 1913 with G-rated portraiture but soon moved on to more prurient subject...
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Nick Cave Has A Shop!
“It’s the obsessive and dangerous end of granny-core. Fetishistic and deranged.” —Nick Cave describing his newly launched Cave Things...
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The Day Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso Spent Together
When Brigitte Bardot met Pablo Picasso in 1956, she was 21 and he was 74. Picasso had a long and successful career as an artist behind...
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Brian Blessed Threw Away A Picasso Sketch
The booming actor Brian Blessed has a flair for a story. Asked by a newspaper if he ever made a financial mistake, he revealed that when...
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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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