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in 20th CenturyComic Art 1. – Mort Künstler

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Neil the roommate lion – 1972
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If we hear the name Tippi Hedren, we do not have much to think about. But she is Melanie Griffith’s mother and she is an actress (Hitchcock: Birds, Marnie), a model, an anti-Vietnam war activist and an enthusiastic animal protector. She created the Shambala Lion Wildlife Reserve. Continue reading
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Flashes from our past – 007
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Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare! 1901. Playground in Russian Empire, Cherkassy city. The name of the game is giant step 1910. US-Mexico border 1911. The 16 ton anchor for SS Titanic leaving N. Hingley & Sons, Netherton Iron Works, UK 1916. Cleaner vacuum cleaning the 2nd class wagons on the Russian Empire railway 1919. Red terror era. […] More
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Summer in New York City – 1979
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Peter van Wijk – a Dutch merchant ship’s radioman – is the one who came to New York in the summer of 1979 and photographed the bustling, vivid color metropolis with his machine. You can see the whole collection at the same time, just as nowhere before. More
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Human crash test dummies
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Germany late 1970s, early 80s A clip from the Television series “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” with host Jack Palance that aired in the mid-1980’s. The story was about automobile safety and the importance of wearing your seat belt. The first half featured the familiar footage of crash test dummies in the ultra slow-motion from […] More
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Flashes from our past – 006
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The Blizzard of 1910 was considered the worst snowsorm to hit New York since 1888. A trolley plowed through the snow and wind during the heavy snowfall on New York streets in Jan. 1910.
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Quantico 1989
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FBI Academy in late 80s. From these pictures only Scully and Mulder are missing
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50+1 classic Hollywood movie posters 1.
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Istanbul is the city of opposites – 1965
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Istanbul. Bosphorus. Meeting East and West. Meeting Europe and Asia. Meeting modernization and traditions.
This is Istanbul today and fifty years ago.
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Flashes from our past – 005
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Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare.
1907. The fire that destroyed the famous victorian Cliff House hotel in San Francisco
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Men fashion around the world in the 70s
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Flashes from our past – 004
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Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare. Today some 18+! images are in at the end.
1886. Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov, older brother of Lenin. Hanged for an attempted assasination of Tzar Alexander III, aged 21.
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One decade of the american trucker-magazine
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Liverpool 1980s
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Today we will visiting in the 1980s’ Liverpool. Watch out, 52 kicking photos coming! Liverpool fell to the depths never before seen in the early eighties. The economic recession, which is heavily affected by the city (and the country), mainly due to the shrinking industrial production and the endless factory closures have sparked stunning unemployment. […] More