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On This Day In 1961 – Soviets Win Space Race
The Soviet Union has beaten the USA in the race to get the first man into space. At just after 0700BST, Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was fired from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, Soviet...
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Upper 10 Lemon-Lime Soda
Upper 10 is a caffeinated lemon-lime soft drink, similar to Sprite, 7 Up, Sierra Mist, and Bubble Up. It was bottled by RC Cola. The Upper 10 brand debuted in 1933 as a product of the Nehi Corporation...
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Mazda Carol aka Mazda P360
The Mazda R360 was complemented by the more grown-up 2-door sedan Mazda P360 Carol in February 1962, the company’s first 4-passenger car. It was more substantial than the R360: although its total...
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Andreas Feininger – German-American Photographer
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (27 December 1906 – 18 February 1999) was a German American photographer, and writer on photographic technique, noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of...
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On This Day In 1964 – Sidney Poitier Breaks New Ground With Oscar Win
The acting profession’s top award has gone to a black actor for the first time. Sidney Poitier won the best actor Oscar for his role in Lilies of the Field. In the film, released last year, he played...
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Umberto Brunelleschi – Italian Artist
Umberto Brunelleschi (June 21, 1879 – February 16, 1949) was an Italian artist. He was born in Montemurlo, Italy, studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence and moved to Paris in 1900 with...
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Gloria Guida – Italian Actress
Gloria Guida (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡlɔrja ˈɡwida]; born 19 November 1955) is an Italian actress and model. She is most famous for starring in the commedia erotica all’italiana. Biography Gloria...
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Dames
Dames is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts,...
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Retro DIY Project – Circular Night Table
Do-it-yourself project from Popular Mechanics, September 1939 With a reeded, column motif, this table is keeping with the modern trend in design, and if desired, it can be reduced in size to make a...
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Henry Mayo Bateman – British Cartoonist
Henry Mayo Bateman (15 February 1887 – 11 February 1970 Gozo) was a British humorous artist and cartoonist. H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who…" series of cartoons, featuring comically...
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Queen Elizabeth II By Cecil Beaton
Queen Elizabeth, Buckingham Palace Garden by Cecil Beaton, 1939 Beaton struck up an instant rapport with the Queen. His diary reveals that she was an active participant in the staging of her romantic...
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Zoe Mozert–Pin-Up Artist
Women have been using their assets to get what they want for centuries. Done correctly, a flash of leg here or a coy smile there can make a man bend over backwards for the object of his affection....
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Monroe In Converse
And it would have been fun if it was true. But unfortunately it is a PhotoShop job, and not a very good one either. Who ever did this used left shoes for both her feet and that makes her right foot...
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New Cure For Drunks
The cure works like magic. Consisting almost entirely of cocaine syrup and weak grapes. If any drunkard drinks copious amounts of this cocaine syrup they will almost instantly lose their need and want...
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Titanic Falling Into A Time Hole?
They say that sea vessels continue to hear SOS signals from the Titanic to this day. Radio signals come periodically, once every few years. Also, some “survivors” are reported to have been found...
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Titanic Life Vest
Chicago physician Dr. Frank Blackmarr, a Carpathia passenger, helped with the Titanic survivors suffering from hypothermia, exposure, and shock. He collected this Titanic life vest during the voyage as...
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On This Day In 1964 – ‘Great Train Robbers’ Get 300 Years
Some of the longest sentences in British criminal history have been imposed on men involved in the so-called "Great Train Robbery". Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m...
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Danielle Darrieux – French Actress & Singer
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (French pronunciation: [da.niɛl i.vɔn ma.ʁi ɑ̃.twa.nɛt daʁ.jø]) (born 1 May 1917) is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since...
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The Beatles This Week
April 16, 1964 – “A Hard Day’s Night” was recorded in three hours at Abbey Road. April 17, 1964 – The press announced that the movie The Beatles were working on was officially given the name “A Hard...
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Yvonne Romain – British Actress
Yvonne Romain (born Yvonne Warren, 17 February 1938, London) is a British film and television actress of the late 1950s and 1960s. Early career This raven-haired former photographic model was a...
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