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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 18

“Muscles are the new thin” is the new slogan around Europe these days and young women hit the training centres every day and eat so healthy that it becomes unhealthy. back in the days when the Mad Men...

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My Guitars Are Definitely Going To The Salvation Army

Check out Tina S’s Facebook Page and don’t miss her cover of Gary Moore’s “The loner”. It nearly blew my mind – Ted Videos found on YouTube Lots more videos with Tina S thereFiled under: Music, Rock...

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Catch-22 Babe Susanne Benton

Susanne Benton (born February 3, 1948) is an American actress known for her film roles as General Dreedle’s WAC in Catch-22 (1970) and Quilla June Holmes in A Boy and His Dog (1975). During her early...

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The Sunday Comic – A Reasonable Question

Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Funerals, Questions, Weddings

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This Week’s Girliemag Article – Slim & Trim

Most of the older-type westerns that are seen on the last, late show usually have the cliché in them that goes like this: pretty girl alights from stage coach, local cowpoke slides up to her and asks...

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1959 PTV 250

Built in Manresa, near Barcelona, by Automoviles Utilitarios S. A., the pretty little PTV (named after company owners Perramon, Tacho and Vila) was the second-biggest-selling microcar in Spain, next...

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Painting of a Mystery Man Was Hidden Under Picasso’s "The Blue Room"

Curators have been studying Picasso’s "The Blue Room"—one of the highlights of the artist’s early 20th-century "blue period" —since 2008, and they’ve discovered it was painted over another work: a...

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Round The World By Steam – 1893 “Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt AG”

The Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG for short, often referred to in English as Hamburg America Line (sometimes also Hamburg-American Line, Hamburg-Amerika Linie or Hamburg...

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Switzerland

From the 33rd edition of “XXth Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933 ROUGH CLASSIFICATION OF SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR SWISS RESORTS SUMMER MOUNTAIN RESORTS: (For those...

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Sonja Jeannine – Retired Austrian Stage Actress

Sonja Jeannine is a retired Austrian stage actress who particularly became famous with the sexploitation films of the early to mid-1970s. Career Jeannine started her career with the ensemble...

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Coca-Cola Invents 16 Bottle Caps To Give Second Lives To Empty Bottles

Coca Cola teamed up with award-winning ad agency Ogilvy & Mather China on a new “2nd Lives” campaign and created 16 red screw-on caps that transform the otherwise-useless left-over plastic bottle...

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Great American Cars Of The Forties – 1941 Lincoln Continental

The words "Edsel" and" styling" rarely appear together without prompting memories of the car that proved a disaster for Ford Motor Company back in the Fifties. But "Edsel," as in Edsel Ford, Henry’s...

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This Week’s Softdrink – Fanta

Fanta – The Humble Beginnings Of  A Worldwide Phenomenon There have been all kinds of stories about Fanta’s creation in Nazi Germany during WWII. Some of what has been said is true— a great deal is...

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Nan Aspinwall

The remarkable ride across the United States by Two-Gun Nan was big news nearly 100 years ago. Now, her story is being retold. Tom Moates reports. The dawning of the 20th century remained an age where...

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Bastert Einspurauto

Germany 1949  – 1955. Helmut Bastert’s factory in Bielefeld, Germany built bicycles, mopeds and light 48cc-248cc motorcycles, but is best remembered for unusual Das Einspurauto (one-trace-car). These...

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Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 41

All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 The Difference The Lady: What is the difference between the burgundy at 5s. 6d. and the one at 6s....

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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 18

“Muscles are the new thin” is the new slogan around Europe these days and young women hit the training centres every day and eat so healthy that it becomes unhealthy. back in the days when the Mad Men...

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My Guitars Are Definitely Going To The Salvation Army

Check out Tina S’s Facebook Page and don’t miss her cover of Gary Moore’s “The loner”. It nearly blew my mind – Ted Videos found on YouTube Lots more videos with Tina S thereFiled under: Music, Rock...

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Catch-22 Babe Susanne Benton

Susanne Benton (born February 3, 1948) is an American actress known for her film roles as General Dreedle’s WAC in Catch-22 (1970) and Quilla June Holmes in A Boy and His Dog (1975). During her early...

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The Sunday Comic – A Reasonable Question

Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Funerals, Questions, Weddings

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