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Category / Obscure history

Invasion of the Hippies

A pretty interesting insight here on how some people saw the blossoming counter-culture of hippies in the 1960s as a serious threat to the younger generation, or mankind even. The 1967 report by Harry Reasoner talks about hippies as if they were some kind of alien species attempting to take over the world and infect its…

The Neighborhood Leopard of 1960s Kensington, London

Meet Angela McWilliams and her pet leopard Michael, taking a walk on a leash in London, possibly Gloucester Road or Cromwell Road and in Hyde Park. This will no doubt spark a some fury with a few readers– but just try to remember (and be thankful) that this video is around 50 years old, when the public…

A Trip down Memory Lane with the NSA Vintage Photo Album

Everybody loves a good photo album, even the NSA! For their 60th anniversary last year, they put together this heart-warming album of top secret snaps dating all the way back to the 1930s when the nation’s most secretive intelligence agency was just a baby spy agency. So with the NSA being such a buzzword as…

The Chained Books of Zutphen

A spot of ‘book p0rn’ for you on this fine Friday, which takes us to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands. Photos by Eric Wakkel No need for a library card here, the Zutphen hasn’t updated its system for more than 550 years! Each book is fitted with a metal…

Mommy To Be Doll: They Actually Made That!?

So this exists: “Judith”, the Mommy To Be doll which hit toy shelves in 1991 and looks uncomfortably similar to all my old Barbies— except she hosts a tiny plastic person inside her removable stomach. Let’s take a closer look courtesy of the Youtube channel, They Actually Made That? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfvqL-u18Gs] ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO…

The Daugherty Lions

These three incredible photographs were taken by LIFE photographer Ralph Morse at a Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. You can find more pictures taken at the sanctuary here. ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

Moving Day! The House that was Sawn in Half and Shipped across the Bay

Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina Green and moved across the bay to Belvedere– it’s safe to say it was no ordinary moving day for the Knowles-Moffitt Mansion on July 3rd, 1962. Sawn in half, the Victorian mansion sits on a barge waiting…

Lady vs Skinhead

A woman hitting a skinhead with her handbag, Sweden, 1985. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. Via imgur ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

Cloned by Disney: 10 Replica Buildings

When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a fairytale castle brought to life. But this is not a Disney set, this is the Neuschwanstein castle, a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace in Bavaria, Germany– the original Disney castle.  Indeed, Neuschwanstein looks so much like a fairytale castle that Walt Disney himself was…

A 1950s Cartoon with just a hint of Cold War Propaganda

‘Destination Earth’ is a 1956 promotional cartoon created by John Sutherland that depicts a civilisation of Martians that come to Earth (the United States). They discover that they are actually inferior and less advanced than the American earthlings, who benefit from an endless supply of petroleum that enriches their everyday lives in a free market…
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