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Fashion Is Cyclical

Fashion is cyclical

Black-and-white photograph of a young woman in a shimmering vest and two men in dark suits, smiling and moving casually in a studio.

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Lyudmila Gurchenko, Muslim Magomayev and Polad Bulbul oglu in one photograph

Lyudmila Gurchenko, Muslim Magomayev and Polad Bulbul oglu

A man in dark clothing with a hood up talks across a polished table with a pope in white vestments and a white skullcap; a silver tray with a red box stands on the table.

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Bob Dylan keeps his hood on during a meeting with the Pope

Bob Dylan chose not to take off his hood at his meeting with the Pope. Then again, the pontiff is wearing a headdress too

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The Ancestors of Actor Timothée Chalamet Come from Minsk

Timothée Chalamet's ancestors are from Minsk. There is no more news for today.

Daily Mirror page headed “Beatlemania!”, with a photo of a screaming girl, her hands raised to her head, and a second photo of seated spectators.

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Beatlemania on the pages of the Daily Mirror in November 1963

Beatlemania, provoking emotions as on a painting by Munch

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May the Force Be with You

May the Force be with you

Cartoon still: a white ghost lies on a sofa holding a red book titled “How to Win Friends”.

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Casper reads Carnegie's book in the 1945 cartoon “The Friendly Ghost”

In the very first Casper cartoon, Famous Studios' "The Friendly Ghost" of 1945, Casper reads a book called "How to Win Friends". This is Dale Carnegie's bestseller, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". It turns out that Casper is the

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A 1941 Enigma I Cipher Machine Sold at Bonhams for More Than £200,000

An Enigma I cipher machine sold for more than £200,000 The auction house Bonhams put the machine, made for the German army around 1941, up for sale in its online auction "Espionage: Fact and Fiction". The Enigma was an electromechanical machine that turned the plain text of

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Yves Saint Laurent as a Child

Yves Saint Laurent as a child

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Rachel Sterling eats her mother Diana Rigg's ashes before every first night

Endocannibalism is the scientific name for the eating of the remains of deceased members of one's own social group or family. The Yanomami of the Amazon add the ashes of a dead relative's bones to banana soup and consume it so that the spirit of the

Black-and-white photograph of a man turning round from the back seat of a white convertible on a Roman street at night, lit by shop signs.

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Jean-Paul in an open car on Piazza Colonna in Rome, 1960s

Such a lively and eloquent photograph, with soul. Jean-Paul on Piazza Colonna in Rome in the 1960s

Screenshot of a news item: at a rally in Nebraska Trump suggested Iran could destroy Los Angeles and San Diego.

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The Voronezh meme recurs in Trump's remarks on Iran and Los Angeles

The Voronezh meme finds a new incarnation, this time in a country of the First World