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August 31, 2011

20 Vintage Photographs of the Korean War

“If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war,” U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1893-1971) once said, “the unanimous choice would have been Korea.”

On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself.

After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them. Meanwhile, American officials worked anxiously to fashion some sort of armistice with the North Koreans. The alternative, they feared, would be a wider war with Russia and China–or even, as some warned, World War III. Finally, in July 1953, the Korean War came to an end. In all, some 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war. The Korean peninsula is still divided today.

Below is a collection of 20 vintage photographs of the war:

Korean civilians pass an M-46 tank

A US howitzer position near the Kum River

A GI comforts a grieving infantryman

The U.S. Air Force attacking railroads south of Wonsan on the eastern coast of North Korea

General Douglas MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon from the USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950

August 29, 2011

The Antikamnia Chemical Company’s Skeleton Calendars of 1899 and 1900

These fantastic images come from Antikamnia Skeleton Calendars, put out by the Antikamnia Chemical Company, St. Louis, MO.

Antikamnia’s analgesic compound, which was never patented, was marketed as a ‘proudly ethical drug’ and used to treat headaches, fever, stomach aches, nervousness, insomnia and ‘the blues’. It was claimed to be a new synthetic coal-tar derivative but in fact contained almost 50% acetanilid, which was sometimes mixed with codeine or quinine.

The Antikamnia Chemical Company hired local physician-artist Louis Crucius to do the art for the calendars. Crucius was also a pharmacist, and did the “Skeleton Sketches” drawings while working at a pharmacy. Five years worth of the calendars – 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1901 – were printed.






August 27, 2011

Stunning Photos of 19-Year-Old Brigitte Bardot Donned a Floral Bikini While Lounging on the Beach at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival

The French actress first arrived to the festival as an unknown, but once the cameras discovered her, she quickly became a sex symbol.

Brigitte Bardot making her first appearance at the 6th International Cannes Film Festival to promote the film Manina, la fille sans voiles or The Girl in the Bikini (1952).

Pictured here in 1953 she’s just 19 and looks more the aspiring ballerina she once was than the mind-blowing sex symbol and icon she would become. She donned a floral bikini while lounging on the beach during the festival.






August 25, 2011

Fellas, Don't Mess With Honor Blackman, Her Judo Moves Will Destroy You!

Honor Blackman is a British actress that played the most gloriously named James Bond girl – Pussy Galore – in 1964’s Goldfinger. Most people know she’s sexy. Few know she’s dangerous.


As a child, she became known for her terribly good uppercut. “When I was 10 or 11 I knocked out two boys who were bullying my brother,” she said. “I can’t stand bullies. My mother was horrified, but they had to learn.”

In her early 20s, she was almost trampled to death by a horse while shooting her first film appearance, a non-speaking part in Fame is the Spur and didn’t miss a beat.

So when the topic of martial arts came up during her audition for the iconic British spy series, Blackman was undaunted. “[Producer] Leonard White said ‘If you do this, you’d have to do judo. Do you know anything about it?’” she recalled during the Reavenging panel. “I said ‘No. Nothing. You’d have to teach me.’”

Below are some pics from her self-defense book in the 1960s. Hope you’ll learn something useful here.






August 15, 2011

August 6, 2011

Rare Snapshots of Iggy Pop and the Stooges Performing at Farmington High School in Oakland County, 1970

On December 5, 1970, Iggy Pop and the Stooges performed at Farmington High School in Oakland County, Michigan. These rare and candid photographs were taken by a co-worker who was there at the time, and were recently posted on Facebook by Jim Edwards of the Rockets.

“I got these slides from a guy at work,” Jim Edwards said . “He walks up to me and says, ‘You’re a musician, right? I got these old slides from a show at my high school, Wanna see ‘em?’ I held the first one up to the light and nearly shit myself!”

The gig was late due to Iggy being arrested earlier that evening and The Stooges played only four songs. The 23-year-old Iggy appeared shirtless, wearing a dog collar and jeans with cut-out crotch, revealing his red briefs, and performed his legendary on-and-off stage stunts…






New York in the 1940s in Color

A corner on west Canal St., 1942

Chinese store windows, New York, 1942

Collecting the salvage on Lower East Side

Corner of Pearl St., 1942

Crowd gathers during Salvage collection in Lower East Side, 1942

August 1, 2011

17 Vintage Photos of Rock Stars in Their Bathing Suits

We already know that many of the literary greats we admire liked to flit around the beach in their bathing suits, but what about their sonic storytelling counterparts?


Turns out they fancied a swim now and again too. Not surprising, since their days were most likely filled with sticky tour bus rides and sweat-inducing live performances. Also not surprising: they tend to look just a little better in their next-to-nothing duds than our dear group of authors, since for many of them, part of their job was inspiring teenage lovesickness.

Below is a gallery of rock stars from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s as they frolic, pose and pout in their swimsuits.

Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, and Charlie Watts, 1965

Mick Jagger, 1965

Betty Davis, 1969

Rod Stewart

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts




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