Girls Getting Some Sun in University of Missouri - Kansas City, Spring of 1964

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A Collection of 25 Hilarious and Bad Vintage Album Covers

These days people probably don’t really even remember what a music album actually is, considering everything is done through MP3’s and downloaded online. But for the young kids out there, there used to be these things called CD’s and, even before that, cassette tapes and vinyl records. If you’re a young person and striving to be a hipster, chances are you’re familiar with vinyl even though you’re not entirely sure when the concept actually began.

Of course making a great album wasn’t the only step toward selling music back in the day. You also had to come up with a memorable album cover in hopes it would attract new fans who saw it sitting there on the shelf, and the pure awesomeness would cause them to spontaneously buy your music. Of course as you’re about to see, coming up with a good album cover is a lot easier said than done. Here are some of the most hilariously bad album covers you’re ever going to see.

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Wonderful Color Photos of Prague in 1975

These wonderful photographs were taken by Roel van der List while he made a trip through Europe in 1975 with his friends in an old Volkswagenbus...

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27 Black and White Photos of Greek Civil War in the 1940s

The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946-49 between the Greek government army—backed by the United Kingdom and the United States—and the Democratic Army of Greece, the military branch of the Greek Communist Party, backed by the USSR, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania.

It was the result of a highly polarized struggle between leftists and rightists that started in 1943 and targeted the power vacuum that the German-Italian occupation during World War II had created. One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, according to some analysts it represents the first example of postwar North European and North American involvement in the internal politics of a foreign country.

Steel-helmeted Elas troops use a corner building as a shelter as they fire at police headquarters during a civil uprising in Athens. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1944

Greek government commandos near Karpenisi, equipped with British berets and American fur-trimmed jackets. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). 22nd May 1948

A sentry on guard on Mount Likebetos, overlooking the city of Athens. Military forces were employed to guard the city against possible attacks from communist paratrooper guerrillas. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone/Getty Images). 1947

Refugee children in a filthy cellar at Piraeus during the Greek Civil War. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images). 1st November 1947

Greek National Guards bring prisoners from guerilla-occupied territory to Drama in northern Greece. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). 22nd May 1948

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Gay Pride Parade in Chicago, ca. 1970s

Interesting Pictures of the 1964 Beatlemania, 50 Years Ago from Today

At the start of 1964, the Beatles were at the top of the charts in the UK, but had just started to attract audiences overseas with songs from their first two albums Please Please Me and With the Beatles. Radio airplay and a broad marketing campaign in the U.S. quickly drove huge record sales and enormous enthusiasm among new fans -- the band and their sound were something new and exciting, and they were coming to America.

Their first televised concert in the U.S. was on the Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964. 73 million viewers watched that performance -- 34 percent of the American population. Below are images of the Beatles' big year, in roughly chronological order, as the world discovered Beatlemania.

The Beatles leave London airport in 1964. From left: John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Enthusiastic fans welcomed the Beatles in airports and concert halls around the world in 1964, as Beatlemania swept the globe. (AP Photo)

Sightseeing in Paris, on January 15, 1964, the day before their opening at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, three of Britain's four Beatles pause for a look around on the Champs Elysees. From left John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. In the background is the Arc de Triomphe. (AP Photo)

John Lennon, left; George Harrison, center holding guitar; and Ringo Starr from the Beatles, backstage in Versailles, France, on January 15, 1964. (AP Photo/Tellier)

The Beatles perform their first concert outside of Britain, at the Olympia in Paris, on January 17, 1964. (AFP/Getty Images)

Police hold back screaming fans fighting to get near their idols, the Beatles, when the Liverpool pop group returned to London Airport from Paris, on February 5, 1964. A strong police escort had to accompany the four Beatles from their aircraft to the customs channel. (AP Photo)

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Old Portraits of Photographers in the First World War

These old photographs showing photographers’ work in the war that centred in Europe from between July 1914 until November 1918.

Photographer making arrangement with Spanish Guard to get views of horses crossing bridge for purchase by A.E.F. Location: Hendaye, Basses Pyrennes, France. Date: 12/18/18.

Members of Photo Unit G.H.Q. Chaumont. Left to right: Cpl. J.S. Schlick; Pvt L.S. Pauley; Capt. C. Christie; Sgt. H.A. Nash; Pvt. Jack Estes; Lt. L.J. Rode.

Photo Unit after making pictures. Lieut. Strohmeyer (in observer's seat in plane) Sgt. A.J. Roach by movie camera; Lt. E.G. White, Signal Officer, French Sergeant-Pilot Geriet.

Lt. Sintzenich on roof of ambulance making moving pictures of crowd outside of Buckingham Palace celebrating signing of Armistice.

Running 5th Army Photographic Car off ferry. Photographer: Sgt. Eikleberg, S.C. Location: Devant, Mouzon, Ardennes, France. Date 11/18/18.

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15 Amazing Vintage Photos of Truly Cowgirls

That's what truly cowgirls looked like in the past.

A shot captured in 1912 shows Florence LaDue and her fancy lasso skills. (Archive / Getty Images)

Ethelyn Dectreaux, a rodeo rider, in 1935. (General Photographic Agency / Getty Images)

Roper Jane Burmudy makes a lasso dance in 1912. (Historic Photo Archive / Getty Images)

1945: Actress and rodeo champ Betty Miles poses for an epic pic. (DeMauro/Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

Mildred Douglas Chrisman, an early cowgirl and stunt woman, rides a bull like a boss in 1930. (Vintage Images / Getty Images)

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Step Into The Past: London Then and Now by Streetmuseum App

For most Londoners, the most common view they enjoy as they trudge to work is the back of another commuter's head but now, thanks to the Streetmuseum app, anyone traipsing through the capital's streets can step back in time to see what London looked like in the 19th and 20th century compared with today - all in the same image.

The pictures below are part of a series in which historic and contemporary images are blended together, allowing users to see just how much London's streets have been transformed.

An exterior shot of the completed Gloucester Road Station in 1868 and 2014. (Photo by Museum of London/Streetmuseum app)

A street seller of sherbert and water on the streets of London in 1893 and the same street in 2014. (Photo by Museum of London/Streetmuseum app)

Piccadilly Circus in 1953 and 2014. (Photo by Museum of London/Streetmuseum app)

The view north up Brick Lane in Spitalfields, close to the markets in 1957 and 2014. (Photo by Museum of London/Streetmuseum app)

People sunbathing in Hyde Park in 1956 with Marble Arch and the Odeon cinema in the background in 2014. (Photo by Museum of London/Streetmuseum app)

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Debbie Harry of Blondie Licking the Edge of a 12 Inch Vinyl LP, 1972

British photographer Martyn Goddard has been reunited with a long lost Debbie Harry / Blondie image. Used on the picture disc version of Blondie’s seminal LP Parallel Lines, the image features Debbie licking the edge of a 12 inch vinyl LP, with a lipstick ‘kiss’ on the label - as shown below.

Edwardian Sartorialist: Candid Photographs Show Beautiful Women's Street Style in London From the 1900s

We are used to thinking of the Edwardian period as the last great period of formal dress for women and men, the last gasp of 19th century fashion and the ancien regime of costume before the revolution of the Great War and the 1920s.

Linley Sambourne’s pictures show another side to the early years of the 20th century, a casual attitude to dress demonstrated by the mostly young women in them. The roots of the dress revolution are apparent from the 1890s onwards in candid photographs and picture postcards. Sambourne’s pictures are one instance of this movement.

These amazing photographs below were taken by Linley Sambourne when he roamed the streets of Kensington with his hidden camera from between 1905 and 1908.

20th July 1906 in Notting Hill Gate – even in summer gloves are worn and one of these two women carries a muff. They’re in a hurry, striding along, oblivious to the photographer.

This woman is slightly more formally dressed than the first two. Perhaps she is on her way to work.

This picture taken in Cheniston Gardens shows a young maid engaged in the perennial and tedious task of cleaning the steps.

A different set of steps, and a different woman but she looks as though she is responding to a request from Sambourne to hold that pose for a moment.

The next subject is someone much closer to Sambourne’s own class, a distinctly middle class married woman.

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Old Pictures of Young Cotton Workers From the 1910s

Some of the young workers (not the youngest) in the Kosciusko Cotton Mills. Superintendent objected to me taking photographs. Kosciusko, Mississippi.

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said: "Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds." Comanche County, Oklahoma.

Young girl working at a knittingmachine at Cherokee Hosiery Mill. Rome i Georgia, USA 1913.

Little spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She was so small she had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads. Jan. 19, 1909.

Two of the "helpers" in the Tifton Cotton Mill, Tifton, Ga. They work regularly. 1909.

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