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"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."
George King "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel No. 1"
Ben Samuel
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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Egon Schiele's death bed sketches of his wife Edith & Gustav Klimt
Egon Schiele's (1890 – 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as...
Ben Samuel
Oct 18, 20222 min read
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Ingmar Bergman interview
An interview with Ingmar Bergman where he discusses "Non-existence" and God's perfection in comparison to human imperfection.
Ben Samuel
Jun 21, 20221 min read
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William Blake's Visionary heads
Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.
Ben Samuel
May 25, 20223 min read
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Francisco Goya's Black Paintings (Pinturas negras)
Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
Ben Samuel
Apr 5, 20222 min read
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Akira Kurosawa describes the Great Kantō earthquake of (1923)
Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.
Ben Samuel
Mar 28, 20221 min read
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Wax anatomical models by Clemente Susini
Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.
Ben Samuel
Mar 21, 20221 min read
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Rare footage of Albert Camus
Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus
Ben Samuel
Mar 3, 20221 min read
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Friedrich Nietzsche's Mental Breakdown
Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering work on locomotion
Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Interview with Titanic survivor Frank Prentice
Titanic survivor Frank Prentice worked in the pursers office on the Titanic, he was 18.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Motopia "a utopia for motorists" (1959)
Motopia was a proposed 'City of the Future' designed by architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1
Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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The Snowflake Man - First pictures of snow crystals
Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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JG Ballard returns to Shanghai
In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Atomic bomb tests in the Nevada Desert (1951 - 1992)
Nearly 1,000 atomic bomb tests were detonated in the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada Desert from 1951 until 1992.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Atomic bomb explosions (1946–52) taken with Rapatronic Camera
Pictures of atomic bomb explosions taken one ten-millionth of a second after detonation from about seven miles away.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Architect Oscar Newman’s 'Plan for an underground nuclear shelter'
Architect Oscar Newman’s tongue in cheek 'Plan for an underground nuclear shelter' (1969)
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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JG Ballard Discusses English Society In The 1950's
Interview with JG Ballard Discussing English Society In The 1950's
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20220 min read
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Aerial photographs taken by pigeons
Aerial photographs taken by pigeons using Dr Julius Neubronner's (1852 – 1932) Miniature Pigeon Camera' patented in 1908.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Only known film footage of Claude Monet
The only known film footage of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) at work painting lilies in his garden at Giverny in (1914
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Rare footage of Pierre-August Renoir
Rare footage of Pierre-August Renoir painting at home (1915) aged 74.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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A pile of American Bison Skulls (Circa 1892)
A pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertiliser (circa 1892) unknown photographer.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Frida kahlo Plaster Corsets
At the age of 18 Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) sustained horrific injuries when she was involved in a bus collision in Mexico City.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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