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This is popularly known as the “Double Statue of Mephistopheles & Margaretta”, the sculpture is carved out of a single log of sycamore wood and has two distinct images on either side. It was acquired by Mir Turab Ali Khan (Salar Jung I), in 1876 during his travels in France.
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This is popularly known as the “Double Statue of Mephistopheles & Margaretta”, the sculpture is carved out of a single log of sycamore wood and has two distinct images on either side. It was acquired by Mir Turab Ali Khan (Salar Jung I), in 1876 during his travels in France.

u/CarkWithaM — 4 hours ago
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Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, David Rowlands, and director John Cassavetes on the set of the 1970 film Husbands. Photographed by Sam Shaw in Los Angeles, 1969.

u/CarkWithaM — 3 days ago
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Ethel Waters and eight-year-old Sammy Davis, Jr. in the musical comedy short "Rufus Jones for President" (1933).

u/onwhatcharges — 3 days ago
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Jorkiam Samba Mampuya, a young boy from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo, built a football stadium model entirely from old cardboard. He would someday like to become an architect. Artistic expression has no boundaries.

u/WithoutPrinciples — 5 days ago
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Backstage at 1988’s Monster of Rock festival. Slash, Duff and Axl from Guns’N’Roses, Dave Mustaine and Lemmy. Amazing musicians. And Lars Ulrich.

u/GlitterDanger — 4 days ago
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These images feature a 12-year-old Christopher Walken (or Ronald "Ronnie" Walken as he was known then), preparing to perform as a clownphotographed circa 1955 by Al Barry for the Three Lions agency at Walken's family home in Bayside, Long Island.

u/3d-ward — 5 days ago
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10-year-old Kurt Russell kicking Elvis in the shin for the 1963 movie 'It Happened at the World's Fair'.

u/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
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Italian women partisans patrolling the streets of Milan during the liberation of the city. The photograph was taken around April 25, 1945, a day known as Liberazione in Italy, marking the end of the Nazi occupation and the Fascist regime.

u/onwhatcharges — 5 days ago
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'The bushy ladies' from the cover of "Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture" by Roberta Price, which documented her experiences living in communes in the southwestern United States in the late 1960s and 1970s.

u/EaterofGrief — 7 days ago
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British TV, film and stage actor Peter Wyngarde pointing at his smashing triple pleated trousers along side Sally Anne Howes. I'm unsure about the exact date but I think its safe to say it was from the 1970s.

u/dannydutch1 — 8 days ago
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Johnny Cash in a PSA defending children with additional needs. Cash uses language that jars today, but 'mentally retarded' was the standard clinical and legal term of the era. The Rosa's Law that removed it from federal statute wasn't passed until 2010

u/dannydutch1 — 12 days ago
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This is a very gorgeous carved shell and engraved gilt sewing kit lined with blue silk, Made in Paris, c. 1815-1820.

u/CarkWithaM — 13 days ago
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Fred Astaire went to the great ballroom in the sky on this day in 1987. If you've not seen the man move, just have a look at him dancing on the ceiling (and the walls). This was for the film, 'Royal Wedding' (1951)

u/EaterofGrief — 14 days ago
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Wonder Woman's invisible jet from the 1970s, an absolutely VITAL high-tech tool for Diana Prince to travel globally without being seen.

u/dannydutch1 — 14 days ago
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Ann-Margret leading Elvis Presley on a pair of Honda scooters on the MGM lot during the filming of Viva Las Vegas, summer 1963.

u/dannydutch1 — 13 days ago