3rd, March 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to March 1962. We’ve trawled the archives to bring you a look at life in that month. All captions are the original AP and PA ones, written in the style of the time... More »
3rd, March 2014
Film
2 IN 1977, the entire planet was foaming at the mouth for anything Star Wars. The frenzy continued for several years with piles of Star Wars products flooding the stores daily. It seemed all you needed to do was bear a passing resemblance to the film or utter the words “star” and/or “wars” and your product would sell like hotcakes... More »
3rd, March 2014
Technology
1 At times, the Whole Foods selection slips from the pseudoscientific into the quasi-religious. It’s not just the Ezekiel 4:9 bread (its recipe drawn from the eponymous Bible verse), or Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, or Vitamineral Earth’s “Sacred Healing Food.”... More »
2nd, March 2014
Flashback
Into the Valley of death rode the More »
2nd, March 2014
Flashback
IN 1970, Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion contested the League Cup final at Wembley Stadium. It was both club's first appearance in the final... More »
2nd, March 2014
Flashback
IN 1976, Manchester City and Newcastle United contested the League Cup final at Wembley Stadium. It was Newcastle first appearance in the final. City had been there before, winning the Cup in 1970 by defeating West Bromwich Albion, and finishing runners-up to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1974... More »
2nd, March 2014
Flashback
This mobile communications laboratory designed for demonstrating, checking and testing equipment, is demonstrated by Peter Robins, president of electronics communications, Inc.,... More »
2nd, March 2014
Flashback
ON March 2 1969: Concorde, the supersonic airliner, flew for the first time, taking off from Toulouse and taking the air for 27 minutes. This is the story in photos of what led up to that maiden flight... More »
2nd, March 2014
Flashback
IT'S 1978 and Italian singer, actress and dancer Raffaella Carrà is booked on Rai TV to perform her Beatles medley. It's as if the Fab Four are riding the horses of the apocalypse... More »
2nd, March 2014
In Pictures
DAVID Cameron (Tory) once dismissed UKIP as a bunch of "fruitcakes". That billing did UKIP no harm in positioning the UK Independence Party as being something other than the modern Conservative Party... More »
2nd, March 2014
Film
2 RECENT rumours about Space Jam II (purportedly to star Le Bron James…) serve as a good reminder that the science fiction cinema and the game of basketball are inextricably linked. Well, not really. But sci-fi and basketball at least have something of a common history... More »
1st, March 2014
The Consumer
3 HOW real is Barbie? Do you know a grown, adult woman with a 36-18-33 figure? Pennsylvania's Nickolay Lamm has created Barbie doll who looks more like a 'Real Barbie’, or Barbara... More »
1st, March 2014
Flashback
hen you start spraying towns and villages, there are American soldiers there too. That is part of it. The food that people ate became poisoned, and the water that people drank... More »
1st, March 2014
Flashback
Lt. J.B. Keeley of Houston, Texas, is raised by Ukrainian girls in celebration of their liberation from forced labor in a German factory in Schirmeck by American troops of the 6th Army on Dec. 20, 1944. The girls were brought by Germans from the Ukraine... More »
1st, March 2014
Flashback
4 Russia invades... More »
1st, March 2014
Books
HIGHLIGHTS from Striking For Soccer, Jimmy Hill's 1963 book on his part in the end of the maximum wage. In 1961, Hill, the then Professional Football Association chairman, led footballers to victor in the abolition of the maximum wage with the threat of a players' strike. The top wage a player could legally earn was...£20 a week. Hill's Fulham teammate Johnny Haynes soon became the first £100-a-week player... More »
1st, March 2014
Key Posts
THE decision by eBay to discontinue its trade in Holocaust memorabilia brought to an end a particularly offensive and peculiar episode in the annals of collections and souvenir-hunting. Screen Shot 2013-11-01 at 12.36.16.png And while it is undoubtedly one of the most despicable examples, there is no shortage of tasteless, gauche and tacky souvenirs out there, if you know here to look… More »
1st, March 2014
Flashback
IN 1984, Smash Hits magazine invited Morrissey to review the latest pop sounds... More »
1st, March 2014
Music
This is the man who booked the ageing New York Dolls to play with him in a cricket ground. This is the man who will be playing shows with Tom Jones and Cliff Richard, two acts that are hardly in their prime or desperate to prove a point... More »
1st, March 2014
Flashback
Slide-rules were used in the pre-digital age to make complicated calculations. Books of logarithm tables were also used. Both were made redundant overnight by the invention of the electronic calculator... More »
28th, February 2014
Reviews
BROMPTON Road station has been sold by the Ministry of Defence for £53m. The former Tube station used by the War Office to control anti-aircraft batteries protecting London from air raids, will most likely end up as flats... More »
28th, February 2014
Film
ON February 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award, winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for giving life to Mammy, the Gone with the Wind house servant. Fay Bainter heralded McDaniel by telling the audience that the gong “opens the doors of this room, moves back the walls, and enables us to embrace the whole of America….” More »
28th, February 2014
Money
THERE are indeed things wrong with this world and it behoves us all to pay attention and try to make the world a better place by solving such problems. However, whining about what Google puts in its front page as a doodle may not actually be one of these things... More »
28th, February 2014
Flashback
Olof and and his wife Lisbeth Palme were attacked as they left a cinema at about 2330 local time. He was shot twice. She was shot once... More »
