'pop star' Pope

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Revealed: How the 'pop star' Pope snubbed Mrs Thatcher and the Queen on historic first visit to Britain

John Paul II, who visited the Queen for just 30 minutes during a six-day visit in 1982, was reluctant for the meeting in case it set a precedent.

Woodstock

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Woodstock was 45 years ago today ...

Downton Abbey cast are BANNED from bringing own items on set after embarrassing water bottle gaffe

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Oops! Robert, Earl of Grantham and Lady Edith Crawley clearly had plastic bottles of mineral water in 1924

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World War in Colour

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The FIRST World War in colour: Photos taken using pioneering technology show conflict in a new light for the first time

Autochrome technology was in its very premature days when the war began in 1914 but a small group of photographers were pioneering its usage and now their pictures have been brought together. ‘The First World War in Colour’ contains more than 320 colour photos brought together from archives in Europe, the United States and Australia. Troops are pictured left in blue jackets and helmets watching the sky intently for missiles and right, a German trench canteen. Inset is French airship Alsace when it was shot down on October 3, 1915.

Elvis

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Elvis hit her, and even hurled a dish of ice cream when she mocked his weight. Now Ginger Alden, The King's almost queen, reveals his last words before she found him slumped on the bathroom floor

In her upcoming autobiography, Elvis Presley's fiancee Ginger Alden spills the secrets of her love affair with The King, including the last day of his life.'I'm going into the bathroom to read,' he told her when he had trouble falling asleep. She found him later that day slumped over on the bathroom floor, on his knees with his hands beneath his face, in a grotesque position as though he had been praying. She reveals that Elvis had a violent streak and would shoot his gun at the television set. But he always apologized for his bad behavior

LAUREN BACALL on Sinatra

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My volcanic affair with Sinatra: Red-hot passion one moment. Cutting her dead the next. LAUREN BACALL on the star who begged her to marry him... then publicly humiliated her

It would have been the most sensational showbiz marriage of the era - the world's greatest crooner Frank Sinatra, pictured left with Lauren Bacall, actually proposed to the Hollywood legend - and she accepted! It was a hard secret to keep, and Lauren - who had recently lost her husband Humphrey Bogart, top right - was bursting to tell everyone she knew. But Frank, in a cold, remote way, went on to embarrass and humiliate the star. She went on to fall for another married men and eventually wed Jason Robards, pictured bottom right, in Mexico. In this concluding part of the late star's memoirs, LAUREN BACALL tells how it all went horribly wrong...

Lauren Bacall

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I was pregnant - and Bogie was just livid, by LAUREN BACALL: The late actress tells of her tempestuous and passionate marriage to screen star Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Bacall (pictured inset with her husband Humphrey Bogart and together with their son Steven) recalls the couple's deep love for one another and Bogart's heartbreaking death from cancer. She writes: 'On a weekend morning in January, after the worst night imaginable when Bogie lay restlessly plucking at his chest and moaning, I dressed to take the children to Sunday school. I kissed him, as I always did, and said I’d be right back. "Goodbye, kid," he said. When I came back an hour later, he had slipped into a coma.'

temple kaleidoscopes

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A kaleidoscope of colours! Incredibly rare photographs reveal the intricate and beautiful design inside Iran's magnificent temples

Mohammad Domiri creates his mesmerising works using a variety of techniques such as panoramic shots and fisheye lenses. The 23-year-old, from Mazandaran, Iran, spends hours researching the famous architecture - all of which are in his home country.

Mystery First World War Officer's Portrait

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Mystery of First World War officer's portrait solved as researchers discover he was a teenager killed by a shell at the very beginning of the conflict

For years the painting of the unknown soldier hung in Carmarthen County Museum in Wales but no one knew his name or if he survived the horror of the First World War.

George V's Letter

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'Find a reason to go to war with Germany': Letter found among fishing tackle reveals how King George V urged his foreign secretary to justify conflict two days before outbreak of First World War

The incredible note, sent during one of the most difficult times in British history has been made public by Adrian Graves. The letter revealed a meeting between King George V, and his Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, left, where the King urged him to go to war with Germany two days before the outbreak of the First World War.

the Queen's best friend

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The doctor's daughter who became the Queen's best friend: How 'Lilibet', 4, found a lifelong kindred spirit during a chance encounter playing in her London garden

It all began in 1930 when, aged just four, Princess Elizabeth of York (far left) bumped into Sonia Graham-Hodgson (right, then and now) while out playing in Hamilton Gardens, behind the Yorks' London home, 145 Piccadilly, a stone's throw from Hyde Park. The meeting was significant because, as Elizabeth's governess Marion Crawford recorded, 'Sonia was the one friend whom the Queen chose for herself.'

The Krays

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'The Kray twins were BOTH gay and Reggie never consummated his marriage': Ex-enforcer for The Firm makes sensational claims about private lives of criminal duo

Freddie ‘Brown Bread’ Foreman, 83, has been sharing tales of the east London violent gangsters with A-Lister Tom Hardy – who is set to star as both twins (pictured) in a new film. He claims that while Ronnie admitted his homosexuality, his brother's marriage to Frances Shea was a sham. He has also revealed the gang member's plans to execute the pair just weeks before they were banged up for a string of crimes in the sixties.

Dominica 1780

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Repository title: Linen Market, Dominica
ca. 1780

Agostino Brunias, 1728-1796
Oil on canvas
19 5/8 x 27 inches (49.8 x 68.6 cm)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
B1981.25.76

Own Pieces of Sports History

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Team colours are worn. The crowds chant their names. Spectators go wild whenever they dribble the ball. Pelé, Maradona, Zidane! The legends of the game. From club victories to winning for their countries – these talented footballers can never be forgotten. They have changed football. From sprinting across the pitch and scoring winning goals to causing unforgettable controversy. Celebrate the champions of this world cup and discover the worthy champions.

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Team colours are worn. The crowds chant their names. Spectators go wild whenever they dribble the ball. Pelé, Maradona, Zidane! The legends of the game. From club victories to winning for their countries

How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience

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It has been alleged that the president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, sought to wipe out blacks from the country in a policy of covert genocide through extremely repressive policies (including possibly the forced recruitment of Africans into the army and by forcing blacks to remain in neighborhoods where disease would decimate them in the absence of adequate health care).

But blacks did not really vanish from Argentina – despite attempts by the government to eliminate them (partially by encouraging large-scale immigration in the late 19th and 20th century from Europe and the Near East). Rather, they remain a hidden and forgotten part of Argentine society.

Ironically, Argentina’s most famous cultural gift to the world – the tango – came from the African influence. The first paintings of people dancing the tango are of people of African descent.
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How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience

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200 Years Of American History

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This Is Roughly 200 Years Of American History In One Mesmerizing GIF

UPWORTHY.COM|BY ALVIN MELATHE

Elizabeth Eckford

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At age 15, Elizabeth Eckford joined the others of the “Little Rock Nine,” and attempted to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The iconic photos of Eckford being chased by an angry mob on the first morning captured the attention of national and international audiences alike.

The Cicero Riot

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On the evening of July 11, 1951, one of the biggest riots in U.S. history began after a young black couple moved into an apartment in all-white Cicero, IL, west of Chicago.The husband, Harvey Clark, was a World War II veteran who migrated to Chicago from Mississippi and was working as a bus driver. He and his wife Johnetta had been crammed with their two children in a two-room tenement with a family of five on the city's overcrowded South Side.

The couple found more space and cheaper rents in Cicero, closer to his work, but the sheriff turned them away when they first tried to move in. With a court order in hand, the couple finally moved their belongings into the apartment on July 11, as a mob formed around them, heckling and throwing rocks. The mob, many of them eastern European immigrants, grew to as many as 4,000 by nightfall. The couple fled, unable to stay overnight in their new apartment. 

That night, the mob stormed the apartment and hurled the family's belongings out of a third floor window: the sofa, the chairs, the clothes, the baby pictures. The mob tore out the fixtures: the stove, the radiators, the sinks. They smashed the piano, overturned the refrigerator, bashed in the toilet. They set the family's belongings on fire and then firebombed the building, leaving even the white tenants homeless. The rioters overturned police cars and threw stones at firefighters who tried to put out the fire. 

The Illinois Governor, Adlai Stevenson, had to call in the National Guard for the first time since the 1919 race riots in Chicago. It took more than 600 guardsmen, police officers and sheriff's deputies to beat back the mob that night and three more days for the rioting over the Clarks to subside. 

The Clarks were prevented from spending a single night in Cicero. A total of 118 men were arrested in the rioting but none were indicted. Instead, the rental agent and the owner of the apartment building were indicted for inciting a riot by renting to the Clarks in the first place. The Cicero riot attracted worldwide attention and became a symbol of northern hostility to the arrival of millions of African-Americans during the Great Migration. 

-- From the book, The Warmth of Other Suns
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Coltrane

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"I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do." - John Coltrane

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Bahamas 1973

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After 300 years of British colonial rule, the Bahamas became an independent nation today in 1973!

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