The Peculiar Flapper Fad of Rouged and Decorated Knees
The infamous nightclub singer and vaudevillian, Velma Kelly, opens the musical Chicago in a sleek…
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Were an Ancient Christian Sect of Nudists the World’s First Hippies?
Today we’re taking a brief look at some hippie heretics of yore known as the…
The Soundtrack To A Lost Country: Rock Music in the GDR
To the leaders of Communist East Germany, nothing was quite as dangerous and potentially subversive…
Let’s Raise a Glass to America’s Black Wall Street
Something else they forgot to tell us about in history class: Black Wall Street. Why…
He made a Fortune in the 1920’s Transplanting Monkey Testicle Tissue into the Ballsacks of Millionaires
The poet E.E Cummings once wrote of a “famous doctor who inserts monkey glands in…
Behind the Façade of Potemkin Villages
Who wouldn’t want a library or a museum named in their honour? A namesake to…
Did Jesus Escape to Japan?
Greetings from Shingo, a rural village, 650km north of Tokyo that is believed by its…
Get Schooled by the World’s First Sexology Institute of 1920s Berlin
They called him “the Einstein of Sex”. The German doctor who went (quite literally) where…
The Poisoned Paradise Island
We all know that America conducted nuclear bomb testing during the Cold War, somewhere out…
Here’s What a Futurist World’s Fair Looked like Behind the Iron Curtain
The World’s Fairs used to capture the public’s imagination. From the millions who attended such…
Girl Friends, Inc: The African American Social Clubs of Yesteryear
It all started over a pot of stew in the summer of 1927. Eunice Shreeves…
Ever Wondered Exactly How an Egyptian Temple Ended up at the Met?
During a visit to The Met in New York, the sight of a full-size Egyptian…