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Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First indie nights. Posters advertising the show went up around the area in other parts of London, featuring the faces of lead singer Nicholas Wade (aka Nik Fiend) and Christine Wade (Mrs Fiend). Peter Marshall saw those posters … Continue reading "Gigs, Fights And An Alien Sex Fiend: Posters In London, c. 1990" The post Gigs, Fights And An Alien Sex Fiend: Posters In London, c. 1990 appeared first on Flashbak.
Actress Olga Solarics (1895-1969) and her husband, a former Austro-Hungarian army officer with an artistic background, Adorja’n von Wlassics (1893-1946) ran the Studio Manasse Foto-Salon in Vienna, Austria, from 1922 til 1938. The studio was big on nudes and left a fabulous archive of glamorous and erotic pictures full of clever compositions and visual puns, … Continue reading "Nudes With Attitude from Vienna’s Studio Manasse (NSFW)" The post Nudes With Attitude from Vienna’s Studio Manasse (NSFW) appeared first on Flashbak.
In February 1958, production was underway on the Mercedes-Benz 190 SL open-topped sports car. Made between May 1955 and February 1963, and known by the company as W121, the 190 SL roadster made its debut at the 1954 New York Auto Show at Madison Square Garden (February 6 – 14, 1954). Production began a … Continue reading "The Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Assembly Line, February 1958" The post The Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Assembly Line, February 1958 appeared first on Flashbak.
At the prisoner of war camp in Spangenberg castle, Germany, Major Alexis Casdagli began to stitch. Using a piece of canvas handed to him by a fellow inmate, thread from an old jumper and a hidden needle, Casdagli created a border of dots and dashes around a frame of swastikas and other emblems. In the … Continue reading "A Prisoner of War Stitched A Secret Message To The Nazis: God Save the King – Fu*k Hitler!" The post A Prisoner of War Stitched A Secret Message To The Nazis: God Save the King – Fu*k Hitler! appeared first on Flashbak.
‘The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.” – Anaïs Nin Published in 1922 with illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud, Ralph Bergengren’s David the Dreamer: His Book of Dreams tells the story of a boy’s dreams for his pet dog Fido’s third birthday. David finds himself in a series of adventures in which he … Continue reading "David the Dreamer: Ralph Bergengren’s Children’s Book Illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud, 1922" The post David the Dreamer: Ralph Bergengren’s Children’s Book Illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud, 1922 appeared first on Flashbak.
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Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First indie nights. Posters advertising the show went up around the area in other parts of London, featuring the faces of lead singer Nicholas Wade (aka Nik Fiend) and Christine Wade (Mrs Fiend). Peter Marshall saw those posters … Continue reading "Gigs, Fights And An Alien Sex Fiend: Posters In London, c. 1990" The post Gigs, Fights And An Alien Sex Fiend: Posters In London, c. 1990 appeared first on Flashbak.
Though many visit South Korea for its K-Dramas and K-Pop, the peninsula and islands also feature numerous cultural charms and historic sites as well. South Korea has an expansive history, and tales of monks, soldiers, indigenous peoples, and royalty linger in these locations. From majestic stone parks to ocean-side temples, here is a list […]
Until the end of his life, Carl Sagan (1934–1996) continued doing what he did all along — popularizing science and “enthusiastically conveying the wonders of the universe to millions of people on television and in books.” Whenever Sagan appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson during the 70s and 80s, his goal was to […]
When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European continent adjacent to the ancient Greeks and Romans and in Britain during the Iron Age who belonged to the La Tène culture. “La Tène” refers to the last stage of the pre-Roman Celtic Iron […]
It was surely not a coincidence that the New York Times published its story on the trial of a certain Gadalias and Saulos this past Monday, April 14th. The defendants, as their names suggest, did not live in modernity: the papyrus documenting their legal troubles dates to the reign of Hadrian, around 130 AD. These men […]
