Popular toys of the 70s
Papers show top UK intelligence committee, whose members included
Winston Churchill, discussed ‘anti-red activities’ following Zinoviev letter incident
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Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
1) McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic
2) When a Bridge Falls: Disaster in Minneapolis -The New York Times
3) American Blackout 2013 – National Geographic
4) The Day After (1983) American Nuclear Holocaust
5) Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years
6) Woman Burned by McDonald’s Hot Coffee
7) 50 most influential, powerful and brilliant songs ever made in the music’s modern history
8) Top 50 Greatest Songs of All Time
9) Top 10 Inventions of All Time
10) 12 Worst Inventions of All Time
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
1) Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire (1942)
2) Olympic Bombing 1996, Richard Jewel, The Wrong Man
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3) Biosphere 2: An American Space Odyssey
4) Retro Indy: Biographer Ray Boomhower shares his fascinating figures in local history
5) 21 old-fashioned fruit punch recipes (1969)
6) The Shadow of the Thalidomide Tragedy
7) St Paul’s street trolley: The Auto of the People (1904)
8) The American girl – fashion’s latest model (1915)
9) Terri Schiavo Documentary: The Case’s Enduring Legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-rQ3tIabvM
10) The Battle for School Busing
11. Photos: See retro New York in all its black-and-white glory
12. Retro album makeovers for modern musicians from Miley to Drake
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
1. Demolished 1920s Carlton Tavern ‘should be rebuilt’
2. 1920s Silent Film, Native American Cast Get Due Decades Late
3. Secret service officials discussed smearing Labour party in 1920s
4. World War I, the 1920s and Modern Cool
World War I tore down old traditions and gave counterculture a chance to begin again.
6. 1920s V: Al Jolson & Two Landmark Hits
7. Duke students’ blood donations paid off in the 1920s
8. HIV’s origins traced to Kinshasa in 1920s
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Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 01, 2015
2. Top 10 Historical Moments of the 1960s
3. This is the man who designed the 1970s
4. 7 technologies to thank the 1970s for
5. 1970s Christmas in Teesside: Top telly, turkey and a Tomahawk bike
6. 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
7. “Brady Bunch” Star Barry Williams Revives 1970s un Great American Country’s “A Very Barry Branson”
8. Childhood in the US ‘safer than in the 1970s’
9. Dietary advice from the 1970s found to be a big fat mistake
10. Top 10 books about the 1970s
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
1. The Ferry: A Civil Rights Story
2. Jack Kevorkian Dies, Leaves Controversial Legacy, No Successor
3. 1950s American cars aren’t collector’s items in Cuba
5. Original Rolling Stones to rock Old Capitol
7. What Women Used to Wear to Play Sports
As these vintage photos show, turn-of-the-century sportswear was much different than today’s performance gear.
8. Bing Crosby Sang Me a Lullaby
A chance encounter on a train led to an unforgettable photo.
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
1. From Gitmo to an American Supermax, the Horrors of Solitary Confinement
2. Ancient ‘lost city’ home to a vanished civilisation found deep in jungles of Honduras
Expedition of archaeologists accompanied by ex-SAS survival experts makes stunning discovery of fabled “White City” where locals may have once worshipped a monkey god
3. American Architecture & Business News
4. American life in 1914: How we lived a century ago – Why America Is Not Normal
5. ISIL video shows destruction of Mosul artefacts
Five-minute clip shows group of men using hammers and drills to smash several large statues in Iraqi museum.
6. Pharaoh of “Lost Dynasty” Died Brutal Death, Forensic Study Reveals
Forgotten pharaoh may have been earliest Egyptian ruler to die in battle.
7. Nihiwatu – On the edge of wildness | The story.
9. Darth Vader, Renaissance Man? How ‘Star Wars’ Could Have Looked Centuries Ago
10. Pictures: New Pyramid Found With Vivid Murals, Stacked Tombs
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
1) Historic Bath:
Edna Ferber and the James Adams Floating Theatre
2) 6 Gross Foods from a 50’s Cookbook (That We Taste Tested)
4) Last British troops withdraw from Egypt
An orderly operation completed
6) [Article] Basketball and the Bull Market
7) Music: What are the saddest songs?
8) Books: Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, an Electronic Edition
9) Food: “It’s Just a Jar of Peaches”
On Thanksgiving Eve, as we were getting ready for bed, there was a knock on our door.
10) Vintage Circus Photos of Life Under the Big Tent
Take a special look at the public and private life of circus people in the beginning of the 20th century.
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
1) Sequins, retro elegance, Cinderella jostle for attention at second day of London Fashion Week
2) Chicago’s Paradise of Retro Toys
3) Alum was victim of Waltham triple homicide
4) Brookline Clinic Shootings: December 30, 1994
5) The endurance of Camelia Sadat
6) The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
7) Women and the Warsaw Ghetto: A Moment to Decide Marjorie Wall Bingham
9) Patriots & Traitors: What Can We Learn from the Lessons of History?
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
1) Think Retro: The Macintosh Portable is about as portable as a sack of potatoes
3) Hopes ride high for classic car boom in Havana
4) Reagan Assassination Attempt – NBC News, Special Report
5) 3-Year-Old Remembers Past Life & Identifies His Murderer
6) Evidence of Reincarnation
7) Time Traveling Celebrities / Immortals / Reincarnation
8) 10 Real incidents that proves time travelers exist
9) Books, Magazines and Newspaper Ads of the 1960s
10) 25 Vintage Newspaper Ads That Show The Evolution of the Advertising Industry
