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In the 1920s, after many years entertaining crowds as an escape artist, Houdini changed his show to expose the methods and motivations of the Spiritualists, a group who claimed they could contact the dead through séances. Testifying against them in Congress, he also exposed their tricks while on stage, an act he turned into a Broadway show. Soon, Houdini received death threats from the group.
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1920
houdini
poster
Added: 25th July 2007
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Posted By: Teresa |

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This poster was put up by the Interstate Narcotics Assoc in Chicago IL and used in the film to warn of the dangers of marijuana use.
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marijuana
weed
pot
drugs
Added: 4th August 2007
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Posted By: Naomi |

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The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. It became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air...all that said, i see a lot of fun, risque skin!! LOL
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poster
ziegfeld
follies
Added: 16th August 2007
Views: 2985
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Posted By: Teresa |

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Here's an Italian WWII poster portraying American pilots as "Flying Gansters". Those doity rats! Its ironic how the Axis committed henious acts against civilians of countries they invaded, but put out posters like this.
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WWII
Axis
Italy
Posters
Propaganda
Added: 19th August 2007
Views: 9630
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Posted By: dezurtdude |

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I got a good laugh out of this one. Notice the sinister look and the fingernails on the Commie that looks like Joseph Stalin. Don't pirate MP3s or else the Commies will come and take away your cell phones, Salad Shooters and Microwave Ovens!
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Commies
Computers
MP3
music
Added: 19th August 2007
Views: 4706
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Posted By: dezurtdude |

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Lugosi, the youngest of four children, was born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó' in Lugos, Hungary on October 20, 1882. On arrival in America, the 6-feet-1 inch, 180 lb. Lugosi worked for some time as a laborer, then returned to the theater within the Hungarian-American community. He was approached to star in a play adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The Horace Liveright production was successful. Despite his excellent notices in the title role, and appearances in some American silent films, Lugosi had to campaign vigorously for the chance to repeat his stage success in Tod Browning's movie version of Dracula (1931), produced by Universal Pictures.
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dracula
bela
lugosi
tod
browning
Added: 29th August 2007
Views: 2257
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Posted By: Teresa |

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1918 poster from the U.S. Department of Agriculture making the case for more cottage cheese in our diets. . .humm, informative. . . but not very appetising!
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ad
cottage
cheese
dept
of
agriculture
Added: 6th September 2007
Views: 2367
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Posted By: Sissy |

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During the Second World War, the U.S. government produced a series of anti-Japanese propaganda posters featuring a caricature dubbed the Tokio Kid. (Tokio was a common spelling of Tokyo at the time.) These posters, featuring absurd exaggerations of Asian facial features and pidgin English, warned Americans that wasteful habits and slacking off on the job could aid the enemy.
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Kid
propaganda
Second
World
War
Added: 2nd March 2011
Views: 8443
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Posted By: Lava1964 |

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