Blow in her face and she will follow you everywhere. Vintage adverts that would never be allowed today

Vintage adverts that would never be allowed today
Cocaine for toothache and fashion for ‘chubbies’. Outrageous adverts from the past that look inappropriate today, to say the least.
Undoubtedly, by today’s standards they sound weird, but once upon a time these adverts were perfectly acceptable. From an ad that claims smoking is healthy to one telling mothers they should give Coca-Cola to their babies, these shocking posters give a fascinating insight into a time gone by.
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Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. 1761), the only portrait that Sade actually posed for. Eighteenth-century pervert Marquis de Sade

Eighteenth-century pervert Marquis de Sade believed anything went sexually, morally and spiritually. In fact, Sadism derives from his name as he believed in putting his partners through agony in pursuit of ecstasy. Committed to a lunatic asylum, Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life. In particular, 11 years in Paris (10 of which in the Bastille), a month in the Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicetre, a year in Sainte-Palagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. Accordingly, many of his works he wrote in prison.
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Vatican Museum. Emperor wearing a diadem of oak leaves (the civil crown) Claudius the only of the 15 emperors who loved only women

Claudius the only of the 15 emperors who loved only women
Tiberius Claudius Germanicus (10 B.C.-A.D. 54) was the fourth emperor of Rome. Deemed a weak emperor, he nevertheless extended the borders of the empire and reformed its administration. Claudius’ love life was unusual for an upper-class Roman of his day, being that he was the only one out of the first 15 emperors not to take men or boys, but only women as lovers. Suetonius and the other ancient authors used this against Claudius. They accused him of being dominated by these same women and wives, of being uxorious, and of being a womanizer.
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Segregated Bus in Texas. History in photography Black and white, literally

History in photography Black and white
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. It intended to oppose the city’s policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.
Meanwhile, many important figures in the civil rights movement participated in the boycott. In particular, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and others. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955 since Rosa Parks arrest.
In fact, Rosa Parks committed an unforgivable offense in her time. On December 1st, 1955, she refused to obey a bus driver, sitting down on the places that were reserved to white people. Accordingly, arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. For over a year, black passengers walked and carpooled to work until the bus company neared bankruptcy and downtown stores complained about the loss of business. The result was getting her to sleep in a jail of a police station. However, there was a bigger consequence: her bold gesture was the origin of buses’ boycott of Montgomery, starting point of the fight for the civil right of black people in USA, in the 1960s.
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Born John Winston Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980). Tribute to John Lennon

Tribute to John Lennon
On December 8, John Lennon walked out of his New York house overlooking the Central park. It was going to be a busy day and so the legendary Beatle just didn’t pay attention to a young man who came out of the crowd to meet him. The man called out the singer’s name and raised his hand. The only thing Lennon saw in that split second before he died, was something that looked very much like a US Army Colt the man was holding in his hand. A moment later the bullet smashed Lennon against the wall. One of the greatest musicians of all time died on the spot without even realising what happened. His killer, the nondescript and mentally deranged Mark David Chapman, went down in history as one of the best- known assassins in living memory. John Lennon was an international celebrity because the Fab Four were – and remain – the world’s most astonishing rock-’n’-roll band. Lennon once said that the Beetles were more popular than Jesus Christ. The Beatles had become such a huge British export that they were give a royal award: the Member of the British Em¬pire, or M.B.E. The distinction caused an uproar with dozens of M.B.E. holders giving back their awards.
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Archive photo. The youngest mother on Earth

The youngest mother on Earth
Into the hospital at Pisco (Peru) came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes. She led by the hand a shy little girl, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen. Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Geraldo Lozada to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of her. Certain that little Lina Medina had an abdominal tumor, Dr. Lozada examined her, and received the surprise of his life when he discovered she was eight months pregnant, making her the world’s youngest mother ever. Lina Medina was the youngest mum ever to give birth. She was only 5 years and 7 months old when her son Gerardo was born, 2.7 kg (6.0 lb). Lina died at the age of 40, Gerard at the age of 76.
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Golden Globe Award. English actor Hugh Laurie in Guinness World Records 2012

Hugh Laurie in Guinness World Records 2012
Highest paid actor in a TV drama Hugh Laurie of FOX’s “House” pulls in 700,000 dollars for each episode. According to Guinness, “House” is the Most-Watched TV Show (it is seen by 81.8 million people in 66 countries). James Hugh Calum Laurie, born 11 June 1959, better known as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director.
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Police keeping back a crowd of young fans outside Buckingham Palace, London, as pop group the Beatles receive their MBEs. Nineteen-sixties phenomenon Beatlemania

Nineteen-sixties phenomenon Beatlemania
Noteworthy, the inception of Beatlemania considered October 13, 1963. In particular, on this very day, The Beatles performed at London’s Palladium. Despite the fact that the concert was broadcast in the program “Sunday Night At The London Palladium” all over the country, thousands of fans, mostly teenagers, crowded the hall. Filled concert hall adjacent to the street hoping to get to if not to the concert, at least just to see musicians. Throughout the concert in the hall was deafening noise, almost overlapping music. After the concert, when the musicians left the concert hall, a crowd of admirers, were waiting on the street, in an attempt to see their idols arranged stampede. Two days later, October 15, 1963 the newspaper The Daily Mirror published an article about The Beatles concert in Cheltenham. Describing the behavior of the fans they used the word “Beatlemania”. Accordingly, the term picked up by other media, became popular among people.
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Rules for Perfect guy. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

According to the proverb, A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Of course, we shouldn’t take it seriously, as it’s a kind of joke, meaning that a woman can live happily without requiring to be in a relationship with a man. However, still there is a part of joke in every joke, as people in Russia say, meaning that every joke contains mostly truth, and only a small part of it is actually a joke.
Let’s begin with the first one.
Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.
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