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6-year-old Penny Briggs of Chelsea believes in getting to the bottom of things as she tries her luck at the Lucky Dip 1966

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Parking sign in Roswell, New Mexico, USA, alien capitol of the world and site of a UFO crash in 1947.

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It may be a bird's way of giving a kiss, but it's hard on Mary's nose.

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It's all very well being encouraged to &quotHop on a Bus" but it seems to be attracting all sorts of odd types. A couple of Daleks tried to board a London Transport Routemaster at Shepherd's Bush Green to the dismay of the conductor and an inspector.

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Rosamund Hiles, 2 1/2, granddaughter of the trainer  (right) and Sandra Bowler (2) holds Fenella, performing Sumatran tiger by the tail.<br>1950

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Fox pushing a goose in pram

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Relaxation on Bournemouth Beach in 1946<br><br>

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Susan Sinclair is only 3 months old, but she is already having her first haircut. 1959

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21 You can Do It<br>A man pushes a cow onto a bus.

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Deutschland: Alte Frauen mit Hüten bei einem Gartenfest in einer Schrebergartenkolonie - 1951<br>Aufnahme: Fritz Eschen<br><english> Germany. Old women wearing funny hats at a party in an allotment garden. 1951 picture taken by Fritz Eschen. </english>

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Lake Starnberg, near Munich. Taking a leisurely cruise on the lake with their pet dog in tow! 1961

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10 &quotIf you're that afraid of getting them wet, why don't you take off your helmets and tunics?"<br>&quotDon't be silly, policemen without their helmets and tunics lose their dignity - but if you stay around we'll link arms and do a few high kicks."<br>Mountainous seas, driven by the gale which swept the country, crashed through a temporary sea wall at Brooklands holiday estate, Jaywick, near Clacton.  Five hundred bungalows were swamped and 2,000 people were flooded out.  The storm was one of the fiercest to hit Britain for years.  Photo shows two policemen patrol the flooded camp ready to give assistance to any of the holidaymakers in distress.

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Woman hypnotises a rabbit

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Little boy takes his new big teddy bear for a walk.

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English bulldog skating on a skateboard

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30 Stockbridge, Hampshire. 1965. Tall fishing story! A giant stuffed tarpon purchased from an antique dealer, was carried through the village by an angler. Young boy looks on with admiration.

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The early days of mobile phones c. 1980's<br>A business man riding a bicycle wearing a bowler hat and talking on a mobile telephone The basket on the bike contains his briefcase and umberella.

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CHENGDU, CHINA:  A HIGHLY AMUSING SIGN IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH AT THE DRAGON TOWN YOUTH HOSTEL MAKES IT CLEAR THAT SUITS ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.  2006.  ©Lee Snider / The Image Works

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03.02.2006, Berlin, DEU, GERMANY - A funny, painted potato. (food, vegies, tuber vegetable, tuber vegetables, tuber, vegetable, vegetables, veggies, veggie, nutritious, edible, eatable, potato, potatoes, red potatoes, vitamin, vitamine, vitamins, vitamines, Solanaceae, nightshade family, Solanum tuberosum, plants, useful plant, useful plants, vegetarian, vegetarianism, diet, fresh, still life, painted, paint, face, potato face, potato man, funny, humor, humour, humorous, digital, vertical) 00B060203D016CAROE.JPG - NOT for SALE in G E R M A N Y / G E R M A N Y OUT [MODEL RELEASE: NOT APPLICABLE, PROPERTY RELEASE: NOT APPLICABLE (c) caro photo agency / Jandke, http://www.carofoto.pl, info@carofoto.pl - In case of using the picture for non-journalistic purposes, please contact the agency - the picture is subject to royalty!]

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Pets Corner at the Zoo.<br>Children riding tortoise<br>19 August 1935

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27 'Let 'em roll': April 26th 1958: 16 month old, Paul Jefferies of Walsall, Staffs.,shoots off on his skates. His parents are keen skaters and decided to start him young. He has been using skates for 6 months. April 30th 1958

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INDIA New Delhi -- Jun 2004 -- A curious cow is shooed away by an Indian cafe owner in the Pahar Ganj main bazzar area of central New Delhi -- <br>Picture by Jon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos

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Photo by Ken Russell - September/October 1954<br>Portobello - scenes of everyday life<br><br>©TopFoto / Ken Russell<br>

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17 Hyde Park criminals - July/August 1957<br>Laws pertaining to behaviour in Hyde Park, London<br>By-Law 29 - No person shall in any open space sort rags, bones, refuse or matter of like nature ...<br>©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell<br>

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08 Gramophone for roadmenders.<br>19 April 1923<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br>

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&quotWell!"<br>The gateman at London Film Studio, Shopporton, gets the shock of his life as a Rolls Royce car drives up to the gate with two miniature Pinscher dogs seated in state. Yasmine (on the right) had arrived for work in Carol Roo's production of &quotThe Third Man", bringing sister Blossom as &quotstand-in". &quotThe Third Man" stars Joseph Cotton, Valli, Orson Wollos and Trevor Howard.

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Actor reading a newspaper backstage<br><br>credit: John Garrett / ArenaPAL

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A boy plays with a swan, near a pond

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Most Popular Boys Of The Works!<br>Efficiency in action.  They are the tea boys and one of their jobs in an East End of London factory is to take tea round to their workmates. They form their  own pool of resources and with long sticks they manage to take all the cups tins of tea round at the same time 19 May 1938

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15 Dog asleep in bed with alarm clock.<br>1932<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br>

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Snappy brother and sister sportswear act in stripes.  The knitted three piece ensemble includes a cardigan, t-shirt and visored cap<br>1949

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Eye-catching pink poster advertising Police Naked eau de parfum, a new perfume with an amusing memorable name.

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Novelty Badges have been very popular at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.                                             <br>Date: 28.09.2005. <br>Ref: UDW022442_6017 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: David Wimsett/UPPA/Photoshot

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Miss Edna Maude, dancer , on holiday at Bridgewater.<br>19 July 1921

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Holyoke, Massachusetts: With their veils blowing in the wind a group of nuns enjoy a ride on the roller coaster at Mountain Park. An estimated 500 nuns all members of the Sisters of St Joseph, flocked to Mountain Park for their annual outing. July 1967 ©Topham<br>

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&quotAnswer my prayers... steal this car", inscription on an old car in the United States. 1981.

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Henrietta Giudici urges on a hotshot hopper named Cool Frog during the Calaveras County Fair's Jumping Frog Jubilee

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Two old women asleep in deckchairs with a smartly dressed younger man sits beside them.

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31 Dog at the hairdresser

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La Potichomanie by Honore Daumier<br>1855

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Fougasse<br>Punch<br><br>

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As Queen Elizabeth II rides by during the Trooping the Colour Ceremony at Horse Guards today one guard, overwhelmed by the heat, faints in the path of the oncoming Queen<br>14th June 1969

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Modern Social Problems<br>Susceptible youth: ' Would you present me to that young lady with the black fan? '<br>Hostess ' With pleasure, if you will tell me her name - and yours!<br>

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An artist's impression in 1875 of the chaos that was- incorrectly- expected after Edison's development of the quadruplex telegraph, which allowed four messages to be sent over a single wire<br><br><br>Trouble in the Quad 1875

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'So much love and eloquence'<br><br>The line is from Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, and the scene is the moment that the ridiculous Mr Collins proposes to Charlotte Lucas and is accepted.<br><br>1894 George Allen

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Monty Python's Flying Circus<br>Eric Idle & John Cleese in a hilarious sequence <br>17th April 1972

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RAF Police dog rides on the shoulders of his handler who is riding a bike

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25 Rosemarie of Lochiell, a Golden Cocker Spaniel, owed by Mr and Mrs G.J.Penny, of Melbourne, Australia and this is her 12 pups a large number for her first litter.<br>26 Ocotober 1965

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Albert Einstein sticking his tongue

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17 &quotDid I Really Do This ?"<br>Seems to be the question bewildered woman driver Mrs. Gerald F. Moynihan is asking herself as she looked at her big car straddling another overturned in Honolulu, Hawaii. She told police officers she was parking in a car park and accidentally stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake. Before she could stop the car, it overshot an 18 inch cueb, overturned the small sports car and landed up on top of it. Nobody was hurt.<br>16th December 1961

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	A woman in a cabbage leaf costume, Hellidon, Northamptonshire, c1896-c1920. Outside an 	unidentified house in Hellidon, Northamptonshire.    A woman in a cabbage leaf costume, Hellidon, Northamptons   <br>Credit: Reproduced by permission of English Heritage / HIP / TopFoto

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Cartoon by Sax

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Cartoon by Sax

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Cartoon by Sax

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Mrs Jean Murray of Reepham, Lincolshire, goes cross-eyed studying the ash on her cigar as she trains for the annual cigar smoking contest at Reepham. The object of the contest is to keep a four inch cigar burning as long as possible without losing the ash or letting the cigar go out. 11th January 1960

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Cartoon by Sax

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Cartoon by Sax<br>Barging through to be first in the Sales

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Cartoon by Sax<br>Smelly Feet

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Cartoon by Sax<br>When is it time to defrost the freezer.<br>&quotMaybe I should find an ice cream vendor instead."

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 Man floating in a tin bath tub called HMS Unsinkable, in a river wearing a sailors outfit, a bemused dog watches him.

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16 Dell the dog is delighted at the chance of a ride on a scooter even though it meant pearching atop a full load on the rear. Her master was moving some of his gear and with a girlfriend riding pillion, dell could only get a tail end view of the journey.<br>New Malden Surrey

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Shawls and clogs, good humour and good neighbourliness. This group of Lancashire mill girls typifies the spirit of the cotton mills.<br>Undated

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Something New in Stop Signs<br>Mayor John L Brown of suburban Woodson Terrace, St Louis, Missouri, looks at an illustrated Stop Sign which has been erected at a road junction in the community.  The cartoon-type sign was the Mayor's idea.  He said he thought drivers have been taking stop signs for granted and sometimes not coming to a full halt.  In case motorists think this sign is just a joke, Policemen are around to set them straight.

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Between the Wars - London

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Women wearing seaside themed sunglasses in 1957.

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22 Would it run better on oats?<br>Although the advertisement in the background proclaims that Mobiloil is &quotbetter", the rest of the photograph seems to give a pretty strong indication that the most reliable fuel is oats - no oil needed.  Photographer Jane Marston of Denver (Colorado) made this shot in a filling station garage as she passed during an automobile trip.  Having no place to tie his horse, the young man hitched it to the disabled auto as he watched the progress of repairs which his own chosen transportation never needs.  Anyway you look at it (except possibly the way this photo was taken), the old ways are better.<br>So THAT'S Horse Power<br>For years they had been telling this old grey mare that there were thirty horses under that bonnet.  Then at last they let her take a peek.  And what did she see?  A heap of old iron, covered in grease.  A jumble of machinery that could not raise a whinny in a forest fire.  And, my dear, the odour!  It was enough to make a nag blow a gasket!

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Cat - chinchilla - persian - swinging on a wooden beam.

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20 Every visitor finds the way to Hyde park almost automatically. In this London oasis of 273 acres you meet all manner of people - talkers sleepers, swimmers lovers, even a shepherd with his flock.

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Ear Protection, 27th September 1962.<br>Providing ample protection for the ears and sides of the face is this unusual white ostrich bandeau, topped by a pillbox hat, and worn by model girl Ann Anderson, at the London display of Simone Mirman's Collection for the Autumn and Winter.<br><br>

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Lords test match when a nude streaker hurdled the stumps, to the amusement of England batsman Alan Knott. This photo &quotHowzat?" was taken by Derek Brind and won him an award.<br>4th August 1975

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  Elizabeth Taylor gets a double barrel kiss from her bearded husband Richard Burton and film director Franco Zeffirelli at the end of filming " The Taming of the Shrew ". Liz smartly ducked out during the peck leaving her two admirers closely face to face.<br>Rome August 2nd 1966

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&quotCaption: USA, DIGITAL IMAGE: GIRAFFE LOOKING IN AIRCRAFT WINDOW.  ©LARRY MULVEHILL / The Image Works"

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