#OnThisDay 1908: James Bond author Ian Fleming was born.

Geoffrey Boothroyd was a gun aficionado who wrote to Fleming asking him to change Bond's signature gun – a Beretta – to one more powerful. In this clip, Boothroyd shows why he thought Bond needed a gun with more oomph.

Heroes (Bowie cover)⚡
David Byrne & Choir! Choir! Choir!

I’m currently somewhere in northern Spain, they have pizza that comes out of the wall. 🍕

13-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, in the hours after the Atomic Bomb detonation 40 miles away.

Barbara was the only person in the photo that lived to see 30 years old.
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13-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, in the hours after the Atomic Bomb detonation 40 miles away.

Barbara was the only person in the photo that lived to see 30 years old.
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Built 120 years ago in Paris by Blaise Bontems, you'll need your volume on to appreciate this mechanical birdsong device.

Utterly gorgeous.

More people like this in the world please.

Speaking as a father of two boys, all of these clips could’ve been filmed in my house…

Just watched #CivilWarMovie and can confirm it’s outrageously good.

Apparently there is…

You’re telling me that a photo doesn’t exist of him standing slightly more to his left?!

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE was released 35 years ago today. The third, and for some best, entry in the Indiana Jones series, reading the behind the scenes story will mean you chose wisely…

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I love the way this poster implies that there was a dark side to Hitler we didn't know about.

On this day in 1901, Blanche Monnier was discovered in her family's attic after being kept hidden for 25 years.

A known beauty, Blanche had wanted to marry someone her mother didn't approve of, so she locked her in the attic.

There's no happy ending
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Holy Sinatra, Adam West as Batman can hold his own with a brass band.

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM was released 40 years ago this week. The second entry in the Indy series, and one of Steven Spielberg’s darker movies, the story behind the scenes is like a runaway mine cart…

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I’ve been doing a rewatch of the seminal 2001 British reality show Popstars and it really was the most unhinged reality show ever seen on British television.

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On this day in 334 BC The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus, and the geopolitical face of the world changed forever.
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