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Peggy Lee: The Queen of American Pop Music _ US

Born 1920 as Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress Peggy Lee began singing from a young age. In Wimbledon, she was the female singer for a six-piece college dance…

Mullet: The Badass Hairstyle of the 1970s, 1980s and Early 1990s _ US

The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides and long in the back. Mullets were used by rock stars Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, and Paul McCartney as far back as…

32 Pictures of High School Teenagers in Des Moines, Iowa, 1947 _ US

Long before the era of Facebook, texting, and clubbing, there’s the hopping soda shop scene. LIFE photographer George Skadding documented the lives of Iowa high school teenagers in the late 1940s.

Portraits of Highland Park High School Teenage Girls, 1947 _ US

Highland Park High School is a public, co-educational high school located immediately north of downtown Dallas in University Park, Dallas County, Texas. It is a part of the Highland Park Independent School District, which serves residents who are predominantly college-educated…

Portraits of Washington-Lee High School’s Students Posing With Their Unique Graduation Caps in 1947 _ US

Washington-Lee High School (now Washington-Liberty High School) is a public high school in the Arlington Public Schools district in Arlington, Virginia, covering grades 9–12. Its attendance area serves the central third of Arlington, and it also offers the International Baccalaureate…

3D Four Letter Words: Robert Indiana’s LOVE Sculptures in the 1970s _ US

LOVE sculpture, by Robert Indiana, 1970. Robert Indiana (formerly Robert Clark) first expressed the essential iconography of “LOVE” in 1958 but it wasn’t until 1964 that the image garnered wide public notice, via a Christmas card commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum…

Fascinating Vintage Photos of Stevie Wonder in the ‘70s _ US

Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the second half of the 20th century, Wonder is one of the most successful songwriters and musicians. A virtual one-man band, his…

27 Beautiful Portraits of Norma Shearer From the 1920s and 1930s _ US

Norma Shearer (1902–1983) was a Canadian-American actress, who was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door, but for most of the Pre-Code film era,…

52 Pictures Show How North Carolina’s Cheerleaders Have Changed For Nearly 100 Years _ US

These pictures from North Carolina Digital Heritage Center that show how North Carolina cheerleaders have changed throughout the 20th century. Wake Forest College, 1922 Davidson College, 1925 Wake Forest College, 1926 Guilford College, 1927 East Carolina Teachers College, 1930  Wingate Junior…

Just After WWII, Here Is What Hawaii Looked Like in the Late 1940s and Early ’50s _ US

Hawaii is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland. It is the only state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state…