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- July 19, 2012 97336
15 Tattoo Facts You Might Not Know
- The BBC’s ‘Pebble Mill’ afternoon TV show once played a video on the Dave Lee Travis segment entitled ‘Golden Oldies’. Which showed tattooing being done to the 1960’s pop tune ‘Needles and Pins’ by The Searchers. ...
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- June 15, 2012 89920
Tattoo Facts - The turn of the 20th century
The turn of the 20th century saw the emergence of some fine tattoo work and some of the most celebrated names in British tattoo history found that tattooing was fast becoming in vogue with the people of the...
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- February 16, 2012 87817
Richie Mingins Tattoo collection
Hanky Panky got the Richie Mingins collection on the 15th of April 1999 – the author was at Hanky’s tattooing museum in Amsterdam, Holland – when Hanky told him that he had been called by a woman from England who said...
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- October 11, 2011 123021
12 Tattoo Facts You Might Not Know
- In the years 1893-94, 1896-97 and 1898-1900 the Dutch government sponsored Dr Anton Nieuwenhuis in three expeditions to Borneo to study the Dayaks of Kalimantan (Borneo being at the time a part of the Dutch East Indies)....
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- January 05, 2011 98749
GEORGE BURCHETT
In Town Tonight - A Series of 50 Cards.
In the 1930s, the Saturday evening BBC radio show In Town Tonight began with the cry of a Piccadilly flower seller, Mrs. Emma Baker, whose picture appears on card number 2 in Churchman’s 1938 series...
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- May 21, 2010 73833
Tattooing and the Chilling Mystery of Severed Limbs
A Shocking Discovery and the Infamous Shark Arm Case
Tattooing has over the years weathered many a storm – and with anything popular there is also a down side – And the following article is one that...
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- April 09, 2010 89817
Brass instrument for "branding", deserters with a letter "D", in leather covered case, by Savigny and Co., London,
Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science MuseumBefore the tattooing of the letter "D" for deserter and...
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- March 31, 2010 47180
Tangaroatuane, Maori Ta Moko Artist from Aotearoa-New Zealand
"Ko Tangaroatuane ahau. Ko Ngati Morehu oku iwi. Ehara taku toa i te toa taki tahi, engari taki mano no aku Tipuna"
"I am Tangaroatuane. Ours is the clan of survivors. My strength comes not... -
- March 05, 2010 158242
The Great Omi: A Tattooed Legend and the Mystery of His Life
Horace Ridler was born in the year 1882, into a world full of luxury and privilege. And attended some of the finest schools in Victoria England.
The Ridler family who were as upper class as...
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- January 18, 2010 132943
Ten Fascinating Tattoo Facts You Didn’t Know
- Roman Emperor Caeser wrote that all Briton’s stain their skins with woad, and Herod of Antioch found that the Briton’s had animal designs incised onto their bodies.
- The Pict’s of Scotland also painted their...
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