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A British Museum Is Searching for a Rare 1940s Housecoat From a Fashion Brand That Dressed the Queen—and, on Special Occasions, Ordinary Women Too

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Patterned with a map of the British Isles, the housecoat was an early design by the pioneering brand Horrockses, which turned cotton cloth into whimsical women’s wear after World War II During the 1940s and ’50s, stylish ladies across Britain dazzled in the playfully patterned, brightly colored dresses of Horrockses Fashions, a popular clothing brand based in the city of Preston in northern England.
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Rare Photograph of Billy the Kid Found at a Flea Market

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By Brigit Katz Verified
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The tintype image was purchased for $10 but might be worth millions Back in 2011, a North Carolina defense attorney named Frank Abrams bought a 19th century tintype photograph for $10 at a flea market. He assumed that the photo, which shows five cowboys mugging it for the camera, was little more than a nifty relic from the Wild West.
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7 Facts About ‘Titanic’ Survivor Violet Jessop

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| Mental Floss Verified
Before midnight on April 14, 1912, Violet Jessop settled into her bunk on the Titanic, where she worked as a stewardess. She flipped through some magazines, read a prayer, and was starting to drift off to sleep when an ominous crash jolted her out of her slumber. Less than three hours later, Jessop would find herself in a lifeboat on the North Atlantic, one of 705 survivors who could only watch in horror as the Titanic sank beneath pitch-black waters.
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