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unusual facts about The Photos


The Photos

The Photos were originally a punk band named Satan's Rats that formed in Evesham, Worcestershire in 1977, with the first stable line-up of Paul Rencher (vocals), Steve Eagles (guitar/vocals), Roy Wilkes (bass guitar), and Olly Harrison (drums).


Barbarella's

Both The Prefects and The Photos recorded a song called Barbarella's, the latter mourning the turning of the club into another disco.


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Aqua Necromancer

The photos were taken at the Hyōkeikan building of the Tokyo National Museum and at the National Museum of Nature and Science, both located in Ueno Park.

Benning Race Track

A journalist once took a photo of Alice Roosevelt Longworth placing a bet, much to the chagrin of her father Theodore Roosevelt, who suppressed the sale of the photos to the newspapers.

Craigville, Minnesota

One of the photos used in the opening montage / theme song for the television series Cheers (1982–1993) was taken in Craigville in 1937, by photographer Russell Lee of the former Farm Security Administration.

Douglas Webb

As the British film industry went into decline he moved to the Isle of Wight in 1986, where he began to catalogue the photos of Pamela Green taken in the 1960s and '70s.

E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency

Because the company believed the name Stearns was used on the stage more extensively than any other bicycle, they were working on an advertising campaign in 1896 which contained the photos and testimonials of such stars as Olga Nethersole, Loie Fuller, Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter, Cissy Fitzgerald, Richard Mansfield, Robert Hilliard and John Drew, among others.

Elena Filatova

The photos are mostly snapshots of the scenery, but a few show Filatova —usually with Shoei-brand motorcycle gear.

Gilbert Hage

Referring to Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, the photos depict representations of the famous mountains in homes of the Armenian community in Lebanon.

Internet censorship in Hong Kong

In January and February 2008, the Hong Kong Police Force arrested ten people who were accused of obtaining, uploading, or distributing pornographic images after Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG), a multi-billion entertainment company, filed a complaint about the availability of the photos on the Internet.

Jesse Freidin

Within three days of posting the photos online, gossip columnist Perez Hilton found and tweeted them, setting off viral coverage on TV, radio, and websites worldwide.

Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan

Elements of the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, under Captain Carolyn Wood, were responsible for the interrogation of captives in Bagram, before being transferred to Abu Ghraib, where they were to play a role in the abuse recorded in the photos that started to be released in the winter of 2005.

Laughlin Air Force Base

The film from Major Heyser's mission was developed, analyzed and the photos were shown to the United Nations Security Council on October 22, 1962, proving to the world, that offensive missiles were on the island of Cuba.

Live at the Zodiac

The photos found on the sleeve were taken by legendary rock photographer Penny Smith who shot the band during various points on the same UK tour.

Luca Zordan

There have been several exhibitions of the photos from the book, including one at Pacific Place in Hong Kong in June 2009 sponsored by the Australian government, Qantas, Grand Hyatt, and the Swire Group.

Matthew Brimson

When a series of team photographs were taken for the official Wisden almanack, Brimson decided to expose himself for one of the photos.

Naked Rugby League

The photos were taken by the Australian celebrity photographer Pedro Virgil.

The Australian celebrity photographer Pedro Virgil who had taken the photos of the players defended his work saying about the calendar: "It is provocative in the sense that the guys are naked... but in this case it is tasteful," he said.

Nisei Baseball Research Project

The project began on May 4, 1996 at the Fresno Museum as the first exhibit to display the photos, memorabilia, artifacts, and text history of the Nikkei in baseball.

Roxy Miller

The photos are published and Luke and Nick try to remove every copy of the magazine but Mangrove River resident Tug O'Neale (Tristan Bancks) manages to get hold of a copy and after clashing with Roxy at school, he plasters photocopies everywhere.

Two Hats

When Saul sees the photos, he identifies Quinn's contact as Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham), a man Saul knew from 18 years ago who was running classified operations out of Nairobi.

Vele di Scampia

Constructions of a similar appearance, but better kept-up, are Villeneuve-Loubet in France, which are visible in the photos of the French city.

Willard Straight Hall

However, the photos of the students marching out of the Straight carrying rifles and wearing bandoliers made the national news and won a Pulitzer Prize for Associated Press photographer Steve Starr.