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In 1971, gay porn went mainstream

AV Club 15 Jun 2026
1971 was the beginning of the Golden Age Of Porn, a window in which blue movies flirted with mainstream acceptance ... gay,” it was a positive mindset in 1971, and it’s reflected in the film.
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In 1971, an engineer chose the @ sign and gave network email its address

The Times of India 11 Jun 2026
Today it is the universal symbol of our digital identity, but it started its journey to worldwide fame with a pragmatic decision made in a network laboratory more than fifty years ago.In 1971, an ...
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Pink Narcissus review: This languorous queer sexual fantasy from 1971 has aged well

The Irish Times 10 Jun 2026
Pink Narcissus.     . Director. None. Starring ... First released in 1971, this languorous sexual fantasy – complete with double exposure, stop motion and other effects – breathes the same air as the experimental work of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger.
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A 1971 experiment flew four atomic clocks around the world on commercial airliners — first ...

SpaceDaily 10 Jun 2026
On 4 October 1971, Hafele, Keating, and four atomic clocks boarded commercial flights heading east from Washington and began an eastward circumnavigation of the Earth ... Relativity had been experimentally confirmed before 1971.
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In August 1971, the Apollo 15 astronauts left a small aluminum figurine and a plaque ...

SpaceDaily 09 Jun 2026
On 2 August 1971, in ... Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov, the Soyuz 11 crew who suffocated in June 1971 when a valve opened during re-entry — only weeks before Apollo 15 launched.
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In 1971, Soviet drilling may have created the burning crater now called the Gates of Hell

The Times of India 07 Jun 2026
Up close, it resembles a wound in the earth ... As the story is often told, it began in the popular 1971 account, when Soviet scientists were exploring the energy-rich desert for natural gas ... The second reaction is historical ... .
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374 Frauen bekennen 1971 im "Stern": "Wir haben abgetrieben!"

NDR 06 Jun 2026
Am 6. Juni 1971 bekennen 374 Frauen im "Stern". "Wir haben abgetrieben!". Die Aktion gilt als Beginn der neuen Frauenbewegung ....
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The Hyperinflation of 1971 at the Kindergarten

Bitcoin Magazine 05 Jun 2026
I’m pretty sure it was 1971, but it could have been 1972. In any case, it was in kindergarten, and I was five years old. Our teachers had set up a system to motivate us kids to behave well ... Misbehave, and they gave you a red one ... a small piece of fabric.
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How one 1971 letter changed everything for America — and gave us Trump

Alternet 05 Jun 2026
America seems to be failing, both at home and around the world. But why? ... it’s the billionaires, stupid ... That backlash movement found its voice with Lewis Powell’s infamous Memo in 1971, and Nixon put Powell on the Supreme Court the following year.
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The “@” symbol that anchors every email address in the world was chosen in 1971 ...

SpaceDaily 04 Jun 2026
In late 1971, a computer engineer named Raymond Tomlinson was working at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on two separate programs for the ARPANET — the experimental computer network that would eventually become the internet.
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In outreach to Bangladesh PM, India hails his father's 1971 address

The Times of India 31 May 2026
India on Saturday recalled the historic radio broadcast of former Bangladesh President Zia-ur-Rahman, in which he, invoking Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, proclaimed the country's independence and ...
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