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Before making Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone spent months watching classic Westerns and rebuilding the genre from memory. The result was a slow, mythic film about the end of the frontier. Here is the remarkable story behind its making.

In 1953, Bettie Page posed for a magazine article explaining the confusing striptease laws across different US states. Photographed by Nick de Morgoli, the feature served as a surprisingly practical guide for travelling burlesque performers.

Electric cars feel like a thoroughly modern development, quietly gliding through city streets with an efficiency that would have seemed improbable not long ago. Yet more than eighty years before today’s EV boom, one French designer was already imagining a compact electric future. His solution did not resemble anything on the road. It looked like an egg. The L’Oeuf Electrique was created in the early 1940s by industrial designer Paul Arzens, and it remains one of the most unu