1980s Gallery

Bigfoot film, 1967

Bigfoot film. Still photograph from the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film made in North Carolina, USA, on 20 October 1967. The film was shot by Roger Patterson who was in the woods of North Carolina with Bob Gimlin. The film shows an unidentified bipedal humanoid walking away into the trees. Patterson and Gimlin claimed this was a film of Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch), a legendary ape-like creature, but some experts have declared that the film shows a human in an ape suit

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The City Hotel, Freetown, Sierra Leone

The City Hotel, Sierra Leone, made famous by author Graham Greene. Now demolished. The hotel was first mentioned in Greene's 1936 book Travel Without Maps'. It was then thinly disguised as The Bedford in The Heart of The Matter 1948. The hotel caught fire in 2000, killing several people. It was then demolished Date: circa 1985

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Carl Sagan, US astronomer

Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996), US astronomer and astrochemist. Sagan was a consultant and adviser to NASA, and worked on the Apollo mission, as well as the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo space probes and planetary exploration programs. He proposed theories to explain the high temperature of Venus, the seasonal changes on Mars, and the reddish haze of Titan. He was a prominent sceptic and populariser of science, writing many books on the subject. He also campaigned for nuclear disarmament, and spoke at the conference of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Moscow in the summer of 1987. Photographed in 1987, in Moscow, Russia

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