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The latter imposed some limitations that meant the site was bound to have a finite lifespan. No website has unlimited file storage space for the pictures it features. This one is now getting close to full up. The only ways around this would be either to free up space by deleting a ...
“Women are still very much concerned about their nipples showing through. American women don’t like that.” Pat tells of a Warner’s model demonstrating the stretch bra, who ended up by wearing one over another for propriety’s sake, when it was being photographed, so her nipples wouldn...
196 more fighting the Filipino rebels. The toll for WWI was 116,516; WWII cost 405,399; Korea killed 36,516 of our best; Vietnam wasted 58,209 more; the Gulf war ended 294 American lives; our conquest of Iraq cost us 4,497, and the eternal and pointless Afghan War has killed 2,...
It was just over seven years ago when Batman and Superman graced East Lansing with their presence. Do you remember when they filmed at the Broad Art Museum?
work, the one he had refused to abandon in the mountains. “Seen a black suitcase?” they would ask. “Got any old typescripts?” No. There was muddle and confusion surrounding Benjamin’s death; nobody is really sure where the body is buried, never mind where the man’s luggage ...
Germany sought to break up the French-Russian alliance and was fully prepared to take the risk that this would bring about a major war. Some in the German elite welcomed the prospect of beginning an expansionist war of conquest. The response of Russia, France and later Britain were reactive...
Chanel marketed it immediately, and it was cleared off the shelves once the holidays came around. 1922: Pogo stick W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency // Getty Images 1922: Pogo stick The pogo stick was invented in 1919 by Russian immigrant George B. Hansburg, and by 1922 pogo sticks ...
“Little Russia”; an ethnic Russian was made commander of Cossack troops, the independent Kyivan Church abolished and the “indivisibility” of the two nations achieved by force rather than consent. But Voltaire, an admirer of Mazepa, nonetheless noticed, in 1731, that “Ukraine has always ...