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  2. Bathing - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine's Bath in the Park (1785) Astronaut Jack R. Lousma taking a shower in space, 1973. Bathing is the immersion of the body, wholly or partially, usually in water, but often in another medium such as hot air. It is most commonly practised as part of personal cleansing, and less frequently for relaxation ...

  3. Victorian Turkish baths - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian Turkish bath is a type of hot-air bath that originated in Ireland in 1856. It was explicitly identified as such in the 1990s and then named and defined [3] to necessarily distinguish it from the baths which had for centuries, especially in Europe, been loosely, and often incorrectly, called "Turkish" baths.

  4. List of wars: 1800–1899 - Wikipedia

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    This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.

  5. History of nudity - Wikipedia

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    In addition to beaches being segregated by gender, bathing machines were also used to allow people who had changed into bathing attire to enter directly into the water. In England during the 17th to 19th centuries, the clothing of the poor by Christian charity did not extend to those confined to "madhouses" such as Bethlem Royal Hospital ...

  6. List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.

  7. List of conflicts in Europe - Wikipedia

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    1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance – 25,000 killed in action [1] 1722–1723 Russo-Persian War; 1727–1729 Anglo-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action [1] 1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession – 88,000 killed in action [1] 1735–1739 Russo-Ottoman War; 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession – 359,000 killed in action [1]

  8. History of swimwear - Wikipedia

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    Beachwear style were very popular in U.S and Europe, [41] but this fashion originated on the French Riviera, where people was quoted this place as "A sunny place for shady people". [42] Keeping in line with the ultra-feminine look dominated by Dior which brought out his one and only collection of swimwear for the Cole of California in 1955. [ 42 ]

  9. Cannibalism in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Jim Corbett proposed that after major epidemics, when human corpses are easily accessible to predators, there are more cases of man-eating leopards, [12] so removing dead bodies through ritual cannibalism (before the cultural traditions of burying and burning bodies appeared in human history) might have had practical reasons for hominids and ...