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While the two-piece swimsuit as a design existed in classical antiquity, [6] the modern design first attracted public notice in Paris on July 5, 1946. [7]Operation Crossroads was a nuclear test series at the Bikini Atoll, and the inspiration for the naming of two French swimsuit designs at the time, including the bikini.
An avatar in the virtual world Second Life A Twitter post, with the user's profile picture. In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user, the user's character, or persona.
The mangaka in this period transformed the writing and drawing style within the genre, thereby creating a space for women artists in manga. [19] The artists broadened the content of shoujo manga, adding science fiction, historical, and dramatic elements that changed how readers consumed the genre. [19]
Amy Cuddy demonstrating her theory of "power posing" with a photo of the comic-book superhero Wonder Woman. Power posing is a controversial self-improvement technique or "life hack" in which people stand in a posture that they mentally associate with being powerful, in the hope of feeling more confident and behaving more assertively.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (also known as Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass or Bonaparte Crossing the Alps; listed as Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand Saint-Bernard) is a series of five oil on canvas equestrian portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805.
Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid.The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet.
Gotham City (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ θ əm / GOTH-əm), or simply Gotham, is a fictional city in the Northeastern United States that serves as the primary city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
[10] [11] The photomontagist John Heartfield regularly depicted Hitler in absurd ways in his anti-Nazi poster designs. After the Nazis came to national power in January 1933, Hitler was mostly depicted as a god-like figure, loved and respected by the German people, as shown for example in the Leni Riefenstahl propaganda film Triumph of the Will ...