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  2. Dahomey Amazons - Wikipedia

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    The women soldiers were rigorously trained in pain, endurance and speed. Once training was completed they were given uniforms. [ citation needed ] By the mid-19th century, they numbered between 1,000 and 6,000 women, about a third of the entire Dahomey army, according to reports written by visitors.

  3. Lisa Brice - Wikipedia

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    Brice was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa [8] and studied at Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, graduating in 1990. [9] From 1988—1991 Brice worked as printmaking assistant to artist Sue Williamson. [1] She came to London in 1998 to take up a residency at Gasworks Gallery and later settled in the capital. Her paintings are ...

  4. List of 20th-century women artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.

  5. Blackamoor (decorative arts) - Wikipedia

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    Pair of Italian figures in painted wood, 18th century "Moor with Emerald Cluster" by Balthasar Permoser in the collection of the Grünes Gewölbe. Blackamoor is a type of figure and visual trope in European decorative art, typically found in works from the Early Modern period, depicting a man of sub-Saharan African descent, usually in clothing that suggests high status.

  6. History of cleavage - Wikipedia

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    Anne of Austria, along with female members of her court, was known for wearing very tight bodices and corsets that forced breasts together to make deeper cleavage, very low necklines that exposed breasts almost in entirety above the areolae, and pendants lying on the cleavage to highlight it. [2]

  7. Remembrance Day: Artist’s used tea bag paintings pay ... - AOL

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    An artist has commemorated Remembrance Day by painting poppies and soldiers on to used tea bags to honour those who “sacrificed their lives so we can live freely today”. Caroline West, 50 ...

  8. Art of Burkina Faso - Wikipedia

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    The art of Burkina Faso is the product of a rich cultural history. In part, this is because so few people from Burkina have become Muslim or Christian. [ 1 ] Many of the ancient artistic traditions for which Africa is so well known have been preserved in Burkina Faso because so many people continue to honor the ancestral spirits, and the ...

  9. Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli ...

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    The law permits the military to detain people for 45 days without an arrest warrant, after which they must be transferred to Israel’s formal prison system (IPS), where over 9,000 Palestinians ...