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Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City "Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing.
Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is " skinny dipping ". In both British and American English, to swim means "to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body". [ 1 ]
During the era of male nude swimming, it was rarely allowed in girls' classes. In 1947 girls aged 9 to 13 at the Liberty School in Highland Park, Michigan were directed to wear swimsuits by the Superintendent of Schools in response to a protest by mothers to the board of education. Boys in the schools had not worn suits in their classes for ...
Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris, wearing the first bikini at the Piscine Molitor (Miller Swimming Pool) in Paris in 1946. Since the bikini was introduced by the fashion designer Louis Réard it has generated a number of variations, often smaller and more revealing than the original.
Recreation is any human activity done for pleasure (or "play") during leisure time as opposed to those activities that are necessary for survival.Historically, this means that recreation only existed after human society reached the stage where leisure time existed, perhaps during the late stone age (Upper Paleolithic), as shown by the first appearance of cave paintings and musical instruments.
Metsoke Dragot (מצוקי דרגות) Beach by the Dead Sea, located , an oasis where a couple of sweet water springs pour into the DeadThis is a natural beach and there are no facilities, but the sweet water springs can be used for shower after a dip in the Dead Sea.
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In 2006, Flickr was the second most extended site on userscripts.org. [62] Organizr and most of Flickr's other text-editing and tagging interfaces use Ajax, with which most modern browsers are compliant. Images can be posted to the user's photostream via email attachments, which enables direct uploads from many smartphones and applications.