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  2. History of the bicycle - Wikipedia

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    There are several early claims regarding the invention of the bicycle, but many remain unverified. A sketch from around 1500 AD is attributed to Gian Giacomo Caprotti, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, but it was described by Hans-Erhard Lessing in 1998 as a purposeful fraud, a description now generally accepted.

  3. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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    This can be seen in Giovanni Bellini's Naked Young Woman in Front of a Mirror (1515), although the main initiator of this style was Giorgione, who was the first to structure the female nude within a general decorative scheme, as in his frescoes of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (1507–1508, now disappeared), in his Pastoral Concert (1510) or in his ...

  4. Timeline of social nudity - Wikipedia

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    This tradition ends in 393 AD when the Christian Emperor Theodosius I bans the Olympic Games because he considers them pagan. 632 AD: Quran teachings transmitted by Muhammad impose modest dress on men and women. c. 1050 AD: Leofric, Earl of Mercia imposes a heavy tax burden on the citizens of Coventry, England to support his grandiose public ...

  5. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    In modern media, images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide; in other cases it is due to the relative rarity of such images. The use of nudity in advertising tends to be carefully controlled to avoid the impression ...

  6. How Bicycles Changed Women’s Lives - AOL

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  7. Cultural views on the midriff and navel - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...

  8. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

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    From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.

  9. Granny panties are having a moment – and for some celebs ...

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    Drew Barrymore summed up her love for granny panties in general on her talk show in 2023, proclaiming, “The bigger the underwear, the better I feel.”. Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager weighed in ...