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  2. History of removal of leg and underarm hair in the United States

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    [1] [2] [3] In fact, body hair had been viewed as a boon by Caucasian people, [2] and therefore removal was not an imported practice from European settlers into the United States. [1] The removal of armpit and leg hair by American women became a new practice in the early 20th century due to a confluence of multiple factors.

  3. Debrett's - Wikipedia

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    Debrett's Wedding Guide (first published in 2007) was revised in 2017 and published as Debrett's Wedding Handbook. Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage, a book which includes a short history of the family of each titleholder, [6] was previously published roughly every five years. The last printed edition was the 2019 and 150th edition, published in ...

  4. History of nudity - Wikipedia

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    The loss of body hair was a factor in several aspects of human evolution. The ability to dissipate excess body heat through eccrine sweating helped to make possible the dramatic enlargement of the brain, the most temperature-sensitive organ. Nakedness and intelligence also made it necessary to evolve non-verbal signaling mechanisms, such as ...

  5. What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City

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    What Happened on Twenty-third Street. What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City is a 1901 American short film starring A. C. Abadie and Florence Georgie in which a woman's undergarments are accidentally exposed.

  6. Debrett's People of Today - Wikipedia

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    Debrett's People of Today was a reference work published by Debrett's containing biographical details of approximately 25,000 notable people from across the spectrum of British society, a rival to the longer-established Who's Who. Those included were chosen on significance and merit.

  7. Alopecia universalis - Wikipedia

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    Alopecia universalis (AU), also known as alopecia areata universalis, is a medical condition involving the loss of all body hair, including eyebrows, eyelashes, chest hair, armpit hair, and pubic hair. It is the most severe form of alopecia areata (AA). [1]

  8. Body hair - Wikipedia

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    H. Harris, publishing in the British Journal of Dermatology in 1947, wrote Native Americans have the least body hair, Han Chinese people and black people have little body hair, white people have more body hair than black people and Ainu have the most body hair. [18] Anthropologist Arnold Henry Savage Landor described the Ainu as having hairy ...

  9. File:Arms of the Counts de Salis as seen in Debrett's Peerage ...

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