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Although navel exposure has become a recent trend in fashion in Japan, annual Heso Matsuri ("belly button festivals") [246] have been held in Japan since the late 1960s. The tradition of the Hokkaido Heso Odori ("belly button dance") began in 1968. [247] Dancers make their heso ("belly button") into a face, using paint, special costumes, and ...
"Midriff" is a very old term in the English language, coming into use before 1000 AD. [1]In Old English it was written as "midhrif", with the old word "hrif" literally meaning stomach; [2] in Middle English, it was "mydryf ". [1]
Belly dancers often have navel piercings or insert sequins into their navels to make it look attractive when they perform. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Not only them, many young everyday women also have them to add a charm to their navels. [ 45 ]
Typically, it takes somewhere between 3 to 6 months for a belly button piercing to heal completely. At 4 to 6 weeks, which Kelly calls the “downsize” period, the jewelry could be switched out ...
On its face, the r/piracy subreddit is an online forum for discussing the topic of digital piracy, but it can lead to the sharing of illegal content. Westend61/Getty Images
The belly button is unique to each individual due to it being a scar, and various general forms have been classified by medical practitioners. [6] [7] [further explanation needed] Outie: A navel consisting of the umbilical tip protruding past the periumbilical skin is an outie. Essentially any navel which is not concave.
Like most people, pirates "were creatures of incentives." [33]: 195 Piracy allowed a crew to benefit from "every penny of its ship's ill-gotten booty." [33]: 13 One's share of the plunder was directly proportionate to a crewman's job aboard the ship, and was outlined in the ship's articles. If a pirate were to take more than his share, hide in ...
Piracy usually excludes crimes committed by the perpetrator on their own vessel (e.g. theft), as well as privateering, which implies authorization by a state government. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of a number of states.