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The Shaved Woman of Chartres (French: La Tondue de Chartres) is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Chartres on 16 August 1944. This picture was first published in Life magazine and became iconic of the épuration sauvage (wild purge) enacted after the liberation of France and the severe punishment imposed on the French women ...
A woman's head is shaved as punishment for collaboration horizontale.Montélimar area, August 1944.. Horizontal collaboration (French: Collaboration horizontale, collaboration féminine or collaboration sentimentale) referred to the romantic or sexual relationship many women in France had or allegedly had with members of the German occupation forces after the Fall of France in 1940.
However, both sides of the war scalped enemy corpses. The September 13, 1779 journal entry of American Lieutenant William Barton recounted how U.S. troops scalped Native dead during the Sullivan Expedition. [47] British-allied Iroquois also practiced scalping. The most famous case was that of Jane McCrea, whose fiancé was a Loyalist officer ...
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As a bald Black woman who also works in media, and who willingly shaved her head (as Symone did) 11 years ago, I can’t help but celebrate this as a major accomplishment for the host and a ...
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Some Hindu and most Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads upon entering their order, and Buddhist monks and nuns in Korea have their heads shaved every 15 days. [1] Muslim men have the choice of shaving their heads after performing the Umrah and Hajj, following the tradition of committing to Allah, but are not required to keep it ...
Moore is viewed as a pioneer for equal salary for women in Hollywood. [147] [148] [149] She was paid $12.5 million for her role in Striptease, which was more money than any other woman in Hollywood had ever been offered at the time. [150] [151] Producers for Striptease and G.I. Jane got into a bidding war to see who could get Moore to film first.