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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.
A century after these ad campaigns started, removal of leg and underarm hair by women in the U.S. is tremendously common and lack of removal is taboo in some circles. (Feminists of the 1970s and 1980s explicitly rejected shaving, though. [11]) An estimated 80–99% of American women today remove hair from their bodies.
Anne Hathaway is nominated for an Oscar for her work in Les Miserables, in which she had to chop off all of her hair for the role. That's dedication. Check out other stars who have done the
The archival footage of the war’s major decision makers combined with interviews with the war’s veterans (Americans and Vietnamese) reveal an important, if disturbing, truth: the leaders who ...
Queen Lili'uokalani. Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha of the Kamehameha Dynasty was the last ruling monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.She was arrested and overthrown in a coup d'etat ...
Skinheads USA: Soldiers of the Race War is a 1993 HBO documentary film about a group of white power skinheads involved in the neo-Nazi movement in the southern state of Alabama. It features the white supremacist Bill Riccio, then-leader of the Aryan Youth Front. Other Klan organizations are also featured.
Despite early support for Fidel Castro, [6] Chapelle was an outspoken anti-Communist, and loudly expressed these views at the beginning of the Vietnam War.Her stories in the early 1960s extolled the American military advisors who were already fighting and dying in South Vietnam, and the Sea Swallows, the anticommunist militia led by Father Nguyễn Lạc Hoá.