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84Celebrities ~ Famous People From St. Louis, Missouri
When you think of St Louis, does your mind go immediately to sports, such as the first U.S. Olympic games in 1904, or the St. Louis Cardinals? Maybe your first thought is its importance in U.S. history; the Gateway Arch or the Mississippi River....
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75Your Fairy Godfather’s Guide to Christina Aguilera and Her Candyman
Your fairy godfather notices you there on the other side of the online divide, looking so bleak because of life’s tribulations. But darling, remember that it’s all a point of view. Even at the worst of times, your mortal goblet can still be half full of magical goodies. Case in point: the fabulous Christina Aguilera and her rendition of Candyman. Click it!
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87Famous Hollywood Pin Up Girls of The 1940's and 1950's
Pin Up Girls gave the GIs of WWII something to dream about and a reason to come home. The ever increasing popularity of the movies in the early 40's kept them well supplied with pictures of a multitude of young starlets to hang up in their lockers
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85Western Standards of Beauty: An Illustrated Timeline
This timeline is an illustrated journey through the last 600 years, from the portraits of the European Renaissance to red-carpet photos of modern celebrities.
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8340's Poster Girls: Sex Symbols of WW2
Poster girls or pin-up girls represent a feminine ideal in the popular culture of a particular period. Although the practice of selling blown-pictures of attractive women dates back to to the 1890's, it really reached it's zenith in the 1940's during WW2 when soldiers, seperated from their wives and girlfriends desired some female company and would pin the posters inside their lockers or on the walls of the barracks.
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82Beautiful Legs
Legs can get you where you want to go in many ways. But what constitutes “great legs”? This hub takes a sociological look at legs; analyzing some of the many shapes, sizes, stigmas and subjectivity of our lower extremities.
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73Vintage Pin up Girls
The term pin up girl was coined in the 1940s, but it had its beginnings much earlier. Pin up models symbolize the era in which they became famous and their pictures became sensational. The word "pin up" came from calendars, which people would pin up...
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71Tattoo Ideas: Pin Up Girls
Beginning in Europe in 1941, a pin-up girl was a glamour model or actress whose image was mass produced for use in calendars or on posters. During World War II, pin-up girls were considered sex symbols by American GIs fighting overseas, their...
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72Learn Pinup Photography
My obsession with pin up photography started accidentally. In the early 1980s, while spending summers at my grandparent's house, I had a room with a cable-connected TV and, instead of sleeping late at...
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78History Of The Pin-Up Girl
Originating in the 1890s, pin up girls became very popular in the 1930s when the image of beautiful women began to flourish.
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