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Hace 4 horas · From The Art and Popular Culture EncyclopediaJump to: navigation, search"Dr. Maurice Parmelee has recently written a book, The New Gymnosophy, describing the German 'Nacktkultur' movement, ‘which advocates the practice of nudity by both sexes in common for hygienic, social and aesthetic reasons.’ In...
Hace 4 horas · Maya Angelou (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
Hace 4 horas · Margaret Gorman: District of Columbia: Washington: 16 Inter-City Beauty, Amateur: Earned title of "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America" (pageant renamed "Miss America" in 1922) 1922: Sept. 7, 1922 Mary Katherine Campbell: Ohio: Columbus: 16 Only person to win twice; also was 1st runner-up at the 1924 pageant: 1923: Sept. 7, 1923 17 1924 ...
Hace 4 horas · Early years. Mary of Burgundy was born in Brussels at the ducal castle of Coudenberg, to Charles the Bold, then known as the Count of Charolais, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon.Her birth, according to the court chronicler Georges Chastellain, was attended by a clap of thunder ringing from the otherwise clear twilight sky.Her godfather was Louis, Dauphin of France, in exile in Burgundy at that ...
