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Casquette girl. Contemporary engraving depicting the departure of "comfort girls" to the New World. A casquette girl ( French: fille à la cassette) but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, [1] was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. [2] [3] The name derives from the small chests ...
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
After 1100 BC, Greeks began to bury their dead in individual graves rather than group tombs. Athens, however, was a major exception; the Athenians normally cremated their dead and placed their ashes in an urn. [4] During the early Archaic period, Greek cemeteries became larger, but grave goods decreased.
Roman funerary art. Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine ( Metropolitan Museum of Art) [1] The funerary art of ...
Roman statue of a woman with elaborate hairstyle ( Aphrodisias, 2nd century AD) Hairstyle fashion in Rome was ever changing, and particularly in the Roman Imperial Period there were a number of different ways to style hair. As with clothes, there were several hairstyles that were limited to certain people in ancient society.
Wang, who is turning 75 next month, got candid about aging during a Wednesday, May 22, episode of the “Wiser Than Me” podcast. “I dye my hair,” Wang told host Julia Louis-Dreyfus while ...
The album cover's depiction of pubic hair, taken from an issue of Hustler magazine, caused controversy. The image was replaced with a black background cover which blacked out the hair. Blind Faith – Blind Faith (1969) The cover features a topless pubescent girl, holding in her hands a silver space ship, which some perceived as phallic.
To the genius Lindsay Lohan, the hilarious Raven Symone, and the amazing Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, these girls absolutely ruled our TV and movie screens for years in the early 2000's. Back in ...