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America's Forgotten Pin-Up Girl Word of the day: Zaftig /zäftig/ adjective: (of a woman) Having a full, rounded figure; plump. Meet Hilda, the creation of illustrator Duane Bryers and pin-up art’s best kept secret. Voluptuous in all the right places, a little clumsy but not at all shy about her figure, Hilda was one of the only atypical plus-sized pin-up queens to grace the pages of American calendars from the 1950s up until the early 1980s, and achieved moderate notoriety in the 1960s. “She’s a creation out of my head. 10 Freaking Creepy Japanese Urban Legends Japan, believe it or not, is a very, very dark and scary place… A lot of Japanese urban legends basically say this: Don’t ever freakin’ travel alone. They also have a fascination with the bathroom. Is it because we let loose in it? Lose a part of ourselves?
Books of Cities Infographic on Behance Infographic Assignment. Florida Atlantic University Spring 2013 Professor: Jeane Cooper The goal of this assignment was to create an easily understandable infographic about any interesting topic. Books of Cities measures the quantity of books, written in the English language, that refers to 10 major cities in the world between 1800 and 2000.
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