Swimsuit - Women's swimsuit.
monokini- a term used for different styles of one-piece swimsuits inspired by the bikini style. Most commonly, a monokini is a bikini bottom without the corresponding top, worn by women, that leaves the breasts bare. Sling bikinis are sometimes, though not often, referred to as monokinis.
sling bikinis provide as little coverage (or as much exposure) as a bikini. Usually, it is worn like a bikini bottom with the side straps extending upwards to cover the breasts ...
By the time George died in 1940, Henry had begun to reject Augusta's view of the world. He had even taken to bad-mouthing her within earshot of his mortified brother. In March 1944, the brothers found themselves in the middle of a brush fire on the farm. When Gein ran to get the police, he told them he had lost sight of Henry, but then led them directly to his brother's corpse. Although there was evidence Henry had suffered blunt trauma to the head, police deci ...
Ed Gein - Films.
Ed Gein's crimes became widely known after Robert Bloch's novel Psycho was released in 1959, followed a year later by Alfred Hitchcock's seminal film adaptation; Gein was widely believed to be the basis for main character Norman Bates (Bloch later denied this in an interview.) Also, the crimes largely inspired Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Alan Ormsby's Deranged, as well as parts of Thomas Harris' novels The Silence of the Lambs (in the form of th ...
Ed Gein was born to George P. Gein (1873-1940) and Augusta T. Gein (1878-1945) on August 27, 1906, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He also had a brother, Henry G. Gein (1902-1944). His father was a violent man who was frequently unemployed, usually spending his days brooding on the front porch and consuming liquor. He rejected his violent, aimless father, as did his older brother and especially Augusta, who treated him like a nonentity. Despite her deep contempt for her husband, the atrophic marriage persisted. Divorce was not an option, due to the ...
In the 1980s, with the help of pop culture and MTV, breakdancing made its way from the suburbs to the rest of the world as a new cultural phenomenon. Musicians such as Michael Jackson popularized much of the breakdancing style in their music videos. Movies such as Flashdance, Wild Style, Beat Street, Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo also contributed to breakdancing's growing appeal. Today, many b-boys and former breakers are disappointed by the media hype that watered the dance down into money and overfocus on power moves.
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For the breakdancer, fashion is an important aspect of their identity. Many breakdancers in the 1980s dressed wearing Adidas shoes with thick laces. Some b-boys that are extremely serious match their hat, shirt, and shoes. This style is to show uniform, and is supposedly a threat to the competitor. They also wore nylon tracksuits which were functional as well as fashionable. The slick surface allowed the breakdancer to slide on the floor much easier than if she or he had been wearing a cotton shirt. Also, the popular image of the original breakdancer always involved a public performance on the street ...
A brassiere (from French, lit: arm-holder) or bra is an item of women's underwear consisting of two cups that totally or partially cover the breasts for support and modesty.
Being topless is the state of having bare breasts.
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These forms are variants and sub-styles evolved from, or to be used with the seven main lightsaber forms. They are founded on the basic principles of combat and survival, or were developed for own personal use.
Lightsaber combat - Form VIII: Sokan.
Developed by the ancient Jedi Knights during the Great Sith War, Sokan combined tactics that allowed for evasion and mobility with the kinetic motions of Form IV combat. Sokan involved swift strokes of the lightsaber, which were aimed towards the opponent's vita ...
In July 2002, a Nigerian woman arrived in the UK from Germany, claiming to have fled from a Yoruban cult that practised ritual murders. She claimed that they attempted to kill her son, and that she knew Adam was murdered in London by his parents. Although she later denied this, she was DNA tested but found not to be Adam's murderer. However, police searching her flat found orange shorts with the same clothing label as those found on Adam.
Surveillance of the woman's associates brought the police to another Nigerian, a man named Kingsl ...
Tsavong Lah was Warmaster of the Yuuzhan Vong during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. He inherited the post from his father, a rarity, as Warmasters tend to die in combat. He was a deadly enemy of Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order, even offering to halt the campaign if the New Republic surrendered the Jedi to him, and he specifically requested Jacen Solo alive, after Solo nearly killed him in the Battle of Duro. He spearheaded many of the Yuuzhan Vong's camp ...
Adam's bones were also analysed to see if it could determine his geographical origins. As everything a person eats bears the trace of the soil of where it was grown or reared, soil samples were compared to places around the world. Scientists determined from this that Adam originated in the Yoruban Plateau in Nigeria, Africa.
Metropolitan police travelled to Nigeria and launched a campaign to track Adam's parents. Despite visiting primary schools and looking at reported ...
All ten forms of lightsaber combat utilize these ancient terms used by the Jedi for describing the objectives, maneuvers to use, and the various outcomes that could arise out of a fight involving lightsabers as weapons.
Lightsaber combat - Marks of contact.
The term cho mai is used to describe the action of cutting off an opponent's weapon hand. This move shows that the Jedi using it has the honor to cause the opponent minimal physical damage; it also shows the skill and mastery of th ...
Unlike most martial arts involving a weapon, lightsaber combat is an art that is utilized before the weapon is ever drawn and ignited. This is due to the philosophy that a Jedi must only draw his weapon as a final recourse. A Jedi must decide on what situations require the application of deadly force, since the lightsaber is one of the deadliest weapons ever constructed.
Lightsaber combat - Training.
Lightsaber training begins very young, generally before a padawan has been taken by a knight or master as an apprentice. The master swordsmen at the Jedi Temple teach classes of padawan ...
Since its first inception breakdancing has provided a youth culture, originating from violent urban street gangs. Today however, breakdancing culture is remarkably constructive with a character somewhere in between those of dancers and athletes. Since acceptance and involvement centers around dance skills, breakdancing culture is unusually free of the common race, gender and age subculture boundaries. Social interaction centers around practice and performance, which are occasionally intertwined because of its improvisational style. While fea ...
Contrary to popular belief, b-boys do not only break to hip hop. It is very common to see b-boys breaking to funk and soul tracks. Whatever genre it is, most of the songs popular for breaking are from the 1980s. Modern mainstream hip hop, through its changes, is generally not as good for breaking as tunes from when breaking had its peak popularity.
Music is a very important thing to a b-boy. One could argue that the knowledge of music is almost as important as the ability to dance to it. Skilled b-boys are expected to have almost a tr ...
Sam Fisher is a veteran of the CIA Directorate of Operations and of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 3. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 170 pounds (77 kg), usually has a rough-shave, and has brown hair and green eyes. He is an operative of Third Echelon, a secretive division of the National Security Agency. Fisher is extremely agile and an expert in the art of stealth. Fisher was the first person to be recruited as a field operative, of the "Splinter Cell" program for Third Echelon. He works alone in the field - ...
Lead character artist Martin Caya established in early interviews about the game that during his career Fisher had served in Afghanistan, where he had an experience in which he was forced to hide under dead bodies in order to avoid being killed. Caya also established that Fisher had served in East Germany and in "other Soviet satellite countries leading up to the collapse of the USSR."
In a conversation with Anna Grimsdottir in Chaos Theory he tells her that during 1989 he spent most of the year sleeping in a ditch outside of Baghdad. Anna relates that it was a bad year for her too, as she wa ...
Swimsuits are generally designed to cover at least the genitalia. In some cultures, women's swimsuits do not cover the breasts, though in most western countries this is not the norm; for pre-pubescent girls, however, it is considered more acceptable. Swimming without a bathing suit is a form of nudism; special nude beaches may be reserved for nude sunbathing and swimming. Swimming in the nude is also known by the slang term skinny-dipping.
Men's swimsuit styles tend to be shorts, trunks, boardshorts, jammer ...
Trebuchets were used almost all over Europe, in great parts of the Mediterranean and in Asia. It is believed that the first trebuchets were used in China as early as in the 5th century BC. From there this technology spread westwards and reached the Arab countries through Persia and Byzantium.The first trebuchets - or the art of building trebuchets - arrived in the Nordic countries by way of Northern Germany, where engines of war are regularly mentioned in the books of the Hanseatic cities. There is some doubt as to the exact period in which ...
Trebuchets were first used in Italy at the end of the 12th century, and were introduced to England in 1216 during the Siege of Dover.
Due to the popularity of gunpowder, the trebuchet lost its place as the siege engine of choice to the cannon. The most recently recorded military use may be by Hernán Cortés, at the 1521 siege of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Accounts of the attack note that its use was motivated by the limited supply of gunpowder. Accounts are not definitive as to whether it was a trebuchet or a catapult which was actually built. Regardless, the attack was reportedly unsuccessful: the device's first projectile landed on ...
A gruff and no-nonsense individual, Fisher has little patience for government bureaucracy or political manuevering. A political realist, Fisher maintains a cynical and sarcastic sense of humor about the covert, illegal, and often morally ambiguous nature of his work. At the same time, he is highly loyal and a staunch believer in the American ideals his work ultimately protects; he will follow orders even if he finds them disagreeable or inconvenient to his mission, and he is quickly angered by the casual slaughter of Americans ...
Swimsuits are generally designed to cover at least the genitalia. Men's swimsuit styles tend to be shorts, trunks, boardshorts, jammers, speedo-style briefs, thongs, or cut-off jeans. Women's swimsuits are generally either one-piece swimsuits, bikinis, or thongs.
The monokini, a style of swimsuit that most often takes the form of a bikini bottom without the corresponding top, leaves a woman's breasts uncovered. Monokinis are quite common in many places throughout South America and Europe, though due to particularly stringent taboos th ...
