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Nose art. Virgin Atlantic nose art on 'Varga Girl', an Airbus A340-600. This particular nose art is used across Virgin Atlantic's fleet, and is officially named the Flying Lady. [ 1] Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage. While begun for practical reasons of identifying ...
Kilroy was here is a meme [ 1] that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers ...
This list of black animated characters lists fictional characters found on television and in motion pictures. The Black people in this list include African American animated characters and other characters of Sub-Saharan African descent or populations characterized by dark skin color (a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania, the southern West Asia, and the Siddi of ...
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Dave Fleischer. [ a][ 6][ 7][ 8] She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She was featured in 90 theatrical cartoons between 1930 and 1939. [ 9]
Pin-up models are usually glamour models, actresses, and fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal, aesthetic display, such as being pinned onto a wall. From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S. [ 1][ 2] The term pin-up refers to drawings, paintings, and photographs of semi-nude women.
Saturday Night Live alum Melanie Hutsell is opening up about her discomfort donning a prosthetic nose to play Blossom’s Mayim Bialik in a 1994 sketch, days after Bialik shared that the spoof ...
An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle. [ 2][ 3][ 4] While some have ascribed the aquiline nose to specific ethnic, racial, or ...
The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell that is considered an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. [2] It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.