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The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
In the early 2000s, the site Necrobabes hosted images of women pretending to be dead, [10] while the sites Cannibal Café and Gourmet tailored themselves to would-be cannibals. [11] The latter sites gained attention in 2003 when Armin Meiwes , an aspiring cannibal, used the sites to connect with Jürgen Brandes, a man who desired to be eaten ...
November 1917 ad for an Ingersoll "Radiolite" watch, one of the first watches mass marketed in the USA featuring a radium-illuminated dial. Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 [1] and was soon combined with paint to make luminescent paint, which was applied to clocks, airplane instruments, and the like, to be able to read them in the dark.
Talking Pictures TV (TPTV) is a British free-to-air vintage film and nostalgia television channel. It was launched on 26 May 2015 on Sky channel 343, [Note 1] [2] but later also became available on Freeview, Freesat, and Virgin Media.
The top hat, for example, was standard formal wear for upper- and middle-class men. [7] For women, the styles of hats changed over time and were designed to match their outfits. During the early Victorian decades, voluminous skirts held up with crinolines , and then hoop skirts , were the focal point of the silhouette.
Gilt marginalia on the Boxer Codex (c. 1590) with the only known illustration of the pre-colonial Visayan tugbuk and sakra genital piercing from the Philippines. The traditional prehistoric and historic practice of genital piercing is most culturally widespread in Southeast Asia (particularly in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Myanmar), where the insertion of various kinds ...
In Islamic cultures, some men wear a turban-style headdress in emulation of Muhammad who is believed to have worn a black or white turban. [32] [5] [33] [34] [35] It is sometimes called an Imama. The head wraps are worn in different ways and called by different names depending on the region and culture.
Chile, [a] officially the Republic of Chile, [b] is a country in western South America.It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.