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  • From Flickr: “Raquel Welch” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Belgian postcard in de ‘De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw’ (The 50 most beautiful women of the century) series by P magazine, no. 36. Photo: Sygma / VPM. American actress Raquel Welch (1940) is one of the icons of the 1960s and 1970s. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966).…

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  • From Flickr: “Jayne Mansfield” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 879. Photo: Teddy Piaz, Paris. Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood’s original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne…

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  • From Flickr: “Jayne Mansfield” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 879. Photo: Teddy Piaz, Paris. Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood’s original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne…

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  • From Flickr: “Jayne Mansfield” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 879. Photo: Teddy Piaz, Paris. Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood’s original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne…

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  • From Flickr: “Jayne Mansfield” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 879. Photo: Teddy Piaz, Paris. Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood’s original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne…

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  • From Flickr: “Jayne Mansfield” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 879. Photo: Teddy Piaz, Paris. Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood’s original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne…

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  • From Flickr: “The ‘goddess of the marshes’ facsimile by Howard Carter” by The Egypt Exploration Society

    "‘The goddess of the marshes’, from Beni Hasan tomb no. 3, of Khnumhotep II, was painted by Carter in 1895. Many of the details reproduced for the published volumes were painted by Carter and Percy Brown in 1895, after the Survey had been put on hold. Carter was still working for the EEF at this…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt