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  2. Matchgirls' strike - Wikipedia

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    Matchgirls' strike. In July 1888, the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant & May match factory in Bow, London, England went on strike. At first, the strikers were protesting the dismissal of a worker after employees had refused a demand from Bryant & May management to repudiate an article on terrible working conditions at the factory.

  3. List of British Vogue cover models - Wikipedia

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    Cover model Photographer January 1960: Lisa Bigelow: Sante Forlano February 1960 (1) Maggi Eckardt: Claude Virgin: February 1960 (2) Lord Snowdon: March 1960 (1) Maggi Eckardt: Claude Virgin: March 1960 (2) Tania Mallet: Norman Parkinson: April 1960: Marie-Lise Grés: Brian Duffy: May 1960: Margaret Brown: Henry Clarke June 1960: Katherine ...

  4. Matchbook - Wikipedia

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    Matchbook cover, World War II, Uncle Sam. A "matchcover", or "matchbook cover", is a thin cardboard covering that folds over match sticks in a "book" or "pack" of matches. Covers have been used as a form of advertising since 1894, two years after they were patented, and since then, have attracted people who enjoy the hobby of collecting.

  5. Bryant & May - Wikipedia

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    Bryant & May was a British match manufacturer, which today only exists as a brand name owned by Swedish Match. The company was formed in the mid-19th century as a dry goods trader, with its first match works, the Bryant & May Factory, located in Bow, London. It later opened other factories in the United Kingdom, Australia, and other parts of ...

  6. Pin-up model - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Lists of Playboy models - Wikipedia

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    Lists of. Playboy. models. This is a list of all the models photographed for Playboy magazine. Not all of the women who have modeled in Playboy have done so in the nude. The list has been split up into several articles by decade of publication. Please see the following articles for names and date of appearance: List of people in Playboy 1953 ...

  8. Here's what the girls from that iconic 2003 teen royalty ...

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    To the genius Lindsay Lohan, the hilarious Raven Symone, and the amazing Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, these girls absolutely ruled our TV and movie screens for years in the early 2000's. Back in ...

  9. The Little Match Girl - Wikipedia

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    The cover art for chapter 43 (vol. 3) of Komi-san wa, Komyushou Desu. features Komi-san dressed up as the little match girl in a snowy street holding a lit match. One Piece cover story from chapter 247 shows former king Wapol, at that point a beggar, selling matches in a snowy street with the subtitles "I'm the little match girl".