Hugh Hefner

The Stockbridge Cup, 1870 British, London The second piece is dish designed by Henry Hugh Armstead (British, London 1828–1905 London). For firm of Hancock and Co., London, England. The material of this dish is silver and parcel gilt. The diameter is 28 1/4 in. (71.8 cm)This dish is metal work silver. Also, it is gift of Margaret A. Darrin, 1990. This large dish was the prize winner of the Stockbridge race, run every year, with a silver "cup" for the owner of the winning…

Modernism is a type of Modernism that uses allusions to classic literature and complex writing to make the reader work for the meaning of the poem, along with other characteristics of Modernist poetry like unusual form and shocking content. Many lines in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley are allusions to Greek mythology, Homer’s Odyssey, or are in another language. His true Penelope was Flaubert, He fished by obstinate…

Chicago, with a population of nearly three million people (roughly one percent of the entire nation's inhabitants!) it's not hard to imagine that many of America's most famous people are current residents of Chicago homes or at least once had a home in the Windy City. Here is but a small sampling of some of the more interesting Chicago homes ranging from minutely interesting to intriguingly gruesome. Mae Jemison: First African-American Woman in Space Mae Jemison grew up in Morgan Park, an…

Despite Hugh Hefner’s belief and early support of equality for women, Playboy has been constantly denounced as exploitive of women and their bodies. Are the centerfolds exploitive? Do they lead to casual misogyny? A 1993 study by researchers at The University of Western Ontario examined centerfold models in four hundred thirty issues of Playboy from 1953 to 1990. How explicit are the centerfolds? Playmates were only photographed with genitalia partially visible in six percent of all centerfold…

blondes. But on august 1, four days before her death,she was rehired by fox on a $1million, two-picture deal. She was playboy’s first sweetheart (later playmate) of the month, in 1953. Marilyn had been paid $50 to model for the picture in 1949; hugh hefner…

On August 5, 1962 movie actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was was found lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. The cause of Marilyn Monroe death is an overdose on a drug called barbiturate poisoning, and a psychiatric team did the investigation termed its probable suicide. The investigators say that she drunk then of depression, She have been none for doing pills and drinking alot. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in…

was extremely difficult on my part, because there are a lot of them out there. Like Steve Jobs, who lead Apple to their greatness, and Bill Gates, who created Microsoft , and Al Capone, who ran his underground drug trafficking organization, and Hugh Hefner, who got lucky and got rich on his famous Playboy magazines, and last but not least Donald Trump, who grew his real estate empire. Steve Jobs was a inventor, he and Steve Wozniak created Apple. Steve Jobs was an orphaned kid growing up. He…

After years of steering clear of sexually explicit material in favor of the frisky but softer content favored by Hugh Hefner, Playboy has embraced hardcore pay-per-view programming and has launched the hard porn channels, Spice and Vivid. In the beginning the shift proved beneficial to Playboy as in 2001 the TV production had higher margins (26%) than the magazine ones (2%) and the television business made up 45% of the revenues (Business Week, 2002). Thus, Playboy decided to expand even further…

Tribute and Glamour Lifetime Achievement Award. Her net worth is 3 Million. She is 83 years old. When Gloria was 8 years old her parents divorced. In 1970, Gloria Steinem published a lengthy interview with Hugh Hefner, founder and editor of Playboy Magazine. In that dialogue Steinem debated Hefner on issues such as women's rights, the "sexual revolution," consumerism, and the "Playboy philosophy." Gloria also worked with Cesar Chavez in his efforts on behalf of the United Farm Workers.…

Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein was a man of many hats. The hats were all made up of the arts in which he took taste for. From his cartoons to his folk and country songs. From his very crude and adult work on the stage to doing children's poetry. Shel was not only a man of brilliant talent, but also a bizarre creature unlike of any man. He didn’t start off with talent as a kid however. Shel was born September 25, 1930 in the heart of Chicago, Illinois. As a child he did not possess many…