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Milo Winter
Winter was a thoroughly resourceful and adaptive illustrator, and embraced new technologies, even later in life. When in 1946, for example, he created illustrations for Houghton Mifflin’s Animal Inn using the scratch board technique – they were an immediate, and great success.
His illustrations covered the whole range of artistic subjects, such as stylised animals, humans, fantasy, adventure and science fiction. They are known for their masterful accuracy, humorous touches, personality, and attention to detail. Winter was best known for his children’s illustrations, but he also created ‘Muragraphs’ – a series of reproductions of twelve historical paintings that he made for local libraries and schools. This was in response to the burgeoning interest in murals, which occurred in the 1930s.
Between 1947 and 1949, he was the art editor of ‘Childcraft Books’, as well as serving as art editor in the film strip division of ‘Silver Burdett Company’.
In his personal life, Winter married a noteworthy sculptress, with whom he
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Pose plastique performer, was a Melbourne chorus girl known as Pansy Montague (though that is unlikely to have been her real name). She first appeared on stage with her two 'sisters’ (this relationship, too, is doubtful) in Dan Barry’s company at Melbourne’s Alexandra Theatre at the turn of the century. Later she was 'one of George Musgrove’s show girls’ – the only one, it was afterwards claimed, who was so well-proportioned that she had no need of padding.
In 1905 she devised a 'most Novel, Unique and Artistic Attraction’ that was to move her out of the chorus-line and make her a headline performer. Using the pseudonym 'The Modern Milo’, she presented a 'Fac-simile of Ancient and Modern Statuary and Sculpture’ in a series of poses plastiques for Harry Rickards’s variety theatres: the Melbourne Opera House in June and July and the Sydney Tivoli Theatre in July and August 1905. Her vital statistics, published to emphasise her resemblance to the original Venus de Milo , gave her age in 1905 as twenty-one (this, once
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British polemicist and political commentator
"Yiannopoulos" redirects here. For the American law professor, see A. N. Yiannopoulos. For other uses, see Giannopoulos.
Milo Yiannopoulos (;[9]néHanrahan; born 18 October 1984)[1][10][11] is a British far-rightpolitical commentator. His speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness.[12][13][14] Yiannopoulos is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.[15]
Yiannopoulos worked for Breitbart from 2014 to 2017. During this time, he rose to prominence as a significant voice in the Gamergate controversy. In July 2016, he was banned from Twitter for online harassment of actress Leslie Jones.[16][17] He was permanently banned from Facebook in 2019.[18][19] According to emails by Yiannopoulos leaked by BuzzFeed News in late 2017, Yiannopoulos solicited white nationalists, such as American Renaissance edit
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