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The term supermodel (also spelled super-model, super model) refers to a highly-paid fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling. The term was elevated to prominence in the popular culture of the 1990s. Supermodels usually work for top fashion designers and labels. They have multi-million dollar contracts, endorsements and campaigns...

The name Chicas Polar ("Polar Girls") refers to the models who have worked as image in the advertising campaign by Empresas Polar to promote one of their products in Venezuela: Polar Pilsen beer. The campaign was launched for the first time in 2001 and has since then been renewed every year. The billboards alongside the highways in Caracas and other places in the country are very popular, as well as the calendars with pictures shot in landscapes as Choroni Beach or rivers from la Gran Sabana...

A skin-tight garment is a garment that is held to the skin by elastic tension. Many skin-tight garments are also one-piece garments...

The Eternal Flame Falls is a small waterfall in the Shale Creek Preserve, a section of the Chestnut Ridge Park in New York. A small grotto at the waterfall's base emits natural gas, which can be lit to produce a small flame. It was featured in the book Secret Places by Bruce Kershner. In it, Kershner also lays a common local legend—one that claims "elf sightings"—to rest...

Female bodybuilding is the female component of competitive bodybuilding. It began in the late 1970s when women began to take part in bodybuilding competitions. Physique contests for women date, back to at least the 1960s, with contests like the Miss Physique and Miss Americana. However, these early "bodybuilding" contests were really not much more than bikini contests. The first U.S...

Mercedes-Benz will reveal the Ener-G-Force concept vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show. It's an imposing seven-seater dressed in highway-patrol vehicle guise, and it also provides the centerpiece for the German carmaker's entry into Los Angeles Design Challenge...

In military parlance, a gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol, but there are exceptions, such as the USAF's GUU5/P. At one time, land based artillery tubes were called cannon and sea-based naval cannon were called guns...

Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including becoming a danger to themselves and others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense...