Naturism, or nudism, is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating, and defending personal and social nudity, most but not all of which takes place on private property. The term may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family, or social nudism.[1] Naturism
Naturism may take a number of forms. It may be practiced individually, within a family, socially, or in public
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The Woodstock
Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock— was a music festival in the United States in 1969
1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Scheduled for August 15–17 on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern New York State, northwest of New York City, it ran over to Monday, August 18
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This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland. The city has become known for its festivals since the establishment in 1947 of the Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which runs alongside it. The latter is the largest event of its kind in the world. The term Edinburgh
Edinburgh Festival is commonly heard, but strictly speaking it is a misnomer. There is no single Edinburgh
Edinburgh Festival. Typically, when people use the phrase, they are thinking of the largest individual festival, the Fringe. Some may also use it as shorthand for the Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival. Largely, the usage arises from confusion. The city's festivals are regarded by many visitors as part of the same event, even though they are distinct events put on by different, unrelated organisations
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Nambassa
Nambassa was a series of hippie-conceived festivals held between 1976 and 1981 on large farms around Waihi
Waihi and Waikino
Waikino in New Zealand. They were music, arts and alternatives festivals that focused on peace, love, and an environmentally friendly lifestyle. In addition to popular entertainment, they featured workshops and displays advocating holistic health issues, alternative medicine, clean and sustainable energy, and unadulterated foods. The New Zealand
New Zealand hippie movement was part of an international phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s, heralding a new artistic culture of music, freedom and social revolution where millions of young people across the globe were reacting against old world antecedents and embracing a new hippie ethos
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German Olympic Sports Confederation
German Olympic Sports Confederation (German: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund) (DOSB), was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the Deutscher Sportbund (DSB), and the Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded and recognized as NOC by the IOC. Seated in Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, it represents 89,000 clubs and 27,000,000 members, about a third of the population of Germany.Contents1 Presidential Board 2 Executive Board 3 History and structure 4 Member organisations4.1 16 State-level member organisations 4.2 62 member organisations 4.3 20 specials member organisations5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPresidential Board[edit] DOSB-President is Alfons Hörmann
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German Olympic Sports Confederation
German Olympic Sports Confederation (German: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund) (DOSB), was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the Deutscher Sportbund (DSB), and the Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded and recognized as NOC by the IOC. Seated in Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, it represents 89,000 clubs and 27,000,000 members, about a third of the population of Germany.Contents1 Presidential Board 2 Executive Board 3 History and structure 4 Member organisations4.1 16 State-level member organisations 4.2 62 member organisations 4.3 20 specials member organisations5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPresidential Board[edit] DOSB-President is Alfons Hörmann
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The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom (UK) and the United States
United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world
Western world between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco
San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity. The aggregate movement gained momentum as the Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement continued to grow, and would later become revolutionary with the expansion of the U.S
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A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy)[1][2] is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury
Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco by Herb Caen, a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date".[3][4][5] The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation
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The Roskilde
Roskilde Festival is a Danish music festival held annually south of Roskilde. It is one of the largest music festivals in Europe and the largest in Northern Europe. It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer.[1] In 1972, the festival was taken over by the Roskilde
Roskilde Foundation, which has since run the festival as a non-profit organization for development and support of music, culture and humanism. In 2014, the Roskilde
Roskilde Foundation provided festival participants with the opportunity to nominate and vote upon which organizations should receive funds raised by the festival. The Roskilde
Roskilde Festival was Denmark's first music-oriented festival created for hippies,[2] and today covers more of the mainstream youth from Scandinavia
Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
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Coordinates: 51°N 9°E / 51°N 9°E / 51; 9Federal Republic
Republic of Germany Bundesrepublik Deutschland (German)[a]FlagCoat of armsMotto: "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (de facto) "Unity and Justice and Freedom"Anthem: "Deutschlandlied" (third verse only)[b] "Song of Germany"Location of Germany (dark green) – in Europe (green & dark grey) – in the European Union (green)Location of
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Burning Man
Burning Man is an annual event in the western United States
United States at Black Rock City – a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert
Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Reno. The late summer event is described as an experiment in community and art, influenced by ten main principles: "radical" inclusion, self-reliance, and self-expression, as well as community cooperation, civic responsibility, gifting, decommodification, participation, immediacy, and leaving no trace
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The gymnasium (Greek: gymnasion) in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games. It was also a place for socializing and engaging in intellectual pursuits. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term gymnós meaning "naked". Athletes competed nude, a practice which was said to encourage aesthetic appreciation of the male body, and to be a tribute to the gods. Gymnasia and palestrae (wrestling schools) were under the protection and patronage of Heracles, Hermes
Hermes and, in Athens, Theseus.[1]Contents1 Etymology 2 Organization2.1 Origins, rules, and customs 2.2 Historical development 2.3 Organization in Athens 2.4 Construction3 See also 4 Notes 5 ReferencesEtymology[edit] The word gymnasium is the latinisation of the Greek noun γυμνάσιον (gymnasion), "gymnastic school", in pl
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Robert Thomas "Bob" Francoeur Ph.D., A.C.S. (October 18, 1931 – October 15, 2012) was an American biologist and sexologist.[1]Contents1 Life and career 2 Selected publications 3 References 4 External linksLife and career[edit] Francoeur was born on October 18, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a B.A. in philosophy and English at Sacred Heart College in 1953, a M.A. in Catholic theology at Saint Vincent College
Saint Vincent College in 1957, a M.S. in biology at the University of Detroit
Detroit in 1961, a Ph.D.
Ph.D. in experimental embryology at the University of Delaware
University of Delaware in 1967, and an A.C.S. in sexology at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 1979
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High-context culture and low-context culture are terms used to describe cultures based on how explicit the messages exchanged are and how much the context means in certain situations. These concepts were first introduced by the anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his 1976 book Beyond Culture. According to Hall, messages exchanged in a high-context culture carry implicit meanings with more information than the actually spoken parts, while in low-context cultures, the messages have a clear meaning, with nothing implied beyond the words used.[1] In a higher-context culture, the way words are said is more important than the words themselves, so many things are left unsaid, relying on the context of the moment and the culture as a whole to impart meaning
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Alfred Charles Kinsey (/ˈkɪnzi/; June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University,[1] now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s
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Carl Larsson
Carl Larsson (28 May 1853 – 22 January 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot
Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.Contents1 Biography 2 Paintings 3 Legacy 4 Bibliography 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksBiography[edit]Self-Portrait in the new studioLarsson was born on 28 May 1853 in the old town of Stockholm, at 78 Prästgatan.[1] His parents were extremely poor, and his childhood was not happy. Renate Puvogel, in her book Larsson, gives detailed information about Carl's life: "His mother was thrown out of the house, together with Carl and his brother Johan; after enduring a series of temporary dwellings, the family moved into Grev Magnigränd No. 7 (later No
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