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Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose

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Breast Implants - A History of Innovations That Have Made Us Beautiful

Inventing beauty is a history of the innovations that have made us beautiful. In 19 61, a bayler university surgical resident named frank gara sed a plastic blood bag and remarked how much it felt like a woman's breast. Teresa reardon says silican had been popular for some time because of its unique qualities. The silicone came on the scene really in an underground way. Japanese prostitutes in the post war era, catering to occupying american troops, felt that larger western style breasts would get more clients. Women were just having silicone enjected into their breasts in sort of back room procedures. And those procedures had some potentially nasty side effects. There were cases of a horrible new disease called

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