Samstag, 10. Januar 2009

Bikini - an island or a sexy swimming-suit?


Both:
A bikini or two-piece is a type of women's swimming-suit with two separate parts, the bra (top) and the panty(brief) leaving the belly uncovered.

But already the Greeks and Romans had such bikinis...!
The modern bikini was invented by a French engineer in 1946.
He named it after the Island of Bikini, an atoll in the Pacific,
where there were nuclear weapon test on July 1, 1946.

So you see: The name Bikini stands for "shock", "explosion", "bomb"!

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