The images of ten women, dubbed the " Bikini Girls ", exercising in clothing that would pass as bikinis today are the most replicated mosaic among the 37 million colored tiles at the site.

Bikini is the most widely worn style amongst women worldwide.

Bikini waxing is the epilation of body hair in and around the pubic region, commonly by women, by the use of wax.

Arno women are renowned for their production of the Kili Bag, a popular handwoven handbag / purse, named after another island in the Marshall Islands ( to which the people of Bikini were eventually relocated as a result of the US nuclear tests that were conducted on their home atoll ).

Although the murders of both women were not connected by investigations at the time, they would later earn Sobhraj the nickname of " the Bikini Killer.

Bikini contests can also take place over the Internet by women submitting pictures of themselves in bikinis.

* Bikini contest, a competition where women compete against each other in bikinis

* 1956 – In Operation Redwing ( shot Cherokee ), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

The first major release was a compilation of Olympia-area bands simply titled Kill Rock Stars ( Stars Kill Rock and Rock Stars Kill would follow in the same compilation series ) and featured Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Unwound, Nirvana, The Melvins, as well as singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.

In 2006, the Muslim nation of Pakistan crowned its first Miss Bikini Universe, Mariyah Moten, which later became a controversy worldwide.

The 167 Bikini islanders first learned their fate four days later, on Sunday, February 10, when Navy Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, United States military governor of the Marshall Islands, arrived by seaplane from Kwajalein.

Campaign aides tried to persuade him to avoid questions relating to the topic, but when asked about it at his first interview, he attempted to dispel American " phobias about nuclear weapons " and discussed radioactive land crabs at Bikini atoll.

Numerous reporters from hundreds of papers across the country were covering preparations in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands for testing of the first nuclear bomb after World War II.

The album also featured the first extensive contributions from outside musicians, most notably longtime stage-tech Jerry Busher, who added percussion on a second drum set to several of the album's songs as well as Kathi Wilcox of Bikini Kill and Bridget Cross of Unrest who provided additional backing vocals.

The first two Bikini Kill EPs were released on CD as the appropriately and very literally-titled The C. D.

Hearing of the plight of the Golden Rule, Earle and Barbara were inspired to take their own nonviolent action, and later that year their yacht, the Phoenix of Hiroshima became the first vessel to enter a nuclear test zone in protest when they sailed sixty-five nautical miles into the test area at Bikini Atoll.

In 1966, editor Dick Giordano at Charlton Comics hired him as a comic book artist, where his first assignment was a humorous character called " Miss Bikini Luv " in " Go-Go Comics.

This led to Operation Crossroads, the first atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle.

) But before the bombs could be tested the government first had to find a home for the displaced natives on Bikini.

The first atomic bomb to be detonated at Bikini was code-named " Able ", a bomb similar in most respects to " Fat Man ," which was dropped on Nagasaki.

In 1994 Chainsaw began to release LPs and singles, beginning with the release of The Fakes ( featuring members of Bikini Kill, The Need and Nation of Ulysses ), the Frumpies and the first Team Dresch LP, Personal Best.

There's A Dyke In The Pit features Bikini Kill, Lucy Stoners, 7 Year Bitch and the first song released by Tribe 8, stalwarts of the queercore scene.

Billy " Boredom " Karren was one of the rotating musicians who played with The Go Team, and it was in this band that he and Vail played together for the first time, later collaborating in several other bands like Bikini Kill, The Frumpies, the upallnighters, and Spray Painted Love.

Williams was injured at the February 9, 2006 DSW TV Tapings, but she still managed to participate in the first ever Bikini Contest in DSW.

The creative visual input and influence of advertising and fashion photographer Jorge Parra, who produced and photographed all editorial content for the first five editions of Urbe Bikini, has helped creating this editorial success, an opened the opportunities to a new breed of young photographers in Venezuela.

Fletcher was named Miss Bikini USA before entering Princeton University in 1969, the first year of coeducation.

The first two singles released from the album were ' I Can Speak American ' and ' Bikini Red '.

Included in first prize was a trip to Hollywood and an appearance in Bikini Beach.

He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year.

She started taking roles in such B-movies as Bikini Beach Race and Lethal Cowboy.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

This became evident when Mountbatten had to be reassured that the fission reactions from the Bikini Atoll tests would not spread through the oceans and blow up the planet.

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

* 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.

* 1969 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist ( Bikini ) ( d. 2007 )

These islands, " Los Jardines ," could be Eniwetok or Bikini Atoll.

Project 4. 1 was a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of the Bikini Atoll exposed to radioactive fallout.

For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and Their Islands.

* 1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

Sinatra starred in three teen musicals ( otherwise known as ' beach party ' films ) — For Those Who Think Young ( 1964 ), Get Yourself a College Girl ( 1964 ) and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini ( 1966 ) — the latter of which featured her in a singing role.

Billed as " Love Rock Revolution Girl Style Now ", the concert's lineup included Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, L7, and Mecca Normal.

Bikini Kill's lead singer, Kathleen Hanna, the iconic figure of riot grrrl, moved on to form the art punk group Le Tigre in 1998.

That began to change in 1948 when reports of Bikini Atoll tests were circulated among the Air Force, which made information about the bomb more available to planners and helped to convince them of its strategic capabilities.

** U. S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test ( Castle Bravo ) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

* Bikini, a style of panty with fuller coverage in the back and a higher leg.