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Kate Young decrypts formal dressing in her new book.

Natalie Portman, 2004

Natalie Portman, "The Other Boleyn Girl", movie, 2008.

There’s a saying, “In the Middle Ages, women were trying to keep the balance between the pedestal and the sewage ditch.” On the one hand, women, even the most noble ones, were not always considered to be full-fledged people, but on the other hand, they were respected and loved. Many people are sure that the women that lived in the Middle Ages had lives similar to those that house plants have, but this is not entirely true. Women hunted, fought, and wrote poems and medical texts.

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People say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and depends on many factors; for example, not every attractive person was considered beautiful in the past. However, a few people online voted the most beautiful famous women of recent times. We present you, then, the top twenty of the ranking, and we also tell you a word about them.