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    Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly (1827–1877) was a French landscape painter. Belly was born at St. Omer, in 1827. He studied under Troyon, and in 1849 visited...
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    going to Mecca (French: Pèlerins allant à La Mecque) is a painting by Léon Belly. It is a very large (160 cm x 242 cm) oil on canvas work. It won a first...
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    Orientalist painting The Dance of the Almeh by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The first known use of the term "belly dance" in English is found in Charles James Wills...
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  • as a "muscle belly") The nickname of the England cricketer Ian Bell Leon-August-Adolphe Belly, a 19th-century French painter Pierre Belly (1738–1814),...
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    future artists. Sirens in modern art Odysseus and the Sirens (1867) by Léon Belly The Siren (1888) by Edward Armitage Ulysses and the Sirens (1891) by John...
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    belly fetish (also known as a stomach fetish, or alvinolagnia) is a partialism in which an individual is sexually attracted to the midriff or belly....
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    A view of Shubra in 1862 by Léon Belly....
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    and 1932, fighting under his ring name Young Perez. He was managed by Leon Bellier. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Perez was born to Sephardic Jewish...
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    Léon Bloy (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ blwa]; 11 July 1846 – 3 November 1917) was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer (or lampoonist), and...
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    crossed the Sinai desert with his friend, the painter Léon Belly. They were then joined by Jean-Léon Gérôme and Auguste Bartholdi; setting out on an expedition...
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