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Maps are typically sober tools, designed to get you from point A to point B without plunging into a river or wandering into a field of...

In 1920s Paris, Yva Richard was more than just a lingerie boutique — it was the playground of Nativa Richard and her husband, offering daring leather, latex, and fetish designs that shocked polite society. Their flamboyant creations gave the city a kinky edge and left a lasting mark on fetish fashion.

Proposed by the founder of the Pan-European Movement in the 1920s, this map was designed as a solution to any one countries dominance post World War 1 and also an aid to mix old nations and ensure old rivalries dissolved. The European Union would be split into 24 artificially created constituent "slice" nations. The propasal of a new European map wasn't an official Austrian government proposal but rather a concept created by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, a prominent Austri