French illustrators Édouard-Henri Avril and Achille Devéria were amongst the most prominent of erotic artists during the 19th century, depicting higher levels of society engaging in sexual activity, often in public places.

For hundreds of years, the erotic works of both Marquis de Sade and John Cleland landed the writers in extremely hot water.

Welcome to the Bureau of Land Management(BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site.

Hair pins and brooches have also served functional purposes, being used to secure hair or fix clothes.

For example, enter "giraffe" and you'll get back words like "gazellephant" and "gorilldebeest".

Enter "south america" and "chess" and you'll get back words like "checkuador".

Port Manteaux churns out silly new words when you feed it an idea or two.

Enter a word (or two) above and you'll get back a bunch of portmanteaux created by jamming together words that are conceptually related to your inputs.