This video was brought to my attention by my follower Bob. Thanks, Bob! It shows British soldiers who were involved in the testing of atomic weapons in 1958 being tested for radioactivity. At this time, after World War II, the U.S. and its allies Britain and France as well as the Soviet Union were all developing and testing atomic bombs.
Alexandru Carjaliu is a Romanian bodybuilder and personal trainer. In 2014 he entered his first contest, the Tiger Classic in Bucharest, Romania (above) and won 4th place.
He has entered other bodybuilder contests since, but he has not won any that I know of. But he has posed for some nude photos, like the one above ...
and this one ...
and this one.
Here's a selfie ...
and another selfie.
We end with this gif.
Blake Skjellerup, born in 1985, is a New Zealand speed skater. He competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (above), but did not win a medal. However, he has won five New Zealand national titles.
Blake is gay. He came out in 2010, waiting until after the Olympics to avoid press publicity during the event that might have affected his performance, and to avoid turning off sponsors.
He has also posed for some nude photos. Above, figure skating, not speed skating.
Putting on his skates.
A rear view.
In 2017, he attended the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia, where he was photographed with Australian Caleb Choo.
But someone else has a permanent claim on his heart. In 2015, Blake (right) married his boyriend Saul Carrasco (left) in Hawaii.
Christopher Meloni, born in 1961, is an American actor who, among other roles, played the murderer Chris Keller in the HBO prison drama Oz from 1998 to 2003. All of today's photos and videos are from Oz.
In Oz, he has a gay affair with inmate Tobias Beecher, played by Lee Tergesen. Above, they share a shower, with Meloni in the background and Tergesen in the foreground.
A shower with another inmate. Meloni is at right.
And he gives us a frontal view. This series was on HBO, so it did not have to be as prudish as network TV.
They showed things that would never appear on network TV, like Meloni pissing into a bucket.
We end with the concluding episode of series 5 of Oz, where Meloni, after being convicted of another murder, talks to Sister Pete. He strips (above) and says that all his life his penis has led him where it wanted to go. Now that he wants to share his love with someone, he can't. He is then moved to Death Row.
The Dieux du Stade (Gods of the Stadium) calendar, put out by the Stade Francais rugby team in Paris, got an early reputation as one of the best calendars of naked athletes. Today we look at the 2009 calendar.
The first part of January features Gonzalo Canale.
February first part: Mirco Bergamasco.
February second part: Alexandre Flanquart.
March first part: Alexandre Pellicier.
April second part: Thomas Combezou.
May first part: Steve Meyer.
May second part: Arnaud Marchois.
June first part: Loic Mazieres.
August second part: Guillaume Bousses.
September first part: Pierre Rabadan.
September second part: Juan Martin Berberian.
October first part: Matthieu Nicholas.
October second part: Robins Tchale Watchou.
November first part: Nikola Karabatic.
November second part: Romuald Lauret.
December second part: Jean-Baptiste Peyras.
And the back cover.
In September, 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met in Prague. The IMF is an agency of the United Nations. It acts as a lender of last resort, lending money to member nations having a balance of payments crisis.
The 2000 meeting drew a crowd of 400 activists, criticizing IMF for the harsh requirements it makes when it lends money to poor countries.
Above, the crowd of protesters saying "Balls to the IMF".
One of the protesters got naked. He was from Switzerland and identified himself as Rafael. We see him here by the line of police.
"This is a battle for equal justice worldwide," said Rafael. His painted message says "Fuck you new feudalism."
Here is Rafael with another protester. Eventually the protest turned to violence, with the protesters throwing paving stones and Molotov cocktails at the police, who responded with tear gas and a water cannon.
Note Rafael's imaginative decor criticizing capitalism: a dollar bill stuffed in each ear, and another dollar bill pierced by his penis.
