The Swimming Hole (also known as Swimming and The Old Swimming Hole) is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Goodrich...
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A swimming hole is a place in a river, stream, creek, spring, or similar natural body of water, which is large enough and deep enough for a person to...
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swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is...
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Rota, Northern Mariana Islands (category Islands of the Northern Mariana Islands)
noted tourist and natural wonder is the "swimming hole", which is small naturally formed pool of sea water by the coast. Rota is 12.3 miles (19.8 km)...
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Doc Holliday (category Gunslingers of the American Old West)
Negroes in swimming in a part of the Withlacoochee River that "Doc" and his friends had cleared to be used as their swimming hole. The presence of the Negroes...
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time alone together. However, they later give in and meet at a local swimming hole. After their swim, they enter a cave to get warm and begin kissing....
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Tad's Swimming Hole is a 1918 American silent short comedy film directed by King Vidor. It was the fourth of a series of twenty films funded by Judge Willis...
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Thomas The Swimming Hole (1885): The Independent's Great Art series". The Independent. Retrieved January 6, 2009. Adams, Henry. Eakins Revealed: The Secret...
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deeper pool, or "swimming hole". In 2010, Cummins Falls was named "Tenth Best Swimming Hole in America" by Travel + Leisure magazine. The falls, on land...
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Most of the site, apart from the picnic and play areas adjacent to the main swimming hole, is covered by dense tropical rainforest. It lies in the foothills...
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& Campground, was themed as a rustic, old-fashioned swimming hole. Opening on June 20, 1976, the park closed indefinitely on November 2, 2001. On January...
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Thomas Eakins (category Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni)
to Eakins. The Swimming Hole (1884–85) features Eakins' finest studies of the nude, in his most successfully constructed outdoor picture. The figures are...
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camp locations to be the first to leave for home. The game board depicts spikes on the diving board, an octopus in the swimming hole, and a lover's leap...
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20th century, male nude swimming was associated with a trope of the "old swimming hole" as representing childhood innocence and adult masculinity. In their...
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Blue hole refers to a frequented swimming hole just past Rawley Springs, Virginia situated in the Dry River. The boundaries of the George Washington National...
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State Park. The springs line the sandy bottom of the central portion of the swimming hole, about 25 ft (7.6 m) beneath the water's surface. The pool is home...
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1 m) deep Blue Hole with 9 feet (2.7 m) waterfall, then Sycamore Falls, a "superb swimming hole" at the base of a 12 feet (3.7 m) fall. The trail then passes...
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known as Paradise Cove, Guffey Cove, Guffey Gulch (as the locals know it as) is a swimming hole and cliff diving spot on Four Mile Creek about ten miles...
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was created by damming Mill Creek. Dove Lake was the setting of the 1885 painting The Swimming Hole by Thomas Eakins. Dove Lake is on a privately owned...
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allowed. One way that the hole is maintained at regular ice swimming places is with a pump that forces the water to circulate under the hole, preventing ice...
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and swimming hole in Gladstone, Oregon, United States. The park has been known for hosting summer recreation, as well as for diving and swimming accidents...
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tourist attraction and swimming venue, and one of the most popular dive destinations in the US for scuba diving and training. The Blue Hole is an artesian well...
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A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities...
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The Bogey Hole was temporarily closed in September 2003 after Council noticed a number of boulders had crashed 20m from the cliff into the swimming hole...
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Austin, Texas (redirect from Live music capital of the world)
swimming holes. These include Deep Eddy Pool, Texas' oldest human-made swimming pool, and Barton Springs Pool, the nation's largest natural swimming pool...
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is 72 °F year round. The springs are full of bass, turtles, and blue crabs. Although alligators inhabit the area, the swimming hole is safe and free from...
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Blue Hole is circular and about 70 feet (21 m) across. In the 1930s, the Blue Hole was a popular party and swimming spot. A wooden footbridge over the Great...
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the site of Williams Ranch, on which is the swimming hole that the Sleepy Lagoon Murder of José Díaz took place in 1942. The Sleepy Lagoon swimming hole...
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Arcadia (painting) (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
swimming and relaxing on the shore of Dove Lake for the painting The Swimming Hole (1884-85). Eakins's models for Arcadia were his former student and...
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Deep Eddy Pool (category Swimming venues in Austin, Texas)
Administration. The pool began as a swimming hole in the Colorado River, became a resort in the 1920s, and is today a popular swimming pool operated by the City...
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