Bombshell (sex symbol) of the blurbs on posters was "Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom." Hollywood soon took up the blonde bombshell, and then, during the late 1940s through the early 1960s, brunette, exotic, and ethnic versions (e.g., Jane Russell, Dorothy Dandridge and Sophia Loren) were also cultivated as complements to, or as satellites of, the blonde bombshell. Some of the movie stars, largely of the 1940s–1960s, referred to as bombshells include Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Diana Dors, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Carroll Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth
HMS Blonde (1819) back in England on 15 March. In 1826, Maria Graham published a book based on Rowland Bloxam's journal. HMS "Blonde" was involved in a number of actions in China during the First Opium War (1839–1842) The first introduction of the top-level bureaucrats of Turkey to the combination of fork and knife occurred at the ball that took place on the British ship "Blonde" in Istanbul after the war of 1828-29. "Blonde" became a receiving ship at Portsmouth in November 1850. In the 1861 Census she was at Portsmouth, attached to the Royal Yacht "Osbourne", and listed as 'her hulk'. She