In the 11th and 12th centuries the Armenian aristocracy, taking advantage of the decline of the Seljuk state, led a liberation movement of the popular masses. The liberation of Armenia spurred the development of handicrafts, commerce, culture, and science. Prominent Armenian scholars and scientists ...
The White side perceived Jaakko Ilkka as an ancient Finnish freedom fighter, and the Red side as the peasant leader who rebelled against contemporary Finnish aristocracy (Tepora 2018:157). After the civil war, Jaakko Ilkka was one of the historical figures in the Finnish deeper past who was ...
It's easy to say the world wouldn't be where it is today without the significant events that transpired throughout the 20th century. These important historical events, such as World War II, Sputnik, and the invention of the internet, truly shaped our world and paved the way for the 21st...
While for some it signified the hippie trail, for others, for example, those coming from New Zealand, it was a kind of right of passage, referred to as‘the Big OE’, the ‘overseas experience’, which that culture accepts is something that every young person might do in their twenties,...
Now, nearly every man could stock a respectable wardrobe without forking over his whole paycheck - although the wealthiest gentlemen and aristocracy did continue to demand custom tailored garments for superior fit and exclusivity.Learn More Complete Late Victorian Outfits We offer a full line of men...
Great Warships of History: The Greek Trireme: 5th century BC. Our series on the great warships that influenced history focuses here on the trireme. The Lion at the Hot Gates: Thermopylae 480 BC 480 BC. The Battle of Thermopylae Greece is Save By Its Wooden Walls: ...
In another case from Oakland, California, urban archaeological excavations recovered remains of households occupied during the 1890s primarily by African American Pullman car porters working for the Southern Pacific Railway, the “aristocracy of African American railroad workers” (Praetzellis and Praetzel...
Most closely associated with King Louis XIV, the periwig was a highly ornamental symbol of the aristocracy. When Louis XIV donned a peruke, he inadvertantly - or perhaps intentionally - influenced other monarchs and nobles around Europe to do the same. There are two theories as...
since the 3rd century, while the practice apears to have emerged in Europe in medieval times from Venice, in Europe, cormorant fishing is a practice restricted to a leisure activity of the royal courts and the aristocracy (see Marcus Beike’s “The history of cormorant fishing in Europe”)....
So you had a working-class environment where these people are sort of aristocracy in a way within their own community. Prohibition In The US Opened A New Black Market For Alcohol Photo: Unknown Wikimedia Commons Public Domain What Happened: Driven by temperance movements that...