When you came into the house you would notice most times that the floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, that's where the saying "dirt poor" came from. The wealthy would have slate floors. That was fine but in the winter they would get slippery when they got ...
Potatoes grew in South America five thousand years ago. But they only became popular in other places two hundred years ago. In the 1500s, the Spanish took the potato from South America to Europe. But the people in Europe did not like this strange vegetable. Some people thought that if you...
Then Japanese teapot-makers moved the handle from the side to the top of the teapots.Te a finally reached Europe in the 1600s, along with the necessary te a sets made in Japan and China. As English teapot-makers began to adapt the te a sets to their country men's tastes, they ...
The palace began life in the early 1500s as the Palais Cardinal, home to Cardinal Richelieu, but became a royal palace after the cardinal bequeathed the building to Louis XIII. It eventually came to Henrietta Anne Stuart who married Phillipe de France, duc d’Orléans. That’s when it becam...
In the 1500s, the Spanish went to South America to look for gold. There, they found people eating potatoes for 7000 years! The Spanish brought the potato back to Europe with them. But people in Europe did not like this strange vegetable 40、. Some people thought that if you ate ...
Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800 2025 pdf epub mobi 用户评价 评分☆☆☆ sprawling comparative history; Sivin's essay is good; Hammond's on Wang Shizhen and Li Shizhen is so off the point >.< 评分☆☆☆ Peter Miller在中西比较上有难得的深度,Bruce Rusk...
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“BYD’s pursuit of the ‘European dream’ continues at a strategically important time when the sales of NEVs begin to surge in key markets across Europe. The timing couldn’t be more perfect,” commented Isbrand Ho, BYD Europe Managing Director. “We are delighted with the feedback we hav...
the Palace Museum since 2005.The Palace Museum was China's imperial(皇帝的) palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties.Since the Qianlong period, many made-in-Europe clocks were introduced to China. People's interest in these foreign machines lasted until the final days of the Qing Dynasty....
EUROPE There have been a few lockdown waves all over Europe since the pandemic started with clubs, bars and restaurants opening and closing on and off. London has all of it's nightclubs open. Some of them are Libertine, Tape, Maddox, Luxx, Reign, Cirque Le Soir, The Box and a few...