He was then employed in Lille as court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy after John's death in 1425, until he moved to Bruges in 1429 where he lived until his death. He was highly regarded by Philip and undertook a number of diplomatic visits abroad, including to Lisbon in ...
A relief expedition to Orléans early in 1429 was required, and gaining the Dauphin’s approval, Jeanne asked for permission to travel with the army. The Dauphin’s mother-in-law, Yolande of Aragon, confirmed Jeanne’s virginal status, then astutely provided Jeanne with a white horse, gleaming...
Hospital discharge data between 1 July 1998 and 30 June 2004 from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset were used to assess ACSH rates among residents born in eight refugee-source countries, and compare them with the Australia-born average. Rate ratios and 95% confidence levels were used to ...
I was born for it” (Man 60). Men emphasised that their being sexually active was driven by pleasure for themselves. Men also discussed that although their need for sex was still there, they acknowledged some adaptation in their behaviour, such as decreased frequency and increased discretion ...
A temple erected in Tan'gun's honor in 1429 stood in P'yongyang until its destruction during the Korean War. In 1993, North Korea announced the discovery of Tan'gun's tomb and a few remains of his skeleton at a site close to P'yongyang. Some Korean calendars still print the Year ...
Joan of Arc was born around 1412, and famously led the French army to victory against the English in 1429 at Orléans when they were attempting to defeat France during the Hundred Years’ War. John McEnroe “John McEnroe Shankbone 2010 NYC” by david_shankbone is licensed with CC BY 2.0. ...
Hanukkah, was instituted by Judas Maccabeus, to be celebrated annually with mirth and joy as a memorial of the dedication of the altar. The Maccabees succeeded in gaining full independence a few years later, and that is how the Hasmonean State was born. ...
Cohorts born in Chi- na's 1950s and 1960s baby boom are reaching retirement age, with replacement by smaller cohorts born in the 1990s [3]. China's shrinking workforce is occurring at the same time as the need to drive up age-related social care capacity. Comparison of China with the ...
Footnote: Total fertility rate in a specific year is the total number of children that would be born to each woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and give birth to children according to prevailing age-specific fertility rates. ...
All three pictures exist in digital format: two are so-called born-digital photographs (Figures 1 and 2) and one is a digitized version of a drawing originally made on paper with coloured pens and pencils (Figure 3). Access to these archived pictures is, however, limited, and there are ...