April 4, 1953 – Death of King Carol II of Romania in Estoril, Portugal; first buried in the Royal Pantheon of the House of Braganza at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon, Portugal; in 2003, his remains were transferred to the Curtea de Argeş Monastery in Argeş, Rom...
This chapter reviews the history of the so-called Golden Age of piracy, which lasted from ca. 1690 to 1730 and occurred primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Seas. Many pirates during this time had previously been commissioned as privateers or agents of national governments charged...
When Samuel Pepys sampled his first cup of tea in 1660 the ‘China drink’ was an expensive novelty, promoted mainly for its medicinal qualities. At the time of the Restoration, the British imbibed ten times as much coffee as tea. By 1730 that position had reversed and the great British l...
he has lived and worked in Vienna, where he completed a degree in art history. His artistic practice moves fluidly between the fields of drawing, installation, film, and performance.The Carlone Contemporary Seriesshowcases contemporary works in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere...
Canaletto, The Grand Canal with the Scalzi and S. Simeone Piccolo, oil on canvas, 1730s, oil on canvas, 124.5×204.6 cm, National Gallery, London.6 Antonio Visentino, Album, plate 11: view of the Grand Canal from the Carmelitani Scalzi to the Tintore Molin, pen and brown ink. ...
In Turkey, the flower was so popular that Turkish Sultans held annual festivals incorporating half a million blooms. The rule of Ahmed the third from 1703-1730 has been designated by historians as the "Tulip Era". In her book, The Tulip, the Independent's gardening writer Anna Pavord says,...
Alongside the physical damage, psychiatrists have long urged upon the harm reading could also do to your mind. For one thing, it encouraged hypochondria. In his Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730), the aformentioned Bernard Mandeville laid bare the psychopathology of print...
Nearby is the Palazzo Reale(Royal Place) one of the four royal residences in and around Naples used by the Bourbon Kings during their rule of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies (1730-1860): the others were the palaces of Caserta, Capodimonte overlooking Naples, and the third Portici, on the slo...
1650 - 1730 Golden Age of Piracy Driven by high unemployment rates in the poor urban towns in Europe, piracy thrives during this time; cats enjoy living on the poop deck. 2008 Scour Ye Mateys As you post a picture of your cat in his finest bandana, don’t forget to change your Facebo...
Interestingly, ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection have recipes for hearty stews. One of these ancient tablets (from circa 1730 BC), written in Sumerian,mentionsthe Elamite broth (mu elamutum) as a ‘foreign dish’ (zukanda) having ingredients like kurrat (Eg...