Historical

4 Bizarre Fashion Fads From History
The medieval and Renaissance period has witnessed some bizarre and strange fashion fads. The female corsets that started as a bodice evolved as a tight-laced garment leading to the health hazards of women. Crinolines became popular for their silhouette but creating several risks to women's life. Chopines (high platformed shoes) were worn as a symbol of wealth but lead to an inelegant gait to the women. Powdered wigs started as a fashion fad but were used to cover male baldness and philandering.
By Kamna Kirti4 years ago in FYI
Studying about Harley
Harley-Davidson Company has been in the cruiser-producing business throughout recent decades. The American-based organization was dispatched in Wisconsin toward the twentieth century as a little promising cruiser maker.
By Nordon4 years ago in FYI
Those Pesky Shifting Vowels
Two of the more interesting classes I had in college were "Linguistics" and "History of the English Language." In Linguistics I learned that a glottal stop is that weird choking noise some people make instead of a "t" sound when they say, "button." When they say it, it usually comes out "BUH-in" with a little catch in the middle, no "t." In History of the English Language, I learned why my friend Jim from California and even our own professor, who was from Pennsylvania, could not tell the difference between the names Don and Dawn. The reason was the Great Vowel Shift. History can tell you approximately when it happened, but there are no definitive reasons why.
By Gene Lass4 years ago in FYI
New Era Begins
While there was much progress on inside security, a continuation of intergovernmental fights over administrative awards continued. In various strategy regions like medical services, schooling, and general ecological assurance, the government state questions were very apparent.
By Lana4 years ago in FYI
Age of Encounter
Cover of Iyoba is one of the portrayals of non-Western craftsmanship that represents the contrasts between the two methodologies. Made in Nigeria roughly in 1550, it depicts the Queen Mother, the mother of Oba lord, and is right now showed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York ("Queen Mother Pendant Mask"). This item has a specific social significance for the Oba public and can be utilized to analyze the convictions and customs of this culture. By and large, it exhibits the abundance and force of the lord.
By Dan4 years ago in FYI
The Adventures of George Rogers Clark Pt. 3
This historical story is a transcript for the We're All Stories Podcast. The episode cane be heard in all it's glory here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1685008/9086461
By Ravenswing4 years ago in FYI
The Battle of Pinkie
This is a transcript for the We're All Stories podcast. This episode can be heard in all its glory here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1685008/9210429
By Ravenswing4 years ago in FYI
How to Transcend the Fundamentals?. Top Story - September 2021.
Knowing when to ignore your experience is the true sign of experience. -JOHN MAEDA On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton, captain of the Endurance, set sail with a crew of twenty-seven men comprising the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Their goal was to complete the first land crossing of the Antarctic. With an expedition of this difficulty, there was no shortage of planning or coordinating involved.
By Explained4 years ago in FYI
Full Skirts, Cinched Waists, and Women’s Rights
It’s February 12, 1947, the world is rebuilding after WWII, and Christian Dior has just debuted his haute couture fashion line full of voluminous skirts, tiny waists, and padded hips. Completely opposite the rationed and practical styles of wartime, Caramel Snow, the editor of Harper’s Bazaar, excitedly described the designer’s debut collection as a “new look”, thus forever naming the collection and sending Dior into fashion fame. While today we look back and admiringly celebrate the beauty and talent behind the couture gowns, the collection would be a catalyst (albeit one of many) for the second wave of feminism nearly a decade after their debut.
By Chelsea Adler4 years ago in FYI
ENGLISH LITERATURE [ C. 450-1500 ]
Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles and riddles. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period.
By Nira Kumari4 years ago in FYI
How to Master the Multidisciplinary Approach?
If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands. - CHARLIE MUNGER
By Explained4 years ago in FYI
The Red River Gorge Ghoul
Red River Gorge is a famous bouldering/climbing hot spot to the southeast of Lexington, KY. I only took up bouldering (climbing without ropes) a little less than a year ago but quickly fell in love with the sport and have progressed in strength and skill to become a solidly intermediate level climber. I will be heading down to the Gorge this weekend and had been doing some research online when I stumbled across a few stories that mentioned a so called “Red River Gorge Ghoul or Ghost.” The stories were all quite similar and suggested that this particular ghoul is the vengeful soul of one Jasper Soderburn or J. Soder, a white supremacist/klansman of ill repute from right around the turn of the century. In addition to his virulent racism this J. Soder dabbled in some fairly abhorrent religious/occult practices and was said to have been almost expelled (or actually expelled) from the Klan because of them.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in FYI