tidbits cross history
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marycatelliNeo-Confucians managed to get Korean royal hunting locked down in the 15th century. Very unsuitable business. Brought the king into contact with all sorts of non-courtiers.
Silver bullets were less popular for dealing with demonic beings such as werewolves than stealing lead from the church roof and melting that down into bullets.
The last monarch in Great Britain to withhold asset to a law was Queen Anne, in 1708, for the Scottish Militia Bill. What happened was that her ministers changed their mind about it and asked her to do that.
Venice had its navy and fought its naval battles, but legally required itself to hire mercenaries for land.
James Monroe, at the age of 18, was a lieutenant during the Christmas attack on Trenton.
In the British potwalloper boroughs, you were a freeman of the borough and could vote if you owned a pot and a fireplace.
The Wampanoag tribe set their boys to learning how to shoot a bow at the age of two.
Much more is known about Egyptian civilization in the Upper Nile region than the Lower Nile, the Delta. Not only does the drier Upper Nile preserve artifacts better than the swampy northern part, it's much easier to excavate there.
At Anne Boleyn's coronation, her fool proclaimed that the men who refused to take off their caps must have scurvy heads and were ashamed to show it.
When the Barbary pirates captured the USS Philadelphia, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a force of volunteers to raid the harbor and burn it down. This was carried out, and Decatur did not loose a single man. Admiral Horatio Nelson called it "the most daring act of the age."
Ships about to leave Venice would make a final stop at Lido for the church of St. Nicholas. One last prayer!
In Britain, a woman was presented at court to begin her Season. She might also be presented again upon marriage, or because she changed her style -- that is, carried a new title. In 1939, more than a third of the women presented at court were being presented again.
All of the tomato's nearest relatives are South American plants, rather than Meso-American. There is plenty of archeological evidence for the domesticated tomato in Meso-American, but none in South America.
Norse grooms prepared for the wedding by the sword ceremony: breaking into a grave in order to retrieve a family sword buried with the dead.
A persistent legend claims that the reason Henry VIII had a new crown made for Anne Boleyn was that a servant of Queen Catherine refused to give up hers.
In Egypt, during the First Intermediate Period, nobles still bragged in their epigraphs about their deeds and their battles and their promotions, as they had before, but they started to brag, as well, that they gave food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty, protected the fatherless, the widow, and the poor.
The Emperor Valentinian forbade marriages between barbarians and Romans. The Visigothic Breviary of Alaric II repeated it in its compilation of Roman law, only this time the intent was the Visigoths trying to keep themselves free of Hispano-Roman brides.
Within half a century of the first English settlements in New England, there were problems owing to the want of timber.
King Sekhemid, of Egypt's Second Dynasty, changed his patron god from Horus to Set.
During the lead-up to the Battle of Chickamauga, Bragg ordered subordinates, on three occasions, to fall on a part of the Union Army separated from the rest, which , and all three, his subordinates disobey his orders for one reason or another.
Anne Boleyn was fiercely set against Princess Mary, insisting that she was no princess but an accursed bastard. She did everything in her power to keep Mary and Henry from ever meeting. When Mary resisted being a Lady rather than a Princess, she lost her household and was consigned to the nursery where Elizabeth was, where the servants were to treat Elizabeth as the superior and to greet any claim from Mary of being a princess by boxing her ears as a cursed bastard. One piece of international diplomacy was that Anne must not refer to Mary as a bastard any more.
During the Bronze Age, Egypt was the great Middle Eastern power. The pharaohs corresponded as equals only with Hittite kings.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States to cover its war debts from the Crimean War.
After Trajan conquered Darcia, the kingdom remained in the Roman empire less than two centuries. Nevertheless, the original language was destroyed and replaced with Latin, which lasted. It's known as Romania to this day.
After the Black Death, to force social structure back into order, people were required to state their "degree or mystery" (or social status) in legal proceedings.
China prized Roman glassware. The Romans had mastered blowing, not just casting, glass, and many pieces of Roman glassware are found in Chinese tombs. (Alas for the balance of payments, not so much as the Romans prized silk.)
Greek aristocrats in the archaic period -- just before classical Greece -- were known as geleontes -- smiling ones. This may explain the "archaic smile" found on so many of their statues.
Henry VIII pardoned a few people under death sentences, but had the practice of not letting it be known until the person was already within moments of death, with the noose about the neck or the like. Consequently, everyone sentenced to death lived with the awareness that there was always a flutter of hope until the very, very last.
In Catal Huyuk, areas about hearths and cooking pots were not decorated, unlike any other part of the houses.
Sumer, having no stone, built its large buildings in brick. The oldest large buildings in Egypt are likewise in brick, and in the same, "recessed brick", style. When they turned to their ample supply of stone, at first they broke it up into brick-sized blocks. Only later did they develop the large stones that mark its later buildings.
As late as 1939, an English debutante gave her coming-out ball from her family home, if she could. There was still a stigma to holding it in a public place. For one thing, it was much harder to gatecrash a private one.
Lee's Maryland campaign (culminating in the Battle of Antietam) was in part in hopes of inspiring pro-succession forces in Maryland and getting it to try to succeed. He found no such sentiment.
Excavations in Egypt have found empty sarcophagi in tombs that appear to have been undisturbed. Thieves would break into a sarcophagus to plunder the corpse, but they would seldom put the heavy top back. The reasons for such burials are unknown.
Jane Seymour, when first sent a letter and a purse of money by Henry VIII, kissed the letter and then did not open it. Then she went to her knees and begged the messenger to tell him that she was a daughter of good and honorable parents, that honor was her greatest treasure, and that she would rather accept money from him on a suitable occasion such as some honorable match.
Ascension Day, the day when Venice married the sea, was the beginning of the sailing season in the Adriatic.
In the Roman Empire, the bandit Bulla Felix robbed the rich, made speeches to captives about proper treatment of slaves and rank-and-file soldiers, and escaped authorities for years -- until one figured out how to catch him through his woman. When a prefect questioned him and asked why he was a bandit, he asked in return why the other man was a prefect.
The colonists who fared to New England often explicitly stated that they were fleeing the wrath and judgment that were to fall on old England. The Atlantic voyage -- often very rough, and sometimes extremely so -- took on religious tones, down to the travelers who spoke of how men ashore to an island by boat and returned with strawberries, gooseberries, and sweet single roses, which were divine gifts. (Most reports of the first sights of New England were disappointed.)
Silver bullets were less popular for dealing with demonic beings such as werewolves than stealing lead from the church roof and melting that down into bullets.
The last monarch in Great Britain to withhold asset to a law was Queen Anne, in 1708, for the Scottish Militia Bill. What happened was that her ministers changed their mind about it and asked her to do that.
Venice had its navy and fought its naval battles, but legally required itself to hire mercenaries for land.
James Monroe, at the age of 18, was a lieutenant during the Christmas attack on Trenton.
In the British potwalloper boroughs, you were a freeman of the borough and could vote if you owned a pot and a fireplace.
The Wampanoag tribe set their boys to learning how to shoot a bow at the age of two.
Much more is known about Egyptian civilization in the Upper Nile region than the Lower Nile, the Delta. Not only does the drier Upper Nile preserve artifacts better than the swampy northern part, it's much easier to excavate there.
At Anne Boleyn's coronation, her fool proclaimed that the men who refused to take off their caps must have scurvy heads and were ashamed to show it.
When the Barbary pirates captured the USS Philadelphia, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a force of volunteers to raid the harbor and burn it down. This was carried out, and Decatur did not loose a single man. Admiral Horatio Nelson called it "the most daring act of the age."
Ships about to leave Venice would make a final stop at Lido for the church of St. Nicholas. One last prayer!
In Britain, a woman was presented at court to begin her Season. She might also be presented again upon marriage, or because she changed her style -- that is, carried a new title. In 1939, more than a third of the women presented at court were being presented again.
All of the tomato's nearest relatives are South American plants, rather than Meso-American. There is plenty of archeological evidence for the domesticated tomato in Meso-American, but none in South America.
Norse grooms prepared for the wedding by the sword ceremony: breaking into a grave in order to retrieve a family sword buried with the dead.
A persistent legend claims that the reason Henry VIII had a new crown made for Anne Boleyn was that a servant of Queen Catherine refused to give up hers.
In Egypt, during the First Intermediate Period, nobles still bragged in their epigraphs about their deeds and their battles and their promotions, as they had before, but they started to brag, as well, that they gave food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty, protected the fatherless, the widow, and the poor.
The Emperor Valentinian forbade marriages between barbarians and Romans. The Visigothic Breviary of Alaric II repeated it in its compilation of Roman law, only this time the intent was the Visigoths trying to keep themselves free of Hispano-Roman brides.
Within half a century of the first English settlements in New England, there were problems owing to the want of timber.
King Sekhemid, of Egypt's Second Dynasty, changed his patron god from Horus to Set.
During the lead-up to the Battle of Chickamauga, Bragg ordered subordinates, on three occasions, to fall on a part of the Union Army separated from the rest, which , and all three, his subordinates disobey his orders for one reason or another.
Anne Boleyn was fiercely set against Princess Mary, insisting that she was no princess but an accursed bastard. She did everything in her power to keep Mary and Henry from ever meeting. When Mary resisted being a Lady rather than a Princess, she lost her household and was consigned to the nursery where Elizabeth was, where the servants were to treat Elizabeth as the superior and to greet any claim from Mary of being a princess by boxing her ears as a cursed bastard. One piece of international diplomacy was that Anne must not refer to Mary as a bastard any more.
During the Bronze Age, Egypt was the great Middle Eastern power. The pharaohs corresponded as equals only with Hittite kings.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States to cover its war debts from the Crimean War.
After Trajan conquered Darcia, the kingdom remained in the Roman empire less than two centuries. Nevertheless, the original language was destroyed and replaced with Latin, which lasted. It's known as Romania to this day.
After the Black Death, to force social structure back into order, people were required to state their "degree or mystery" (or social status) in legal proceedings.
China prized Roman glassware. The Romans had mastered blowing, not just casting, glass, and many pieces of Roman glassware are found in Chinese tombs. (Alas for the balance of payments, not so much as the Romans prized silk.)
Greek aristocrats in the archaic period -- just before classical Greece -- were known as geleontes -- smiling ones. This may explain the "archaic smile" found on so many of their statues.
Henry VIII pardoned a few people under death sentences, but had the practice of not letting it be known until the person was already within moments of death, with the noose about the neck or the like. Consequently, everyone sentenced to death lived with the awareness that there was always a flutter of hope until the very, very last.
In Catal Huyuk, areas about hearths and cooking pots were not decorated, unlike any other part of the houses.
Sumer, having no stone, built its large buildings in brick. The oldest large buildings in Egypt are likewise in brick, and in the same, "recessed brick", style. When they turned to their ample supply of stone, at first they broke it up into brick-sized blocks. Only later did they develop the large stones that mark its later buildings.
As late as 1939, an English debutante gave her coming-out ball from her family home, if she could. There was still a stigma to holding it in a public place. For one thing, it was much harder to gatecrash a private one.
Lee's Maryland campaign (culminating in the Battle of Antietam) was in part in hopes of inspiring pro-succession forces in Maryland and getting it to try to succeed. He found no such sentiment.
Excavations in Egypt have found empty sarcophagi in tombs that appear to have been undisturbed. Thieves would break into a sarcophagus to plunder the corpse, but they would seldom put the heavy top back. The reasons for such burials are unknown.
Jane Seymour, when first sent a letter and a purse of money by Henry VIII, kissed the letter and then did not open it. Then she went to her knees and begged the messenger to tell him that she was a daughter of good and honorable parents, that honor was her greatest treasure, and that she would rather accept money from him on a suitable occasion such as some honorable match.
Ascension Day, the day when Venice married the sea, was the beginning of the sailing season in the Adriatic.
In the Roman Empire, the bandit Bulla Felix robbed the rich, made speeches to captives about proper treatment of slaves and rank-and-file soldiers, and escaped authorities for years -- until one figured out how to catch him through his woman. When a prefect questioned him and asked why he was a bandit, he asked in return why the other man was a prefect.
The colonists who fared to New England often explicitly stated that they were fleeing the wrath and judgment that were to fall on old England. The Atlantic voyage -- often very rough, and sometimes extremely so -- took on religious tones, down to the travelers who spoke of how men ashore to an island by boat and returned with strawberries, gooseberries, and sweet single roses, which were divine gifts. (Most reports of the first sights of New England were disappointed.)