The pinder would impound animals and then charge the owners a fee for releasing them. The money collected in this way would help to support the maintenance of the pound and to pay the pinder's wages.
Holocaust this is how the genocide of Jews carried out under the command of the Nazis during World War II became known. By the Jews he is known as Shoah , a Hebrew word meaning “calamity”. Throughout the war, the Nazis carried out systematic actions to exterminate this ethnic group, and the result
Portrait of Jane Dieulafoy by Eugène Pirou • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS / EUGENE PIROU Two Frenchmen, on their way to Susa, crossed Persia in 1885. One of them was called Marcel Dieulafoy, whom the French government commissioned to carry out excavations in this former capital of the Persian Empire. His c
St. George (13th century), one of the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Established on the high plateaus of the Horn of Africa, near the western coasts of the Red Sea, the kingdom of Aksum imposed itself from the Ist century AD. AD as a trading partner in the great tra
It is curious that the oldest cathedral in Christianity does not present the simple and original beauty of the Romanesque, the exquisite and archetypal majesty of the Gothic, the classical Renaissance evocation or the overwhelming magnificence of the Baroque. It is a question of a building that is d