For the nobles, clothes also reflected hierarchy, so different colours and patterns were reserved for different ranks of the nobility. However, clothes were mostly standardized and varied very little from person to person, due to the fact that clothes, like other items, were mass-produced in state-administered factories.
Aware as early as 1938 of the insufficient number of escorts, the Ministry of the British Navy developed what received the name of fast escort in order to provide convoys with both anti-aircraft and anti-submarine cover without mobilizing the precious destroyers which proved ill-suited to this type
The honor of being a pioneer, of opening the first path in something, is usually highly discussed. Today we are going to see a female case, that of the considered first professional writer in the Western world, an honor that tradition places on the Venetian Christine de Pizán. Her legacy would have
The New Deal (from English, “New Agreement”, “New Deal” or “New Pact”) was a set of economic and social measures to resolve the Crisis of 1929. The plan articulated state and private investments, reforms to adapt various sectors of the economy and stimulate consumption, thus reheating the countrys
The Paleolithic Period orChipped Stone Age It is the first period of Prehistory and, together with the Neolithic, make up the so-called “Stone Age”, since stone was the main raw material used in the making of tools. Note that the term Paleolithic means old stone age while Neolithic means new stone a