1. English: habitational name from Powers in County Waterford, Ireland, or Powis Castle in Wales, from Welsh pawys "territory, land".
2. Irish: from the Gaelic O'Faghartaigh sept of County Galway, in Irish "descendant of Faghartach", from fágharta "venerated".
3. Scottish: variant of Peirs (see Peers).
Rouget de Lisle singing the Marseillaise for the first time, by Isidore Pils. 1849. Historical Museum, Strasbourg • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In 1849, more than fifty years after the events, the painter Isidore Pils fixed the legend of the Marseillaise :the anthem would have been interpreted for the fir
The Congress Working Committee met on 3 June 1947 in which the Mountbatten plan was accepted. In the meeting, it was described as a temporary solution and it was hoped that when the storm of hatred subsides, Indias problems will be looked at with the right perspective and then this false theory of t
Dance, like other artistic manifestations, is a way of expression capable of representing different ideas. With each new type of dance, values are perpetuated that make a certain dancing style synonymous with certain feelings. In Argentina, tango has become synonymous with passion, melancholy and
Marked by the capture of the Tuileries and the massacre of its Swiss garrison , the day of August 10 essentially appears as the last phase of the monarchical revolution. Pressed by the people of Paris, the Legislative, in the face of a riot, which it fears it will not be able to curb, decides to sus