Common themes depicted included flowers, fruits, animals, religious scenes, and geometric patterns, often inspired by nature and English styles of the period.
Embroidery was a traditional skill passed down from mothers to daughters and served as a means for girls to express their artistic talents and enhance the beauty and value of their textiles.
In 1970, Egypt and Israel were not, typically, at war. In fact, however, the hostilities had not ceased after the Six Day War. This phase, called the War of Attrition, continued for years on land, air and sea. Having been defeated state by state and having lost the Sinai Peninsula, the Egyptians
On the night of April 14-15, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and slowly began to sink. And most people may know in every detail the story of the fictional passengers of the Titanic Jack and Rose, as imagined by the screenwriters and captured by James Cameron, but few know that there were also Greek
In 1715 the Turkish danger for the Habsburg Empire and consequently for all of Europe began to be felt again. Turkish ambitions had been revived since 1711, when Mehmet Pasha with 260,000 men defeated Tsar Peter the Greats 40,000 men at the Battle of Prutus. Always following the same expansionis
The Munich Accords of September 1938, signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy, “saved the peace” by granting Hitler the Sudetenland. But this one, despite its promises, continues to expand. War seems imminent between, on the one hand, France and Great Britain, and on the other, the G