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Women Without Virtue Need Not Apply! The Medieval Nine Worthy Women
... generally represented what was considered virtuous for a woman in the Medieval worldview. Nine Worthy Men The Three ...
Caleb Strom - 11/02/2017 - 14:02
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Genesis Characters and Events in Ancient Greek Art
... Noah’s Flood • Naamah (Genesis 4:22), the Cain-woman who survived the Flood as Ham’s wife Naamah/Athena ...
ancient-origins - 16/03/2018 - 12:49
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
... Scots is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time. “The definitive biography . . ...
ancient-origins - 19/01/2019 - 02:44
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Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great: The Remarkable Discovery of the Royal Tombs of Macedon
... of Philip II, Alexander's father? And who was the warrior woman buried with weapons and armour beside him? Unearthing ...
ancient-origins - 14/12/2019 - 03:59
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The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armor, and the idealized noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, the medieval world comes to life in all its rich daily experience. Find out what people's beds were like, how often they washed, what they wore, what they cooked, how they worked, how they entertained themselves, how they wed, and what life was like in a medieval village, castle, or monastery.
ancient-origins - 22/05/2020 - 18:45
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Ending the Historical Atrocity of Virginity Tests?
... known as the vaginal membrane, as proof of virginity and a woman’s moral virtue. Even today in the United Kingdom, ...
ashley cowie - 18/01/2021 - 23:55
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Ye Xian, Chinese Cinderella At The Chinese New Year Spring Festival
... many variants of the story, they commonly feature a young woman in unjust and oppressive circumstances whose fortune is ...
MartiniF - 13/02/2021 - 02:03
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Princess Zeb-un-Nisa: Rebel Sufi Poetess and her Gilded Garden Prison
Sitting alone in her quiet gardens, reciting verses of poetry and waiting for the end to come. This is how Princess Zeb-un-Nisa spent the final years of her life. Zeb-un-Nisa means “jewel among women,” and she truly deserved that title. Zeb-un-Nisa was a gem in the Mughal harem, she was an extremely intelligent and bright child, who grew up to be an administrator and scholar.
Khadija Tauseef - 04/03/2021 - 00:51
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Shaman 'Rainmaking' Center Discovered in South Africa
... all around the world. In this tradition, a man or woman who shows a special predisposition will be trained for ...
aprilholloway - 01/06/2013 - 11:22
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Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Elongated Skulls in France
... 18 burials. It was discovered in a tomb belonging to a woman who clearly held a high status position in society as ...
aprilholloway - 07/11/2013 - 11:34
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Tattooed Scythian Warriors, Descendants of the Amazons? Part Three
... that in their world there was a place for the warrior woman, a practice perhaps influenced by their female deities. ...
margaretmoose - 27/12/2013 - 07:22
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Burials uncovered in Ireland reflect fusion of Paganism and Christianity
... limestone boxes, known as cists, holding the remains of a woman and two babies. The results of radiocarbon dating have ...
aprilholloway - 21/02/2014 - 01:15
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Petit Jean State Park, Where Natural Beauty Meets Legend
... According to this legend, Petit Jean was a young French woman by the name of Adrienne Dumont, who lived during the ...
dhwty - 13/09/2021 - 22:56
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Eden in Egypt – Part 2
... to note is that Adam and Eve were the first man and first woman. But then so too were Pharaoh Akhenaton and Queen ...
ralph ellis - 08/07/2014 - 00:12
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Lives And Losses Of Laodicea, Crown Of Phrygia
... the city in honor of his wife, Laodice, herself a noble woman. However, the honor of Laodicea was tainted by ...
micki pistorius - 10/12/2021 - 12:34
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The Serpent Priestesses and Ancient Sexual Rites
... What Western society has viewed as evil in the form of Woman and the Serpent was once viewed with the utmost ...
Katrina Sisowath - 23/12/2014 - 22:07
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King Leonidas of Sparta and the Epic Battle of the 300 at Thermopylae
... son of King Alexandridas and his first wife, an unnamed woman who was also the king’s niece. Leonidas, however, was ...
dhwty - 16/11/2019 - 02:01
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The Veneration and Worship of Felines in Ancient Egypt
... sun god Ra. A similar female deity with the body of a woman and the head of a cat, Bastet was considered a ...
Riley Winters - 09/05/2015 - 13:20
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Royal Medieval Lion Pendant Released To Spur On the Ladies at Wembley
A crowd of almost 88000 filled the stands to watch the finals of the Women’s Euro 22 soccer championship on Sunday, July 31 at Wembley stadium, most cheering madly for the English team. The connection between English football (soccer) and medieval history unsurprisingly hasn’t received much attention lately.
Nathan Falde - 01/08/2022 - 18:59
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The Importance of Evidence in the Heated Debate on Homosexuality in Ancient Egypt
... involve a sexual act between a (living) man and a (living) woman, including, but not limited to: necrophilia, ...
dhwty - 05/11/2015 - 00:46