The vielle /viˈɛl/ is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a figure-8 shaped body. Predecessors of the violin…
People in the Middle Ages were also well aware that not all water was safe to drink – in addition to polluted water, which would be largely confined to urban areas, it was common knowledge to avoid obtaining water from marshy areas or places of standing water. The history of…
In a pivotal scene, the Queen gets stranded on the grounds of Balmoral and she sees a magnificent Imperial stag with 14-point antlers. The Queen shoos the stag away from hunters, but later, she’s deeply saddened to learn that the stag was killed. The monarch even travels to the nearby…
Contrary to Hollywood films and popular lore, these cannonballs did not explode on contact. Percussion fuses were not used on spherical projectiles. These shells and spherical case shot were designed to explode only when a flame reached the interior charge. Technically “cannon balls” never explode. Shells do. Semantics aside, though,…
Besides guns, soldiers used a variety of pikes, swords and bayonets for close range or melee combat. Officers, sergeants, other higher-ranked officials and cavalry mainly used swords, while the majority of infantry soldiers were equipped with bayonets. They got their weapons from the Hôtel national des Invalides, which were stormed…
In the nineteenth century, hotels take over the town -The industrial revolution, which started in the 1760s, facilitated the construction of hotels everywhere, in mainland Europe, in England and in America. In New York first of all, and then in Copenhagen, hotels were established in city centres. What were Old…
Even by the late 1850s, however, newspapers consisted primarily of text. Newspapers carried surprisingly little local news, sometimes none at all. Much of the news dealt either with government, politics, or commerce, but you can also find news about wars, disasters, science, medicine, agriculture, social controversies, religion, and crime. ,…
Forrest’s time fighting in the Vietnam War lends the movie some of its most heartrending moments—but they weren’t filmed on the beaches of Vietnam. Instead, movie officials chose Hunting Island State Park, in South Carolina, as the setting for many of the film’s war scenes. Forrest enlisted in the Vietnam…
Us is a chilling tale about the Wilsons, a family of four, facing creepy versions of themselves while on a vacation to a beach resort town. Most of the exterior scenes of Us were filmed in Santa Cruz (California). Movies Filmed in Santa Cruz. A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)…
A part of the suggested span transcript after expanded is Yeah. The flood tunnels on Oak Island are the biggest problems the miners have to face every time they dig. They fill each of the shafts they dig with water. Located in the money pit, in the “Swamp” and in…