European History, Culture and Traditions

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28/12/2021

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21/12/2021

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14/11/2021

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17/09/2021

The Iron Curtain was a political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union (USSR) to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union, while on the west side were the countries that were NATO members or nominally neutral. Separate international economic and military alliances were developed on each side of the Iron Curtain. It later became a term for the 7,000-kilometre-long (4,300 mi) physical barrier of fences, walls, minefields, and watchtowers that divided the "east" and "west". The Berlin Wall was also part of this physical barrier.

04/09/2021

16/07/2021

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865, also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States fought between northern and Pacific states ("the Union" or "the North") and southern states that voted to secede and form the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy" or "the South"). The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into newly acquired land after the Mexican-American War. On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, four million of the 32 million Americans (nearly 13%) were black slaves, mostly in the South.

The practice of slavery in the United States was one of the key political issues of the 19th century; decades of political unrest over slavery led up to the war. Disunion came after Abraham Lincoln won the November 1860 presidential election on an anti-slavery expansion platform. An initial seven Southern slave states declared their secession from the country to form the Confederacy. After Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within territory claimed by the Confederacy, efforts at compromise failed and both sides prepared for war. Fighting broke out in April 1861 when the Confederate army attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, just over a month after Lincoln's inauguration. An additional four slave states joined the Confederacy in the following two months.

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14/07/2021

The Coffee Conundrum
The modern world wouldn’t be possible without coffee. The dark beverage fuels the day to day lives of parents, teachers, artists, writers, CEOs, and pretty much anyone else you could name. We start the day with it, and it’s hard to imagine a time when people thought it was the ‘bitter invention of satan’ (of course, that was before Starbucks).

It came to Europe from the Middle East around the 17th century. At first, people didn’t know what to make of the dark beverage. But coffee always wins. Slowly, the allure of caffiene overcame the initial suspicions of witchcraft and sorcery, and coffee shops: places to discuss philosophy and science and all the new ideas floating around the world popped up. People thought it was wonderful, they thought they would never have to sleep again. It replaced beer and wine as a breakfast drink and people began to enjoy the daily buzz, used it to improve their work.

Some people didn’t approve. The Swedish government tried to ban coffee in 1746, and Frederick the Great of Prussia thought beer was better, so he issued a manifesto in an attempt to stop coffee’s interference with beer-drinking.

18/02/2021

Native Americans lived in the Americas for thousands of years. English people in 1607 went to the place now called Jamestown, Virginia. Other European settlers went to the colonies, mostly from England and later Great Britain. France, Spain, and the Netherlands also colonized North America. In 1775, a war between the thirteen colonies and Britain began when the colonists were upset over paying taxation to their government in the UK, but were not being given any chance to vote in the UK/British elections, to contribute to how that money was spent.

Just after dawn on April 19, 1775, the British attempted to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord, Massachusetts, this beginning the war with the "Shot Heard Round the World." On July 4, 1776, Founding Fathers wrote the United States Declaration of Independence. They won the Revolutionary War and started a new country. They signed the constitution in 1787 and the Bill of Rights in 1791. General George Washington, who had led the war, became its first president. During the 19th century, the United States gained much more land in the West and began to become industrialized. In 1861, several states in the South attempted to leave the United States to start a new country called the Confederate States of America. This caused the American Civil War. After the war, Immigration resumed. Some Americans became very rich in this Gilded Age, and the country developed one of the largest economies in the world.

20/11/2020

Pre-Columbian America☺️
The Pre-Columbian Era is the time before Christopher Columbus went to the Americas in 1492. At that time, Native Americans lived on the land that is now controlled by the United States. They had various cultures: Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands hunted game and deer; Native Americans in the Northwest fished; Native Americans in the Southwest grew corn and built houses called pueblos; and Native Americans in the Great Plains hunted Bison. Around the year 1000, the Vikings visited Newfoundland. However, they did not settle there.

29/10/2020

European history, identical with the history of Europe, was that of its peoples and their cultures and limited, or not, to the lands that they occupied. It would naturally have included the societies from which those present civilizations sprang, namely the Phoenicians, the Hebrews, the Egyptians or whoever.

25/10/2020

The history of Europe concerns itself with the discovery and collection, the study, organization and presentation and the interpretation of past events and affairs of the people of Europe since the beginning of written records. During the Neolithic era and the time of the Indo-European migrations, Europe saw human inflows from east and southeast and subsequent important cultural and material exchange. The period known as classical antiquity began with the emergence of the city-states of ancient Greece. Later, the Roman Empire came to dominate the entire Mediterranean basin. The fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476 traditionally marks the start of the Middle Ages. Beginning in the 14th century a Renaissance of knowledge challenged traditional doctrines in science and theology. Simultaneously, the Protestant Reformation set up Protestant churches primarily in Germany, Scandinavia and England. After 1800, the Industrial Revolution brought prosperity to Britain and Western Europe. The main European powers set up colonies in most of the Americas and Africa, and parts of Asia. In the 20th century, World War I and World War II resulted in massive numbers of deaths. The Cold War dominated European geo-politics from 1947 to 1989. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the European countries grew together.

23/10/2020

Elton John and his wife Renate Blauel after their wedding ceremony in 1984, they were married four years.

24/04/2020

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east.

23/04/2019

French fashion designer Courreges with a model wearing one of his unique creations in 1972. 😱

21/04/2019

THE BEER HALL PUTSCH [Extended, New Pics and Map]

It was November 9, 1923, a cold grey Friday morning in the town of Munich, the capital of Bavaria. From the Bürgerbräukeller, a large beer tavern, emerged a crowd of perhaps two thousand people, some in old uniforms, carrying peculiar red-white flags flying a huge sw****ka. The motley crew planned to seize power over Germany …

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History of the West (Historia Occidentalis) is John Vincent Palatine`s Blog on Central European History - Face-off at the Beer Hall Putsch

20/04/2019

On August 18, 1900, the world's heaviest recorded fish - Black Sea Bass that weighed 384 pounds - was caught off Catalina Island, California, by Franklin Schenck of Brooklyn. 🎣🐟

18/04/2019

Serbian Prince Stefan Nemanja (before the Emperor Michael I), 1172

Stefan Nemanja

Ruler of Serbia (q.v.) from ca. 1168-1196; founder of the Nemanja (q.v.) dynasty of Serbia, which ruled Serbia to 1371. His declaration of independence faltered before an invasion of Raska by Manuel I Komnenos (qq.v.) in 1172. Nevertheless, after Manuel I's death he was able to extend his territory, uniting Zeta (q.v.) with Raska. In 1168 he founded Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos (qq.v.) with the aid of Sava of Serbia (q.v.). In 1196 he retired to a monastery he founded at Studenica, taking the monastic name of Symeon.

Historical Dictionary of Byzantium . John H. Rosser .

17/04/2019

A customer stocking up on meat during a one-minute shopping spree at Giant Eagle supermarket in Ohio, 1982. (Photo from the Akron Beacon Journal)

12/04/2019

An 18 year-old Madonna at the University of Michigan in 1976.

11/04/2019

Praetor Marcus Brutus dedicated 1-st temple to in Rome (11.04.191 BCE)

11/04/2019

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11/04/2019

Here's the last Habsburg Emperor, Charles I, with his wife Zita of Bourbon-Parma and son Otto after Charles coronation as King of Hungary in 1916.

10/04/2019

This General Store was built in the 1900s and abandoned since the 1970s.