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The King Drinks (between 1634 and 1640) by David Teniers the Younger, showing a Twelfth Night celebration with a "Lord of Misrule" As a result of the close proximity of dates, many Christians in western Europe continued to celebrate traditional Saturnalia customs in association with Christmas and the surrounding holidays.
Clothing in ancient Rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for women and girls. On formal occasions, adult male citizens could wear a woolen toga , draped over their tunic, and married citizen women wore a woolen mantle, known as a palla , over a stola , a ...
On 9 November 926, the Emperor Romanos I wore the maphorion when he left Constantinople to negotiate with Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria. [ 1 ] The Life of Andrew the Fool records how Andrew the Fool in the early 10th century had a vision in which Mary raised her veil over the congregation as a sign of protection.
Meat dress of Lady Gaga, worn at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards; Pink dress of Marilyn Monroe, worn in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Red dress of Julia Roberts, worn in the 1990 film Pretty Woman; Union Jack dress, worn by Geri Halliwell at the Brit Awards 1997; White dress of Marilyn Monroe, worn in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch [2]
Statue of the Emperor Tiberius showing a draped toga of the 1st century AD. The toga (/ ˈ t oʊ ɡ ə /, Classical Latin: [ˈt̪ɔ.ɡa]), a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between 12 and 20 feet (3.7 and 6.1 m) in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.
During this time, nightgowns also moved from domestic use to fashion statements. In 1933, trend setter Mary d'Erlanger wore a nightgown cut low in the front and back to a ball in New York popularizing the elegance of the style. This style, now referred to as the "slip dress" made a resurgence in the 1990s. The middle of the 19th century saw ...
Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605 O.S., when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. The Catholic plotters had intended to assassinate Protestant king James I and his parliament. Celebrating that the king had survived, people lit ...
A Night in November follows Kenneth Norman McCallister, a Protestant dole clerk working in Belfast, Northern Ireland.He has "cleanly discriminated" against Catholics throughout his life, and indeed he gains much pleasure when he gets accepted into the golf club ahead of his Catholic boss.