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A crinoline / ˈ k r ɪ n. əl. ɪ n / is a stiff or structured petticoat designed to hold out a skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century. Originally, crinoline described a stiff fabric made of horsehair ("crin") and cotton or linen which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining. The term crin or crinoline continues ...
The Duchess of Alençon, née Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, photograph taken in 1895. The Bazar de la Charité was an annual charity event orchestrated by the French Catholic aristocracy in Paris beginning in 1885, when it was first organised by Englishman Henry Blount, the son of banker Sir Edward Blount, a financier of railway enterprises in France.
Burned over 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires. Peshtigo Fire: 1910 North Idaho and Western Montana: 87/? The largest Fire in U.S. history burned an area the size of Connecticut (3,000,000 acres [12,000 km 2]), killing 87 people, including 78 firefighters Great Fire of 1910 [6 ...
A fire in a dormitory at a soccer youth team training centre in Flamengo, Brazil, killed 10 teenage players. [297] February 12 – 2019 Delhi hotel fire. A fire that broke out at a hotel in Delhi, India, killed 17. [298] Notre-Dame de Paris fire. April 15 – Notre-Dame fire. Roof and spire were destroyed, and heavy damage was done to the ...
Following the insurrection of 18 March 1871, which sparked off the Paris Commune, France found itself in a situation of civil war, on the one hand, the government led by Adolphe Thiers, who had fled to Versailles, where the National Assembly also sat in support of him, and on the other the Paris Commune, which ruled Paris alone, [7] despite attempts by insurrectionary communes in the provinces.
Fifteen of the 20 most destructive fires in the state’s recorded history occurred in the past ... Fire experts and conservationists say development should either be stopped in fire-prone areas ...
The blockquoted sections are from public domain text, all published over 100 years previously (in 1829, 1863 and 1874). I feel that the first two in particular are essential, the first one to show how crinoline was first introduced to the general public and how it was described; and the second lists, in contemporary terms, issues with crinolines.
The fire as of Sunday had scorched more than 23.000 acres, while the Altadena and Pasadena-based Eaton fire has burned 14,117 acres, according to figures from the California Department of Forestry ...