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Emanuel de Geer wearing a military sash over a buff jerkin and sporting a cravat with it in 1656, portrait by Bartholomeus van der Helst. According to 1828 encyclopedic The art of tying the cravat: demonstrated in sixteen lessons, the Romans were the first to wear knotted kerchiefs around their necks, but the modern version of the cravat (French: la cravate) originated in the 1660s.
17th-century depiction of a Croatian cavalryman (Ein Croatischer Stängel Reüter) Nikola Zrinski in a battle against the OttomansThe Croats, also known as Cravats or Crabats, [6] were 17th-century light cavalry forces in Central Europe, comparable to the hussars. [7]
Les têtes interverties, also known as La cravate, The Transposed Heads and The Severed Heads, is a 1957 French short film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert, and Ruth Michelly.
La Cravate, 1957 French short film also known as Les têtes interverties; Nick Cravat, stage name of American actor and stunt performer Nicholas Cuccia (1912–1994) The Cravats, an English punk rock band formed in 1977; Yancey and Sabra Cravat, protagonists of the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron and its two film adaptations
It so happened that the officers of this regiment were wearing brightly colored handkerchiefs fashioned of silk around their necks. These neckcloths struck the fancy of the king, and he soon made them an insignia of royalty as he created a regiment of Royal Cravattes. The word cravat is derived from the à la croate —'in the style of the Croats'.
Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate, privateer, and slave trader who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte".
Jean-François Lévesque is a Canadian animator from Quebec. [1] He is most noted for his 2008 short film The Necktie (Le noeud cravate), which won the Prix Jutra for Best Animated Short Film at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, [2] and his 2020 short film I, Barnabé (Moi, Barnabé), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.
Los Angeles State Historic Park, also known as LA Historic Park and the Cornfield, is a California State Park located near the Chinatown and Elysian Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The former rail yard and brownfield consists of a long open space between Spring Street and the tracks of the Los Angeles Metro A Line .