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He suggested that the "Black foreigners" were Moorish slaves, carried off to Ireland in a Viking raid on North Africa. [ 7 ] Jón Steffensen, rejecting the fair- and dark-haired hypothesis, suggested that the terms originated from the colours on the shields of the Vikings, the finngaill carrying white shields and the dubgaill red.
In this delegation there were men who called themselves Rhos (in the Latin text, ... qui se, id est gentem suam, Rhos vocari dicebant, ...; translated by Aleksandr Nazarenko as ... who stated that they, i.e. their nation, were called Rhos, ...). Once Louis enquired the reason of their arrival (in the Latin text, ... Quorum adventus causam ...
They were to help the overstretched RIC maintain control and suppress the Irish Republican Army (IRA), although they were less well trained in ordinary police methods. The nickname "Black and Tans" arose from the colours of the improvised uniforms they initially wore, a mixture of dark green RIC (which appeared black) and khaki British Army.
The Viking raids were, however, the first to be documented by eyewitnesses, and they were much larger in scale and frequency than in previous times. [89] Vikings themselves were expanding; although their motives are unclear, historians believe that scarce resources or a lack of mating opportunities were a factor. [92]
The Old Irish terms Finngall 'white foreigner' and Dubgall 'black foreigner' were used by the Irish for Norwegian and Danish Vikings, respectively. [ 15 ] [ 20 ] [ 17 ] Dubliners called them Ostmen (East-people), and the name Oxmanstown (an area in central Dublin; the name is still current) comes from one of their settlements; they were also ...
Gullah-Geechee communities are scattered along the Southeast coast from North Carolina to Florida, where they have endured since their enslaved ancestors The post Rich people, McMansions could ...
They’re a self-portrait of Google’s bureaucratic corporate culture,” computer scientist and investor Paul Graham wrote in a post on X. “The bigger your cash cow, the worse your culture can ...
According to the 1990 census, of the 44,083 people who lived in Forsyth County, 43,573 were white (close to 99%) and just 14 were Black. It was a place, Snead said, where generations of families ...