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2. Crest (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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   Though usually adopted through marriage to an heiress, examples exist of secondary crests being granted as augmentations: after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, Robert Ross was granted, in addition to his original crest, the crest of an arm holding the US flag with a broken flagstaff. [17] crest badge of the chief of Clan ...

3. Teachinghistory.org - Wikipedia

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   History Content presents access to online resources including reviewed history websites, national resources for history teachers, analyses of textbook content by guest historians, and searchable databases of online history lectures and historic sites. Users can submit questions via the “Ask A Historian” feature.

4. List of oldest heraldry - Wikipedia

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   Heraldry developed in the High Middle Ages based on earlier traditions of visual identification by means of seals, field signs, emblems used on coins, etc. Notably, lions that would subsequently appear in 12th-century coats of arms of European nobility have pre-figurations in the animal style of ancient art (specifically the style of Scythian art as it developed from c. the 7th century BC).

5. Achievement (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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   Crest placed atop a: Torse (or cap of maintenance as a special honour) Mantling; Helm of appropriate variety; if holder of higher rank than a baronet, issuing from a: Coronet or crown (not used by baronets), of appropriate variety. Console; Supporters (if the bearer is entitled to them, generally in modern usage not baronets), which may stand ...

6. American Social History Project - Wikipedia

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   Founded in 1981 by historians Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier as the American-Working Class History Project, [1] the project grew out of a 1977–80 series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars that introduced new social history scholarship to trade union members from diverse occupations and backgrounds, most of whom had no college experience. [2]

7. California mission project - Wikipedia

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   Diorama of Mission San Diego de Alcalá made by a California elementary school student. The California mission project is an assignment done in California elementary schools, most often in the fourth grade, where students build dioramas of one of the 21 Spanish missions in California.

8. List of Greek and Roman architectural records - Wikipedia

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   The largest canal appears to be the Canal of the Pharaohs connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea via the Nile.Opened by king Ptolemy II around 280 BC the waterway branched off the Pelusiac arm of the river running eastwards through the Wadi Tumalat to the Great Bitter Lake on a length of 55.6 km.

9. Impalement (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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   A convenient and descriptive term for "a heraldic escutcheon showing the impaled arms of a husband and wife" is "a match", and this word was used frequently by, amongst others, Tristram Risdon (d.1640) in his manorial history Survey of Devon. For example: "The north aisle of Swimbridge Church was built by Sir John Mules of Ernsborough, as the ...