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Old-School Essentials is a retroclone [2] that does not try to change the spirit of the original B/X rules but does try to make the rules easier to read. [1] The first five Old-School Essentials books — Core Rules , Genre Rules , Cleric and Magic-User Spells , Monsters , and Treasures — re-organize all of the original rules into a much more ...
Mall Valk was born in Ühtri, Estonia as the daughter of the teachers Julius Sooster (1902–1942) and Elvi Sooster (1909–1978). When she was six years old, her father was executed by the NKVD in Irkutsk. [2] In 1961, she graduated from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (now the Estonian Academy of Arts).
Mantua-maker, in the 18th century a maker of mantuas, or in general a dressmaker. Modiste, a maker of fashionable clothing and accessories, with the implication that the articles made reflect the current Paris fashions. Fabrician, a person who is considered an expert in making modifications and alterations to fabrics and other articles of clothing.
The mantua or manteau was a new fashion that arose in the 1670s. Instead of a bodice and skirt cut separately, the mantua hung from the shoulders to the floor (like dresses of earlier periods). It started as the female version of the men's banyan, worn for "undress" wear. Gradually the mantua developed into a draped and pleated dress and ...
The adoption of the dirndl as a fashion resulted in a synthesis of tradition and high fashion: the dirndls worn by upper-class women took the basic design of the traditional dirndl but also used more fashionable materials such as silk, lace and expensive thread. The garment was made more closely fitted to emphasize the female body shape. [12]
Barbie Fashion Designer was the ninth best-selling PC game of 1996 in the United States, with 393,575 CD-ROM units sold [5] and $14,044,994 sales revenue. [6] Barbie Fashion Designer went on to sell over 500,000 copies in its first two months of release and over 600,000 within the first year of its release, outselling other popular games at the time such as Quake and Doom.
Heinz Valk (birth name Heinrich Valk; born March 7, 1936, in Gatchina) is an Estonian artist, caricaturist and politician. He is credited for coining the term " Singing Revolution " [ 1 ] ( Estonian : laulev revolutsioon ) and its slogan "One day, no matter what, we will win!"
Hafiz al - Siba'i, Tahira Abdul (1987): A Brief Look at Traditional Palestinian Costumes: a Presentation of Palestinian Fashion, T. A. Hafiz, English, French and Arabic text; Needler, Winifred (1949). Palestine: Ancient and Modern — A handbook and guide to the Palestinian collection of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto. Royal ...