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Mărțișor on a Moldovan stamp. Nowadays a Mărțișor is made from silk strings, almost exclusively red and white. Before the 19th century various other colors were used: black and white in Mehedinți and in Aromanian communities, red only in Vâlcea, Romanați, Argeș, Neamț, and Vaslui, black and red in Brăila, white and blue in Vrancea, or even multiple colours in areas of southern ...
La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans , focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.
1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh. [1]1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. [2]1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.
[28] [29] On May 8, 1965, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree to make March 8, International Women's Day, a non-working public holiday 'in honor of the outstanding achievements of the Soviet women in building communism, defending the motherland during the Great Patriotic War, their heroism and selflessness both at the front and ...
Self-care is seen as a partial solution to the global rise in health care costs that is placed on governments worldwide. [8] A lack of self-care in terms of personal health, hygiene and living conditions is referred to as self-neglect. Caregivers or personal care assistants may be needed. There is a growing body of knowledge related to these ...
Abbott Elementary is an American mockumentary sitcom television series created by Quinta Brunson for ABC.It stars Brunson as Janine Teagues, a perpetually optimistic second-grade teacher at the underfunded Abbott Elementary, a fictional predominantly Black public school in West Philadelphia.