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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 ...
Virginia Brindis de Salas was born in Montevideo, [1] Uruguay, the daughter of José Salas and María Blanca Rodríguez, [5] Little is known about her life; according to Joy Elizondo, she claimed to be the niece of Cuban violinist Claudio Brindis de Salas, [3] though this is unsubstantiated.
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 ...
Urari (Russian: Урари) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative centre of Urarinsky Selsoviet, Dakhadayevsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 846 as of 2010. [ 2 ]
[1] [4] [7] An alert was sent out by Virginia Commonwealth University at 5:15 pm. [7] A member of the Richmond City School Board who was in attendance, said that the shooting began shortly after they were exiting the building and they had heard about 20 shots in quick succession.