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  2. Headscarf - Wikipedia

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    Women's headscarves for sale in Damascus In Christian cultures, nuns cover their bodies and hair. Here is an example of a 16th-century wimple, worn by a widowed Queen Anna of Poland, with a veil and a ruff around the neck. A headscarf is a scarf covering most or all of the top of a person's, usually women's, hair and head, leaving the face ...

  3. Murder of Carol Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in a sundown town in Indiana.Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.

  4. List of headgear - Wikipedia

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    Old woman in sunbonnet (c. 1930). Photograph by Doris Ulmann. Cabriolet; Capote – soft crown, rigid brim, nineteenth century; Chip bonnet; Gypsy bonnet – shallow to flat crown, saucer shaped, and worn by tying it on with either a scarf or sash, under the chin, or at the nape of the neck – nineteenth Century; Kiss-me-quick; Leghorn bonnet ...

  5. Babushka Lady - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, a woman named Beverly Oliver told conspiracy researcher Gary Shaw at a church revival meeting in Joshua, Texas, that she was the Babushka Lady. [5] Oliver stated that she filmed the assassination with a Super 8 film Yashica and that she turned the undeveloped film over to two men who identified themselves to her as FBI agents. [5]

  6. Tignon law - Wikipedia

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    The tignon law (also known as the chignon law [1]) was a 1786 law enacted by the Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró that forced black women to wear a tignon headscarf. The law was intended to halt plaçage unions and tie freed black women to those who were enslaved, but the women who followed the law have been described as ...

  7. Scarf - Wikipedia

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    A scarf (pl.: scarves or scarfs) is a long piece of fabric that is worn on or around the neck, shoulders, or head. A scarf is used for warmth, sun protection, cleanliness, fashion, religious reasons, or to show support for a sports club or team. [1] Scarves can be made from materials including wool, linen, silk, and cotton. It is a common type ...

  8. Kerchief - Wikipedia

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    A woman wearing a black bandana on her head. A kerchief (from the Old French couvre-chef, "cover head"), also known as a bandana or bandanna, is a triangular or square piece of cloth tied around the head, face, or neck for protective or decorative purposes.

  9. Bonnet (headgear) - Wikipedia

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    The French expression coiffer Sainte-Catherine ('don St. Catherine's bonnet'), an idiom that describes an unmarried woman of 25 years or older, derives from this custom. [9] Slave women shipped from Africa, who traditionally wore African head dress in their native countries, were given European styles of bonnets.

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