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Membership. 35,000+. Chief Executive Officer. Debra Granich. Founder & Exalted Queen Mother. Sue Ellen Cooper. Website. redhatsociety.com. The Red Hat Society (RHS) is an international social organization that was founded in 1998 in the United States for women age 50 and beyond, but now open to women of all ages.
A Bollenhut (German: [ˈbɔlənˌhuːt], literally "ball-hat") is a formal headdress with distinctive woollen pompoms worn since c. 1750 by Protestant women as part of their folk costume or Tracht in the three adjoining Black Forest villages of Gutach, Kirnbach and Hornberg-Reichenbach. The picturesque-looking red bollenhut has become a symbol ...
Dutch Golden Age painting. Dimensions. 23.2 cm × 18.1 cm (9.1 in × 7.1 in) Location. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Girl with a Red Hat is a rather small painting, signed by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is seen as one of a number of Vermeer's tronies – depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is ...
Her first several books were historical romances, in settings including 17th Century France and England [3][4] and Medieval Scotland. [5] With Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch, she moved into writing women's fiction about women 50 years old and older, set in the Southern United States. [6][7] Smith's books The Red Hat Club and Queen Bee of Mimosa ...
Hamburg massacre. Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist [1][2][3] paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi ...
Cockade. A woman fastening a red-and-white cockade to a Polish insurgent's square-shaped rogatywka cap during the January Uprising of 1863–64. Charles Edward Stuart wearing a hat with a white (Jacobite) cockade. John of Austria wearing as a brassard the red cockade of the Spanish armies. A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or ...
A cornette is a piece of female headwear. It is essentially a type of wimple consisting of a large starched piece of white cloth that is folded upward in such a way as to create the resemblance of horns (French: cornes) on the wearer's head. It remained fashionable for some Parisian ladies around 1800, [1] wearing ones made of muslin or gauze ...
The national emblem of France depicts a fasces, representing justice. Fasces, like many other symbols of the French Revolution, are Roman in origin. Fasces are a bundle of birch rods containing a sacrificial axe. In Roman times, the fasces symbolized the power of magistrates, representing union and accord with the Roman Republic.