It is safe to say that the beginnings of cufflinks can be traced back to when men first thought of looking for something elegant to hold their cuffs together. The cuff is an extra layer of fabric that can be found at the edge of a sleeve of any garment, usually a shirt, a trouser or a jacket. Cufflinks, though small and less noticeable, have a rich history. This article will provide you with insight on how cufflinks developed - from the improvised chains attached to buttons to the engravable cufflinks
Chivalry was considered to be the code of behavior expected of a knight. It was the conduct, ideas, and ideals of the knightly class of the Middle Ages. It became standardized and referred to as chivalry, a term derived from the French word chevalier, meaning knight. The code urged the knight to be brave, courageous, honorable, true to his word, and loyal to his feudal overlord, and to defend his Church. A knight was truthful, honest, capable, educated, physically fit, noble, sincere, and subservient
The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC starts the beginning of the Hellenistic Period and covers 300 years to the invasion of Egypt by the Romans. The word Hellenic only pertains to just Greeks, but the term Hellenistic means the Greek-influenced groups that arose in the wake of Alexander's conquest. The Hellenistic world extended from Greece all the way to Afghanistan and resulted in the beginning of the mass spreading of Greek culture. Three reasons how Hellenism affected the antient world
On July 16, 1923, Delapore moved into Exham Priory that overlooked the desolate valley three miles west of the village of Anchester, after the last workman had finished his labors (Lovecraft 15). After nature struck down the building, his family, a once-prominent English clan, decides to restore the ancestral home, Exham Priory. Delapore was the only one to survive. The short story The Rats in the Wall by H.P. Lovecraft begins to unravel the mysterious background of the Narrator Delapore, releasing
In his wickedly clever debut mystery, Alan Bradley introduces the one and only Flavia de Luce: a refreshingly precocious, sharp, and impertinent 11-year old heroine who goes through a bizarre maze of mystery and deception. Bradley designs Bishop’s Lacey, a 1950s village, Buckshaw, the de Luce’s crumbling Gothic mansion, and reproduces the hedges, gently rolling hills, and battered lanes of the countryside with explicit detail. Suspense mounts up as Flavia digs up long-buried secrets after the corpse
Wabi-Sabi The term Wabi Sabi is difficult to define, through it is typically used to refer to accepting and honoring the imperfect. “Wabi has come to mean simple, unmaterialistic and humble by choice and sabi by itself means ‘the bloom of time’. It connotes natural progression.” Wabi-sabi rejects the idea that perfection is even possible, and further rejects the idea that perfection is desirable. In this sense, Wabi Sabi is the exact opposite of Modernism, or the spirit of the machine age, which
left-handed. Then, the linking number of the two components is lk(D_i,D_j )=1/2 ∑_r▒ε_r . Linking number is a link invariant. The linking number of a splittable two-component link is 0. 2.4 Tri-colourability Another method of distinguishing the unknot from other knots is by using a diagram’s tricolorable property. A projection of a knot or link is tricolorable if each strand can be coloured one of three different colours, at least two colours must be used and at each crossing, the three incident
Throughout a person’s everyday life, he or she grows as a person through the relationships and encounters they have with others. Similarly, William Shakespeare writes a play called The Taming of the Shrew that tells the tale of a young woman, Katherine, who is known to be erratic and short tempered. She is later married off to a man named Petruchio, who only agrees to marry her for her dowry. Katherine is unhappy with the marriage, because Petruchio interacts with her the way she does with other