Thomas Chester (c. 1524 – 1583) was the member of Parliament for the constituency of Bristol for the parliament of 1563 and Gloucestershire for the parliament of 1572.. The son of a wealthy [Bristol] merchant William Chester (d. 1558), he served as sheriff of Bristol in 1559 before being elected to parliament for the city in 1567, when [John Walshe] became a judge.

Beginning in the 12th century CE, Livonia became a target for economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans, particularly for the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order.Around 1160, Hanseatic traders from Lübeck established a trading post on the site of the future city of Riga, which Bishop Albrecht von Buxthoeven founded in 1201. He ordered (1215) the …

The Sukhothai Kingdom (Thai: สุโขทัย, RTGS: Sukhothai, IAST: Sukhodaya, pronounced [sù.kʰǒː.tʰāj] ()) was a post-classical Thai kingdom in Mainland Southeast Asia surrounding the ancient capital city of Sukhothai in present-day north-central Thailand.The kingdom was founded by Si Inthrathit in 1238 and existed as an independent polity until 1438, when it fell under the ...

Hugo Grotius (niederländisch Huigh oder Hugo de Groot; * 10. April 1583 in Delft, Niederlande; † 28. August 1645 in Rostock) war ein politischer Philosoph, reformierter Theologe, Rechtsgelehrter und früher Aufklärer sowie Vorkämpfer des Toleranzgedankens in religiösen Fragen.. Grotius gilt als einer der intellektuellen Gründungsväter des Souveränitätsgedankens, der …

Wallenstein, eigentlich Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Waldstein, tschechisch Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna (* 24. September 1583 in Hermanitz an der Elbe; † 25. Februar 1634 in Eger), war ein böhmischer Feldherr und Politiker. Er ist eine der bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten des Dreißigjährigen Krieges.. Er war Herzog von Friedland und Sagan, von 1628 bis 1631 als …

Abduction of a Sabine Woman (or Rape of the Sabine Women) is a large and complex marble statue by the Flemish sculptor and architect Giambologna (Johannes of Boulogne). It was completed between 1579 and 1583 for Cosimo I de' Medici. Giambologna achieved widespread fame in his lifetime, and this work is widely considered his masterpiece. It has been in the …

The benandanti ("Good Walkers") were members of an agrarian visionary tradition in the Friuli district of Northeastern Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries. The benandanti claimed to travel out of their bodies while asleep to struggle against malevolent witches (malandanti) in order to ensure good crops for the season to come.Between 1575 and 1675, in the midst of the Early …

佐久間 盛政（さくま もりまさ）は、戦国時代から安土桃山時代の武将、大名。 織田氏の家臣。 加賀 金沢城（尾山城）主 。 通称は玄蕃允で、佐久間玄蕃の名でも知られ、夜叉玄蕃や鬼玄蕃 の異名でも知られた勇将であった 。

This is a list of countries by tobacco consumption and cigarette consumption per capita.. As of 2014, cigarettes were smoked by over 1 billion people, nearly 20% of the world's population then.About 800 million of these smokers are men. While smoking rates have leveled off or declined in developed nations, in many developing nations tobacco consumption continues to …

The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis or simply Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire on demonology.It was compiled in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older. It is divided into five books—the Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, and Ars Notoria.

Post offices and other mail service providers typically offer a mail forwarding service, commonly known as hybrid mail or virtual post office box services, to redirect mail addressed to one location to another address – usually for a given period. In the case of the United States Postal Service's First Class Mail, it is generally for a period of one year.

Een galei was een mede door roeiers aangedreven schip uit de klassieke oudheid en de middeleeuwen.Het had ook driehoekzeilen of het Latijnse zeil als hulpmiddel om te varen. Galeien werden hoofdzakelijk op en rond de Middellandse Zee gebruikt. Het model is door de eeuwen heen veel veranderd.

As a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus (Latin for "computation"). Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (a fixed approximation of the March equinox).Determining this date in advance requires a correlation between the lunar months …

Cream cheese is a soft, usually mild-tasting fresh cheese made from milk and cream. Stabilizers such as carob bean gum and carrageenan are often added in industrial production.. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration defines cream cheese as containing at least 33% milk fat with a moisture content of not more than 55%, and a pH range of 4.4 to 4.9. Similarly, under …