The city of Florence was established in 59 BC by Julius Caesar.Since 846 AD, the city had been part of the Marquisate of Tuscany.After the female ruler of the marquisate, Matilda of Tuscany, died in 1115, the city did not submit readily to her successor Rabodo (r. 1116–1119), who was killed in a dispute with the city. It is not known precisely when Florence formed its own …

The Westos originally lived near Lake Erie in the 1640s but relocated to escape the Iroquois mourning wars designed to repopulate the Iroquois Confederacy due to large number of deaths due to wars and disease. The Westos eventually moved to Virginia and then South Carolina to take advantage of trading routes.

The history of condoms goes back at least several centuries, and perhaps beyond. For most of their history, condoms have been used both as a method of birth control, and as a protective measure against venereal (sexually transmitted) diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis B and more recently HIV/AIDS.Condoms have been made from a variety of materials; …

Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, Roman mythology may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period. Roman mythology draws …

Devon is a county in south west England, bordering Cornwall to the west with Dorset and Somerset to the east. There is evidence of occupation in the county from Stone Age times onward. Its recorded history starts in the Roman period when it was a civitas.It was then a separate kingdom for a number of centuries until it was incorporated into early England.

6550 BC: Canoe Neolithic Africa (Exact area unknown) Nigeria : 28 ft (8.5 m) Bibongho canoe — 6000 BC: Canoe Prehistoric Korea: South Korea : 10.17 ft (3.10 m) Pirogues de Bercy: 4500 BC: Canoe Neolithic France: France (Musée Carnavalet) 17.00 ft (5.18 m) Dugout Canoe of Gué de Beaulieu: 3500–3000 BC: Canoe Neolithic France France

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Sanday (/ ˈ s æ n d iː /, Scots: Sandee) is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland.With an area of 50.43 km 2 (19.5 sq mi), it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands. The main centres of population are Lady Village and Kettletoft.Sanday can be reached by Orkney Ferries or by plane (Sanday Airport) from Kirkwall on the Orkney Mainland.

Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations and operates in the wider context of social history.Certain jurists and historians of legal process have seen legal history as the recording of the evolution of laws and the technical explanation of how these laws have …

The history of hospitals began in antiquity with hospitals in Greece, the Roman Empire and on the Indian subcontinent as well, starting with precursors in the Asclepian temples in ancient Greece and then the military hospitals in ancient Rome.The Greek temples were dedicated to the sick and infirm but did not look anything like modern hospitals. The Romans did not have …

Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a …

Incumbents Crown. Monarch – George V; Federal government. Governor General – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (until November 2) then John Buchan; Prime Minister – Richard B. Bennett (until October 23) then William Lyon Mackenzie King; Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia); Parliament – 17th (until 14 August); Provincial governments …

Loughcrew or Lough Crew (Irish: Loch Craobh, meaning 'lake of the tree') is an area of historical importance near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland.It is home to a group of ancient tombs from the 4th millennium BC, some decorated with rare megalithic art, which sit on top of a range of hills.The hills and tombs are together known as Slieve na Calliagh (Sliabh na Caillí) and are …

Beginning with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, New France, of which the colony of Canada was a part, formally became a part of the British Empire.The Royal Proclamation of 1763 enlarged the colony of Canada under the name of the Province of Quebec, which with the Constitutional Act 1791 became known as the Canadas.With the Act of Union 1840, Upper and Lower Canada were …