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3 days ago · The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus ( lit. 'Great State' in Kipchak Turkic ), [8] was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. [9] With the division of the Mongol Empire after 1259, it became a functionally separate khanate.
4 days ago · A cantor and treasurer were in office by 1132, shortly after the start of Robert de Béthune's pontificate, but it is quite likely that a treasurer existed earlier, (fn. 22) and not impossible that there was an earlier cantor also. (fn. 23) The change of the cantor's title to precentor came with the appointment of William Foliot to the office ...
1 day ago · 1959 in art – Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein. 1958 in art – Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings; Birth of Brian O'Connor (artist) and Don Yeomans. 1957 in art – Death of David Bomberg, Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats; Birth of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.
5 days ago · In addition Ranulph III gave them the manor of Wallerscote in Delamere forest and the right to grind corn for their table free in the mills of Chester. (fn. 9) Members of the circle of the earls of Chester increased the house's possessions by giving land, usually in Chester or its suburbs and often on the occasion of members of their families ...
2 days ago · The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
4 days ago · A castle (fn. 1) was built at Gloucester soon after the Norman Conquest, 16 houses having been demolished to make way for it. (fn. 2) It was placed in the custody of the sheriff of the county, Roger of Gloucester. That castle, distinguished as the old castle in 1143, (fn. 3) probably had as its motte the mound called Barbican hill, in the south ...
5 days ago · The King’s Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England. London, Continuum, 2010, ISBN: 9781847251862; 256pp.; Price: £30.00. There was a time, not so long ago, when the history of the Jewish communities of 12th- and 13th-century England was a neglected subject in English historical studies. No longer.
