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The Advent of the Worlds First Parliament in Iceland

Posted On May 27, 2020

When the Vikings settled Iceland, no monarch was installed, which forced these settlers to find a new system of government; democracy. The early decades of settlement were effectively without structured law, but after 2 generations, 36 leading farmer Vikings banded […]

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The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 and its Impact Upon Modern Royals

Posted On June 14, 2019

King George III married for dynastic reasons but his 2 brothers each married commoners would had been married before. George found this unacceptable as it brought the royal family disrepute. In 1772, George passed the Royal Marriages Act which stated […]

Cultural Anthropology / Economics / Finance / Gastronomy / History / Numismatics / Sociology

The Financial Costs of High Society Dinner Parties During the Victorian Era

Posted On June 3, 2019

During the 19th century, a typical high society dinner menu for 20 people would have cost $100.00 in total, for the Earl of an estate, equivalent to the annual salary of a maid for 2 full years of service. When […]

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Prince Albert’s Philanthropic Project of the South Kensington Museum

Posted On May 8, 2019

Prince Albert owned the worlds largest collection of Raphael reproductions with over 50 unique portraits. Albert commissioned a photographer to go into the Vatican Museum in Rome, Italy and take photographs of all Raphael works. These photographs of course lacked […]

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Antiquitous British Law Which Sentenced Capital Punishment for Imagining the Death of the Monarchy

Posted On May 3, 2019

In antiquity, it was once considered treasonous and by definition illegal to imagine in one’s own head, the death of a monarch. This confusing and impossible to enforce judicial decree was enacted in 1351 as the Treason Act during the […]

Anthropology / Cultural Anthropology / Sociology / Theology

Ancient Druid Power and Influence Upon Society

Posted On April 3, 2019

The Ancient Druids had tools used for predicting the future with one example being the divination spoons, a small set of golden leaf shaped items which were concave with a small hole upon one of the leaflets. Blood would be […]

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Indonesian Islam

Posted On August 14, 2018

In Indonesia, during the 16th century (although various sources of contrasting Islamic documentation state Islamic traders brought Islam to Indonesia in the 8th century), Islam had mass appeal to the general population. Islam strictly forbade discrimination and idolation of any […]

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