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Hace 2 días · An 18th-century Rajput painting by the artist Nihâl Chand The term Rajput painting refers to works of art created at the Rajput-ruled courts of Rajasthan, Central India , and the Punjab Hills . The term is also used to describe the style of these paintings, distinct from the Mughal painting style.
Hace 1 día · During the 18th century, couples usually married between the ages of 20–24, and 6–8 children were typical of a family, with three on average surviving to adulthood. Farm women provided most of the materials needed by the rest of the family by spinning yarn from wool and knitting sweaters and stockings, making candles and soap from ashes, and churning milk into butter.
Hace 3 días · Theatres of the early 18th century – sexual farces of the Restoration were superseded by politically satirical comedies, 1737 Parliament passed the Stage Licensing Act 1737 which introduced state censorship of public performances and limited the number of theatres in London to two. Nineteenth-century theatre
Hace 2 días · Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D. 1,143,000–3,429,000 (estimated 30–90% of population) [68] [69] 1629–1631 Italian plague (part of the second plague pandemic ) 1629–1631. Italy. Bubonic plague.
Hace 3 días · A 1st-century BC Roman catapult launching 6.55 kg (14.4 lb) stones achieved a kinetic energy of 16 kilojoules, compared to a mid-19th-century 12-pounder gun, which fired a 4.1 kg (9.0 lb) round, with a kinetic energy of 240 kilojoules, or a 20th-century US battleship that fired a 1,225 kg (2,701 lb) projectile from its main battery with an energy level surpassing 350 megajoules.
Hace 2 días · The East India Company Military Seminary was founded in 1809 at Addiscombe, near Croydon, Surrey, to train young officers for service in the company's armies in India. It was based in Addiscombe Place, an early 18th-century mansion. The government took it over in 1858 and renamed it the Royal Indian Military College.
Hace 2 días · 18th century Stanislaus II Augustus , c. 1780 by Marcello Bacciarelli As a young man of the Enlightenment , and already befriended by a Welsh diplomat, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams , the young Stanislaus Poniatowski , future and last King of Poland , stayed in Britain for some months during 1754.
