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tsaimaitreya t1_jedrtkd wrote
Reply to comment by Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz
That's because you don't have an ozone layer, and most of your population are the wrong phenotype for that climate anyway
A moderate sun exposition is absolutely necessary
tsaimaitreya t1_ja2hkx6 wrote
Reply to comment by Nixon4Prez in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Tolkien was also deeply interested in mythology and fairy tales, it's not just linguistics
He started working on the silmarillion as early as during WWI
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Reply to comment by 647843267e in TIL The city of Verona, Italy, where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set, receives thousands of letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day. The letters are answered by a team of volunteers known as the "Juliet Club." by basictoknow
There's an original?
Funnily at the time the italians married substantially younger than the english... But then Shakespeare had to go overboard with it lol
tsaimaitreya t1_izwojpl wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Why is it that the life of William the Conquerer seems to be taken from a drama tv show? by Dawnbreaker234
But of course any writer would write that Matilda actually wanted to marry him but she couldn't say yes because of social conventions, and William had to stage a scene to broke the conventionalism and dulfill their mutual love
tsaimaitreya t1_ixhpssr wrote
Reply to comment by Pleasant_Skill2956 in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak
You aren't technically wrong but these claims are made out of regional pride. Many regions have claims to be the authentic homeland of Columbus, like Galicia, Catalonia or Mallorca. Bona fide spanish nationalists have no problem with him being italian at all, as he was still serving Spain. Italians doing great service to the spanish crown was a common sight these days (Andrea Doria, Spinola, Farnesio, the marquis of Pescara...)
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Reply to comment by Vegan_Harvest in TIL There are more flamenco schools in Japan than Spain by Dsarkela
I don't imagine the gypsies going to a formal school
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Reply to comment by ILL_Show_Myself_Out in TIL There are more flamenco schools in Japan than Spain by Dsarkela
For what I know nobody gives a fuck how you dress in your free time.
tsaimaitreya t1_jedt1vn wrote
Reply to comment by Hattix in TIL of Cáin Adomnáin, dubbed "Europe's first human rights treaty". Created in the year 697, was a set of laws - which kings across Ireland and parts of Scotland mutually agreed to follow - that guaranteed the safety of non-combatants in warfare. by Madbrad200
Americans are really into downplaying slavery to make their version more significant...