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Henry Gave Anne An Elaborate Coronation That Included Clothes Made From Gold
Henry VIII had moved heaven and earth to make Anne Boleyn his wife. So it was unsurprising that she got a coronation befitting a queen on May 31, 1533. Anne processed through the streets of London on the day of the grand spectacle.
Every detail of the coronation signaled the majesty of the Tudor dynasty. Anne even donned robes made from gold threads.
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The sixteen-year-old King of Egypt and Sudan, Farouk, with his mother Queen Nazli, and his sisters, Princesses Fawzia, Faiza, Faika, and Fathia (1936). After the death of his fahter on 28 April 1936, Farouk left England to return to Egypt as King. Besides inheriting the throne, he also received all of the land that his father had acquired, 75,000 acres in the Nile River valley, five palaces, two-hundred cars and two yachts, plus a fortune worth about USD $100 million.
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On August 7, 1947, one of 30 special trains carrying staff of the new Pakistan government to Karachi prepares to leave the Old Delhi Station. Muslim League National Guards stand to attention in honour of the departure.
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Jefferson himself fathered several children with his black woman slave. By this law he should have been castrated for having extra martial affair.
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The half caste children as they were called in those days, would be house maids of the white children of their father. To be a maid was a better position than working in a farm.
Those working in farms died premature death but maids, drivers and security guards lived longer.
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The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the seafloor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best-preserved 17th-century ship.
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What the heck? 52 years later?
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🍪🍪 THE MARIE BISCUIT 🍪🍪
🍪 The Marie biscuit was produced in 1874 by the London bakery Peek Freans, in commemoration of Russia's Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna's marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh.
🍪 The name Marie is a variation of the biscuit’s original name of Maria, Russia’s Grand Duchess Maria.
The wedding was the inspiration behind the biscuit’s birth when an English bakery made a sweet small round cookie stamped with the Duchess name, Maria.
They have also been known as María, Mariebon, and Marietta.
🍪 The biscuit became very popular throughout Europe, specifically in Spain where it became the country's symbol of economic recovery after the Civil War.
The biscuits were produced in mass quantities in Spanish bakeries during that time, due to wheat surplus.
🍪 The biscuit is round and usually has the name embossed on its top surface, whose edges are embossed with an intricate design. It is made from wheat flour, sugar, palm oil or sunflower seed oil - and is usually vanilla-flavored in comparison to the plain rich tea biscuit.
🍪 Marie biscuits are also enjoyed as sandwich biscuits to be filled with jam, margarine or butter.
Spread condensed milk between the cookies - cover the biscuits in golden syrup or crumble them with jelly and custard for a sweet irresistible dessert.
🍪 The Marie biscuit was produced in 1874 by the London bakery Peek Freans, in commemoration of Russia's Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna's marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh.
🍪 The name Marie is a variation of the biscuit’s original name of Maria, Russia’s Grand Duchess Maria.
The wedding was the inspiration behind the biscuit’s birth when an English bakery made a sweet small round cookie stamped with the Duchess name, Maria.
They have also been known as María, Mariebon, and Marietta.
🍪 The biscuit became very popular throughout Europe, specifically in Spain where it became the country's symbol of economic recovery after the Civil War.
The biscuits were produced in mass quantities in Spanish bakeries during that time, due to wheat surplus.
🍪 The biscuit is round and usually has the name embossed on its top surface, whose edges are embossed with an intricate design. It is made from wheat flour, sugar, palm oil or sunflower seed oil - and is usually vanilla-flavored in comparison to the plain rich tea biscuit.
🍪 Marie biscuits are also enjoyed as sandwich biscuits to be filled with jam, margarine or butter.
Spread condensed milk between the cookies - cover the biscuits in golden syrup or crumble them with jelly and custard for a sweet irresistible dessert.