Fashion in the period 1650–1700 in Western European clothing is characterized by rapid change. The style of this era is known as Baroque. Following the end of the Thirty Years’ War and the Restoration of England’s Charles II, military influences in men’s clothing were replaced by a brief period of decorative exuberance which then sobered into the coat, waistcoat and breeches costume that would reign for the next century and
Vijaysinh Shankarao Mohite-Patil (born 12 June 1944) is a politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and Member of Parliament (MP) for Madha in Maharashtra since the 2014 general election.He was earlier associated with Nationalist Congress Party.He left NCP on 21 March 2019. Prior to that he served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He was also a Minister for
Type locality, also called type area, is the locality where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit or mineral species is first identified. If the stratigraphic unit in a locality is layered, it is called a stratotype, whereas the standard of reference for unlayered rocks is the type locality. The term is similar to the term type site in archaeology or the term type specimen in biology. Contents 1Examples of geological type
The Treaty of Purandar (or Treaty of Purandhar) was a doctrine signed on 1 March 1776 by the peshwa of the Maratha people and the British East India Company‘s Supreme Council of Bengal in Calcutta. Based on the terms of the accord, the British were able to secure Salsette. Treaty was signed between the then Governor General Warren Hasting who sent Colonel Upton and Nana Phadnavis of Peshwa in
The Mughal dynasty (Hindustani: मुग़ल ख़ानदान/مغل خاندان; romanized: Mug̱ẖāl Kẖāndhān) was made up of the members of the imperial House of Babur (Hindustani: बाबर का परिवार: romanized: Bābar ka parivār/ خاندانِ آل بابر; romanized: Kẖāndhān-ı Āl-i ʿBābuŕ), also known as the Gurkanis (Persian: گورکانیان, Gūrkāniyān). The Mughals were a branch of the Timurid dynasty of Turco-Mongol origin from Central Asia. The dynasty’s founder, Babur, was a direct descendant of Asian conqueror Timur the Great on his father’s
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous land empire in history and the second largest empire by landmass, second only to the British Empire. Originating in Mongolia in East Asia, the Mongol Empire eventually stretched from Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to the Sea of Japan, extending northward into parts of the Arctic; eastward and southward into the Indian subcontinent, Mainland Southeast Asia and the Iranian Plateau;
Baburao Painter (1890–1954) was an Indian film director. Contents 1Life 2Film career 3Filmography 3.1Actor 3.2Art Director 3.3Writer 3.4Cinematographer 3.5Director 4References Life He was born Baburao Krishnarao Mestry in 1890 in Kolhapur. He taught himself to paint and derives its name “Painter”. (hence the name) and sculpt in academic art school style. He and his artist cousin Anandrao Painter between 1910 and 1916 were the leading painters of
Deshastha Brahmins are a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Maharashtra and northern area of the state of Karnataka. Other than these two states, according to authors K. S. Singh, Gregory Naik and Pran Nath Chopra, Deshastha Brahmins are also concentrated in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Author Pran Nath Chopra and journalist Pritish Nandysays, “Most of the well-known saints from Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were
Zīj-i Sulṭānī (Persian: زیجِ سلطانی) is a Zij astronomical table and star catalogue that was published by Ulugh Beg in 1438–1439. It was the joint product of the work of a group of Muslim astronomers working under the patronage of Ulugh Beg at Samarkand’s Ulugh Beg Observatory. These astronomers included Jamshīd al-Kāshī and Ali Qushji, among others. The Zij-i-Sultani is generally considered the most accurate and extensive star catalogue up to its time, surpassing its
A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm gear (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear). The two elements are also called the worm screw and worm wheel. The terminology is often confused by imprecise use of the term worm gear to refer to the worm, the worm gear, or the worm drive