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When was the White Feather first used as a symbol of cowardice? In what became a controversial campaign, women gave men who they thought hadn’t enlisted a white feather as a mark of shame or cowardice for failing to perform their duty One problem was that some recipients were in reserved occupations while, in one case, a man received such a feather on the same day as the Victoria Cross
What were the individual soldiers motivated by during World War 1 . . . The white feather was a public accusation of cowardice The order was started in Britain at the outbreak of WWI by Admiral Charles Fitzgerald and was so successful and so zealous that it was necessary to provide civil servants and honourably discharged soldiers with badges so that they weren't publicly shamed
Did Isaac Newton write with a quill pen? - History Stack Exchange Depending on availability and strength of the feather, as well as quality and characteristic of the line wanted by the writer, other feathers used for quill-pen making include those from the crow, eagle, owl, turkey, and hawk too Crow feathers were particularly useful as quills when fine work, such as accounting books, was required
What did students write on in the 17th century? What did school children and university students write on in the 17th century? Did they have notebooks, what type of papers they used and did they write with feather and ink? History of Simple Thi
If Aristotle said Birds of a feather flock together, why is it . . . Some define it as a kind of likeness and say like people are friends, whence come the sayings 'like to like', ' birds of a feather flock together ', and so on (Book 8, 1155a32) Elsewhere (e g , Wiktionary) the phrase is attributed allegedly to Plato Why is it attributed allegedly to Plato if it can be attributed certainly to Aristotle?
Why was the Ottoman flag changed from an eight-pointed star to five . . . A plain red flag was introduced as the civil ensign for all Ottoman subjects The white crescent with an eight-pointed star on a red field is depicted as the flag of a "Turkish Man of War" in Colton's Delineation of Flags of All Nations (1862) Steenbergen's Vlaggen van alle Natiën of the same year shows a six-pointed star
Why would chickens be blue in the Soviet Union? For the benefit of those who think that by "blue" chickens they're referring to chickens with a few feathers that might at a stretch be considered blue, here is the fuller quote from the NYRB article: Nor would the private markets sell mayonnaise They’d sell everything else—poultry birds proudly displaying curly yellow fat in their cavities, as if in reproach to the bony and blue chickens
When and why did having long hair become associated with women, and . . . I think it is less common general, and the reason why we see all around is more to do with the homogenisation of fashion trends than else Long hair or whigs were common in Europe even till 19th century, and different versions of long hair + partially shaved head was eg standard for fighter classes like samurais On the other hand shave head is traditional to jewish orthodox females even
Why did quill pens persist until the early 19th century despite the . . . While you could kind of make a raw feather work, it will not give a good result Just pluck, cut, and scribble is not a reasonable expectation Large birds were certainly more available than metal of sufficient high quality, to say nothing of the jeweler's metalworking skills, but quills still took deliberate preparation and a learned technique