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Remember that from late 2010?
Conservatives claimed that Obama's trip to Mumbai would cost $200 million per day, and that he would also be flanked by an armada of US Navy ships.
Why did Cons make up this lie, and then refused to take credit for it once they were proven wrong?
Answer
Of Course they made up that Lie... Because they want the " Conservative Base" to be upset with the idea that this " Person " is living like the President of the United States.. It was totally false, and started with some News paper in India, someone wrote in the paper as a Joke that he would have a fleet of vessels with him and 1000 personnel. Then Conservatives blamed the Indian newspaper for running with that lie.. Fox News even reported on it and never bothered correcting it. They want to paint Obama as a big spender.
They never had a problem with Bush. Who took over 400 days vacation both terms.. Google Bush vacation time as president.
Of Course they made up that Lie... Because they want the " Conservative Base" to be upset with the idea that this " Person " is living like the President of the United States.. It was totally false, and started with some News paper in India, someone wrote in the paper as a Joke that he would have a fleet of vessels with him and 1000 personnel. Then Conservatives blamed the Indian newspaper for running with that lie.. Fox News even reported on it and never bothered correcting it. They want to paint Obama as a big spender.
They never had a problem with Bush. Who took over 400 days vacation both terms.. Google Bush vacation time as president.
What are some customs and social etiquette of the late 15th century in Europe?
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I'm working on a story that's set in the late 15th century (around 1480 or so), and I would like to be as historically accurate as I can. I know a few of the social things in western Europe, but I would like to know as many as possible. Thank you!
Answer
There is no such thing as customs and social etiquette in Europe in that era. Traditions varied VERY severely based on the exact location.
At the time, labour was organized in guilds, which only men could join and only Christian men from the area they were born in. Foreigners had to pay ludicrous fees, and Jews and Women were not allowed to join guilds and so not to have any sort of business for themselves, save for unguilded business (that's how so many Jews ended up in banking and diamond trade). Depending on the area, very early marriages were common, or very late ones (Dutch region, late marriages were basically used as contraception to limit family size). The vast majority of the people worked in farming, towns were relatively small - 10 000 inhabitants for a capital, 1000 inhabitants for most other towns. Every few years, plague epidemics and other epidemics swept the country, and over a third of the children died before age 4. Chance of dying in labour for a woman were one in ten, and an average marriage lasted 15 years after which on average, one of the spouses would die and the remaining spouse usually re-married.
In this era, witch trials were still quite common. Most the people executed this way were not witches of any sort, but political opponents, scientists, as well as just plain people who weren't liked by their fellow villagers (those who were convicted of witchery and executed forfeited their posessions, which were then split amongst those who had reported the "witchcraft" as well as amongst the lord of the land). People were tortured for confessions, burned at the stake, etc. If you stole, your hand was chopped off, and similar. There was no such thing as prison sentences - you were either executed or whipped or corporally punished in some other way. Besides the plague there was also a disease which ate away people's flesh, leaving them without limbs - it's still quite common in India these days - and they were reduced to begging, often living just outside of the town on the gallow fields and the like. Other extremely common diseases were cholera, dysenthery, vitamin C shortage, rachitis, iodine shortage, iron shortage, various inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, tuberculosis, and of course all sorts of diseases we vaccinate against now (look them up). Life expectancy was something like 36 years on average, someone of 50 years of age was considered very very old.
Sexual morale was not as tight as we're led to believe. In public bath houses, women and men alike bathed in the same baths at the same time. Women in villages often fell pregnant without being married, which was very bad news of course, but generally it just happened that way.
Read a lot of Shakespeare and Chaucer if you want to get an idea, btw. :)
There is no such thing as customs and social etiquette in Europe in that era. Traditions varied VERY severely based on the exact location.
At the time, labour was organized in guilds, which only men could join and only Christian men from the area they were born in. Foreigners had to pay ludicrous fees, and Jews and Women were not allowed to join guilds and so not to have any sort of business for themselves, save for unguilded business (that's how so many Jews ended up in banking and diamond trade). Depending on the area, very early marriages were common, or very late ones (Dutch region, late marriages were basically used as contraception to limit family size). The vast majority of the people worked in farming, towns were relatively small - 10 000 inhabitants for a capital, 1000 inhabitants for most other towns. Every few years, plague epidemics and other epidemics swept the country, and over a third of the children died before age 4. Chance of dying in labour for a woman were one in ten, and an average marriage lasted 15 years after which on average, one of the spouses would die and the remaining spouse usually re-married.
In this era, witch trials were still quite common. Most the people executed this way were not witches of any sort, but political opponents, scientists, as well as just plain people who weren't liked by their fellow villagers (those who were convicted of witchery and executed forfeited their posessions, which were then split amongst those who had reported the "witchcraft" as well as amongst the lord of the land). People were tortured for confessions, burned at the stake, etc. If you stole, your hand was chopped off, and similar. There was no such thing as prison sentences - you were either executed or whipped or corporally punished in some other way. Besides the plague there was also a disease which ate away people's flesh, leaving them without limbs - it's still quite common in India these days - and they were reduced to begging, often living just outside of the town on the gallow fields and the like. Other extremely common diseases were cholera, dysenthery, vitamin C shortage, rachitis, iodine shortage, iron shortage, various inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, tuberculosis, and of course all sorts of diseases we vaccinate against now (look them up). Life expectancy was something like 36 years on average, someone of 50 years of age was considered very very old.
Sexual morale was not as tight as we're led to believe. In public bath houses, women and men alike bathed in the same baths at the same time. Women in villages often fell pregnant without being married, which was very bad news of course, but generally it just happened that way.
Read a lot of Shakespeare and Chaucer if you want to get an idea, btw. :)
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