King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska at the Stenhammar Palace in the southeast of Sweden on 19 August.
Did you know that there's a place in #Europe that still has a #feudal system?
The #crown dependency of #Sark is a curious place. It has no paved #roads & #cars are forbidden, #women only got the right to inherit #property in 1999, & the whole island is, to this day, a fiefdom.
This means the #monarch is the head, with a #lord (seigneur here) as the executive power & the tenants (effectively liegemen) as the vassals.
l y a soixante ans, le 28 août 1963, la Marche sur Washington pour l’emploi et la liberté marquait un épisode crucial du mouvement des droits civiques, entré dans les mémoires avec le discours de Martin Luther King "I have a dream"... Le documentaire de référence sur le sujet : King, de Montgomery à Memphis (1970) à voir sur Cinemutins https://www.cinemutins.com/king-de-montgomery-a-memphis-1 #martinlutherking#king#ihaveadream
#Babar author #Laurent de #Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture-book series about an #elephant-#king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at the age of 98.
Le corbeau avait gagné les sondages sur les réseaux à un poil de cheveux ! Finalement, le vote lors du live a tranché pour l'orque !🥳
Et on a même eu le temps de dessiner le Roi & la Reine orque avant le week-end ! 👑
Merci à tous d'avoir été présent.e.s durant le live, c'est toujours un super moment de coworking (agrémenté de tasse renversée, bugs, chien qui aboie et parking qui explose...)
Rendez-vous vendredi prochain pour un live... surprise ? 🤔
Merci à Pixie Games pour l'occasion d'avancer les illustrations d'un jeu avec la communauté !
Here's today's #Drag#lovefest 👑 but I'm doing something a bit different. This is my 1st #DragKing#DragMashup (# 1) This #king is #SigiMoonlight also (Jacqui Bardelang) @JacquiBardelang & he's giving me #fabulous Emperor Penguin vibes, even down to the orange in his hair 😍🐧
Did you know that some #medieval countries did not know queens?
A variety of #European countries had two types of rulers in the #MiddleAges: those by marriage & those by their own right (descent). If a ruler ascended the #throne by their own right, they were crowned “#king” - no matter the #gender.
Examples: Jadwiga, King of Poland (1384-1399), Anna Jagiellon, King of Poland (1575-1587), Anjou Mária, King of Hungary & Croatia (1382-1385 & 1386-1395)
It's The F^#king News Monday and today @JonathanLarsen is breaking news about a top official at a high-profile gov't agency on today's show... and there's more too! 5-6pm ET nicolesandler.com, progressivevoices.com, youtu.be/22k_u2To_O8 or come back later for the podcast!
Æþelðryþe, daughter of #King Anna, was married twice & twice bargained with her husbands to remain chaste.
She managed to become a #nun & the picture of healthy living. She ate only one meal a day & bathed only cold. She did make exceptions for both on holidays.
When she got a swelling on her neck, she laughed that it was punishment for wearing too many necklaces in her youth.
He was playing at a dance hall in the early 1950s when two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove. Mr. King fled the blaze and then remembered his $30 guitar. He ran into the burning building to rescue it. He learned thereafter that the fight had been about a woman named Lucille. For the rest of his life, Mr. King addressed his guitars — big Gibsons, curved like a woman’s hips — as Lucille
Zelenskyy meets King of Sweden (www.pravda.com.ua)
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska at the Stenhammar Palace in the southeast of Sweden on 19 August.