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TIL that the dress codes are symbolic indications of different social ideas. The history started from the 7th through the 9th centuries, the European royalty and nobility used a dress code to differentiate themselves from other people through ornamented garments, especially the collar.
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TIL about sir Richard Burton, an English explorer and writer who: travelled to Mecca in disguise, translated the One Thousand and One Nights (unexpurgated), the Kama Sutra and The Perfumed Garden (the “Arab Kama Sutra”) in English, and was the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa
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TIL that Louis IX of France, also known as Saint Louis, was viewed as “primus inter pares” (first among equals) among the kings and rulers of Europe as he commanded the largest army and ruled the largest and wealthiest kingdom, the centre of European art and intellectual thought at the time.
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