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A Priest Before the Beginning of the Sacrifice, illustrated in the book of H. Maletius (1561-1562).

Arches (Crossbows) broochs. Type Algrem VI

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Baltic troops in the time of Atila. Aesti used a "Balteus Vidgiriai" type tape and a knife-dagger attached to it. It was unique to the then Barbaricum.

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Balto-Slavs Balto-Slavic The Balts Dniepr Balts Pomeranian Balts Moshchiny culture Kolochin culture Baltic Languages Old Prussian Dacian and Thracian History of the Balts Kunda Culture Corded Ware culture Rzucewo culture Middle Dnieper culture Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture Abashevo culture Volosovo culture Globular Amphora Culture Haplogroup N1c1 Balto-Slavic The Balto-Slavic languages are a branch of the Indo-European family…

Saule,gaisma, balts, sarkans un krusts- pirmais, kas nāk prātā dzirdot vārdu Malta.

The Latvians are part of the ancient group of peoples known as the Balts. During the 10th and 11th centuries, Latvian lands were under pr...

Latvia falls into five ethnographic regions: Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Zemgale, Latgale, Augszeme, their distinctions reaching as far back as the ancient Balts and Finno-Ugrians. Traditional costumes reflect specific ethnic preferences and tastes expressed in the forms, colours and ornaments that people wear. A woman’s costume consists of a long skirt, rich in colour combinations, a long woven sash, a woven bodice or vest or a long-sleeved jacket, over a white linen embroidered blouse.

heavy: smags (smagais, smagāks, vissmagākais), light: viegls (vieglais, vieglāks, visvieglākais), correct: pareizs (pareizais, pareizāks, vispareizākais), wrong: nepareizs (nepareizais, nepareizāks, visnepareizākais), difficult: sarežģīts (sarežģītais, sarežģītāks, vissarežģītākais), easy: viegls (vieglais, vieglāks, visvieglākais), few: maz, many: daudz, new: jauns (jaunais, jaunāks, visjaunākais), old: vecs (vecais, vecāks, visvecākais), slow: lēns (lēnais, lēnāks, vislēnākais), quick: ātrs (ātrais, ātrāks, visātrākais), poor: nabags (nabagais, nabagāks, visnabagākais), rich: bagāts (bagātais, bagātāks, visbagātākais), white: balts, black: melns, grey: pelēks, green: zaļš, blue: zils, red: sarkans, pink: rozā

Officials ceremonially cut the ribbon officially opening the Vandenberg Air Force Base education center Feb. 27. Cutting the ribbon are (L to R): Chief Master Sgt. Ryan Petersen, 30th Space Wing command chief; Col. Keith Balts, 30th Space Wing commander; Col. Kim Colloton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District commander; Lt. Col. Gregory Marty, 30th Force Support Squadron commander; Barbara Bennie, Force Development Flight chief; and Col. Brent McArthur, 30th Space Wing vice commander. VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Officials cut the ribbon Feb. 27 ceremonially opening a brand new education center that will help Airmen stationed at this central coast base achieve their personal and professional education goals. The $14.2 million center replaced a 60-year-old elementary school campus, which had been used as the education center for more than 40 years. "We hear the dollar value, and I just can't stress how precious those dollars are in today's fiscal environment," said Col. Keith Balts, 30th Space Wing commander. "The fact that we get to do military construction at all, especially something for the quality of our Airmen and their families, says a lot about the importance we place on education." One of the center's first customers was Senior Airman Antoine Marshall, 30th Force Support Squadron, who joined the Air Force four years ago with an associate degree in criminal justice. "I just took the analyzing and interpreting literature CLEP (College Level Examination Program) exam," said Marshall, who's pursuing a bachelor's degree in organizational management. "It was my first one--I passed it. I'm extremely happy!" The 38,384-square-foot facility includes 20 classrooms, computer lab, testing center, and 75-seat auditorium, as well as offices for various colleges and universities serving the Vandenberg community. "I think the facility is great," said Marshall. "Overall, it provides a better environment to work and study, and it's just comfortable." The design-build project was constructed by Corps contractor Teehee-Straub, a joint-venture team from Oceanside, Calif. "The design was quite extensive, just due to the detail and the location," said Keith Hamilton, project executive for Teehee-Straub. "The site work was very challenging, and I think that was something that brought a lot of character to this building." Teehee-Straub's 21st century design included sustainable development and energy efficiencies, such as light pollution reduction and water use reduction. "This is a sustainable building," said Col. Kim Colloton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District commander. "We can build our buildings smartly, so they can do more; it's more [money] that can go back into the base." During construction, 75 percent of the construction and demolition debris was diverted from landfills and redirected back to the manufacturing process as reusable and recyclable material. Walk-off mats, exhaust systems and filtered heating and cooling improves indoor air quality. Low-flow fixtures and faucets, high-efficiency drip irrigation and drought-tolerant landscaping reduce potable water use by more than 40 percent. All are efficiencies the contractor believes will achive a LEED Silver rating (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, a Green Building Council rating system). "We're just proud to be part of this," said Teehee-Straub managing partner Richard Straub. "The Corps of Engineers is one of our favorite customers, and we love supporting the Air Force in doing a job that will educate a lot of servicemen."

Description Księżna Kazimiera Jerzyowska Czyrzniechowie of Królestwo Orła Białego A re-drawing of the original Polish Woman Warrior in the Historically Wrong Sketch Series: Medieval Revisited, which is roughly based on the Middle ages covering 800 AD to 1400 AD. She represents the historical Medieval Kingdom of Poland under both the Piast Dynasty as well as Jagiellon dynasty, before its integration into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, while the name itself is a bad Polish translation of "Kingdom of White Eagle" Inspired by the music: Main Theme - The Witcher 3 OST INTRODUCTION There's something bout Poland that just caught my attention when I started the Historically Wrong Sketch Series. It could be because of their Polish Winged Hussars, tasty Kielbasas or perhaps, that leftover taste from eating Bigos the other day. Either way, historically speaking, Poland has always been seen a land rampaged with troubles for many centuries, which is rather true especially during the era of the great Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. But for every large nation, there's always a humble beginning, and for the Polish people, it was a story of some insignificant West Slavic tribes, who converted themselves into humble Christian Kingdom and finally, one of the largest nation in Europe, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. DRAWING COMMENTARIES I find there's little record of Polish women that took part in warfare during the middle ages except for King Jadwiga of Poland , but perhaps there could be one or two material worth to read. Afterall, the region was, in times, pretty volatile to warrant anyone taking up arms to fight raiders and invaders. Historically speaking, Kingdom of Poland throughout its rule under the Piast dynasty from 11th - 14th century, was often fragmented, volatile and unstable, where local lords and the ruling Piast dynasties were often at each others throat vying for control over their land. The Mongol invasion of Poland in the 13th century depopulated many of the small Polish principalities, which resulted in the migration of western Europeans, particularly the Germans, due to the increasing demand for labors to fuel the growing economy. These German settlers brought changes to the Polish society, who gradually adopted western European customs and laws, turning them into a very influential minorities in urban centers, especially in Silesia and other regions of western Poland. The arrival of Teutonic Orders also brought changes to the political situation of the region, whose conflict eventually led to the transition of Polish Piast rule to Lithuanian Jagiellon rule of the Kingdom in the late 14th century. As such, it is safe to say that by the late middle ages, Polish army and their equipment were on par with the other Western European armies, with variations along the eastern marches due to contact with Balts, other eastern Slavs and the steppe nomads. The concept for princess Kazimiera however, is a little bit different. She is based on the illustration of Jan Matejko, where a knight is depicted wearing a face helmet, with an armor that resembles segmented plates. On simple observation, his illustration is close to the structure of 13th CE coat of plate (without the coat), but I decided to keep the style for artistic license. The helmet itself is probably anachronistic, but perhaps it's based on the late 15th century bascinet found at Siedladkow, currently being kept at National Archeological Museum of Lodz. Another possibility for the helmet is a reconstruction of conical helmet by Dr Michael Gorelic, which is kept in the national museum of Krakow. The rest of her retainers at the background are depicted in typical armaments of those era, in particular, the mazovian lord on the left, which is based on the seal of duke of Mazovia. I must admit, i was a bit bold to try depicting mounted scene, something I have yet to become familiar. Though this drawing contains a lot of error, I do hope that you all enjoy it REFERENCES AND OTHER RELATED MEDIA Maybe related to the following: The Germans, The Balts (Lithuanian), The Eastern Slavs and the later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth A Part of the Historically Wrong Sketch Series: Medieval Revisited - You can find more on the various faction on the map here: DRAWING COMMENTARIES The history of Poland is an interesting topic to study in my opinion. We all know that in the late 16th - 17th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the most powerful nation in Europe. But before the Commonwealth was born, Poland had humble beginning in the medieval period. Pre-middle ages history was a bit obscure, but in late 10th century the region was referred to as Civitas Schinesghe in the document called Dagome Iudex, which historians pointed out as the region inhabited by the western Slavic tribe called Polans. When Duke Mieszko I of Piast Dynasty converted into Christianity, the Polish people and their sovereignty joined the family of Christian Powers in Europe under the leadership of Pope. The early Christian Polish state was ruled by dukes, but when Bolesław I The Bravewas crowned the first king of Poland, Europe would soon discover that the new kingdom of Poland was born, the one which would eventually shake the balance of powers in the history of Eastern Europe. Under the Piast dynasty, Kingdom of Poland was relatively "peaceful" but was often becoming a target of raids of the neighboring Baltic tribes. The internal situation of the kingdom of Poland itself was pretty fragile, especially between 1138-1295 AD, since the Kingdom had no single ruler and many of its powerful dukes from the Piast dynasty were often in conflict with each other to gain power in this Kingdom. Then, in this troubled time, one of Poland's powerful duke, Konrad of Mazovia, decided independently to invite the Teutonic Order into the region, since he had pretty serious problem with the other dukes as well as the pagan Prussians who threatened his northern border. The Teutonic order did their job properly in "pacifying the pagans" as intended to be, although the whole affair would later turned into a wholesale genocide of the Baltic tribes. When the Polish people realized that the Knights of Teutonic Order were actually carving their own power base, it was already too late. After devastating most of the Baltic region, the order turned their eye on Poland, which, by this time, was struggling due to succession crisis and the weakening power of the Piast rule. The takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk) marked the beginning of Polish-Teutonic conflicts for the next few centuries. But, everything changed a lot when king Kazimierz III The Great died leaving no heir and Jadwiga was installed as Poland's King in 1384-1385 AD. By this time, the Baltic tribe had united under the single banner, in the form of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Lithuanian nobles and its duke, Jogaila (later known as Władysław II Jagiełło) knew that eventually they would have to convert to Christianity to avoid further crusades or worst, launched against their people in the future. Jogaila accepted the Poland's proposal to marry him with Jadwiga, and in the 1385, the two nation was brought together into a personal union. The two union would later continue to combat the threat of the Teutonic order and reduced it to negligible power in the region. However, by this time, the Russians under the Grand Principality of Moscow (Muscovite) had became independent from the Mongol Rule. The newly created state and its ruler were quite ambitious, and with their military might, they succeeded in annexing most of their neighbors, including Novgorod. The Muscovite expansion did not go unnoticed however, and the threat was strongly felt by the Lithuanians. A movement for co-operation and stronger bond to preserve the union amidst external threat, as well as internal threat, was therefore needed, and in 1569, the two union decided to merge under the union of Lublin, transforming the two state into Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the birth of one of Europe's most dynamic, powerful and influential state in our history.