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A Moor's head, also known as a Maure, since the 11th century, is a symbol depicting the head of a black moor. The term moor came to define anyone who...10 KB (975 words) - 12:25, 3 April 2024
The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily...56 KB (6,455 words) - 21:40, 17 May 2024
1755 and was based on a traditional flag used previously. It portrays a Moor's head in black wearing a white bandana above his eyes on a white background...6 KB (580 words) - 14:34, 24 March 2024
Freising (district) (section The Freising Moor's head)rose from the arms of the medieval county of Moosburg The "Freising Moor's head" This is a controversial charge in the Coat of Arms, which could represent...4 KB (304 words) - 02:00, 20 March 2024
Flag of Sardinia (redirect from Flag of the four Moors)1999, describing it as a "white field with a red cross and a bandaged Moor's head facing away from the hoist (the edge close to the mast) in each quarter"...19 KB (2,168 words) - 03:31, 2 May 2024
Widecombe in the Moor (/ˌwɪdɪkəm ... ˈmʊər/) is a village and large civil parish in Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Its church is known as the...8 KB (944 words) - 01:28, 29 December 2023
isolated head of a moor is blazoned "a Maure" or a "moor's head". The reasons for the inclusion of a blackamoor head vary. The Moor's head on the crest...15 KB (1,475 words) - 03:02, 21 May 2024
anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water. An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's...21 KB (2,459 words) - 11:49, 5 April 2024
became Black Murray. The bandit as a dark skinned Moor or Saracen, could though explain the Moor's head that appears on the crest of the Arms of Lord Kirkcudbright...11 KB (1,397 words) - 18:46, 3 July 2023
"man's head", but are far more frequently described in greater detail, either characteristic of a particular race or nationality (such as Moors' heads, Saxons'...20 KB (2,089 words) - 06:25, 21 May 2024
Othello (redirect from The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice)Othello (/ɒˈθɛloʊ/; full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603. The story revolves...97 KB (13,690 words) - 16:52, 7 May 2024
county boundary with West Yorkshire is known as Wessenden Moor and Wessenden Head Moor. The moor is crossed by the A635 between the Greater Manchester and...12 KB (1,203 words) - 18:23, 4 February 2024- The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were...115 KB (14,356 words) - 23:20, 16 May 2024
- Blackamoores, a 2013 book Moor's head or Maure, stylized depictions of black Africans in heraldry, sometimes called Blackamoors Moors, Muslims of Spain and...1 KB (154 words) - 11:22, 22 April 2024
Pope Benedict XVI feature a moor's head, crowned and collared red. Nevertheless, the use of moors (and particularly their heads) as a heraldic symbol has...55 KB (7,077 words) - 13:04, 8 April 2024- Peter Joseph Moor (born 2 February 1991) is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer, who plays as a wicket-keeper batsman . He is a former vice-captain for the Zimbabwe...20 KB (1,630 words) - 18:22, 7 April 2024
of the shield, the left for the viewer) part of the mantle has the head of a moor in her natural colour (brown) wearing a red crown and red collar; the...13 KB (1,555 words) - 15:45, 22 April 2024
"man's head", but are far more frequently described in greater detail, either characteristic of a particular race or nationality (such as Moors' heads, Saxons'...10 KB (1,238 words) - 15:55, 2 February 2024
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works, Infobase Publishing Moor head, Joanna (July 17, 2009). "My Family Values". The Guardian (interview)...28 KB (2,596 words) - 06:57, 16 April 2024
ancient symbols. Some, however, did, including Coburg, which replaced the Moor's head representing Saint Maurice on their arms with a sword and swastika, and...17 KB (1,417 words) - 00:24, 26 April 2024
- by William Archer The Peat Moor 1170722Tales of Two Countries — The Peat MoorWilliam ArcherAlexander Kielland THE PEAT MOOR. High over the heathery wastes
- Othello: The Moor of Venice is a play (ca. 1603) by William Shakespeare. The play is a concentrated, tightly constructed domestic tragedy, with almost
- and moor or rack your craft. 5. Tie the following mooring knots—clove hitch, roundturn with two half-hitches, bowline, Wellman’s knot, and mooring hitch