Word: peasant
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...where the government has failed to provide support, teachers have risen to the challenge. Two history teachers made a virtue out of necessity and, with the help of their students, transformed an empty classroom into a museum of Romanian peasant culture. One wall is covered with colorful blankets and rugs. There is antique furniture and other items that can be found in a traditional Romanian peasant's household. Photographs and historical documents on another wall tell the history of the local community...
...other members of the cast have been outfitted with costumes that, while conceptually less powerful than Turandot’s, require no less artistry in design and no less attention to detail. In addition to the main cast, the opera calls for numerous palace attendants, guards, peasants, and a chorus. While the peasants have simplistic white linens and iconic peasant hats, the ministers wear elegant and noble bluish-purple robes with lengthy sleeves, emphasizing their roles as identical and interchangeable within song. Calaf is dressed in a short-fitting gold and brown outfit, its length intended to contrast with...
...followed the silver to Europe is unclear, but by the early 17th century the stage was set there for a vast expansionary phase in the potato's history. Despite being regularly denounced from pulpits because it was not mentioned in the Bible, this imported esculent (foodstuff) soon became a peasant favorite. Not only did it yield four times more calories per acre than grain, making it an essential insurance policy against famine; it also, as an underground crop, was less likely than stored grain to be looted by armies living off the land in those war-torn times...
Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant farmer and his homely wife, infant son and pretty younger sister. They hoed and sowed all day, every day, to feed their bellies, save money for the sister's dowry and earn enough for new clothes once a year. But implacable Fate played tricks on them. Usurious moneylenders fleeced the farmer of his land and house. A jive-talking soldier ravished the virginal sister. Destitute and socially shunned, the family fled their home village...
...Robert Burns was born into a grueling existence, laboring as a peasant farmer in Ayrshire in southwest Scotland, yet he still managed to study and became fluent in Latin and French. Still, he is most treasured as the champion of the common man, having written passionately on social injustice, his country, nature, food, drink and, not least, women...