The nobility owned most of the land. They are people in a high social class who have titles such as 'duke' or 'dutchess'.
twelve months, with a periodic intercalation of a thirteenth.
they conducted thorough scientific experiments
The Pullman Strike (1894) was significant in American labor history because it showed how much these people working in the railroad system were essential to American life. This was also important, because it was a strike that essentially failed, and was the first time a federal injuction was used to break up a strike.
Indulgences were fake “ tickets to escape purgatory”. The people of the Middle Ages were depressed and only had one religion, catholosizm. These preachers would go around and sell indulgences to people. They said that if you buy indulgences you won’t have to have punishment in purgatory.
