Like Civil War re-enactors, many of these latter-day pirates pursue historical authenticity — down to their home-sewn underwear, pistol ribands and molded tricorn hats.
Near her, someone who looked as if she had dressed as Susan B. Anthony for a historical reënactment, down to a heavy, black wool skirt, a purple-bordered sash, and a straw boater, sat checking her phone, holding her sleeping daughter on her lap.
Much of this phenomenon can be put down historical factors.
But destroy-and-rebuild is the model favoured here, with over 1,000 historical buildings knocked down in the last decade.
Grundtvig maintained that Christianity was a historical revelation, handed down by the unbroken chain of a living sacramental tradition at baptism and communion.
The cold, hard truth about historical mysteries comes down to this: If you can't trust the history, you won't enjoy the mystery.
It's not often that a historical movie plays down a scandal, but biographies of Rembrandt tended to skip over his more hair-raising exploits until the 1960s.
Tehran-Riyadh relations, already poor owing to theological differences and historical disagreement, broke down significantly when the Saudi government executed Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr at the start of January.
Milosz turned this presumption of "historical logic" upside down: if Communism now ruled Eastern Europe, it was not because of the laws of history but because the Russians had burned the house down.
A documentary filmmaker journeys to Israel, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Yemen to track down historical evidence of the queen, who would have lived during the 10th century B.C. "In the course of his research, Clapp uncovers some delicious tidbits," Michael Upchurch wrote here in 2001.
