Where did the word boycott come from? Detailed answer

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Where did the word boycott come from?

In 1880, Irish estate manager Charles Boycott fought a workers' strike against unfair rents. Society responded by isolating him: neighbors stopped talking to him, shops refused to serve him, and people in church wouldn't sit down and talk to him. This method of resistance in most languages of the world today is called boycott.

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When did women start doing their hair?

Both women and men have been combing and decorating their hair for as long as the first annals of our history appeared! For example, even in the most ancient times, women used combs of various shapes. Ancient people made combs from bone, wood and even bronze. Ancient people always paid great attention to their hair. Some dyed their hair black, white, or red. In Zaire (West Africa), the natives used castor bean oil to create their hair, and in many other tribes they smeared their hair with mud.

In ancient times, Greek women used long hairpins, which were very skillfully made and even decorated with sculptural images. On special occasions, they decorated their hairstyles with garlands, flower wreaths, and ribbons. Women's hairstyles depended on the area and customs and were constantly changing. But even in antiquity, it was believed that wavy hair was more attractive than straight hair. There are paintings and statues that showed women with rows of little curls over their eyebrows and at their temples, and these curls were styled by some artificial means. And men curled not only their hair, but also their beards!

As civilization developed, hairstyles and hair styling became more diverse. In some places, straight hair was worn; in others, curly hair was fashionable. The custom of wearing short hair for men and long hair for women is not very old and dates back to the end of the Middle Ages.

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