Patricia Marx

High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

American Writer

Adolphe Menjou

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

American Actor

Tom Reiss

The original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of 'Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle,' in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave.

American Author

Gary Shteyngart

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

Richard Rorty

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

American Philosopher

Thomas Middleditch

I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.

Canadian Actor

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

German Philosopher

Thomas Day

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

British Author

Anthony Trollope

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

English Author

Henry David Thoreau

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Noblemen are part of the elite ruling class and often have titles like 'Duke' or 'Earl'.

Social Rank

A nobleman typically has significant wealth, influence in government, and holds considerable power.

Wealth and Power

In history, noblemen often gained their status through inheritance or royal favor.

Historical Context

 that they began painting eye details and other embellishments onto the prints. One famous nobleman, Lord Sakai, was an avid fisherman, and, when he made a large catch, he wanted to preserve the memory of the large, red sea bream. To do so, he commissioned a fisherman to print his catch.

Gyotaku: The ancient...

 We’re introduced to characters such as Marmeladov, a miserable former official who has drank his family into ruin, and Svidrigailov, an unhinged and lecherous nobleman. As Raskolnikov’s own family arrives in town, their moral innocence stands in stark contrast

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 became one of China's greatest philosophers. Born to a nobleman but raised in poverty from a very young age following the untimely death of his father, Confucius developed what would become a lifelong sympathy for the suffering of the common people.

Who was Confucius? -...

 Prior to this meeting, those who studied the natural world were talented amateurs. Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils, like Charles Darwin, for example, or, the hired help of a nobleman, like Joseph Priestley,

Laura Snyder: The...

 It is also one of his most action-packed. In five acts, he recounts a story of a Scottish nobleman who steals the throne, presides over a reign of terror, and then meets a bloody end. Along the way, it asks important questions about ambition,

 followed by angels, noblemen, common people, animals, and so on. This idea was actually based on Aristotle's ontology, which classified all things known to man in a set of opposing categories, like the ones you see behind me.

A Visual History of...

 which focused more on listing heroic feats than character development. To challenge them, he wrote Don Quixote, the story of a hidalgo, or idle nobleman, who spends his days and nights reading chivalry novels.

Why should you read "Don...

 Its noblemen and noblewomen married prominent European rulers, while residents of some cities enjoyed great culture, literacy, and even democratic freedoms uncommon for the time. But nothing lasts forever.

Where did Russia come...

 The crew included a young slave named Enrique, captured by Magellan on a previous journey to Malacca, and Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian nobleman seeking adventure.

How Magellan circumnaviga...

 if the sacrifice of a nobleman is meant to hold back the Roman advance the gesture fails

Nobleman