Word: silvers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bolivia It's time for a fiesta with this painted leather-and-wood clog with a silver buckle...
18th century India An ornate silver-covered wood paduka with a gold toe knob...
...Portugal An early high heel for a man, with silver lace and pink silk...
...U.S.A. Painfully elegant silver lame stiletto mule with chinchilla trim by Manolo Blahnik...
...long Continental struggles of the Counter-Reformation. When the Catholic threat of Spain reached its apogee in 1588, her penny pinching nearly cost England its independence before luck and the skill of her sailors defeated the Spanish armada. Yet at the moment of imminent invasion, she dressed in a silver breastplate to address her troops and imbue them with her dauntless courage. "I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman," Elizabeth said, "but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and a King of England too." Her countrymen gloried in her victory, transforming...