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Great time lapse fashion vid to share for era project.

Female pop stars of the era generally got most of the press and media attention, but here's a list of the most influential women of '80s rock.

Female pop stars of the era generally got most of the press and media attention, but here's a list of the most influential women of '80s rock.

Shawn Green hit 328 home runs when he played major league baseball in the 1990s and 2000s. During this era many of the league's power-hitters used steroids, but Green says he used meditation to hit home runs.

The clothing of Roman women was simple in cut; styles changed little for centuries. The effect varied with the quality of material and the grace with which garments were worn. Ordinarily a matron was dressed in a subligaculum, an under tunic, and an outer tunic ( stola).

Roman men generally wore two garments, the tunica and the toga. The tunica was a short woolen under garment with short sleeves. By contrast, to wear a long tunic with long sleeves was considered effeminate and was generally avoided by society as a whole.

We chart the style icons and key trends that influenced the 1960s fashion scene... From Brigitte Bardot's beehive to Mary Quant's geometric prints, every 1960s fashion icon contributed their own signature style to the decade. It was the era of the girl group, the gamine supermodel and the original IT-girls and the Sixties still provides designers today with an endless source of inspiration.

Ancient Greek Jewelry.

The ancient Egyptian writing system, hieroglyphics, was advanced by 3100 B.C.E. The complex system included numbers and an alphabet as well as other symbols. None of the achievements of the remarkable ancient Egyptian civilization would have been possible without the Nile River. There is always a connection between landscape and how a people develop.

Romans clothing indicated social status. The man on the far right, who wears only a tunic, was probably from one of the lowest classes - a slave or a freedperson. The man on the far left wears a toga, the costume of a Roman citizen.

More in depth on specific trends involving accessories.