Take your pick. What sort of news do you want to consider? The truth that frogs eat mosquitoes, an opinion that frogs are not eating properly, or do you want to believe that if you kiss enough frogs ...

Many expected that the Estates-General (which represented the country’s three estates: clergy, nobility and commoners) would be converted into a permanent legislature with the all-important ...

A trifunctional society is defined as “one whose structure comprises three functional groups: clergy, nobility, and workers (the third estate).” He frequently refers to each group as a class.

Members of the Blåfield family have traditionally enjoyed long military careers. But today’s family members have regular jobs—few descendants of old elite families can expect to inherit estates. The ...

He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman Catholic clergy (the First Estate) the nobility (the Second Estate), and everyone else (The Third Estate). The First and Second Estates owned ...

The divergence of interests of the various elements accepting the Reformation became apparent even before the Peasant War in the attempt of the nobility to realise its demands as against the princes ...

A couple of centuries ago, the press was recognized as the fourth estate, meaning it had the most clout after the medieval pecking order of clergy, nobility and commoners. Then, along came radio ...