Sam Browne belt Sam Browne belt The Sam Browne belt is a wide belt, usually leather, supported by a narrower strap passing diagonally over the right shoulder (although Royal Canadian Mounted Police non-commissioned members wear theirs over the left shoulder). It is most often a part of a military or police uniform. General Sir Sam Browne was a 19th-century British Indian Army officer who had lost his left arm; this made it difficult for him to draw his sword, because the left hand was typically used to steady the scabbard while the right drew out the sword. Browne came up with the idea
Name of Croatia different names of the Croats, Βελοχρωβάτοι and Χρωβάτοι ("Belokhrobatoi" and "Khrobatoi"), with the Greek word χώρα ("khṓra", "land"): "Croats in Slavic language means those who have many lands". In the 13th century, Thomas the Archdeacon considered that it was connected with the name of inhabitants of the Krk isle, which he gave as "Curetes, Curibantes". In the 17th century, Juraj Ratkaj found a reflexion of the verb "hrvati (se)" "to wrestle" in the name. In the 19th century, many different derivations were proposed for the Croatian ethnonym: The 20th century gave rise to many new theories regarding the origin of