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93 matches to Anu
Africanus Sextus. c180-250. Wrote chronology of World, Creation to 221 AD.
Aldine Editions. 1490-1597. Quality books printed by Aldo Manuzio and family, Venice.
Ammianus Marcellinus. 330-395. Wrote 31 volume History of Rome.
Anu. Babylonian god of heavens.
Anubis. Jackal-headed Egyptian god of dead.
Arriaga, Manuel. 1842-1917. First President of Portugal.
Austin, Herbert. 1886-1941. English car manufacturer. Small car pioneer.
Avila Camacho, Manuel. 1897-1955. Mexican President 1940-46. Befriended US, rallied Latin America vs Axis.
Azaña, Manuel. 1880-1940. Spanish Republican Prime Minister 31-33, President 36-9.
Bacon, Francis. 1561-1626. English chancellor and philosopher. First king’s counsel. Favoured inductive over deductive reasoning. Separated Science from religion. New Atlantis 1625. B. Scientific method: Novum Organum 1620. Essays 1625.
Bandeira, Manuel. 1886-1968. Brazilian national poet. Carnival 1919.
Behring, Emil. 1854-1917. German bacteriologist: founded Immunology. Diphtheria (1892), Tetanus (1904) serums.
Brussels, Treaty. 1948. = Western Union. 50 year alliance of Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands. 1954 + W Germany, Italy.
Canute. 994-1035. Firm, but wise King of England, Denmark, Norway. United England, Denmark. 1018.
Canute II. 1043-86. Danish King, Patron Saint.
Capella, Martianus. 4-5C. Carthaginian liberal arts curriculum. Influential through Middle Ages.
Chabrier, Emmanuel. 1841-94. French composer. España 1883.
Charles Emmanuel I. 1562-1630. Duke of Savoy. Last attack vs Geneva, 1602. Escalade.
Crapper, Thomas. 1836-1910. British plumber. Installed Queen Victoria’s toilets. Manufacturer, but not inventor of syphonic flush toilets.
Danu. Celtic earth goddess.
Dardanus. Greek ancestor of Trojan kings.
Dresden Codex. Pre-Columbian Mayan manuscript.
Edmund II Ironside. c993-1016. English King 1016. Defeated by Canute 1016, kept Wessex.
EEC. 1958 European Economic Community. European Union.