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64 matches to Artesian Well
Hemingway, Ernest. 1898-1961. US novelist: Fairwell to Arms 1929. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Old Man and the Sea 1952. Style:“A stream with stones of nouns and a surface of prepositional ripples” -L. Morrow.
Howells, Herbert. 1892-1983. British church music composer.
Humble Petition. 1657. English Constitution of Protectorate. Cromwell as Lord Protector.
Hywell the Good. -950. Welsh king 910-. Law code.
Ibn Sa’ud. 1880-1953. Conqueror and king of Riyad 1902-, + Najd, Hasa, Asir, Hejaz; united as Saudi Arabia 1932-. Ended tribal wars. First oil wells 1933.
Imagists. 1912-. Poets eschew sentimentality for precision and imagery. Pound. Lawrence. Lowell.
Irish Rebellion. 1649. Crushed by Cromwell. 1798. Resulted in Union Act.
Johnson, Samuel. 1709-84. English lexicographer. Dictionary 1755. Subject of Boswell biography.
Lowell, Percival. 1855-1916. US astronomer. Predicted Pluto 1905 (erroneously). PL of Pluto name after him. Studied Mars’ “canals” 1906. Schiaparelli.
MacDowell, Edward. 1860-1908. US piano composer. Symphonic poems. Saracens 1891.
Marston Moor, Battle. 1644. English Civil War turning point. Cromwell defeats Rupert.
Mary Stuart. 1542-87. Queen of Scots 1542-67. Abdicated. Married Francis II. Queen of France 1559-60. Married Darnley 1565. Married Bothwell 1567, causing Scottish Revolt. Beheaded with Babington by Elizabeth I. Mother of James I.
Maxwell, James Clerk. 1831-79. Scottish physicist: theory of electromagnetic radiation, 1873.
Merritt, William. 1793-1862. Upper Canada trade promoter. Welland Canal 1824-9.
Mill, John Stuart. 1806-73. English Utilitarian Positivist philosopher. Social as well as political freedom is necessary. Tyranny of the majority. Associationism. Political Economy 1848. On Liberty 1859. Utilitarianism 1863. Women’s Right to Vote 1866.
Motherwell, Robert. 1915-91. US Abstract Expressionist painter. Created New York school. Elegy to the Spanish Republic 1949-59.
Naseby, Battle. 1645. English Civil War. Fairfax and Cromwell defeat Royalists.
Orwell, George. 1903-50. English satirical novelist and social critic: Animal Farm 1945, 1984 1948.
Patay, Battle. 1429. French rout British. Charles VII crowned. Orléans. Joan of Arc.
Peninsular War. 1808-14. British, Spanish, Portuguese under Wellington defeat French in Iberian Peninsula.
Powell, Enoch. 1912- British Conservative politician vs EEC, immigration.
Praguerie. 1440. French nobles rebel vs Charles VII.
Preston, Battle. 1648. Cromwell defeats Charles I last forces in English Civil War.
Protectorate. 1653-9. English government after Civil War by Instrument of Government. Cromwell.
Robbins, Frederick. 1916-. US physician. Discovered polio virus with Enders, Weller.