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Cape Frontier Wars. =Kaffir Wars.
Kaffir Wars. 1779-1879. Bantu vs British in South Africa. Cape Frontier Wars.
Altdorfer, Albrecht. c1480-1538. German founder landscape painting.
Amethyst Incident. 1949. Escape of British frigate from China.
Ardon, Mordecai. 1896-1992. Polish/Israeli abstract painter. Jerusalem landscapes.
Ariadne. Daughter of Minos. Gave Theseus the string to escape the Labyrinth.
Barbizon. 19C French objective style of painting landscapes from nature; influenced Impressionists. Millet, Diaz.
Bazaine, Achille. 1811-88. French marshal, surrendered Metz, 1870. Condemned as traitor. Escaped 1874.
Birch, Samuel. 1869-1955. English Cornish landscape painter.
Boucher, Francois. 1703-70. French mythological and landscape painter. Louis XV Rococo Style. Mme de Pompadour favourite. “Decorator of Boudoirs”. Déjeuner 1738.
Brill, Paul. 1554-1626. Flemish Mannerist landscape painter.
Brittany. Inhab c3500BC. Celts. 57BC Rome. 5-6C Britons (Celts) re-settle. 12C Capetian. 1365 Montfort Dukedom. 1532 France.
Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.
Bruegel, Jan (Velvet). 1568-1625. Flemish painter of landscape and still life.
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. 1600-81. Spanish dramatist: El divino Orfeo-“Life is a dream” 1635.
Cape Colony. 1806 British colony. South Africa.
Cape of Good Hope. Bantu. 1652 Dutch. 1814 British Cape Colony. 1910 Province, South Africa.
Cape Verde. 1455 Portugal disc, settle w slaves. 1975 Independent rep.
Capek, Karel. 1890-1938. Czech playwright. Rossum’s Universal Robots. -coined term 1920.
Capella, Martianus. 4-5C. Carthaginian liberal arts curriculum. Influential through Middle Ages.
Capernaum. Jesus’ second home and site of miracles.
Capet, Hugh. Hugh Capet.
Capetians. Dynasty that ruled France 987-1328.
Cavell, Edith. 1865-1915. British nurse in Brussels. Executed by Germans for helping POWs escape.
Charles IV, the Fair. 1294-1328. King of France 1322-, and Navarre. Won part of Aquitaine from England. Last Capetian.