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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.
Constable, John. 1776-1837. English Naturalist landscape painter. Hay Wain 1821. Valley Farm. Waterloo Bridge 1831.
Daedalus. Builder of the Crete labyrinth. Escaped Minos with artificial wings. Icarus.
Dutch East India Company. 1602-1798. Trade, colonies in Orient. Controlled Ceylon, Cape Colony, Jakarta.
Exodus. 13C BC. Jews escape Egyptian slavery. Moses. Ten Commandments.
Flemish. School of Music. 1450-1550. Vocal contrapuntal ideal of a capella.
France. 6C BC Celt, Greek colonies. 51BC Rome. 3-5C Franks, Visigoths inv. 481 Merovingian emp. 751 Carolingian. 843 Split = W Frankish Kingdom. 987 Capetian. 1016 + Burgundy. 1378 Valois dyn. 1589 Bourbon dyn. 1792 Republic. 1799 Consulate. 1804 Empire. 1814 Monarchy rest. 1848 2nd Republic. 1852 2nd Empire. 1870 3rd Republic. 1940 German occupation. 1946 4th Republic. 1958 5th Republic.
Gainsborough, Thomas. 1727-88. English portrait and landscape painter. Boy Blue 1770. Watering Place.
Gauguin, Paul. 1848-1903. French Post-Impressionist painter typified by abstracted figures and flat planes of color. Tahitian Landscape. Day of the God 1894.
Great Trek. 1835-7. Boers leave British Cape Colony, found Natal.
Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.
Homer, Winslow. 1836-1910. US Realist seascape painter.
Hudson River. 1825-75. US Romantic landscape painting school.
Hugh Capet. c941-996. First of the Capetian dynasty of French kings 987-. Son of Hugh the Great.
Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.
Jackson, A.Y. 1882-1974. Canadian landscape painter. Led Group of Seven.
Jonson, Ben. 1572-1637. English poet, dramatist: Drink to me Only with Thine Eyes. Every Man in his Humour 1601. Alchemist 1610. 1598 escaped gallows by Benefit of Clergy.
Kaffir Wars. 1779-1879. Bantu vs British in South Africa. Cape Frontier Wars.
Lesotho. Basutoland. c1800 Basotho kingdom. 1868 British. 1871 Cape Colony. 1884 British colony. 1966 Independent kingdom of Lesotho.
Lorraine, Claude. 1600-82. French landscape painter, master of sunlight. Sunset 1644.
Louis IV. d’Outremer. 921-54. French King 936-. Fought Hugh the Great (father of Hugh Capet).
Metaphysical Painting. 1911-20. Bizarre surreal imagery in stark landscape. De Chirico.
Naturalism. 19C Style of landscape painting which captures nature. Turner. Constable. Boudin.