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Corinth Canal. 1882-93.
Lesseps, Ferdinand. 1805-94. French engineer. Suez Canal 1869. Corinth Canal. Designed and began Panama Canal 1881-89.
Achaean League. 5-4C BC. Greek towns in common defence against pirates in Gulf of Corinth. 280-146BC. Model for federal government. Created to fight Macedonia. Dissolved by Romans.
Boeotian League. 550-335BC. Federal government formed by Thebes. Opposed Sparta in Corinthian War. Defeated by Philip of Macedonia, 338. Destroyed by Alexander the Great, 335.
Callimachus. 5C BC Greek sculptor. First Corinthian columns.
Classical. 500-300BC Greek Art. Idealized figure sculptures. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian architecture. Praxiteles. Roman Art. 1C BC-2C AD. Greek forms; added arch. Sculpture: realistic portraits, dramatic bas-relief.
Corinth. 1350BC “Founded by Sisyphus”. 243BC Achaean League. 146 Rome destroys, rebuilds 46BC. Byzantine. 1458 Ottoman. 1687 Venice. 1715 Ottoman 1822 Greece.
Corinthian. Most recent style of Classical Greek Architecture. Acanthus leaves on column capital.
Corinthian Wars. 395-387BC. Athens and allies overcome Spartan domination.
Isthmian Games. 582BC-393 AD. Corinthian athletic, musical competitions. Olympics.
King’s Peace. 387BC. Sparta, Persia, Athens. Corinthian War.
Periander. Corinthian tyrant c627-586BC. Trade and art expansion.
Sisyphus. King of Corinth, condemned to perpetually roll a stone to the top of a hill.
Syracuse. c734BC Corinthian colony in Sicily. 211BC Rome. 878 Arab. 1085 Norman. Sicily. Dionysius.
Bridgewater Canal. 1761. Brindley. First British canal. Brought coal to Manchester stimulating industrialization.
Brindley, James. 1716-72. English engineer. Bridgewater Canal 1761.
Canaletto. 1697-1768. Venetian painter of Venice scenes.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. 1850-1901. US-British agree not to colonize Central America. Panama Canal.
Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.
Goethals, George. 1858-1928. US engineer. Built Panama Canal.
Grand Canal. 4C BC-1400. China. World’s longest, 1,000 miles.
Guadalcanal. 1942-3. US drive Japanese from Solomon Is.
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. 1903. Established Panama Canal Zone.
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. 1901. Br-US re Panama Canal.
Lowell, Percival. 1855-1916. US astronomer. Predicted Pluto 1905 (erroneously). PL of Pluto name after him. Studied Mars’ “canals” 1906. Schiaparelli.