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Danilo I-II. 1677-1835, 1826-60. Montenegrin Prince-Bishops.
D’Annunzio, Gabriele. 1863-1938. Italian nationalist writer. Siezed Fiume 1919. Revived Roman salute.
Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.
Danton, Georges. 1759-94. French Cordelier, Jacobin. Girondin leader 1792-3. Defeated foreign interveners. Executed by Robespierre.
Danu. Celtic earth goddess.
Dardanelles. Mediterranean-Black Sea channel. = Hellespont. Gallipoli. Bosphorus.
Dardanus. Greek ancestor of Trojan kings.
Daughters of the American Revolution. 1890-. Patriotic organization of revolutionaries’ descendants.
David d’Angers, Pierre-Jean. 1788-1856. French sculptor.
Defoe, Daniel. 1660-1731. English writer: Robinson Crusoe 1719; Moll Flanders 1722. Idea of savings bank, 1697.
Degas, Edgar. 1834-1917. French Impressionist painter of dancers and cafe life. Rehearsal. Tub.
Delacroix, Eugène. 1798-1863. French Romantic painter. Dante and Virgil. Massacre at Chios 1824.
DeLeon, Daniel. 1852-1914. US Marxist. Founded IWW. Editor The People.
Dioscorides, Pedanius. 1C. Greek physician and pharmacologist. De Materia Medica used to 16C.
Duncan, Isadora. 1877-1927. US modern dancer.
East India Companies. British, Dutch, French. Danish 1614-1729. Austrian, 1720-7.
Edington, Battle. 878. King Alfred, Wessex only Anglo-Saxon kingdom to withstand Danes.
Edward the Elder. 870-924. King of Wessex, 899. Drove Danes from NW England.
England. c1800BC Beaker folk. 8C BC Celt. 150BC Belgae. 55BC-407 Rome. 5C Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. 9C Dane(N,E). 10C A-S/Dane. 1042 Anglo-Saxon. 1066 Norman. 1204 -Normandy. 1707 Great Britain. 1801 United Kingdom.
Ethelred the Unready. c968-1016. King of English 978-. Unable to defend against Danish raids. Drove them out, 1015.
Ewald, Johannes. 1743-81. Danish lyric poet.
Ezzelino III da Ramono. 1194-1259. Cruel ruler of northern Italy. Subject of Dante’s Inferno.
Fashoda Incident. 1898. British/French dispute over Sudan. French renounce claims. Entente Cordiale 1904.
Finsen, Niels. 1860-1904. Danish originator of ultraviolet therapy. Invented U-V bulb.