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Dornier, Claudius. 1884-1969. German aircraft designer. First all-metal airplane, 1911.
Dunlop, John. 1840-1921. Pneumatic tires for bicycles 1888, planes 1910.
Earhart, Amelia. 1898-1937. US aviator. First solo Atlantic flight by a woman, 1932. Lost in attempt to circle planet.
Enola Gay. US plane which dropped H-bomb on Hiroshima, 1945.
Erfurt Parliament. 1850. Austrian opposition causes withdrawal of Prussian plan for German Unification.
Euclid. c300BC. Greek mathematician. Discovered plane geometry. Elements.
Eudoxus of Cnidus. c400-350BC. Greek astronomer. Explained movement of sun, moon, planets.
Five Year Plans. 1928- Russian planning cycles.
Fokker, Anthony. 1890-1939. Dutch/German/ US aircraft engineer for Germany, WWI. Remote control plane, 1919.
Fuchs, Leonhard. 1501-66. German naturalist. Compendium of medicinal plants. Historia Stirpium 1542.
Galileo Galilei. 1564-1642. Italian physicist. Planetary motion. Thermometer 1592. Acceleration of falling bodies 1604. Astronomical telescope 1609. Sunspots 1610. Arrested for heliocentricity, 1632. Rehabilitated by Vatican 1992. Copernicus.
Gauguin, Paul. 1848-1903. French Post-Impressionist painter typified by abstracted figures and flat planes of color. Tahitian Landscape. Day of the God 1894.
Geoffrey Plantagenet. 1113-51. Count of Anjou. Conquered Normandy for his son Henry II.
Greek Project. 1782. Abandoned plan of Catherine the Great to conquer Ottoman Empire.
Green Revolution. 20C. Increased food production in developing countries based on new plant breeds. Borlaug.
Haussman. Baron. 1809-91. Parisian town plan, 1852. Opera House. Bois de Boulogne.
Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.
Hipparchus. c190-120BC. First star catalogue. Epicyclic planetary motion around earth. Astrolabe 130.
Holst, Gustav. 1874-1934. British composer: original style, harmonic experiments. Planets 1918.
Iguala, Plan de. 1821. Stated 3 objectives of Mexican Independence movement. Ignored by issuer, Iturbide, when he became Emperor.
Ireland. 400BC-100 Celts. 432 Christianity. 8-14C Norse/British invade, settle. 1002 Brian Boru. 1573 English plantations. 1801 United Kingdom. 1921 Irish Free State/Northern Ireland.
Italo-Turkish War. 1911-12. Italy gains Libya and Rhodes. 1911 First offensive use of airplane (vs Libya).
Jacobean Architecture. 1600-1625. English Tudor style refined, restrained and harmonized. U and H plans. Jones.
Kepler, Johannes. 1571-1630. German astronomer, deduced elliptical planetary motions 1609. Explained tides 1598.
L’Enfant, Pierre. 1754-1825. French/US architect. Washington town plan 1792, implemented 1901.