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Evil May Day. 1517. London apprentices riot.
Abbeville Treaty. 1258. England returns Normandy to France.
Ahriman. Zoroastrian spirit of evil.
Alcazar. 14-15C Moorish fortresses in Spain. Seville 1364. Toledo, Segovia.
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules. 1808-89. French dandy, social critic.Diaboliques 1874.
Beaumarchais, C de. 1732-99. French satirical writer vs nobility. Barber of Seville 1772, Marriage of Figaro 1784.
Benét, Stephen. 1898-1943. US poet, writer. Devil and Daniel Webster 1937. John Brown’s Body 1928.
Bogomils. 9-15C. Slavic ascetic Christian cult. All matter created by the devil.
Boxer Rebellion. 1900. Massacre of ‘foreign devils’ by Chinese led to reprisals and Peking Protocol.
Chamberlain, Neville. 1869-1940. English statesman, Prime Minister, 1937-40. Appeasement Policy towards Hitler. Munich Agreement.
Devil’s Island. French Guiana. South American penal colony 1854-1946.
Devil’s Parliament. 1459. Held at Coventry.
Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.
Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.
Faust(us). c1540 German necromancer/astrologer who is said to have sold his soul to the devil. Goethe, Marlowe tragedies.
Firearms. 1247 used at Siege of Seville.1327 Edward III uses canon vs Scots. 1364 Perugia First handguns. 1640 Flintlock.
French Guiana. 1604 French settle. 1809 France/Portugal. 1816 French. 1852-1946 Penal colonies. Devil’s Is.
Garter, Order of. c1348. First Order of British Knighthood. Founded by Edward III. “Honi soit qui mal y pense”. Shame on him who thinks evil of it.
Godwin, William. 1756-1836. English atheist philosopher, author. Anarchism. Cooperation is evil. Things as they Are 1794.
Hobbes, Thomas. 1588-1679. English Materialist Determinist philosopher. Nominalist. Royalist. Good is that which brings pleasure; evil, pain. Mind is the result of physical activity in the brain. Elements of Law 1640. Leviathan 1651.
Hôtel de Ville, Paris (Town Hall). Designed by Il Bocardo, 1533.
Isidore of Seville, St. 560-636. Spanish bishop, encyclopedist. Etymologiae. De Natura Rerum.
Jolson, Al. 1886-1950. US Vaudeville and Broadway performer. First talking film: The Jazz Singer 1927.
Labiche, Eugène. 1815-88. French writer of plays and vaudevilles. La Clef des Champs 1838.
Leviathan. Evil sea monster of Jewish mythology.