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137 matches to Good Parliament
Good Parliament. 1376. Reforms against Edward III. Nullified 1377.
Ahurza Mazda. Zoroastrian spirit of good.
Aristippus. 435-366BC. Cyrenaic philosopher: Man’s goal should be pleasure. Good=pleasant.
Armed Neutrality at Sea. 1780-1801. Agreement that neutral flag at sea protects all but military goods.
Bhadracarya-pranidhana. Buddhist vows of good conduct.
Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.
Buck, Pearl S. 1892-1973. US novelist of Chinese life. Good Earth 1931.
Cape of Good Hope. Bantu. 1652 Dutch. 1814 British Cape Colony. 1910 Province, South Africa.
Chu Hsi. 1130-1200. Chinese Neo-Confucian. Four Books 1189. Individual goodness can be brought out by study of the classics.
Cyrenaics. 4C BC. Greek school of philosophy. Pleasure is the highest good. Epicureanism.
Diaz, Bartolomeu. c1450-1500. Portuguese. First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/8.
Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.
Ethics. Study of what is good human conduct.
Flying Dutchman. Legendary ghost ship of Cape of Good Hope.
Gama, Vasco da. c1460-1524. Portuguese explorer who rounded Cape of Good Hope 1488. Captured Calicot, India, 1503.
Golden Fleece, Order of. 1430. Knighthood founded by Philip the Good.
Good Emperors. 96-169. Romans, Nerva to Verus.
Goodman, Benny. 1909-86. US clarinetist/ bandleader. “King of Swing”.
Goodyear, Charles. 1800-60. US. Vulcanized rubber, 1839.
Gresham, Thomas. 1519-79. English founder of Stock Exchange 1560. Gresham’s Law-“Bad money drives out good” (mistakenly attributed).
Hasidism. 18C-. Jewish sect founded by Eliezer, called Ba’al Shem-Tov. Stresses good-heartedness over scholarship, mystical approach to God.
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.
Horus. Egyptian deity of sunlight and goodness. Falcon.
Hywell the Good. -950. Welsh king 910-. Law code.
Inflation. General rise of prices of goods and services.