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Devil’s Parliament. 1459. Held at Coventry.
Dewar, James. 1842-1923. Scottish physicist: liquified helium1898, vacuum flask. Abel.
Dualism, Christian. Christ’s nature is human and divine. Nestor. Monophysitism. Monothelitism.
Edgar Aetheling. 1050-1130. Anglo-Saxon prince who submitted to William I.
Ems Dispatch. 1870. Bismarck alters telegram from Wilhelm, causing Franco-Prussian War.
Encyclopédists. 1751-72. Group who wrote encyclopaedia under Diderot. Voltaire, Helvetius, D’Alembert. As sceptics, they popularized social ideas which led to the French Revolution.
Ethelbert. 552-616. King of Kent 560-. First Christian Anglo-Saxon king. first extant A-S law code.
Ethelred the Unready. c968-1016. King of English 978-. Unable to defend against Danish raids. Drove them out, 1015.
Florentine. School of Painting. 1270 Academy of Fine Arts. Express humanist ideas through art. Realism and chiarascuro. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.
Freedmen’s Bureau. 1865-72. US agency to help freed slaves during Reconstruction.
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.
Girardon, François. 1628-1715. French Baroque sculptor. Tomb of Richelieu 1675-7.
Greek Civil War. 1944-9. Communist insurrection defeated with British/US help.
Greek Fire. 648. Byzantine secret weapon. Flammable substance that ignited on contact with water invented by Callinicus of Heliopolis.
Grimm, Wilhelm. 1786-1859, Jacob 1785-1863. German writers of fairy tales 1812, founders of the German philology.
Hades. Greek god of Hell, and Hell itself.
Helen of Troy. Greek wife of Menelaus. Eloped with Paris to Troy causing Trojan War.
Helgoland Bight, Battle. 1914. British defeat Germans in first WWI naval battle.
Helicon. Greek mountain dedicated to the Muses and Apollo.
Heliocentricity. Revolution of the earth around the sun. Once considered heretical. Galileo. Copernicus.
Heliopolis. 1800. Egyptian battle. Kléber defeats Mameluks. Original site of Cleopatra’s Needles.
Helios. Greek sun god before Apollo.
Hellen. Mythical ancestral king of Greeks.
Hellenic Art. 1500-300BC. Prehistoric, Archaic, and Classical periods in Greece.