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Apache. Natives of SW North America. Geronimo. Cochise.
Araucanian Wars. 1530-1870. Chile, Argentina. Natives forced onto reservations.
Arawak. Natives of NE SA, Antilles. Now extinct in W Indies.
Aristotle. 384-322BC. Greek philosopher, founder of Peripatetics: Unified theory of knowledge. Matter, potentially alive, strives to attain its living form. Stressed observation and logic. Deductive Reasoning. Free Will.
Austro-Turkish War. 1682-99. Siege of Vienna. Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I drives Turks from Hungary.
Bantu. Language of 60M natives in Southern Africa.
Baroja y Nessi, Pio. 1872-1956. Basque novelist. Terse style influenced Hemingway. Somber Lives 1900. Generation of ’98.
Black War. 1804-30. Tasmanian natives defeated by European settlers.
Bollandists. 1629-. Belgian Jesuits. Update Acta Santorium, (Lives of Roman Catholic saints).
Calais. British siege 1346. Six burghers offer their lives to save town. Britain controls -1558.
Carib. Warlike natives of Amazon Basin. 15C conquered Arawak. Cannibals. Decimated by disease. St Vincent.
Charter to the Nobility. 1785. Rights and prerogatives of Russian nobility.
Congress, US. Senate and House of Representatives. Legislative branch of government.
Coward, Noel. 1899-1973. English playwright. Comedies of manners. Private Lives 1930.
Dark Ages. c500-1000. Period of decline, frequent war. Little documentation survives.
Epoch of Civil War. 1863-80. Colombian liberals vs conservatives. Núñez forms coalition.
Fifth Column. 1936. Fascists within besieged Madrid who assisted Franco’s attackers. Term generally applied to subversives since.
Fugitive Slave Acts. 1793-1850. Required return of runaway slaves. American Civil War.
Gresham, Thomas. 1519-79. English founder of Stock Exchange 1560. Gresham’s Law-“Bad money drives out good” (mistakenly attributed).
Henry VIII. 1491-1547. King of England 1509-. Executed Thomas More. Established Church of England. Dissolved monasteries. Six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.
Iguala, Plan de. 1821. Stated 3 objectives of Mexican Independence movement. Ignored by issuer, Iturbide, when he became Emperor.
Ives, Charles. 1874-1954. First major US composer. Unconventional work anticipates 20C techniques. Very influential on later Americans. 3rd Symphony 1904.
Jade Emperor. Taoist supreme god of the universe, lives in jade palace.
Kierkegaard, Sören. 1813-55. Danish founder of Existentialism. Either-Or 1843. Fear and Trembling 1843. Influenced Heidegger. Individual must consciously choose among life’s alternatives.
Maldives. Dravidians, Sinhalese settle. 12C Islam. 1153 Sultanate. 1507 Portugal garrison. 17C Dutch protectorate. 1796 British protectorate. 1965 Independent. 1968 Republic.