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Merrick, Joseph. 1862-90. “Elephant Man”. Severely disfigured English cripple, subject of play and film.
Metastasio, Pietro. 1698-1782. Italian librettist for Gluck, Handel, Haydn, Mozart.
Molotov. 1890-1986. Soviet Stalinist Prime Minister 1930-41.
Montgolfier, Joseph. 1740-1810. Jacques, 1745-99. Brothers. First hot air balloon 1783.
Mormons. 1830-. Latter Day Saints. Christian sect founded by Joseph Smith after divine revelation. Settled Utah. Founded Salt Lake City 1847.
Naturalism. 19C Style of landscape painting which captures nature. Turner. Constable. Boudin.
Novotny, Antonin. 1904-75. Stalinist Czech leader 1953-68. Deposed.
Paxton, Joseph. 1801-65. English architect. Crystal Palace 1851.
Pilâtre de Rosier, Jean-François. 1756-85. Physician and balloonist. First ascent 1783 with Montgolfier; First free flight 1783 with d’Arlandes. Killed trying to cross Channel.
Politburo. 1917~. Soviet governing body, arm of Communist Party. Abolished by Stalin 1952-66.
Potsdam Agreement. 1945. Truman, Stalin, Attlee agree to draw up peace treaties, reduce German industrialization, restore democracy in Europe after WWII. Outlawed Nazism. Divided Germany.
Priestley, Joseph. 1733-1804. English chemist: isolated Oxygen 1774, 9 other gasses.
Pulitzer, Joseph. 1847-1911. Hungarian/US publisher. Endowed prize awarded since 1917.
Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.
Radowitz, Joseph von. 1797-1853. Prussian. Worked for unified Germany.
Rákosi, Mátyás. 1892-1971. Stalinist Hungarian leader 1945-56. Fled before 1956 uprising.
Rakovsky, Khristian. 1873-?. Russian Communist leader. Opposed Stalin. Imprisoned 1938.
Right Opposition. 1928-29. Communists opponents of Stalin within Central Committee.
Romantic. Art. Expression of emotion more important than form or reality. Delacroix. Turner.
Rykov, Aleksey. 1881-1938. Russian Bolshevik leader. Opposed Stalin. Rehabilitated 1988.
Scaliger, Joseph. 1540-1609. Classical scholar. Founded science of chronology.
Scheele, Carl. 1742-86. Sweden. Discovered oxygen 1771/2, independent of Priestley. Chlorine gas 1774.
Secret Speech. 1956. Khrushchev call for destalinization in USSR leads to Hungarian, Polish uprisings.
Shostakovich, Dmitri. 1906-75. Russian. Composed complex profound intense personal works. Rebuked by Stalin. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 1934.
Sieyès, Joseph. 1748-1836. French abbé. What is the Third Estate? called for democracy 1789. Drafted Declaration of the Rights of Man. Helped organize Napoleon’s coup.