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32 matches to Lake Poets
Lake Poets. 19C. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey of English Lake District.
Avernus. Crater lake, believed by Romans to be Hell’s entrance.
Blake, Robert. 1599-1657. English Commonwealth admiral.
Blake, William. 1757-1827. English mystical poet and engraver of his own books. Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790-3. Job 1821. Dante’s Divine Comedy 1825.
Duluth. 1636-1710. French explorer of Lake Superior area.
Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.
Hennepin, Louis. 1626-1701. Missionary explorer of Great Lakes. First European to Niagara Falls.
Lady of the Lake. Gave Excalibur to Arthur. Lived in castle under the lake.
Macdonough, Thomas. 1783-1825. Defeated British in Lake Champlain naval battle 1814.
Mazurian Lakes, Battles. 1914,15. 325,000 Russian casualties by Germany.
Mormons. 1830-. Latter Day Saints. Christian sect founded by Joseph Smith after divine revelation. Settled Utah. Founded Salt Lake City 1847.
Ojibwa. (Chippewa). North American Indians near Great Lakes. Supported French vs British in 7 Years War, British vs Americans in Revolution.
Olympics, Modern. 1896 Athens. 1900 Paris. 1904 St. Louis. 1908 London. 1912 Stockholm. 1920 Antwerp. Summer: 1924 Paris. 1928 Amsterdam. 1932 Los Angeles. 1936 Berlin. 1948 London. 1952 Helsinki. 1956 Melbourne. 1960 Rome. 1964 Tokyo. 1968 Mexico City. 1972 Munich. 1976 Montreal. 1980 Moscow. 1984 Los Angeles. 1988 Seoul. 1992 Barcelona. 1996 Atlanta. 2000 Sydney. 2004 Athens. 2008 Beijing. Winter: 1924 Chamonix. 1928 St Moritz. 1932 Lake Placid. 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen. 1948 St Moritz. 1952 Oslo. 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo. 1960 Squaw Valley. 1964 Innsbruck. 1968 Grenoble 1972 Sapporo. 1976 Innsbruck. 1980 Lake Placid. 1984 Sarajevo. 1988 Calgary. 1992 Albertville. 1994 Lillehammer. 1998 Nagano. 2002 Salt Lake City. 2006 Torino. Olympia.
Peipus, Battle of Lake. 1242. Russians repel Livonian Knights’ attack on Novgorod.
Scott, Walter. 1771-1832. Prolific Scottish Romantic historical novelist. Lady of the Lake 1810; Waverley 1814; Ivanhoe 1819.
Speke, John. 1827-64. British explorer. Discovered Lake Victoria.
St Lawrence Seaway. Links Great Lakes with Atlantic shipping. 1952 Begun. 1959 Open.
Tchaikovsky, Peter. 1840-93. Russian composer of operas and ballets with emotional appeal. Swan Lake 1877. Sleeping Beauty 1890. Nutcracker 1892.
Washington, Treaty. 1871. Britain/US recognize Canada, regulate Great Lakes navigation.
Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850. English Romantic lyric ballad Lake Poet. “Nature’s Priest”.
Young, Brigham. 1801-77. US Mormon leader 1844-. Founded Salt Lake City. Utah governor 1850-7.
Cavalier Poets. 17C Royalists. Lovelace. Herrick.
Confederation Group. 19C Canadian nationalistic poets. Carmen.
Connecticut Wits. 18C US satiric collaborative poets. Anarchiad 1786-87.
Della-Cruscans. 18C. English poets of sentimental Italian verse.