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Lars Porsena. 6C BC. Etruscan king of Clusium. Conquered Rome.
Arsonval, Arsène d’. 1851-1940. French doctor and physicist. Electricity in body mvmt.
Clement V. Pope 1305-14. Moved papacy to Avignon. Dissolved Knights Templar 1312. Prohibited usury.
Edward II. 1284-1327. King of England, 1307-. Defeated by Scots at Bannockburn. Deposed by wife, Isabella. Templars.
Grosz, George. 1893-1959. German satirical artist/caricaturist. Pillars of Society.
Hasidism. 18C-. Jewish sect founded by Eliezer, called Ba’al Shem-Tov. Stresses good-heartedness over scholarship, mystical approach to God.
Hercules, Pillars of. Straits of Gibraltar.
Lawrence, Thomas (of Arabia). 1888-1935. English writer, officer. Led Arabs against Turks, 1914-18: Seven Pillars of Wisdom 1926.
Molay, Jacques de. 1243-1314. Last Grand Master of the Order of Templars. Burned.
Morris Pillars. Parisian advertising columns erected in 1869.
Philip IV. The Fair. 1268-1314. French Capetian king 1285-. Taxed Roman Catholic Church. Ended Templars.
Pillars of Hercules. Rock of Gibraltar and Jebel Musa.
Popular Sovereignty. 1850s. US territories could join Union as free or slave states. Bleeding Kansas.
Rhodes, Cecil. 1853-1902. English colonialist in South Africa. Endowed Oxford scholarship to preserve Empire.
Templars. 1119-1312. Founded by Baldwin II and 9 knights in the Holy Land to protect pilgrims. Created International banking system, 9,000 commanderies, and owned 1/4 of Paris when dissolved by Philip IV, 1307; and Edward II, 1308. Council of Vienne.
Vienne, Council. 1311. Abolished Templars.
Villars, duc de. 1653-1734. French Marshal. War of Spanish Succession. War of Polish Succession.