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94 matches to Marshall Plan
Colombo Plan. 1951-77. Commonwealth plan to improve living conditions in SE Asia, check spread of communism.
COMECON. Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. 1949-91. USSR and satellites central planning organization.
Copernicus, Nicolaus. 1473-1543. Polish astronomer, who demonstrated planetary motion around sun 1528. De Revolutionibus. Aristarchus. Galileo.
Copland, Aaron. 1900-90. US composer blending Jewish, folk, jazz, and Latin influences into a popular style. Experimented with serial techniques.
Cotte, Robert de. 1656-1735. Architect. Chancel of Notre-Dame, Esplanade, Versailles.
Dawes, Charles. 1865-1951. US statesman. Dawes Plan.
Dawes Plan. 1924-9. US economic assistance to Germany during reparations.
Dornier, Claudius. 1884-1969. German aircraft designer. First all-metal airplane, 1911.
Dunlop, John. 1840-1921. Pneumatic tires for bicycles 1888, planes 1910.
Earhart, Amelia. 1898-1937. US aviator. First solo Atlantic flight by a woman, 1932. Lost in attempt to circle planet.
Enola Gay. US plane which dropped H-bomb on Hiroshima, 1945.
Erfurt Parliament. 1850. Austrian opposition causes withdrawal of Prussian plan for German Unification.
Euclid. c300BC. Greek mathematician. Discovered plane geometry. Elements.
Eudoxus of Cnidus. c400-350BC. Greek astronomer. Explained movement of sun, moon, planets.
Five Year Plans. 1928- Russian planning cycles.
Fokker, Anthony. 1890-1939. Dutch/German/ US aircraft engineer for Germany, WWI. Remote control plane, 1919.
Fuchs, Leonhard. 1501-66. German naturalist. Compendium of medicinal plants. Historia Stirpium 1542.
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.
Gauguin, Paul. 1848-1903. French Post-Impressionist painter typified by abstracted figures and flat planes of color. Tahitian Landscape. Day of the God 1894.
Geoffrey Plantagenet. 1113-51. Count of Anjou. Conquered Normandy for his son Henry II.
Greek Project. 1782. Abandoned plan of Catherine the Great to conquer Ottoman Empire.
Green Revolution. 20C. Increased food production in developing countries based on new plant breeds. Borlaug.
Haussman. Baron. 1809-91. Parisian town plan, 1852. Opera House. Bois de Boulogne.
Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.
Hipparchus. c190-120BC. First star catalogue. Epicyclic planetary motion around earth. Astrolabe 130.