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Abd ar-Rahman I. 731-788. Umayyad emir of Cordoba, 755-. Repelled Charlemagne.
Abd el-Kader. 1808-83. Arab emir who fought French 1840-46; founded Algerian state.
Admiral Graf Spee. -1939. German battleship def by British, scuttled at Montevideo.
Admiralty Arch. 1910 London memorial to Q Victoria.
Amanollah Khan. 1892-1960. Amir of Afghanistan 1919-29. Won independence from Britain, 1919.
April Theses. 1917. Lenin’s plan for Soviet takeover of state power from provisional government.
Bekhtrev, Vladmir. 1857-1927. Extended Pavlov’s Conditioned Response theory. Objective Psychology, 1910.
Blake, Robert. 1599-1657. English Commonwealth admiral.
Bodel, Jean. 1167-1210. Wrote first French miracle play. Play of St. Nicholas 1200.
Capernaum. Jesus’ second home and site of miracles.
Comus. Greek god of mirth and joy.
Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.
Crichton, James “The Admirable”. 1560-82. Scottish adventurer/scholar.
Cunningham, Andrew. 1883-1963. WWII admiral, British chief of naval staff 1943-6.
Darlan, François. 1881-1942. French admiral. Built navy 1933-40. Collaborated with Germany, 1941-2, then Americans. Assassinated.
Dewey, George. 1837-1917. US admiral in Spanish-American War.
Dialectical Materialism. Exploited workers...capital concentration...socialist revolution...dictatorship of proletariat...elimination of class...Communism. Hegel. Marx. Engels. Lenin.
Doenitz, Karl. 1891-1980. German admiral. Wolf pack U-boat strategy. Authorized German surrender, 1945.
Doria, Andrea. 1466-1560. Genoese admiral, statesman. Freed, ruled Genoa.
Drake, Francis. 1540-96. English pirate/explorer. Sailed around the world 1580. Vice Admiral at defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588. Privateers.
Emir. Moslem commander or governor.
Euphrosyne. Grace of mirth and merriment.
Farragut, David. 1801-70. Union Civil War admiral. -“Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!”.
Funk, Casimir. 1884-1967. Polish/US discoverer of vitamins.
Gallipoli. 1915-16. Unsuccessful Allied attempt to secure Dardanelles from Turkey. Churchill resigns as Lord of Admiralty.