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Baltimore Incident. 1891. Chileans attack US seamen; pay reparations to avert war.
Blackmore, Richard. 1825-1900. English novelist: Lorna Doone 1869.
Borglum, Gutzon. 1867-1941. US sculptor. Mount Rushmore 1941.
Bronze Age. 3500-500BC. First uses of metal for arms and tools. Began in Near East. Society more structured. Specialization begins. Iron Age.
Cooper, James Fenimore. 1789-1851. US adventure writer: Last of Mohicans 1826. Deerslayer 1841.
Eucken, Rudolf. 1846-1926. German philosopher: personal ethics are more important than intellectual idealism.
Fillmore, Millard. 1800-74. US President 1850-3. Delayed Civil War. Know Nothing Party 1856.
Fisher, St. John. 1469-1535. English Humanist scholar. Beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of church. More.
Free Will. Philosophies which allow that man can more or less determine his own destiny. Fatalism.
Henry VIII. 1491-1547. King of England 1509-. Executed Thomas More. Established Church of England. Dissolved monasteries. Six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.
Idealism. Artistic school of thought holding the aesthetic ideal more important than the representation of the subject. vs Realism.
John Paul II. 1920-. Poland. Authoritarian conservative pope 1978-. Wounded 1981 by Islamic fanatic. Most trips. More canonization than previous popes combined.
Keynes, John Maynard. 1883-1946. British economist. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 1935. Demand is more a function of interest rates than of money supply. Bretton Woods.
Know-Nothing Party. 1845-56. Secretive anti-immigrant US party. Fillmore.
Lattimore, Owen. 1900-89. US adviser to Chiang Kai-shek. Acquitted of spying 1950 vs US.
Marcel, Gabriel. 1889-1973. French Existential philosopher. Experience more important than metaphysics.
May Demonstrations. 1968 Paris student uprising for more money to education, less to defence. General Strike brought 33% increase in minimum wage.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig. 1886-1969. German/US Bauhaus architect. Glass and steel. Glass Skyscraper 1921. -“less is more”.
Mo-tzu. c470-391BC. Chinese philosopher. People should love each other universally. vs Confucianism: parents are more important.
More, Thomas. 1477-1535. English humanist, statesman. Utopia 1516, described ideal cooperative democracy. Executed by Henry VIII for opposing Act of Supremacy. Catholic saint.
Moreau, Gustave. 1826-1898. French Symbolist erotic painter. Salome 1876.
Morelos, José. 1765-1815. Mexican priest, independence leader 1811-.
Moreno, Mariano. 1778-1811. Argentine revolutionary leader.
Occam, William. c1280-1349. English Franciscan Nominalist philosopher. “Science is about things, philosophy about terms and concepts”. Occam’s razor: “It is vain to do with more, what can be done with fewer” (Science or Logic). Incompatibility of knowledge and faith, 1332. Opposed Aquinas Aristotelian realism. “Universal ideas exist only in the mind”. Influenced Reformation.
Protectionism. Levying of import duties to make domestic production more competitive. 1337 England. 1870s Germany creates Depression. 1930 US deepens Depression. List. Smoot-Hawley.