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1604 matches to Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Long Knives. 1934. Hitler’s SS murder 77+ Nazi opponents and others.
Albert of Brandenburg. 1490-1568. First Duke of Prussia, 1525. Ended Teutonic Knights’ rule.
Arthur. c500. Legendary king of Camelot. Knights of the Round Table.
Bath, Order of. 1399. A British knighthood.
Bayard, Pierre. 1476-1524. French knight in Italian wars. “The fearless and blameless knight.”
Becket, St. Thomas à. 1118-70. Archbishop of Canterbury 1162-, murdered in Cathedral by Henry II’s knights.
Bulwer-Lytton. 1803-73. English novelist. Last Days of Pompeii, 1834. -“It was a dark and stormy night”.
Calatrava, Knights. 1158-1493. Defended Spain vs Moors. Controlled large areas.
Chivalry. 12-15C. International brotherhood of knights and their code of conduct.
Clement V. Pope 1305-14. Moved papacy to Avignon. Dissolved Knights Templar 1312. Prohibited usury.
Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.
Dali, Salvador. 1904-89. Spanish Surrealist painter of nightmare visions. Persistence of Memory. Crucifixion.
Estonia. c1000BC Aesti. 9C- Vikings invade. 11,12C Russia, Denmark, Sweden invades. 1219 Denmark. 1346 Teutonic Knights buy. 16C Sweden/Poland/Denmark divide. 17C Sweden. 1721 Russian. 1918 Independent. 1919-33 Unstable governments. 1924 Failed Bolshevik revolution. 1934 Päts coup. 1940 USSR. 1991 Independent.
Falla, Manuel de. 1876-1946. Spanish composer influenced by folk music, Debussy. Nights in the Garden of Spain 1916.
Flood, Great. c3000BC. Destruction of man and world by God. Forty days and night. Noah. Gilgamesh.
Galahad. Chaste Arthurian knight. Lancelot’s son. Holy Grail.
Galland, Antoine. 1646-1715. French translator of Arabian Nights, introduced the story to Europe 1704.
Garter, Order of. c1348. First Order of British Knighthood. Founded by Edward III. “Honi soit qui mal y pense”. Shame on him who thinks evil of it.
Gawain. Arthurian ideal knight.
Gdansk. (Danzig). 1308 Teutonic Knights. 1466-1793 Sole Polish port. 1919 Independent. (Nazi 1933-). 1939 Germans annex, causing WWII. 1945 Poland. Solidarity.
George’s Day Revolt, St. 1343-5. Estonians vs Danes. Suppressed by Teutonic Knights who bought Estonia from Denmark.
Golden Fleece, Order of. 1430. Knighthood founded by Philip the Good.
Harun-ar-Rashid. c764-809. Abbasid Caliph, 786-. Subject of One Thousand and One Nights.
Hodler, Ferdinand. 1853-1918. Swiss Symbolist artist. The Night 1890.
Hopper, Edward. 1882-1967. US realist painter. Nighthawks 1942.