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1604 matches to Night of the Long Knives
Hospitallers, Knights. 11C-. Order of St. John. First devoted to aid of pilgrims to Holy Land. Prominent in crusades. Bought Rhodes 1309. Expelled by Ottomans, 1522. Given Malta by Charles V, 1530. Expelled by Napoleon, 1798. = Knights of Malta.
John, Order of St. = Hospitallers.
Knights of Columbus. 1882-. US RC men’s lay organization.
Knights of Labor. 1869-1917. Secret (-1879) US anti-capitalist labour organization. Haymarket. AFL.
Knights of St John. Hospitallers.
Knights of the Golden Circle. 1859-66. Secret US organization of South supporters during Civil War.
Knights’ War. 1522-3. Failed German rebellion vs Reformation.
Lancelot. Knight of King Arthur’s Round Table. Guinevere’s lover. Galahad’s father.
Latvia. 9C Varangian. 1158 Teutonic Knights. 1561 Poland(S). 1629 Sweden(N). 1721 Russian(N)...1795 Russian(all). 1918 Independent republic. 1934 Ulmanis dictator. 1940 USSR. 1941-45 German occupation. 1991 Independent.
Leander. Hero’s lover who swam Hellespont nightly.
Livonia. 9C Livs. 1237 Teutonic Knights. 1569 Lithuania/ Poland. 1660 Sweden. 1721 Russia. 1918 Estonia/ Latvia.
Livonian Knights. 1202-1561. German religious order to Christianize Baltic. Livonia.
Lohengrin. German legendary knight of the Holy Grail.
Lo-Johansson, Ivar. 1901-90. Swedish novelist of social causes. Goodnight, Earth 1933.
Lytton, Bulwer-. 1803-73. English novelist: Last Days of Pompeii 1834. “It was a dark and stormy night”.
MacLennan, Hugh. 1907-90. Canadian writer of social + political conflict. Two Solitudes 1945. The Watch that Ends the Night 1959.
Malta. c800BC Phoenecia...Carthage. 218BC Rome. 5C Vandal/ Goth. 6C Byzantine. 870 Arab. 1090 Sicily. 1530 Knights of St. John. 1798 French. 1814 British. 1964 Indepependent. 1974 Republic. Population awarded George Cross 1942.
Malta, Knights of. 1530-1798. Knights of St. John.
Mandeville, John. 14C. English author. Travels of John Mandeville, Knight 1356.
Murphy, Gerald and Sara. 1920-33 US expatriates in Paris, Antibes. Parties, salons for artists and writers. Models for Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night.
Nightingale, Florence. 1820-1910. English pioneer of nursing in Crimean War. “The lady with the lamp.”
Nyx. Greek personification (female) of night.
O’Neill, Eugene. 1888-1953. US playwright: Iceman Cometh 1946. Long Day’s Journey into Night 1956.
Peacock, Thomas. 1785-1866. English witty satirical novelist: Nightmare Abbey.
Peipus, Battle of Lake. 1242. Russians repel Livonian Knights’ attack on Novgorod.