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16 matches to Ravel
Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd. 1916. World’s first airline, Britain.
Fellow Travellers. 1917. Russian writers not actively supporting the revolution. Communist sympathizers who are not party members.
Gravelines, Battle. 1558. Spanish defeat French.
Ibn Battutah. 1304-68. Morrocan travel writer. Travels 1325-53.
Irving, Washington. 1783-1859. US writer. Rip van Winkle. Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1819. Tales of a Traveller 1824. Inventor of short story.
Kämpfer, Engelbert. 1651-1716. Travels 1690 to Japan source of valuable info.
Leo Africanus. 1485-1554. Arab/Christian traveler. Descriptions of Africa 1550.
Mandeville, John. 14C. English author. Travels of John Mandeville, Knight 1356.
McAdam, John. 1756-1836. Scottish inventor of Macadam gravel road 1810...Tarmac.
Paul, St. c10-67. Apostle, organizer of Christian religion. Travelled extensively. Pharisee, rabbi, tentmaker converted by vision, 37. Epistles. Martyred by Nero.
Pausanius. c143-76. Lydian traveller, guidebook writer. Descriptions of Greece.
Polo, Marco. c1254-1324. Venetian traveller to China 1275-92.Travels of Marco Polo 1298.
Ravel, Maurice. 1875-1937. French Impressionist composer. Adopted new forms such as jazz and atonality. Boléro 1928.
Settlement, Pale of. 1792-1917. SW region of Russia where Jews allowed to settle, travel.
Swift, Jonathon. 1667-1745. Anglo-Irish satirist writer. Gulliver’s Travels 1726.
Thugs. Indian religious sect suppressed by British. Killed travellers to offer to goddess Kali.