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Aegospotami. 405BC. Naval battle, ends Peloponnesian War. Victory of Lysander vs Athens.
Assandum, Battle. 1016. Danes defeat English in Essex.
Blues and Greens. 5-9C. Byzantine political factions. Nika Revolt.
Borodin, Aleksander. 1833-87. Russian heroic composer. Prince Igor 1869.
Botticelli, Sandro. 1445-1510. Poetic Florentine Renaissance painter: Sistine fresco 1482.Birth of Venus 1485.
Cassander. c354-297BC. Macedonian King. Fought for control after Alexander’s death. Diadochi.
Cassandra. Daughter of Priam, with gift of prophecy, but curse of never being believed.
Celsius, Anders. 1701-44. Swedish physicist: centigrade temperature scale 1742.
Cerceau, Jacques Androuet du. c1520-85. Optical Views 1551, treatise on architectural perspective.
Chopin, Fréderic. 1810-49. Polish/French composer of emotional expressiveness and pianist of great technical ability. Sand.
Crispi, Francesco. 1819-1901. Italian Prime Minister 1887~96. Thousand.
Cunaxa, Battle. 401BC. Failed revolt vs Artaxerxes II. Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
Dupin, Amandine. Wrote as George Sand.
Farnese, Alessandro. 1545-92. Italian/Spanish governor of Netherlands. Quelled rebellion.
Fleming, Sir Sandford. 1827-1915. Scottish/Canadian scientist, engineer. CPR. Standard Time zones 1884.
Guelfs and Ghibellines. 1154-15C. Rival factions responsible for feuds in Germany and Italy. Welfs.
Harun-ar-Rashid. c764-809. Abbasid Caliph, 786-. Subject of One Thousand and One Nights.
Hawaii. c400 Polynesians. 1778 Cook discovers = Sandwich Is. 1795 UK. 1894 Republic. 1898 US. 1959 State.
Herzen, Aleksandr. 1812-70. Russian revolutionary writer.
Kerensky, Aleksandr. 1881-1970. Russian Revolutionary leader. Prime Minister 1917. Liberal Socialist Provisional government.
Kerensky Offensive. 1917. Failed attack on Germans in Galicia by Kerensky Provisional government.
Kornilov, Lavr. 1870-1918. Russian general. Kerensky’s Commander-in-Chief, 1917. Failed coup vs Kerensky. Led Anti-Bolshevik White Army.
Limon von Sanders, Otto. 1855-1929. German general. Led Turks at Galipoli.
Livius Andronicus. c284-204BC. Roman epic poet. Translated Greek plays, Odyssey.