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Lysander. -395BC. Spartan admiral. Captured Athens 404BC. Ended Peloponnesian War.
Maeterlinck, Maurice. 1862-1949. Belgian Symbolist poet/playwright. Pelléas et Mélisande 1892.
Manzoni, Alessandro. 1785-1873. Italian Romatic writer. The Betrothed 1825-7.
Menshikov, Aleksandr. c1672-1729. Ruled Russia for Catherine I.
Musset, Alfred. 1810-57. French poet. Sand lover. Confession.
Neapolitan. 17-18 C School of Music. Elegant, stylized opera, often weak in drama. Scarlatti.
Nicaragua. 1502 Columbus discovers. 1523 Spanish settle. 1821 Mexican Empire. 1826 CAF. 1839 Independent. Sandinistas.
October Revolution. 1917. Bolsheviks, Lenin and Trotsky overthrow Kerensky’s Socialist provisional government in Russian Revolution.
Petöfi, Sándor. 1823-49. Hungarian lyric poet. Hero of the 1848-9 revolution. Poetry of Liberation. János Vitéz 1845.
Pickens, Andrew. 1739-1817. American Revolutionary. Captured Atlanta.
Popov, Aleksandr. 1859-1905. Russian physicist: radio antenna.
Pretorius, Andries. 1798-1853. Boer leader of Great Trek. Aided in Transvaal independence.
Pushkin, Aleksandr. 1799-1837. Russian Romantic writer. Russia’s “Shakespeare”: Boris Gudonov 1825. Eugene Onegin 1823/4. Exiled 1821~6.
Pyramus and Thisbe. Legendary Babylonian lovers of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Radishchev, Aleksandr. 1749-1802. Liberal Russian writer. Denounced serfdom. Exiled to Siberia.
Russian Revolution. 1905. Led to Duma, Constitution and end of Mir system. Police gradually regained authority. October Manifesto. Bloody Sunday. 1917 Feb: Liberal republicans overthrow Czar. Oct: Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrow Kerensky’s Provisional Government, withdraw from WWI.
Sand, George (Aurore Dupin). 1804-76. French writer. Lélia 1833. Mauprat 1837.
Sand Creek Massacre. 1864. Settlers ignore truce flag, kill Cheyenne Indians. = Chivington Massacre.
Sandburg, Carl. 1878-1967. US poet of the people. Chicago 1914.
Sandinistas. 1962-. Nicaraguan Communist guerilla group vs Somoza. Governed 1980-89, despite US Funded Contra rebellion.
Sandwich, Montagu, 4th earl. 1718-92. British politician. Invented sandwich 1762.
Sandys, Edwin. 1561-1629. English parliamentarian. His ideas helped overthrow Charles I.
Scarlatti, Alessandro. 1660-1725. Italian composer of oratorios and operas. Neapolitan School. Influenced classical harmony.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. 1917-. US historian. A Thousand Days 1965.
Scriabin, Aleksandr. 1872-1915. Russian composer uniting music with philosophy: Prometheus 1911. Musical symbolism.