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12 matches to Shen Nung
Shen Nung. c2800BC. Legendary second Chinese Emperor.
Boston Massacre. 1770. British soldiers kill 5 colonists rioting vs Townshend Acts. A cause of the American Revolution.
Goshen. Biblical region of lower Egypt. 1882-4 Boer Republic.
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall”. 1824-63. Mexican War and Confederacy general. Bull Run, Shenandoah, Antietam.
James, Henry. 1843-1916. US psychological novelist. American 1877. Washington Square 1881. Turn of the Screw 1898. Compared innocence of New World with corruption of Old.-“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature”.
Laurens, Henry. 1724-92. US President of Continental Congress 1777-8. Captured by British. Exchanged for Cornwallis.
Long March. 1934-5. 100,000 Chinese Communists march from Kiangsi, 6,000 miles to Shensi. Mao became leader. 50,000 die.
Shenandoah. Site of American Civil War battles 1861-5.
Sheridan, Philip. 1831-88. Union general, captured Shenandoah, forced Lee’s surrender.
Townshend Act. 1767-70. Reasserted English authority in American colonies. Import duties.
Wells, Henry. 1805-78. US founder of express company, 1848. American Express 1850. Wells Fargo 1852.
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. 1933-. Russian poet. Babiy Yar 1961.