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Star Chamber. 1327-1641. English tribunal to try offences against the state. Abused by Charles I.
Aristarchus. 310-230BC. Samos. First to postulate sun as center of solar system. Accused of impiety. Copernicus.
Astarte. Semitic goddess. =Aphrodite.
Babel. Babylonian tower to heaven started by Noah’s sons.
Bayer, Johann. 1572-1625. German astronomer. Star charts, 1603, include magnitude Greek symbols.
Bly, Nellie. 1867-1922. US star reporter.
Bogart, Humphrey. 1899-1957. US film star. Maltese Falcon 1941. Casablanca 1942.
Central America Federation. 1823-40. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica.
Chaplin, Charlie. 1889-1977. English silent film actor. First international film star: The Kid 1921. Modern Times 1936. Little Tramp.
Communist Party. USSR. 1918. Name adopted by Bolsheviks for Social Democratic Workers’ Party. Parties started in Britain, USA, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Germany soon after.
Copernicus, Nicolaus. 1473-1543. Polish astronomer, who demonstrated planetary motion around sun 1528. De Revolutionibus. Aristarchus. Galileo.
Costa Rica. 1502 Columbus discovers. 1564 Spain settles. 1821 Independent. 1822 Mexican Empire. 1823 CAF. 1838 Republic.
Dario, Ruben. 1867-1916. Published Azul 1888, starting Modernismo movement.
Dean, James. 1931-55. US film star. Rebel Without a Cause 1955.
Dreadnought. 1905-22. Class of British battleship. Started arms race 1907-14. Jutland. Two-Power Standard.
German-Soviet Pact. 1939-41. Nonaggression agreement. Divided Poland, Baltic between USSR/Germany. Left Hitler free to invade Poland, starting WWII.
Griquas. Bastards. 19C Tribe of Hottentot-Boer half-castes.
Guise, Francois, duc de. 1519-63. Massacred Huguenots at Vassy, 1562, starting War of Religion.
Halifax, First Earl of. 1661-1715. English Whig statesman. Started National Debt. Established Bank of England. 1694.
Harper’s Ferry. 1859. John Brown raids arsenal to start slave uprising.
Hipparchus. c190-120BC. First star catalogue. Epicyclic planetary motion around earth. Astrolabe 130.
Karageorge, George. 1762-1817. Serbian. Led revolt vs Turks, 1804. Murdered by Milos, starting 100 year feud.
Keble, John. 1792-1866. English poet/clergyman. National Apostacy 1833 sermon started Oxford Movement.
Key, Francis Scott. 1779-1843. US lawyer/poet. Star Spangled Banner 1814 based on music from English drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven. US National anthem 1931-.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu. 1895-1986. Indian religious philosopher. Headed World Order of the Star with Besant.