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Medusa. Gorgon. Hair of snakes. Gaze turned people to stone.
Megaliths. Neolithic monuments of very large stones. Stonehenge.
Meisenbach. Half tone engraving 1881.
Mesolithic. c8000-2700BC. Middle stone age between Paleolithic, Neolithic.
Milhaud, Darius. 1892-1974. Modern French polytone composer. Creation of the World 1923. Christopher Columbus 1930. Les Six.
Mott, Lucretia. 1793-1880. Organized first US women’s rights conference with Stanton, 1848.
Neolithic. 10,000-2,000BC. New Stone age.
Paleolithic. 2.5M-10,000BC. Old Stone Age.
Palermo Stone. Carved history of Egyptian dynasties I-V.
Peirce, Charles. 1839-1914. US philosopher. Pragmatism. -“logic is keystone of all knowledge”.
Pont de la Concorde. Paris. Built 1787-91 from stones of Bastille so people could forever trample ruins.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. 1848-53. British painters vs Royal Academy. Advocated return to simple classical naturalism. Painted with bright colors on white vs dark tones of the time. Rossetti. Millais. Hunt.
Prehistoric. Period of Greek Art. 1500-1000BC. Mycenaeans created massive stone works, painted vases, bronze ornaments.
Reform Bills. England. 1832: Russell redistributes Parliamentary seats, enfranchises renters. 1867: Disraeli enfranchises workers in towns. 1884: Gladstone enfranchises agricultural workers. Representation of People Acts.
Rosetta Stone. 196BC Multilingual stone used by Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics 1821.
Sennett, Mack. 1880-1960. Canadian/US film maker. Keystone Cops.
Shackleton, Ernest. 1874-1922. British Antarctic explorer.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1787-1851. English writer. (Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin). Married Percy Shelley. Frankenstein 1818.
Sibelius, Jan. 1865-1957. Finnish composer. Finlandia. Symphonies and tone poems evoke feeling of North. Kulervo Symphony 1892.
Sisyphus. King of Corinth, condemned to perpetually roll a stone to the top of a hill.
Stanley, Henry. 1841-1904. British/US explorer in Africa 1868-95. Found Livingstone 1871. Founded Congo Free State.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. 1815-1902. US suffrage leader. First woman’s rights convention 1848. Mott.
Stone Age. Period before use of metal tools. Date varies by region: Near east -c3500BC Paleolithic. Neolithic.
Stonehenge. c18-14C BC. English megalithic monument with astronomical properties, religious purpose.
Suffragettes. Women seeking right to vote. Pankhurst. Anthony. Stanton. Suffrage.