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44 matches to Two Thousand Words
Two Sicilies. Naples and Sicily. All Italy south of papal states. 11C Norman. 12C HRE. 1282 Angevin(N)/Aragon(S). 1443 Aragon. 1495-1504 French(N). 1713 Austria(N) /Savoy(S). 1734 Spain. 1759 Independent Bourbon. 1799-1802 France. 1861 Italy.
Weizmann, Chaim. 1874-1952. Russian/Polish Zionist. First President of Israel 1949-52.
Zionist World Congress. 1897. Defined Basel Program to establish Palestinian Homeland. Herzl.
Crispi, Francesco. 1819-1901. Italian Prime Minister 1887~96. Thousand.
Cunaxa, Battle. 401BC. Failed revolt vs Artaxerxes II. Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
Harun-ar-Rashid. c764-809. Abbasid Caliph, 786-. Subject of One Thousand and One Nights.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. 1917-. US historian. A Thousand Days 1965.
South Sea Bubble. 1711-20. England sold trade monopolies to reduce National Debt. Their resale at speculative prices led to financial ruin for thousands. George I implicated. Walpole.
Sulla, Lucius. 138-78BC. Roman consul 88-79. Dictator 82-79. Civil war with Marius. Murdered thousands of opponents. Conquered Athens. Constitutional reforms.
Ten Thousand, Expedition of. 401BC. Xenophon leads Persian-paid Greek mercenaries out of Iraq.
Ten Thousand Immortals. Core of Achaemenid army.
Thousand, Expedition of the. 1860. Garibaldi takes Sicily, Naples for Victor Emmanuel II.
Wallenberg, Raoul. 1912-47?. Swedish diplomat. Saved thousands of Jews in WWII Budapest. Jailed by Soviets. Holocaust.
Xenophon. 431-350BC. Greek general/historian. Expedition of Ten Thousand. Anabasis. Hellenica.
Festus, Sextus. 2C. Roman lexicographer. On the Meaning of Words.
Lake Poets. 19C. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey of English Lake District.
Richardson, Samuel. 1689-1761. English novelist using personal letters. Influenced novel form: Pamela 1740 Clarissa 1747 (at 1M words, the longest English novel).
Romantic. Literary movement. Nature, spirit and emotion. Subjective. Gothic novel. Hugo, Rousseau, Schiller. Wordsworth. Goethe. Scott.
Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850. English Romantic lyric ballad Lake Poet. “Nature’s Priest”.