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Attwood, Thomas. 1783-1856. British Chartist.
Bretton Woods. 1944. Economic conference. Created International Monetary Fund, World Bank.
Cato St. Conspiracy. 1820. Thistlewood plot to assassinate cabinet ministers.
Caxton, William. c1422-91. Printed first English book 1473/4. First printer in England, 1476. Published Chaucer, Aesop. First woodcuts appear in Game and Playe of Chesse 1476. First poster 1477.
Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1803-82. US essayist/ poet. Transcendentalist. Woodnotes 1846, Brahma 1867, English Traits 1856, Self-Reliance.
Faunus. Roman woodland deity. = Pan.
Frost, Robert. 1874-1963. American New England poet. Stopping by Woods 1923.
Gibbon, Grinling. 1648-1720. English woodcarver on Wren’s buildings. St. Paul’s. Blenheim.
Gold Standard. 1821-1937. Definition of national currencies in terms of gold purchasing power. Ended: 1931 Britain, 1933 USA, 1936 France. Friedman. Bretton Woods.
Guthrie, Woody. 1912-67. Populist US singer. This Land is Your Land.
International Monetary Fund. IMF.1944. Bretton Woods. Lends money to balance foreign exchange deficits and stabilize exchange rates.
Ironclads. 1858-60. Iron-protected wooden warships.
Isherwood, Christopher. 1904-86. English novelist/playwright. Goodbye to Berlin 1939.
Keynes, John Maynard. 1883-1946. British economist. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 1935. Demand is more a function of interest rates than of money supply. Bretton Woods.
London Bridge. 963 wood. 1176 stone. 1831 rebuilt. 1971 Sold, moved to US.
Sherwood, Robert. 1896-1955. US dramatist. Idiot’s Delight 1936.
Thistlewood, Arthur. 1774-1820. English failed Cato St Conspiracy.
Thomas, Dylan. 1914-53. Welsh poet. Under Milk Wood 1953.
Wedgwood, Josiah. 1730-95. English potter, developed new style, 1763. Automation, 1769, begins Industrial Revolution.
Wilson, Woodrow. 1856-1924. US president 1913-21. Idealist. Advocated League of Nations. Prohibition. Women’s vote. Attempted to mediate WWI 1917.
Wood, Grant. 1892-1942. US midwest regionalist painter. American Gothic 1930.
Wood, John. 1704-54. English Palladian architect: Royal Crescent, Bath 1767.
Wood, Leonard. 1860-1927. US military surgeon. Co-founder of Rough Riders.
Woodhull, Victoria. 1838-1927. US reformer. First female presidential candidate 1872. Suffrage, free love advocate.