Labourers, Statute. 1351. Parliament’s freezing of rising wages after plague leads to Peasants Revolt.

Lance. 1927 Abolished by British army. 1939 used by Polish cavalry vs German tanks.

Landsteiner, Karl. 1868-1943. Austrian/US. Discovered ABO blood types 1901, Rh factor 1940.

Lansbury, George. 1859-1940. British Labour MP. Women’s suffrage. Pacifist, opposed to WWI.

Liberia. 1822. Colony of freed US slaves. 1847 Republic. 1930 Slavery abolished.

Liebknecht, Wilhelm. 1826-1900. German Socialist. Founded Social Democratic Labour Party, 1869.

Lodge, Henry Cabot. 1850-1924. US isolationist senator, blocked US entry to League of Nations.

MacDonald, Ramsay. 1866-1937. First British Labour Prime Minister 1924~35.

Married Women’s Property Act. 1882. UK. Abolished women’s property passing automatically to husband on marriage.

Marxism. Official dogma of Communism. Dialectical Materialism. “Perfect economic system will not require political state.” Marx. Engels. Value is based on labour. Maoism. Leninism.

Meiji. 1852-1912. Japanese Empire. 1867-. Modernization. New constitution. Abolished feudalism. Made Japan a world power. Ended isolationism. Tokugawa.

Meir, Golda. 1898-1978. Israeli Labour Prime Minister 1969-74.

Mihajlovitch, Dragoljub. 1893-1946. Yugoslav royalist WWII leader vs Tito. Executed for collaboration with Germany; exonerated by US.

Mir. 17C-1906. Russian system of communal landholding and taxation. Serfdom abolished 1861.

Monopolies. 1597- Granted by English crown. Abolished by Parliament 1624, 39.

Montreux Convention. 1936. Abolished 1923 Straits Convention. Straits Question.

Morpheus. Greek god of dreams about people.

Mukden Incident. 1931. Japan takes over Manchuria on pretext of attempted railway sabotage.

Nabokov, Vladimir. 1899-1977. Russian/US writer. Lolita 1955. Pale Fire 1962.

Nabonidus. Last king of Babylon 556-539BC.

Nabopolassar. Babylonian king 625-605BC. Founded Chaldean Empire.

Naboth. Old Testament. Ahab coveted his vineyard.

National Party. 1936-. New Zealand conservative anti-Labour party.

Native Land Acts. 1862, 65-92. New Zealand abolishes tribal land ownership, destroying traditional Maori society.

Nelson, Horatio. 1758-1805. English Admiral, victor at Aboukir and Trafalgar, where he died.

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