Quebec Act. 1774. Britain creates permanent government for Canada. Tolerance for French Canadians a cause of American Revolution. Intolerable Acts.

Radical Republicans. 1860-77. Anti-slavery faction of US Republican Party. Abolitionists.

Radishchev, Aleksandr. 1749-1802. Liberal Russian writer. Denounced serfdom. Exiled to Siberia.

Radisson and Groseilliers. Huguenot explorers of Minnesota, 1658-9.

Radom, Confederation of. 1767. Polish nobles oppose king’s reforms leading to Partition.

Railways. 1795 England(horse-drawn). 1827 First US charter. 1827 Europe (St. Etienne-Andrézieux). 1869 US Central/Union Pacific. 1887 Canadian Pacific 1905 Trans-Siberian.

RCMP. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 1873 Formed as NW Mounted Rifles. 1920 =RCMP.

Richler, Mordecai. 1931-2001. Canadian novelist of human dilemmas. Duddy Kravitz 1959.

Rienzo, Cola di. 1313-54. Leader, briefly dictator of Rome.

Rivera, Diego. 1886-1957. Mexican mural painter. Murals at Rockefeller Center 1933. Kahlo.

Roberts, Charles. 1860-1943. Poet, “Father of Canadian literature”. Songs of the Common Day 1893.

Ross, Betsy. 1752-1836. Seamstress. Traditional maker of first US flag.

Rowell-Sirois Report. 1935-40. Recommended Federalism over Canadian provincial power.

Rundstedt, Gerd von. 1875-1953. Leading German WWII commander.

Russian Revolution. 1905. Led to Duma, Constitution and end of Mir system. Police gradually regained authority. October Manifesto. Bloody Sunday. 1917 Feb: Liberal republicans overthrow Czar. Oct: Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrow Kerensky’s Provisional Government, withdraw from WWI.

Sacre Coeur. Paris basilica built 1873-1910 by Abadie, at a cost of FF40 million.

Sa’di. c1213-1292. Classical Persian lyric poet. The Orchard 1257.

Saladin. 1138-93. Egyptian sultan 1169-. Took Jerusalem, 1187, inciting Third Crusade. Began Ayyubid Dynasty.

Sannazzaro, Jacopo. 1456-1530. Italian humanist, poet. Arcadia 1504.

Sansculottes. 1793-4. Radical French Revolutionaries. Demanded action of Convention vs counterrevolution. Terror.

Sarnoff, David. 1891-1971. Russian/US radio-TV pioneer. Founded RCA 1921, NBC 1926.

Scythians. 8/7-2C BC. Nomadic conquerors of S Europe, Russia. Conquered by Samaritans. Destroyed 2C AD.

Ségurane, Catherine. Saved Nice by frightening away invading Turks, 1543.

Sennett, Mack. 1880-1960. Canadian/US film maker. Keystone Cops.

Service, Robert. 1874-1958. Canadian poet. Shooting of Dan McGraw.

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