Callaghan, Morley. 1903-90. Canadian writer. Such is my Beloved 1934.

Canadian Pacific Railway. 1871-87. Joined BC to Canada. Condition of BC joining Canada.

Carib. Warlike natives of Amazon Basin. 15C conquered Arawak. Cannibals. Decimated by disease. St Vincent.

Carmen, Bliss. 1861-1929. Canadian lyric poet. Low tide on Grand Pré 1893. Daughters of Dawn 1913.

Carnot, Sadi. 1796-1832. French discoverer of reversibility of heat and work.

Carnot, Sadi. 1837-94. President of the Third French Republic, 1887-. Assassinated.

Caroline Affair. 1837. Canadians destroy US vessel at Niagara for supplying rebels. Mackenzie.

Carr, Emily. 1871-1945. Canadian writer and primitivist painter. Klee Wick 1941.

CCF. 1932. Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. Canadian Socialist party. 1961 =New Democratic Party.

Chambers, William. 1726-96. English Palladian architect. Somerset House 1776-86.

Charlottetown Conference. 1864. Canadian provinces plan Confederation.

Chiang Ch’ing. 1914-91. Chinese radical. Mao’s wife. Gang of Four.

Clear Grits Movement. 1848-51. Canadian political movement for representation by population.

Clemenceau, Georges. 1841-1929. French Radical Prime Minister 1917-20. Dreyfus defender. War leader.

Cobden, Richard. 1804-65. British Radical MP. Anti-Corn Law League.

Confederation Group. 19C Canadian nationalistic poets. Carmen.

Conrad I. -918. First non-Carolingian king of Germany 911-.

Crookes, William. 1832-1919. English physicist. Invented Crookes tube. Discovered thallium. Radiometer.

Crusades. 1095-1272. European Christian wars to regain Holy Land after Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem in 1072. Literature and the arts benefitted from Eastern cultural infusion. Peasants 1096. Annihilated. First. 1096-99. Genoa financed Godfrey of Bouillon to recapture Jerusalem. Only successful crusade. Second. 1147-49. Louis VII and Conrad III pillage Byzantium. Third. 1189-92. Richard I and Philip II Truce with Saladin allows access to Jerusalem. Fourth. 1202-4. French and Flemish nobles conquer, sack Constantinople, form Latin Empire. Childrens. 1212. Stephen of Cloyes led 30,000 unarmed French youths. Nicholas of Cologne led 20,000 German. All died or enslaved. Fifth. 1218-21. John of Brienne in Egypt. Sixth. 1228-29. Frederick II crowned king of Jerusalem. Seventh. 1248-54. St Louis of France captured by Egypt and ransomed. Eighth. 1270. St Louis dies of plague. Ninth. 1271-2. Prince Edward of England.

Cunard, Samuel. 1787-1865. Canadian. First regular steamship line.

Curie, Marie. 1867-1934, and Pierre 1859-1906. Polish/French discoverers of radium, 1898.

Cycladic Civilization. Paralleled Minoan and Mycenaean.

Daladier, Édouard. 1884-1970. French Prime Minister, 1933~40. Munich Agreement.

Decembrists. 1825. Conspiracy to overthrow Czar Nicholas I. Betrayed. Established Russia’s revolutionary tradition.

Dialectical Materialism. Exploited workers...capital concentration...socialist revolution...dictatorship of proletariat...elimination of class...Communism. Hegel. Marx. Engels. Lenin.

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