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40 matches to Alfred
Adler, Alfred. 1870-1937. Austrian psychiatrist. Split with Freud, 1911.
Alfred the Great. 849-99. Saxon King of Wessex 871-. Resisted Danes 877-79 (Edington) + 892-96. Captured London 886. First British Navy 897.
Ayer, Alfred. 1910-89. British Logical Positivist. Foundation of Empirical Knowledge. Language, Truth and Logic 1936.
Beach, Alfred. 1826-96. US inventor. Published Scientific American 1848-.
Big Stick Policy. Roosevelt’s foreign policy. Power as a deterrent. Mahan.
Binet, Alfred. 1857-1911. French. Invented intelligence test 1905. Projective testing 1903.
Cardigan, James Brudenell, Earl of. 1797-1868. British General. Led Charge of the Light Brigade. Tennyson. Crimean War.
Clemenceau, Georges. 1841-1929. French Radical Prime Minister 1917-20. Dreyfus defender. War leader.
Deakin, Alfred. 1856-1919. Australian Prime Minister 1903~10. First Attorney General 1901. Led federation movement.
Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.
Edington, Battle. 878. King Alfred, Wessex only Anglo-Saxon kingdom to withstand Danes.
Esterhazy, Ferdinand. 1847-1923. French. Sold secrets to Germans. Blamed Dreyfus.
Faure, Felix. 1841-99. French president. Fashoda. Dreyfus.
Félibrige. 1854. Mistral’s Provençale revival movement.
Hitchcock, Alfred. 1899-1980. English/US horror film maker. 39 Steps 1935. Psycho 1960.
Jodl, Alfred. 1890-1946. German general. Signed capitulation at Reims. Condemned at Nuremberg.
Kinsey, Alfred. 1894-1956. US sexologist. Sexual Behaviour 1948,53.
Korzybski, Alfred. 1879-1950. Polish/US linguist. General semantics 1933.
Loisy, Alfred. 1857-1940. French Modernist religious scholar.
Mahan, Alfred. 1840-1914. US naval officer/historian. Influence of Sea Power on History.
Mistral, Frédéric. 1830-1914. French Provençale revival poet. Mirèi 1859. Félibrige 1878.
Modernism. 19C Movement to reinterpret Roman Catholicism based on science, psychology. Declared heretical, 1907. Loisy. Tyrrell.
Musset, Alfred. 1810-57. French poet. Sand lover. Confession.
Nobel, Alfred. 1833-96. Swedish. Invented dynamite 1867. Founded Nobel Prize 1901.
Nobel Prize. Nobel legacy funded. Peace Prize and prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature. 1969 +Economics. . Declined: Le Duc Tho, Pasternak, Sartre.