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Dalhousie, First Marquess. 1812-60. British Governor General of India 1847-56. Annexed Punjab, 1849, Rangoon, Burma. Built railway, telegraph. Lapse doctrine caused Indian Mutiny.
Dali, Salvador. 1904-89. Spanish Surrealist painter of nightmare visions. Persistence of Memory. Crucifixion.
Dalmatia. Balkans. 1420 Venice. 1797 Austria. 1920 Yugoslavia. 1941 Italy occupies. 1947 Yugoslavia. 1992 Croatia.
Damiens, Robert-François. 1715-1757. Stabbed Louis XV. Quartered.
Damocles. 4C BC. Dionysius suspended a sword by a single hair over his head at a banquet.
Damon and Pythias. Syracuse true friends. Damon pledged his life for Pythias’, awaiting execution.
Dan. Jacob and Bilhah’s son. Founded one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Dana, Charles. 1819-97. US journalist, editor. Attacked corruption.
Dana, Richard. 1815-82. US writer. Two Years Before the Mast.
Danaë. Mother of Perseus by Zeus. Danaïdes.
Danaïdes. 50 daughters of Danaus. 49 condemed to fill sieves for murdering their husbands. Hypermestra.
Dance, George. (The Elder). British designer of Mansion House 1737, London Bridge rebuild 1746.
Dance, George. (The Younger). 1741-1825. English Neoclassical architect College of Surgeons 1813. Founder, Royal Academy.
Dandolo, Enrico. c1108-1205. Blind Venice Doge. Captured Constantinople 1204.
Danegeld. Anglo-Saxon tax 991-1012 to buy off Norse attacks. Heregeld, 1012-51 to raise A-S army vs Norse.
Danelaw. 878-955. NE England under Viking occupation and the laws in effect.
Daniel. 7C BC. Hebrew prophet. Interpreted dreams.
Danilo I-II. 1677-1835, 1826-60. Montenegrin Prince-Bishops.
D’Annunzio, Gabriele. 1863-1938. Italian nationalist writer. Siezed Fiume 1919. Revived Roman salute.
Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.
Danton, Georges. 1759-94. French Cordelier, Jacobin. Girondin leader 1792-3. Defeated foreign interveners. Executed by Robespierre.
Danu. Celtic earth goddess.
Dardanelles. Mediterranean-Black Sea channel. = Hellespont. Gallipoli. Bosphorus.
Dardanus. Greek ancestor of Trojan kings.