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Amram bar Shishna. -875. Hebrew scholar. Oldest prayer book. Seder Rab Amram.
Appleton, Edward. 1892-1965. English physicist: Appleton ionospheric layer.
Ayer, Alfred. 1910-89. British Logical Positivist. Foundation of Empirical Knowledge. Language, Truth and Logic 1936.
Baroja y Nessi, Pio. 1872-1956. Basque novelist. Terse style influenced Hemingway. Somber Lives 1900. Generation of ’98.
Basil II. 958-1025. Byzantine Emperor 960-. Slayer of Bulgars.
Bayer, Johann. 1572-1625. German astronomer. Star charts, 1603, include magnitude Greek symbols.
Book of Common Prayer. 1549. Church of England official prayer book.
Book of the Dead. 24-16C BC. Egyptian prayers and spells buried with deceased.
Cezanne, Paul. 1839-1906. French Post-Impressionist painter. Illusion of depth by color. Card Players 1892.
Cooper, James Fenimore. 1789-1851. US adventure writer: Last of Mohicans 1826. Deerslayer 1841.
Hemingway, Ernest. 1898-1961. US novelist: Fairwell to Arms 1929. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Old Man and the Sea 1952. Style:“A stream with stones of nouns and a surface of prepositional ripples” -L. Morrow.
Lost Generation. Gertrude Stein’s term for US writers influenced by WWI. Fitzgerald. Hemingway.
Malpighi, Marcello. 1628-94. Italian physician. Early microscopic anatomy. Malpighi skin layer.
Savoy Conference. 1661. London. Failed to agree on new prayer book. Puritans leave Church of England.
Sayers, Dorothy. 1893-1957. English mystery writer. Lord Peter Wimsey.
Siegfried. Dragon slayer of German legend.
Solvay, Ernst. 1838-1922. Belgian chemist and philanthropist.
Uniformity, Act of. 1549. Established English Prayer Book, catechism for Anglican worship. 1553 Repealed. 1559 Reenacted. 1662 Deprived Nonconformists of living.
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1922-. US satirical novelist, social critic. Player Piano 1952. Slaughterhouse Five 1969.