Cavalier Party. 1660-88. Royalists. Became Tory.

Chadwick, Edwin. 1800-90. English campaigner for cleanliness to prevent disease. Poor Law Commission, 1832-46. Board of Health 1848-54.

Checkers Speech. 1952. US VP Nixon denies personal gain from campaign funds on TV.

Clare, Gilbert de. 1243-95. Led Barons War, but became Royalist.

CND. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.

Connecticut Compromise. 1787 Constitutional Convention. Bicameral US Congress.

Continental System. 1806-12. Napoleon’s European embargo vs Britain. Russian refusal led to 1812 Campaign. British retaliation led to Anglo-American War 1812.

Corot, Camille. 1796-1875. French painter, forerunner of Barbizon school of Art. Narni Bridge 1827.

Curzon Line. 1920. Russo-Polish armistice line. Became border, 1945.

Dachau. 1933-45. Nazi concentration camp.

Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.

Divine Right. 16-18C. Assertion that king’s authority came from God. Louis XIV. James I. Charles I.

Dorr, Thomas. 1805-54. US campaigner for universal male suffrage.

Douglas, Stephen. 1813-61. US politician. Compromise of 1850. Popular Sovereignty. Lost presidential campaign to Lincoln.

Dumas, Alexandre (Fils). 1824-1895. Son of Alexandre, writer. Dame aux camélias 1848.

Eastman, George. 1854-1932. US inventor of roll film and Kodak camera 1888. Bromide print 1871.

Edward VIII. 1894-1972. King of UK 1936. Abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, became Duke of Windsor.

Egyptian Campaign. 1798-9. Napoleon invades.

Flammarian, Camille. 1842-1925. French astronomer: L’astronomie Populaire.

Funan Empire. 1-6C. Cambodia. Khmer.

Gaza Strip. Between Egypt, Israel. 1948- Egypt. 1956 Israel occupies. 1957 UN admin. 1967 Israel conq. 1979 “Autonomy” by Camp David Accord. 1993 Palestine.

Glencoe Massacre. 1692. Campbells kill 38 MacDonalds for late oath of allegiance to King William.

Halcyone. Aeolus’ daughter. Became kingfisher. Week of winter calm.

Hatch Acts. 1939,40. Limit campaign contributions in US.

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