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66 matches to Camden Town Group
Remus. Twin brother of Romulus; legendary founders of Rome. Killed by Romulus after jumping over town wall.
Rieboeck, Jan van. 1619-77. Dutch founder of Cape Town.
Smith, John. c1580-1631. English adventurer saved by Pocahontas. Founded Jamestown.
Soweto. 1976 Violent riots in Black South Africa township over compulsory Afrikaans in schools. 236-600 dead.
St-Quentin, Battle. 1557. Philip II of Spain beseiges + seizes French town.
Townshend Act. 1767-70. Reasserted English authority in American colonies. Import duties.
Virginia Company. London. 1606-24. To colonize North America. Founded Jamestown 1607.
Wilder, Thornton. 1897-1975. US playwright. Bridge of San Luis Rey 1927. Our Town 1938.
Yorktown, Siege. 1781. British surrender to American and French forces. American Revolution.
Absolutism. Government where one person/group has absolute power. 15-18C monarchies.
American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU. 1920-. US legal action group supporting civil rights.
Anglo-Saxons. Group of Germanic tribes that invaded Britain in 5C. Ruled to 1066. Angles. Heptarchy.
Basque. Europe’s oldest racial group. NW Spain, SW France. Euzkadi. ETA.
Beatles. 1960-71. Liverpool pop group.
Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.
Buchmanism. 1922-65. Christian revivalist movement stressing honesty, purity, love, unselfishness. =Moral Rearmament 1938. Oxford Group.
Château Clique. Small merchant group dominated government of Lower Canada to 1830s.
Confederation Group. 19C Canadian nationalistic poets. Carmen.
Encyclopédists. 1751-72. Group who wrote encyclopaedia under Diderot. Voltaire, Helvetius, D’Alembert. As sceptics, they popularized social ideas which led to the French Revolution.
Family Compact. Small conservative group dominates government of Upper Canada leading to 1837 Rebellion. Mackenzie.
Group of Seven. 1920-74. Canadian Impressionist painters. MacDonald, Harris, Lismer, Varley, Carmichael, Johnston, Jackson. Thomson 1913.
Gurkhas. Nepal peoples. Fierce British fighting group 1947-.
Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.
Helsinki Group. 1976. Soviet dissidents who monitor human rights aspect of Helsinki Accord. Orlov. Shscharansky.
Inquisition. Group of tribunals dedicated to routing out heresy. Papal. 1231-18C. Formalized by Gregory IX. Torture to obtain confession authorized by Innocent IV 1252. Roman. 1542-1908. RC church vs Protestantism. Galileo. Spanish. 1478-1834. Formed by Isabella and Ferdinand to persecute Jews and Moslems. Torquemada. Auto-da-fé.