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Sunderland, Earl of. 1674-1722. British Whig minister. South Sea National Debt scheme.
Symbolists. 19C French literary movement expressing truth subjectively by symbols. Spread to art, music. Verlaine. Mallarmé. Munch.
Tascher de la Pagerie. Joséphine.
Teach, Edward. =Blackbeard.
Temperance Movement. 1808 Begun in NY by women and churches. 1874 WCTU. 1890 Carry Nation. 1893 Anti-Saloon League. Prohibition.
Teschen Dispute. 1919. Poland, Czechoslovakia battle over industrial, coal-mining territory.
Teschen Treaty. 1779. Austria, Prussia end War of Bavarian Succession.
Thatcher, Margaret. 1925-. Britain’s first woman Prime Minister 1979-. Conservative. Monetarist. Falklands War.
Theorell, Axel. 1903-82. Swedish biochemist. Enzyme oxidation.
Tinchebrai, Battle. 1106. Henry I re-unifies Normandy, England.
Tintoretto. c1518-94. Venetian Mannerist painter. Sought colors of Titian with drawing of Michelangelo. Last Supper 1547. Susanna Bathing c1550.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. 1864- 1901. Painter of Paris nightlife. Moulin Rouge 1891.
Trollope, Anthony. 1815-82. English Realist Victorian novelist of ordinary people, religious and political life: Phineas Finn. Barchester Towers 1857. 46 novels.
Tropez, St. Decapitated by Nero, his body set adrift with a dog and cock was untouched until it came to rest at St. Tropez, France.
Tyche. Greek goddess of chance. =Fortuna.
Vauban, Sébastien de. 1633-1707. French military engineer. Invented trenches 1673, socket bayonet 1688.
Veche. 10C-1510. Russian democratic city council abolished by Mongols.
Victory, HMS. Oldest commissioned British warship. Launched 1765. Nelson’s flagship 1797-1805. Trafalgar.
Walking Purchase. 1737. Americans cheat Indians in buying Delaware land by running instead of walking to determine land size. French-Indian Wars 1754-63.
Watches. 15C invented in Germany. Nuremberg Eggs.
Waterloo, Battle. 1815. Final defeat of Napoleon by Wellington and Blücher.
Winchester. 972 First royal standard units of measure.
Winckelmann, Johann. 1717-68. German archeologist, art historian. History of Art of Antiquity 1764. Modern archeology.
Wolfram von Eschenbach. 1170-1220. German lyric poet. Parsifal 1202.