Constitutional Convention. 1787. Philadelphia. Amended Articles of Confederation. Constitution.

Copper Age. c3000BC. Early Bronze Age.

Cordeliers. 1790-4. French moderate revolutionaries. Met at convent. Petitioned vs king. Most executed. Marat.

Cornwallis, Charles. 1738-1805. British General. Ended American Revolution by surrender at Yorktown.

Costa Rica. 1502 Columbus discovers. 1564 Spain settles. 1821 Independent. 1822 Mexican Empire. 1823 CAF. 1838 Republic.

Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.

Custer, George. 1839-76. US general killed at Little Bighorn.

Cyrano de Bergerac. 1619-65. French large nosed satirical writer. La Mort d’Agrippine 1654.

Dabrowski, Jan. 1755-1818. Polish general under Napoleon, hero in rebellion vs Russia.

Dada. Anarchistic, deliberately shocking “non-art” begun in Zurich, 1916. Led to Surrealism. Arp. Duchamp. Ernst.

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.

Daugherty, Harry. 1860-1941. US attorney general. Acquitted in Teapot Dome scandal.

Davis, Jefferson. 1808-89. US Confederate president during Civil War.

Davout, Louis. 1770-1823. Napoleon’s general, Minister of War 1815.

Dayan, Moshe. 1915-81. Israeli general in Arab-Israeli Wars. Cabinet Minister 1967~79.

De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.

De Wet, Christiaan. 1854-1922. Boer general. Led 1914 Rebellion.

Deakin, Alfred. 1856-1919. Australian Prime Minister 1903~10. First Attorney General 1901. Led federation movement.

Decazes, Elie, duc de. 1780-1860. Minister of Louis XVIII. Moderate leader.

Defence of India Act. 1915. Britain. Caused Noncooperation Movement.

Delius, Frederick. 1862-1934. English/French Impressionist opera composer. Tone poems.

Democratic Party. 1792-. Major US political party. Liberalism, populism vs big business.

Denikin, Anton. 1872-1947. Russian general of White Army, 1918-20.

Desaix, Louis. 1768-1800. French general. Killed at Marengo.

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

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