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9364 matches to Congress (I) Party
Avalon. Elysium of Arthurian legend.
Avars. 6-8C. Nomadic Caucasus tribe defeated by Charlemagne.
Aventine Secession. 1924. 150 Italian government members protest Fascist government. Matteotti.
Averescu, Alexandru. 1859-1938. Romanian General and Prime Minister. Suppressed 1907 peasant revolt.
Avernus. Crater lake, believed by Romans to be Hell’s entrance.
Averroës, Ibn Rushd. 1126-98. Arab philosopher: eternity of creation, universal shared consciousness.
Avicenna, Ali ibn-Sina. 980-1037. Arab physician, philosopher: Canon of Medicine.
Avignon Papacy. 1309-77. Popes from Clement V based in Avignon, France. Great Schism.
Avignon School. 14-15C. Style of painting influenced by Sienese and Flemish painters during papal residence.
Avila Camacho, Manuel. 1897-1955. Mexican President 1940-46. Befriended US, rallied Latin America vs Axis.
Avogadro, Amadeo. 1776-1856. PV=nRT. Number of molecules in a given quantity of gas 1811.
Awami League. 1954-71. For Bangladesh independence. Rahman.
Axis Pact. 1936-45. German-Italian Agreement, 1936. Cooperative alliance maintained through WWII. Allied with Spain, 1939; Japan, 1936. Yugoslavia 1941. Tripartite Pact.
Ayala Plan. 1911. Zapata to renew Mexican Revolution, return land to communal ownership.
Ayer, Alfred. 1910-89. British Logical Positivist. Foundation of Empirical Knowledge. Language, Truth and Logic 1936.
Ayyubids. Sunni Caliphate dynasty in Egypt 1169-1250. Also in Yemen, Syria.
Azaña, Manuel. 1880-1940. Spanish Republican Prime Minister 31-33, President 36-9.
Azerbaijan. 1828 Persia/Russia. 1918 Independent. 1922 USSR. 1936 Azerbaijan SSR. 1991 Independent. 1992-4 Karabakh War. CIS.
Aztec Empire. 14C-1521. Mexico. Conquered by Spanish.
Baader-Meinhof Gang. (Red Army Faction). 1968-92. West German terrorists supported by Stasi.
Baal. 20-8C BC. Canaanite fertility god. King of gods. Condemned by Hebrews. =Zeus.
Ba’al Shem-Tov. 1700-60. Polish founder of Hasidism. Holiness of ordinary existence.
Ba’ath. 1943-. Pan-Arab Socialist unity party.
Bab. 1819-50. Arab founder of Babism, 1844.
Babbage, Charles. 1792-1871. British. Invented Difference Engine, 1823-34 -first computer. Founded British Association for the Advancement of Science 1831, Royal Astronomical Society 1820, Royal Statistical Society 1834.