Rasputin, Grigori. 1872-1916. Russian adventurer, mystic. Influential in court of Nicholas II, 1906-. Murdered.

Raymond IV. c1041-1105. Count of Toulouse. Led First Crusade.

Realism. 19C art movement concerned with recording everyday life. Courbet.

Reichskammergericht. 1495-1806. Supreme Court of Holy Roman Empire.

Republic, Council of the. 1917. Russian provisional government. Eliminated by Bolsheviks.

Resistance. WWII underground paramilitary groups in German-occupied countries, notably France. Partisans. Maquis.

Revolutionary Tribunal. 1793-5. French Terror court.

Rights, Bill of. 1791. First 10 amendments to US constitution. Freedom of religion, right to due process, counsel, bear arms, no self incrimination, cruel or unusual punishment, etc.

Roger II. 1095-1154. Norman count of Sicily 1105-; First king 1130-54. Prosperity, culture.

Roland. -778. Count of Brittany. Officer of Charlemagne, immortalized in song by Turold, c1100.

Russian Civil War. 1918-22. Trotsky’s Red Army defeat White counter-revolutionaries. Baltic liberated.

Sadat, Anwar al-. 1918-81. Egyptian president 1970- Aided Nasser’s 1952 coup. 1977 Addressed Israeli Knesset. Peace with Israel 1979. Camp David. Assassinated.

Saint-Simon, duc de. 1675-1755. French courtier, writer of court life. Mémoires 1743.

Salieri, Antonio. 1750-1825. Austrian court composer. Operas.

Sanhedrin. -70. Jerusalem council of Jewish elders.

Sansculottes. 1793-4. Radical French Revolutionaries. Demanded action of Convention vs counterrevolution. Terror.

Sardanapalus. Licentious, effeminate king of Assyria. Burned palace on defeat- killing self and court.

Scaramouche. Italian clown, at 83 could knock off his partner’s hat with a high kick.

Security Council. UN executive. USA, USSR, China, France, UK, + 10 non-permanent.

Seebeck, Thomas. 1770-1831. Russian. Invented thermocouple, 1822.

Senegal. Wolof, Fulani, Serer, Tukulor. 1406 Bettencourt explored. 15C Portugal. 1626 French settle. 1895 French colony. 1959 +Sudanese Republic=Mali Federation. 1960 -Mali=Independent republic.

Seurat, Georges. 1859-91. French Neo-impressionist originator of Pointillist style of painting. The Bridge at Courbevoie.

Sheba. (Saba’). Biblical country in south Arabia. 10C BC Colonized Ethiopia. 2C BC Overrun by Persia. Bilqis, Queen of Sheba visited Solomon.

Sidmouth, First viscount. 1757-1844. British Prime Minister 1801-4. Treaty of Amiens. Peterloo Massacre.

Sieyès, Joseph. 1748-1836. French abbé. What is the Third Estate? called for democracy 1789. Drafted Declaration of the Rights of Man. Helped organize Napoleon’s coup.

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