Hardenberg, Karl von. 1750-1822. Prussian chancellor 1810- during Napoleonic Wars. Citizenship to Jews.

Hardie, Keir. 1856-1915. British. Founded Scottish Labour Party 1888, Independent Labour Party 1893.

Harding, Warren. 1865-1923. US Pres 1921-. Teapot Dome. Washington Conference.

Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928. English novelist: Far from the Madding Crowd 1874; Mayor of Casterbridge 1886; Jude the Obscure 1896. Man as victim of fate. -“the worth encompassed by the inevitable”.

Hargreaves, James. -1778. English. Invented spinning jenny 1764.

Harley, Robert. 1661-1724. British Tory Secretary of State 1704-8. Head of Tory ministry 1710-14.

Harmodius. -514BC. Failed assassin of Hippias.

Harmony Society. Protestant celibate ascetic communal sect. Founded Harmony, PA 1806.

Harmsworth, Harold. 1868-1940. English newspaper publisher. Daily Mail.

Harnack, Adolf von. 1851-1930. German theological historian. History of Dogma 1886-9.

Harold II. Last Saxon king of England, 1066. Killed at Hastings.

Harper’s Ferry. 1859. John Brown raids arsenal to start slave uprising.

Harpies. 3 half-woman half-bird creatures.

Harrington, James. 1611-77. English idealist utopian writer. Oceana 1656.

Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.

Harris, Paul. 1868-1947. US lawyer. Founded Rotary International 1905.

Harris Treaty. 1858. Japan-US trade opened.

Harrison, Frederic. 1831-1923. English Positivist: Philosophy of Common Sense 1907.

Harrison, William. 1773-1841. US Pres 1841. Elected on slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”. Died of pneumonia caught at inauguration.

Hartford Wits. Connecticut Wits.

Harun-ar-Rashid. c764-809. Abbasid Caliph, 786-. Subject of One Thousand and One Nights.

Harvard, John. 1607-38. Endowed University with £800 + 320 books.

Harvey, William. 1578-1657. English doctor, discovered circulation of blood 1616-28. On Reproduction 1651.

Hasdrubal. -207BC. Hannibal’s brother. Carthaginian commander.

Hasideans. Jewish sects. 300-175BC. Strict Talmudic observation.

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