Deuteronomy. 5th Book of Bible. Includes 10 Commandments and other laws. Law code found c622BC in Temple of Jerusalem.

Devil’s Parliament. 1459. Held at Coventry.

Dieppe. 1942. Unsuccessful Canadian-led experimental assault on French port. 44,000 dead.

Directory. French government 1795-99. Consulate.

Disarmament Conference. 1932-4. 60 Nations fail to agree due to Hitler’s rise in Germany.

Disestablishment Acts. 1869, 1920 End Roman Catholic obligations to fund Episcopal Church of Ireland, Wales.

Divine, Father. 1882-1965. US black leader. Peace Mission Movement.

Dix, Dorothea. 1802-87. US social reformer for mentally ill.

Domenico Veneziano. 1400-61. Florentine painter. St. Lucy Altarpiece c1445.

Dominican Order. 1216. Mendicant preaching friars with severe rule. Thomists.

Donation of Constantine. 8C. Forged document granting land to the papacy. Exposed 1440.

Donatism. 301-5C. Christian sect believing sacraments given by priests who had sinned are invalid.

Dordrecht Confession. 1632. Mennonite doctrine.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. 1821-81. Russian psychological writer. Crime and Punishment 1866. Idiot 1868. Brothers Karamazov 1880. Exiled to Siberia 1849-59.

Dover, Treaty. 1670. Secret agreement. Louis XIV and Charles II. led to Third Dutch War. Ends Triple Alliance.

Drunken Parliament. 1661. Scotland.

Du Bois, William. 1868-1963. US writer. Founded Niagara movement, NAACP 1909.

Duma. 1906-17. Russian parliament created by Nicholas II after Revolution.

Dunces Parliament. 1404. Coventry. No lawyers.

Eclecticism. 2C BC. Philosophical doctrine combining elements of various, sometimes contradictory, philosophies. Cicero.

Ecumenicalism. 1846-. Movement to unite all Christian churches.

Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.

Edmund I. 921-46. King of England 939-. Recaptured north England from Norse. Monastic revival.

Ehrlich, Paul. 1854-1915. German bacteriologist. Salvarsan syphilis treatment, 1909. Idea of specific drugs as “magic bullets”.

Elgin, James Bruce, 8th Earl of. 1811-63. Governor General. Worked for independent Canadian government.

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