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396 matches to Five Mile Act
Clarendon Code. 1661-5. Suppressed religious dissent in England. Five Mile Act.
Five Mile Act. 1665. English Nonconformist clergy banned 5 miles from towns where they had preached.
China. T’ang(leg). Yü (leg). c1994BC Hsia. c1500 Shang. c1027 Chou. 481 Warring States. 221 Ch’in. 202BC Han. 220 AD Three Kingdoms. 265 Chin. 386 Northern Dyn(N)/420 Southern Dyn(S). 581 Sui rebuild. 618 T’ang. 10C Five dyn/Ten kingdoms. 960 Sung. 1279 Yüan (Mongol). 1368 Ming. 1644 Ch’ing (Manchu). 1912 Republic. 1938-44 Japanese occupation. 1949 People’s Republic.
Five Dynasties. 907-60. China between T’ang and Sung dynasties. Upheaval stimulated arts. Art to represent metaphysical truth.
Five Hundred, Council of. 508BC. Athens’ representative government.
Five Hundred, Council of. 1795. Lower House of French Parliament.
Five Pecks of Rice. 206-20. Chinese Taoist political movement vs poverty, instability.
Five Year Plans. 1928- Russian planning cycles.
Legion of Honour. French national order instituted by Napoleon, 1802. Five ranks: Grands Croix, Grands Officiers, Commandeurs, Officiers, Chevaliers.
New Economic Policy. 1921-8. Russian economic program. Limited free enterprise. Replaced by Five Year Plans.
Ninety-five Theses. 1517. Document Luther nailed to Wittenburg church door. Began Reformation.
Schoenberg, Arnold. 1874-1951. Austrian/US pioneer of atonal twelve-note method-key to recent musical advances. Five Piano Pieces 1923.
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1922-. US satirical novelist, social critic. Player Piano 1952. Slaughterhouse Five 1969.
Anaximander. c611-547BC. Miletan (Greek) philosopher. First Greek maps. Attempted systematic explanation of Universe. Named zodiac signs 560BC.
Anaximenes. -c570BC. Miletan (Gr) philosopher: quantitive differences of substances. All matter is air.
Awami League. 1954-71. For Bangladesh independence. Rahman.
Bannister, Roger. 1929-. English. Ran first 4 minute mile at Oxford, 1954.
Bataan Death March. 1942. Japanese force 60 mile march; 54 of 70,000 prisoners arrive.
Cod War. 1972-6. Britain upset at Iceland’s unilateral expansion of fishing limits to 50 miles.
Coué, Émile. 1857-1926. French Positivist psychotherapist. Autosuggestion. “Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.” 1920.
Coverdale, Miles. 1488-1569. English religious reformer, psalm + bible translator.
Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.
Durkheim, Emile. 1858-1917. French sociologist. Division of Labour in Society 1893.
Grand Canal. 4C BC-1400. China. World’s longest, 1,000 miles.
Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile. 1865-1950. Swiss composer. Developed Eurhythmics 1905.