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Ho Chi Minh. 1890-1969. North Vietnamese Communist President 1945-.
ABC Powers. 1905. Argentina, Brazil, Chile.
Abdul Rahman, Tunku. 1903-90. First Prime Minister of independent Malaya 1957-70. United Malay, Chinese, Indian factions.
Abercrombie, Patrick. 1879-1957. British architect: Greater London town plan, 1943.
Absolutism. Government where one person/group has absolute power. 15-18C monarchies.
Achilles. Greek hero of Trojan Wars, invulnerable except for his heel, subject of Homer’s Iliad.
Achinese War. 1873-1904. Dutch defeat Moslems in Sumatra.
Actaeon. Mythical Greek hunter, turned into a stag for watching Artemis bathing.
Acupuncture. 2500BC.- Chinese treatment with needles.
Adam, Robert. 1728-92. Scottish architect: Neoclassical English country houses.
Addled Parliament. 1614. England. Criticized James I; achieved nothing.
Adler, Alfred. 1870-1937. Austrian psychiatrist. Split with Freud, 1911.
Adlerian Psychology. Man is driven to attain power to compensate for “inferiority feeling”. Can lead to “Overcompensation”, e.g. short dictators. Neuroses are illnesses as an excuse for underachievement.
Alaric I. c370-410. Visigoth chief who sacked Rome, 410.
Aldrich, Henry. 1647-1710. English composer/architect: Peckwater Quad, Oxford, 1707-14.
Ali Pasha. 1741-1822. Turkish governor of Greece. Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” subject.
Allende, Salvador. 1908-73. Marxist president of Chile 1970-3.
Amethyst Incident. 1949. Escape of British frigate from China.
Amiens Cathedral. 1220-1270. Romanesque/Gothic.
Anarchism. 19C Philosophy: “Every man should be his own government, his own law, his own church”-Owen. Thoreau’s return to nature, passive resistance, and no taxes influenced Ghandi. Proudhon. Tolstoy. Godwin.
Anarchism, Communistic. Marxist revolutionary version of anarchism that seeks to overthrow the state. Bakunin. Kropotkin. Assassinated: Sadi-Carnot, Empress Elizabeth, Umberto I, McKinley.
Andropov, Yuri. 1914-84. Soviet chief of state, 1984: advocated efficiency.
Anne. 1665-1714. British Queen 1702-. Reign notable for literarature, science, architecture. Last Stuart. Acts of Union, Settlement.
Antipope. Elected in opposition to existing pope. Schism.
Antoine, Jacques. -1801. Architect of Paris Mint.