Daumier, Honore. 1808-79. French Realist painter and engraver. Political caricaturist.

David I. 1084-1153. King of Scotland 1124-. Introduced feudalism to Scotland.

De-Stalinization. 1956. Soviet denunciation of Stalin’s regime and policies.

Deacon. Christian cleric. Lowest rank of Episcopal Holy Orders. Protestant lay official.

Deakin, Alfred. 1856-1919. Australian Prime Minister 1903~10. First Attorney General 1901. Led federation movement.

Debs, Eugene. 1855-1926. US socialist leader. Led Pullman Strike 1894.

Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.

DeGasperi, Alcide. 1881-1954. Italian Prime Minister 1945-53. Post-war reconstruction.

Delescluze, Charles. 1809-71. French journalist. Led 1871 Commune.

Delhi. 1192 Moslems build. 1638 Mogul capital. 1739 Persians sack, take Peacock Throne. 1803 Britain.

Della-Cruscans. 18C. English poets of sentimental Italian verse.

Della Robbia, Luca. c1400-82. Italian sculptor. Angels for Florence Cathedral Cantoria. c1435. Introduced enamelled terra-cotta.

Democratic Centralists. 1919-27. Russian Communists opposed to authoritarianism and bureaucracy.

Democratic Party. 1792-. Major US political party. Liberalism, populism vs big business.

Depression, Great. 1929-34. Speculation, shortage of capital, tarrifs led to unemployment, European move to right, totalitarianism.

Descartes, René. 1596-1650. French Rationalist philosopher, physician, mathematician. Cartesian coordinates. Discourse on Method 1637. “Cogito ergo sum”-I think, therefore I am. Analytical Geometry 1636. Meditations 1641. Principia Philosophica 1645.

Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.

Dessalines, Jacques. c1758-1806. Cruel ex-slave Emperor of Haiti 1804-.

Deucalion. Greek mythological equivalent of Noah.

Dialectical Materialism. Exploited workers...capital concentration...socialist revolution...dictatorship of proletariat...elimination of class...Communism. Hegel. Marx. Engels. Lenin.

Dictionary. 150BC Chinese. 1612 Italian. 1933 OED.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 1C BC Greek writer of 20 volume History of Rome.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.

Djibouti. 1896 =French Somaliland (Afars, Issas). 1977 Independent.

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