Doctors’ Plot. 1953. Stalinist conspiracy.

Doctrinaires. 1815-30. French Royalist writers.

Dodgson, Charles. (Lewis Carroll). 1832-98. English author: Alice in Wonderland 1865.

Dolet, Étienne. 1509-46. French scholar. Executed for denying the soul’s immortality.

Dollfuss, Engelbert. 1892-1934. Fascist Austrian Chancellor 1932-. Attacked Socialist demonstration led to 5 day civil war. Assassinated by Nazis.

Don Quixote. Cervantes’ idealist 16C hero who attacks sheep and tilts at windmills.

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

Donizetti, Gaetano. 1797-1848. Italian Romantic opera composer. Lucretia Borgia 1833.

Dred Scott. 1857. US Supreme Court ruled slaves had no rights in court. Missouri Compromise invalid.

Drexler, Anton. Founded German Labour Party 1919...National Socialist Party.

Drugs, War on. 1971-. US prohibition and criminalization of recreational drug use. World’s highest incarceration rate.

Dualism. Cartesian division of world into mind and matter.

Dualism, Christian. Christ’s nature is human and divine. Nestor. Monophysitism. Monothelitism.

Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.

Duvalier, François. “Papa Doc” 1907-1971. Haitian dictator 1957-.

Duvalier, Jean-Claude. “Baby Doc”. Haitian dictator 1971-1986, son of Papa Doc. Overthrown, exiled.

Dvorák, Antonin. 1841-1901. Czech Nationalist composer. New World Symphony 1893. Classical form with folk spontaneity.

Eakins, Thomas. 1844-1916. US Realist painter. Clinic of Dr. Gross 1875.

Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. British suppression of Muhammed Ali’s Egyptian expansion.

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

Egypt. 3100BC Menes unites. 2780 Old Kingdom. 2600 First pyramid. 2040 Middle Kingdom. 1570 New Kingdom. 663 Assyria. 525 Persia. 332 Alexander...323 Ptolemy. 30BC Rome...395 Byzantine. 642 Moslem. 1250 Mameluk. 1517 Ottoman. 1798 Napoleon. 1805 Ottoman. 1882 British occupy. 1914 British protectorate. 1922 Indepedent monarchy. 1952 Coup. 1953 Republic. 1958-61 UAR.

Eichmann, Adolf. 1906-62. Nazi war criminal. Kidnaped in Argentina. Tried in Jerusalem. Executed.

Einaudi, Luigi. 1874-1961. Italian. First President of Republic, 1948-55.

Eisner, Kurt. 1867-1919. German Socialist Revolutionary leader. First Bavarian Prime Minister.

Éluard, Paul. 1895-1952. French surrealist poet.

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