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1550 matches to Lady of the Lake
Zambia. 1851 Livingstone explores. 1890 British South Africa Company =Northern Rhodesia. 1953 +Nyasaland. 1964 Independent Zambia.
Zeami Motokiyo. 1363-1443. Japanese No drama theorist, playwright. Kaden-sho 1400.
Zeno of Citium. c335-263BC. Greek founder of Stoicism. Early anarchist: “Compulsion perverts the nature of man”.
Zimbabwe. 11C Shona. 15C Karanga Empire. 16C Portugal explores. 1890 British South Africa Co. 1911 Southern Rhodesia. 1953 +Nyasaland. 1964 =Rhodesia. 1965 Declared indepence, international sanctions. 1979 Independent. =Zimbabwe. ZAPU. ZANU. Mugabe.
Zionism. 1882-1947. Aspirations of a Jewish nation in Israel. Balfour Declaration. Herzl.
Zionist World Congress. 1897. Defined Basel Program to establish Palestinian Homeland. Herzl.
Zoroastrianism. 550BC-650. Monotheistic, dualist national religion of Persia. =Parsiism. Zoroaster.
Zuiderzee. Netherlands. 13C. Floods caused by storms. 1927-32 Dam built. 1930s Land reclaimed. 1944 Flooded by Nazis. 1946 reclaimed.
Avernus. Crater lake, believed by Romans to be Hell’s entrance.
Blake, Robert. 1599-1657. English Commonwealth admiral.
Blake, William. 1757-1827. English mystical poet and engraver of his own books. Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790-3. Job 1821. Dante’s Divine Comedy 1825.
Duluth. 1636-1710. French explorer of Lake Superior area.
Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.
Hennepin, Louis. 1626-1701. Missionary explorer of Great Lakes. First European to Niagara Falls.
Macdonough, Thomas. 1783-1825. Defeated British in Lake Champlain naval battle 1814.
Mazurian Lakes, Battles. 1914,15. 325,000 Russian casualties by Germany.
Mormons. 1830-. Latter Day Saints. Christian sect founded by Joseph Smith after divine revelation. Settled Utah. Founded Salt Lake City 1847.
Ojibwa. (Chippewa). North American Indians near Great Lakes. Supported French vs British in 7 Years War, British vs Americans in Revolution.
Peipus, Battle of Lake. 1242. Russians repel Livonian Knights’ attack on Novgorod.
Speke, John. 1827-64. British explorer. Discovered Lake Victoria.
St Lawrence Seaway. Links Great Lakes with Atlantic shipping. 1952 Begun. 1959 Open.
Tchaikovsky, Peter. 1840-93. Russian composer of operas and ballets with emotional appeal. Swan Lake 1877. Sleeping Beauty 1890. Nutcracker 1892.
Washington, Treaty. 1871. Britain/US recognize Canada, regulate Great Lakes navigation.
Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850. English Romantic lyric ballad Lake Poet. “Nature’s Priest”.
Young, Brigham. 1801-77. US Mormon leader 1844-. Founded Salt Lake City. Utah governor 1850-7.