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17 matches to Lance
Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.
Elaine. Dies of love for Lancelot in Arthurian legend.
Epaminondas. c410-362BC. Thebian general, statesman. Defeated Sparta at Leuctra. Permanently changed balance of power.
Galahad. Chaste Arthurian knight. Lancelot’s son. Holy Grail.
Gothic Architecture. 12-15C. Began with French cathedrals and spread over N Europe. Pointed arches, rib vaulting, flying buttresses. Stability achieved with balance rather than mass. Airy lightness. St. Denis 1140. Notre Dame Cathedral. Tudor.
Guinevere. Wife of King Arthur, in love with Sir Lancelot.
Holbein, Hans, the Elder. 1465-1524. German painter. Altar pieces. Rich color, balance.
Hooke, Robert. 1635-1703. English inventor of balance spring watch. Diffraction 1672. Wave theory of light.
International Monetary Fund. IMF.1944. Bretton Woods. Lends money to balance foreign exchange deficits and stabilize exchange rates.
Lance. 1927 Abolished by British army. 1939 used by Polish cavalry vs German tanks.
Lancelot. Knight of King Arthur’s Round Table. Guinevere’s lover. Galahad’s father.
Missouri Comromise. 1820-54. Simultaneous admission to US of Maine, Missouri, maintaining balance of free, slave states.
Neoclassical. 17-18C. French-originated revival of classical order of arts, architecture. Order, balance, simplicity. Poussin. David. Molière. Adam. 1920-. Music based on 18C style + popular taste. Milhaud. Stravinsky. Les Six.
Roberval, Gilles de. 1602-75. French physicist: balance 1670. Geometry of curves.
Spanish Succession, War. 1701-14. Britain, Holy Roman Empire, Netherlands vs Spain, France. Opposed French Philip V succession to Spanish throne creating power imbalance. Queen Anne’s War.
Tontine. 1653-1789. Fund, first created by Tonti. Members invest for increasing annuity as others die, with the last receiving the balance.
Wakley. Founded Lancet (British medical journal), 1823.