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Las Casas, Bartolomé de. 1474-1566. Spanish missionary to South America. New Laws 1542. Historia de las Indias.
Abbas II. 1874-1944. Last Egyptian khedive, 1892-. Opposed British. Deposed, 1914.
Adam, Robert. 1728-92. Scottish architect: Neoclassical English country houses.
Addams, Jane. 1860-1935. US social reformer. Founded NAACP, Hull House.
Alaska. 1741 Bering explores. 1799 Russian America. 1867 US buys for $7.2M. 1959 State.
Alexander VI. Pope. Demarcation Bull 1493 divided newly discovered land between Spain, Portugal. Tordesillas.
Alexandra, Feodorovna. 1872-1918. Wife of Nicholas II of Russia. Controlled Gov’t during WWI. Cause of Revolution. Executed. Rasputin.
Alvarez, Luis. 1911-88. US physicist. Linear accelerator, bubble chamber.
Amnesty International. 1961. Human rights watchdog NGO fighting for political prisoners and victims of torture. MacBride.
Anastasia. 1901-18.Daughter of Nicholas II, allegedly survived family execution.
Anderson, Carl. 1905-91. US discovered positron, muon.
Angelico, Fra. c1400-55. Florentine classical colorist painter: Convent of St. Mark. Madonna and Angel Musicians 1433.
Angoulême, Louis duc d’. 1775-1844. Last Dauphin of France 1824-30.
Annan, Kofi. 1938-. Ghana. UN Secretary General. Bosnian peacekeeping.
Anne. 1665-1714. British Queen 1702-. Reign notable for literarature, science, architecture. Last Stuart. Acts of Union, Settlement.
Anselm, St. 1033-1109. Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of Scholasticism. Proved God exists 1078.
Appert, Nicolas. c1752-1841. French inventor of preservation by canning.
Appleton, Edward. 1892-1965. English physicist: Appleton ionospheric layer.
Arafat, Yasir. 1929-2004. Arab Fatah PLO leader. President of Palestinian Authority 1996-.
Aristocracy. Gov’t by a privileged class.
Arnulf. c850-99. Last Carolingian Holy Roman Emperor. Defeated Normans. Captured Rome.
Arrhenius, Svante. 1859-1927. Swedish physicist, discoverer of ions.
Aston, Francis. 1877-1945. English physicist. Mass spectrograph.
Atlas. King of Titans, turned into a mountain to support the sky.
Austrian Empire. 1804-67. Slowly disintegrating last remnant of Holy Roman Empire.