Scaliger, Joseph. 1540-1609. Classical scholar. Founded science of chronology.

Scaliger, Julius Caesar. 1484-1558. Italian/French classical scholar. “Father” of literary criticism. Poetics 1561.

Scarlatti, Alessandro. 1660-1725. Italian composer of oratorios and operas. Neapolitan School. Influenced classical harmony.

Schleicher, Kurt von. 1882-1934. Last chancellor of Weimar Republic 1932-3. Opposed Hitler. Murdered by SS on Night of Long Knives.

Scholasticism. 11-14C. Christian movement to reconcile faith, reason. Anselm. Thomas Aquinas. Duns Scotus.

Schoolmen. Scholasticism.

Schrödinger, Erwin. 1887-1961. Austrian. Wave equation 1926.

Schweitzer, Albert. 1875-1965. German medical missionary to Africa 1913-.

Seaborg, Glenn. 1912-99. US chemist. Isolated plutonium, Atom bomb ingredient.

Segovia, Andrés. 1894-1987. Spanish classical guitarist.

Selassie, Haile. Haile Selassie.

Seward, William. 1801-72. Anti-slavery US statesman. “Seward’s Folly”-bought Alaska 1867.

Shaw, George Bernard. 1856-1950. Irish socialist writer/dramatist of wit and satire. Man and Superman 1903. Pygmalian 1913. St. Joan 1923. Fabian.

Sherrington, Charles. 1857-1952. British experimental physiologist.

Shockley, William. 1910-89. US. Transistor 1948.

Sholokhov, Mikhail. 1905-84. Russian writer. Don series.

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1846-1916. Polish novelist: Slowo Trilogy 1883-88. Quo Vadis 1896.

Silas, St. Christian missionary with St Paul.

Sillitoe, Alan. 1928-. English writer of working class life. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1959.

Simeon II. 1937-. Last czar of Bulgaria 1943-6. 1946-96 Exiled. 1998 Properties returned.

Sistine Chapel. 1473. Vatican. Walls by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio; ceiling by Michelangelo 1508-12. Last Judgement 1534-41.

Six, les. 1917-74. French composers initiated Neoclassical. Milhaud. Honegger.

Smith, Edmund. 1824-93. Last Confederate general to surrender 1865.

Soane, John. 1753-1837. English Neoclassical architect, collector. Bank of England 1792-1833.

Social Credit. 1919. Douglas’ economic theory. Give money to consumers, producers based on social credits, “liberating” production from price system.

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