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76 matches to Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew. 1923-. First Singapore Prime Minister 1965-90.
Aboukir, Battle. Nelson defeats French fleet, 1798. Napoleon defeats Turks, 1799.
Aeëtes. Greek. Medea’s father. Guardian of Golden Fleece.
Arab-Israeli Wars. 1948-9. Palestinians flee to Arab countries. 1956. Israel captures Sinai, UN takes over. 1967. Six Day War. Israel defeats Egypt, Syria, Jordan, gains Jerusalem, Sinai, Golan,... 1973. Egypt, Syria attack = October War.
Argonauts. Greek heroes who pursued the golden fleece.
Attlee, Clement. 1883-1967. British Labour Prime Minister. 1945-51. National Health. Nationalization.
Belle Epoque. 1885-1900. Time of flourishing arts and entertainment in Paris. Moulin Rouge.
Beneš, Eduard. 1884-1948. Czech Nationalist, President, 1935-8,46-. Little Entente.
Black Hawk War. 1832. US decimates Sauk/Fox tribes. Illinois, Iowa Indians flee west.
Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider). 1911-14. Organization of Abstract Expressionist artists. Kandinsky. Klee.
Bleeding Kansas. 1854-59. Antislavery vs Slavery advocates for control of Kansas. Wyandotte Constitution.
Boullée, Étienne. 1728-99. French grandiose Neoclassical architect.
Carr, Emily. 1871-1945. Canadian writer and primitivist painter. Klee Wick 1941.
Chandler, Raymond. 1888-1959. US novelist. Big Sleep 1939. Detective Philip Marlow.
Copenhagen, Battle. 1801. Nelson destroys Danish fleet. 1807. British bomb Copenhagen.
Cordiale, Entente. = Anglo-French Entente Cordiale.
Czechoslovakia. 1918 Formed in breakup of Austro-Hungarian Empire. 1920 Little Entente. 1938 -Sudetenland. 1939-45 German occupation. 1949 People’s Democratic Republic. 1968 Prague Spring. 1991 Republic. 1993 Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia.
DeForest, Lee. 1873-1961. US vacuum tube inventor.
Duquesne, Abraham. 1610-88. French defeat Spanish, Dutch fleets.
Falklands, Battle. 1914. British destroy German fleet.
Fashoda Incident. 1898. British/French dispute over Sudan. French renounce claims. Entente Cordiale 1904.
Fleet Prison. 12C-1844. London debtors prison.
Galilee. N Israel. (Ancient N Palestine). Jesus’ homeland. Absorbed in Arab-Israeli War, 1949.
Golden Fleece. Greek myth. Chrysomallus’ fleece taken by Jason.
Golden Fleece, Order of. 1430. Knighthood founded by Philip the Good.