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49 matches to Lost Generation
María Cristina II. 1858-1929. Spanish queen consort. As regent, 1885-1902, lost Spanish American War.
Mary I. Bloody Mary. 1516-58. Tudor queen of England 1553-. Married Philip II of Spain. Reinstated Roman Catholicism 1555. Persecuted Protestants. Lost Calais.
Milton, John. 1608-74. English epic poet. Comus 1638. Lycidas 1638. Paradise Lost 1667. Paradise Regained 1671.
Papal States. 756-1870. Italian territory under Pope. Recognized 1279 by HRE; lost during Italian Unification. Pepin Donation.
Peacock Throne. Seized 1739 in Delhi by Nader Shah. Taken to Iran. Original lost.
Philip IV. 1605-65. Spanish king 1621-. Lost Portugal, Catalonia, Utrecht.
Philostratus. 3C Greek Sophist. Lives of Sophists. Imagines.
Reginald of Châtillon. -1187. Crusade leader. Broken truce led to new war. Kingdom of Jerusalem lost.
Rowley, William. 1585-1642. English actor, playwright. All’s Lost by Lust 1619.
Samaritans. Jewish sect. Claim descent from Jews not deported 722BC. A claim rejected by other Jews. Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.
Samson. Old Testament Israelite judge, prophet. Lost sight and strength when Delilah cut off his hair.
Schönbrunn, Peace. 1809. Austria lost land to France, Russia, Bavaria, Warsaw in Napoleonic Wars.
Senate. 509BC. Roman governing body. 401BC Plebians admitted. 44BC lost most power to Caesar.
Somerset. 2nd duke. c1406-1455. English general. Lost English territory in France. Quarrel with Duke of York led to War of Roses.
Valentinian III. 419-55. Roman Emperor 425-. Lost Africa to Vandals, Gaul to Huns.
Victoria. 1819-1901. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837-. Empress of India 1876-. Colonial expansion. Strict moralist. Lost Hanover Crown by Salic Law.
Wolsey, Thomas. c1475-1530. English cardinal. Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII. Lost influence when unable to secure divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Built Hampton Court Palace as gift for Henry VIII. Unpopularity a cause of Reformation.
Baroja y Nessi, Pio. 1872-1956. Basque novelist. Terse style influenced Hemingway. Somber Lives 1900. Generation of ’98.
Generation of ’98. Introspective Spanish intellectual movement 1898-.
Kano School. 15-17C. Family. 7 generations of influential Japanese painters. Moral symbolism.
Love Generation. 1960-9. Term applied to hippies who rejected past values for instant pleasures of drugs and music.
Nisei. 2nd generation Japanese in US.
Redi, Francesco. 1626-97. Italian naturalist. Maggots from fly eggs, not spontaneous generation, 1668.
Spallanzani, Lazzaro. 1729-99. Ended the belief in spontaneous generation of life. Artificial insemination 1780.