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Hudaybiyah, Pact of al-. 628. Muhammad and followers allowed into Mecca for pilgrimage. Hijrah.
Hundred Flowers Movement. China. 1956-7. Increased freedom of intellectuals. Criticism of Party led to backlash.
Hussite Wars. 1415-36. Huss followers vs HRE for religious reform and Bohemian nationalism. Utraquists.
Imagists. 1912-. Poets eschew sentimentality for precision and imagery. Pound. Lawrence. Lowell.
Irving, Washington. 1783-1859. US writer. Rip van Winkle. Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1819. Tales of a Traveller 1824. Inventor of short story.
Jim Crow Laws. 1877-1964. US laws allowing segregation.
John VIII. -882. Pope 872-. Paid Saracens for protection. Slavs allowed liturgy in Slavic.
John of Lancaster. 1389-1435. English regent of France. Allowed Joan of Arc’s execution.
Jonestown Massacre. 1978. 913 followers of US cult leader James Jones commit suicide in Guyana.
Jonson, Ben. 1572-1637. English poet, dramatist: Drink to me Only with Thine Eyes. Every Man in his Humour 1601. Alchemist 1610. 1598 escaped gallows by Benefit of Clergy.
Judicial. Branch of US government. Supreme and lower courts can invalidate Acts of Congress.
Kalmyks. Nomadic Mongolian peoples. 17C Settled Lower Volga. 1771 Forced back at great loss of life. 1945 Exiled to Siberia. 1957 Restored.
Kappel, Wars. 1529,31. Swiss Reformation. Zwingli killed. Swiss cantons allowed to chose faiths.
Korah. Led Hebrew revolt vs Moses. Swallowed up by the earth.
Lazear, Jesse. 1866-1900. Linked mosquito with yellow fever, 1900, of which he died. Reed. Agramonte.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 1807-82. US poet. Evangeline 1847. Hiawatha 1855. Paul Revere’s Ride 1863.
Low, David. 1891-1963. British caricaturist. Colonel Blimp.
Low Countries. Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands.
Lowell, Percival. 1855-1916. US astronomer. Predicted Pluto 1905 (erroneously). PL of Pluto name after him. Studied Mars’ “canals” 1906. Schiaparelli.
Lower Canada. 1791-1841. 1841 «Province of Canada. 1867 = Quebec.
Ludlow, Battle. 1459. War of Roses. York, Warwick routed by Lancastrians.
Marlowe, Christopher. 1564-93. English dramatist: Tamerlane 1586. Dr. Faustus 1588-92. Edward II. May have written some of Shakespeare.
Mayflower. 1620. Pilgrims’ ship to Massachussets.
Mayflower Compact. 1620. Basis of Plymouth gov’t.
Menes. c3100BC. Egyptian king. United Upper and Lower Egypt.