Restoration. 1660. English Monarchy reinstated following Protectorate. 1791 French Revolutionary Wars.

Sadducees. -70. Jewish priest class vs Pharisees. Followed Torah and not oral law.

Scaramouche. Italian clown, at 83 could knock off his partner’s hat with a high kick.

Se Ami. Japanese No dramatist. Offering of the Flowers 1395.

Settlement, Pale of. 1792-1917. SW region of Russia where Jews allowed to settle, travel.

Shapley, Harlow. 1885-1972. US astronomer. Measured Milky Way.

Shays, Daniel. c1747-1825. Led Massachussets farmers in rebellion 1786-7 for lower taxes. Defeated.

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

Silk Route. Trade route from Rome to China. Followed by Marco Polo.

Standish, Myles. 1584-1656. English Mayflower colonist. Led Plymouth colony.

Sunni. Majority orthodox Moslem sect who follow Sunnah, traditional legal, social practices. Shi’ite.

Swedenborg, Emanuel. 1688-1772. Swedish scientist, philosopher. Apocalypse Revealed 1743-4. Claimed to have been to hell and heaven. Followers founded Church of New Jerusalem 1788.

Theiler, Max. 1899-1972. South African/US scientist. Yellow fever vaccine.

Tibet. 7C-838 Buddhist kingdom. 9C Divided. 1247 Mongol. 14C Yellow Hats established. 1642 5th Dalai Lama becomes ruler. 1715 Chinese suzerainty. 1792 Closed to foreigners. 1951 Autonomous within China. 1959 China crushes revolt. 1987~9 Riots vs Chinese rule.

Tibetan Buddhism. Yellow Hats. Dalai Lama.

Tsankov, Aleksandur. 1879-1959. Dictatorial Bulgarian Prime Minister 1923-6 following coup.

Ts’ao Ts’ao. 155-220. Shrewd unscrupulous Chinese general. Suppressed Yellow Turban Rebellion. Established Wei dynasty.

Van Gogh, Vincent. 1853-90. Dutch expressionist painter. Passionate intensity revealed in colors. Sunflowers. Potato Eaters 1885. Starry Night 1889. Wheat Fields. Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889.

VE Day. May 7, 1945. Folowed German surrender signed May 7 in Reims.

Viscount. 4th rank of British peerage, below earl.

Warsaw Uprising. 1830-1. Czartoryski attempt to oust Russians crushed. 1944. Polish underground army defeats Germans but Soviet delay allows German reinforcements to defeat Poles, destroying potential opposition to later Soviet control.

Whittle, Frank. 1903-96. British. Invented jet aircraft 1930 First flown 1941.

Woolf, Virginia. 1882-1941. English psychological stream of consciousness writer. Captured transience and subtlety of thought. Bloomsbury Group. Mrs Dalloway 1925. To the Lighthouse 1927. Waves 1931.

Yellow Hats. 14C. Monastic Tibetan Buddhist sect. Ruled 1642-1950. Dalai Lama.

Yellow Turban Rebellion. 184-204. Chinese secret society vs Emperor. Fall of Han dynasty. Ts’ao Ts’ao.

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