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19 matches to Model Parliaments
Model Parliaments. 1265, 1295. Convened by Montfort, Edward I. Models for British representative parliament.
Achaean League. 5-4C BC. Greek towns in common defence against pirates in Gulf of Corinth. 280-146BC. Model for federal government. Created to fight Macedonia. Dissolved by Romans.
Andromaque. Wife of Hector, model of conjugal and maternal love.
Fairfax, Thomas. 1612-71. English Parliamentarian Civil War general. Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army. Victor at Marston Moor.
Ford, Henry. 1863-1947. US industrialist. Application of assembly line created affordable car. Model T 1908. Rivas.
Kitchen Debate. 1959. Nixon, Khrushchev impromptu debate in model kitchen display.
Montfort, Simon de. c1208-65. English leader of revolt vs Henry III. Model Parliament was first representative parliament. Defeated and captured at Evesham 1265. Barons War.
Murphy, Gerald and Sara. 1920-33 US expatriates in Paris, Antibes. Parties, salons for artists and writers. Models for Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night.
New Model Army. 1645. English parliamentary army replaced private armies. Won Civil War.
Nicholas of Flue, St. 1417-87. Model of compromise, reunited Swiss, 1481.
Oldcastle, John. c1378-1417. English soldier. Lollard heretic leader. Model for Falstaff.
Oxford University. 1115. Celebrated center of English learning. Charter 1214. Modelled on University of Paris.
Parliament. British Monarch, House of Lords and Commons. 1295 Model Parliament. 1688 Glorious Revolution. 1911 Parliament Act. Curia Regis. Name of legislatures of most former British colonies.
Retz, Gilles de. 1404-40. French Marshal. Joan of Arc companion. Tortured, killed 140 children. Model for Bluebeard.
Rhine, Confederation of. 1806-13. Bavaria and German states with constitution in French model.
St Peter’s. 1506-1615. Vatican Basilica. World’s largest. Tomb of St Peter. Bramante. Michelangelo. Raphael. Model for many government buildings.
Virginia Declaration of Rights. 1776. Model for US Bill of Rights.
Bundesrat. Upper house of Swiss, German, Austria Parliaments.
Pobedonostev, Konstantin. 1827-1907. Russian. professor, tutor to Alexander III, Nicholas II. Pro-autocracy. “Parliaments are the great lie of our time.”