Paeonius. c450-400BC. Greek sculptor. Winged Victory c420BC.

Pastry War. 1838-9. France blockades Mexico. Wins cook’s 1828 damage claims.

Pegasus. Greek mythical winged horse.

Philippe de Champagne. Cartoonist 1631. Windows of St-Eustache.

Pichincha, Battle. 1822. Ecuador wins independence from Spain.

Poor Law Commission. 1842. Chadwick recommends municipal clean water supply and sewage systems to prevent disease.

Pop Art. 1950-. Movement drawing from popular culture. Warhol. Lichtenstein.

Porter, Edwin. 1869/70-1941. US filmmaker. First dramatic editing -Great Train Robbery 1903; First US documentary -The Life of an American Fireman 1903.

Poujadism. 1954-8. French extreme right-wing political movement founded by Poujade. Gained tax concessions.

Pyramids, Battle. 1798. Napoleon wins access to Cairo.

Quebec Conference. 1864. Basis of British North America Act. 1943. Allied leaders plan European landings. 1944. Churchill, Roosevelt decide on two war fronts-criticized for allowing Soviets to take Berlin.

Ramillies, Battle. 1706. Churchill wins most of Belgium for Britain from France.

Red Brigade. 1970-84. Italian left-wing terrorist group. Moro.

Reformation. 16C religious movement against practices of Roman Catholic church led to founding of Protestant churches. Luther. Calvin. Knox. Zwingli. Henry VIII.

Remus. Twin brother of Romulus; legendary founders of Rome. Killed by Romulus after jumping over town wall.

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

Rommel, Erwin. 1891-1944. German WWII Field Marshal in Africa 1941-3, France 1944. “Desert Fox”. Plotted vs Hitler. Suicide.

Romulus. Twin brother of Remus. Suckled by a wolf, they built Rome.

Saint, Thomas. British sewing machine inventor, 1790. Singer.

Sandys, Edwin. 1561-1629. English parliamentarian. His ideas helped overthrow Charles I.

Schley, Winfield. 1839-1911. Destroyed Spanish fleet at Santiago.

Schrödinger, Erwin. 1887-1961. Austrian. Wave equation 1926.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1787-1851. English writer. (Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin). Married Percy Shelley. Frankenstein 1818.

Singer, Isaac. 1811-75. US sewing machine improver 1851. Howe.

Sinn Fein. 1905. (=Ourselves Alone). Irish Nationalist movement. 1916 uprising. Founded Irish Free State. Legalized as political party in Northern Ireland, 1974. Political wing of IRA. De Valera.

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