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Dyrrhachium, Battle. 48BC. Pompey defeats Caesar.
Eakins, Thomas. 1844-1916. US Realist painter. Clinic of Dr. Gross 1875.
Ealdred. -1069. Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York 1060-: crowned William the Conqueror.
Earhart, Amelia. 1898-1937. US aviator. First solo Atlantic flight by a woman, 1932. Lost in attempt to circle planet.
Earl. Third rank of British peerage.
Earth. According to geologists created 4,600,000,000BC. Ussher for Biblical version.
East Anglia. 6C Anglo-Saxon kingdom. c870 Denmark. 917 England.
East India Companies. British, Dutch, French. Danish 1614-1729. Austrian, 1720-7.
East-West Schism. 1054. Separation of Roman and Eastern Catholic churches over filioque.
Easter Rebellion. 1916. Ireland. Irish Free State.
Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. British suppression of Muhammed Ali’s Egyptian expansion.
Eastern Orthodoxy. Branch of Christianity. East-West Schism.
Eastern Question. 19-20C. Instability caused by decline of Turkish rule led to Crimean War and WWI.
Eastman, George. 1854-1932. US inventor of roll film and Kodak camera 1888. Bromide print 1871.
Eben, Abba. 1915-. English/Israeli statesman, diplomat.
Ebert, Friedrich. 1871-1925. First president of German Republic 1919-.
Echo. Greek mountain nymph.
Eck, Johann. 1486-1543. Opposed Luther, Protestantism.
Eckhart, Johannes. c1260-1328. German mystic. “All existence is God” 1281.
Eckmühl. Battle. 1809. Bavaria. Napoleon’s victory over Austria who lose German support.
Eclecticism. 2C BC. Philosophical doctrine combining elements of various, sometimes contradictory, philosophies. Cicero.
École Militaire. 1752. French Royal Military Academy. Gabriel.
École Polytechnique. 1794-. French college of high repute. Replaced Navarre. Graduates are the “X”.
Economic Crisis. 1873. Vienna stock market collapse leads to protectionism, Depression.