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173 matches to PLO
Council of Ten. c1310-1797. Powerful Venetian tribunal. Investigated aristocratic plots vs government.
Cousteau, Jacques. 1910-97. French underwater explorer.
CWA. Civil Works Admin. US New Deal project employed 4M.
Dampier, William. 1651-1715. First English scientific explorer. Pirate, 1678-91. New Voyage Round the World, 1697.
Davis, John. 1550-1605. British explorer, Davis Strait 1585, Falkland Is. 1592. Invented backstaff quadrant 1594.
De Soto, Hernando. 1500-42. Spanish explorer. First across Mississippi.
Deane, Silas. 1737-89. American Revolutionary. First US foreign diplomat.
Deere, John. 1804-86. US inventor of steel plow.
Delaware. “First” US state. Owasco, Delaware, Nanticoke, Assateague. 1609 English exploredl. 1631 Dutch. 1638 Swedish. 1655 Dutch. 1664 England.
Depression, Great. 1929-34. Speculation, shortage of capital, tarrifs led to unemployment, European move to right, totalitarianism.
Despard, Edward. 1751-1803. 1802 Plot to assassinate George III.
Dialectical Materialism. Exploited workers...capital concentration...socialist revolution...dictatorship of proletariat...elimination of class...Communism. Hegel. Marx. Engels. Lenin.
Diplomatic Revolution. 1756. Reversal of alliances led to Seven Years War.
Doctors’ Plot. 1953. Stalinist conspiracy.
Dollar Diplomacy. Buying a country’s support with loans, aid.
Drake, Francis. 1540-96. English pirate/explorer. Sailed around the world 1580. Vice Admiral at defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588. Privateers.
Duluth. 1636-1710. French explorer of Lake Superior area.
Eben, Abba. 1915-. English/Israeli statesman, diplomat.
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of. 1766-1841. British diplomat to Greece. Removed parthenon statues to British Museum 1816.
Ellsworth, Lincoln. 1880-1951. US explorer. First flight across Arctic 1926, Antarctica 1935.
Enghien, Duc d’. Prince of Condé. 1772-1804. Executed for alleged plot against Napoleon.
Erik the Red. Norwegian explorer, discovered Greenland c985. Established First colony.
Explorer I. 1958. US first satellite.
Eyre, Edward. 1815-1901. British explorer in Australia. Dismissed as governor of Jamaica for cruel repression of 1865 revolt.
Fawkes, Guy. 1570-1606. Gunpowder Plot perpetrator.