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39 matches to Park Chung Hee
Park Chung Hee. 1917-79. South Korean president. 1963-79 by 1961 coup. Economic growth.
Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.
Civil Rights Movement. 1950-91. US movement to obtain rights for blacks. 1955 Parks. 1963 March on Washington. King speech. 1991 Civil Rights Act.
Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.
Garnerin, A-J. 1769-1823. French. First parachutist. Landed in Monceau park, Paris, 1797.
Nore Mutiny. 1797. British North Sea fleet protest conditions. Parker hung.
Park, Mungo. 1771-1806. Scottish explorer of Niger.
Parker, Charlie. 1920-55. US Jazz saxophonist. Father of Bebop.
Parker, Dorothy. 1893-1967. US witty urban writer. A Star is Born. Death and Taxes 1931.
Parker, Matthew “Nosey”. 1504-75. Archbishop of Canterbury 1559-. 39 Articles.
Parks, Rosa. 1913-. US ‘mother’ of Civil Rights Movement. Arrested, 1955, for not relinquishing her seat to a white man. King.
Phoenix Park Murders. 1882. British Secretary and Undersecretary of Ireland killed by terrorists.
Stanislaw I. 1677-1766. Polish king 1704-9, 1733-5. 1733 return sparked War of Polish Succession.
Tarquinius Sextus. Rape of Lucrece 510BC sparks revolt, end of Tarquin dynasty. Roman Republic begins.
Turing, Alan. 1912-54. English mathematician, logician. Early computer theorist. Morphogenesis. Collosus. Bletchley Park.
Vigeland, Gustav. 1869-1943. Norwegian sculptor depicting man’s struggle for life. Frogner Parken.
Achilles. Greek hero of Trojan Wars, invulnerable except for his heel, subject of Homer’s Iliad.
Bruegel, Pieter (the Elder). 1525-69. Flemish narrative painter of village life. Natural realism. Peasant Wedding 1567. Hunters in the Snow 1565.
Catherine, St. 4C. Virgin martyred on the wheel in Alexandria.
Cheever, John. 1912-82. US writer of middle-class America. Wapshot Chronicle 1957.
Clearance of Scottish Highlands. 1790-1850. Increased sheep farming displaces tenant crofters.
Cousin, Jean the Elder. 1490-1560. French painter. Eva Prima Pandora, early French nude.
Diocletian. 245-316. Roman Emperor of the East 284, West 285. Abdicated 305. Regained Britain, Persia. Persecuted Christians. Condemned alchemy 297.
Don Quixote. Cervantes’ idealist 16C hero who attacks sheep and tilts at windmills.
Dowson, Ernest. 1867-1900. English Decadent poet. -“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion”.