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Ambrose, St. c340-397. Bishop of Milan. Introduced Plainsong (chant) into church music.
Aryabhata. 476-550. Hindu astronomer. Explained eclipses, earth’s rotation.
Böhme, Jakob. 1575-1624. German mystic. Explained world in terms of opposing elements. Aurora 1612.
Champlain, Samuel de. c1567-1635. French explorer of Canada. First Governor of New France. Founded Quebec city 1608.
Cheyenne. American Plains Indians.
Dust Bowl. 1930s. US plains suffered erosion, dust storms, due to drought, wind, poor farm practice.
Eudoxus of Cnidus. c400-350BC. Greek astronomer. Explained movement of sun, moon, planets.
Gregory I, St. Benedictine Pope 590-604. Developed Plainsong, Gregorian chant. Sent Augustine to Canterbury.
Griselda. Italian wife whose patience was tested by her husband, without complaint.
Hadley, George. 1685-1768. English climatologist: explained trade winds.
Halley, Edmund. 1656-1742. English astronomer who explained comets 1705. First meteorological chart 1686.
Hazlitt, William. 1778-1830. English essayist, critic. The Plain Speaker 1826.
Ionian School. 6C BC. Greek philosophers. Thales. Araximanedes. Diogenes. Explained phenomena in terms of physical forces.
Kepler, Johannes. 1571-1630. German astronomer, deduced elliptical planetary motions 1609. Explained tides 1598.
Laforgue, Jules. 1860-1887. French symbolist poet. Invented verse libre. Les Complaintes 1885.
Macdonough, Thomas. 1783-1825. Defeated British in Lake Champlain naval battle 1814.
Medieval Music. 476-13C. Church oriented. Evolved from Plainsong to polyphonic.
Mesopotamia. 5000BC. Tigris-Euphrates river plain where civilization began. 550BC Persia. 331BC Alexander. 115 Rome. 637 Moslem. 13C Mongol. 1534 Ottoman. Babylon. Akkad. Ur. Iraq.
Montagnards. 1792-5. French revolutionary extremists led by Robespierre. Terror. Plain.
Monts, Pierre du Ghast. 1568-1630. French explorer with Champlain. Founded Portugal Royal 1605.
Morley, Thomas. c1557-1603. English madrigal composer. Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Music 1597.
Naturalism. 20C Philosophy explaining all in scientific terms, rejecting supernatural.
Plain. Moderate party in French Revolution. Montagnards.
Plains of Abraham, Battle. 1759. British defeat French, capture Quebec. New France falls. Wolfe, Montcalm killed.
Plainsong. Gregorian chant. Singing in unison without harmony.