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Jinnah, Muhammed Ali. 1876-1948. Founded Moslem League 1934. Demanded partition of India. First gov-gen. of Pakistan.
John. Lackland. 1167-1216. King of England 1199-. Lost Normandy. Forced to sign Magna Carta 1215. Excommunicated 1209. Lost Anjou.
John II. The Perfect. 1455-95. King of Portugal 1481-. Sponsored Diaz.
Johns, Jasper. 1930-. US Pop artist. Painted Bronze 1960 (2 beer cans).
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric. 1900-58, and Irène.
1897-1956. Discovered Uranium fission 1934. Artificial radioactive substances.
Jorn, Asger. 1914-73. Danish Imaginist artist. Lettre à mon Fils 1957. L’avangarde se rende pas 1962.
Joséphine, Empress. 1763-1814. Widow of beheaded General de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon 1796-1809; divorced.
Joyce, James. 1882-1941. Innovative Irish writer in Stream of Consciousness style. Experimented with linguistic techniques. Dubliners 1914. Portrait of the Artist 1916. Ulysses 1922. Finnegan’s Wake 1939.
Judah. Judaea. Southern part of Kingdom of Israel.
Jude, St. Apostle of Jesus. Martyred in Persia.
Kadet. 1905-17. Russian moderate party in Duma.
Karageorge, George. 1762-1817. Serbian. Led revolt vs Turks, 1804. Murdered by Milos, starting 100 year feud.
Karakhan Manifesto. 1919. USSR renounces Czarist rights in China. Spurs Chinese Communist Party.
Kato, Takaakira. 1860-1926. Japanese foreign minister, Prime Minister. Twenty-One Demands 1915. Founded Kenseikai party 1913.
Keble, John. 1792-1866. English poet/clergyman. National Apostacy 1833 sermon started Oxford Movement.
Kennedy, John. 1917-63. US President 1961-. -“New Frontier”. Peace Corps. Apollo Program. Cuban Missile Crisis. Assassinated by Oswald. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
Khartoum, Battle. 1885. Mahdi defeat British in Sudan.
Kierkegaard, Sören. 1813-55. Danish founder of Existentialism. Either-Or 1843. Fear and Trembling 1843. Influenced Heidegger. Individual must consciously choose among life’s alternatives.
Kinetic Art. 20C. Works which move, or give the illusion of movement. Calder. Riley.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-68. US non-violent black Civil Rights activist. Assassinated.
King’s Friends. 1759-1800. British political party. Became Tory party.
King’s Peace. 387BC. Sparta, Persia, Athens. Corinthian War.
Kirchner, Ernst. 1880-1938. German erotic Expressionist artist. Die Brücke movement. Street, Berlin 1907.
Klee, Paul. 1879-1940. Swiss abstract artist of original delicate small-scale fantasy. Mocker Mocked 1930.