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Round Table. King Arthur and his knights.
Roundhead. Derisory term applied to Parliamentarians during English Civil War.
Shot Heard Around the World. 1775. Battle of Lexington and Concord beginning American Revolution.
Underground Railroad. 1838-65. Northerners help US slaves escape to Canada, defying Fugitive Slave Acts.
United Irishmen. 1791. Underground organization founded by Wolfe Tone. Irish Rebellion 1797-98.
Verne, Jules. 1828-1905. French Science Fiction fantasy writer. Voyage to the Centre of the Earth 864. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870. Round the World in 80 Days 1873.
Warsaw Uprising. 1830-1. Czartoryski attempt to oust Russians crushed. 1944. Polish underground army defeats Germans but Soviet delay allows German reinforcements to defeat Poles, destroying potential opposition to later Soviet control.
Zeppelin, Ferdinand von. 1838-1917. German constructor of dirigibles 1900-. 1928 Graf Zeppelin around world. Transatlantic service 1928-37. Hindenburg.
Abydos, Table. 14C BC List of Egyptian. kings. Discovered Temple of Seti,1817.
Alphonsine Tables. 1252. Incorrect astronomical data on planets, based on geocentric system.
Anne. 1665-1714. British Queen 1702-. Reign notable for literarature, science, architecture. Last Stuart. Acts of Union, Settlement.
Ashurbanipal. Assyrian king 669-626BC. Lost Egypt. Built Nineveh Library-22,000 clay tablets.
Atropos. Fate of the inevitable, cut the string of life.
Augeas. Elidian king, Hercules cleaned his stables.
Bailey, Donald. 1901-85. British inventor of portable Bailey bridge 1941.
Beghards. 13C. Catholic men’s charitable communities. Condemned 1311.
Béguines. 12C- Belgian Catholic women’s charitables communities. Condemned 1311. Still exist.
Biedermeier. 1815-35. German bourgeois kitsch style of sentimental art and utilitarian furniture. Circular pedestal table.
Constable, John. 1776-1837. English Naturalist landscape painter. Hay Wain 1821. Valley Farm. Waterloo Bridge 1831.
Dunstable, John. c1380-1453. Early English polyphonic choral composer.
Elizabeth I. 1533-1603. Queen of England, 1558-. Stable, prosperous reign of literature and art. Restored Protestantism. Supported them abroad.
Estonia. c1000BC Aesti. 9C- Vikings invade. 11,12C Russia, Denmark, Sweden invades. 1219 Denmark. 1346 Teutonic Knights buy. 16C Sweden/Poland/Denmark divide. 17C Sweden. 1721 Russian. 1918 Independent. 1919-33 Unstable governments. 1924 Failed Bolshevik revolution. 1934 Päts coup. 1940 USSR. 1991 Independent.
Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928. English novelist: Far from the Madding Crowd 1874; Mayor of Casterbridge 1886; Jude the Obscure 1896. Man as victim of fate. -“the worth encompassed by the inevitable”.
Levi, Primo. 1919-87. Italian writer. Survival in Auschwitz 1947. Periodic Table 1975.
Naturalism. 19C Style of landscape painting which captures nature. Turner. Constable. Boudin.