Descartes, René. 1596-1650. French Rationalist philosopher, physician, mathematician. Cartesian coordinates. Discourse on Method 1637. “Cogito ergo sum”-I think, therefore I am. Analytical Geometry 1636. Meditations 1641. Principia Philosophica 1645.

Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.

Dessalines, Jacques. c1758-1806. Cruel ex-slave Emperor of Haiti 1804-.

Deucalion. Greek mythological equivalent of Noah.

Dialectical Materialism. Exploited workers...capital concentration...socialist revolution...dictatorship of proletariat...elimination of class...Communism. Hegel. Marx. Engels. Lenin.

Dictionary. 150BC Chinese. 1612 Italian. 1933 OED.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 1C BC Greek writer of 20 volume History of Rome.

Disestablishment Acts. 1869, 1920 End Roman Catholic obligations to fund Episcopal Church of Ireland, Wales.

Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.

Djibouti. 1896 =French Somaliland (Afars, Issas). 1977 Independent.

Doctors’ Plot. 1953. Stalinist conspiracy.

Doctrinaires. 1815-30. French Royalist writers.

Dodgson, Charles. (Lewis Carroll). 1832-98. English author: Alice in Wonderland 1865.

Dolet, Étienne. 1509-46. French scholar. Executed for denying the soul’s immortality.

Dollfuss, Engelbert. 1892-1934. Fascist Austrian Chancellor 1932-. Attacked Socialist demonstration led to 5 day civil war. Assassinated by Nazis.

Don Quixote. Cervantes’ idealist 16C hero who attacks sheep and tilts at windmills.

Donatism. 301-5C. Christian sect believing sacraments given by priests who had sinned are invalid.

Donizetti, Gaetano. 1797-1848. Italian Romantic opera composer. Lucretia Borgia 1833.

Dred Scott. 1857. US Supreme Court ruled slaves had no rights in court. Missouri Compromise invalid.

Drexler, Anton. Founded German Labour Party 1919...National Socialist Party.

Drugs, War on. 1971-. US prohibition and criminalization of recreational drug use. World’s highest incarceration rate.

Dualism. Cartesian division of world into mind and matter.

Dualism, Christian. Christ’s nature is human and divine. Nestor. Monophysitism. Monothelitism.

Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.

Duvalier, François. “Papa Doc” 1907-1971. Haitian dictator 1957-.

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