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72 matches to Sun Yat-sen
German Customs Union. Zollverein.
Gringo. 1847. Mexican pejorative for American. From “Green grow the rushes, oh”, sung during Mexican War.
Hamsun, Knut. 1859-1952. Norwegian modernist writer. Hunger 1890.
Heliocentricity. Revolution of the earth around the sun. Once considered heretical. Galileo. Copernicus.
Helios. Greek sun god before Apollo.
Horus. Egyptian deity of sunlight and goodness. Falcon.
Hsi Ho. Chinese goddess; mother of sun.
Huitzilopochtli. Aztec war and sun god.
Icarus. Son of Daedalus, wings melted when he flew too close to the sun.
Impressionism. 1867-86. European art movement named 1874 for Monet’s Impression Sunrise. Direct from nature with colors to render surfaces and lighting effects. Rejected primacy of subject. Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Cezanne, Manet. Music: 1892-1910. Restraint and ambiguity. Mood music. Debussy.
Islam. =Muhammadism. 7C-. Monotheistic religion based on Koran. 1/6 of world’s population, especially north Africa, Middle East, SW Asia. Sunni. Shi’ite. Caliphate Empire.
Jimmu Tennõ. c660BC. Japan’s legendary first Emperor. Direct descendent of Sun goddess.
Kim Il-Sung. 1912-94. North Korean dictator 1948-. Korean War.
Kurds. Sunni Moslem Taurus, Zagros Mountain peoples of Kurdistan, central Asia. 1925 rebelled in Turkey. 1922,44,63 rebelled in Iraq. Persecuted in Turkey, Iraq, Iran. Saladin. Sevres Treaty.
Lebanese National Pact. 1943-75. Compromise government of Maronite President, Sunni Prime Minister, Shi’ite Speaker.
Lockyer, Joseph. 1836-1920. English. Discovered helium in sun 1868.
Lorraine, Claude. 1600-82. French landscape painter, master of sunlight. Sunset 1644.
Louis XIV. Sun King. 1638-1715. French King 1643-. Mazarin regent to 1661. Absolute reign signalled a flourishing of the arts. Built Versailles. Revoked Edict of Nantes. -“L’état c’est moi.”
Lusitania. 1915. British passenger ship sunk by German U-boat. Led to US joining WWI. 1198 lost.
Mithraism. 5C BC-4C. Persian worship of Mithra, sun god of wisdom. Influenced Christianity. Adopted by Romans in Britain. Bull sacrifice.
Monet, Claude. 1840-1926. Originator of Impressionist open-air painting direct from nature. Impression Sunrise 1872. Nymphéas 1906-26.
Muslim Civil War. 656-61 Sunni Muawiya defeats Shi’ite Ali for leadership starting Umayyad dynasty. 683-92 Umayyad put down Syrian rebellion. 809-13 Iraq vs Iran. 1008-31 Moslem Spanish gain autonomy from Umayyad.
Paris University. c1170. Sorbonne 1257.
Paris Unrest. 1968. May Demonstrations.
Ra (Re). Egyptian sun god.