Raikes, Robert. 1736-1811. English Sunday School pioneer.

Russian Revolution. 1905. Led to Duma, Constitution and end of Mir system. Police gradually regained authority. October Manifesto. Bloody Sunday. 1917 Feb: Liberal republicans overthrow Czar. Oct: Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrow Kerensky’s Provisional Government, withdraw from WWI.

Sarapis. Greco-Egyptian god. Originally of underworld, later of sun.

Serapis. Egyptian deity of sun, healing.

Shamash. Semitic sun god.

Shi’ite. Major Moslem sect believing in Mahdi at the millenium. Official religion of Iran. Sunni. Fatimid. Assassin. Druze. Ali.

Sol. Ancient Italian sun god.

Straisund, Treaty. 1370. Denmark makes commercial concessions to Hanseatic League.

Sunday School. 1580 Milan. 1780 England. 1786 Virginia. Raikes.

Sunderland, Earl of. 1674-1722. British Whig minister. South Sea National Debt scheme.

Sung. 960-1279. Chinese dynasty. Reform, prosperity, culture, movable type, paper currency.

Sunni. Majority orthodox Moslem sect who follow Sunnah, traditional legal, social practices. Shi’ite.

Surya. Hindu sun god.

Toltec. 9-13C. C. Mexican urban warrior peoples. Sun worshippers. Defeated by Aztecs.

Trades Union Congress. TUC. 1868. Organization of British unions sponsoring Labour Party. ICFTU.

Uighur Empire. 8-9C. Turkic Sunni peoples of Inner Asia.

Umayyad. 661-750. Sunni Moslem dynasty of Caliphate Empire. Defeated by Abbasid revolt. Abd ar-Rahman escaped to establish dynasty in Spain 756-1031.

Van Gogh, Vincent. 1853-90. Dutch expressionist painter. Passionate intensity revealed in colors. Sunflowers. Potato Eaters 1885. Starry Night 1889. Wheat Fields. Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889.

Wesley, John. 1703-91. English founder of Methodism 1729. Direct preaching, often outdoors, to reach the uneducated working class. Sunday schools.

Whitby, Synod. 664. Settled dispute, favoring Roman over Celtic church. Defined Easter date as first Sunday after full moon after vernal equinox. March 22 to April 25. Wilfrid.

Wiggin, Kate. 1856-1923. US author. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Zollverein. 1818-71. German economic agreements led by Prussia...German Customs Union 1834. First steps toward union.