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Shostakovich, Dmitri. 1906-75. Russian. Composed complex profound intense personal works. Rebuked by Stalin. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 1934.
Shot Heard Around the World. 1775. Battle of Lexington and Concord beginning American Revolution.
Sibelius, Jan. 1865-1957. Finnish composer. Finlandia. Symphonies and tone poems evoke feeling of North. Kulervo Symphony 1892.
Siberia. 13C Mongol(S)...Golden Horde(W)/ Yüan(E). 1483 Russia explores. 1581 Khanate overthrown. 1689 Russo-Chinese border settled. 1891-1905 Trans-Siberian Railway.
Sibyl. Mythical Greek prophetess. Interceded with gods for humans.
Sicily. c1100BC Sicans. Sicels. Mycenaean. 7C BC Phoenicia(W)/ Gr(E). 241BC Rome. 5C Ostrogoth. 6C Byzantine. 827 Saracen. 1072 Norman. 1130 +Naples. 1197 Hohenstaufen. 1266-82 France. 1302 Aragon. 1443 +Naples=Two Sicilies. 1860 Italy.
Sidmouth, First viscount. 1757-1844. British Prime Minister 1801-4. Treaty of Amiens. Peterloo Massacre.
Sieyès, Joseph. 1748-1836. French abbé. What is the Third Estate? called for democracy 1789. Drafted Declaration of the Rights of Man. Helped organize Napoleon’s coup.
Sigismund I. The Old. 1467-1548. King of Poland 1506-. Acquired Prussia 1525.
Sihanouk, Norodom. 1922-. Cambodian king 1941-55. Abdicated for father. Prime Minister 1955-60. Head of State 1960-70.
Sikhism. NW India monotheistic religion. Meditation exercises to realize God. Nanak.
Silas, St. Christian missionary with St Paul.
Silenus. Son of Pan, foster father of Dionysus.
Sillitoe, Alan. 1928-. English writer of working class life. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1959.
Siloé, Diego de. c1495-1563. Spanish Renaissance sculptor, Plateresque architect. Granada Cathedral.
Simnel, Lambert. c1475-1535 Pretender to English throne 1487.
Singapore. 13-14C Malay city. 1377 Javanese destroy. 1819 Raffles refounds. 1867 «Straits Settlements. 1942-45 Japanese occupy. 1946 British Crown Colony. 1963 Federation of Malaysia. 1965 Independent republic.
Singer, Isaac B. 1904-91. Polish/US Yiddish writer. Gimpel the Fool 1957.
Sinn Fein. 1905. (=Ourselves Alone). Irish Nationalist movement. 1916 uprising. Founded Irish Free State. Legalized as political party in Northern Ireland, 1974. Political wing of IRA. De Valera.
Siqueiros, David. 1896-1974. Mexican socialist mural painter. Third World. March of Humanity.
Sisyphus. King of Corinth, condemned to perpetually roll a stone to the top of a hill.
Sitwell, Edith. 1887-1964. English poet. Still Falls the Rain.
Sivaji. c1627-80. Founded Maratha Kingdom 1674.