Eistedfodd. 6C-. Congress of Welsh bards and minstrels to foster patriotic spirit.

Ekkehard. c910-73. Swiss poet. Song of Walter 929.

El Salvador. Nahua, Pipil, Maya. 1524 Spain 1821 Mexican Empire. 1823 CAF. 1840 Independent. 1980-92 Civil war.

Elam. 40C~640BC. Country in SW Iran conq by Assyrians.

Eleanor of Aquitaine. Divorced from Louis VII 1152 after accompanying him on Second Crusade. Married Henry II of England, bringing Aquitaine under English crown...Angevin Empire. Mother of Richard I. Led 1173 revolt vs husband, Henry II.

Electoral College. US body of electors from each state which selects the president.

Electors. 1356-1806. German princes who elected HRE.

Electra. Legendary Greek spirit who killed her mother, Clytemnestra to venge the murder of her father, Agamemnon.

Elgar, Edward. 1857-1934. Choral composer. Established a new English tradition: Dream of Gerontius 1900, Apostles 1903, Kingdom 1906.

Elgin, James Bruce, 8th Earl of. 1811-63. Governor General. Worked for independent Canadian government.

Eli. Jewish prophet. 8C BC.

Elija. 9C BC. Hebrew prophet. Ended worship of Baal.

Eliot, T.S. 1888-1965. US/English modernist poet, playwright. Prufrock 1910. Ash Wednesday 1930. Murder in the Cathedral 1935.

Elisha. 9C BC. Hebrew prophet. Followed Elija.

Elizabeth. 1837-98. Wife of Emperor Francis-Joseph. Assassinated by anarchist.

Elizabeth II. 1926-. Queen of UK 1952-. Head of State of many Commonwealth countries.

Ellis, Havelock. 1859-1939. English writer: Psychology of Sex 1897-1928.

Ellsworth, Lincoln. 1880-1951. US explorer. First flight across Arctic 1926, Antarctica 1935.

Embla. First woman in Norse mythology. Ask.

Emboabas, War. 1708-9. New settlers vs old in Brazil gold rush.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1803-82. US essayist/ poet. Transcendentalist. Woodnotes 1846, Brahma 1867, English Traits 1856, Self-Reliance.

Émigrés. Royalist sympathizers who fled France during Revolution.

Eminescu, Mihau. 1850-89. Romanian poet, writer.

Empedocles. c500-430BC. Greek philosopher. Heart is seat of life. Matter is fire, air, earth, water.

Empire of the West. 286-476. Rome and Western part of Roman Empire. Ends 476, Romulus Augustulus deposed.

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