Schweitzer, Albert. 1875-1965. German medical missionary to Africa 1913-.

Scopes Trial. 1925. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in Tennessee high school. Bryan. Darrow.

Scotland. c4000BC Inhabited. c1800BC Beaker people. c300BC Celts (Picts). Caledonia. c500 AD Scots (Celts from Ireland) settle. 832 MacAlpin unifies. 945 + Cumbria + Strathclyde. c1016 + Lothian. 1328 Independence acknowledged by England. 1603 James VI becomes James I of England. 1707 Great Britain. 1801 United Kingdom.

Scotland Yard. Site of Palace where Scottish kings stayed. 1829- HQ, London Metropolitan Police.

Scott, Walter. 1771-1832. Prolific Scottish Romantic historical novelist. Lady of the Lake 1810; Waverley 1814; Ivanhoe 1819.

Scriabin, Aleksandr. 1872-1915. Russian composer uniting music with philosophy: Prometheus 1911. Musical symbolism.

Scribe. c5C-200BC. Jewish scholar, teacher. 200BC- jurist/doctor of law.

Scriblerus Club. 18C English literary club. Satirized contemporary writing. Swift. Pope.

Scripps, Edward. 1854-1926. US publisher. Founded United Press news service 1907.

Se Ami. Japanese No dramatist. Offering of the Flowers 1395.

Sebastapol, Siege. 1854. 11 mos. Allied Crimean War victory. First trench warfare. Florence Nightingale.

Sebastian, St. -288. Martyr. Survived arrows...beaten to death.

SEC. Securities and Exchange Commission. 1934. Founded under New Deal.

Second Front. 1944 Allied attack from west.

Secularism. Humanism. Movement toward “this-worldliness”.

Seeckt, Hans von. 1866-1936. German general. Secretly rebuilt army after WWI.

Ségurane, Catherine. Saved Nice by frightening away invading Turks, 1543.

Sekhmet. Egyptian war goddess with lion’s head.

Selim III. 1761-1808. Ottoman sultan 1789-1807. Reformed, westernized. Overthrown, murdered.

Seminole Wars. 1817-18, 1835-42. Seminole Indians forced out of Florida.

Semite. Descended of Shem, Noah’s eldest son. Assyrians, Phoenicians, Israelites, Babylonians. Now: Jews, Arabs of S.W. Asia.

Semmelweis, Ignaz. 1818-65. Hungarian/Austrian. Puerperal fever 1861.

Sempach Battle. 1386. Swiss confederates defeat Austrian Duke Leopold, ensuring independence.

Senate. 509BC. Roman governing body. 401BC Plebians admitted. 44BC lost most power to Caesar.

Senegal. Wolof, Fulani, Serer, Tukulor. 1406 Bettencourt explored. 15C Portugal. 1626 French settle. 1895 French colony. 1959 +Sudanese Republic=Mali Federation. 1960 -Mali=Independent republic.

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