Ste. Chapelle. 1246-8. Paris. Architect: Pierre de Montreuil. Built to house The Crown of Thorns.

Stefan Dushan. 1308-55. Serbian king/Emperor 1331-. Conquered Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia. Law Code 1349-54.

Steichen, Edward. 1879-1973. US photo-artist.

Stein, Gertrude. 1874-1946. US avante-garde writer. Autobiography of Alice B Toklas 1933. Coined “Lost Generation”.

Steinbeck, John. 1902-68. US writer. Grapes of Wrath 1933.

Steiner, Jakob. 1796-1863. Swiss/German mathematician. Pioneered synthetic geometry.

Steinway, Henry. 1797-1871. German/US innovative piano manufacturer.

Stephen Báthory. 1533-86. Polish king 1575-. Won Livonia from Russia.

Stepniak, S. 1852-95. Russian Nihilist writer. Assassinated czar’s police chief. -“Life for life”.

Stevens, John. 1749-1838. Key to US patent laws 1790. First American locomotive 1825.

Still, Andrew. 1828-1917. US osteopathy founder.

Stockholm, Treaty. 1719. Sweden trades land for British aid, sells land to Prussia.

Stockholm Bloodbath. 1520. Danish Christian II kills 80 nobles. Swedish fight for independence.

Stockton, Frank. 1834-1902. US humour writer. The Lady or the Tiger 1884.

Stoicism. 4C BC. Ideal life of restraint, duty, ignoring passions, desires. Mind is a finer subdivision of matter. There are universal natural laws. Founded by Zeno.

Stokes, G. Gabriel, Baronet. 1819-1903. Irish discoverer of ultraviolet flourescence. Law of Viscosity.

Stokes, Whitley. 1830-1909. Irish jurist, revised laws in India.

Stokowski, Leopold. 1882-1977. US conductor of contemporary and unusual works.

Stonehenge. c18-14C BC. English megalithic monument with astronomical properties, religious purpose.

Storm, Theodor. 1817-88. German Realist writer. Rider of the White Horse 1838. Pole Poppenspäler 1874.

Storting. 1814-. Bicameral Norwegian parliament.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. 1811-96. US author. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852.

Strabe. 63BC-21. Greek historian, geographer. Cumulated knowledge in Geographica.

Straits Convention. 1841-1923. Banned warships from Dardanelles in peacetime.

Strasbourg Oath. 842. Charles II, Louis II oppose Lothair I. Earliest example of written French.

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