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Beagles
forced to smoke 30 cigs a day = see effects
Chairman of NI talks
former US senator George Mitchell
Edward Teller
"The father of the hydrogen bomb"
George Washington
(1) 1789-1797 The first President unified the new nation and shaped the chief executive's duties. He refused to run for a third term.
Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901) Italian American composer. Aida (plot set in Africa) Rigoletto Requiem Mass
James Madison
(4) 1809-1817 He is considered the father of the Bill of Rights. He presided over the War of 1812 with Britain, during which the White House was burned. The war ended in a draw.
Bill Clinton
(42) 1993-2001 He achieved goals such as passage of the NAFTA trade agreement and cuts in the budget deficit. But his popularity was uneven and his second term was marred by scandal.
1979 general election
-
Students in comprehensive by 1964
1 in 10
divorces mid-1970s
10 in every 1000
1990 inflation
10.9%
1971 IRA bombing
15 killed
inflation in 1971
15%
Mau Mau Rebellion
1952
CND
1958
Population with TV (%)
1961 = 75% 1971 = 91%
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1962 - sold over 2 mil
Profumo Affair
1963
Radio Caroline
1964
Family Planning Act
1967
Dirty Protests
1978 - by 1979 over 250
Gibraltar
1988
Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1993
9/11 deaths
3000
Empire Windrush
492 migrant workers
Employment in services 1960
5 million
What animal image is used to describe the river that is his destination?
A snake, that charms him into his journey
George Washington Carver
African American farmer and food scientist. His research improved farming in the South by developing new products using peanuts and by encouraging farmers to routinely practice crop rotation.
Open Door Policy
An idea proposed by the U.S. in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.
Zheng He
An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming Emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Samarkand -
Ancestral capital of Babur
Kabul:
Babur took over in 1504, important city on trading routes, hidden by mountains from enemies, remained Babur's capital and home for rest of his life
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle in Boston area. British victory at a great cost.
Nebraska senator who was the youngest University professor in America before becoming a senator (at 39 y/o). PhD from Yale, Masters from St. Johns (the Cass one, not the big one). Maybe not currently high profile, but he's my hot-take 46th president
Ben Sasse
Amway heiress and secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos
Georgi Markov Affair
Bulgarian who defected to the West in 1969 = outspoken in criticism of Bulgarian communist regime -> assassinated in London in 1978 (umbrella (KGB) )
NEEts
By 2007, rose 20%
Organised hooligan group
Chelsea Headhunters
Great Leap Forward
China's second five-year plan under the leadership of the impatient Mao, it aimed to speed up economic development while simultaneously developing a completely socialist society. This plan failed and more than 20 million people starved between 1958 and 1960.
Pragmatists
Chinese Communist politicians such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Liu Shaoqui; determined to restore state direction and market incentives at the local level; opposed the Great Leap Forward.
Empress Wu
Chinese empress that was capable and ruthless; first female ruler of China
Lord Shang
Chinese philosopher who adopted Legalism to the Qin state
Legalism
Chinese philosophy developed by Han Feizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws
Sun Yat Sen
Chinese physician and political leader who aimed to transform China with patriotic, democratic, and economically progressive reforms.
Long time 84 year old Iowa Senator
Chuck Grassley
Core 'ngrato (Franco Corelli)
Cordillo
"War Hawks"
Democratic-Republicans who favored war with Britain
Long-time senator from California. Associated with the now-retired Barbara Boxer.
Diane Feinstein
How did Kafka relate to women?
Difficult relations to women. Underlying fear that he would be inadequate to their expectations, but more so, that the demands of marriage would interfere with his devotion to writing.
Shahada:
Faith
'Stop the War' march
Feb 2003 - more than 1mil
Battle of Lexington
First armed conflict with British troops
Stamp Act
First direct tax on the colonists
Jamestown, VA.
First permanent English colony in North America
Neil Armstrong
First person to walk on the moon
Heart of the Empire
Forbidden City; reflects a sense of hierarchy with divided public and private spheres
Con Te Partiro
Francesco Sartori
headright system
Gave land to those who brought others to the New World
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion
Governor of Texas
Greg Abbott
Ave Maria (Sumi Jo)
Guilio Caccini (but actually... Vladimir Valvilov...)
Your congressional representative, right now, Mickey. Can you name the guy representing you in Congress?
Gus Bilirakis
Thomas Jefferson
He wrote the Declaration of Independence
1974 Election #1
Hung parliament
Pablo Neruda
I'm Explaining a Few Things
Republican paramilitary
IRA, INLA
Blaise Pascal
In the 1600s this man invented and developed a calculating machine. He also invented the syringe and hydraulic press.
Term limiting out, current Gov of Colorado
John Hickenlooper
Federico Garcia Lorca
Lament the Death of Ignacio
Arthur Scargill
Leader of NUM
Hernan Cortes
Led expedition that destroyed the Aztec Empire
Blair secretly discussed possibilites of coalition with who in 1997?
Liberal Democrats
Algonquin
Major language group of tribes in Massachusetts and Virginia
Wilson's resignation
March 1976
Florida Republican senator. Ran for president in 2012 and 2016, but lost both primaries
Marco Rubio
Intervention in Sierra Leone
May 2000
First Continental Congress
Meeting to protest the Coercive Acts
Vice President of the U.S.A. Former governor of Indiana.
Mike Pence
Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
Eden weakness exemplified
Oct 1955 attempt to move Mac from Foreign Office to Treasury Mac managed to delay till Dec
Seat of Power of the General Manager-
Oversees railway, GM controls far more network 200,000 men beneath him, runs 2,000 trains a day. He is more than a figurehead, if something goes wrong, he shoulders full responsibility. Every month he visits his men in the field
indentured servants
Poor who exchanged labor for passage to the New World
James Oglethorpe
Proprietor of Georgia
Weep you no more
R. Quilter
RUC
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Old lady on the court. Clinton's nom, she was the second woman ever on the Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Embattled Secretary of the Interior
Ryan Zinke
I hear an army
S. Barber (text by J. Joyce)
Embattled Administrator of the EPA
Scott Pruitt
Husain:
Sindh ruler who refused to give troops to Humayun to defeat Sher Shah
Citizen Genet Affair
Situation in which Washington acted to stop Americans from aiding France as privateers against British shipping.
Disgraced former Chief Strategist. Did a lot of cool stuff but then created Brietbart
Steve Bannon
House Majority Whip. Most famous for getting shot at the Congressional Baseball Game practice
Steve Scalise
Secretary of the Treasury
Steven Mnuchen
Texas Senator who was for pres in 2012 and 2016. Former solicitor general for the Supreme Court and Deputy Attorney General (making him one of the bet legal minds in America) but he can't ever go on the Supreme Court because he's the Zodiac Killer and also an *******
Ted Cruz
Nullification
Term describing a states' attempt to ignore a law passed by Congress
J.L. Borges
The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babel
Albert Camus
The Guest
Single Whip Tax System
This was a policy put forth by the Ming requiring a national tax where all taxes were paid in the form of silver
"Common Sense"
Thomas Paine's argument for independence from Britain.
"René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle "
Traveled the length of the Mississippi R. and claimed the land for France
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Treaty ending the American REvolution
Loose Constructionist
View of the constitution that allowed for expansion of national powers
Hamida:
Wife of Humayun, Akbar's mother
Black Beauty Contest-
a contest in which Locomotive sheds prepare engines for a contest judging decoration (25%), functionality (50%), and ceramic blanketing 25% and winning the contest is the highest honor a shed could have
Viceroy-
a ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign.
Modernism generally thought to apply to the work of writers and artists who emerged...
about the time of WWI
NI powersharing convention dissolved
after 1975 election was won by unionists
troops are in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban
by October of 2001
papermaking
caused literacy rates to go up; invented in China; passed to Muslim lands and then to Europe;
Eliot's religious affiliations
converted from American Unitarian to Church of England in 1927 (the same year he became a British citizen)
Key Pledges of the Labour Campaign (Blair)
cut NHS lists, cut class sizes, no rise in income tax
Migration
did not flow only one way - 1/3 Polish returned home
Value of pound - March 1976
dropped below $2 - first time in history
2nd 1/3 of 20th century - major shift
economic/social structure = manufacturing decreased, service/finance increased
1960s women
evolution, not revolution
1978 inflation
fell to 10%
By 1960 - women employment
made up one third of workforce - 2/3 low-paid secretarial work and primary school teaching
Ichi
one
Family allowance
paid to women = supposed to ensure they did not have to work
Wilson classless
smoked pipe, state secondary, yorkshire accent
Major won respect in 1992 for campaign style
soapbox politics
Impact of 3 day week on driving
speed limit 50 miles per hour on all roads
EEC - Labour
split
Mongol Invasions
spread gunpowder from East to West
IMF loan 1967
stop-gap - worrying sign = government losing control over its finances
Deflation
support value of pound and prevent inflation - yet it was 'stop-go' approach
Death Penalty abolished
temp 1965 perm 1969
Hilary Clinton
the first women to run for the office of US president for a major political party (Democrats). Also served as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. First lady for husband Bill Clinton.
1960s (women)
time of evolution not revolution
Unequal Treaties
trade treaties that China signed under pressure of invasion; gave Western powers trade benefits
Al Gore
vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton. environmental issues.
Viceroy Lord Lytton-
viceroy of India, critiqued for his implementation of trading which increased starvation in India
Lord Ripon (1880)-
viceroy of India, helped create Famine Code
2007 report on housework
women did x3 more than men
Wage Difference
women still earned 87% of what men earned
1951-61 wages
£8.30 to £15.30
Wages 1951-1964
£8.6shillings - £18.7shillings
Heian Period
"Classical" Japan: 784-1185 CE,
Modernism is heavily influenced by the work of ...
#1 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Edward Heath and award from China
'People's Friendship Envoy'
Heath and China
'People's Friendship Envoy' - many visits from 1974
Brown's economic motto
'prudence with a purpose'
Football Hooliganism
'the English disease'
Blair and employment
'work for those who can, security for those that can't'
John Tyler
(10) 1841-1845 He had 15 children, more than any President. He was expected to be a passive "acting President" while he finished Harrison's term. But he refused to be passive. He made enemies in Congress and was the first President to be threatened with impeachment. The effort failed.
Yuan Dynasty
(1279-1368 CE) The dynasty with Mongol rule in China; centralized with bureaucracy but structure is different: Mongols on top->Persian bureaucrats->Chinese bureuacrats.
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) German Baroque composer. The Well-Tempered Clavier Toccata and Fugue in D minor Brandenburg Concertos Goldberg Variations Magnificat The Art of Fugue
John Adams
(2) 1797-1801 He was the first president to live in the White House.
James Garfield
(20) 1881 He set out to reform the "spoils system" by which politicians gave their friends low-level political offices. He was assassinated by a disappointed office seeker. He was the first left-handed President.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(34) 1953-1961 A former World War II general and hero, he helped end the Korean War and steered a moderate course during the Cold War.
Richard Nixon
(37) 1969-1974 During his first term, he improved relations with the Soviet Union and China and wound down the Vietnam War. But the Watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign before Congress could impeach him. He is the only U.S. President in history to resign his office.
Mongols -
(from Mongolia) an empire founded by Genghis Khan with a very strong military that lasted from the 13-14th century
Uzbeks -
(from Uzbekistan) Originally had Samarkand - Babur tried to take it in his youth
Genghis Khan
- The founder of the Mongol Empire
Cahokia
. City of mounds built in Mississippi River Basin
Inflation 1969-1970
12%
Babies born to unmarried parents 1980s-1990s
12-30%
2007 childcare provision
12.5 hrs a week of free childcare education
1997 women MPs
120 - of which 101 were Labour
Ford lorry drivers
15% increase in December after 9 week strike
Babur
1526-1530
Romantic
1820-1900 Song like melodies, with dramatic contrast in pitch and dynamics. Included large orchestras.
Realism occurs...
1850- present.
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1888-1965 born in St. Louis, studied at harvard, modernist, rejected the traditional narrative, employed highly focused starting images and an elliptical ironic voice.
The Housing Act
1890 - right to buy
Watership Down (book)
1972 = bestseller
2nd Employment Act
1982
Government of Wales Act
1998
Omagh Bombing
1998 - 30 killed
Launch of Euro
1999
Reforms to Parliament
1999 - ended in major compromise as hereditary peers were not abolished but cut to 92
Britain sold off half its gold reserves
1999-2002
FTSE 100 companies women
1999-2007 those with no women on the board fell 36% - 24%
new Commonwealth immigrants by 1974
1mil
Powers to regulate interstate commerce and enforce taxation
2 major powers lacking under the Articles of Confederation
new house owners by 1988
2 million
Number of Strikes - 1974
2,922
Growth in GDP 1980s
2.2% - no better than in 1970s
Powell's stance on immigration
2.5mil votes
inflation when Blair comes into power
2.6%
Dodgy Dossier
2003 - British gov had exaggerated the threat in Iraq
days lost due to strike in 1972
24mil
1983 unemployment Liverpool
25%
% of women student in higher education in 1970
28%
Women in higher education
28%
working days lost by 1977
29 million
people in work by 2007
29.1 million, 2.5 million more than 1997
Houses bought through right to buy by 1988
2mil
Standard income tax reduced by 1988
33-25%
Average age 1997-2007
37-39
How many company chairmans wanted to leave EEC?
4 out of 419
2007 people living on unemployment benefits
4.5mil
Donald Trump
45th president of the US. He ran a divisive campaign on subjects of immigration, trade and tax cuts. The oldest to become a president
ASBOS 2005
46% under 17
How many women reached managerial posts in 1960s?
5%
Managerial posts - women
5%
Average unemployment 1997-2007
5.5%
Amount of Tories to lose seats in 1997
50%
Employment increase 1973
500k
Universities/polytechs by 1968
56 uni 20 polytechs
Women's wages 1970-77
59-70% of men's wages
Opinion poll of TUs in early 1960s
60% favourable
Open Uni students by 1980
70k - awarding more degrees than Oxbridge
households with TVs 1961
75%
TVs at home 1961-71
75-91%
Car 1975
77% of journeys
what did women earn by 2007
87% of what men earned
Unemployment 1963
878k
North Sea Oil by 1978
9 oilfields in production
# of people with tvs 1970
90%
Internment (locking up suspects without trial)
95% were Catholics in 1971
Vasco de Gama -
A Portuguese explorer who landed with his ships in India in 1498.
Dmitri Mendeleev
A Russian chemist/teacher who published a table of the elements and listed them in order of increasing atomic mass
James Watt
A Scottish engineer whose advances to the steam engine that worked faster and more efficiently than earlier engines provided great help to the Industrial Revolution. This man continued improving the steam engine, creating new advances in technology.
Rajputs:
A confederacy of Hindu princes from Rajasthan
Zhou Dynasty
A decentralized Chinese dynasty that practiced feudalism, and whose emperor was the first to claim to be a link between heaven and earth. Iron metallurgy increased in this dynasty.
Tamerlane -
A descendent of Mongols who settled in Central Asia. Was a very good soldier especially in mounted warfare
In the second stanza of "Prufrock," the city is characterized by a "yellow fog," which is itself personified as a certain animal. Which? (If you think you might be wrong, justify your answer).
A dog
Hajj-
A hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca and is something every Muslim must do in their life
Taoism
A philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
Confuciansim
A system of ethics that encouraged stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
Zheng He voyages
A total of seven voyages were made to as many as 30 countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, India and Arabia. The fleet was impressive with as many as 300 ships and 28,000 sailors.
Dirty Protest
After 1978 - refused to leave cells = ill treatment by prison guards
John Sullivan
American General sent to punish the Iroquois for aiding Britain.
Benedict Arnold
American Hero turned traitor
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer who theorized that the universe is expanding and other galaxies are receding from us.
Ben Franklin
American envoy to France. Sought to gain France's support.
Benjamin Franklin
American intellectual, inventor, and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution and one of the strongest supporters for the idea of a United States. FIRST AMERICAN. 100 DOLLAR
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor who was responsible for developing the telephone.
Ptolemy
Ancient Greek who proposed that the Earth was at the center of the universe with the Sun, Moon and planets revolving around it.
One of two independents in the Senate. From Maine. Has never once, in his entire career that includes being a Governor, has a political affiliation
Angus King
"Swing Vote" candidate on the Supreme Court. Appointed by Bush Sr
Anthony Kennedy
Rainer Maria Rilke
Archaic Torso of Apollo
Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality - namely serialism and the *12-tone row* -Taught Anton Webern and Alban Berg -late Romantic style of his earlier works to the development of the dodecaphonic music of his New Vienna School of composition
Arnold Schönberg (1874 - 1951)
1498:
Arrival of Portuguese
Major dock strike
August 1967
Gregor Mendel
Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
Transcendentalism
Philosophical movement derived from Romanticism. Stressed ties to nature.
The salley gardens
B. Britten (text by W. Butler Yeats)
Humayun:
Babur's son and heir (ruled 1530-56), second ruler, seen as the worst ruler of all Mughal rulers
Third-wave feminism
Beginning of 1990s
The definition of Modernism
Belief that through an arduous process of making/understanding "art" one can discover full humanity and even a kind of divinity. In language, one comes (through process) to acknowledge the spiritual, natural and human. In doing so, arrives at an authentic and autonomous "self."
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Ben Carson
Senator from Vermont who has Democratic leadership positions despite being a registered socialist
Bernie Sanders
Mewar-
Birthplace of Mewari horse-beloved horse by Mughals
Sojourner Truth
Black female abolitionist known for her speech making abilities
Harriet Tubman
Black female abolitionist known for her work with the Underground Railroad
New Jersey senator who was nearly indicted on corruption charges in 2018, but they couldn't get a unanimous jury (somehow :eyeroll:).
Bob Menendez
Long time former governor of Louisiana. Ran for president in 2012 and 2016, was also the first ever Indian-American goverrnor
Bobby Jindal (Born "Piyush," he picked up the name from the Brady Bunch character, as it was his favorite show as a kid)
TV that showed social consequences of Thatcherite policies?
Boys from the Blackstuff
Lord Cornwallis
British General that surrendered at Yorktown
British East India Company-
British company that ran a monopoly on India. This led to the company dominating India from 1757-1858. It also caused India to suffer severe starvation leading to millions of deaths. The company originally thought it was trading with the East Indies (hence its name)
South Sea Bubble-
British joint-stock company founded in 1711 created to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. Granted a monopoly to trade to South America and other parts of the Americas
Battle of Yorktown
British surrender here ended the war.
Riots in 1981
Brixton, Bristol, Liverpool & Manchester
Sanskirt
Buddhism was originally written down in this language
Forbidden City
Built in the Ming Dynasty, was a stunning monument and palace for the emperor in Beijing, China. All commoners and foreigners were forbidden to enter without special permission.
Wilbur Wright
Built the first successful airplane
ASBOs
By 2005, 46% went to under 17s
1992 opinion polls
C = 29% L = 41%
Memories
C. Ives
Taught at Palermo school of music
Pietro Floridia (1860-1932)
(Gesu Bambino)
Pietro Yon
Taika Reforms 646
Called for direct imperial rule through a Chinese-style bureaucracy to reduce power of clans. Local officials appointed as agents of central government. All agricultural land to be owned by the state. Land surveys, census, and tax system.
Cultural Revolution
Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Rachel Carson
Cared about the environment. Helped in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hajj:
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Former CEO of Hewlett Packard. Lost a Senate Election, which emboldened her to lose the 2016 Presidential primaries to Trump. Weirdly, became Cruz's VP candidate during the primaries, which is weird
Carly Fiorina
Ramadan-
Celebrates the day when the Qur'an was first revealed to Muhammed. Also one of the five pillars (Sawm)
Zakat:
Charity
John Marshall
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and federalist whose decisions strengthened the national government.
Chinua Achebe
Chike's School Days
Eli Whitney
Pioneered use of interchangeable parts in manufacturing. Also known for the cotton gin.
Much maligned governor of New Jersey who ran for pres in 2012 and 2016. this Republican was an early supporter of Trump
Chris Christie
Dem from Missouri. Several years ago, won a high profile Senate seat after her opponent, on the House Science Committee, said that women's bodies could shut down pregnancies in the case of "legitimate rape"
Claire McCaskill
A German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. She sustained a 61-year concert career -32 Songs (lost confidence at age 36 ): ) -8 children -all around badass b!@&%
Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)
Bush Sr. Supreme Court nomination. Says very little, was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, nearly costing him his appointment to the court. Second black justice ever
Clarence Thomas
A writer of intense tightly structured stories, that portray the external world through a characters innermost thoughts. Her "fluid lyrical style has been called feminine writing"
Clarice Lispector
Late Renaissance/Early Baroque. Career *spanned both the Renaissance and Baroque periods*. (Lasciatemi Morire 1608)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Asian Tigers
Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Egyptian President
Colonel Nasser - since 1952
Labour easy to understand campaign
Pledge Card - 5 promises
George Washington
Commander of the Continental Army
Deng Xiaoping
Communist Party leader who seen as responsible for Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
3/5 Compromise
Compromise over counting slaves for taxation and representation.
Missouri Compromise
Compromise over slavery in the Louisiana Territory
Connecticut or "Great" Compromise
Compromise that created a bicameral legislature.
Aristotle
Concluded that earth, fire, and water were elements of matter
Order and Harmony
Confucian principles that will be attained when people fulfill their proper role in society
The Five Relationships
Confucius believed that there were five fundamental relationships in society: Ruler to Subject Father to Son Husband to Wife Older Brother to Younger Brother Friend to Friend
1955 Election
Conservative 345
1970 election
Conservative victory
Enclosure Movement
Contributed to landless English peasants seeking opportunity in the New World
Samuel Morse
Created a single-wire telegraph and Morse Code.
Carolus Linnaeus
Created a system of naming organisms. Called binomial nomenclature.
Phillip Francis-
Critic of BEIC, antagonist of Warren Hastings, helped impeach him
Marie Curie
Polish physicist and chemist. Pioneer in the field of radioactivity, and is the first and only person awarded the Nobel Prize in two different sciences.
The Prayer
David Foster/Carole Bayer Sager
Clarice Lispector
Daydreams of a Drunk Woman
This story portays a woman in misery because of choices she made while seeking social and economic security.
Daydreams of a Drunk Woman, Lispector
1206-1526:
Delhi Sultanate in North India
Timur -
Descended from Mongols, almost destroyed the Delhi Sultanate in 1398, his descendants destroyed it in 1526 to establish the Mughal Empire
Utopian
Describes attempt to form a perfect society
nomadic
Describes lifestyle of Plains Indians following bison herds
Robert Fulton
Developed a successful steamboat
John Dalton
Developed modern atomic theory
Nicolaus Copernicus
Developed the first modern theory of a sun-centered universe
Albert Einstein
Developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed. Also E=mc2
O Sole Mio (The 3 Tenors) Placido Domingo Jose Carreras Luciano Pavarotti
DiCapua
Lu Xun
Diary of a Madman
What were some of Kafka's health issues
Dies at 41 years, of the same disease, TB, that killed Chekhov. Was ill for a great deal of his adult life. Was in the range of 6'1" and weighed about 135. Often had unusual diets or cures for his illness. One involved Fletcherization, another involved milk.
Sir Henry Cavendish
Discovered hydrogen
Joseph Priestly
Discovered oxygen
Louis Pasteur
Discovered that heat could kill bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Divided the NW territory for sale to the public. Set aside money for public education.
Encomienda system
Division of lands among conquistadors and rule over Native Americans
For a million dollars, the house of rep rep from Alaska. He's the longest tenured person in either house. Since 1973
Don Young
Actor-turned-senator Democrat for Alabama. Won a very high profile 2018 special election
Doug Jones
compassionate conservatism
Duncan Smith - visited Easterhouse estate in Glasgow
longhouses
Dwellings built by some northeastern forest tribes
Salat:
Prayer
Martin Van Buren
President after Jackson. He signed the Independent Treasury Act.
Nicholas Biddle
President of the Second National Bank
Peter Mundy-
Early 17th century agent who alerted Britain of food shortages
Wood Block Printing
Printing that was done on a wooden block, ink was added to the wooden block and then stamped onto paper
tobacco
Product that made Virginia economically viable
Sensei
Professor or teacher
Albany Plan of Union
Proposal by Ben Franklin for a government of the colonies. Proposal by Ben Franklin during the French and Indian War to unite colonies with a common government.
Roger Williams
Proprietor of Rhode Island
Panic of 1837
Economic depression resulting in part from the specie circular
Secretary of Transportation (who, BTW, is married to Mitch McConell
Elaine Chao
Despite his social and political conservatism, this author ushered in the revolution in literary form known as modernism.
Eliot
Harvard Law professor turned Mass. Senator and Bernie shill
Elizabeth Warren
Jamaica to Britain Ship
Empire Windrush - 1948
Maryland
English colony founded as a refuge for Catholics. Tolerated all Christians
Jane Goodall
English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934)
Who refused to stand as Conservative candiadte in Feb 1974?
Enoch Powell - told his supporters to vote Labour
Henry Hudson
Established English land claims in North America for Dutch/ English
Robert Clive-
Established military and political supremacy of BEIC in Bengal. Turned himself into a multi-millionaire.
Effects of Isolationism
Europeans were able to explore without competition from the Chinese; Chinese forbidden to trade overseas
Pope's Rebellion
Example of native resistance to Spanish rule
Stono Rebellion
Example of resistance by African slaves in S.C.
Hat, Woolen, and Iron Acts
Examples of laws restricting colonial trade and manufacturing
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Examples of transcendentalist authors
Specie Circular
Executive order issued by Jackson that all federal lands be paid for with gold/silver
John James Audubon
Extensive research documenting American birds.
Breaking the glass celling
FTSE 100 comps w. no women on their boards decreased 36-24%
Breaking the Glass Celling
FTSE 100 comps w/ no women on their boards decreased 36-24%
Orissa famine-
Famine of 1866, affected east coast of India from Madras upwards. Impact was greatest in Orissa (now Odisha) as ⅓ of population died. Affected 47.5 million, spread 180 thousand miles
A German pianist and composer who wrote around 300 songs (written mainly for home performances by amateurs), 125 piano works, four cantatas, much instrumental chamber music, as well as choral works -works attributed to brother
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847)
a German composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher, and one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. Largely observed Classical models and practices while initiating key aspects of Romanticism. ... managed to distinguish himself as one of the first significant Romantic composers of the 1800s. child prodigy 79 songs are graceful and melodious
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Shah Jahan-
Fifth ruler of Mughal Empire 1628 to 1658, created Taj Mahal for his dead wife. He was very eager to expand his Empire (like Akbar). He also created many beautiful buildings.
Sally Ride
First American woman to travel into space (1983)
Shihuangdi
First Emperor, a Chinese emperor who founded the Qin dynasty and unified China with a standardized system of writing and money.
Aaron Burr
First Vice President to Jefferson. Involved in the Essex Junto
Articles of Confederation
First plan of government for the U.S.
Sugar Act
First tax/law seen as for the purpose of raising revenue, not controlling trade.
William Harvey
First to describe circulation of blood
Monopoly - first definition
For centuries Islamic people including Arabs, Egyptians, and Turks had a monopoly with the West. This meant they meant they controlled the supply of goods and were the only people to buy from.
Yuan Dynasty
Foreign rule (Mongols); some sharing of mongol and Chinese customs; Chinese had little control
Iroquois
Formed a confederacy of tribes in New York
William Penn
Founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
Andre Ampere
Founded electromagnetism.
Musically influenced by his father, student of Alessandro Scarlatti, later teacher of composer ie Giovanni Paisiello, composed sacred dramas (Danza Danza Fanciulla Gentile)
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
An Italian, later British, composer and music teacher who became *singing master first to the Queen of Italy* and then to the British Royal family in 1880. By the mid-1880s he had become the most popular songwriter in Britain (Ideale)
Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916)
Austrian classical composer Child violin prodigy and composer who for many years was court composer to the Prince of Esterhazy in Austria just outside of Vienna. Viennese composer Patron *"father of the symphony"* 104 symphonies *"father of the string quartet"* Standard string quartet 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello The Creation (Misera, abbandonata (last movement) from ARIANNA A NAXOS - Eva Bartfai-Barta)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Father an aggressive and successful businessman who hoped his child would follow this inclination towards business.
Franz Kafka. "The Metamorphosis."
Romanticism occurs during the
French Revolution to the end of 19th century (overlaps with others, like realism).
Alexis de Tocqueville
Frenchman who wrote about democracy in America.
William Henry Harrison/Battle of Tippecanoe
Future president who led a victory over Native Americans siding with the British and the battle.
Andrew Jackson
Future president who won a victory over the British at New Orleans. Also, the US president who "killed" the 2nd national bank by removing funds.
Come away, come away death
G. Finzi (text by W. Shakespeare
Libertarian candidate for president in 2012 and 2016
Gary Johnson
Quebec Act
Gave western lands to a Canadian province and recognized Catholicism as the official religion there.
Writs of Assistance
General search warrants used to search for smuggled goods.
New french leader
Georges Pompidou
One of the greatest exponents of operatic realism (*verismo*), is seen as Verdi's greatest successor. His works are the last Italian operas to hold the international stage.
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Italy's most celebrated composer by the age of 21, ... was a *robust* Italian with an outgoing personality. He composed thirty operas, but then he retired from composing operas by age 40. After that, he chose to compose only church music, chamber works, and songs. Many of his songs were composed for his celebrated Saturday night parties. Elegant, witty, charming and often delicately ironic (Cujus Animam) (Inflammatus) (La danza from SOIRÉES MUSICALES) - Luciano Pavarotti (Canzonetta spagnuola) - Marilyn Horne
Giochino Rossini (1792-1868)
Private Funding Initiative
Good in short term as they were built quickly but have, large long term debts to pay off, achieved goals of building new public infrastructure but led to debt
Tang Rulers
Grew China to its largest size up to that time.
an Austrian late Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation, serving as director of the Vienna Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York Philharmonic. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century Song Cycles: -Kindertotenlieder 1901-04 -Songs of a Wayfarer -Das Lied on der Erde
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
In music be the food of love
H. Purcell (text Col. H. Heveningham)
how does Gregor Samsa react to his new situation?
Rather calmly, given the circumstances. The manifestation of horror comes from outside, from those who happen to gaze upon him.
Sepoy Rebellion:
Happened in Bengal in 1857, immediate cause was an effective rumor about animal fat on the cartridges of rifles. The Rebellion, which spread beyond the army, was a violent conservative reaction against the domination of Europeans and their threat to Indian cultural heritage
Charles G. Finney
He advocation "perfectionism;" living without sin.
Henry Clay
He challenged Jackson for the presidency in 1832
Juniperro Serra
He established many missions in the New World
Samuel de Champlain
He founded French settlement of Quebec and established the French alliance with the Huron
Marlowe finally leaves for his ship with a group of bearers and another white man. Describe the journey of this white man.
He is fat and is left behind by his carriers, he faints on the hillsides.
Nikola Tesla
He made the first alternating current induction motor, as well as several forms of oscillators, the tesla coil and wireless guidance for ships.
Late in the poem, the speaker, Prufrock, invokes a Shakespeare character, to say he is not as central as that character. Who is this?
He says, "I am no prince Hamlet"
The manager of the outpost from which Marlowe will depart has a particular trait that has allowed him to succeed in Africa. What is this trait?
He simply does not get ill.
Theodore Roosevelt
He was a leading political figure of the Progressive Era - fighting corruption and the power of monopoly trusts and created the first Natural Park. The youngest to be elected
John Quincy Adams
He won the 1824 election by a vote of the House of Representatives in what became known as the "Corrupt Bargain"
Regulator Movement
Rebellion by western North Carolina farmers against the eastern elites over taxes
Shays' Rebellion
Rebellion in Massachusetts due to high taxes and farm foreclosures.
Toni Morrison
Recitatif
Alexander Hamilton
His Reports on the Public Credit offered an economic plan for the nation
Julio Cortazar
House Taken Over
Gibbons v. Ogden
Reinforced federal power over interstate commerce in example of steamboat travel.
Composite Bow-
Ideal for archery, killing machine, can shatter longbow. Traditional bow made from horn, wood, and sinew laminated together
Where is it? (The Heart. Of Darkness.)
If we see it as the wild, savage, timeless space in the center of the Congo, that is one thing (and we are more inclined to agree with Conrad's racism). If we see it as the dark heart of the inhumane and inhuman white traders, we are inclined to grant that Conrad has established ironic distance, and that his real project is to reveal the sickness of the colonial enterprise.
Gaspee Affair
Incident where Rhode Islanders burned a grounded British revenue cutter
Anthony Nutting (colonial minister)
Resigned from cabinet over Suez
Bacon's Rebellion
Resulted in decreased use of indentured servants and increase of African slave labor
Recently "resigned" Secretary of State. Former CEO of Exxon.
Rex Tillerson
John Marshall
Influential fourth Chief Justice of the United States, American constitutional law and the Supreme Court.
1221:
Invasion of Genghis Kahn
1519-1526:
Invasions of Babur
1398:
Invasions of Tamerlane
Cyrus McCormick
Inventor of the mechanical reaper
Elias Howe
Inventor of the sewing machine
A leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras who was first known for his tone poems and songs, and then his brilliantly orchestrated operas that followed took the world by storm. *innate gift for vocal melody*, his sense of harmonic coloring and the generous, orchestral texture of his piano parts
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Former Senator from Pennsylvania. Ran for president in 2012 and 2016. Suggested banning pornography and most birth controls.
Rick Santorum
Governor of Florida. Running for Senate
Rick Scott
Governor of Michigan. Betting odds were strong that he was going to be impeached for the Flint water thing. He wasn't
Rick Snyder
Bertie Ahern
Irish Taoiseach
Broke from the patriarchal family life, chose a liberated cosmopolitan lifestyle,
Isabel Allende
Typically addressed the poor and disenfranchised, through the use of magic realism, attempted to address contemporary problems,
Isabel Allende
Born in Peru, but became a Well known chilean novelist, brought to bear the tradition of magic realism on women's experience. Father was a Chilean diplomat,
Isabel Allende 1942
What is unusual about the attire of the accountant at the outpost?
It is perfectly pressed and starched
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio (1874-1937)
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, scientist and architect
Come again, sweet love
J. Dowland
Heart, we will forget him
J. Duke (also A Copland) (text by E. Dickinson)
Transport and General Workers' Union
Jack Jones
Secretary of Defense
James "Mad Dog" Mattis
Head of the FBI. Clinton claimed that he cost her the election. Trump canned him and then all of the Dems accused Trump of fascism
James Comey
The former FBI head (who handled the Ray Rice investigation for the NFL and also the Volkswagon emission scandal) who is currently heading the Trump investigation
Robert Mueller
Honne
Japanese words that describe the contrast between a person's true feelings and desires and the behavior and opinions one displays in public
Former Governor of Florida who really wants to be president. Please clap
Jeb! Bush
Embattled Attorney General
Jeff Sessions
Tabloid outcry over what book in 1986?
Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin - in response Section 28
Green Party candidate for president in 2012 and 2016
Jill Stein
Abigail Adams
John Adam's wife, early advocate of human rights for both women and black Americans and is considered the first Second Lady of the United States.
Governor of Ohio. Ran for president in 2016 and may try to challenge Trump in 2020
John Kasich
Chief of Staff
John Kelly
Republican from Arizona. Ran for pres in 2008. Notably has a brain tumor
John McCain
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
John Roberts
Up and coming GOP Senator from Iowa. She has this famous ad where she talks about how, on the farms, she used to castrate hogs, so she knows "how to cut the pork."
Joni Ernst
born to Polish patriots who fled the Russian invasion, father was condemned for conspiracy. After the death of his mother and father, from TB, became a sailor for 16 years.
Joseph Conrad
Moss Side, Manchester riot
July 1981
Handsworth, Birmingham riot
July 1981 and sept 1985
Death of Dr David Kelly
July 2003
London Bombings
July 7th 2005, 3 coordinated attacks, 56 killed, 700 injured
Young senator from California. Considered a front-runner to win the Dem 2020 nomination for president
Kamala Harris
-a German composer widely acknowledged as one of the most important, but also controversial, composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. -Claiming that he wasn't educated on earth certainly contributed to that -groundbreaking work in electronic music -most influential, unique voice in the musical avant-garde, with a keen sensitivity to the acoustical realities and possibilities of sound
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007)
Europhile cabinet ministers under Major
Ken Clarke and Chris Patten
House Majority Leader. If the GOP holds the house when Ryan retires, the likely new Speaker of the house
Kevin McCarthy
SEX
Kings Road - Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren
New York senator who isn't Senate Minority Leader. Her 2020 nom status skyrocketed after Trump implied that she was a prostitute
Kirsten Gillibrand
1964 Election
Labour 317 seats
1974 Election #2
Labour 319 seats
2005 Election
Labour 355 seats
Salutary Neglect
Large degree of colonial self-governance due to distance from Britain.
Deccan Region-
Large plateau in Southern India, extends over eight Indian states. When Aurangzeb tried to subdue this region, he neglected the North which led to unrest and ultimately led to the downfall of the Empire.
Judiciary Act of 1801
Law by Federalists to increase their influence over the judicial branch following 1800 election loss of control of executive and legislative branches.
Embargo Act
Law cutting off all trade to Europe in response to British and French violations of U.S. neutral shipping.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Law that allowed for the "Trial of Tears"
Non-Intercourse Act of 1809
Law that restored trade to all nations except Britain and France
Macon's Bill No. 2
Law that would restore trade with either Britain or France, depending on which first agreed to stop seizing U.S. ships.
Assumption Act
Law whereby the national government took on the state's Revolutionary War debts
Proclamation of 1763
Law which forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts.
Declaratory Act
Law which stated Parliament had the right to make any laws over the colonists, including taxes.
Liberty Laws
Laws in the North that interfered with the return of escaped slaves.
Coercive Acts
Laws that punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
William Lloyd Garrison
Leading white male abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator
Francisco Pizarro
Led expedition that destroyed the Inca Empire
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Legislation under the Articles of Confederation that allowed for admission of new states
David Attenborough
Life On Earth - 1979
An Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career, it is his two-act work Pagliacci (1892) that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success. His other well-known work is the song "*Mattinata*", popularized by its dedicated tenor Enrico Caruso
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858-1919)
Heath - reform of local government
Local Government Act
At the end of his life, this author placed his talents in the hands of Communist leader, Mao Zedong
Lu Xun
Robert Koch
Made key discoveries in public health. "discovered" infectious disease.
Massachusetts Bay
Main colony founded by Puritans
Stormont suspended
March 1972 - direct rule
The Winter of discontent end
March 1979 = average wage increase of 10% - devastated public mood
Anti-poll tax demonstration
March 1990 - 200k
Invasion of Iraq
March 2003
Hartford Convention
Meeting of Federalists to oppose the War of 1812. Contributed to the decline of their party after the war.
Pennsylvania
Middle colony founded as refuge for Quakers
Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo
Owner of Harrods
Mohammed Al Fayed
Largest Land Empire in History
Mongols
Temperance
Movement to convince people to stop drinking alcohol.
1526-1658:
Muhgal Golden Age
Sufi-
Mystical trend in Islam characterized by values, ritual practices, doctrines, and institutions
direct rule
NI ruled from London rather than having own separate parliament
The once and future speaker, Dem from California
Nancy Pelosi
Chiang Kai Chek
Nationalist leader whose regime was unsuccessful because he was a corrupt leader. Was led to Taiwan when defeated along with his followers
three sisters
Native American term for corn, beans, and squash grown together
Rhode Island
New England colony that allowed freedom of religion
Whigs
New name for National Republican Party to show opposition to Jackson.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. former governor of South Carolina.
Nikki Haley
James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son
NUM - demand pay rise
November 1973
Birmingham pub bomb
November 1974 = kills 19
HMS Fearless
October 1968
St. Augustine, FL.
Oldest continually inhabited European settlement in North America
Grand Trunk Express-
Oldest train, travels nearly the length of the country
Protective Tariffs
Part of the American System wanting high tariffs on foreign goods
Jomon Period
People lived in pit houses from about 8000 BCE, with larger settlements developin gby 4000 - 3000 BCE. By 2000 BCE there were significantly large communities featuring communal langhouses and communal storehouses in central and norther Honshu
Aztec
Peoples centered in Tenochtitlan, present day Mexico City
Maya
Peoples who occupied the Yucatan Peninsula
Jeannie with the light brown hair
S. Foster (also N. Rorem)
Governor of Wisconsin. Famously fueded with Unions, leading to a recall. Became the U.S. only Governor to ever survive a recall election ever. Emboldened, ran for pres in 2016. Was leading in the polls before Trump happened in 2016. Predicted that the wide field would lead to a Trump win, stepped down, and asked the others to do the same and coalesce around 1 man. They didn't.
Scott Walker
Scottish Devolution of Power
Scottish Parliament has power to tax raises, control NHS and schooling
Devolution in Scotland
Scottish parliament has power to set tax raises, control NHS and schools
1957-1979 5 incidents at nuclear power station
Sellafield on the Cumbrian coast
Lewis & Clark
Sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory
Townshend Acts/Duties
Series of taxes on tea, paint, glass, lead, etc.
Zenger case
Set a precedent for freedom of press/ speech in the English American colonies
Precedent
Setting an example for others to follow
Catherine Beecher
She argued for education for women
Dorothea Dix
She worked to gain more humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Taj Mahal-
Sher Jahan built this for his dead wife
Shikoku
Shikoku
Postmodernism
Skeptical about the power of language (either through disillusionment (cynicism) or the understanding of the potential for language to be wielded as a destructive force (deconstruction?)) Substitute play, montage, the leveling of high and low culture, indeterminacy, breakdown of "the fourth wall" and verisimilitude, pointing to subjective authorial presence, audience presence, etc.
1990s asylum seekers from where?
Somalia - Mo Farah
Akbar:
Son of Humayun. Ruled (1556-1605), he vastly expanded the Empire to cover nearly all of the subcontinent, he was violent, yet religiously tolerant and fostered discussions about different religions, known as a great emperor, third ruler
Obama nomination for the Supreme Court. First Hispanic on the Supreme Court
Sonia Sotamayor
Embattled Secretary of Agriculture
Sonny Perdue
conquistadors
Spanish term meaning "conquerors"
Black Beauties-
Steam engines that are slowly fading out due to economic pressure (not as many)
A minor Italian composer active in the 1890s and early 20th century whose fame rests exclusively on his collection 36 Arie di Stile Antico. - songs that reveal a perfect mastery of vocal technique and a deeply sensuous and elegant melodic vein, making them a worthy testimony of that particular variant of Art Nouveau spirit known in Italy as Stile Liberty. (O del Mio Amato Ben)
Stefano Donaudy (1879 - 1925)
House Minority Whip. By air date, the likely House Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer (who, despite holding high profile leadership positions continuously since the start of the Iraq war, is still probably in the 250k range still. How the **** is he so invisible?)
Pueblos
Structures built of adobe in the southwest
Charles Darwin
Studied evolution and the theory of natural selection
Patriots/Whigs
Supporters of the revolution (2 names)
Loyalists/Tories
Supports of the King/Britain (2 names)
Emancipation Act of 1833:
Supposed to abolish slavery in British colonies, worked in some colonies but not in India o
Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court case that established the power of judicial review
Grandfather founded Washington University
T.S. Eliot
responded to the prevalent sense of devastation after the first world war, and was the high-water mark of modernism
T.S. Eliot , Wasteland
Asian-American senator from Illinois. First disabled woman to make the Senate (lost both legs in **Afghanistan**? and the first senator to give birth while in office
Tammy Duckworth
Personal Radios
Target audience
Stealth taxes
Taxes on cigarettes, fuel, alcohol, creates problems with the countryside
Enumerated Commodities
Term for goods that could only be traded with Britain
"Mudslinging"
Term for negative attacks on candidates during elections
"Favorite Sons"
Term for regional candidates in the 1824 election
Nativism
Term: Anti-immigrant feelings
Shang Dynasty
The Chinese dynasty that rose to power due to bronze metalurgy, war chariots, and a vast network of walled towns whose recognized this dynasty as the superior. Oracle bones became the earliest form of Chinese writing.
Neo-Confucianism
The Confucian response to Buddhism by taking Confucian and Buddhist beliefs and combining them into this. However, it is still very much Confucian in belief.
Alexander Hamilton
The Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, establishing a national bank, and taxation system. Negotiated trade deals with Great Britain.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Headstrong Historian
Anton Chekhov
The Lady with the Dog, Gooseberries
Hotpoint washing machine
The Liberator
France
The Louisiana Territory was purchased from this nation.
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Doris Lessing
The Old Chief Mshlanga
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
Adrian Mole spoof of Major
The Secret Diary of John Major aged 47 and three-quarters
Vladimir Nabokov
The Vane Sisters
a poem containing s series of oblique allusions to the legend of a knight passing trials in a Chapel Perilous, and healing a Fisher King by asking the right questions about the Grail. Implying that modern society might be redeemed if its inhabitants learned to ask the right questions (or ask).
The Wasteland, Eliot
Mandate of Heaven
The Zhou dynasty claimed this principle gave them the right to rule
The Discovery of India (Jawaharial Nehru-first prime minister of India)-
The book talks about the cultural heritage of India, its history and philosophy seen through eyes of a patriot fighting for independence
Golden Horde -
The fierce Mongol armies of Genghis Khan that swept out of Central Asia
Tang Dynasty
The imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907, with its capital at Chang'an (present-day Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to, or surpassing that of, the earlier Han Dynasty—a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Its territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, was greater than that of the Han period
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The longest serving US President and deal with the crisis and oversaw the US entry into the Second World War. The Great Depression
Taiping Rebellion
The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Silk Road
The most famous overland trade route that has ever existed; goods, and ideas (including Religions) traveled along the Silk Road
At the very end of the poem, Prufrock claims "I have seen them riding seaward on the waves/ Combing the white hair of the waves blown back. . ." To whom does he refer?
The singing mermaids
Warring States Period
The time in which the Zhou emperors had little power and local aristocrats fought for supremacy.
How is the revolutionary rhetoric is demonized by the complacent population, and how do the people refuse to embrace modernity "medicine"?
The way the person convicted by the crowd for treason has his fate linked to the sick child. Certainly, the scene in the graveyard at the end is evocative of feelings, and leaves the reader perplexed at the futility of Chinese people to wake up to their situation and relinquish tradition.
arlow gets to the departure point where he stays for some weeks before going inland to connect with his boat. What "work" was going on at this outpost?
The workers were blasting a railroad through a mountain.
Mercantilism (unit 2)
Theory that colonies served the mother country economically.
Alien Acts
These laws allowed the president to deport immigrants he deemed "dangerous".
2nd National Bank
Third major part of the American System
Albert Gallatin
This Secretary of the Treasury pursued Jefferson's policies to reduce taxes and government spending.
Tadeusz Borowski
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Forbidden City
This city was the emperor's palace and was located inside the capital city of Beijing. Considered the heart of the empire; political and ritual center
X, Y, Z Affair
This diplomatic incident led to the undeclared naval "Quasi-War".
Treaty of Tordesilla
This divided New World claims between Catholic Spain and Portugal
Gag Rule
This kept Congress from debating slavery.
Naturalization Act
This law increased the time to become a citizen.
Sedition Act
This law made it illegal to criticize the government.
Mao Zedong
This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life.
Sir Isaac Newton
This scientist Devised principles to explain universal gravitation, that all matter attracts other matter.
"The American Crisis"
Thomas Paine's morale boost to the patriot cause after early defeats.
guns, germs, and steel
Three things that aided Europeans in conquering the New World
Democrat from virginia who ran as Clinton's VP candidate in 2016
Tim Kaine
The lady who replaced Al Franken after Franken was a perv
Tina Smith
Up and coming GoP star from Arkansas. Took Elizabeth Warren's law class at Harvard Law before a few tours of Duty in Afghanistan
Tom Cotton
Governor of Pennsylvania. Here's a hint, he's not famous outside of QB for a reason
Tom Wolfe
Columbian Exchange
Transfer of plants and animals between the New and Old World
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Treaty reducing naval forces on the Great Lakes
Treaty of Paris, 1763
Treaty that ended the French & Indian War
British-American Convention
Treaty that established the northern boundary of the Louisiana Territory with British Canada.
Adams-Onis Treaty
Treaty that purchased Florida from Spain.
Jay Treaty
Treaty with Britain that avoided war but failed to stop impressment of U.S. sailors.
Pinckney Treaty
Treaty with Spain allowed free navigation of the Mississippi River and right of deposit of goods in New Orleans.
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Turning point battle. Caused British forces to withdraw to VA before final defeat.
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point victory led to open aid from France.
Germany, Ireland
Two nations contributing the most pre-Civil War (antebellum) immigrants
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
Two organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention
Monroe Doctrine
U.S. would remain neutral but also expect no European intervention in the western hemisphere.
Loyalist paramilitary
UDA, UVF
George Bush Jr.
US President 2000-2008. President during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he subsequently led a US invasion of Iraq.
Barack Obama
US President 2008-2016. Obama was the first black President and elected on a tide of optimism.
Ronald Reagan
US president 1980-88 - aggressive anti-Communist foreign policy.
John F. Kennedy
Us president 1960 diffusing the Cuban missile crisis and the threat of nuclear war.
missions
Used by the Spanish to convert natives to Christianity
John C. Calhoun
Vice president who wrote the S.C. Protest and Exposition against protective tariffs
Battles of Trenton and Princeton
Victories helped preserve the Continental Army after early defeats.
One of the most important composers of Italian opera in his time. His abilities and talent earned him the admiration of other composers, including Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt, and even Wagner, and his flowing, exquisitely sculpted vocal lines represent the epitome of the *bel canto* ideal. (Vaga Luna)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Per Te
Walter Afanasieff
Opium War
War between Britain and the Qing Dynasty that was, in the British view, started by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of drugs into its territories.
Proclamation of Neutrality
Washington issued this statement that the U.S. would not ally/take sides with other nations.
Political Parties
Washington's Farewell Address warned against the formation of these, especially based on "geographical discriminations".
Devolution in Wales
Welsh Assembly est. not as much power in Wales as there was in Scotland
Welsh Devolution of Power
Welsh Assembly, not as much power as in Scotland
Sino Japanese War
When Japan drove the Chinese out of Korea, destroyed the Chinese navy, and gained a foothold to Manchuria and Taiwan
Shi'ites-
When Muhammad died in 632, there were disputes over who should rule (something there should be consensus others thought it should go to the descendants) Abu Bakr became was the one to rule next, he was Muhammad's trusted aide, but many thought it should have gone to Ali (Muhammad's cousin and son in law who eventually obtained the throne). Those who believed Ali should have been the next successors are Shi'ites (contraction of Shiat Ali), they are followers of Ali.
1850-
When first railway was laid down
A 'wet' in Thatcher's cabinet in first term
Willie Whitelaw Home Secretary
'kitchen cabinet'
Wilson
who had the 'kitchen cabinet'?
Wilson
*Austrian* Classical musician *Child prodigy* Viennese composer Range Haydn's Praise Patron situation Operas (Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and the Magic Flute) 41 Symphonies including #40 (Galvor) and #41 (Jupiter) Concerti Chamber and solo music Requiem Mass - mass for the dead (requiem = remember) (Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio - Diana Damrau) (Abendimpfung)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wealth of the Nations (Adam Smith-Scottish philosopher, economist, and author)-
World's first collected book about what builds nations' wealth. Considered first modern work of economics. (1776)
Federalist Papers
Written to support the passage of the constitution
John Dickinson
Wrote Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer against Townsend Duties
Young British Artists
YBA - Damian Hirst
"I cannot write what is commonly known as the memorials of the times and i have no intention of attempting it, because there seems at present no such concentration of subject matter, I only write some of the little things between men and women"
Zhang Ailing
A 2007 film, Lust, Caution, by director Ang Lee is based on a short story written by
Zhang Ailing
In 1955 she moved to the United States for a position at Berkeley—sadly, by the time she died, forty years later, she was destitute and unknown.
Zhang Ailing
This author had an Opium smoking father, and a mother who left to France to study.
Zhang Ailing
left her native Shanghai when WWII broke out in 1941, then returned to Shanghai when Hong Kong fell to the Japanese
Zhang Ailing (1920-1995)
'ladette'
Zoe Ball - talked openly about sex and drinking in the same way as men
isolationism
a category of foreign policies institutionalized by leaders who believed that their nations' best interests were best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance
Delhi Sultanate-
a foreign dynasty reigning India for 320 years. Period characterized by rulers fighting over power, which lead to reigns being very short. Immediate predecessor to Mughal Empire--good Hindu-Muslim relations
Buddhism
a religion or philosophy, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment.
Katakana
a syllabic script originally developed by Buddhist monks and used primarily by men. Since the early 20th century Katakana is used mostly to write foreign names and loan words.
Kanji
a system of Japanese writing used Chinese characters
Great wall of China
almost completely rebuilt by the Ming Dynasty. The tall and wide brick walls that are still standing today were built by the Ming. Signaled that China was turning away from trade and towards being isolated from the world.
Alessandro Volta
an Italian scientist who developed the first battery around 1800
Stephen Hawking
an author/scientist stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease whose research indicates that black holes can lose mass over time
détente
an easing of hostility between nations
Capitalism-
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
RAB's close links with
appeasement
-san
applied to anyone but yourself
-kun
applied to young boys
-chan
applied to young girls
What brought about winter of discontent?
autumn 1978 TUC rejected Labour gov's proposed wage increase limit of 5% = encouraged TU's to put in higher demands
Mercantilsim-
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
"Coffrees"
black slaves acquired by slave trade of the British
TV = leisure time
by 1969 = 23%
New Commonwealth immigrants
by 1974 = over 1mil
IMF demand - Callaghan
by 1976 - reduced spending by £3 billion
Friedrich Nietzsche
challenges the kinds of attributes of Christianity that he believes has the human denying the fullest parts of his potential—attributes of meekness and self denial that allow people to welcome suffering in expectation of greater rewards in another life. Rails against "the herd." Sees much of this Christian ideology as in service to the powerful who exploit the weak, the meek.
Famine Code-
classified food scarcity on scale of intensity and steps the government take to help reduce risk of famine.
1960 Labour Party Conference
climax - attempt to undermine Gaitskell/impose unilateralism
Clause 4
commitment to socialism
Key Pledges
cuts in NHS, cut class sizes, no rise in income tax
1964 balance of payments
deficit of over £800 million
James Maxwell
discovered electromagnetic waves; realized light was a type of electromagnetic wave
Michael Faraday
discovered that a varying magnetic field caused electricity to flow in an electric circuit
Twenty One Demands
early 1900s, Japanese presented the Chinese with an ultimatum saying that China would be a protectorate of Japan, trying to advance imperial interests into Asia
Jawaharial Nehru-
first prime minister of India
Effects of Black Wednesday
forces UK to withdraw from ERM, interest rates up from 10% to 15%, tories lose reputation for economic competencies
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
gov ordered subsidy of £34mil
National Front
growing support = concern over immigration
EEC - Commonwealth
had to sacrifice economic ties
What had happened to the previous captain of the river steamer he was to command?
he is killed by local Africans because of a dispute over a chicken.
Nara
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Goguryo
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Healey;s 1975 budget
imposed steep rises in tax and public spending cuts
growth in real wages
income kept ahead of prices
1978 Unemployment
increased - reached 1.6 million in 1978
1955 election - Eden
increased Conservative majority 17 to 60
1964 economic situation
inflation = 15% balance of payment deficit = £3bil
Wilson returning to gov
inflation = 15%/balance of payment deficit = £3 billion
1980 stagflation
inflation above 15%, unemployment above 2mil
The Waste Land
is a literary historical landmark resenting the cultural crisis before and after WWI
Criticism - social reforms
isolated achievements
Ibrahim Lodi-
leader of Delhi Sultanate when he was killed by Babur's army
linked the political crisis with the crisis of representation, a sense that the old ways of portraying the human experience were no longer adequate
literary experimentation known collectively as modernism.
2012 Olympic Bid
main focus point was multiculturalism
Rajasthan-
main weapon producing city,
Zamindar-
means landowner in persian
Palur-
means milk village
Mongol Conquests
military strategy by Ghengis Khan helped the Mongols to control most of Central Asia
1974 general election
narrow victory for Labour - hung parliament
NEETS by 2007
nearly 20%
2007 opinion poll on immigration being a vital issue
nearly 30%
Sale of private cars 1950-65
nearly quadrupled 1.5mil to 5.5mil
Protect and Survive booklets
nuclear attack advice
Metropolitan police in 1976
only 70/22k black/ethnic minority
Hiragana
originally used only by women but by the 10th century was used by everyone. Each symbol represents a syllable.
gunpowder
originally used to make bombs, rockets, and other weapons; like paper, spread to Muslim areas and then Europe
Immigrants 1960-1962
over 230,000
Yangtze River
played an important role in the history and economy of China; Largest river in China; Runs East to West in Eastern China; the Grand Canal is connected to it
'sus law'
police given authority to stop and search
Edmund Burke-
political theorist, philosopher, served as a member of parliament, instrumental in trial of Hastings.
Prices and Incomes Board
power to regulate pay settlements - Frank Cousins resigned (minister of technology)
Naturally she talked, since she lacked neither the ability to converse nor topics to discuss. But the words that a woman uttered when drunk were like being...
pregnant, mere words on her lips which had nothing to do with the secret core that seemed like a pregnancy
Effects of abolishing clause 4
problems with grass roots but attracts more middle class supporters
Himalaya Mountains
protected China from invaders; allowed for isolation
irrigation systems
pumps and other water controlled devices
Jenkins as CofE
raised taxes/tightened gov spending - top priority = improve balance of payments
School leaving age
raised to 16 - Heath
Yom Kippur War and strained relations with USA
refused to let USA use NATO bases to airlift supplies to Israel
unilateral nuclear disarmament
renouncing the use and possession of nuclear weapons without waiting for any international consultation or agreement
Wilson's aim in 1964
reorganise economy = break out of stop-go cycle
IMF 1976
require spending cuts
Wilson bevanite
resigned in 1950 over prescription charges
'Reclaim the Night'
response to murders of the Yorkshire Ripper
The Salmon Report
riots = law-and-order issue
unemployment in 1991
rises to 2.5million
number of NEETs by 2007
rose 20%
RAB's 'give away' budget
run up to 1955 election - £134 mil middle-class tax cuts
Benjamin Franklin
scientist who discovered electricity, the Franklin stove, and bifocals.
1964 general election
slim majority
Roads and Canals
started during the Sui Dynasty, helped Tang Dynasty Reunify China
women's pay 2007
still only earned 87% of what men did
wildcat strikes
sudden and unofficial
Anglo-French partnership continued to develop what in the 1960s?
supersonic Concorde aircraft
'Cones Hotline'
target of satire
April 1959 budget
tax cuts of £370 million
Queen agreed to do what in the 1990s?
tax on her private income and reduce civil list
Confucianism
the philosophy and teaching of Confucius stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
Globalization-
the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
Craving and Desire
the two things that CAUSE the suffering (according to Buddha)
Gazi:
warrior in Islam. Following his victory against the Rajputs, Babur declared himself a Gazi.
Antoine Lavoisier
"Father of modern chemistry."
James Madison
"Father of the Constitution"
Kafka's famous quote about literature
"Literature is an ax for the frozen sea inside me."
This story brings together symbolism of cannibalism, with a theme of clinging to customs that have become empty and meaningless gestures.
"Medicine"
This story is a vision of an alternate reality that occurs during an air raid drill in the city. The story is highly sensitive to the urban atmosphere, which is evident in the opening meditation on the movements of the tram car. The focus of the story moves from person to person on the car, settling finally on one couple, and offering a glimpse of how people might behave, or at least think, differently when the normal routine of life is suspended.
"Sealed off" by Zhang Ailing
What is the name of the first and exquisitely expressed TED talk given by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie?
"The danger of a single story." Were one to read only this book (Heart of Darkness) as a depiction of the continent, one would have a very limited, perverse image indeed. But taken as a part of modern African history—of a continent that has been ravaged by the grasping profiteers of colonialism, we may see it as a story that assists a full understanding.
Tatemei
"built in front" contrast between how a person's true feelings na desires and the behaviors and opinions one displays in public.
James Polk
(11) 1845-1849 He is the only President to have served as Speaker of the House. He was the first "dark horse" or little-known nominee to become President. He presided over the Mexican War, which added Texas, California, and other territory to the United States.
Zachary Taylor
(12) 1849-1850 He won fame as a general in the Mexican War. His soldiers called him "Old Rough and Ready." He threatened to use force to keep the South from leaving the Union. After his death, a compromise allowed slavery to continue in the South.
Millard Fillmore
(13) 1850-1853 He approved the Compromise of 1850, allowing slavery in the South. But neither the North nor the South was happy with it, and he was blamed for the law's failure.
Franklin Pierce
(14) 1853-1857 His wife hated Washington, D.C., so much, that she fainted when she found out he had been nominated for President.
James Buchanan
(15) 1857-1861 He was the only bachelor to ever serve in the White House. He tried in vain to find a compromise to keep the South from seceding from the Union, but failed.
Abraham Lincoln
(16) 1861-1865 He led the Union into the Civil War to preserve the nation and end slavery. He was assassinated just five days after the Confederate armies surrendered. Polls show that he is the most admired President
Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911 CE), the last imperial dynasty of China which was overthrown by revolutionaries; was ruled by the Manchu people: began to isolate themselves from Western culture
Johann Pachelbel
(1653-1706) German Baroque composer Canon Gigue in D
Antonio Vivaldi
(1678 - 1741) Italian Baroque composer and priest; "Master of the Concerto;" The Four Seasons Gloria (Opera)
George Frideric Handel
(1685-1759) German Baroque composer. Wrote many operas. Messiah Water Music Music for the Royal Fireworks Rinaldo (Opera) Giulio Cesare (Opera) Serse (Opera)
Andrew Johnson
(17) 1865-1869 Succeeding Lincoln, Johnson found himself in bitter battles with Congress over Reconstruction. He was impeached and tried by the Senate, but was acquitted by one vote. He was the only southern senator to stay loyal to the Union.
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827) German Classical-Romantic composer. Für Elise Symphony No. 5 Piano Sonatas Fidelio (Only Opera)
Niccolo Paganini
(1782-1840) Italian virtuoso violinist. 24 caprices Grand Sonatas
Giacomo Meyerbeer
(1791-1864) German composer famous for Opera. Robert Le Disable - model for grand opera. Les Huguenots (Opera)
Gioachino Rossini
(1792-1868) Italian master of "bel canto." Operas: The Italian Girl in Algiers Cinderella William Tell Barber of Seville The Thieving Magpie Tancredi
Ulysses S. Grant
(18) 1869-1877 He was the top Union military hero of the Civil War. His two terms were marred by scandals. His name was changed due to an error on his application. He liked his initials so much that he kept that name
Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847) German Romantic composer. Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream Wedding March The Marriage of the Camacho Italian Symphony Scottish Symphony Violin Concerto String Octet
Robert Schumann
(1810-1856) German Romantic composer. Tried to drown himself in the Rhine. Husband of Clara. Toccata in C Fantasiestücke In der Nacht Symphony Etudes
Richard Wagner
(1813-1883) German composer, mostly known for his operas. Was also anti-Semitic and a favorite of Hitler. Bridal Chorus The Flying Dutchman (Opera) The Valkyries (Opera) Siegfried
Clara Schumann
(1819-1896) German Romantic composer. Wife of Robert. Piano Concerto Piano Trio in G Minor Drei Romanzen
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897) German Romantic composer, and wrote many piano pieces. Lullaby Hungarian Dances German Requiem Tragic Overture
Giacomo Puccini
(1858-1924) Italian Romantic period composer of operas. Known for the "verismo" style of realism in operatic writing. La Boheme (Opera) Tosca (Opera) Madame Butterfly (Opera)
Richard Strauss
(1864-1949): German Post-Romantic composer. Also Sprach Zarathustra Don Quixote Capriccio Der Rosenkavalier (Opera) Salome (Opera)
Franz Kafka
(1883-1924) Born and lived in Czechoslovakia as a German speaking Jew. Not a Czech speaker (alienating him from some Czechs). Not a Yiddish speaker (which alienated him from some Jews). Not religious, per se.
Rutherford Hayes
(19) 1877-1881 He is one of only three Presidents to lose the popular vote but win the office. He won the election by one electoral vote. His wife, Lucy, was the first First Lady to graduate from college.
Korean War
(1950-3) A conflict between UN forces (primarily US and S Korea) against North Korea, and later China; Resulted in Korea remaining divided at the 38th parallel.
Han Dynasty
(202 BC - 220 AD) dynasty started by Lui Bang; a great and long-lasting rule, it discarded the harsh policies of the Qin dynasty and adopted Confucian principles; their rulers chose officials who passed the civil service exams rather than birth; it was a time of prosperity
Chester Arthur
(21) 1881-1885 He was unknown before being elected, but surprised people by being honest and responsible. He helped create the Civil Service. As a lawyer, he defended a black woman who had been abused on a streetcar. He won the case, which led the streetcar companies to integrate.
Grover Cleveland
(22) 1885-1889 He is the only President to be elected to two non-consecutive terms. He expanded the Civil Service and ended wasteful government programs. But an economic depression wrecked his second term
Benjamin Harrison
(23) 1889-1893 He was caught between reformers who were fighting the spoils system and those who wanted to continue it, and was defeated after one term. His grandfather was President William Henry Harrison.
Grover Cleveland
(24) 1893-1897 He is the only President to be elected to two non-consecutive terms. He expanded the Civil Service and ended wasteful government programs. But an economic depression wrecked his second term
William McKinley
(25) 1897-1901 He led the United States during the Spanish-American War. The United States won several important overseas colonies. Only moments after handing a girl his "lucky" red carnation, he was assassinated
Theodore Roosevelt
(26) 1901-1909 He was one of the most activist Presidents. His many accomplishments included the building of the Panama Canal, cracking down on business monopolies, and creating many national parks. He was the first President to visit a foreign country while in office.
William Howard Taft
(27) 1909-1913 He continued many of Roosevelt's policies. A conservative, he alienated the progressive wing of his party and lost reelection. He is the only President who became a Supreme Court Justice.
Woodrow Wilson
(28) 1913-1921 After initially opposing World War I (1914-1918), He led the United States into the war and drafted the peace plan that ended it. Wilson then fought to create the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations. He was the first President to hold a news conference.
Warren G. Harding
(29) 1921-1923 He died in office, just as massive corruption in the Teapot Dome scandal was about to become public. Harding's election was the first in which women voted.
Thomas Jefferson
(3) 1801-1809 Considered the most brilliant president who wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was an architect, farmer and scientist
Calvin Coolidge
(30) 1923-1929 His term was marked by economic prosperity. However, he ignored signs that the stock market was likely to collapse.
Kofun Period
(300 CE- 538 CE) the Kofun period is marked by large waves of migration from the Korean peninsula, bringing in more advanced technologies and Chinese script. "Japan" became more or less united under a largely Korean aristocracy.
Yayoi Period
(300BCE- 300 CE) The Yayoi Period reflects increasing interactions with Korea, accompanied by the introduction of wet rice culture, bronze and other facets of Korean and Chinese civilization.
Herbert Hoover
(31) 1929-1933 The stock market crashed a few months into his term. The Great Depression that followed was widely and some say unfairly blamed on him.
Franklin Roosevelt
(32) 1933-1945 He led the nation during the Great Depression of the 1930s and to victory in World War II (1941-1945). He also greatly expanded the size and role of the federal government through his New Deal social programs. He is the only President elected four times.
Harry S. Truman
(33) 1945-1953 He made the fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. World War II ended days later. Truman also led the United States during the Korean War (1950-1953).
John F. Kennedy
(35) 1961-1963 In 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union hovered on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He eventually forced the Soviets to back down. He was assassinated in the third year of his term
Lyndon B. Johnson
(36) 1963-1969 He passed sweeping antipoverty and civil rights programs. However, he also involved the United States in the unpopular Vietnam War. Antiwar protests caused him to drop a reelection bid. He was sworn into office on an airplane after the Kennedy assassination.
Gerald Ford
(38) 1974-1977 He became Vice President after Nixon's Vice President resigned in disgrace, and President after Nixon resigned. His pardon of Nixon was unpopular, probably costing him reelection. He is the only President never elected President or Vice President.
James Carter
(39) 1977-1981 He had success promoting Middle East peace. But soaring oil prices, high inflation, and the Iran hostage crisis made him look weak and ineffectual. Since leaving office, he has traveled the world doing charity work.
Ronald Reagan
(40) 1981-1989 He is credited with reviving national pride after the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. He enjoyed great popularity, though his conservative policies were controversial. He is the only President to survive after being wounded by a would-be assassin.
George H. W. Bush
(41) 1989-1993 During his term, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended. He also led the United States in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. But economic troubles at home cost him his reelection bid. He was the first sitting Vice President to be elected President since Martin Van Buren.
George W. Bush
(43) 2001-2009 Just eight months after being sworn in, President had to unite a mournful country after the September 11th terrorist attacks. A self-proclaimed wartime commander-in-chief, like his father, led the United States into war against Iraq.
Barack Obama
(44) 2009-2017 He gained national recognition after he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. He served as the U.S. Senator for Illinois from 2005 to 2008. He is the first African American president of the United States.
Donald Trump
(45) 2017 - Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.
James Monroe
(5) 1817-1825 He lived out his retirement in poverty. His term is called the "Era of Good Feeling" because there was little partisan fighting. He formulated the ***** Doctrine, which declared the Americas off-limits to European meddling.
Sui Dynasty
(589-618 CE) The Chinese dynasty that imposed tight political discipline; this dynasty built the Grand Canal which helped transport the rice in the south to the north.
John Quincy Adams
(6) 1825-1829 He and John Quincy Adams were the first father and son to have served as Presidents. Accused of winning the White House through corruption, he was plagued by accusations of misdeeds throughout his presidency.
Andrew Jackson
(7) 1829-1837 He was the first President to ride on a train. Though he was a rich planter, he was considered the common people's friend. Dubbed "Old Hickory" because he was so tough, he greatly expanded the powers of the Presidency.
Nara Period
(710-784 CE) Established of major capital city based on Chinese model. Official use of writing on a large scale to produce works of history and literature. Imperial institution at apex of a ranked bureaucracy. An aristocracy grounded in law and based on wealth. Emerging syncretic royal political ideology.
Martin Van Buren
(8) 1837-1841 He was the first President to be born an American citizen, rather than a British subject. His Presidency was marred by an economic depression that led to bank failures and food riots. He was easily defeated for reelection.
William Henry Harrison
(9) 1841 He delivered a marathon inaugural speech during which he caught a cold. He died a month later. He was the first President to die in office and he served the briefest term.
"Life was like the Bible"
(zhang Ailing)-in the fact of being translated through so many languages, is a very stimulating way to express an idea.
Comprehensive students by 1964
1 in 10 (10x as many as 1951)
2 Reasons Buddhism Spread
1) Spread by traders and merchants along the Silk Road 2) Emperors gave money to have temples and statues built which lead to more people being able to practice Buddhism
1950s people leaving Britain
1.32 million
22 January 1979 strike
1.5mil workers striked
Unemployment mid-1991 to early 1992
1.6-2.6mil
Houses 1951-1964
1.7mil houses - 60% private dwellings
1965 North London survey
1/5 objected to working with black/asians
Average pay increase achieved after winter of discontent
10%
1959 survey teenagers
10% of population
Blair's babes
101 female MPs
# of working days lost since 1951 due to strikes
11 million
Comprehensive schools by 1970
1145
Comprehensives by 1970
1145
New road built 1957 - 62
1200 miles
Northern Ireland 1972
1382 explosions, 480 killed
Humayun
1530-1556
Abkar
1556-1605
Baroque
1600-1750 Orchestral music with one melodic idea. Very ornamented style of music.
Shah Jahan
1628 to 1658
Aurangzeb
1658-1707
Marathas (Maratha Empire)-
1674 to 1818, ruled over much of subcontinent, credited with helping end the Mughal Empire
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the US from 1861-1865. He led the Union forces during the American civil war. He led the north to victory preserving the Union and passing a bill to abolish legal slavery. HONEST ABE
Interest rates raised to what in 1979?
17%
Classical
1750-1820 Less complicated than Baroque music. Larger emphasis on beauty and elegance. More musical variety than baroque.
Beginning of rule of BEIC in India (started by Battle of Palashi)
1757
Dates of BEIC
1757-1858
New Age-
17th century, part of its name due to innovative ideas from the Mughal Empire, however, during that time, the Mughals were in decline as well. (Wealth of Empire's cities attracted international trade Government and army operations were based upon revenue from Indian agriculture. This is why the seventeenth century was called "New Age")
Self Strengthening Movement
1861-1895, was a period of institutional reforms initiated during the late Qing Dynasty following a series of military defeats and concessions to foreign powers
Labour ending support for closed shop union agreements
1898
Boxer Rebellion
1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a The Society of Harmonious Fists who opposed the "foreign devils" and attempted to drive all foreigners our of China
Twentieth Century
1900-2000 Extreme contrast in dynamics and pitch. Very different rhythm and melody.
Irish War of Independence
1919-1921
Withdrawal from India
1947
Attlee devaluation
1949
Attlee devalued pound
1949
NATO
1949
Decline of older indusrtries (i.e Shipbuilding)
1950- 37% of share 1974-3.7% share
Th Korean War
1950-53 - sent over 90k soldiers = 1k died
Bevanite Quarrel
1951
Burgess & McClean Affair
1951
Winston Churchill
1951-55
Britain's first atomic bomb tested
1952
Kenya violence
1952-60 = 13k native Kenyans and 100 europeans killed
Steel and transport denationalised
1953
League of Empire Loyalists
1954
Rationing ends
1954
ITV
1955
Vietnam War began
1955
Anthony Eden
1955-57
Suez Crisis
1956
Anti-War Rally, Trafalgar Square
1956 - Bevan spoke to 30k protestors
TGWU leader
1956 - Frank Cousins
EEC est.
1957
Ghana independence
1957
H bomb tested
1957
Independence of Ghana and Malaya
1957
Rent Act
1957
White Defence League
1957
Households with washing machines
1957 - 1959 = rose by 54%
Households with refrigerator
1957 - 1959 = rose by 58%
Harold Macmillan
1957-63
CND formation
1958
Aldermaston to Berkshire
1958 - c. 8k people
Notting Hill riots
1958 - over 600 white men tried to batter their way into black-owned properties
CND demonstration
1958 8,000 took part
Death from abortion
1958-60 82
Obscene Publications Act
1959, learning should be exempt from censorship
The thalidomide disaster
1959-1962 - deformities
Blue Streak replaced by Polaris
1960
Coronation Street
1960
EFTA
1960
End of National Service
1960
Independence to Nigeria and Cyprus
1960
National Service ended
1960
Winds of Change Speech
1960
1st application to the EEC
1961
Berlin Wall
1961
First person in space
1961
IMF loan
1961
The Pill becomes available
1961
Cambridge Spies
1962
That Was The Week That Was - BBC
1962
A Clockwork Orange
1962 - gang violence
Silent Spring (book)
1962 - international impact = decline in wildlife in farming countryside
Night of the Long Knives
1962 1/3 of cabinet sacked
Commonwealth Immigration Act
1962 limited immigrants
1st EEC veto
1963
1st rejection to enter EEC
1963
Kenya independence
1963
The Vassall inquiry
1963
Robbins Report
1963 - extending comprehensive principles into higher education
Beeching Report
1963 - recommended massive cuts in rail network = closure of more than 30% of rail network
Fall in working hours
1963 48 to 45 a week
Betty Friedan
1963 The feminine mystique
Britannia Airways
1964
Creation of the Departmnet of Economic Affairs (DEA)
1964
Escalation of Vietnam War
1964
Independence granted to Zambia and Malawi
1964
Riots between mods and rockers
1964
Start of Rhodesia crisis
1964
The Sun
1964
Top of the Pops
1964
The Notting Hill Carnival
1964 (annual event)
National Plan
1964 - 1967
1st Notting Hill Carnival
1965
Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
1965
Radio Caroline est.
1965
UDI
1965 - not accepting majority rule
National Viewers' and Listeners' Association
1965 - soon had 100k members
The Post Office Tower
1965 - tallest building in Britain = improve telecommunication
Race Relations Acts
1965 and 1968
Failure of the DEA
1966
National Union of Seamen
1966
Peace meetings with Ian Smith onboard the HMS Tiger
1966
Tony Benn - minister of technology
1966
Movie
1966 - Alfie
The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign
1966 - VSC
Wilson-Smith 1st talk
1966 HMS Tiger
Seamen & Dockers strike
1966 causes the sterling crisis
'Pound in your pocket' faux pas
1967
2nd EEC rejection
1967
2nd rejection from EEC
1967
BBC Radio One
1967
BBC Radio1 est.
1967
Radio 1
1967
Sexual Offences Act
1967
Sexual Offenses Act
1967
Withdrawal East of Suez
1967
Devaluation
1967 - $2.80 to $2.40 -> overestimated seriousness = private sector in substantial profit
Abortion Act
1967 - 4% per 100 live births (1968) 17.6% (1975)
Wilson and George Brown meet de Gaulle
1967 - Paris
War in Middle East
1967 - affected oil supplies
The Dangerous Drugs Act
1967 = 1970 max sentence increased to 14 years
Devaluation of the pound
1967 dropped by 14%
Dangerous Drugs Act
1967 unlawful to possess drugs like cocaine or cannabis
IMF loan #2
1967 £1 billion
Civil Rights Marches in NI against RUC
1968
Hungarian rising crushed by USSR
1968
Peace meeting with IS & HW onboard the HMS Fearless
1968
Theaters Act
1968
Theatres Act
1968
Hair
1968 - 13 naked
Battle of Grosvenor Square
1968 - 200 arrested
Wilson-Smith 2nd talk
1968 - HMS Fearless
Enoch Powell
1968 - sacked from shadow cabinet by Heath
'Rivers of blood'
1968 - warned against further immigration
Anti-Vietnam Protests in Grosvenor Sq
1968 200 arrested
enoch powell
1968 rivers of blood
Wootton Report
1968 suggested legalisation of soft drugs - rejected
Abolition of death penalty
1969
Balance surplus
1969
Battle of Bogside
1969
British troops to NI
1969
First man on the moon
1969
Inauguration of Open Universities
1969
Divorce Reform Act
1969 - 1950 = fewer than 2 per 1000, mid 1970s = nearly 10 per 1000
Friends of the Earth
1969 - US and then expanded
The Open University
1969 - by 1980 had 70k
In Place of Strife
1969 28 day cool-off / failed due to lack of support
Barber Budget
1970
Disruption to Miss World Contest
1970
Equal Pay Act
1970
Initial Women's Liberation meeting
1970
Matrimonial Property Act
1970
Germaine Greer
1970 The Female Eunuch
Edward Heath
1970-74
Decimalisation of the £
1971
Immigration Act
1971
Industrial Relations Act
1971
International Institute for Environment & Development est
1971
Open University started teaching
1971
Rolls-Royce nationalised
1971
The Pill available on NHS
1971
Women could have mortgage without men
1971
The Immigration Act
1971 (guaranteed job and at least 1 grandparent born in Britain)
Package holidays
1971 - 8.4%
Internment
1971 - august = 300
The Pill
1971 - more widespread
Sex Discrimination Act
1971 greater equality in the workplace
U-turn
1971-72 return to stop go policies, nationalisation of Rolls Royce
% of those interned Catholic
1971-75 95%
Bloody Sunday
1972 - 13 killed by British Army
Irish parliament in Dublin
1972 - 2 killed by loyalist bomb
Industry Act
1972 aimed to improve relations with TUs
3 Day Week
1973
EEC
1973
EEC acceptance!
1973
Entry into EEC
1973
Social Contract
1973 (cf 85 in big book)
OPEC oil crisis
1973 - 1980 = $2 to $35 per barrel
Yom Kippur War
1973 - US wanted to use NATO bases in Europe to airlift supplies to Israel = refused
OPEC Oil Crisis from Yom Kippur War
1973 GB refused the use of their bases
Sunningdale Agreement
1973, NI assmebly elected under proportional representation
Miners Strike
1974
Sunningdale Agreement collapses
1974
Ulster Workers' Council Strike
1974
Car journey (%)
1974 - accounted for 77%
Loyalist car bomb in Dublin
1974 - killed 26
Wilson #2
1974-76
Employment Protection Act
1975
Heath replaced by Thatcher
1975
The Employment Protection Act (pregnant)
1975
The Sexual Discrimination Act
1975
EEC Referendum
1975 68% vote yes
EEC referendum
1975 = 2:1 yes
Beagles in laboratories
1975 forced to smoke 30 cigarettes a day to study effects
Harold Wilson steps down
1976
Race Relations Act
1976
Rock Against Racism
1976
Special Category Status removed
1976
Special category status removed for IRA prisoners
1976
The Animal Liberation Front
1976
Wilson's retirement
1976
Black police officers
1976 - only 70 out of 22k
Notting Hill Carnival riot
1976 - over 300 injured
Special Category Status
1976 - removed from terrorist prisoners - no longer political = treated like criminals
National Front v popular
1976 20,000 members
Rock Against Racism concert
1976 attracts 100,000 people
First rape centre
1976 in London
IMF loan #3
1976 £3billion
Blanket Protest
1976-1978
Callaghan
1976-79
Greenpeace UK
1977
Greenpeace UK est
1977
International Women's Day by UN est
1977
'God save the Queen'
1977 - BBC refused to play it when it reached number 2
Lib-Lab pact
1977-78
Lib-Lab Pact
1977-78, conditions included devolution for Scotland and Wales
First black player picked for England football team
1978 Viv Anderson
'winter of discontent'
1978-79
Winter of Discontent
1978-79 1.6million strikers - 'crisis, what crisis?"
The winter of discontent
1978/79
Chinese leader in Britain
1979
Chinese leader visit Britain
1979
Polaris replaced with Trident
1979
USSR invade Afghanistan
1979
VAT increase
1979 8-15%
Margaret Thatcher
1979-90
Employment Act
1980
Michael Foot elected leader of Labour
1980
Secondary picketing outlawed
1980
Housing Act
1980 discount of 33-50% 'right to buy'
British Aerospace privatised
1981
First recording of AIDS in Britain
1981
Formation of the SDP
1981
SDP est
1981 - 'Gang of Four' Roy Jenkins
camp est outside Greenham Common base
1981 - remained for 19 years
Thatcher as conviction politician
1981 party conference 'you turn if you want to - the lady's not for turning.'
the Scarman Report
1981 riots caused by poverty and race
Falklands War
1982
Thatcher and feminism
1982 'I owe nothing to Women's Lib'
Hyde Park/Regent Park Bombings
1982 - 11 soldiers killed by IRA
IRA attack Hyde Park
1982 11 soldiers killed
Cruise missiles based at Greenham Common
1983
Neil Kinnock replaced Foot
1983
US invade Grenada
1983 - against advice of Thatcher
IRA attack Harrods
1983 6 people killed
14-mile human chain
1983 Greenham to Aldermaston
EEC rebate obtained by Thatcher
1984
Bhopal India
1984 - gas leak at factory killed 3k-8k
Conservative Party Conference brighton bombing
1984 5 killed 30 injured
Battle of Orgreave
1984 5000 miners v 8000 police // 50 miners & 70 police injured
rebate negotiated with EU
1984 rebate of 66% of the gap between what it paid in and what was paid back
The miners' strike
1984-85
Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR
1985
Kinnock's director of communications
1985 Peter Mandelson
Anglo-Irish Treaty
1985 UK promised to secure civil rights
Anglo-French agreement to build Channel Tunnel
1986
Lawson Boom
1986
Sale of British Gas
1986
Westland Affair
1986 - Heseltine resigns
Local Government Act
1986 - abolished big metropolitan local authorities set up under Heath
Resignation of Michael Heseltine
1986 due to Westland Affair
Single European Act
1986 establishes the European parliament and monetary union
Diana shakes hands with AIDS patient
1987
Norman Tebbit leaves government but remains involved
1987
Rolls-Royce privatised
1987
stock market crash in NYC and London
1987
John Smith Shadow chancellor of the exchequer
1987 - more reassuring image
Thatcher beats Heseltine over party leadership
1987 204 to 152 votes
Thatcher's Bruges speech
1988
Milltown cemetery attack
1988 - 3 killed at funeral of IRA member killed in Gibraltar by loyalists
Section 28
1988 - banned promotion of homosexuality by local authorities
2 off-duty soldiers killed by IRA mob
1988 - funeral of someone killed at Milltown cemetery
Fall of Berlin Wall
1989
Nigel Lawson resignation
1989
Poll tax introduced in Scotland
1989
Nigel Lawson resigns
1989 due to excessive influence of Thatcher's private economic advisor
Britain joined ERM
1990
British entry into ERM
1990
Poll Tax
1990
Thatcher's resignation
1990
Demonstrations in London due to poll tax
1990 200,000 attended
Geoffrey Howe's reignation speech
1990 helps bring down Thatcher
John Major
1990-1997
1st Gulf War
1990-91
First Gulf War
1990-91
Citizen's Charter
1991
End of Cold War
1991
The Citizen's Charter
1991 improve quality of public services - too vague
Black Wednesday
1992
Britain withdraws from ERM
1992
Windsor Castle fire
1992
council tax replaces poll tax
1992
Bookmaker's shooting
1992 - 5 Catholic civilians shot by loyalists
First female speaker in House of Commons
1992 - Betty Boothroyd
First female head of MI5
1992 - Stella Rimmington
Twyford Down M3 extension
1992 - protests
Maastricht Treaty
1992 EU bank, common defence and foreign policy, 'ever closer union'
Resignation of Niel Kinnock
1992 John Smith becomes new leader of Labour
David Mellor resigns
1992 due to affair with Spanish actress
Maastricht ratified
1993
Major and Albert Reynolds (Irish PM) went public in a joint Downing Street agreement
1993
rebellions agaisnt the Maastricht Treaty
1993
Child Support Agency est
1993 - ensure absent parents paid maintenance
One Member, One Vote introduced
1993 - moving to abolish TU block vote
Back to Basics
1993 instilling a higher moral tone in polictics and country as a whole
Coal industry privatised
1994
IRA annouce a ceasefire
1994
IRA ceasfire
1994
Ordination of women priests in CofE
1994
Privatisation of coal
1994
Rape within marriage criminal offence
1994
John Smith death
1994 - aged 55
Video Recording Act
1994 - ensured British films classification where attatched
the Scott Enquiry
1994 - investigate illegal arms dealing = gov ministers broken rules
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act
1994 - more powers to police to break up free parties
Reduction in age consent for gay men
1994 21-18
Death of John Smith
1994 Tony Blair becomes new leader
Tim Yeo resigns
1994 after affair with Tory Councillor leads to love child
Major 'back me or sack me'
1995
Rewrite of Clause IV
1995
The massacre at Srebrenica
1995 - 7k Bosnian men/boys killed = Dutch peacekeepers ordered to do nothing
Major resigns as leader and enters leadership challenge
1995 Portillo declines to run, Major easily defeats John Redwood 218 - 89
Mad cow disease
1996
Privatisation of Railways
1996
Railroads privatised
1996
'Mad Cow Disease' threat to human health
1996 - British beef banned from Europe
Cash for Questions
1996 accepting money for lobbying
Referendums
1997
Referendums on Devolution in Scotland and Wales
1997
Social Exclusion Act
1997
Social Exclusion Unit est
1997
Transfers power of changing interest rates to BoE
1997
transfers the power of changing interest rates to the BoE
1997
Diana dies
1997 'the people's princess'
Blair's Babes
1997 - 101 female MPs
1st Election
1997 - 418 seats
Blair's Downing Street Party
1997 Noel Gallagher, Vivienne Westwood
William Hague
1997-2001
Tony Blair
1997-2007
Human Rights Act
1998
Humans Right Act
1998
Minimum Wage
1998
National Minimum Wage
1998
National Minimum Wage Act
1998
Scotland Act
1998
IRA Omagh Bombing
1998 - 30 killed
Good Friday Agreement
1998 - devolution of power, release of prisoners, strengthened relations between 3 parties, referendum over denomination
Macpherson Report
1998 - inquiry into institutional racism in MET police
Blair Doctrine speech in Chicago
1999
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia led by British forces
1999
Launch of the Euro
1999 - Britain didn't join
Blair Doctrine Speech in Chicago
1999 - Liberal Intervention
GDP Growth 1971-73
2.8%p/a
Blair's 'third way' speech
2000
Equality in age of consent
2000
Foot and Mouth disease
2000 - 6 months later 3 million animals had been slaughtered
Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak
2000 - 6 months later 3mil animals slaughtered
First election mayor of London
2000 - Ken Livingstone
Freedom of Information Act
2000 - right to request info from public bodies - by 2006 over 100,000 requests made per year
Prudence with a purpose
2001
BBC chairmen spoke of his workforce
2001 'hideously white'
2nd Election
2001 - 413 seats
Sierra Leone
2001 - British gov sent armed secure the capital and help bring about end to civi war in 2002
Invasion of Afghanistan
2001 - overthrow of Taliban forces
Treaty of Nice
2001 - reforms to cope with expansion
Treaty of Nice (EU)
2001 reform of institutions to cope with expansion
Iain Duncan Smith
2001-03
Countryside Alliance March
2002 -500k people attended
Countryside Alliance march
2002 1/2 million attended
1st black cabinet minister
2002 Paul Boateng chief secretary to the Treasury
'Stop the War' March
2003 - more than 1 million
Michael Howard
2003-05
Blair argued for reform of CAP
2004
Treaty of Rome
2004
Hutton Inquiry
2004 cleared the government of any direct involvement in Kelly's death
7/7 bombings
2005
3rd Election
2005 - 355
7/7 bombing
2005 - 52 killed
Rebate renegotiated
2005 - 63% increase in cost
bid to hold 2012 Olympics
2005 key selling point = multiculturalism of London
Blair gave in over CAP reform
2006
Extension of powers to Welsh Assembly
2006
National Identity Card Act
2006
St Andrews Agreement
2006
St. Andrews Agreement
2006
Terrorist Act
2006 - increased time suspects could be held without charge to 28 days - yet fewer than the 90 days the gov wanted
Introduces university tuition fees so that UNIs could afford more spaces
2006, 3,000 pounds a year
Brown PM
2007
Northern Ireland Executive formed
2007
Treaty of Lisbon
2007
Childcare Provision
2007 - 12.5 hrs a week of free childcare education
coal industry employment 1980-1990
200k - 60k
1983 march to oppose nuclear weapons
200k marched with CND
National Front members by 1976
20k
Miner Strikes 1972
21% pay rise, 24 mil days lost
inflation 1980
21.8%
Referendum on Good Friday Agreement
22nd May 1998 - NI = 71%, RofI = 94% (Yes)
Unemployment in Liverpool 1980s
25%
Yamato Period
250 CE- 710 CE, with Yamato clan's capital moved to Asuka near Nara
The Big Bang
27th Oct 1986 - deregulated Stock Market
Miners Strikes in '72,'73,'74 cause ...
3 day week
Unemployment 1983
3 million
2001 election opinion poll on immigration being a vital issue
3%
# of bankrupcies grew betwen 1979 to 1990
3,500 to 13,900
Unemployment 1988
3.4 million
Inflation 1983
3.7%
How many of London suicide bombers were British?
3/4
Within month of war end - women employment
3/4 left work and returned home
Omagh Bombings
30 killed
Average unemployment between 1997 and 2007
5.5%
Mukden Incident
A "Chinese" attack on a Japanese railway (had actually been carried out by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese); used by Japan as an excuse to seize Manchuria
Composer/lyricist for The Light In The Piazza (perf. Aaron Lazar)
Adam Guettel
Fatehpur-
Akbar's new city/capital symbolizing/announcing that Mughal's had arrived and the city gates were guarded by elephants
Produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique -opera composer among the Second Viennese School -student of Schönberg
Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
Editor of Arie Antiche 24 Italian Songs and Arias Revival of St. Matthew's Passion in Leipzig 1829
Alessandro Parisotti (1852-1913)
Neapolitan composer, 85 operas, simpler accompaniment than Baroque rhythms supported the voice (Gia Il Sole del Gange 1680) (Javier Camarena)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Composer and Conductor -the tradition of Viennese classicism, the influence of Wagner never leading him to abandon tonality. In some measure he represented a generation of Viennese composers who were able to combine the apparently divergent tendencies of Brahms and Wagner Schoenberg's only teacher who was backed by both Brahms and Mahler
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942)
Spinsters
Alistair Campbell
Married to Gustav ... at 22 (and already pregnant with his child), Alma Schindler's composing career was cut short at her husband's insistence. Only a total of 17 songs by her survive -Original Mean Girl
Alma Mahler (1879 - 1864)
Jonas Salk
American scientist who developed the first vaccine against polio in 1952.
Ryotwari:
An agricultural collection system where crops are harvested for profit
Qandahar:
An important Persian fort that Humayun took in 1545 and with Persian assistance took Kabul from his brother
Governor of New York
Andrew Cuomo
Second Great Awakening
Antebellum religious revival movement that supported reform movements.
Known as *"The Poet of Pianissimo*," - turned out works containing as much silence as music. -dodecaphonic composer's sparse, slight works are typified by very spartan textures, carefully chosen timbres, wide-ranging melodic lines, and brevity -student of Schönberg
Anton Webern (1883 - 1945)
-Italian [composer/violinist/teacher/priest] Trained for the priesthood and ordained in 1703 but soon after ceased to say Mass.Was known as the *"red priest"* (il prete rosso). Was appointed maestro di violino at the Ospedale pella Pieta (a Venetian orphanage for girls). -Fathered the present form of the solo concerto. Established the three-movement concerto form. Developed the cadenza (may have started the written cadenza) Oratorios, sacred music, concertos, operas (Sposa Son Disprezzata, from Bajazat 1735) (Agitata da due Venti, from Griselda 1735) (Domine Deus) (Qui Sedes)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Spheres of Influence
Areas in which countries have some political and economic control but do not govern directly (ex. Europe and U.S. in China)
Enlightenment, Age of Reason occurs?
Around 1650 to the time of the French Revolution (1789).
characteristics of Realism
Art as a reflection of nature—hold the mirror up. Dissatisfied with the idealism present in romanticism—both in its nature descriptions and its use of exalted heroes in poetry and fiction.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author focused on colonial New England, ex. The Scarlet Letter
Nick Robins-
Author of World's first Multinational
Washington Irving
Author of dutch folk tales from New York, ex. Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper
Author who wrote about the French & Indian War era, ex. Last of the Mohicans
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Bamboo grove
- Born in Venice - Adopted by poet/librettist - Very rare woman musician/composer/publisher - Performances intended for intimate, private gatherings rather than large, public audiences - Composed cantatas, arias (Lagrime Mie 1650)
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Battle of Fallen Timbers / Treaty of Greenville
Battle and resulting treaty with Native Americans that opened Ohio for American settlement.
fBattle of Palashi-
Battle in which BEIC looted Bengal's treasury and Robert Clive turned himself into a multi-millionaire. Battle of Palashi seen as first step in creation of British Empire in India
Eurosceptics backbenchers under Major
Bill Cash
Florida democrat senator. former astronaut
Bill Nelson
Retiring Tennessee Senator. Short little guy who has incredible foreign policy chops and gets into Twitter fueds with Trump
Bob Corker
Georgi Markov affair
Bulgarian who defected - killed in London 1978 by umbrella = KGB suspected
English longbow-
Can penetrate armor. used for hunting and as a weapon in medieval warfare
USA, France, GB formed ... over Suez
Canal Users' Association
Erie Canal
Canal connecting the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.
a German composer, singer, and conductor Gotta LOVE those *ballads*. songs were well enough known for some to call him the "Schubert of North Germany", and Hugo Wolf came to admire his work. 400 songs
Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
Qin Dynasty
Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall, Legalism was the basis of their rule
Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer
Born in Ukraine, a Russian Jew, immigrated to Brazil and there enrolled in law school, later married a diplomat and travel extensively
Clarice Lispector
Brazilian Modernist, who's characters live in a plane of constant awareness, and immediate bodily senations
Clarice Lispector
Tax authorities - women
Classified women as dependants on their fathers or husbands
Chesapeake Incident
Incident involving a British warship attack on an American warship.
Samuel F.B. Morse
Inventor of the telegraph
Joint-stock Company
Investors who shared risk in trading and colonization ventures
Governor of California
Jerry Brown
Gang of Four
Jiang Qing and four political allies who attempted to seize control of Communist government in China from the pragmatists; arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1976 following Mao Zedong's death.
Stunningly a Democrat from West Virginia. He sides with Trump more than any other Dem
Joe Manchin
•German composer •Musical family •Studied with Robert Schumann •Close friends Schumanns -one of the leading musicians of the Romantic era, ...was a German composer and pianist who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, songs, and choral compositions -considered both a traditionalist and an innovator •Supported Clara during Robert's illness and death •Eventually settled in Vienna
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Austrian late Romantic composer, professor, critic, and author. As a composer ... is chiefly remembered for his vocal music. Although most of his songs used piano accompaniment, about two dozen of them were orchestral songs. His style is characterized by Slavonic and Italian elements, often with an impressionistic kind of lyricism
Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964)
Forged a far-reaching career that challenged the purity of preexisting styles. As a famous German Jew, he fled Nazi Germany, fending for himself in foreign countries such as America, where versatility of styles, unlike anything in Germany, interested him the most.
Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
The serpent
L. Hoiby (also N. Rorem) (text by T. Roethke)
1966 General Election
Labour 364 seats
2001 Election
Labour 413 seats
1997 Election
Labour 418 seats
CDS
Labour supporters who wanted the party to distance itself from trade unions, nationalisation and unilateralism
Confucius
Leader of Confucianism that believed in maintaining social and political; Chinese philosopher
Sheibani Khan -
Leader of the Uzbeks in Central Asia, was too strong a foe for Babur, protected Samarkand
Frederick Douglass
Leading black male abolitionist and publisher of The North Star.
As a Republican, was the only GOP senator to vote against the War in Iraq. Switched to Dems to be governor of Rhode Island. Ran for pres in 2016. Mostly famous for being super pro-Metric
Lincoln Chaffee
South Carolina republican who will probably finish last in every GOP Primary til he dies. War Hawk, but he really hates the Tea PArty and torture, which sadly makes him better than most
Lindsey Graham
Plymouth, MA.
Colony founded by the Pilgrims, separatist Puritans
CAP
Common Agricultural Policy
1951 Election
Conservatives 321 seats
1970 Election
Conservatives 330 seats
1992 Election
Conservatives 336 seats
1979 Election
Conservatives 339 seats
1959 Election
Conservatives 365 seats
1987 Election
Conservatives 376 seats
1983 Election
Conservatives 397 seats
Birginia Plan
Constitutional plan favoring large states; representation by population
New Jersey Plan
Constitutional plan favoring small states; equal representation
Young, likable New Jersey senator who personally made and gave away tens of thousands of Hot Pockets during Hurricane Sandy. With Kamala and Biden, he's tied as Predict-it's 2020 Dem frontrunner for pres. Dating Cleo Wade
Cory Booker
Eli Whitney
Created the cotton gin
Thomas Edison
Created the electric lightbulb
Wilhelm Rontgen
Created the first X-ray machine
Robert Goddard
Created the first liquid filled rocket
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Created the first microscope
Edward Jenner
Created vaccine for small pox
1858-1947
Crown rule-partition of India
Paul Celan
Death Fugue
Withdrawal from Iraq announced
Dec 2007
HMS Tiger
December 1966
Battle of King's Mt.
Defeat of loyalist militia in S.C.
Which Conservative leader supported Iraq?
Duncan Smith
Obama nomination for the Supreme Court. First justice to have never been a judge before, somehow. Instead, she'd been a solicitor general and the dean of Harvard Law
Elana Kagan
Song Dynasty
Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology, medicine, astronomy, and mathematics.
Empress Cixi
Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest, supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers, and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
Georgia
English colony founded as a new start for debtors
Son of a music critic, and after writing popular operas in Europe as a teen, he was forced by the rise of Nazism to flee to America where his film scores dazzled -John Williams of the time
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957)
Zheng He
Explorer that went on voyages for the Chinese during the Ming Dynasty
Amerigo Vespuci
Explorer who inspired the name America
Galileo Galilei
First to use a telescope to study the stars
Sir Humphrey Davy
Found many elements (potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium)
Munro:
Founder of the BEIC
Mountstuart elphinstone:
Founder of the BEIC and governor of Bombay from 1819-1827
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
Babur -
Founder of the Mughal Empire. Family descended from Timur who ruled Central Asia. A Sunni Muslim
"Mother" Ann Lee
Founder of the Shakers
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father and principal author of The Declaration of Independence (1776). Third President of the US, helped to expand the territory of the US through the Louisiana purchase
George Washington
Founding Father of the United States. Served as Commander in Chief of American forces during the War of Independence. Also elected the first President of the United States, serving for eight years FATHER OF AMERICA
John Adams
Founding Father. America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to be restrained."
James Madison
Fourth president of the US (1809-1817) Drafted the US Constitution and the US Bill of Rights. In 1788, along with Hamilton and John Jay, he wrote the Federalist Papers.
-Hungarian composer -handsome magnetic virtuoso, an incredible showman. He performed superhuman feats at the piano, overwhelming the European public. -Symphonic poem -Dat profile tho -52 in German, 14 French, 5 Italian, 3 Hungarian, 1 Russian, and 12 English
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
This one-time *Vienna Choir Boy* died tragically young, yet he produced masterworks in a variety of forms. His songs, chamber music, piano music, choral music, and seven symphonies are often performed. ... 600 songs form the cornerstone of German song literature, featuring imaginative use of the piano, remarkable melodies, and an extraordinary range of musical characteristics. Song Cycles: Die Schone Mullerin Winterreise Schwanengesang
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Where e'er you walk
G. F. Handel
The enormously prolific Italian composer ... completed almost 70 operas, both comic and dramatic. He also composed more than 150 sacred works and hundreds of songs, including short, tuneful canzone that occasionally employed *Neapolitan dialect*. He was one of the foremost Italian opera composers of the early 19th century and a principal master of the bel canto style.
Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
German-born composer who rose to fame and glory working for the British kings in London, composing for the London public and the royal court. Composer of the late Baroque,wrote instrumental music - orchestral suites, organ concertos, concerti grossi. Master of Italian opera (wrote 39 of them, most famous is Rinaldo) and English oratorio. Helped run and was the music director of the Royal Academy of Music. (Mi Palpita il Cor 1712)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Importance in the development of Italian comic opera in the early 18th century. Pergolesi's opera La Serva Padrona (The Servent Mistress - opera buffa) (1733). ...was held up as a model of the Italian style during this quarrel, which divided Paris's musical community for two years. In spite of tuberculosis, which took him at 26 years of age, he maintained an optimistic outlook, continuing to compose to the very end. *Stabat Mater*
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Warren Hastings-
Governor General of India, was impeached .
Warren Hastings-
Governor-General of India, accused of corruption, was impeached.
General William Bentinck-
Governor-General of India. Tried to suppress sati also ignored food shortages in India
President of the U.S.A.
Grand Sultan Donald J. Trump
Romanticism entails..
Greater importance of passion over logic. Greater importance of the individual man over the collective body (the fact that the individual now elects national leaders gives him a great primacy.)
Hudson River Valley School
Group of artists focused on American landscapes
Committees of Correspondence
Groups that kept communication open between colonies to coordinate resistance to British taxation
Most important composer in the 19th century, transforming and dominating Italian opera for 60 years, but his songs are largely unfamiliar to the general public. They generally require only a modest level of technical ability, allowing access to amateur and less-experienced performers. *Mean Joe Green* (Ingemisco) (Libera Me) (Lo Spazzacamino) (Lo Stornello)
Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
a Hungarian Jew who was one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century 2001 A Space Odyssey
Györgi Ligeti (1923 - 2006 )
Daniel Webster
He debated Haynes in the Senate and defended national supremacy over the states.
Didn't write successfully on a grand scale, or without words. Yet, in the lieder repertoire, he is every bit the equal of his great predecessors, Schubert and Schumann. Combining the eroticism of Wagner and genius of Schumann -His lieder are mini-masterpieces, says Ian Bostridge. -300 songs -Morike Lieder -piano postludes
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
New Labour privatisation
London Underground = public-private partnership; The Air Trafic Control sold off
Attended a Japanese medical school in hopes of improving Chinese culture, and there witnessed brutality and apathy of the Chinese. This led him to believe the Spirits of the Chinese people had been dulled.
Lu Xun
Born in to a Shaoxing family of Confucian scholars, and was taught in these traditions...
Lu Xun
During the Chinese Republic Revolution in 1911, this author moved to Beijing and joined the Ministry of Education and taught at various Universities.
Lu Xun
Criticism of traditional superstitions
Lu Xun "Medicine" can also be seen as, in part, a tale in which cannibalism plays a role. It's easier to see the paralyzing adherence to traditional superstitions as part of this story, but the cure to which the little boy is exposed is rather ghoulish.
Father's death caused by an illness his child thought treatable, inspiring the child to enter medical school.
Lu Xun, inspired to attend medical school in Japan.
Caruso
Lucio Dalla
This German-born composer was the most revolutionary musician of the Classic and early Romantic eras. He excelled especially at the symphony, sonata, and string quartet, and brought music to powerful new heights of expression and sociol-political influence--despite spending most of his career in complete deafness. -66 songs (Ah Perfido!) (Adelaide) (An die Ferne Geliebte)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Mi Mancherai
Luis Bacalov/Marco Marinangeli
Linus Pauling
Made it possible for geneticists to crack the DNA code. Founder of field of quantum chemistry and molecular biology.
Heath Economic
Market forces - natural laws of supply/demand (without gov interference)
Marlowe had difficulty finding a ship, even after he resolved to take a ship up the river. Who finally had the connections that allowed him to succeed?
Marlow's Aunt
Loser former mayor of Baltimore. Was the first to really push for $15/hour minimum wage but got torched in the 2016 dem primaries. I mean, eviscerated.
Martin O'Mally
Second Continental Congress
Meeting to write the "Olive Branch " Petition and appoint Washington as commander of the Continental Army
Seneca Falls Convention
Meeting where women first demanded suffrage
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
Disgraced National Security Adviser, under serious investigation for a few felonies right now
Michael Flynn
Eurosceptics cabinet minister under Major
Michael Portillo
Pressure group regarding immigration
MigrationWatch - overstretched public services due to large numbers arriving so quickly
Ghengis Khan
Mongol ruler who was known for his organization, strategy, and cruelty; led armies to control much of Central Asia
Sunni:
Most Muslims in the world are Sunnis They believe that it was right for Abu Bakr to rule after Muhammed (he was elected) and see themselves as true adherents to the prophet's tradition.
Ainu
Most area north of the Kanto in central Honshu were originally occupied by the Ainu, a people more closely realted to North American Indians.
Mercantilism (unit 1)
Motivation for European nations to gain colonies based on profit
Chinese Civil War
Nationalists vs communists. nationalists attacked communists but failed to drive them out when they used guerrilla warfare. Came to a stop temporarily when the 2 parties joined to defeat Japan. Eventually the Communists won.
Tecumseh
Native American leader who sided with the British in the war of 1812
Trump's nomination for the Supreme Court. First ever justice to serve beside a justice for whom he'd clerked (Anthony Kennedy)
Neil Gorsuch
Era of Good Feelings
Nickname for post-War of 1812 era
"Pet Banks"
Nickname for state banks that received national funds.
"Know Nothings"
Nickname for the anti-immigrant American Party
Sons of Liberty
Organization that resisted British taxation, sometimes with violence.
American Colonization Society
Organization that sought to settle former slaves in Africa
Senate Pro Temp (3rd in line to replace the pres)
Orrin Hatch (retiring this cycle, will be someone else soon)
An Italian violinist, composer and musicologist, best known for his three orchestral tone poems: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928). His studies with the great orchestrator Rimsky-Korsakov were tremendously influential on him. His "atmospheric" 60 songs were written 1900-1936, and he actually accompanied his wife in a recital of his works here in *Kansas City*. (Pioggia) (Nebbie)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Internal Improvements
Part of the American System wanting federal monies to be spent on roads and canals
The older and more tenured of Vermont's senators. He appeared in 5 Batman movies
Patrick Leahy (Yes, been in office longer than Bernie, and older. Don't question me) (Also, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises, and Batman vs Superman. As well as the cartoon Batman: The Animated Series)
a German-born Yale professor who sought to revitalize traditional tonality rather than abandon it -theorist, teacher, violist, violinist, conductor, and composer -one of the most central figures in music between the First and Second World Wars
Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)
Retiring Speaker of the House. Romney's VP candidate in 2012
Paul Ryan
Horace Mann
Pioneer in educational reforms
Essex Junto
Plot by Federalists to secede New England from the Union.
Walt Whitman
Poet with themes of democracy, ex. Leaves of Grass
Democratic
Political party formed by Jackson and that promoted states rights.
National Republic (Later called Whigs)
Political party that favored national power and the American System.
Bartolome de Las Casas
Priest who convinced King Philip of Spain to order end of enslavement of Native Americans
George Calvert
Proprietor of Maryland
William Penn
Proprietor of Pennyslvania
Think back to the "gentlemen" to whom the diarist of Notes from Underground addresses his writing. Prufrock is also extremely conscious of being judged. In what does he find himself, possibly, lacking? How does he excuse himself?
Prufrock is lacking in the ability to maintain and initiate whole hearted relationships. He lacks "daring," he excuses himself by describing and blaming the mannered society in which he is trapped.
Silent Noon
R. Vaughan Williams (text by D. G. Rossetti)
Sawm:
Ramadan/fasting
The Kentucky senator who isn't McConnell. His dad was a famous libertarian. He's not so far in lib field, but he breaks with Trump more than any other GOP senator
Rand Paul
Dissatisfied with the idealism present in romanticism—both in its nature descriptions and its use of exalted heroes in poetry and fiction
Realism.
Shakers
Religious community that practiced celibacy and a simple lifestyle
Mormons
Religious group that was persecuted for the practice of polygamy
Great Awakening
Religious revival. Had the effect of questioning authority.
(Caro mio ben, from OSSESSIONE - John Muriello) Inspired by Arie Antiche
Richard Pearson Thomas (b. 1957)
A musical visionary and the most influential of all 19th-century composers. -musical and poetic principles exerted a profound effect on Strauss, Debussy, Mahler, Berg, Schoenberg, Britten and countless others. -The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; his influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theater. Nasty guy
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Secretary of Energy. His hair and glasses ran for president in 2012 + 2016, but his brain didn't
Rick Perry
German, early/mid Romantic composer. Works intensely autobiographical and have descriptive titles, texts, programs. Gifted writer and music critic. Piano pieces (10 years); 1840 (marries Clara Wieck): art songs. After 1840: symphonies and chamber music. Also wrote symphonies, concertos, piano and chamber music. Song cycles: Myrthen Dichterliebe Frauenliebe und -Leben Liederkreis
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Reforms largely work of ...
Roy Jenkins (home secretary 1965-1967) - Callaghan continued
W.'s nom to replace Sandra Day O'Conner on the Supreme Court. He had all of his stuff tapped by the NSA for some reason we still don't get.
Samuel Alito
Current White House press secretary. Her dad was a famous governor and she sort of looks like him
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Adam Smith-
Scottish philosopher, economist, and author
This story may inform the reader about the ways that urban Chinese are affected by tradition and modernity, and about how they life their lives.
Sealed Off
"The huge shambling city sat dozing in the sun its head resting heavily on people's shoulders, its spittle slowly dripping down their shirts"
Sealed Off, Zhang Ailing
One of the disgraced former Press Secretaries. Appeared at the Emmys and SNL and lasted more than a week
Sean Spicer
Emperor Wudi
Seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty; increased the authority of the Han dynasty and extended Chinese influence abroad. Expanded China's borders to an incredible size. Is known for making Confucianism the state orthodoxy.
Shah Ismail:
Shah of Persia, killed Sheibani Khan and offered Babur the chance to claim Samarkand
Lu's eminence in Chinese literary history is due to the fact that he published his work just before an era of almost total censorship in Chinese literature—for roughly 60 years from the 1930s to the eighties there was nothing published in China that didn't meet the stringent criteria of the censors, who demanded that literature meet the criteria of....
Socialist Realism
Boring-ass white dude that Clinton nominated for the Supreme Court. Liberal guy who once was an assistant in the Watergate investigation
Stephen Breyer
McCullough v. Maryland
Supreme Court case that held the national bank to be constitutional.
McCulloch v Maryland
Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the National Bank as well as federal supremacy over the states. (States could not tax the national bank branches)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia / Worcester v. Georgia
Supreme Court cases that Pres. Jackson ignored in allowing removal of the Cherokee.
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Supreme Court decision protecting private property from government.
Female senator from Maine. Someone redneck in the House threatened to duel her recently
Susan Collins
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
Mandate
Term: Approval from the people after a big electoral victory
Speculation
Term: When you buy something (land, stocks, etc.) in hopes of selling it for profit.
Grand Canal
The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Radio 1 DJ
Tony Blackburn
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty ending the War of 1812
Protective Tariff
Type of tariff that would encourage American manufacturing by discouraging purchase of foreign goods
Excise Tax
Type of tax on goods produced in the U.S. Whiskey was the first example.
Woodrow Wilson
US president. Was President during the First World War. His idealistic 14 points formed the basis for the League of Nations, the forerunner of the UNITED NATIONS
UK behind in economic growth 1964
West Germany 5.3% v UK 2.3%
"Spoils System"
What critics called Jackson's "rotation in office" of federal workers
Robert Bunsen
Worked on emission spectra of elements. Developed the bunsen burner for laboratories.
Married to a Japanese collaborator during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai
Zhang Ailing
'Prudence with a purpose'
after 2001 there was an injection of money into public services
modernism focuses primarily on..
an awareness that there is much that lies under the surface, there are subconscious urges, dream states, whole psychic realms unavailable to normal consciousness and it is this that the artist attempts to portray.
"The driver fixed his eyes on the undulating tracks....
and didn't go mad." -Sealed Off, Ailing
Hague's attempt to appear ordinary
baseball cap, boasted of drinking 14 pints a day as a teen
Karl Marx (
challenges the religion of capitalism along the same lines as Nietzsche—as he sees the worker being exploited in service of the rich and the powerful. Sees this exploitation as built in to the very ideology of the capitalist system, and the system as a very un-democratic institution.
not 'permissive society'
civilised age
The Burgess and Maclean affair
defected to USSR in 1951
Mughal -
derived from the Persian word Mongol, because the empire's ancestor Timur was a Mongol descendent
How was Kafka's relations with his father
difficult relationship to his father. Father a no-nonsense, take-charge, ham fisted successful businessman. Young Franz a "sensitive lad," not the kind of son such a man hopes for. Once, when Kafka had published a volume of stories and given it as a present to his father, he discovered it 8 months later in his father's home, the pages uncut.
Ugandan Asians
early 1970s = 28k arrived
Rhodesia punishment
embargo on tabacco (main export)
Unemployment 1979
falls to 1.4 million
inflation 1979
falls to 10%
What does Major's government receive from NI?
from 1993 secret messages hinting Sinn Feinn was ready to talk about peace
Effects of Black Wednesday for Labour
gain 15 points in opinion polls
Marlow seeks shade in a grove of trees. What does he discover lurking in this grove of trees.
he sees a group of dying workers under a shade tree.
Marlowe sees a group of men at the outpost that disturbs him, enough so that he leaves the path so as not to have them in his sight. Describe this group of men.
he sees a group workers in chains. being goaded by a white man with a weapon.
1972 unemployment
highest since depression in 1930s
Oxford voted against giving Thatcher what?
honorary degree
Kaya
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Peakche
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Silla
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjo6eCcorHdAhUFPN8KHekYAnsQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstudy.com%2Facademy%2Flesson%2Fthe-three-kingdoms-of-korea-koguryo-paekche-silla.html&psig=AOvVaw1mgs4-4S5zjFbs6qJHUdfU&ust=1536697441772100
Households owning washing machines 1957-59
increased by 59%
Unemployment 1978
increases to 1.6 million
1997-2007 employment
increases to 2.5 million
Rape of Nanking
infamous genocidal war crime committed by japanese military. started in 1937 and lasted a few weeks. japanese army raped, stole and killed prisoners of war and civilians
The Establishment
informal networks that connected the social and political elites
Paper Money
invented during the SONG dynasty
Magnetic Compass
invented during the Song Dynasty, helped with Navigation; magnetic needle that points north to show direction
Why does Eliot refuse to fulfill traditional expectations in his work?
it contributes to a poems picture of cultural disintegration, and allows Eliot to exploit the Symbolist and allusive powers of language.
Apprentice Boys
loyalists
EU initiative in Africa
make poverty history
Complete the refrain found in "Prufrock": "In the room the women come and go/ Talking of
michealangelo
becomes aware that this mirror of Realism held up to nature can only capture the surface
modernism
Comprehensive schools 2nd half of 20th century
more built under Conservative than Labour
Punks
movement started in 1975-76
Yorkshire Ripper
murdered 13 women 1975-80
The enlightenment was a time of..
of logic, of science, of cogito, ergo sum." Encyclopedia and dictionary projects. World exploration, and the attendant world conquest, use of slave labor to exploit natural resource and satisfy markets, etc. Artists at this time able to balance faith in god with belief in scientific progress.
Victoria's Terminus-
opened in 1888 and was the site of the first railway station, now it is a headquarter of central (busiest of nine zones of Indian Railway)
'Yes' campaign and business support
out of 419 company chairmen only 4 wanted to leave EEC
By 2006 how many people requested information from public bodies?
over 100k p/a
Unemployment by 1983
over 3mil - 13.5% of total workforce
Oct 1974 election
overall majority = 3
1961 Labour Conference
rejected unilateralism = Gaitskell successful
Medieveal Japan
rise of public and private wars, horses where used in warfare. the rise of poetry and pros, theres not really a difference in these two things. feudal system: hyarchtical, buddhism for the elites, peasents, rise of war lards/land holders, Shogan (military leader), emperor.
What supplies is Marlowe most in need of before he can finally leave on his steamer for his destination upriver?
rivets to fix the steamer.
British Raj-
rule by British Crown over subcontinent of India from 1858 to 1947
Aurangzeb-
ruled (1658-1707) known as someone who led the Empire to its decline. He tried to impose Islam as the only religion. He was the sixth ruler.
Sher Shah -
ruler of a community of Afghans in northeastern India, often defeated Mughals in Battle
Ming Dynasty
ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. A vast navy and army were built, including four-masted ships of 1,500 tons displacement , and a standing army of one million troops. This Dynasty explored the Indian Ocean and traded with East Africa before it decided to stop exploration and trade.
Giri
sense or even "burden" of social obligation to others. Giri functions even today in an obligation to reciprocate gifts, to do one's duty, to respect superiors, ect. Not to do so would result in "loss of face" or shame. Yet there is always a feeling that one may not have done enough.
Prince Shotoku
shotoku is seen as in some sense the popularizer of Buddhism and the founder of the Japanese state. in 593 CE prince Shotoku of the soga clan comes ot power and promotes Buddhism, in 600 CE he sends first official mission to China to bring back books, Buddhist images, ect. He also wanted to learn about the Sui Dynasty's centralized bureaucracy. in 604 CE he issues constitution of 17 articles based on Confucian principles to promote a chinese-style state system in which Buddhism and confucianism and promulgated as state religions/ ideologies of Japan.
Migrant families and children
tended to have more at younger age = beneficial impact on overall birth rate
Elements of romanticism
that man and his feelings are important, and these can be found reflected in and as a reflection of nature. The pastoral and the sublime.
Important to note*
that many small stations in remote villages are being closed which forces the people of that village to take the road. The train was like a lifeline for them and they were able to connect to larger, more populous villages, but that journey has gotten a lot harder for them especially if they got their income by using or taking the train.
Monopoly-def #2
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service
Ritsuryo
the historical law system based on the philosophies of Confucianism and Chinese Leaglism in Japan.
Consumerism-
the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
Lyndon Johnson
took after JFK and expanded America's role in Vietnam. Introduced civil rights legislation.
Who is the narrator of the novel Heart of Darkness?
unnamed man, sailor, this is a framework narrative.
stagflation
unusual combination of inflation and stagnant economic growth at same time
Youth subculture
unwillingness of some young people to accept standards and values of their elders
Mo Mowlam and paramilitaries
visited them in prison
Grand Canal
was rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty. This had a significant impact on trade and helped the economy to flourish.
as an after effect of Realism
we begin to get more common men and women in literature. An offshoot of this is naturalism, which imposes an almost scientific rigor on the human motives and actions and particularly the descriptions of the human body (in naturalism it is often diseased and decrepit) in nature (we see the horsepiles teaming with maggots in the mirror held up to nature).
Wilson - Britain need to respond to ...
white heat of the technological revolution
Jaqueline Kennedy Onasis (Jackie)
wife of JF. Kennedy. Under her direction, she helped to modernise the White House and was a popular counterpart to JFK's presidency.
IMF loan 1964
£1 billion
Defence spending 1964
£1.7 billion - 10% of GDP
1976 IMF loan
£3bil - had to make spending cuts
Debt at end of war
£454 million
