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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

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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


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