The Pocket Guide to World History

Frontier. Moving US boundary between developed east and unsettled west. Opportunity for adventureres, explorers, pioneers. [Read more ...]

Frost, Robert. 1874-1963. American New England poet. Stopping by Woods 1923. [Read more ...]

Fry, Christopher. 1907-. English dramatist: Lady’s not for Burning 1948. Venus Observed. Ben Hur 1959. [Read more ...]

Fry, Elizabeth. 1780-1845. English Quaker prison reformer. [Read more ...]

Fu Hsi. 2800BC. Chinese mythical Emperor. Created I Ching, marriage rites. [Read more ...]

Fuchs, Klaus. 1911-88. German/British nuclear physicist. Communist spy 1943-50. [Read more ...]

Fuchs, Leonhard. 1501-66. German naturalist. Compendium of medicinal plants. Historia Stirpium 1542. [Read more ...]

Fugger. 15-17C. German family of financiers and merchants. [Read more ...]

Fugitive Slave Acts. 1793-1850. Required return of runaway slaves. American Civil War. [Read more ...]

Fujiwara. 9-12C. Japanese dynasty. [Read more ...]

Fuller, R. Buckminster. 1895-1983. US engineer/philosopher. Geodesic Dome. [Read more ...]

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