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Dust Bowl. 1930s. US plains suffered erosion, dust storms, due to drought, wind, poor farm practice.
Dutch East India Company. 1602-1798. Trade, colonies in Orient. Controlled Ceylon, Cape Colony, Jakarta.
Dutch Revolt. 1566-79. Calvinist north vs Spanish Hapsburgs. United Provinces. Spanish Armada.
Dutch Wars. 1672-8. French expansionism thwarted by United Provinces. Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Dutch West India Company. 1621-1794. Commercial and colonial interests in Africa, South America. Driven from Brazil, 1654, New York, 1667.
Dutra, Enrico. 1885-1974. Brazilian President 1946-51. Restored democracy.
Duval, Claude. 1643-70. French/English gallant highwayman.
Duvalier, François. “Papa Doc” 1907-1971. Haitian dictator 1957-.
Duvalier, Jean-Claude. “Baby Doc”. Haitian dictator 1971-1986, son of Papa Doc. Overthrown, exiled.
Dvaravati. 6-13C. Kingdom in Thailand. Indian culture.
Dvorák, Antonin. 1841-1901. Czech Nationalist composer. New World Symphony 1893. Classical form with folk spontaneity.
Dyarchy. 1919. System of shared local/British power in India. Led to Indian autonomy.
Dylan, Bob (Robert Zimmerman). 1941-. US composer/performer. Founded Folk Rock.
Dyrrhachium, Battle. 48BC. Pompey defeats Caesar.
Eakins, Thomas. 1844-1916. US Realist painter. Clinic of Dr. Gross 1875.
Ealdred. -1069. Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York 1060-: crowned William the Conqueror.
Earhart, Amelia. 1898-1937. US aviator. First solo Atlantic flight by a woman, 1932. Lost in attempt to circle planet.
Earth. According to geologists created 4,600,000,000BC. Ussher for Biblical version.
East Anglia. 6C Anglo-Saxon kingdom. c870 Denmark. 917 England.
East India Act. 1784. India Act.
East India Companies. British, Dutch, French. Danish 1614-1729. Austrian, 1720-7.
East-West Schism. 1054. Separation of Roman and Eastern Catholic churches over filioque.
Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. British suppression of Muhammed Ali’s Egyptian expansion.
Eastern Orthodoxy. Branch of Christianity. East-West Schism.