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Etruscans. Asian people in Tuscany 8C BC. Taken by Rome, 4-3C BC. Skilful metal workers. Strong navy, merchant traders. Tarquins.
Eugène of Savoy, Prince. 1663-1736. French General of H.R. Imperial armies. Defeated Turks in Vienna and Hungary.
European Union. 1958 European Economic Community (EEC) of Belgium, France, W Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands. To integrate economic development of members. 1967 =European Community (EC). 1973 +UK, Ireland, Denmark. 1981+Greece. 1985 -Greenland. 1986 +Spain, Portugal. 1990 +former E Germany. 1993 =European Union (EU). Maastricht Treaty. European Parliament. European Court of Justice.
Eustachio, Bartolomeo. -1574. Italian anatomist. Eustachian tube. Anatomy of Ear 1552.
Evangelicalism. Protestant churches that follow literal biblical interpretation.
Evatt, Herbert. 1894-1965. Australian statesman. Major influence on UN charter.
Exarchate of Ravenna. 6-8C. Part of Italy belonging to Byzantine Empire. Ravenna.
Executive Branch. Department of US government which carries out laws, under supervision of President.
Existentialism. Philosophy. Existence is concrete. Man has choice. Responsibility, freedom. Anti-conformism. Kierkegaard. Sartre. Heidegger.
Expressionism. 20C Literary style expressing essence of subject by exaggerating characteristics. Sounds and symbols. Joyce. Kafka. O’Neill. Woolf. Beckman.
Expressionism. 20C Music style of intense emotion, conflict, distortion. Mahler. Strauss.
Expressionism. 20C Simplified style of modern art expressing emotions with color and distortion. Munch. Toulouse-Lautrec. Van Gogh. Gauguin. Roualt.
Exuperantius, St. 3C Zurich martyr.
Fabre, Henri. 1823-1915. French entomologist: Souvenirs entomologiques.
Factory Acts. England. 1802 Apprentices 12 hr day. 1819 Minimum age 9. 1833. Limited child labour to 8 hours and education required 1844 Women, children 10 hr max. 1842 No women/children in mines. 1920 Minimum age 14. US 1844 Women 12 hr max. 1874 Women/children 10 hr max.
Fair Labor Standards Act. 1938. US fixes minimum wage(25¢/hr), child labor laws, 44hr week.
Fairfax, Thomas. 1612-71. English Parliamentarian Civil War general. Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army. Victor at Marston Moor.
Falloux, Frédéric. 1811-56. French politician. Sponsored Law on Education: Loi Falloux.
Family Compact. 1733,43,61. Spanish Bourbons support French wars.
Faraday, Michael. 1791-1867. English physicist: electromagnetic induction. Ether effect 1818. Electric motor 1821. Dynamo 1831. Electrolysis 1833. Faraday effect 1845.
Farmers-General. 17C French financiers who bought right to collect taxes for a fixed fee.
Fashoda Incident. 1898. British/French dispute over Sudan. French renounce claims. Entente Cordiale 1904.
Fatima. c606-33. Daughter of Mohammad. Matriarch of Fatimids. Wife of Ali, Shi’ite leader.
Faure, Felix. 1841-99. French president. Fashoda. Dreyfus.
Faust(us). c1540 German necromancer/astrologer who is said to have sold his soul to the devil. Goethe, Marlowe tragedies.