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87 matches to Cond
Soccer War. 1969. Honduras vs El Salvador. Triggered by football game and economic conditions.
Socrates. c470-399BC. Greek philosopher. Knowledge is the key to influencing destiny. Ignorance leaves one subject to fate. Socratic method of teaching by dialog. Dialectic. Condemned for impiety and corrupting the young - drank hemlock. “Know thyself”.
Sparta. 9C BC-396. A dominant Greek city-state 6-4C BC. Peloponnesian War defeated rival Athens. 396 Visigoths destroy.
Stokowski, Leopold. 1882-1977. US conductor of contemporary and unusual works.
Syracuse, Battle. 480BC Carthage repelled. 415-413BC Critical Athenian defeat in Peloponnesian War. 396, 392 Carthage defeated. 382-75 Defeated by Carthage. 214-211 BC Rome conquers, sacks city.
Targowica, Confederation. 1792. Conservative Poles begin war. Second partition 1793.
Theater of the Absurd. 1950-70. Depicts human condition as meaningless. Beckett. Ionesco.
Tiberius. 42BC-37 AD. Second Roman Emperor 14-.
Ticonderoga, Battle. 1775. Green Mountain Boys defeat British, capture Fort Ticonderoga.
Toscanini, Arturo. 1867-1957. Italian virtuoso conductor of Verdi, Beethoven.
Tractarian Movement. Oxford Movement. 1833- Named after Tracts for the Times. Condemned at Oxford 1841.