Count’s War. 1533-36. Danish war of succession. Confirmed Protestant Reformation and hereditary succession.

Crane, Stephen. 1871-1900. US writer. Red Badge of Courage 1895. Short stories.

Crédit Mobilier of America. 1865-72. Scandal involving illegal profits, graft in Union Pacific Railroad construction.

Crispin and Crispinian, Sts. -c285. Martyred patron saints of shoemakers.

Crookes, William. 1832-1919. English physicist. Invented Crookes tube. Discovered thallium. Radiometer.

Cubism. 1907. Braque and Picasso reduce painting to minimum geometric forms. Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Term coined by Braque 1909.

Cultural Revolution. 1966-9. Mao’s Red Guards purge China of bourgeois, capitalist elements.

Curie, Irene. Joliot-Curie.

Cyprian, St. c200-258. Martyred Bishop of Carthage. Opposed Pope.

Daladier, Édouard. 1884-1970. French Prime Minister, 1933~40. Munich Agreement.

Damiens, Robert-François. 1715-1757. Stabbed Louis XV. Quartered.

Dandolo, Enrico. c1108-1205. Blind Venice Doge. Captured Constantinople 1204.

Darwinism. Evolution by heredity, variety (mutation), and natural selection.

David. King of Isreal 1015-c962BC. Killed Goliath, defeated Philistines. Conquered Jerusalem. United Israel. Author of psalms.

Dead Sea Scrolls. 3C BC-1C AD. Old Testament texts of Essenes. Discovered at Qumrum, 1947.

Deakin, Alfred. 1856-1919. Australian Prime Minister 1903~10. First Attorney General 1901. Led federation movement.

Delaware. “First” US state. Owasco, Delaware, Nanticoke, Assateague. 1609 English exploredl. 1631 Dutch. 1638 Swedish. 1655 Dutch. 1664 England.

Delius, Frederick. 1862-1934. English/French Impressionist opera composer. Tone poems.

Denis, St. -250. Patron St. of France, martyred first bishop of Paris. Carried his head to St-Denis Abbey.

Dewar, James. 1842-1923. Scottish physicist: liquified helium1898, vacuum flask. Abel.

Dmitri. -1591. Murdered heir to Russian throne. Gudunov. Time of Troubles. 1605-12 three “False Dmitris” claim throne.

Domesday Book. 1086. Census and survey of England. Ordered by William I as basis for taxation.

Dorians. 1100BC. Savage tribe who conquered Peloponnesus from Achaeans.

Douglas. 1200-. Prominent Scottish family. Accused of treason, William Douglas murdered by James II 1452.

Douglass, Frederick. 1817-95. US ex-slave abolitionist leader.

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