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Everest, George. 1790-1866. British surveyor of India.
Exarchate of Ravenna. 6-8C. Part of Italy belonging to Byzantine Empire. Ravenna.
Excaliber. Sword of King Arthur.
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.
Exodus. 13C BC. Jews escape Egyptian slavery. Moses. Ten Commandments.
Expressionism. 1920-24. German drama style showing writers’ feelings. Author/hero.
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.
Eyck, Jan van. c1389-1441. Flemish realist painter. Ghent altarpiece 1432. Developed use of oils.
Eyre, Edward. 1815-1901. British explorer in Australia. Dismissed as governor of Jamaica for cruel repression of 1865 revolt.
Ezzelino III da Ramono. 1194-1259. Cruel ruler of northern Italy. Subject of Dante’s Inferno.
Fabergé, Peter. 1846-1920. Russian jeweller. Imperial Easter Eggs 1884-1917.
Fabian Society. 1883. English non-revolutionary socialist movement. Founded Labour Party. Shaw.
Fabius, Quintus. -203BC. Consul. Saved Rome from Hannibal by delaying battles, allowing army to recover 218-.
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.
Fahrenheit, Gabriel. 1686-1736. German physicist, inventor of temperature scale 1712. Alcohol thermometer 1709. Mercury thermometer 1714.
Fair Deal. 1945,9. Truman’s program for jobs, housing, social insurance in US.
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.
Faisal. 1906-75. Saudi king 1964-. Arab-Israeli War 1967. Assassinated by nephew Faisal.
Faisal I. 1885-1933. Self proclaimed king of Syria 1920. Deposed. King of Iraq 1921-.