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French Guiana. 1604 French settle. 1809 France/Portugal. 1816 French. 1852-1946 Penal colonies. Devil’s Is.
French Polynesia. c3C Polynesians settle. 1521 Magellan discovers. 1595 Spanish discover Marquesas. 1767 British discover Tahiti. 1880/81 French colony. 1946 French Overseas Territory.
French Revolution. 1789-99. Monarchy overthrown. Republic established 1792. Caused by Absolutism, financial crisis, Enlightenment. Terror. Napoleon. French Revolutionary Wars.
French West Africa. 1895-1958. Dahomey, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Burkino Faso.
Frescobaldi, Girolamo. 1583-1643. Italian organist, instrumental composer. Bold chromaticism.
Fresnel, Augustin. 1788-1827. French physicist, wave theory of light 1815. Fresnel lens 1820.
Freud, Sigmund. 1856-1939. Austrian founder of Psychoanalysis. Sexually oriented guilt. First to divide mind into conscious and subconscious. Studies in Hysteria 1895. Interpretation of Dreams 1899.
Freyia. Norse goddess of battle, love and song.
Freyr. Norse god of fertility, sun, rain. Freyia’s brother.
Friedman, Milton. 1912-. Monetarist economist. Demand is mainly a function of money supply. Keynes. Laissez-faire. Capitalism and Freedom 1962.
Fries’s Rebellion. 1799. Pennsylvanian German-Americans rebel vs property tax. Pardoned by Adams.
Frigg. Wife of Odin, Roman =Juno.
Frisia. 530. Raided by Viking Hugleikr.
Frobisher, Martin. 1535-94. British navigator in search of North-West passage 1576.
Froebel, Friedrich. 1782-1852. German kindergarten 1841. Creativity, personal development, social adjustment.
Fromm, Erich. 1900-80. German/US psychoanalyst. Man for Himself 1947. The Sane Society 1955.
Fronde. 1648-53. Revolt of French parliamentarians vs king’s power. Failure encouraged Absolutism.
Frontenac. 1622-98. French Governor of New France. Defeated Iroquois. Expanded fur trade.
Frontier. Moving US boundary between developed east and unsettled west. Opportunity for adventureres, explorers, pioneers.
Frost, Robert. 1874-1963. American New England poet. Stopping by Woods 1923.
Fry, Christopher. 1907-. English dramatist: Lady’s not for Burning 1948. Venus Observed. Ben Hur 1959.
Fry, Elizabeth. 1780-1845. English Quaker prison reformer.
Fu Hsi. 2800BC. Chinese mythical Emperor. Created I Ching, marriage rites.
Fuchs, Klaus. 1911-88. German/British nuclear physicist. Communist spy 1943-50.