Shaftesbury, 7th earl. 1801-85. English reform politician. Coal Mines Act 1842. Factory Acts. Sponsored schools, housing for poor.

Shah Jahan. 1592-1666. Mogul Emperor of India. Taj Mahal.

Shakers. 1747-. English celibate communal Quaker sect. 1774 moved to US.

Shakespeare, William. 1564-1616. English dramatic poet. Master of language, characters, perception.Titus Andronicus c1593. Romeo and Juliet c1594. Hamlet c1602. Othello c1604. King Lear c1606. Lover’s Complaint c1609. Sonnets 1609. Tempest 1611.

Shamanism. Ancestral religion in Asia, N America. Shamans heal sick, talk to gods.

Shamash. Semitic sun god.

Shamil. 1798-1871. Moslem guerilla leader vs Russia in Crimean War.

Shang. c1766-c1122BC. Chinese dynasty. Earliest verified by archeological evidence. = Yin.

Shapur I. -272. Sassanid king. Captured Roman Emperor Valerian 260.

Shapur II. 309-379. Persian king. Halted Roman invasion. Acquired Armenia.

Shaw, George Bernard. 1856-1950. Irish socialist writer/dramatist of wit and satire. Man and Superman 1903. Pygmalian 1913. St. Joan 1923. Fabian.

Shelburne, 2nd earl. 1737-1805. English statesman. Prime Minister 1782-3. Treaty of Paris.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1787-1851. English writer. (Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin). Married Percy Shelley. Frankenstein 1818.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1792-1822. English lyric poet. Advocated freedom of thought. Prometheus Unbound 1820.

Shen Nung. c2800BC. Legendary second Chinese Emperor.

Sheraton, Thomas. 1751-1806. English Regency furniture designer.

Shere Ali. 1825-79. Emir of Afghanistan. Defeated in Second Afghan War.

Sheridan, Philip. 1831-88. Union general, captured Shenandoah, forced Lee’s surrender.

Sherman, William. 1820-91. American Civil War general. -“War is hell”.

Sherman Silver Purchase Act. 1890-3. US increases silver purchases. Fears of gold standard abandonment started 1893 Panic.

Sherrington, Charles. 1857-1952. British experimental physiologist.

Sherwood, Robert. 1896-1955. US dramatist. Idiot’s Delight 1936.

Shih Huang-ti. c259-210BC. Emperor 246-. Unified China. Great Wall. Burning of Books 213.

Shih Wang. 10 Chinese gods of Hell.

Shi’ite. Major Moslem sect believing in Mahdi at the millenium. Official religion of Iran. Sunni. Fatimid. Assassin. Druze. Ali.

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