Constable, John. 1776-1837. English Naturalist landscape painter. Hay Wain 1821. Valley Farm. Waterloo Bridge 1831.

Corot, Camille. 1796-1875. French painter, forerunner of Barbizon school of Art. Narni Bridge 1827.

Dance, George. (The Elder). British designer of Mansion House 1737, London Bridge rebuild 1746.

Gerry, Elbridge. 1744-1814. US statesman. XYZ Affair. 1812 Gerrymandering - drawing electoral boundaries to affect the outcome of an election.

Hadrian. 76-138. Roman Emperor 117-. Built wall across England 122-36, Aelius Bridge 134. Rebuilt Greek cities.

Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928. English novelist: Far from the Madding Crowd 1874; Mayor of Casterbridge 1886; Jude the Obscure 1896. Man as victim of fate. -“the worth encompassed by the inevitable”.

Henry VI. 1421-71. King of England and France 1422-61, 70-1. Founded King’s College Cambridge, Eton. Lost France except Calais. Weakness led to War of Roses. Deposed.

Hobson, Tobias. Cambridge innkeeper who offered no choice of hired horse. -“Hobson’s choice”.

Kinetic Art. 20C. Works which move, or give the illusion of movement. Calder. Riley.

Landowski, Paul. 1875-1961. Sculptor: St. Genevieve on Tournelle Bridge, Paris, 1928; la Réformation, Geneva, 1912-18.

London Bridge. 963 wood. 1176 stone. 1831 rebuilt. 1971 Sold, moved to US.

Mahler, Gustav. 1860-1911. Austrian classical Romantic symphony composer. Bridged gap between Romantics and atonalists. Resurrection Symphony 1894.

Milvian Bridge. 109BC. Over Tiber R. Constantine defeats Maxentius 312.

Muybridge, Eadweard. 1830-1904. English/US Photographic studies of motion 1872.

Op art. 20C style incorporating optical illusion of movement. Vasarely. Riley.

Palladio, Andrea. 1508-80. Italian architect. Reintroduced Roman symmetry and proportion to Venetian villas. Suspension Bridge 1550. Architecture 1570.

Peterhouse. 1284. First Cambridge college.

Petit Pont. 1852. Bridge across Seine at site of original Roman crossing.

Pont Neuf. 1578-1607. Oldest surviving Paris bridge.

Pont Notre-Dame. Originally the Great Bridge in Roman Paris. Rebuilt in 1413 by Normans. First numbered houses in Paris.

Ponte Vecchio. 1345. Florence. First segmented arch bridge in West.

Rennie John. 1761-1821. British architect of Waterloo Bridge, 1811.

Rialto. 1588. Venice bridge.

Riley, Bridget. 1931-. British Kinetic Op artist.

Roebling, John. 1806-69. US civil enginerer. First steel cable suspension bridges. Began Brooklyn Bridge.

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