Partisans. Armed resistance in occupied territory. Yugoslav resistance under Tito, 1941-5.

Paul of Aegina. c625-90. Alexandrian physician. Compiled medical knowledge to date. 7 vol Epitome.

Pedro V. 1837-61. Portugal. King 1853-. Ended slavery in territories 1858.

Peter II. 1923-70. King of Yugoslavia 1934-45. Deposed in exile by Tito.

Polish Corridor. 1919-39. Baltic territory dividing east Prussia from Germany. Nazis invade 1939.

Popular Sovereignty. 1850s. US territories could join Union as free or slave states. Bleeding Kansas.

Prince Rupert’s Land. Hudson Bay drainage area, NW Territory.

Pruth, Treaty. 1711. Ends Russo-Turkish War. Turkey regains territory.

Quiller-Couch (Q). 1863-1944. English editor of Oxford Book of English Verse 1900,39.

Quisling, Vidkun. 1887-1945. Traitor, head of Norwegian puppet government during German occupation, 1940-5. WWII. Executed.

Red River Colony. 1812 Selkirk. Wars vs Métis -1821. 1836 Hudson Bay Co. 1870 =Manitoba. Riel. Seven Oaks.

Reed, Walter. 1851-1902. Discovered, 1900, connection between Yellow Fever and mosquito, control of which allowed the Panama Canal to be built.

Reforma. 1854-76. Mexican civil war. Ouster of Santa Anna. Reduced power of army, church. Tejada Law. Juárez.

Revisionism. Criticism of tenets of Marxism by Bernstein, Tito.

Ricci, Matteo. 1552-1610. Italian Jesuit missionary to China.

Rijswijk, Treaty. 1697. Ended War of Grand Alliance. William III acknowledged. Territories restored.

Russo-Finnish War. 1939-40. Russia gains territorial concessions.

Seven Hills of Rome. Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine.

Sillitoe, Alan. 1928-. English writer of working class life. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1959.

Society of Jesus. Jesuits.

Somerset. 2nd duke. c1406-1455. English general. Lost English territory in France. Quarrel with Duke of York led to War of Roses.

Sorel, George. 1847-1922. French advocate of revolutionary syndicalism. Reflection on Violence 1908 justified violence and general strikes. Influenced Mussolini.

Spirit of St. Louis. 1927. Lindbergh’s plane for solo Atlantic flight.

St Pierre and Miquelon. 1635 French occupy. 17, 18C French, English dispute. 1814 French. 1947 French Overseas Territory.

Stimson Doctrine. 1932. US not to recognize territories seized by agression.

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