Greek Liberation, War. = Greek Independence, War.

Hammerstein, Oscar. 1895-1960. US librettist. Oklahoma! 1943. Rogers.

Harris, Roy. 1898-1979. US National music composer. Oklahoma flavour. Assymetric rhythms.

Heliopolis. 1800. Egyptian battle. Kléber defeats Mameluks. Original site of Cleopatra’s Needles.

Horthy, Miklós. 1868-1957. Hungarian ruler 1920-44.

Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.

Hundred Flowers Movement. China. 1956-7. Increased freedom of intellectuals. Criticism of Party led to backlash.

Huron. North America Indian tribe massacred by Iroquois 1648-50. Oklahoma.

Indian Territory. 1834. Originally all territory west of Mississippi. Later, reservations in Oklahoma.

Irving, Washington. 1783-1859. US writer. Rip van Winkle. Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1819. Tales of a Traveller 1824. Inventor of short story.

Janácek, Leos. 1854-1928. Czech folk-influenced opera composer. Jenufa 1904.

John. Lackland. 1167-1216. King of England 1199-. Lost Normandy. Forced to sign Magna Carta 1215. Excommunicated 1209. Lost Anjou.

Kléber, Jean. 1753-1800. French general. Suppressed Vendée rebellion.

Klebs, Edwin. 1834-1913. Diphtheria bacillus, 1883.

Klee, Paul. 1879-1940. Swiss abstract artist of original delicate small-scale fantasy. Mocker Mocked 1930.

Kleist, Heinrich von. 1777-1811. German dramatist. Schroffenstein 1803.

Klemperer, Otto. 1885-1973. German conductor of Stravinsky, Mahler, Beethoven.

Klimt, Gustav. 1862-1918. Vienna Sezession allegorical mural painter. Kiss 1908.

Klinger, Friedrich. 1752-1831. German writer. Sturm und Drang 1776 inspires movement.

Klondike. 1896-9. Yukon gold rush.

Klopstock. 1724-1803. German Movement poet. -“love of the Fatherland”. Odes.

Kosovo. Predominantly Albanian province of southwest Serbia, Yugoslavia. 1996-99 KLA rebels seek autonomy. Serbian ethnic cleansing.

Ku Klux Klan. KKK. 1867-71. Secret US White Supremacist terrorist organization. Founded by Forrest. 1915- Recreated by Simmons.

Malvinas Is. Argentine name for Falkland Is.

Memel. (Klaipeda). 1253 founded. 1410 German. 1919 Lithuania. 1939 Germany. 1945 USSR. 1991 Lithuania.

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