Keller, Helen. 1880-1968. US deaf, blind author, lecturer. Story of My Life 1902.

Khrushchev, Nikita. 1894-1971. Soviet leader 1953-64. Berlin Wall 1961. Hungarian Uprising 1956. Malenkov.

Kierkegaard, Sören. 1813-55. Danish founder of Existentialism. Either-Or 1843. Fear and Trembling 1843. Influenced Heidegger. Individual must consciously choose among life’s alternatives.

Kipling, Rudyard. 1865-1936. English/Indian writer. Compelling, emotional, poetic. Jungle Book 1894. Kim 1901. Imperialist:- “White Man’s Burden”.

Kirchner, Ernst. 1880-1938. German erotic Expressionist artist. Die Brücke movement. Street, Berlin 1907.

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

Koenig, Friedrich. Cylinder printing press 1811.

Kolin, Battle. 1757. Austrian victory forced Prussia to abandon Bohemia.

Korzybski, Alfred. 1879-1950. Polish/US linguist. General semantics 1933.

Kremlin. 1156 walled city. Moscow Imperial Palace to 1712. Now houses Russian government.

Kushan. 78-220. Dynasty ruling Afghanistan, north India.

Laissez-Faire. Motto of 19C liberals calling for free markets and trade. Smith. “Laissez-faire, laissez-passer, laissez-aller”-Legendre 1680.

Lancaster. 1399~1471. Dynasty ruling England. Henry IV to VI. War of Roses.

Lapse, Doctrine of. British East India Company claimed control of any state where direct royal line ended causing Indian Mutiny 1857. Dalhousie.

La Voisin. Burned at the stake for selling “inheritance powder” (poison), 1680. Poisons Affair.

Layamon. c1200. English poet. First mention of King Arthur, Lear, Merlin.

Lazear, Jesse. 1866-1900. Linked mosquito with yellow fever, 1900, of which he died. Reed. Agramonte.

LeBrun, Charles. 1619-90. Painter. Head of Gobelins Tapestry Works, 1662-. Versailles decorator.

Lenin, Vladimir Illyich. 1870-1924. Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. Dictator 1917-. Created authoritarian, elite, disciplined organization.

Leningrad Affair. 1948. Purge of Zhdanov associates by Stalin.

Leuctra, Battle. 371BC. Thebes defeats Sparta, signalling decline.

Liberty Affair. 1768. British sieze Hancock’s sloop ’Liberty’ smuggling wine to Boston.

Linacre, Thomas. 1460-1524. English physician, translator of Galen.

Lincoln, Abraham. 1809-65. US Republican president 1861-. Civil War. Gettysburg. Emancipation Proclamation. Assassinated. Booth.

Lincoln, Battle. 1217. Henry III defeats nobles supporting Louis VIII of France.

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