Wyat’s Insurrection. 1554. Failed march on London vs Mary’s marriage to Philip II of Spain. Wyat (son of Thomas Wyat) beheaded.

Yeomen of the Guard. 1485 British Monarch’s bodyguard. Beef Eaters, Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London, 1669-.

Zinoviev Letter. 1924. From COMINTERN to London advising worker revolution. Labour defeated.

Bailey, Donald. 1901-85. British inventor of portable Bailey bridge 1941.

Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.

Boulle, Pierre. 1912-94. French novelist. Bridge on the River Kwai 1952.

Bridget, St. 1303-73. Swedish visionary, Patron St. F. Brigittine Order.

Bridgewater Canal. 1761. Brindley. First British canal. Brought coal to Manchester stimulating industrialization.

Brindley, James. 1716-72. English engineer. Bridgewater Canal 1761.

Cambridge Agreement. 1629. Allowed Puritans to manage Massachussets Bay Company.

Cambridge Platonists. 17C. Tried to synthesize Plato and Christianity. Christian Humanists.

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.

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

Golden Gate Bridge. 1937. San Francisco.

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.

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.

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