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Dieppe. 1942. Unsuccessful Canadian-led experimental assault on French port. 44,000 dead.
Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.
Duluth. 1636-1710. French explorer of Lake Superior area.
Empiricism. Philosophy maintaining that all valid human knowledge is gained from experience.
Eugène of Savoy, Prince. 1663-1736. French General of H.R. Imperial armies. Defeated Turks in Vienna and Hungary.
Fabergé, Peter. 1846-1920. Russian jeweller. Imperial Easter Eggs 1884-1917.
Foucault, Léon. 1819-68. Proved rotation of the earth in an experiment at the Pantheon, Paris, 1851. Gyroscope, 1852.
Gallon. 1707 Queen Anne’s wine gallon=US gallon (231 cubic inches). 1824 Imperial gallon defined as 10 pounds of water.
Gilded Age. Post American Civil War period of materialism, questionable ethics. Named by Mark Twain.
Golden Age. Peaceful period of man’s innocence. Greek equivalent of Eden.
Goncourt, Edmond. 1822-96. French novelist. Renée Mauperin. Created Goncourt literature prize.
Great Schism. 1054. East-West Schism. 1378-1417. Period of rival Popes in Rome, Avignon, following Avignon Papacy.
Haller, Albrecht von. 1708-77. Swiss anatomist. “Father of experimental physiology”.
Hellenic Art. 1500-300BC. Prehistoric, Archaic, and Classical periods in Greece.
Hellenistic Art. c330-50BC. Cosmopolitan culturally diverse period of Alexander’s empire. Sensual, emotional sculpture. Dying Gaul. Laocoön.
Hesperides. Nymphs who guarded Hera’s tree of golden apples.
Hobson, John. 1858-1940. British pre-Keynesian economist. Imperialism 1902.
Holst, Gustav. 1874-1934. British composer: original style, harmonic experiments. Planets 1918.
Ice Age. Last period of glaciation, c75000-8350BC.
Idealism, Ethical. Moral and intellectual ideals are superior to materialistic concerns.
Imperial Conferences. 1907-37. Meetings of British Empire/Commonwealth countries.
Imperial Preference. 1932-58. British movement for preferential tarrifs within British Empire.
Imperialism. 19C European movement to expand control over larger territories.
Joyce, James. 1882-1941. Innovative Irish writer in Stream of Consciousness style. Experimented with linguistic techniques. Dubliners 1914. Portrait of the Artist 1916. Ulysses 1922. Finnegan’s Wake 1939.