Dualism. Cartesian division of world into mind and matter.

Dvorák, Antonin. 1841-1901. Czech Nationalist composer. New World Symphony 1893. Classical form with folk spontaneity.

Eiffel Tower. 1889. 320.75m high. 1652 steps. Opened for World Exhibition, Paris.

Erebus. Area of Greek underworld. Personified as son of Chaos.

Flood, Great. c3000BC. Destruction of man and world by God. Forty days and night. Noah. Gilgamesh.

Food and Agriculture Organization. 1945- UN agency. Administers World Food Program.

Gloire. 1859. French. World’s first armour-plated vessel.

Grand Canal. 4C BC-1400. China. World’s longest, 1,000 miles.

Grand Palais. Built for 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.

Green, Hetty. 1835-1916. US miser. World’s richest woman.

Hague Conferences. 1899, 1907. Arms limitation talks banned poison gas, dum-dum bullets. Established World Court.

Huxley, Aldous. 1894-1963. English philosophical novelist: Brave New World 1932.

Idrisi. 1100-65. Arab geographer. World Map 1164.

International. Socialist revolutionary workers movements. First. 1864-76. Founded by Marx in London. Second. 1889-1914. Paris. IFTU. Revived in 1920s. Third. 1919-43. =COMINTERN. Stalin’s Vehicle for world-wide Communist Revolution. Fourth. 1938-53. Trotsky’s Transitional Program for reform.

International Court of Justice. 1945-. UN appointed body to settle International disputes. World Court.

Jennings, Jane. Canadian author. Pocket Guide to World History 1986-2009.

Kreuger, Ivar. 1880-1932. Swede. Failed attempt at world match monopoly.

Lomé Convention. 1975. 46 third World Countries gain free access to EEC. 1979 $7B aid from EEC to developing countries.

Meiji. 1852-1912. Japanese Empire. 1867-. Modernization. New constitution. Abolished feudalism. Made Japan a world power. Ended isolationism. Tokugawa.

National Geographic Society. 1888. World’s largest scientific and educational society.

New World Order. 1940. Germany, Italy, Japan plan for world domination.

OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. 1961. For expansion of world trade. OEEC + US, Canada, Australia, NZ.

Orcus. Roman god of underworld and dead. = Hades.

Orpheus. Mythical Greek poet. Tamed animals with lyre. Music charmed underworld gods in bid to free wife.

Osama bin Laden. 1957-. Wahabi Saudi Arabian construction magnate turned terrorist. World Trade Center. Taliban. al-Qaeda.

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