De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.

De Wet, Christiaan. 1854-1922. Boer general. Led 1914 Rebellion.

Deacon. Christian cleric. Lowest rank of Episcopal Holy Orders. Protestant lay official.

Dead Sea Scrolls. 3C BC-1C AD. Old Testament texts of Essenes. Discovered at Qumrum, 1947.

Deakin, Alfred. 1856-1919. Australian Prime Minister 1903~10. First Attorney General 1901. Led federation movement.

Dean, James. 1931-55. US film star. Rebel Without a Cause 1955.

Deane, Silas. 1737-89. American Revolutionary. First US foreign diplomat.

Deborah. Old Testament prophet.

Debs, Eugene. 1855-1926. US socialist leader. Led Pullman Strike 1894.

Debussy, Claude. 1862-1918. French Impressionist composer. System of harmonic images. Nocturnes. La Mer 1905.

Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.

Decatur, Stephen. 1779-1820. US naval officer. -“Our country, right or wrong”.

Decazes, Elie, duc de. 1780-1860. Minister of Louis XVIII. Moderate leader.

Decembrists. 1825. Conspiracy to overthrow Czar Nicholas I. Betrayed. Established Russia’s revolutionary tradition.

Decius. c201-251. Roman Emperor 249-. First systematic persecution of Christians.

Declaration of the 26 Nations. 1942. Washington. First reference to United Nations. Agreement to no separate truce with Axis.

Decorated English Architecture. 1250-1375. Introduced lighting and shade effects. York Minster.

Deductive Reasoning. Aristotelian. Derivation of universal truths from prior certainties. Syllogisms.

Deere, John. 1804-86. US inventor of steel plow.

Defenestration of Prague. 1419. Hussites eject aldermen. 1618. Protestants throw regents out window. Begins Thirty Years War.

DeForest, Lee. 1873-1961. US vacuum tube inventor.

Degas, Edgar. 1834-1917. French Impressionist painter of dancers and cafe life. Rehearsal. Tub.

DeGasperi, Alcide. 1881-1954. Italian Prime Minister 1945-53. Post-war reconstruction.

Deism. Theory that God’s existence can be proven by reason, not just known by revelation (Theism). Rousseau. Voltaire. Jefferson.

Dekker, Thomas. c1572-1632. English satiric dramatist. Shoemaker’s Holiday 1600.

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