Potemkin, Grigori. 1739-91. Russian Field Marshal. Supported Catherine II.

Potidaea. 432BC. Revolt vs Athens. Second Peloponnesian War.

Poussin, Nicolas. 1594-1665. French Neoclassical painter. Strong pictorial emotional works. Arcadian Shepherds 1638/55. Rape of the Sabines 1636-7.

Powhatan. c1550-1618. American Indian chief. Pocohantas’ father. Co-op. with settlers.

Pragmatic Sanction. 1713. Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI declares Maria Theresa as heir causing War of Austrian Succession.

Prague, Peace of. 1635. Ends Swedish phase of Thirty Years War.

Praguerie. 1440. French nobles rebel vs Charles VII.

Prairial, Law of 22. 1794. France allowed only acquital or death penalty in trials. Terror.

Prandtl, Ludwig. 1875-1953. German “father” of aerodynamics.

Pratt, E.J. 1883-1964. Canadian Nationalist poet. Brébeuf and his Brethren 1940.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. 1848-53. British painters vs Royal Academy. Advocated return to simple classical naturalism. Painted with bright colors on white vs dark tones of the time. Rossetti. Millais. Hunt.

Predestination. Christian doctrine that God has pre-ordained who will be saved. Calvinism.

Pretorius, Marthinus. 1819-1901. First president of South African Republic 1857-71, president. Orange Free State 1859-64.

Priam. Last king of Troy. Father of Paris, Hector.

Price, Harry. 1881-1948. Famous British medium debunker. Wrote about the most haunted house in England, but faked it.

Priestley, Joseph. 1733-1804. English chemist: isolated Oxygen 1774, 9 other gasses.

Prim y Prats, Juan. 1814-70. Spanish. Helped overthrow Isabella 1868.

Prime Minister. =Premier. Head of parliamentary government under the head of state (monarch or president). Walpole (1721-42) considered first British Prime Minister. Richelieu 1624 France. Chancellor.

Primogeniture. Right of eldest son to inherit. Prevented dilution of wealth of aristocracy.

Prince of Asturias. 1379-. Title of heir apparent to Spanish throne.

Prior, Matthew. 1664-1721. English epigrammist/poet: City Mouse and the Country Mouse.

Procopius the Great. c1380-1434. Bohemian leader in Hussite War.

Procrustes. Greek robber. Adjusted victims to his bed length by stretching or cutting.

Profumo Affair. 1963. British War Minister Profumo and Christine Keeler, who also associated with Soviet attaché. Embarassed government.

Prohibition. 1920-33. US 18th Amendment. Alcoholic drinks illegal. Repealed by 21st. Temperance Movement.

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