Damon and Pythias. Syracuse true friends. Damon pledged his life for Pythias’, awaiting execution.

Dario, Ruben. 1867-1916. Published Azul 1888, starting Modernismo movement.

Dawes Act. 1887. US law granting citizenship and land rights to individual Indians.

Daye, Stephen. 1594-1668. First printing press in American colonies 1639.

De La Tour, George. 1593-1652. French Caravaggist painter. Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds.

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

Dettingen, Battle. 1743. English defeat French in War of Austrian Succession.

Donation of Constantine. 8C. Forged document granting land to the papacy. Exposed 1440.

Dunbarton Oaks Conference. 1944. UN organizational meeting. Yalta. San Francisco.

Edelinck, Gerard. 1640-1707. Flemish engraver: first multi-color printing.

Edward the Confessor, St. c1003-66. Anglo Saxon king 1041-. Founded Westminster Abbey. Conquered Wales. Died without heir, prompting Norman Invasion.

Eugenics. Race improvement by selective mating. Galton.

Expressionism. 20C Literary style expressing essence of subject by exaggerating characteristics. Sounds and symbols. Joyce. Kafka. O’Neill. Woolf. Beckman.

Fatima. Portuguese site of pilgrimage since sighting of Virgin Mary by Santos1917.

Fauvism. 1898-1908. Violently colored and distorted painting expressing strong emotion. Matisse. Roualt. Puy.

Fellow Travellers. 1917. Russian writers not actively supporting the revolution. Communist sympathizers who are not party members.

Flaubert, Gustave. 1821-1880. French Realist novelist. Madame Bovary 1851. Novembre 1842. Acquitted of corrupting public morals, 1857.

Flemish. 15-17C school of painting. Technical skill, detail. VanEyck. Bruegel. Rubens.

Florentine. School of Painting. 1270 Academy of Fine Arts. Express humanist ideas through art. Realism and chiarascuro. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.

Fontainebleau. School of Art. 1528-1600. Classical style of painting precipitated by above. Later, allegorical style.

Forum. 2C. Roman open-air meeting place. Trajan.

German-Soviet Pact. 1939-41. Nonaggression agreement. Divided Poland, Baltic between USSR/Germany. Left Hitler free to invade Poland, starting WWII.

Gnosticism. 1-6C. Heretical Christian sect incorporating mysticism, dualism, Docetism.

Golden Bull. 1356. Charles IV edict eliminating papal power in selection of Holy Roman Emperor.

Gonçalves, Nuno. 15C. Founded Portugal school of painting. Sao Vicente altarpiece.

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