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Sidmouth, First viscount. 1757-1844. British Prime Minister 1801-4. Treaty of Amiens. Peterloo Massacre.
Six Acts. 1819. Suppressed Radicals after Peterloo.
Soult, Nicolas. 1769-1851. French chief of staff at Waterloo, Ulm, Austerlitz.
Stalin, Joseph. 1879-1953. Soviet bloodthirsty revolutionary. Leader 1924-. 5 Year Plans modernized Russia. 1928 Collectivization. 1932- Dictator. 1936-8 Purge. Turned Marxism to Nationalism and Imperialism. World Socialist Revolution under USSR. 1952 abolished Politburo.
Stockholm Bloodbath. 1520. Danish Christian II kills 80 nobles. Swedish fight for independence.
Temperance Movement. 1808 Begun in NY by women and churches. 1874 WCTU. 1890 Carry Nation. 1893 Anti-Saloon League. Prohibition.
Uccello, Paolo. 1397-1475. Florentine Gothic/Renaissance painter. Perspective pioneer. Flood 1447.
Walloon. French dialect of south Belgium. Flemings.
Waterloo, Battle. 1815. Final defeat of Napoleon by Wellington and Blücher.
Wellington, Duke of. 1769-1852. English general, victor at Waterloo. Prime Minister 1828-30.
Wolfe, Tom. 1900-38. US novelist. Look Homeward, Angel 1929.
Woolf, Virginia. 1882-1941. English psychological stream of consciousness writer. Captured transience and subtlety of thought. Bloomsbury Group. Mrs Dalloway 1925. To the Lighthouse 1927. Waves 1931.
Woolley, Leonard. 1880-1960. English archeologist. Excavated Ur. Found evidence of Great Flood.
Zuiderzee. Netherlands. 13C. Floods caused by storms. 1927-32 Dam built. 1930s Land reclaimed. 1944 Flooded by Nazis. 1946 reclaimed.