Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962. Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet missile installation.

Cubism. 1907. Braque and Picasso reduce painting to minimum geometric forms. Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Term coined by Braque 1909.

Cubism, Synthetic. 1913. Braque and Picasso create a collage form of painting.

Cuchulain. Legendary powerful Irish warrior.

Cumae. 750BC-1205. Oldest Greek colony in Italy. Near Naples.

Cummings, e.e. 1894-1962. Eccentric US poet. Tulips and Chimneys 1923.

Cunaeus. Leyden jar battery 1745.

Cuneiform. 3000-1C BC. Sumerian writing form in clay with triangular pointed stick. Spread widely.

Curragh Incident. 1914. 57 British army officers resign rather than fight Ulstermen.

Cuvier, Georges. 1769-1832. French creator of comparative anatomy and paleontology.

CWA. Civil Works Admin. US New Deal project employed 4M.

Cybele. Roman Great Mother of gods. = Rhea.

Cyclades. Greek Islands in Delian League.

Cycladic Civilization. Paralleled Minoan and Mycenaean.

Cyclops. Mythical one-eyed giant.

Cymbeline. c40. Legendary British king, resisted Romans.

Cynewulf. c750. English religious poet. Ascension.

Cynicism. 4C BC-6C. Greek philosophy. Antisthenes. Diogenes.

Cyprian, St. c200-258. Martyred Bishop of Carthage. Opposed Pope.

Cyprus. Stone, Bronze Age civilizations. 1450BC Egypt. 1200BC Greek. 1000 Phoenicia. 709 Assyria. 569 Egypt. 6C Persia. 333 Macedonia. 294 Egypt. 47BC Rome...330 AD Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 1191 Crusaders. 1489 Venice. 1571 Turk. 1878 British lease...1914 Britain annexes. 1927 Crown Colony. 1960 Republic. 1963-4 Civil War, Greece and Turkey intervene. 1974 Turkey invades, partition.

Cyprus Emergency. 1952-9. Pro-Greece EOKA terrorists vs British.

Cyprus Revolt. 1925-31. For union with Greece.

Cyrano de Bergerac. 1619-65. French large nosed satirical writer. La Mort d’Agrippine 1654.

Cyrenaics. 4C BC. Greek school of philosophy. Pleasure is the highest good. Epicureanism.

Cyril, St. c444. Patriarch of Alexandria. Deported Nestor. Lynched Hypatia. Launched pogroms against Jews. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon.

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