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Italo-Turkish War. 1911-12. Italy gains Libya and Rhodes. 1911 First offensive use of airplane (vs Libya).
Italy. 1861 Kingdom. 1946 Republic. Rome. Cisalpine Republic. Florence. Lombardy. Sardinia. Sicily. Tuscany. Venice.
Ives, Charles. 1874-1954. First major US composer. Unconventional work anticipates 20C techniques. Very influential on later Americans. 3rd Symphony 1904.
Ivory Coast. Baulé, Kru, Lobi, Senefu. 1895 French West Africa. 1960 Independent republic. Cote d’Ivoire.
Iwo Jima, Battle. 1945. US Marine WWII victory over Japan. 40,000 casualties.
Ixion. Father of Centaurs. Bound to fiery wheel by Zeus.
Iyeyasu. 1542-1616. Unified Japan. First of Tokugawa dynasty.
Jabir Ibn Hayyan. c721-815. Arab alchemist. Mercury+sulphur=gold. 2,000 works.
Jack the Ripper. Murderer of 7 London prostitutes 1887-8. Identity unknown.
Jackson, A.Y. 1882-1974. Canadian landscape painter. Led Group of Seven.
Jackson, Andrew. 1767-1845. US President 1829-37. General 1812-18. Opposed tarrifs. Retired public debt 1835. Spoils system. Universal white male suffrage. Kitchen Cabinet. New Orleans.
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall”. 1824-63. Mexican War and Confederacy general. Bull Run, Shenandoah, Antietam.
Jacobean Architecture. 1600-1625. English Tudor style refined, restrained and harmonized. U and H plans. Jones.
Jacobins. 1789-94. Robespierre-led radical democratic French Revolutionary group. In power 1793-4. -“Holy League against the enemies of liberty”.
Jacquemart de Hesdin. Court painter: Grandes Heures du Duc de Berry 1409.
Jacquerie Revolt. 1358. French peasants revolt vs tax increases to support Hundred Years War. Marcel.
Jagiello. 14-16C. Dynasty ruling Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania.
Jagirdar System. 13C-. Indian feudal system granting tax revenues to officials.
Jahn, Friedrich. 1778-1852. German “father of gymnastics”. Turnverein.
James, Henry. 1843-1916. US psychological novelist. American 1877. Washington Square 1881. Turn of the Screw 1898. Compared innocence of New World with corruption of Old.-“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature”.
James, St. -c44. One of 12 Apostles. Martyred by Herod Agrippa I.
James, William. 1842-1910. US Pragmatic philosopher. Radical Empiricism. Principles of Psychology 1890. Will to Believe 1897.
James I. 1566-1625. James VI of Scotland 1567-. King of England 1603-. United Scotland and England. Authorized Bible 1611.“Wisest fool in Christianity”. Gunpowder Plot. Religious controversy.
James II. 1633-1701. King of Great Britain 1685-8. Exiled 1689- in France. Supported Catholics. Bloody Assizes. Glorious Revolution overthrew him.
James III. 1452-88. King of Scotland 1460-. Killed by rebels at Sauchieburn.