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Bastille
French fortress, prison, and stumbling stone for revolutionaries of
the
 French
Revolution.
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Bataan Death March
Japanese enforced marathon.
MORE ABOUT THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH |
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Batavian Republic
The French idea of Holland.
MORE ABOUT THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC |
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BC
See
AD |
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BCE
See
AD |
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Berlin Wall
West Berlin fenced.
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Bithynia
When Rome was going to annex
Bithynia,
Mithradates, king of Portus, felt threatened and started
the
Third Mithradatic War.
And here is Bithynia on a map
Bithynia - Click
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Black Death
Fatal.
MORE ABOUT THE BLACK
DEATH |
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Black Hundreds
Shells of pea-sized brains.
MORE ABOUT THE BLACK HUNDREDS |
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Black September
A civil war in Jordan but also a Palestinian extremist group.
MORE ABOUT THE
BLACK SEPTEMBER |
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Bounty, Mutiny of the
William Bligh's ship with a dissatisfied crew.
MORE ABOUT THE
MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY |
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Brezhnev Doctrine,
1968
Leonid Brezhnev's take on solo
performances by other socialist countries.
MORE ABOUT THE BREZHNEV DOCTRINE |
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Brumaire
meaning mist. Second month in the French
Republican Calendar, from October 22 to November 20.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
FRENCH REPUBLICAN CALENDAR |
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Cahiers de Doleances
Write a letter for the royal suggestion box.
MORE ABOUT THE CAHIERS DE DOLEANCES |
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Caliphate
Dominion of a
caliph.
MORE ABOUT
THE CALIPHATE |
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Canterbury Murder
The Canterbury Murder took place in 1170, in Canterbury
cathedral, England. Its victim was Thomas Becket, the
archbishop of Canterbury.
Death was delivered to him by
four of
King Henry's knights.
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Capitation
Head tax in France.
MORE
ABOUT THE CAPITATION |
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Caravel
Favorite vessel of many explorers.
MORE ABOUT THE
CARAVEL |
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Carolingian
Belonging to the
Carolingian Dynasty, a ruling family in western
Europe. |
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Casket Letters
Maybe written by Mary Queen of Scots, but probably not.
MORE ABOUT THE
CASKET LETTERS |
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Casualties
A casualty in a war is a soldier
injured, captured, missing, or dead. |
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CE
See
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Century
From Latin centuria, which means
a group of one hundred, a century is a time period of a
hundred years. A Roman centurion was an individual in
the Roman army who could boss a hundred Roman soldiers around.
Back to the years: When someone says, "In the 16th
century...," he talks about the years 1501 until 1600. You and
I live in the 21st century, which started in 2001 and ends in
the year 2100. |
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Chambre des Comptes
meaning Chamber of Accounts. Board that took care
of everything related to the French taxes on crown
lands, the domaines.
See also
TAXATION IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY
FRANCE: CHAMBRE DES COMPTES |
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Chamizal Dispute
Or Disputa del Chamizal if you prefer Spanish.
A border dispute between the US
and Mexico that arose because the border in question, the
Rio Grande / Rio Bravo was on the move. As rivers are.
The cities concerned were El Paso
and El Paso del Norte, aka Ciudad Juárez. The river moved in favor of the
US.
People started to take issue with this matter in 1895.
It took until 1963 and a rechanneling of the river until
this affair was finally settled.
Here we have U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexican President
Adolfo Lopez
Mateos ready to hug each other, and
to unveil the new boundary marker signaling the peaceful end of
the Chamizal Issue.
Today, you are welcome to visit
the
Chamizal National Memorial. |
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Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
A little bit more than a stare-down and a little bit less than
a battle: the USS Chesapeake and the HMS Leopard
were involved in one of the most infamous incidents of
impressment. The year? 1807.
More about the Chesapeake-Leopard
affair
More about impressment |
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Cientificos
Enlightened Mexican academics.
MORE ABOUT
CIENTIFICOS |
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Coalitions Against France
The various alliances in against France from 1792 to
1815.
MORE ABOUT THE COALITIONS AGAINST FRANCE |
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Cold War
Tension between
the United States and the Soviet Union.
MORE ABOUT
THE COLD WAR |
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Comintern
Communist International, also called the Third
International.
MORE ABOUT
COMINTERN |
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Committee of Public Safety
George Danton and Robespierre were members.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY |
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Communism
Concept of common ownership.
MORE ABOUT
COMMUNISM |
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Confederation of the Rhine
Napoleon's buffer states.
MORE ABOUT THE CONFEDERATION OF THE
RHINE |
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Conseil de Cinq-Cent
or Council of Five Hundred, were 500 men who suggested laws
under the
Directory
(1795-1799).
MORE ABOUT THE CONSEIL DE CINQ-CENT |
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Constitutional Convention
The men who got together in 1787 and came up with the
Constitution of the United States. |
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Consulate
French government from 1799 to 1804.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
CONSULATE |
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Controller General of Finance
or contrôleur général des finances. He was the French finance minister from 1665 to 1790.
MORE ABOUT THE
contrôleur général des finances |
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Cordeliers, Club of the
French revolutionary club and organizer of the
Champ-de-Mars demonstration on July 17, 1791.
See also
CREATION OF THE CLUB OF THE
CORDELIERS |
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Corvée
Obligatory and unpaid labor, but not slavery.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
CORVEE |
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Coup of 18 Fructidor, year V
Rumbling in the Directory.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
COUP OF 18 FRUCTIDOR |
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Coup of 18-19 Brumaire, year VIII
Napoleon made space for the Consulate.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
COUP OF 18 BRUMAIRE |
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Cour des Aides
Supreme court specialized in everything related to the
French consumption tax, the aides.
See also
TAXATION IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY
FRANCE: COUR DES AIDES |
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Cuban Missile Crisis,
1962
The closest the world has ever come to a
nuclear war.
MORE
ABOUT THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS |
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Curule Aediles
Higher
magistrate in Rome |
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Cuneiform
Means wedge-shaped and refers to the picture
writing of the Assyrians and Babylonians. The
Behistun
Rock got some good ones on it. It's close to the
Egyptian hieroglyphs but more abstract.
See also the
Flood Tablet. |
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Czar, Tzar or Tsar?
You can spell it either way. The girl would be the Czarina, Tzarina, or Tsarina. |
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