Impossible Histories Index
“I’m always embarrassed when I see an index an author has made of his own work.” –Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (1963).
For space reasons (they say), the index for Impossible Histories got cut, but I think indices are super useful, and I want to encourage all readers to print this out and stick the folded pages in the back of their copies of IH. Corrections welcome!
A
Abbot, Bud (American comedian): 365–66
Abbot, Jacob (American historian): 54, 59
Abbot, John S.C. (American historian, his brother): 59
Abdul-Muttalib (Arab leader): 329
Aberconway, Lord (British diplomat): 151
Abraha (Axumite general): 325–32
Abraham (patriarch): 262
Abu Tahir (Qarmatian heretic): 328
Abydos (Asia Minor): 121
Ace, Johnny (American rock martyr): 101n, 105
Acre (Israel): 247–50, 255–56
Adam (gardener): 64, 131, 220n
Adams, Eddie (American photographer): 350n
Adams, John Quincy (US president): 342
Adams, Richard (British lagomorphophile): 323
Adamson, Henry (Scottish poet): 78
Adhemar (French bishop): 217–18
Adid, al- (Fatimid caliph): 244
Adil, al- (Kurdish leader): 252
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884 novel): 82, 237
Ælfric (English writer): 179
Aelian (Roman writer): 125
Aeneid (epic): 113
Afghanistan: 44, 53n
Agathocles (Hellenistic prince): 52n
Âge d’or, L’ (1930 film): 229–30
Agnew, Spiro (US vice-president): 186
Ahura Mazda (deity): 338
Ajax (play): 102
Alamut (Assassin fortress): 253–54
Alaric (Goth): 294, 302–3
Albania: 74, 74n, 110, 264
Alchemist, The (play): 102
Alcibiades (Greek rogue): 108–125, 112n–13n, 119n, 124n, 129–30, 133, 138, 338
Aldhelm (English writer): 169
Alexander, Franz (Hungarian-American psychologist): 99–100
Alexander III, called the Great (Macedonian conquerer): 40, 43–58, 43n, 49n–55n, 60, 64, 67, 110, 126, 157, 161, 165, 247, 368
Alexander IV (Macedonian infant): 46–7, 49–50
Alexios (Byzantine emperor): 212–14
Alfred the Great (king of England): 57
Alger, Horatio, Jr. (American novelist): 9n, 21, 21n, 84, 84n, 232n
Algonquins: 33–34, 39–42, 184
Allemagne (Germany): 158, 361
Allen, George (DNC treasurer): 196
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929 novel): 15
Almagro, Diego de (conquistador): 61, 70–71
Alodia (East African kingdom): 335
Alp Arslan (Turkish sultan): 212, 215, 217, 219
Amis, Martin (English “man of letters”): 90, 317, 381n
Ammianus Marcellinus (Roman historian): 154, 161n, 162, 166–67, 170, 293
Amos ’n’ Andy (franchise): 85
Amundsen, Roald (Norwegian explorer): 273–75, 278, 281–82
Anabasis (memoir): 338
anarchy: 11, 16, 104, 112n, 298, 314
Anaxarchus (Greek philosopher): 112–13
Anderson, Margaret (American publisher): 230
Andreas Capellanus (French writer): 241
Andrew, St.: 217–18
Andropov, Yuri (Soviet premier): 379
Annam (protectorate): 352, 354
Antarctica: 211n, 271–277, 272n, 281–84, 287
Anti-Masonic Party: 80–81
Antigone (play): 102
Antigonus Gonatus (king of Macedon): 53
Antigonus Monopthalamus (diadochus): 45, 47–51, 52n, 92n
Antioch: 25, 156, 161n, 165, 172, 216–18, 216n, 220, 243, 245, 247
Antiochus (Athenian commander): 122
Antiochus (Seleucid king): 56n, 216n
Antipater (diadochus): 45, 47–48, 52
Antoninus Pius (Roman emperor): 296
Apollo (deity): 43n, 175, 211n, 329
Apollonius of Tyana (Greek philosopher): 58
Apuleius, Lucius (Roman novelist): 177
Arabia Felix (Yemen): 324
archery: 27, 33, 123, 181, 215–16
Archestratus (Greek writer): 133
Archie Comics: 100–1
Ariosto, Ludovico (Italian poet): 65n, 232–33, 232n
Aristides the Just (Athenian statesman): 124n
Aristotle (Greek philosopher): 36, 109–10, 130, 130n, 135, 181
Arius and Arianism: 162, 164, 169, 176, 179
Armenia: 158, 166–67, 170, 289, 301, 320
Armstrong, Karen (American historian): 220n
Arnold, Matthew (English writer): 101
Arsinoe (Hellenistic queen): 52n, 54n, 92n
arson: 19, 85
Artapanus (Jewish historian): 321
Arthuriana: 179, 221n, 241–42, 246, 277, 323
Artorius Castus, Lucius (Roman general): 323
assassination: 11–3, 44, 85, 106, 120, 123, 131, 154–55, 166, 199, 253–54, 266, 293–95, 297–99, 304, 310–11, 318, 331, 333, 336–37
Assassins (sect): 253–54
Atahualpa (emperor of the Inca): 61–70
Athens: 47, 50–51, 51n, 108–138, 112n, 124n, 131n–32n, 208, 358
Athos, Mount: 53
Atlantis: 25, 77, 85
Attalus III (King of Pergamon): 290
Attar, Farid ud-Din (Persian poet): 130
Attila the Hun (conquerer): xi, 135, 138
Auchincloss, Louis (American novelist): 91
Auden, W.H. (Anglo-American poet): 236, 398
Augustine, St.: 96–97, 339
Augustus (Roman emperor): 43n, 161, 292–95, 303–5
Austen, Jane (English novelist): 1, 232n
Avila, Pedro de (conquistador): 72
Axum (city and empire): 64, 222, 289, 320–26, 329, 331–41
Aztec Empire: 40, 61, 63, 167, 184, 224–26, 301
B
Babur, Zahiruddin Muhammad (Mughal emperor): 256n, 258
Baby Boomers: 100–4, 349–50, 364–66
Babylon: 43, 47, 50, 50n, 52, 57, 88, 218n
Back, George (English explorer): 269–70
Backderf, Derf (American cartoonist): 62n
Bacon, Francis (English philosopher): 130
Bacon, Roger (English scientist): 224n
Bahrain: 327–8
Bakunin, Mikhail (Russian anarchist): 314–5
Balboa, Vasco N. de (conquistador): 60
Baldwin, Stanley (British PM): 143
Balian d’Ibelin (Outremerean crusader): 245-46
Balkans, the: 158, 257, 264–66
Ballantyne, R.M. (Scottish novelist): 285, 285n
Bar-Hebræus, Gregory (Syrian writer): 130
Barbarossa: (see Oruç or Frederick)
Barrie, J.M. (Scottish playwright): 18
Barsine (Persian princess): 46, 55
Bartholomew’s Day massacre: 137
Batailles, Georges (French philosopher): 229n
bathing: 291–94, 297, 300, 304–5
Batman: 99, 286, 364
Beatles, The: 101n, 102, 213, 360, 364
Bede, The Venerable (British writer): xi, 153
Bedford-Jones, Henry (Canadian pulp writer): 25n
Beecher, Catharine (American theologian): 346
Beecher, Henry Ward (American activist): 134, 346
Beecher, Lyman (American activist): 346
Beethoven, Ludwig von (German composer): 228, 239, 265
Belloc, Hilaire (English poet): 143n, 373
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, The: 85
Benrley, E. Clerihew (English poet): 59n
Beothuk: 33–39
Berg, Alban (Austrian composer): 229
Bergler, Edmund (Austro-American psychologist): 99
Bergmann, Carl (German biologist): 285
Bering, Vitus (Danish explorer): 307
Bering Strait: 31, 307–8, 319
Béroul (Francophone poet): 179
Berry, Chuck (American rocker): 101, 101n
Berry, Halle (American actress): 350n
Bettelheim, Bruno (Austro-American psychologist): 96n
Betty Boop: 84n
Beverly Hillbillies, The (TV series): 312
Bible: 20, 130–32, 155, 164, 179, 222, 292, 330, 346
biblical citation: 20, 77, 96, 108, 130, 170, 175, 217, 292, 321–22, 324, 330
Billy the Kid (American outlaw): 25
Bion of Olbia (Greek philosopher): 112
Biruni, al- (Persian writer): 181
Bismarck, Otto von (German chancellor): 266
Black, Riley (American paleontologist): 6n
Blake, William (English poet): 102n, 103, 234
blood libel: 211, 240–41
Boer War: 9
Bohemund of Taranto (Norman crusader): 217, 219
Bonaparte, Napoleon (Corsican conquerer): 5, 5n, 9,11, 90n, 129,149, 152, 169–70, 209, 234–35, 263, 266–67, 280, 300, 353, 382, 389
Bon Jovi, Jon (American rocker): 237n
Boone, Daniel (American frontiersman): 59n
Booth, John Wilkes (American assassin): 108, 310, 342–43
Borges, Jorge Luis (Argentinian writer): 238n, 269n
Botev, Hristo (Bulgarian poet): 265
Bragadin, Marco Antonio (governor of Famagusta): 258
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de (French gossip): 258
Braque, Georges (French painter): 229
Braveheart (1995 film): 207, 238
Brecht, Bertolt (German playwright): 141
British Columbia: 309–10
Brokaw, Tom (American newscaster): 102
Brontë, Anne (English novelist): 21, 237
Brontë, Charlotte (English novelist): 232n, 237, 290
Brontë, Emily (English novelist): 78, 232n, 237
Brooke, Rupert (English poet): 16
Brown, Helen Gurley (American editor): 105
Brown, Marie A. (American? writer): 31, 31n
Brunelleschi, Filippo (Italian painter): 232
Bryant, William Jennings (American politician): 185
Buchan, John (Scottish novelist): 283
Buckley, William F. (American editor): 153n
Buda (Hungary): 257
Buddhism: 110, 173–74, 173n, 338–39, 368
Bugliosi, Vincent (American jurist): 232n
Bull Run, Battle of: 208
Bundy, McGeorge (US national security advisor): 196, 382
Bundy, Ted (American murderer): 100n
Buñuel, Luis (Spanish-Mexican film director): 229–30
Burden, Chris (American artist): 230
Burke, Edmund (British philosopher): 108, 234
Burma-Shave: 195
Burmese Harp, The (1956): 192n
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Anglo-American novelist): 15n
Burns, Robert (Scottish poet): 232n, 233–34
Burr, Aaron (US vice-president): 343–8
Burton, Richard F. (English explorer): 279
Byrd, Richard E. (American explorer): 90n, 275
Byrnes, James (US secretary of state): 196
Byron, Lord (English poet): 106, 171, 227n, 234, 237–39, 330
Byzantine Empire: 153, 212, 336
Byzantium (see also Constantinople): 121, 153
C
Cajamarca (Inca city): 61–3, 65
Caligula (Roman emperor): 154n, 290, 293–94
Callicrates (Greek soldier): 125
Callimachus (Hellenistic poet): 112n
Calvin, John (French–Swiss reformer): 2n
Cambodia: 87, 136, 153n, 236, 352–54, 356, 358, 362–63
Campbell, John W. (American editor): 370
Canada: 27, 206, 222, 224, 226, 268ff., 278, 309–10, 313–14, 317–18
canicide: 211, 211n, 274
Capone, Al (American gangster): 23, 141
Capp, Al (American cartoonist): 100n
Cappadocia: 47–48, 155, 164, 174
Canalejas y Méndez, José (Spanish politician): 11n
Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio (Spanish politician): 11n
Carlyle, Thomas (Scottish historian): 104, 305
Carrhae (Roman city): 166, 169
Carroll, Lewis (English novelist): xi, 232n
Carter, Jimmy (US president): 367–86
Carthage: 54–56, 116
Cartmill, Cleve (American sf writer): 370
Carvajal, Francisco (conquistador): 59n
Cassander (diadochus): 45, 48–51
Castiglione, Baldassare (Italian writer): 53–54
Catharism: 172
Catherine the Great (Russian empress): 206n
Catt, Carrie Chapman (American activist): 21, 23
Celestine III (pope): 255
Cervantes, Miguel (Spanish writer): 107, 109, 247n
Chalcedon (Asia Minor): 121
Chamberlain, Joseph (English politician): 152
Chamberlain, Neville (English PM): 5n, 143–44, 150–52
Champa (SE Asian kingdom): 352
Chandragupta (Mauryan Emperor): 51, 51n, 57, 353
Charlemagne (Holy Roman Emperor): i, 67, 84n, 137, 337
Chatterton, Thomas (English poet): 237, 237n, 250n
Chaucer, Geoffrey (English poet): 130, 211, 227
Chesterton, G.K. (English writer): 59n, 152
Chiang Kai-shek (president of China): 196, 355
Childress, David Hatcher (French crackpot): 34–35
Chnodomar (Germanic leader): 157–58
Chow Yun-Fat (Hong Kong actor): 239
Christian, Fletcher (English mutineer): 107
Christianity: 18, 20–21, 26, 62, 131–32, 153–55, 161–79, 162n, 211–22, 243–63, 290–91, 320–27, 331–41
Christmas songs: 286
Churchill, Winston (British PM): 59, 146, 198, 300, 377
Cicero (Roman writer): 175, 294–95
Cilles (Macedonian general): 50
Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius (Roman statesman): 186
Cioran, E.M. (Rumanian philosopher): 265n
Civil War, American: 9, 69, 81, 84–86, 88, 194, 238, 309–11
Clay, Henry (US politician): 81–82, 185, 313
Cleaver, Eldridge (American activist): 14n
Clemenceau, Georges (French PM): 18, 18n
Cleopatra (Macedon princess): 59
Cleopatra (Macedonian queen of Egypt): 53, 107
Cleveland, Grover (US president): 185
Clinton, Bill (US president): 342
Clinton, Hillary (US politician): 342
Clive, Robert (English conquerer): 17, 17n, 272n
Clovis (French king): 67n
C. Mery Talys, A (1526 joke book): 130n
Coasters, The (musical group): 101
Cobb, Joseph B. (American writer): 345
Cochinchina (Vietnamese region): 352, 354, 360–63
Cody, Buffalo Bill (American showman): 82
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (English poet): 102, 230–38, 231n
Colt, Samuel (American inventor): 216
Columbus, Christopher (Italian explorer): 24, 31, 183, 221–25, 221n, 224n, 307, 347, 387
comics: 10n, 18, 18n, 19, 19n, 27n, 49n, 68–69, 84n, 86, 99–101, 99n–100n, 123n, 162, 187, 195, 195n, 206n, 221n, 229, 229n, 286, 286n, 290, 344, 365, 365n
Commodus (Roman emperor): 154, 291, 297, 302
communism: 13–14, 86, 135
Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies: 73
Conference of the Birds, The (poem): 130
Confucius and Confucianism: 78, 173
Connecticut: 71
conquerers: 60
Conrad of Montferrat (crusader): 247–56
Constantine the Great (Roman emperor): 153–55, 158, 161–62, 302, 321
Constantinople (see also Istanbul): 126, 153, 165, 176, 180, 212, 302
Constantius (Roman emperor): 154–62, 161n
Constitutional amendments: 21–22, 134, 344, 366–67
Cook, Frederick A. (American explorer): 275
Cook, James (English explorer): 272, 272n
Cook, Monte (American philosopher): 387
cool (lexeme): 238–39, 367
Copernicus (Polish astronomer): 179–80, 184
Corcyra (Corfu): 110
Corday, Charlotte (French assassin): 304–5
Corinth (city): 110, 117, 157
Cornwallis, Charles (English general): 82
Corupedion, Battle of: 52
Corvina Library (Buda): 257
Cosmopolitan (magazine): 105, 105n
Costello, Lou (American comedian): 365–6
Coustos, John (English Freemason): 79, 87
Cowper, William (English poet): 233–34
Crécy, Battle of: 207
Crete: 258, 329
Crews, Frederick (Americam writer): 90
Critias (Greek politician): 123, 129
Cromwell, Oliver (English protector): 327–28
Crosby, Percy (American cartoonist): 10n
Crusades: 138, 172, 210–222, 216n, 220n, 241–256
Ctesiphon (Persia): 166–67, 334
Curtius Rufus, Quintus (Roman historian): 45n
Cybele (deity): 163
Cynicism: 156–57, 171
Cyprus: 219, 243, 249, 251, 253, 256, 258, 341
Cyril, St.: 339
Cyzicus (Asia Minor): 121
Czech Legion: 315–16
D
Dahl, Roald (English writer): 189–90, 196–97
Dalí, Salvador (Spanish artist): 99
Damascus (Syria): 55, 217
Dante Alighieri (Italian poet): 104, 108–9, 130, 229n, 272
Darazi, ad- (Druze prophet): 211
D’Arcy, H.A. (Franco-American poet): 23n
Darien, Isthmus of: 73–75
Darius II (Persian emperor): 121
Darlan, François (French admiral): 300
Darwin, Charles (English biologist): 94, 111, 178, 389
David (king of Israel): 108
Davis, Angela (American radical): 14n
Davis, Matthew L. (American biographer): 345
Davis, Miles (American jazz musician): 239
Dean, James (American actor): 239
Dear Abby: 99–100
DeCosta, B.F. (American writer): 31
Defoe, Daniel (English novelist): 112n, 232n
de Landa, Diego (conquistador): 225–26
de las Casas, Bartolomé (Spanish friar): 35
de Leon, Ponce (conquistador): 72, 272n
Delphi, Oracle at: 124, 329
Demades (Athenian orator): 124n
Demetrius (diadochus): 45, 50–53, 51n–52n, 92n, 128
Democratic National Convention: 190
de Molay, Jacques (Templar): 77, 220
Demosthenes (Greek orator): 129
Demostratus (Greek troublemaker): 115
de Soto, Hernando (conquistador): 61, 66, 72
determinism: 2–8, 94, 346–7
Dewey, Thomas (American educator): 185
Dhu Nuwas (Himyarite king): 324–6
Dhul-Suwayqatayn (vandal): 329
Diamond, Jared (American writer): 34–35, 392
Díaz, Bernal (conquistador): 63
Dickens, Charles (English novelist): 21, 232n, 249, 389
Dickinson, Emily (American American poet): 5, 7n
Dillinger, John (bank robber): 86, 290–91
dinosaurs: 5–6, 6n, 284–88, 287n
Diocletian (Roman emperor): 153, 164, 299–301
Diodorus Siculus (Sicilian historian): 54, 55n, 125n
Diogenes (Greek philosopher): 130n, 156–57, 395
Dion (tyrant of Syracuse): 154n
Diplocaulus (amphibian): 287–88
Disney, Walt (American animator): 84n, 138, 238n, 246n
Doboyba (desideratum): 73
Dr. Strangelove (1964 film): 191
Domitian (Roman emperor): 154n, 290, 295
Don Quixote (novel): 107
Doyle, Arthur Conan (Scottish writer): 84, 207
Draco (Athenian lawgiver): 124n
Dracula (Transylvanian count): 264n
Drake Passage: 271–72, 275
drugs: 90, 94–95, 98, 104, 238, 253–54, 367
druids: 77
Druze: 178, 211, 211n
Dryden, John (English poet): 233
Du Chaillu, Paul (Franco-American explorer): 285
Duchamp, Marcel (French artist): 229
Dulles, John Foster (US secretary of state): 201, 209
Dumas, Alexandre (French novelist): 16, 20
Dunkirk: 147
Dwight, Timothy (American educator): 5n, 220–21, 220n
Dyrrachium (Albania): 110
E
Eastwood, Clint (American actor): 239
EC Comics: 68
Eco, Umberto (Italian semiotician): 246n, 273n, 361n
Edda: 30, 30n
Edward III (king of England): 207, 216
Edwards, Jonathan (American theologian): 2n, 347–48
Egypt: 43, 47–48, 53, 63, 92n, 123, 169–70, 172, 211, 211n, 215, 244, 302, 330
Einstein, Albert (German-American physicist): 94, 383
Eisenhower, Dwight (US president): 186n–87n, 369, 377
Elagabalus (Roman emperor): 290, 298
Eleanor of Aquataine (queen of France and England): 240–42
elephants: 46, 51, 285, 325, 328–29
Eleusinian Mysteries: 171, 177
Eliade, Mircea (Rumanian-American philosopher): 265n, 384
Eliot, Charles (American educator): 14, 105, 134
Eliot, T.S. (Anglo-American poet): 16, 132, 241, 243n
Elisabeth (Austrian empress): 11n
Elliot, Cass (American singer): 106
Ellis, Edward S. (American Freemason): 84, 84n
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (American writer): 53n, 230
Eminescu, Mihai (Rumanian poet): 265
Engels, Friedrich (German writer): 312
Enoch (patriarch): 77
Ephraem of Syria, St.: 169
Epictetus (Greek philosopher): 154n
Epidamnos (Albania): 110
Equiano, Olaudah (Anglo-American memoirist): 322
Erebus, HMS: 271, 271n
Erik Bloodaxe (Norwegian king): 38, 137
Erik the Red (Icelandic explorer): 25–26, 25n–26n, 32, 35, 223
Erik’s Saga: 27–28, 33–35, 37
Erikson, Erik (German-American psychologist): 100
Ernst, Max (German artist): 229n
Estreito, João Alfonso de (Portuguese explorer): 222–23
Ethiopia: 43, 64, 222, 289, 320–26, 329, 331–41
Eugene IV (pope): 221–22
Eumenes (diadochus): 45–50, 52, 56
Euripides (Greek playwright): 52n, 109, 118, 126
Eurydice (queen of Macedon): 49
Evans, Edgar (Welsh explorer): 274, 281
Evans, Lawton B. (American writer): 59–60, 59n
Eve (ribmonger): 131, 220n
Ezana (Emperor of Axum): 321
F
“Face Upon the Floor, The” (1887 poem): 23n
fads: 101, 213, 285, 367
fairy tales: 69, 83, 95–96, 231
Famagusta (Cyprus): 258
Farewell to Arms, A (1929 novel): 15n
Fatimid Caliphate: 211–12, 215, 244
Faulkner, William (American novelist): 232n
Felix Hemmerli (Swiss writer): 292
Ferdinand (Austro-Hungarian archduke): 11–12, 11n
Ferdinand (Austrian duke): 257, 259–60
Ferenczi, Sandor (Hungarian psychologist): 96n
Fereydun (Persian emperor): 67n
Fermi, Enrico (Italian-American physicist): 369n, 376
Fielding, Henry (English novelist): 5n, 55n, 90n, 102, 233n
Fifteen Years of a Drunkard’s Life (1828 play): 20–21
Fillmore, Millard (US president): 80
FitzGerald, Edward (English poet): 2n, 232n
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (American novelist): 232n
Fleischl von Marxow, Ernst (Austrian addict): 94–95
Fliess, Wilhelm (Greman confidant): 96
Flintstones, The (TV series): 6, 6n, 84
Flodden Field, Battle of: 18
Flying Nun, The (TV series): 153n
Ford, Henry (American industrialist): 82
Ford, Gerald (US president): 82, 186
forest fires: 150–51
Francis, St.: 245
Franklin, Benjamin (American polymath): 80, 82, 90n, 134, 302
Franklin, John (English explorer): 268–71, 268n–69n, 278, 281
Franz Joseph (Austrian emperor): 12
Franz Joseph Land: 278
fraternities & sororities: 84n, 86–87, 86n–87n
Frederick Barbarossa (German emperor): 246
Freemasons: 20, 76–89, 77n, 84n–85n
French Revolution: 67, 220, 234–36, 299, 304–5
Freuchen, Peter (Danish explorer): 278
Freud, Anna (English psychologist): 96n
Freud, Sigmund (Austrian psychologist): 90–106, 90n, 96n, 141, 364
Freydis Eriksdottir (Icelandic explorer): 29, 29n
Frumentius (bishop of Axum): 320–21
Fulcher of Chartres (Crusader): 213
G
Gable, Clark (American actor): 107
Gallus (caesar): 155–6
Gamelin, Maurice (French general): 143
Gandhi, Mahatma (Indian activist): 90n, 353
Garcia, Aleixo (conquistador): 66
Garfield, James A. (US president): 5n
Garner, Cactus Jack (US vice president): 187–8
Gauls: 53, 156, 301, 329
Genghis Khan (Mongol conquerer): 43, 49, 60, 224n
George of Cappadocia (Arian bishop): 155, 164, 174
Gerald of Wales (Welsh writer): 242–3
Gerbert d’Aurillac (pope): 57, 57n
Germany: 3, 9–13, 19, 21, 41, 57, 96, 111, 127, 136–37, 139–52, 157–60, 182, 194, 200, 202, 206, 208, 236, 255, 262–67, 314–16, 340, 356, 359, 361, 377, 379, 385
Ghana (West Africa): 43
Gibbon, Edward (English historian): 17, 108, 296, 325, 332
Gibbons, Dave (English cartoonist): 69
Gibson, Mary (American cartoonist): 206n
Gilbert, Dan (American prophet): 195
Gilgamesh, Epic of: 16
Gillette, George Francis (American crackpot): 383
Gillis, James D. (Canadian writer): 222
Girard, René (French theorist): 109
Gísli Súrsson (Icelandic outlaw): 24, 24n
Gladiator (2000 film): 297
Goering, Hermann (German Nazi): 147–8, 151
Goethe, Wolfgang von Goethe (German writer): 104, 227, 265
gold: 41, 57, 64–66, 71–73, 221, 224, 264, 301, 312, 318
Gold Coast (West Africa): 221
Goldilocks: 231
Goldsmith, Oliver (Anglo-Irish writer): 233
Gombrowicz, Witold (Polish novelist): 5n
Gordon, Charles George (English general): 189
Gore, Al (US politician): 186
Gower, John (English poet): 43, 131
Gracchus, Tiberius (Roman tribune): 154n
Grant, Ulysses (US general): 186, 194, 343
Graves, Robert (English polymath): 19n, 103n
Gray, Thomas (English poet): 233
Greeley, Adolphus (American explorer): 278
Greenland: 24–38, 25n, 220, 224n, 278, 281n, 306
Greenlanders’ Saga: 25, 27, 29, 29n, 35
Gregory VII (pope): 218–19
Gregory of Nazianzus (Archbishop of Constantinople): 175
Grettir Ásmundarson (Icelandic outlaw): 24, 24n
Grimm Brothers, The (German folklorists): 90n, 96
Groves, Leslie (American general): 196
Guillaume d’Orange (French hero): 211n
Guinea (West Africa): 43, 221–22
Guthrie, Woody (American folk singer): 59n, 195
Guy (king of Jerusalem): 245, 249–53
Gvozdev, Mikhail (Russian explorer): 307
H
Habsburgs: 257, 261, 263
Hadrian (Roman emperor): 296
Haeckel, Ernst (German eugenicist): 111, 111n
Haffner, Sebastian (German historian): 139
Hägar the Horrible (comic strip): 27n
Hair (1967 musical): 366
Hakim the Mad (Fatimid caliph): 211–12, 211n
Hall, Manly P. (Canadian occultist): 77, 85
Hamilton, Alexander (US secretary of the treasury): 342n, 343, 345, 348
Hamilton, Edmond (American sf writer): 99, 290, 350, 402
Hancock, H. Irving (American writer): 9, 9n, 14–16
Hannegan, Robert (American political operative): 190–91
Hannibal (Carthaginian general): 44, 44n, 111n, 163
Harald Fairhair (Norwegian king): 25
Hardy, Edwin Noah (American clergyman): 20
Hardy, Oliver (American comedian): 84n
Harington, John (English poet): 162
Harrington, James (English political scientist): 132, 132n
Harris, Richard (American prospector): 312
Harry, Debbie (American singer): 239
Hasan-I-Sabbah (Nizari assassin): 253–54
Hatanaka, Kenji (Japanese soldier): 197
Hatano, Ichiro (Japanese diarist): 197, 199
Hattin, Battle of: 245–48
Hayes, Clair W. (American writer): 10, 10n
Heap, Jane (American publisher): 230
Hebel, Johann Peter (German almanacist): 235
Hegel, G.W.F. (German philosopher): 53, 88, 265
Heidegger, Martin (German philosopher): 238n
Heimskringla (history book): 108, 137
Hemingway, Ernest (American novelist): 15n, 232n
Hendrix, Jimi (American rock martyr): 101n, 106
Henry II (king of England): 240
Henry VI (Holy Roman Emperor): 247, 255
Henty, G.A. (English writer): 9
Heracles (Macedonian prince): 44, 46, 55–56
Heraclius (Byzantine emperor): 336–37
Herbert, A.P. (English poet): 10n, 16, 279n
heresy: 132, 162, 172, 211, 215, 220, 253, 323, 326–28, 346
Herford, Oliver (American humorist): 221n
Hernando Cortés (conquistador): 40, 61, 63, 167
Herodotus (Green historian): 109, 111, 145n, 155
Herzen, Alexander (Russian writer): 1
Hiawatha (Iroquois confederate): 34
High Society (1954 film): 238n
Hilton, James (English novelist): 18
Himyar (Yemeni kingdom): 324–6, 331–5
Hiram Abiff (master mason): 76
Hirohito (Japanese emperor): 195, 195n, 197, 203
Hiroshima: 190–91, 197, 200–1, 207–8, 375–76
Historia Augusta: 154n
Hitchcock, Alfred (English film director): 99, 370
Hitler, Adolf (Austro-German dictator): xii, 5n, 59n, 60, 111, 138–52, 140n, 143n, 195, 195n, 207, 236, 290, 316, 342–43, 355, 368
Ho Chi Minh (Vietnamese revolutionary): 354–56, 362
Hoff, Syd (American cartoonist): 365n
Hoffa, Jimmy (American punchline): 23
Hoffer, Eric (American philosopher): 97, 220
Holly, Buddy (American rock martyr): 101n, 105–6
Holy Roman Empire: 131–32, 246–47, 255, 257, 261–63, 265, 303, 337
Homer (Greek poet): 56, 91, 109, 113, 155, 163
Honeymooners, The (TV series): 84–85
Hong Kong: 41
Hood, Robert (English explorer): 269–70
Hoole, John (English translator): 233
Hord Grimkelsson (Icelandic outlaw): 24n
Houdini, Harry (American escapist): 98
Hopkins, Mark (American educator): 5n
Huascar (Inca noble): 67–70
Huayna Capac (emperor of the Inca): 66–67
Hudson, Henry (English explorer): 224
Hugo, Victor (French writer): 236
Hume, David (Scottish philosopher): 104–5, 210
Humphrey of Toron (Templar): 245–48
Hundred Years’ War: 207, 241
Hunt, Leigh (English poet): 83
Huxley, Aldous (English novelist): 59n
I
Ibsen, Henrik (Norwegian playwright): 172
Iceland: 24–32, 24n, 26n, 38, 132, 193, 224n, 267, 306
Ichikawa, Kon (Japanese director): 192n
idolatry: 132, 211, 211n, 225, 262, 326–28, 334
Ignatius of Loyola, St. (Spanish theologian): 180
Iliad (epic): 163
In His Steps (1896 novel): 20
Inca Empire: 40, 60–75, 184, 224–26, 301
India: 34, 41, 51, 71, 173n, 181, 189, 225, 258, 332, 352–54, 382
Indus civilization: 63, 65, 65n
Ingstad, Helge (Norwegian archaeologist): 27, 27n
Inouye, Daniel (US senator): 90n
Inquisition, the: xi, 79, 87, 137
Ipsus, Battle of: 51
Iraq, sanctions on: 200
iron and steel: 29–30, 34, 37, 39–40, 62, 64, 249
Iroquois: 39, 39n, 184
Irving, Washington (American writer): 221n
Isaac Comnenus (Byzantine bandit king): 249, 256
Isis (deity): 177
Islam: 66, 138, 172, 172n, 175–76, 178, 181–3, 211–17, 211n, 243–63, 303, 326–28, 333–41
Ismenias (Greek diplomat): 128
Istanbul (see also Byzantium): 184, 259
Ivanhoe (1819 novel): 232, 250
ivory: 29–30, 220, 307–8, 323
Iwo Jima (island): 191, 193, 202
J
Jackson, Andrew (US president): 82, 342
Jackson, Samuel (DNC chair): 190
Jackson, Stonewall (Confederate general): 208
Jaffa (Crusader city): 251–53
James I (king of England): 108, 137, 224, 264n
Japan: 68, 119n, 136, 145, 149–50, 153n, 173–74, 188, 191–209, 192n–195n, 221–23, 314, 351n, 354, 370, 375
Jawzi, Inb al- (Arab jurist): 43n
Jefferson, Thomas (US president): 312, 345
Jerome, St.: 177, 303
Jerrold, Douglas William (English playwright): 20–21
Jerusalem: 57, 138, 164, 211–15, 218–22, 218n, 245–56, 330, 333–37, 340–41
Jesuits: 179–80, 183–84
Jesus: 20, 110, 150, 162, 174–76, 178, 217, 323, 340–41, 368,
John (king of England): 246, 256
John Zapolya (king of Hungary): 257
Johnson, Andrew (US president): 306, 310
Johnson, Lyndon B. (US president): 191, 349, 362–63, 377
Johnson, Samuel (English writer): 322
jokes: v, 1, 20n, 130, 130n, 346
Joliot, Frédéric (French physicist): 138
Jones, Brian (English rock martyr): 106
Jones, David (Welsh poet): 16
Jones, Grace (Jamaican model): 239
Jones, Jesse (US secretary of commerce): 190
Jones, Jim (American cult leader): 14, 14n, 189
Jones, Spike (American musician): 365n
Jones, William (English philologist): 226
Jonson, Ben (English playwright): 102
Joplin, Janis (American rock martyr): 101n, 106
Jordanes (Byzantine historian): 25
Josephus (Jewish historian): 321
Jovian (Roman emperor): 168
Joyce, James (Irish writer): 1, 229, 230
Judaism: 94, 135, 137, 141–43, 155, 162n, 164, 174–76, 194, 211, 240, 262, 321–24, 333, 339–41
Julian the Apostate (Roman emperor): 153–77, 153n, 162n
Julianus (Roman emperor): 298
Julius Asclepiodotus (Roman general): 167
Julius Caesar (Roman conquerer): 108, 131, 154, 157, 160, 165, 294–95
Jumbo (elephant): 285
Juneau, Joe (Canadian prospector): 312
Jung, Varl (Swiss psychologist): 96n
Jurassic Park (1992 film): 284
Justinian I (Byzantine emperor): 324–25
K
Kaaba and its stone, the: 211n, 326–28
Kafka, Franz (Czech writer): 231
Kaïumarth (king of all the earth): 64
Kaleb (Emperor of Axum): 323–25
Kane, Elisha (American explorer): 281
Kant, Immanuel (German philosopher): 104–105, 135n, 265
Kate and Allie (TV series): 366
Keats, John (English poet): 60, 232n, 236–27
Kebra Negast (sacred text): 323
Kefauver, Estes (US senator): 187
Kelly, Grace (Monacan princess): 238n
Kennedy, John F. (US president): 106, 185, 318–19, 378
Kennedy, Robert F. (US attorney general): 85, 106, 318, 381
Kennedy, Roger G. (American biographer): 345
Kent State: 62n
Khmer Rouge: 87, 136, 153n, 236, 362–63
Khosrow II (Persian emperor): 336
Khrushchev, Nikita (Soviet premier): 317
Kichik Khan (Turco-Mongol leader): 383
Kim, Ashida (American ninja): 7–8
King, Ernest (US admiral): 193, 201–2
King, Martin Luther (American activist): 106
King Kong (1933 movie): 287
Kirby, Jack (American cartoonist): 69
Kitchener, Lord (British field marshal): 380
Knights of Columbus, The: 85
Knights of St. John: 259
Knights of the Temple: 77, 220, 245, 255
Know-Nothing Party: 85
Koestler, Arthur (Austro-Hungarian writer): 2n
Koolasuchus (amphibian): 284, 286–87
Korea: 135–36, 153n, 173, 190, 194, 205–6, 351n,355, 357, 359, 278, 382
Krafft-Ebbing, Richard von (German psychologist): 91n, 95
Krupskaya, Nadezhda (Russian revolutionary): 234
Ku Klux Klan: 86–88
Kurosawa, Akira (Japanese film director): 153n, 203
Kurtzman, Harvey (American cartoonist): 68
L
Lamb, Harold (American historian): 216n, 250
Lannes, Jean (French general): 389
Lanning, Edward P. (American (?) anthropologist): 65
Laurel, Stan (English comedian): 84n
Leech, Samuel (American poet): 22–23
Le Goff, Jacques (French historian): 219
Leif Erikson (Greenlandic explorer): 24–29, 25n–26n, 31–32, 59n, 224n
Lenin, V.I. (Russian revolutionary): 86, 234, 317–8
Leonardo Bonacci (Italian mathematician): 1–3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian polymath): 182, 228
Leopold of Austria (duke): 250, 255
Lepanto, Battle of: 260–61
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (German writer): 43n, 244n
Levi-Strauss, Claude (French anthropologist): 92
Lewis, Alun (Welsh poet): 15
Lewis, Meriwether (American explorer): 80, 272n
Leyner, Mark (American novelist): 93
Libertatia (pirate kingdom): 112n
Lincoln, Abraham (US president): 69, 186–87, 216, 310, 312, 342–43, 346, 389,
Lind, James (British surgeon): 280
Lindbergh, Charles (American aviator): 59n
Linkletter, Art (American MC): 369–70
Lippard, George (American historian): 345
Livy (Roman historian): 55–56
Lobo, Jerome (Portuguese missionary): 322
logic: 7n
Lomonosov, M.V. (Russian poet): 307
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (American poet): 34, 78, 131n
Longinus (Roman centurion): 217–18
Lost Horizon (1933 novel): 18
Louis I, called the Pious (King of France): 67
Louis VII (King of France): 240
Louis XVI (King of France): 220, 299, 304
Luce, Clare Booth (US congresswoman: 206, 206n
Lucillian (Roman commander): 160
Lucius Verus (Roman emperor): 154n, 296–97
Lutheranism: 94, 257, 261–62
Lyotard, François (French philosopher): 90n
Lyrical Ballads (1798 book): 231–32, 231n, 235, 239
Lysander (Greek general): 128
Lysimachus (diadochus): 43n, 45, 45n, 47–48, 50–52, 50n, 52n
M
Maalouf, Amin (French writer): 214, 216n
MacArthur, Douglas (US general): 191, 194, 198, 200, 202
MacAskill, Angus (Canadian giant): 222n
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord (British historian): 17n, 72, 83n, 90n, 109, 130, 134, 233
Machias Seal Island: 313
Mackay, Charles (Scottish historian): 210
Mackenzie, Donald A. (Scottish folklorist): 284
Macrinus (Roman emperor): 298, 300
Madagascar: 112n, 289, 306, 258
Mafia: 23
Magellan, Ferdinand (Portuguese explorer): 272n
Magellan, Strait of: 71, 271
Magnus Barefoot (Norwegian king): 67
Magnus Maximus (Roman emperor): 301
Magnus Sigurdsson (Norwegian king): 108
Mahler, Gustav (Austrian composer): 91, 91n
Mailer, Norman (American writer): 238, 238n
Majapahit Empire: 64
Makuria (West African kingdom): 335
Malik-Shah (Turkish sultan): 215, 219
Malley, Ern (fictional poet): 237n
Malory, Thomas (English writer): 221n
Mamas and the Papas, The (musical group): 364
Manassas, Battle of: 208
Mandaeanism: 178
Mandeville, John (English traveler): 57
Manet, Édouard (French Impressionist): 18n, 229n
Manichaeanism: 339–41
Manson, Charles (American musician): 105n, 232n, 364
Manuel I (Byzantine emperor): 243
Manzikert, Battle of: 212, 215, 218
Mao Zedong (Chinese chairman): 159, 196, 205, 207, 355–57, 361n, 362
Marat, Jean-Paul (revolutionary): 304–5
Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor): 78, 154n, 171, 296–97
Marie Antoinette (Queen of France): 108
Mark Antony (Roman statesman): 294–95
Markham, Edwin (American poet): 78
Marne, Battle of: 208
Marshall, Thomas R. (US vice-president): 134n
Martin, Brian (Australian social scientist): 380, 380n
Martín, Francisco (conquistador): 61
Marx, Karl (German economist): 2n, 94, 234, 265–66, 312
Marx (toy co.): 287–88
Maugham, W. Somerset (English writer): 90n, 168n
Maurice (Byzantine emperor): 336
Maxim, Hiram S., and his gun: 267, 373, 376
Maximus of Ephesus (Roman magician): 171
McCrae, John (Canadian poet): 16
McCutcheon, John T. (American cartoonist): 11
McKinley, William (US president): 11, 11n
McLean, Evalyn W. (American hopeful): 204
McLean, James Henry (US congressman): 373–75
McLeod, Alexander (Canadian causus belli): 313
McNamara, Robert S. (US secretary of defense): 349
Mead, G.R.S. (English occultist): 58
Mecca: 326–34, 336
Meleager (Macedonian taxiarch): 46
Meles (king of Sardis): 122
Melos (Greece): 127
Meltzer, Brad (American writer): 194n
Melville, George (American explorer): 273, 273n
Melville, Herman (American novelist): 232n
Mensch, Josh (American writer): 194n
Merck (pharma co.): 94–95
Merovingians: 330, 337
meteor/ites: 5–7, 163
Meyer, Stephenie (American writer): 239
Mi’kmaq: 39
Miller, Alice Duer (American satirist): 134, 134n
Miller, David (British historian): 250
Miller, Glenn (American bandleader): 106
Miller, Walter M., Jr. (American sf writer): 384
Milton, John (English poet): 178, 228, 231, 232n, 234
Mindarus (Greek admiral): 121
Minsiter’s Wooing, The (1859 novel): 344–48
Minucius Felix, Marcus (Roman theologian): 163
Mithras and Mithraism: 163, 171, 177
Mohacs, Battle of: 257, 261
Moloch (deity): 95
Mongols: 49, 60, 182–83, 209, 215, 318, 338–39, 353, 383
Monkees, The (musical group): 350n, 364, 368
Montezuma (Aztec Emperor): 226
Montgomery, Richard (US major general): 345
Monty Python (English comedy troupe): 265n
Moore, Alan (English comics writer): 69, 380n
Morgan, William (American Freemason): 80–82
Moriuchi, Matsu (Nagasaki resident): 207
Moriyama, Sadako (Nagasaki resident): 207
Moses (prophet): 91, 170, 170n, 321, 330
Mosley, Oswald (English traitor): 349
Mozart, Wolfgang A. (Austrian composer): 228, 265
Mughals: 183–84, 258, 335, 353
Muhammad: 211, 211n, 221n, 327–36, 368
Mumbo (gorilla): 285
Mussolin, Benito (Italian dictator): 148, 195, 195n
Mustafa, Kara (Ottoman vizier): 260
Mustafa, Lala (Ottoman commander): 258
Muta’sim, al- (caliph): 260n
mutual assured destruction: 11, 191, 376
N
Nabokov, Vladimir (Russo-American novelist): 90, 307
Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich (his father): 119n
Nagasaki: 190–91, 196–97, 200–1, 207–8, 379
Najran (Yemen): 324
Nakajima Kikka jet: 193
Nancy (comic strip): 229, 229n
Nansen, Fridtjof (Norwegian explorer): 278, 281
Nares, George (English explorer): 281
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): 206, 355, 378
Nearchus (Macedonian admiral): 46
Nectanebo (pharaoh): 43, 43n
Negri, Gaetano (Italian historian): 172
Neoplatonism: 163, 171, 174
Nero (Roman emperor): 153, 154n, 164, 172, 290–95, 300, 304
Nerva (Roman emperor): 295–96
Newfoundland: 24, 26n–27n, 27–28, 32–34, 37–39
Newton, Isaac (English scientist): 169, 368
New Yorker, The (magazine): 229, 229n
Nguyen Anh (emperor of Vietnam): 353
Nguyen Van Lem (Viet Cong soldier): 350n
Nice (France): 263
Nicias (Greek statesman): 112–18, 112n
Nico (German chanteuse): 239
Nicocreon (Athenian commander): 112–13
Niedecker, Lorine (American poet): 378n
Nietzsche, Friedrich (German philosopher): 2, 98, 130, 265, 387
Night Journey (Islamic folklore): 333, 335
Nile River: 47, 57, 63, 273, 278, 328–30, 340
Nimitz, Chester (US admiral): 198
Nisibis (border town): 168–69
Nixon, Richard (US president): 119n, 185–86, 186n–87n, 317, 343, 349, 358, 360–61, 369, 380
Nizari (sect): 215, 253–54
Njal’s Saga: 26n
Noah (vintner): 77
Nobatia (West African Kingdom): 335
Nobel, Alfred, and his prizes: 232n, 373, 377
North Rock (island): 313
Northwest Passage: 271–72, 275
Norton, Charles Eliot (American educator): 391
Novalis (German poet): 236
nuclear science, weapons, and war: 87, 136, 138, 190–91, 193n, 196–97, 200–1, 205, 207–8, 317–19, 353, 368–388
Nur al-Din (Turkish commander): 244–45
O
Oak Ridge Boys, The (quartet): 2n
Oates, Lawrence (English explorer): 274, 281
Obama, Barack (US president): 350n
Obaysch (hippopotamus): 285
Ochs, Phil (American musician): 366
Odd Fellows, The: 85, 85n
Odoacer (Goth): 303
Odyssey (epic): 113
Oedipus and his complex: 69, 92–93, 96–106, 131n, 364n
Okinawa (island): 191–92, 201–2
Olaf Tryggvason (Norwegian king): 25–26, 25n–26n, 246
Olympias (Macedonian queen mum): 46–49, 49n
Onoda, Hiroo (Japanese soldier): 199
Oppenheimer, Robert (American physicist): 375–71, 380
Optic, Oliver (American novelist): 9
Orlando Furioso (Italian epic): : 65n, 232–33
Ortnit (German hero): 211n, 247n
Oruç Reis (Turkish bey): 167
Orwell, George (English writer): 119n, 135n, 147, 159, 229n
Ottoman Empire: 12, 63, 180–84, 195, 213, 220n, 256–67, 335
Outer Limits, The (TV series): 69
Outremer (Levantine kingdom(s)): 215, 243–44, 246
Owen, Wilfred (English poet): 16–17
P
Paches (Athenian general): 109
Paine, Thomas (Anglo-American revolutionary): 76–77
Palmerston, Lord (English politician): 90n
Pan (deity): 53, 174
pandemics: 13, 35–36, 38, 112n, 183, 225, 282, 382
papacy: 1, 57, 131–32, 165, 212–14, 218–19, 221, 240, 244, 255, 263, 334
Pape, Ralph (American playwright): 378n
Paphlagonia (Asian Minor): 47
Park, Mungo (Scottish explorer): 272n
Parrhasius (Greek artist): 228n
Parysatis (Persian queen): 154
Paterson, William (Scottish entrepreneur): 73–75
Paul, St.: 96–97, 169, 368
peace movement: 218–19, 349–50, 360–61
Pearson, Edmund (American essayist): 34–35
Peary, Robert E. (American explorer): 275
Peloponnesian War: 108–123, 112n, 123n, 125–28, 208, 358
Pepper, Claude (US senator): 190
Perdiccas (diadochus): 44, 46–48, 55–56
Pericles (Greek statesman): 112n, 129
Perry, Matthew (American navigator): 153n
Persia: 44–47, 49–50, 52–56, 64, 112n, 119–25, 127–28, 154, 158–63, 165–171, 176, 181, 289–90, 296, 298–99, 301, 324–27, 331–41
perspective: 182–83, 232–33
Pertinax (Roman emperor): 297–98
Peter Bartholomew (crusader): 217–18
Peter of Eboli (Neopolitan writer): 292
Peter Pan (1904 play): 18
Peter, Paul, and Mary (musical group): 365
Peter the Great (Russian tsar): 307
Petrov, Stanislav (Soviet soldier): 378
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (Vietnamese girl in the picture): 350n
Phila (Antigonid): 52
Philip II (King of France): 246, 249–52
Philip II (King of Macedon): 40, 44–45, 154n
Philip III (King of Spain): 272
Philip Arrhidaeos (king of Macedon): 44, 46, 48–49
Philip the Arab (Roman emperor): 169
Philo of Alexandria (Jewish philosopher): 302
Philocles (Greek admiral): 128
philosophy: 58, 112–13, 155–57, 265
Phormio (Greek admiral): 208
Picasso, Pablo (Spanish artist): 229
Picq, Laurence (French translator): 363
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (US politician): 185
Pinker, Steven (Canadian-American psychologist): 93
pinochle: 83
Pinzón, Martín Alonzo (Spanish explorer): 222–23
pirates: 25–26, 51–52, 112n, 167, 195, 243, 249, 279
Pizarro, Francisco (conquistador): 40, 59–66, 59n, 69–70, 72, 75, 224
Pizarro, Juan (conquistador): 61–62
Pizarro, Pedro (Spanish historian): 60
Plassey, Battle of: 17, 17n
Plato (Greek philosopher): 83n, 109–10, 112, 124, 124n, 130–31, 130n–131n, 155, 163, 171, 181,
Platt, Arthur (English classicist): 389
Plutarch (Greco-Roman writer): 6, 53n, 109, 112, 123, 124n, 126, 154, 157, 329
Poe, Edgar A. (American writer): 78, 275n, 389
poetry: 15, 79, 83, 233–35
poets dying young: 15, 106, 236–37, 239
Pol Pot (Cambodian dictator): 236, 236n, 356, 362
Polk, James K. (US president): 313
Polo, Marco (Italian traveler): 53n, 58, 253–54
Polycrates (Greek rhetorician): 124
Polycrates (tyrant of Samos): 154n
Pope, Alexander (English poet): 233
Popper, Karl (Asutro-British philosopher): 88
Posidippos (Greek poet): 54
Postgate, Raymond (English journalist): 204
Potemkin, Grigory (Russian politician): 206n
Potidaea, Battle of: 108, 112, 125
Powell, Colin (American general): 377
Powell, Lewis (American would-be assassin): 310
Praetorian Guard: 295–300
Presbyterianism: 346–47
Prescott, William (American historian): 59, 64, 65n, 67
Princip, Gavrilo (Bosnian-Serbian assassin): 11, 13, 266|
Procopius (Roman general): 166–67, 170
Procopius (Byzantine historian): 331
Prohibition: 22–23
propaganda: 18, 144, 194, 195, 201, 363
Ptolemy (diadochus): 45, 47–48, 50–55, 50n, 92
Ptolemy II Philadelphos (pharaoh): 54n, 92n
Ptolemy Thunderbolt (diadochus): 52–53, 54n
Punch (magazine): 19
Pushyamitra (Indian emperor): 173n
Pynchon, Thomas (American novelist): 11n, 105n
Pyrrhus (king of Epirus): 56, 111n, 166
Pythagoras (Greek philosopher): 110
Q
Qalis, al- (church): 326
Qarmatianism (sect): 326–28
Qui Nhon Bay: 351
Quirós, Pedro Fernandez (Portuguese explorer): 272–73
Quitu (Inca Empire): 35
Quizo Yupanqui (Inca general): 62
Quran: 53, 327, 329
R
Raleigh, Walter (English explorer): 72
Rat Man (Austrian patient): 92
Reagan, Ronald (US president): 69, 381n
Rée, Paul (German philosopher): 2–3
Reinhold von Törne, Johann (Swedish soldier): 389
Remarque, Erich Maria (German novelist): 15
Renan, Ernst (French philologist): 177
Ren and Stimpy (TV series): 379
Repplier, Agnes (American critic): 233, 343–44
Rey, H.A. (German-American illustrator): 285
Reynald of Antioch (crusader/pirate): 243
Reynaud, Paul (French PM): 150
Rhodes (island): 259
Richard the Lionheart (King of England): 219, 240n, 242–43, 246–56, 246n, 250n, 255n
Richard III (King of England): 255n
Richardson, John (English explorer): 269–70
Richardson, Mary (English activist): 19
Ringstrasse: 256
Rizvi, Sayyid Saeed Akhtar (Indian writer): 331
Roche, James Jeffrey (Irish-American poet): 59n
Robert of Rheims (French historian): 213
Roberts, Andrew (English historian): 151
Robin Hood (English outlaw): 221n, 246n, 250n
Robison, Carson (American singer): 195n
rock ’n’ roll: 101, 101n, 105, 267
Rocky (1979 film): 10
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975 film): 350
Roerich, Nicholas (Russian guru): 188–89
Roland, The Song of: 211
Romanos (Byzantine emperor): 212
Romanticism: 106, 171, 231–39, 249, 252
Rome (city & empire): 55–56, 64, 67, 112n, 131, 289–305
Roosevelt, Eleanor (US first lady): 204
Roosevelt, Elliott (her son): 187
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (US president): 150, 185n, 186–91, 194, 196, 357, 371
Roosevelt, Teddy (US president): 186
Rosenbaum, Ron (American reporter): 371, 380
Rosicrucians: 85–88, 318
Ross, James (British explorer): 271
Rostow, Elspeth (American historian): 377
Rotary Club, The: 85
Rover, Constance (English historian): 19n
Roxana (empress): 43n, 44, 46, 49–50
Rûm (sultanate): 303
Rummel, R.J. (American political scientist): 136
Russell, Bertrand (English philosopher): 319, 349
Ryan, Alan (English philosopher): 234
Rydberg, Victor (Swedish folklorist): 383
S
Saadi (Persian poet): 227
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von (Austrian novelist): 290
Safder Ali Khan (Mir of Hunza): 43
Sagan, Carl (American astronomer): 380
Sage, Dean, Jr. (American hunter): 286, 286n
Saginaw, S.S.: 351
Saigon (Vietnam): 352–53, 359
Saki (English writer): 44
Saladin (sultan): 244–56, 244n, 368
Salīm, Ğulām Husayn (Indian historian): 107n
Salvian the Presbyter (Roman writer): 302
Samarra (Persian Empire): 167, 168n
Samos (Greece): 111, 120, 128
San‘a (church): 326
Saphadin (Kurdish leader): 252
Sardis (Persian Empire): 121–22
Sargent, John Singer (American painter): 228
Sartre, Jean-Paul (French philosopher): 238n
Satan (adversary): 57, 95, 177, 220, 342
Saussure, Ferdinand de (Swiss linguist): 110
Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan (Yemeni leader): 331
Scheerbart, Paul (German Modernist): 65n
Schilling, John (American engineer): 382
Schlegel, August (German critic): 102–3
Schlegel, Friedrich (German philosopher): 265
Schliemann, Heinrich (German archaeologist): 27n
Schoenfeld, Battle of: 379
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (American anthropologist): 33–34, 33n
Schopenhauer, Arthur (German philosopher): 2–4, 4n, 7, 265
Schopenhauer, Johanna (his mother): 4
Scipio Africanus (Roman general): 43n–44n
Scotland: 18, 72–75, 77, 137, 238
Scott, Robert F. (English explorer): 273–75, 281–83, 287
Scott, Walter (Scottish novelist): 18, 18n, 232, 232n, 237–38, 249–50, 252
scurvy: 279–83
Sebastian (Roman general): 166–67
Sei Shonagon (Japanese writer): 227n
Seleucus (diadochus): 43n, 50–53, 50n, 52n, 154n, 216n, 224n,
Selymbria (Thrace): 121
Semitic languages: 181, 280, 325
Semmes, Raphael (Confederate admiral): 238
Senate, Roman: 161, 173, 295, 297–98
Septimius Severus (Roman emperor): 298
Serrano, Andres (American artist): 230
Seven Samurai, The (1954 film): 153n
Severus Alexander (Roman emperor): 298
Seward, Frederick W. (son of…): 311–12
Seward, William H. (US secretary of state): 69, 80, 306–313
Sex and the Single Girl (1962 blockbuster): 105
Shackleton, Ernest (Anglo-Irish explorer): 273, 275–78, 281
Shahnameh (Persian epic): 67n
Shaka (Zulu king): 40
Shakespeare, William (English playwright): 67n, 78, 109, 112n, 137, 178, 232n, 249, 255n, 381
Shaporina, Lyubov Vasilievna (Russian puppeteer): 317
Shapur II (Persian emperor): 158n
Shaw, George Bernard (Irish playwright): 105
Shawar (Fatimid vizier): 244
Shea, Robert (American novelist): 82, 235
Sheba, Queen of: 222, 322–23
Sheldon, Charles (American novelist): 20
Shelley, Mary (English novelist): 11, 237, 282n
Shelley, Percy B. (English poet): 106, 237–38, 237n
Shenandoah, C.S.S: 309
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (Irish playwright): 59n
Shindo Renmei (terrorist organization): 199
Shintoism: 173–74
Shirkuh (Kurdish general): 244
Shock-Headed Peter (1845 book): 140, 140n
Siberia: 206, 307–8, 314–16
Sicily: 55, 113–18, 214, 244, 280
Sidney, Algernon (English politician): 132
Sim, Dave (Canadian cartoonist): 263n
Simpson, O.J. (American athlete): 232n
Simpsons, The (TV series): 84n, 144n, 210
Sims, P. Hal (American card player): 83
Siraj ud-Daula (nawab of Bengal): 107n
Sirat Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan (epic): 331
Sirhan, Sirhan (Palestinian Rosicrucian): 85, 318
smallpox: 35–36, 40–41, 66–67, 70–71, 225, 330–31
Smith, Adam (Scottish economist): 91
Smith, F.E. (British soldier): 20
Smothers Brothers (comedians): 366
Snorre Sturlason (Icelandic historian): 30n, 108, 137
Socrates (Greek philosopher): 53, 108–12, 123–33, 124n, 130n
Solomon (King of Israel): 76–77, 87, 155, 223, 322
Somme, Battle of: 17–18
Sophocles (Greek playwright): 92, 96, 102–4, 109
Southey, Robert (English poet laureate): 230–31, 235
Spain, Greek colonies in: 55, 113
Spanish–American War: 9, 375
Sparta: 107n, 108–29, 111n–12n, 123n, 131n, 208
Speke, John (English explorer): 272n, 278–79
Spender, Richard (English poet): 15
Spock, Benjamin (American psychologist): 99
Sprengel, Kurt (German botanist): 330
St. James, Susan (American actor): 366
Stalin, Josef (Soviet dictator): xii, 5n, 14, 86, 145, 148–49, 152, 170n, 190, 196–97, 200, 202, 204–7, 264, 316–19, 342, 355–57, 377
Stalingrad, Battle of: 208
Star Wars (1977 film): 350
Stateira (Persian princess): 43n, 46–47, 154–55
Stedinger (swamp-living Dutchmen): 132
Steinhorn, Leonard (American Boomer): 102
Steppenwolf (band): 367
Sterne, Laurence (Irish novelist): 233n
Stevenson, Adlai (US politician): 185–87
Stevenson, Robert Louis (Scottish writer): 249
Stine, Anne (Norwegian archaeologist): 27
Stocqueler, Joachim: 221n
Stoicism: 154n, 156, 171, 297
Stowe, Calvin (American writer): 346
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (American novelist): 343–48
Stowe, Henry (American preterite): 347
Strauss, Richard (German composer): 228
Stravinsky, Igor (Russian composer): 229
Streeter, Edward (American humorist): 10n
Stuart, Charles “Hindoo” (British major general): 225
suffrage: 19, 19n, 21–22, 22n, 134–35
suicide: 14, 52, 92, 115, 139, 198, 203, 302
Suleyman the Magnificent (Ottoman sultan): 257–60
Sundiata (epic): 43
Superman: 99, 286, 290
Swinburne, Algernon (poet): 171
Swollen-Headed William (1914 satire): 140
Sylvester II (pope): 57
Szyk, Arthur (Polish artist): 195, 195n
T
Taber, H.P. (American humorist): 83n
Takaki, Ronald (American historian): 194n, 195–96
Takamatsu (Japanese prince): 198
Tales of Suspense (comic book): 69
Tanganyika, Lake: 278
Taoism: 173
Tarn, W. W. (British classicist): 53n, 173n
Taylor, Elizabeth (Anglo-American actor): 107
Tecumseh (Shawnee leader): 59n
temperance: 19–23, 21n–23n, 87n, 346
Templars: 77, 85n, 220, 245, 255
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (1848 novel): 21
Tengri (deity): 338
Tennyson, Lord (English poet): 228, 389
Teroahauté, Michel (Canadian explorer): 269–70
Terror, HMS: 271
Tertullian (Roman theologian): 177
Texas: 82, 308
Tharbis (Ethiopian princess): 321
Thebes (Greece): 92, 126
Themistocles (Athenian general): 112n, 124n
Theobald V (count of Blois): 240–41
Theodosius (Roman emperor): 301
Theos Hypsistos (deity): 174–77
Theseus (king of Athens): 329
ThirtyYears’ War: 261
Thomas á Becket, St.: 243
Thompson, Alexander (British clergyman): 225
Thompson, Floyd (American jurist): 85n
Thoreau, Henry David (American writer): 349
Thrace: 47, 50–2, 122, 127–8, 160–1
Three Musketeers, The (1844 novel): 16
Thucydides (Greek historian): 109, 115, 123n, 127, 127n, 155
Tiananmen Square: 62, 62n
Tiberius (Roman emperor): 174–75, 290, 293–94
Timon (Athenian misanthrope): 112n
Timur (Turco-Mongol conquerer): 60, 335
Tissaphernes (Persian satrap): 119–21, 338
Tojo, Hideki (Japanese general): 195n
Tom Jones, a Foundling, The History of (1749 novel): 102
Tonkin (Vietnamese region): 352, 354, 360–62
Torquemada, Tomás de (Spanish inquisitor): xi, xin
Toulon (France): 263
Toynbee, Arnold (English historian): 1
Trachiniae, The (play): 102–6
Trajan (Roman emperor): 153–54, 296
Troy: 27n
Truman, Harry S (US president): 82, 152, 152n, 190–91, 193, 196–97, 200–8, 355, 369–71, 376
Trumbull, John (American artist): 345
Trump, Donald (US president): 23, 59n, 100n, 186
tuberculosis: 51, 84, 236
Tuchman, Barbara (American historian): 11n, 14, 228
Tukhachevsky, M.N. (Soviet general): 145
tulipmania: 213
Twain, Mark (American writer): 2, 2n, 20, 82, 232n, 237–39
Twiggy (English model): 364
Tyler, Wat (English activist): 131
Tyndale, William (English translator): 179
Tyre (Lebanon): 245–49, 253, 256
U
Ulansey, David (American historian): 177
Umberto I (Italian king): 11n
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852 novel): 343–44, 346
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman von (Russian general): 318
Urban II (pope): 212-3, 222
Ut, Nick (American photographer): 350n
V
Valentinian II (Roman emperor): 173
Valerian (Roman emperor): 298–99
Van Buren, Abigail (American columnist): 99–100
Van Olmen, Ferdinand (French explorer): 222–23
Varagnac, André (French soldier): 17
Velázquez, Diego (Spanish painter): 19
Venice (Italy: 131, 266
Verne, Jules (French novelist): 84, 273
Versailles, Treaty of: 140–43, 356
Vespasian (Roman emperor): 295
Victoria, Lake: 335
Vienna (Asutria): 90, 95, 96n, 229, 255–61, 267
Vietnam: 135–36, 202, 289, 349–367, 377
Vikings: 24–42
vimana (vehicle): 34–35
Vinland (colony): 26–42
Virgil (Roman poet): 113
Vlad the Impaler (Wallachian voivode): 264n
von dem Türlin, Heinrich (German poet): 156
W
Wallace, Henry (US vice-president): 185n, 187–91, 190n, 196–207
Wallace, William (Scottish commander): 207
Wallenberg, Raoul (Swedish diplomat): 38
Walpole, Horace (English novelist): 233
Warren, Robert Penn (American poet): 59, 90n
Washington, George (US president): 59n, 80, 82, 146, 186
Watchmen (comic book): 69
Webster, Daniel (US secretary of state): 313
Weird Science (comic book): 68
Weishaupt, Adam (German Freemason): 82
Welch, Raquel (American actor): 287
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley (Anglo-Irish general): 90n
Wells, H.G (English writer).: v, vn, 58, 204, 206, 229n
Wertham, Frederic (German-American psychologist): 99
West, Rebecca (English writer): 265
Westermarck, Edvard (Finnish folklorist): 93
Westmoreland, William (American general): 377
Wharton, Edith (American novelist): 105
Whitman, Charles (American murderer): 99
Wilde, Oscar (Irish writer): 290
Wilhelm II (German kaiser): 12–13, 140
Willebrandt, Mabel (assistant US attorney general): 22
William the Conquerer (king of England): 59
Wilson, Edward A. (English explorer): 287
Wilson, Harriette (English memoirist): 90n
Wilson, Robert Anton (American novelist): 82, 235
witch trials: 80, 137
Wodehouse, P.G. (English writer): 84
Wolfe, Tom (American writer): 348
Wolverton, Basil (American cartoonist): 195n
Women’s Christian Temperance Union: 21, 23
Wonder Woman: 86, 286
Wong, Jan (Canadian journalist): 62n
Wood, James (Anglo-American critic): 348
Wordsworth, Dorothy (English diarist): 231
Wordsworth, William (English poet): 144n, 231–37, 231n, 237n
World War I: 9–23, 41, 110, 112n, 126–27, 140, 143, 145, 186, 192n–195n, 194–95, 197, 208, 261, 265–67, 274, 315–16, 340–41, 349, 356, 380, 385, 387
World War II: 13, 15, 41, 138–52, 190–209, 300, 307, 316, 341, 349–50, 353–57, 365, 369–71, 385
Wrangham, Francis (British poet): 164n
Wuzong (Chinese Emperor): 173
Wycliffe, John (English translator): 179
Wyeth, N.C. (American painter): 249
X
Xenophon (Greek historian): 109, 124, 124–25n, 129, 338
Y
Yaghi Siyan (Turkish commander): 217
Yeats, W.B. (Irish poet): 15, 15n
Yeltsin, Boris (Russian president): 379
Yemen: 320, 323–26, 331–32, 335
Young, Lester (American jazz musician): 238
Yusuf As’ar Yath’ar (Himyarite king): 324
Z
Zama, Battle of: 44n
Zeuxis (Greek artist): 228n
Zenobia (queen of Palmyra): 108
Zenu (desideratum): 73
Zhuang Zhou (Chinese philosopher): 351, 357
zoos: 285–86
Zoroastrianism: 175, 335–40
Zulu: 40