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27 Cards in this Set
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Marie Curie
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Discoverer of radium and polonium.
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Max Planck
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German physicist. He won a 1918 Nobel Prize for discoveries in connection with quantum theory.
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Albert Einstein
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Creator of the theory of relativity
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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German philosopher who reasoned that Christianity's emphasis on the afterlife makes its believers less able to cope with earthly life.
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Henri Bergson
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He argued that evolution, which he accepted as scientific fact, is not mechanistic but driven by an élan vital ("vital impulse").
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Georges Sorel
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French author and revolutionary.
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Sigmund Freud
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Founder of psychoanalysis.
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Herbert Spencer
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English sociologist and philosopher, advocate of the theory of social Darwinism.
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Emile Zola
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Author of "J'Accuse"
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Author of Crime and Punishment
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Impressionism
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Characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene.
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Camille Pissarro
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French impressionist painter known for his rural scenes, including Orchard in Blossom (1877).
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Claude Monet
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He created several series of paintings, such as Water Lilies (1899–1925), that examine the effect of changing light and atmosphere on a subject.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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The Dutch painter who cut off his own earlobe.
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Pablo Picasso
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One of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th century.
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Amalie Sieveking
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She established and organized
humanitarian work in Germany, particularly the care of the sick. |
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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British suffrage leader who advocated militancy and violence in order to gain public recognition.
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Maria Montessori
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She became the first woman physician in Italy.
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Dreyfus Affair
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The controversy that occurred with the treason conviction (1894) of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), a French general staff officer.
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Theodor Herzl
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As a correspondent during the Alfred Dreyfus affair, he determined that the solution to anti-Semitism was the establishment of a Jewish national state.
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Zionism
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A Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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Labour Party
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British political party, one of the two dominant parties in Great Britain since World War I.
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Sergei Witte
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A railway administrator, he became minister of communications (1892) and minister of finance (1892–1903) of Russia.
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Bloody Sunday
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Massacre of peaceful demonstrators in Saint Petersburg.
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Cecil Rhodes
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British financier and colonizer who became prime minister of Cape Colony in 1890 but was forced to resign in 1896.
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King Leopold II
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Belgian ruler who exploited the Congo.
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Bismarckian System
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A defensive system of alliances created by Otto von Bismarck
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