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by Juré Fiorillo


  appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 105, 111

  birth of, 107

  in the Continental Congress, 112

  creator of the New York Evening Post, 117

  death of, 105, 117

  duels Aaron Burr, 105, 114–115, 116–117

  helps found the Bank of New York, 105, 112, 117

  leads charge against the British in Virginia, 112

  Letter of the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, 116–117

  in New York, 104, 109, 111, 112

  rumors of illegitimacy and, 112

  signs the U.S. Constitution, 111

  on St. Croix, 102–107, 109, 112, 116, 117

  stigma of illegitimacy and, 116

  in Washington’s cabinet, 105, 111, 113

  writes the Federalist Papers, 105, 111, 117

  Hamilton, Edith, 196

  Hamilton, Elizabeth. See Schuyler, Elizabeth

  Hamilton, James (father), 102, 104, 106–108, 112

  Hamilton, James (son), 107, 108

  Hamilton, Philip, 112, 117

  Hamilton, Rachel. See Lavien, Rachel Fawcett

  Hamilton, Robert, 83, 89, 92, 93

  Hammond, John, 220, 222

  Hancock, Winfield Scott, 168–169

  Hapsburgs, 137

  Hardråde, Harald, 10, 11, 17

  Harlem, New York, 219–220

  Harris, Eleanora, 214, 216. See also Holiday, Billie

  Harris, Sara “Sadie”, 214, 215–216, 217, 219

  Harris, Sussie, 215

  Hastings, Battle of, 11, 20–21, 22, 24

  Hatfield Palace, 67

  Hebrides Islands, 120

  Hejaz, 202, 204, 206

  Henrietta, Baroness Wentworth, 93

  Henry I, 10, 14

  Henry VII, 63

  Henry VIII, 7, 62, 63, 64–65, 66, 70

  Herleve, 10, 11

  Herrada, Juan, 59

  Higgins, Ambrose. See O’Higgins, Ambrosio

  Hispaniola, 45, 46

  Hogarth, D. C., 199, 200

  Holiday, Billie, 212–227, 213, 218, 224, 227

  birth of, 214, 216

  death of, 215, 226

  “God Bless the Child”, 215, 222

  in Harlem, New York, 219–220

  inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 215, 226

  Lady Sings the Blues, 215

  “Left Alone”, 214–215

  nicknamed “Lady Day”, 214

  in prison, 225

  at reform school, 217

  sentence to workhouse, 219

  “Strange Fruit”, 215, 222

  tours with Artie Shaw Orchestra, 215

  “Your Mother’s Son-in-Law”, 214, 222

  Holiday, Clarence, 215–216, 217, 222

  Holy Roman Empire, 73, 94

  homosexuality, 33

  Honthorst, Gerrit van, 87

  Horne, James Vaughan, 163

  the House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, 217

  Howard, Catherine, 67

  Huáscar, 52, 54

  Huguenots, 62

  Hungerford, Elizabeth. See Macie, Elizabeth Hungerford

  Hungerford, Henry James, 128

  Hungerford, Thomas, 122

  Hussein, 204

  I

  Ibarguren, Juana, 230, 231, 233, 234, 235, 237

  illegitimate births

  in ancient Rome and Greece, 6

  attitutudes toward, 7

  the Catholic Church and, 32

  in Christiandom, 6

  legal treatment of, 6–7

  in the Middle Ages, 8, 13

  poverty and, 6–7

  in the Renaissance, 32

  stigma of, 7, 32

  the Inca, 45, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57–58

  inheritance, 6, 7

  Ireland, 73, 80

  Isla Taboga (Island of Flowers), 48

  Itata River, 141

  J

  Jack London State Historic Park, 192

  Jackson, Andrew, 120

  James, Duke of York, 80, 83, 86, 88, 93, 94, 95, 98–99, 101

  James I, 63

  James II. See James, Duke of York

  Jay, John, 111

  Jeal, Tim, 167

  Jefferson, Thomas, 117

  Jeffreys, George, 100

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, 168

  Junner, Sarah, 195, 196, 198

  K

  Kennedy, John F., 255, 256

  Kent, England, 70

  Ketch, Jack, 80, 84

  Apologie, 82

  Keynsham, England, 96

  Khrushchev, Nikita S., 255–256

  King’s Life Guards, 96

  King’s Regiment of Horse, 97

  Kingston, Anthony, 67

  Kittredge, Charmian, 181, 185, 191, 191–192, 193

  L

  Labay, Marie-Catherine, 146, 148, 149, 151, 151–152, 153, 159

  Lady Sings the Blues, 226

  Lake Tanganyika, 160, 174, 176

  Langley, Samuel, 129

  Las Cantaras, 138–139, 141

  Laughton, Charles, 222

  Lavien, John Michael, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108

  Lavien, Peter, 105, 106, 108

  Lavien, Rachel Fawcett, 104, 105, 106–108

  Lawrence, Frank, 202

  Lawrence, John, 196

  Lawrence, Montague Robert, 196

  Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 194–211, 195, 201, 203

  accompanies Allenby into Jerusalem, 197

  Arab Revolt and, 204, 206

  archeological expedition to Sinai Penisula, 200

  assigned to Arab Bureau in Cairo as lieutenant in the British Army, 197

  birth of, 196, 197–198

  death of, 197, 211

  does intelligence gathering for the British, 196, 200

  education of, 198, 199, 206

  enlists in British Royal Air Force, 197, 210

  in France, 198–199

  The Influence of the Cruasades on the Medieval Military Architecture of Europe, 199

  joins British Imperial General

  Staff as civilian geographer, 197, 202–203

  as liaison to Arabs, 197

  in the Middle East, 199–210

  Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 197, 210

  as special adviser to Arabs at

  Versailles Treaty negoations, 197

  tours the Middle East, 199–200

  in World War I, 200–210

  Lawrence, Thomas Robert, 196–198, 211

  Lawrence, Will, 202

  Lawrence of Arabia. See Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward)

  Lawrence of Arabia, 207

  Lean, David, 207

  Lee, Robert E., 163

  legitimacy, 7

  concept of, 86

  during the Restoration, 86

  Leonardo da Vinci, 6, 26–41, 27, 38

  Adoration of the Magi, 28

  anatomical sketch by, 35

  art of, 28, 29, 37, 41

  becomes memeber of the Florence painters’ guild, 28

  birth of, 28

  charged with sodomy, 28, 33

  death of, 29

  deprived of his inheritance, 28, 29, 32–34

  education of, 34, 36

  engineering work of, 29, 39, 40, 40–41

  flying machine of, 29, 39, 40, 40–41

  homosexuality of, 33

  The Last Supper, 29, 41

  Mona Lisa, 29, 41

  as Renaissance Man, 41

  studies of, 28–29

  Virgin of the Rocks, 28

  Leopold, 94, 163, 177

  Lima, Peru, 132

  Lincoln, Abraham, 167

  Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 80

  Livingstone, David, 7, 160, 161, 162, 163, 170, 171–172, 173, 174, 176–177

  London, Bessie (Becky), 181, 191

  Jack London and His Times, 190

  London, England, 60

  London, Jack, 178–193, 179, 184, 191

  Before Adam, 190

  Adventure, 190


  in Alaska, 188

  arrested for vagrancy in Buffalo, New York, 180, 186

  becomes an “oyster pirate”, 180, 186

  To Build a Fire, 189

  Burning Daylight, 189, 190

  The Call of the Wild, 181, 189–190

  in Canada, 188

  The Cruise of the Snark, 192

  death of, 181, 193

  develops scurvy, 188

  The Game, 190

  The Gold Rush, 188

  The Iron Heel, 190

  joins gold rush, 180

  joins the California Fish Patrol, 180, 186

  Martin Eden, 189, 190

  in Oakland, California, 178

  The People of the Abyss, 190

  The Road, 186, 190

  The Sea Wolf, 190

  signs on to Sophie Sutherland schooner, 180, 186

  “A Thousand Deaths”, 180, 189

  “To the Man on the Trail”, 180, 189

  White Fang, 189

  London, Joan, 181, 190, 191

  London, John, 178, 180, 185

  London Bridge, 70

  Lorenzo the Magnificent, 32

  Louis XII, 29

  Louis XIV, 88

  Loyalists, 109

  Lucrezia di Guglielmo Cortigiani, 33–34

  Ludgate, England, 70

  Luxembourg, Marshal, 89

  Lyme Regis, 83, 94

  Lytton, James, 108

  Lytton, Peter, 108

  M

  Maastricht, Battle of, 82, 88, 90–91

  Machado, Gerardo, 252

  Macie, Elizabeth Hungerford, 120, 122, 123, 126

  Macie, James Lewis, 120, 121, 122, 125. See also Smithson, James

  Macie, John, 122

  Mackenna, Juan, 141

  Maddern, Bessie, 190–191, 192

  Maddorn, Bessie, 181

  Madison, James, 111

  Magaldi, Agustín, 237

  Maine, France, 22

  Maipú, Battle of, 144, 145

  Maipú, Chile, 144, 145

  Manco Cápac, 54–55

  Manco Inca, 57–58

  Mani, Paul, 222

  Margherita, 28

  Margherita di Guglielmo, 32, 33

  Martin, 44

  Mary, Queen of Scots, 63, 76

  Mary I, 60, 62, 63, 66, 70, 71, 72–73, 77

  maternity, 7

  Matilde of Flanders, 10

  Matthews, Herbert L., 245–246

  McKay, Louis, 215, 225, 225–226

  Medici, Giuliano de’, 32

  Medici, Lorenzo de’, 33

  Medici family, 33

  Medina, 206, 207

  Mellé, Rosine, 159

  Mestre, Ramón, 251

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, 36

  Middle Ages, 6, 17, 19

  Middle East, 199–210, 201

  Milan, Italy, 28

  Miller, Eva, 216

  Miller, Evelyn, 217

  Miller, Martha, 216

  Miller, Robert, 216

  the Minnesota, 168

  Miranda, Francisco, 132, 136–137

  Missouri Democrat, 168–169

  Moncada Barracks, 253

  Monck, George, 88

  Monette’s, 220

  Monmouth, Duke of. See Scott, James

  Monroe, Jimmie, 215, 225

  Mons, Belgium, 83

  Montemer, France, 10, 14

  Mount Cecero, Italy, 39

  N

  Napoleon, 132, 137, 138–139, 138–139

  Napoleonic Code (France), 7

  Naryschkine, Nadeja, 149, 158–159

  Nasir, 207

  National Zoo, 129

  “natural child”, 34

  Needham, Eleanor, 93

  Needham, Robert, 93

  the Netherlands, 88, 89, 93

  Nevis, 104, 106

  Newcombe, Francis, 200

  New World, 42–59, 63, 78

  New York, 104, 109, 111, 112

  New York Evening Post, 117

  New York Herald, 162, 163, 168

  Nijmegen, Treaty of, 89

  Normandy, 8–25

  Norman invasion, 8–25, 20–21, 24

  Norsemen, 10, 11, 18

  O

  Obama, Barack, 257

  O’Higgins, Ambrosio, 132, 132–133, 135, 135, 136, 137–138, 141

  O’Higgins, Bernardo, 130–145, 131

  birth of, 132, 135

  body returned to Chile, 133

  in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 142, 144

  in Cádiz, Spain, 136, 137

  in the Chilean War for Independence, 139, 141–145

  death of, 133

  deposed by a coup, 133, 145

  education of, 132, 135–136

  in England, 136

  estate at Las Cantaras, 138–139, 141

  exile of, 133, 145

  in Lima, Peru, 132, 133, 145

  in Santiago, Chile, 144, 145

  in Spain, 132

  sworn in as “Director Supremo” of Chile, 133, 145

  in Valparaiso, Chile, 138

  O’Higgins, Pedro Demetrio, 133

  O’Higgins, Tomas, 138

  Ojeda, Alonso de, 46

  Oppenheimer, Andres, 256

  Orne River, 14

  Orthodox Party, 252–253

  Osorio, Mariano, 142

  Ottoman Empire, 194, 200–210

  Ovando y Cáceres, Nicolás de, 45

  Oviedo, González Fernando de, 48

  Owen, Moses, 165

  Owen, Maria, 165

  Owen, Mary, 165

  P

  Paar, Jack, 246

  Panama, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52

  Panama City, 48

  Paraguay, 132, 140

  Paris, France, 121

  Parliament, 62, 67, 70, 85–86, 89, 100, 101

  Parliamentarians, 101

  Parr, Catherine, 67

  Parry, Elizabeth, 162–163, 164–165

  Parry, Moses, 162, 163, 165

  paternity, 7

  Patriots (American Colonists), 109

  Patriots (Chilean), 130, 133, 141, 142, 144

  Peninsulares, 139

  Peninsular War, 132

  Pereira, Albano, 132

  Pereira, Juan Albano, 135, 136

  Perón, Eva, 6, 228–241, 229, 236, 239

  birth of, 230

  in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 228, 230–231, 237–241

  creates the María Eva Duarte de Perón Foundation, 231

  death of, 231, 241

  debuts in La Señora de los Perez, 230

  as first lady of Argentina, 230, 234, 235, 240

  forms the Perónista Feminist Party, 231

  host for Radio Belgrano, 230

  in Junín, Argentina, 234–235

  lobbies for women’s suffrage, 231, 240

  named “Spiritual Leader of the Nation by Argentine Congress”, 231

  in the Pampas, 233, 235

  Perón, Juan, 6, 228, 230–231, 237–238, 240–241

  Peru, 45, 50, 51, 52, 56, 132, 145

  Pettie, John, 98–99

  Pevensey, England, 19

  Philip II, 70

  Philips Norton, England, 83

  Philips Norton (Norton St. Philip), England, 96

  Picado, Antonio, 58–59

  Piera, 30

  Pisa, Italy, 30

  Pistoia, Italy, 30

  Pizarro, Francisco, 42–59, 43, 55

  birth of, 44

  in Colombia, 50–51

  death of, 45, 59

  the Inca and, 51, 52, 56, 57–58

  in the New World, 42, 44–45

  in Panama, 44, 46–48, 49, 52

  in Peru, 42, 44, 45, 51, 52, 54–59, 56

  in Santo Domingo, 46

  in Spain, 42, 44–45, 48, 52

  Pizarro, Gonzalo, 45, 52, 57, 58

  Pizarro, Hernando, 42, 44, 45, 52, 57

  Pizarro, Juan, 45, 52, 57, 58

  Pizarro, Martín, 45, 52, 59

  Pizarro brothers, 55, 5
7. See also specific brothers

  Pizarro Rodríguez de Aguilar, Gonzalo, 42, 44, 45

  Polk, James K., 121

  Pontheiu, 16

  Portugal, 63, 138

  poverty, 6–7

  Prentiss, Virginia “Mammie Jennie”, 180, 182, 185, 186, 193

  Presbyterianism, 89

  Preston, William Campbell, 118, 120

  Price, Dick, 162, 164

  Price family, 162, 163–164

  Prío Socarrás, Carlos, 253

  Privy Council, 76, 78

  Protestantism, 93

  Protestant Reformation, 70

  Protestants, 62, 86, 94, 101

  Provincial Artillery, 104

  Puga, Rosario, 133

  Puritans, 83, 86

  Q

  Quispe Cusi, 55

  R

  Raleigh, Walter, 196

  Rancangua, Chile, 142

  Régnier de la Briére, Henriette, 149, 159

  the Renaissance, 6, 26–41

  Republican Party, 117

  the Restoration, 83, 86

  Reynolds, Maria, 116

  Rich, Wilbert, 214, 217

  Ringwood, England, 97

  Riquelme, Bernardo, 132, 137, 138. See also O’Higgins, Bernardo

  Riquelme, Isabel, 132, 133, 134, 135

  Robert, 198

  Robert I, 10, 11, 12, 13

  Rome, 6

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 242, 244

  Ross, Diana, 215, 226

  Ross, John Hume, 197, 210. See also Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward)

  Rotterdam, Netherlands, 83

  Rouen, France, 10, 11, 16

  Rowland, John, 162, 163

  Rowland, John Jr., 162, 163, 164–165, 166–167. See Stanley, Henry Morton

  Royalists, 96, 97

  Royalists (Chile), 130, 133, 141–142, 144

  Royal Navy, 79, 95

  Ruiz, Bartolomé, 49, 50, 51

  Rush, Richard, 120

  Russell, William, 80, 82

  “Rye House Plot”, 83, 93, 94

  S

  Saint-Denis, Battle of, 83, 89

  Salinas, Battle of, 45, 58

  Sánchez Guevera, Canek, 256

  Sand, George, 156

  San Francisco Chronicle, 182

  San Martín, Jose de, 133, 139, 141, 142, 143, 144

  Santa Maria delle Grazie, convent of, 29

  Santiago, Chile, 144

  Santo Domingo, 46

  Scarborough, England, 10

  Schuyler, Elizabeth, 104, 111, 116

  Scotland, 62, 73, 80, 83, 89, 96

  Scots, 89

  Scott, Anne, 82, 93

  Scott, James, 80–101, 81, 98–99

  in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge, 83, 89, 92–93, 95

  in the Battle of Maastricht, 82, 88–89, 90–91

  in the Battle of Saint-Denis, 83, 89

  becomes first duke of Monmouth, 82, 85

  birth of, 83

  commissioned colonel of King’s Life Guards, 82, 88

  crowns himself king of England, 83, 95

  execution of, 80, 82, 83, 84, 100

  implicated in “Rye House Plot”, 83, 93, 94

  launches rebellion at Lyme Regis, 94–95

  in the Netherlands, 93

  Second Act of Supremacy, 62

  Second Dutch War, 82, 88

  Selim, 174, 176

  Ser Giuliano Lanfredini, Francesca, 30, 32

 

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