Great Bastards of History
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Ser Piero da Vinci, 26, 28–30, 32–34, 36, 39, 40
Seville, Spain, 45
Seymour, Edward, 67
Seymour, Jane, 67
Seymour, Thomas, 67–68, 69
Sforza, Ludovico, 28, 29
sfumato, 37
Shakespeare, William, The Comedy of Errors, 63
Shaw, Artie, 222
Shaw, John Byam Liston, 71
Shiloh, Battle of, 162, 167–168
Smithson, Hugh, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126
Smithson, James, 118–129, 119, 126
bequest to the United States, 118–121, 128–129
birth of, 120
citizenship of, 125
death of, 121
elected fellow of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, 120, 126
publications by, 128
receives master of arts from Pembroke College, Oxford, 120, 123, 126
remains relocated to Washington, D.C., 121, 129, 129
scientific work of, 120–121, 126–129
stigma of illegitimacy and, 123
tours the Hebrides Islands, 120, 126
Smithsonian Institution, 118, 120–121, 127, 128–129
Smithsonian magazine, 129
Somerset, England, 96
Soto del Valle, Dalia, 245, 255
Soviet Union, 245, 255–256
Spain, 42, 44, 52, 63, 73, 78, 88, 89, 130, 132, 135, 137–139, 247, 249
Spanish Armada, 63, 74–75, 78, 79
Spanish colonies, 130–145, 140. See also specific colonies
Speake, James, 166, 167
Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queen, 63
Stamford Bridge, 10, 19
Stanley, Henry, 162, 166, 167
Stanley, Henry Morton, 7, 160–177, 161, 175
advises Leopold, 163, 177
in Africa, 163, 171–172, 173, 174, 176–177
in Arkansas, 162, 166–168
autobiography of, 164–165, 166
at Battle of Shiloh, 162, 167–168
birth of, 162–163
captured by Union troops and sent to military prison, 162, 168
correspondent for New York Herald, 162, 163, 168
covers Indian wars, 163, 169
death of, 163
deserts Union Army, 162
enlists in Confederate Army, 162, 167–168
enlists in the Navy as a writer, 168
enlists in Union Army, 162
find Livingstone, 162, 163
finds Livingstone, 171–172, 174, 176–177
as freelance correspondent, 162–163, 168–169, 171
How I Found Livingstone, 171
in Liverpool, 165
on the Minnesota, 168
in New Orleans, 162, 165–167
receives knighthoood, 177
returns to Britain, 177
returns to Wales, 162, 168
serves in Parliament, 177
at St. Asalph’s workhouse, 162, 164–165
in Turkey, 168
in the U.S., 162–163, 165–167
in the U.S. Civil War, 162–163, 166–168
in Wales, 162
on the Windemere, 166–167
writes for the Missouri Democrat, 168–169
in Zanzibar, 172
Stanley, William H., 167–168
St. Asaph Union Workhouse, 7
Stasz, Clarice, American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London, 191, 192
St. Christopher, 104
St. Croix, 102, 104–105, 106, 107, 109, 112, 116, 117
St. Kitts, 106
Storrs, Ronald, 204, 205
Stuart, James Francis Edward, 101
Succession Act, 70
Suez Canal, 200–201
Sullivan, Ed, 246
Sussex, England, 11, 19
Sydney, Algernon, 83
Sydney, Robert, 83
T
Tanzania, 160, 172, 174, 176
Taunton, England, 83, 95
Taunton Castle, 100
Thames River, 60
Theodore, 169, 170
Third Dutch War, 82, 86, 88
Thomas, Lowell, With Lawrence in Arabia, 210
Tilbury Camp, 63, 76, 78–79
Time magazine, 222
Touhe, Margaret, 217
Tower Hill, 80
Tower of London, 60, 62, 66–67, 72, 82
Trowbridge, England, 96
Trujillo, Spain, 42, 44, 48, 52
Truman, Harry S., 246
Tudor, Elizabeth. See Elizabeth I Tumbes, Peru, 51
Turkey, 168, 200–210
Turks, 94, 194, 195, 197, 208–209
Tuscany, 37
Twain, Mark, 177
U
Ujiji, 174
Union Army, 162, 166–168
United States, 7, 105, 120, 128–129, 245, 246, 255–256, 257
Uruguay, 140
U.S. Civil War, 162, 166–168
U.S. Congress, 105, 118, 120–121
U.S. Constitution, 105, 111
14th Amendment, 7
U.S. Supreme Court, 7
V
Val-ès-Dunes, 10, 14
Victoria, 160, 171
Vilcabamba, Peru, 58
Vinci, Italy, 28, 30, 34
W
Wales, 7. See also United Kingdom
Walpole, Horace, 126
Walter, Lucy, 83
Washington, D.C., 129
Washington, George, 104, 105, 110, 111, 116
the Watergate, 62
Wayna Capac, 52
Weehawken, New Jersey, 117
Wellington, Duke of, 139
Wellman, Flora, 178, 180, 181–182, 183, 185, 186, 191, 193
Wells, England, 83
West Indies, 106–107. See also St. Croix
Westminster Abbey, 10, 11, 17
West Virginia’s Federal Reformatory for Women, 225
Whigs, 109
White Hart Inn, 95
William, Count of Arques, 14
William III, 89, 94, 101
Williams, Florence, 219
William the Conqueror, 8, 8–25, 9, 20–21
birth of, 10
crowned king of England, 11, 25
death of, 11, 25
defeated at Montemer, 10, 14
invades England, 10–11, 14
invades Italy, 10, 14
invades Sicily, 10, 14
invades Spain, 10, 14
knighted, 10, 13
proclaimed Duke of Normandy, 10, 13
Wilmington, North Carolina, 168
Wilson, C. E., 204
the Windemere, 166–167
Wolsey, Thomas Cardinal, 63, 66
Woodley, Leonard, 203
Woodstock, England, 62, 72
Woolley, Leonard, 200
World War I, 194, 195, 197, 200–210, 208–209
Wyatt, Thomas, 70, 72
Wyck, Jan, 90–91
Y
York, Duke of, 82, 83, 86, 88, 93, 94
Young, Lester, 214, 222, 223
Young Turks, 202
Z
Zanzibar, 163, 172, 174, 176
Zeid, 204
Zuccari, Taddeo, The Rainbow Portrait, 61
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Fiorillo, Juré.
; Great bastards of history : true and riveting accounts of the most famous illegitimate children who went on to achieve greatness / Juré Fiorillo.
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Contributing writers: Juré Fiorillo (Introduction, Alexander Hamilton, James Smithson, Alexandre Dumas fils, Billie Holiday, Eva Perón, Fidel Castro); Alan Axelrod (Elizabeth I, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth); Edwin Kiester Jr. (William the Conqueror, Bernardo O’Higgins, Henry Stanley, Jack London, Lawrence of Arabia); Ed Wright (Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Pizarro)
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