Via Snippets - German shorthand

Via Snippets - Fr.architect -Trianon

Via Giotto's Tower- Florentine artist

Via Mexican War - U.S. victory

Via Hahnemann - phrenology

Via Adams- Ger.astronomer- Neptune

Via Wells - Eng novelist/playwright

Via Darwin - re. survival of fittest

Via Volta - Italian physiologist

Via Siege of Paris - war minister

Via Italian Independence - Palermo

Via Second Anglo-Afghan War

Via Adam - Eng. architect in Ireland

Via First Sino-Japanese War

Via Petrie - English archaeologist

Via Petrie - English archaeologist

Via Bell - President assassinated

Via Blanchard - French parachutist

Via Camoens - Portuguese poet

Via Adam - English actor/playwright

Via Bronte Sisters - English novelist

Via Mercator - Dutch engraver

Via Second Schleswig War

Via Battles of Saratoga -Am.leader

Via Hugo - French poet and critic

Via Edward II - a favourite of the king

English dramatist - Beggar's Opera

Via Humboldt - French chemist

Via Tyndale - or the "Breeches Bible"

Via Diderot - eminent Parisian salon

Via Fourth Crusade - detailed account

Via Sevastopol - civilian gallantry

Via Prince Regent - nursery rhyme

Via Austerlitz - French artist

Via Vienna Congress - Germany

Via Uprisings in Europe - put down

Via Barents - Dutch sailor/writer

Via Gettysburg - by President Lincoln

Via War of 1812 - peace settlement

Via Sistine Chapel - Florentine artist

Eng.historian - Rise and Fall of Rome

Via Monteverdi - English composer

Via Oscar Wilde- Fr.writer and critic

Via Blanchard - French balloonist

Via Cabot - English adventurer

Via Bessemer - English metallurgist

Via Boniface VIII - Italian philosopher

Via Edward Jenner - cartoonist

Via Repton - English writer & artist

Via Leonardo da Vinci - Italian painter

Via Sistine Chapel - Italian architect

Via Le Brun - French sculptor

Via Chateaubriand - French painter

Via Turner - Eng.watercolour artist

Via Borodin - Russian composer

Via Verdi - Russian opera composer

Via Robespierre - Brit.naval victory

Via William III- overthrow of James 2

Via Snippets - Gobelin tapestries

Via War of the Courts - Southern

Via Jerusalem - ruler of kingdom

Via Ivan the Terrible - 1598 to 1605

Via Wilkins - The Man in the Moone

Via Shelley - later Mary Shelley

Via Wollstonecraft- philosopher

Via Pushkin - Russian novelist

Via Babur - subdues northern India

Via Japan - palace at Kyoto

Anglo-Irish writer - Vicar of Wakefield

Via Goldsmith - Canadian relative

Via Texan War of Independence

Via Sp.-American War - Cuban rebel

Via Goncourt Brothers - established

Via Hugo - French novelists

Via Motion Pictures-American inventor

Via Auto Industry- American inventor

Via Gordon Riots - the leader

Via Franklin - diary of expedition

Via Kiel Treaty - completed in 1832

Via Notre Dame de Paris

Via Snippets - work begins

Via Lear, English ornithologist

French opera composer - Faust

Via Chaucer - English court poet

Spanish artist - 3rd May 1808

Via Puccini - Italian playwright

Via Snippets - famous Eng.cricketer

Via Tompion, English clockmaker

Via Faraday - Scottish chemist

Via Snippets - first, held at Aintree

Via Snippets - first run at Longchamp

Via Antonio Canaletto - of Europe

Via Blanchard - duel by balloon

Via Second Battle of Bull Run

Via Babbage - American engineer

Via Speke - Scottish explorer - Nile

Via War of Pacific - Peruvian navy

Via Gainsborough - French artist

Via 1840s - Irish physician

Via Darwin - American botanist

Via Bell - Am.inventor of telephone

Via Vancouver - American explorer

English poet - Country Churchyard

Via Nadir Shah of Iran

Via Cheng-t'ung - Ming Emperor

Via Robert Adam - designer

Via Blanchard-record balloon journey

Via Yorktown - American commander

Via Handel - English composer

Via Inquisition - instigator

Via Babylonian Captivity-back to Rome

Via Gregorian Calendar - decree

Via Tennyson - English sea captain

Via Fragonard - French artist

English botanist - Anatomy of Plants

Via Westphalia - German writer

Via Thoma à Kempis - Dutch priest

Via Campo Formio - French painter

Via Reign of Terror - Madame Tussaud

Via Gilbert and Sullivan - writer

Via Champollion - cuneiform script

Via Waterloo - French marshal

Via Smollett - regarding hack writers

Via Rossini-Aust.organist- Silent Night

Via Durer - German painter

Via Mexican War - settlement

Via Canaletto - Venetian artist

Via Stradivarius - violin maker

Via Lavoisier - French geologist

French Poet - Romance of the Rose

Via Chaucer - French poet/musician

Via Execution of Louis XVI

Via Execution of Louis XVI

Via Offenbach - French composer

Via Snippets - Chinese encylopedia

Via Second Sikh War - Brit.victory

Via Am Wild West - famous shootout

Via 2nd/3rd Anglo-Maratha Wars

Via Trevithick - Cornish inventor

Via Gutenberg - and printing partner

Via Gunpowder Plot - RC conspirator

Via Crimean War - French artist