What my mind/notes are full of...

I'm on a Mutemath kick right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAtXKS9ZxvM
Good stuff.

Important Dates:
711 - Muslims take over Spain. Bummer.
800 - Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Wahoo.
1492 - Columbus sails the ocean blue and Christians retake Spain.
1588 - Spanish Armada fails epically.
1688 - Revolution of the Glorious sort.
1789 - Revolution of the French sort.
1870 - Italy and Germany shake it all off and become their own nations.

Folks of the British Isles: Romans Celts England Ireland Scotland Wales Angles Saxons Jutes Normans 1066

Stuart Sandwich:
James I
Charles I
Charles II
James I

Protestant Reformation: John Wycliffe, Jan Huss, Martin Luther, Diet of Worms, "Hier stehe ich," Pope, 95 Theses, solafidesolagratiasolascripturasolaChristo, church, nationalism, wealth, Schmalkaldic League, Peace of Augsburg, "Cujus regio, ejus religio," 1500-1650, John Calvin, Zwingli, Henry VIII, "Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived." I WILL REFORM YOU!

"I am just not a Calvinist." - Mom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5AJr0wls0

Lots of Bourbons. Lots of Louis. Lots and lots and lots of Louis.

Copernicus Newton Kepler Hobbes Descarte Spinoza Locke Rousseau Montesquieu Ptolemny Galileo Bacon. Anything you know science knows better.

Inspiring French Quotes:
"L'etat, c'est moi!" ("I am the state!") -King Louis XIV
"I AM the senate!" - Emperor Palpatine
"Apre moi, le deluge." ("After me comes the flood.") -King Louis XV
"Ecrasez l'infame." ("Crush the infamous thing.") -Voltaire
"Liberte, egalite, fraternite." ("Liberty, equality, freedom.") -slogan of the French Revolution

Revolution of the French sort:
Louis XVI Estates-General clergy nobility commonfolk, National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, constitution, Legislative Assembly, left wing right wing, National Convention, radical, Danton, Robespierre, Directory, Bourgeois, Proletariat, farmers, Flight to Varennes, sans culottes, Brunswick Manifesto, Jacobins, Girondists, Reign of Terror, guilloting, severed heads, constitution, democracy, consulate, Napoleon Bonaparte
"Revolutionaries wait for my head on a silver plate, just a puppet on a lonely string, oh who would ever want to be king?" -Chris Martin of Coldplay

Romanticism: imagination, the infinite, individual expression, wild, weird, untamed, nature, emotion, organic. "The nature is so mad that it wants to eat your Frankenstein during a torrential hurricane who is expressing its grief at the loss of its Ozymandias." -my take on Romanticism

19th Century Economics: Malthus, Ricardo, Bentham, Mill, Hegel and his dialectic, Marx, Smith, Wealth of Nations, capitalism vs. socialism, law of supply and demand, Factory Act of 1833, class struggles, bourgeoisie vs. proletariat, economic determinism, surplus value, industralism

Three Emperor's League: Austria, Germany, Russia
Dual Alliance: Austria, Germany
Triple Alliance: Italy Austria, Germany
Double Entente: France, Russia
Triple Entente: England, France, Russia

Yep.