Index

A

Achilles, 58, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 103

Adams, Abigail, 22

Adams, John, 19, 20, 24, 25

Aeneid, The, 101

Agamemnon, 93, 94, 95, 97, 103

Allies, 60, 61, 62, 70

Analects (Confucius), 3, 4, 12

Aoidoi, 96, 97

Apollodorus, 32

Astronomia Pythagorica, 35

Automata, 133

Autopsy, 64

B

Babbage, Charles, 141, 142

Bacon, Delia, 79

Bacon, Sir Francis, 79, 80, 82

Barnum, P. T., 139

Battle of Banquan, 121

Battle of Germantown, 22

Battle of Trenton, 21

Battle of Zhoulu, 122

Beguines, 89

Bishop Hugh, 105, 106, 118

Bishop Jacque de Vitry, 109

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 86

British Museum, 50, 51, 55

Brooke, Arthur, 81

C

Caesar, Julius, 88

Cartwright, Edmund, 142

Catalani, Jordan, 113

Cayuga, 40, 45

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 102

Chess-playing automaton. See Turk (chess-playing automaton)

Chi You, 121, 122, 123

Churchill, Winston, 61, 67

Cicero, 32, 33

Classics of Internal Medicine, 125

Columbus, Christopher, 115, 116

Confucianism, 9

basic relationships of, 11

core values of, 10–11

spread of, 12

Confucius

appearance, 4, 5

early life of, 4–5

followers of, 7–9, 12

Kong Fuzi, 5

principles, 9–11

sayings, 3, 4, 12

Continental Army, 19, 20

Covilhã, Pêro da, 118

Cultures, 57

Curie, Marie, 33

Custis, Martha Dandridge, 18

D

De Claris Mulieribus, 86

Deep Blue (chess-playing computer), 142

Dekanawida

Great Law of Peace, 40–43, 44

meeting with Tadodaho, 43

preaching peace to tribes, 38, 39

de Mailly, Jean, 84, 85, 88

de Vere, Edward, 82

Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 34

Dickens, Charles, 82

Dörpfeld, Wilhelm, 104

E

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 67

Elements, The, 36

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 79

Engels, Friedrich, 48

Enkidu, 52, 53

Epic of Gilgamesh, 51, 56

Ereshkigal, 59

Ethnologists, 44

Euclid, 36

F

Finkel, Irving, 55

Five Races Under One Union, 131

Fleming, Ian, 60

Franklin, Benjamin, 48

G

Galileo, 34

Genghis Khan, 110, 114, 118

Geographia (Ptolemy), 113

Gilgamesh

afterlife for people, 59

Flood tablet, 51

relationship between Enkidu and, 52–53

and Shulgi, 55–57

superhuman character, 57

Weld-Blundell Prism tablet, 53–55

Gilligan’s Island, 95

Graffiti, 88

Grammar school, Elizabethan England, 74

Great Library of Alexandria, 100, 101, 102

Great Peacemaker. See Dekanawida

Great Wall, 127, 128

H

Hale, Horatio, 44

Hamilton, Alexander, 21

Hancock, John, 20

Han emperor, 129

Hathaway, Anne, 74

Haudenosaunee, 39, 44

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 79

Hecatomb, 33, 34

Hector, 95

Helen, 94, 95

Hiawatha

belt of wampum beads, 41, 42

Great Law of Peace, 40–43, 44, 48

meeting with Tadodaho, 43

preaching peace to tribes, 38, 39

Hippasus, 30, 34

Hitler, 61

Homer

Athenian tyrant, 99

Byzantine Empire, 102

culture, 100

epics, 93–98

poems, 92, 97, 98

Roman Empire, 101–102

Homeric Greek, 102–104

Huangdi

ancestor of five ethnic groups, 131–132

battles, 121–123

and Chi You, 121, 122, 123

inventions, 123–125

mausoleum, 126, 130

origin of, 119–121

in Warring States Period, 126–128

Hurons, 38, 44, 45

Hus, John, 86

I

Iamblichus, 34

Iliad, The, 92, 93, 95–103

Impressment, 26

Iroquois Confederacy, 37, 41, 42, 45

Iroquois tribes, 45

communal farming, 46–48

multi-nation alliance between tribes, 39

J

Jefferson, Thomas, 16, 48

junzi, 9

K

Kasparov, Garry, 142

Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 134

creation of chess-playing automaton, 135–136

inventions of, 140

visit to Europe with Turk, 136–138

King John II, 115

L

Laertius, Diogenes, 33

League of the Iroquois. See Iroquois Confederacy

Lei Zu (Huangdi’s wife), 123–124

Li (rituals), 11

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 37

Ludolf, Hiob, 117

Luther, Martin, 86

M

Maelzel, Johann, 138, 140

Major William Martin, identity of, 64, 65

Mandeville, Sir John, 110, 111, 116

Manuel I Comnenus, 107

Mao Zedong, 131

Marx, Karl, 48

Menelaus, 94

Michael, Glyndwr, 64, 66

Mohawk, 40, 45

Montagu, Ewen, 62, 64, 67

Morse, Samuel, 79

Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, The (play), 81

Mussolini, Benito, 61, 70

N

Narus, 58

Nye, Archibald, 65, 66

O

Odysseus, 95, 96

Odyssey, The, 92, 93, 95–99, 103

Oneida, 40, 45, 47

One Thousand and One Nights, 58

Onondaga, 40, 45

Operation Mincemeat

creating identity for corpse, 65–66

documents, 69

fake letters, 65–66

plan of, 62–64

P

Patroclus, 94, 95

Penelope, 95

Philip, Master, 108

Plato, 32

Poe, Edgar Allen, 137

Polo, Marco, 110, 116

Polonus, Martinus, 84, 85, 88, 91

Pope Alexander III, 108

Pope Clement VIII, 87

Pope Joan

collateral damage, 86–88

legend, 84–86

during the reformation, 88

stoned to death, 83, 84

Pope Sylvester II, 87

Power loom, 142

Prester John

and Bishop Hugh, 105, 106

end of legend, 117–118

Ethiopian emperors, 118

in Fifth Crusade, 108–109

finding the mythical king, 115–117

letter of, 107, 108, 113

on the map, 112–114

Prince Henry, 115

Protestantism, 87

Protestant Reformation, 88

Psalters, 111

Ptolemy, 113

Pythagoras

acusmatici and mathêmatici, 34

death of, 36

discovery of musical harmony, 32

life of, 28

mystical secrets, 31–33

view on life after death, 29–31

Pythagorean Theorem, 32, 35

Q

Qin Shi, 127–130

Queen Elizabeth, 73, 76, 80

R

Ran Qiu (disciple of Confucius), 8

Red herrings, 134

Rén (propriety), 11

Rhapsodes, 97, 98

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 59

S

Samiards, 106

Schliemann, Heinrich, 103, 104

Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim, 78

Second Continental Congress, 17, 19

Seneca, 40, 45

Shakespeare, William

actor, 75

alternative candidates, 79–82

bardolatry, 78

life of, 73–75

literary analysis of, 80–82

reasons for doubting, 75–77

Shamhat, 53

Shangdi, 119, 120

Shulgi, 55–57

Sicily, invasion of, 61–64

Smith, George, 50, 51

Sparks, Jared, 24

Strabo, 49

Sun Tzu, 127

Swift-footed stud, 97

T

Tadodaho, 42, 43, 45

Theresa, Maria, 134, 136

Tian, 126

Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, The (poem), 81

Treaty of Paris, 23

Trojan War, 58, 93, 94, 103

“Trout Memo,” 60, 61

Turk, 134–135

and hidden chess master, 140

performance in Europe, 136–138

working of, 139–141

U

Utnapishtim, 53, 55

V

Virgil, 101

Virginia House of Burgesses, 18

W

Warring States Period, 120, 121, 125–128, 132

Washington, George

appearance, 14–15

battles of, 21–22

as first president, 23–26

as general of Continental Army, 19, 20

life guard of, 21

marriage, 18

misdeeds of, 17

political campaign, 18

Weems, Parson, 25

Weld-Blundell, Herbert, 53

Wonders of the East, 111

Wudi, 129

Y

Yan Emperor, 121

Yan Huang, 121

Yellow Emperor. See Huangdi

Yelü Dashi, 118

Z

Zhonghua Minzu, 131