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Barry, Charles. 1795-1860. English architect: Westminster Parliament 1840. Trafalgar Square 1840-3.
Bart, Jean. 1650-1702. French privateer for Louis XIV vs English.
Barth, Karl. 1886-1968. Swiss Protestant theologian. Can only understand God through word of Christ.
Bartholdi, Frédéric. 1834-1904. French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty 1886.
Bartholemew’s Day, St. St. Bartholemew’s Day.
Bartholomew, St. =Nathanael, a disciple of Christ.
Bartlett, John. 1820-1905. US compiler of Familiar Quotations 1855.
Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.
Bartolomeo, Fra. 1472-1517. Florentine master painter. High Renaissance Classical idealist. Lucca. Annunciation 1497.
Barton, Clara. 1821-1912. US Civil War nurse. Founded US Red Cross 1881.
Barton, Elizabeth. 1506-34. Maid of Kent. Executed for prophesy against Henry VIII marrying Anne Boleyn.
Baruch, Bernard. 1870-1965. US financier/elder statesman; adviser to US presidents, Churchill.
Bärwalde, Treaty. 1631. French pay Swedes to fight Hapsburgs.
Barye, Antoine. 1795-1875. French sculptor of simplicity, energy. Jaguar devouring a hare 1850.
Baudin, Alphonse. 1811-51. French deputy, killed on the Barricades. Republican martyr.
Beaumarchais, C de. 1732-99. French satirical writer vs nobility. Barber of Seville 1772, Marriage of Figaro 1784.
Berbers. Caucasian North African peoples, mostly Moslem. Nomadic since 12C Arab invasions. Almohads. Almoravids. Barbary.
Bernini, Lorenzo. 1598-1680. Italian Baroque painter, sculptor, architect. Louis XIV bust. Apollo and Daphne 1616. St. Theresa 1646.
Borromini, Francesco. 1599-1667. Italian Baroque architect. S Carlo alle Quattro Fontane 1665-67.
British East Africa. 1888. Former protectorates. Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar, Tanganyika.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. 1806-61. English poet: Sonnets from the Portuguese 1848. Aurora Leigh 1857. Wife of Robert.
Brunel, Isambard. 1806-59. British inventor of transatlantic steamship, 1838; screw propeller, 1845.
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. 1600-81. Spanish dramatist: El divino Orfeo-“Life is a dream” 1635.
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste. 1827-75. Neo-Baroque Paris sculptor. La Danse 1869.
Carracci, Annibale. 1560-1609. It Baroque painter. Palazzo Farnese frescoes 1599-1601.