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Bardeen, John. 1908-91. US developer of transistor 1948 with Shockley. . BCS superconductivity 1957.
Barricades, Day of the. 1588. Paris. Catholic League rebels vs Henry III.
Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.
Baudouin I. 1930-93. King of Belgium 1951-. Independent Congo.
Beadle, George. 1903-89. US geneticist. Role of genes in heredity.
Bebel, August. 1840-1913. Founder of German Social Democrat Party.
Beckett, Samuel. 1906-89. English/Irish novelist, dramatist expressing man’s suffering: Waiting for Godot 1952. Endgame.
Becquerel, Henri. 1852-1908. French discoverer of Uranium radioactivity, 1896. Curie.
Béguines. 12C- Belgian Catholic women’s charitables communities. Condemned 1311. Still exist.
Behring, Emil. 1854-1917. German bacteriologist: founded Immunology. Diphtheria (1892), Tetanus (1904) serums.
Bel. Babylonian god. Lord of the Air. = Enlil.
Belarus. (White Russia). 1386 Lithuania. 1569 Poland. 1780s Russia. 1917 USSR. 1991 Belarus. CIS.
Belgae. 150BC Celts in north Gaul. 75BC to south of England.
Belgium. 150BC Celts. 51BC Rome. 3C Franks. 9C Lower Lorraine. 15C Burgundy. 1477 Hapsburg. 1555 Spain. 1714 Austria. 1795 French. 1814 Austria. 1815 +Holland=United Netherlands. 1831 Independent kingdom. Neutrality guaranteed by Quintuple Treaty 1839. WWII Germans occupy. 1948 Benelux.
Belgrade, Treaty. 1739. Ottoman Empire ends wars with Austria and Russia. Limits Russian ships on Black Sea.
Belinsky, V.G. 1811-48. Russian literary critic. Emphasized social responsibility of literature. “Father of Russian radical intelligentsia.”
Belisarius. ~505-564. Byzantine general vs Persia, Vandals, Goths, Huns.
Belize. 4-9C Maya. 17C Buccaneers. 17C English settle. 17,18C Slaves brought. 1862 Colony =British Honduras. 1964 Self-government. 1973 =Belize. 1981 Independent.
Bell, Alexander Graham. 1847-1922. Scottish/ US inventor of the telephone 1876. Gray. Reis.
Bell, Charles. 1774-1842. Scottish anatomist. Motor vs sensory nerves 1830. Anatomy of Brain 1811.
Bell Book and Candle. Roman Catholic excommunication.
Bellamy, Edward. 1850-98. US Utopian novelist. Looking Backward 2000-1887, 1888.
Bellarmine, St. Robert. 1542-1621. Italian Jesuit defender of RC church vs Protestantism, Copernican theory, heretics. Galileo.
Bellaud. 1532-88. Provencale truculent poet who inspired Marat, Rabelais and Petrarch.