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459 matches to CIA
Aske, Robert. -1537. Led Pilgrimage of Grace against Henrician Reformation.
Audencia. Medieval law court in Spain.
Aurignacian. Late Paleolithic art period.
Avicenna, Ali ibn-Sina. 980-1037. Arab physician, philosopher: Canon of Medicine.
Ba’ath. 1943-. Pan-Arab Socialist unity party.
Babbage, Charles. 1792-1871. British. Invented Difference Engine, 1823-34 -first computer. Founded British Association for the Advancement of Science 1831, Royal Astronomical Society 1820, Royal Statistical Society 1834.
Babeuf, François. 1760-97. French Socialist egalitarian revolutionary. “Conspiracy of Equals” vs Directory.
Bagehot, Walter. 1826-77. English social scientist/ essayist. The English Constitution 1867. Physics and Politics 1872. Lombard St. 1873.
Balearic Is. 654BC Phoenicia. 123BC Rome. 426 Vandal. 798 Moor. 1229 Independent Christian. 1349 Aragon. 1713 Brit (Minorca). 1802 Spain.
Balzac, Honoré de. 1799-1850. French novelist of social injustice: Comedie Humaine 1829-48.
Banting, Frederick. 1891-1941. Canadian physician: discovered insulin with Best, MacLeod, 1921.
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules. 1808-89. French dandy, social critic.Diaboliques 1874.
Barrès, Maurice. 1862-1923. French writer, politician. la Colline inspirée 1913.
Bartolomeo, Fra. 1472-1517. Florentine master painter. High Renaissance Classical idealist. Lucca. Annunciation 1497.
Basque. Europe’s oldest racial group. NW Spain, SW France. Euzkadi. ETA.
Bay of Pigs. 1961. CIA-financed Cuban invasion by exiles fails. Cuban Missile Crisis.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.
Bebel, August. 1840-1913. Founder of German Social Democrat Party.
Beirut. 20C BC Phoenicia. 15BC Rome. 635 Moslem. 1110 Crusaders. 1187 Saladin. 1516 Ottoman. 1291 Mameluk. 1920 Capital of Lebanon. 1975-90 Lebanese Civil War.
Belinsky, V.G. 1811-48. Russian literary critic. Emphasized social responsibility of literature. “Father of Russian radical intelligentsia.”
Belsen. 1933-45. Nazi concentration camp. Commandant Kramer executed.
Ben Bella, Ahmed. 1918-. Algerian Socialist revolutionary. President 1962-5. House arrest 1965-79.
Bernard, Claude. 1813-78. French physiologist and logician. Influenced Pavlov. Intro. to Experimental Medicine 1865.
Bernicia. 6C Anglian kingdom in Northumbria. Deira.
Bernoulli, Jacob. 1654-1705. Swiss mathematician. Probability. B Numbers.