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Azerbaijan. 1828 Persia/Russia. 1918 Independent. 1922 USSR. 1936 Azerbaijan SSR. 1991 Independent. 1992-4 Karabakh War. CIS.
Bacon, Francis. 1561-1626. English chancellor and philosopher. First king’s counsel. Favoured inductive over deductive reasoning. Separated Science from religion. New Atlantis 1625. B. Scientific method: Novum Organum 1620. Essays 1625.
Bacon, Roger. 1214-94. English Franciscan monk. Advocated scientific experiment, observation. Alchemist. Formulated gunpowder. Magnifying glass 1250. Opus Majus 1266.Telescope.
Balaklava, Battle. 1854. Crimean War. Indecisive British victory at high cost. Charge of Light Brigade.
Balearic Is. 654BC Phoenicia. 123BC Rome. 426 Vandal. 798 Moor. 1229 Independent Christian. 1349 Aragon. 1713 Brit (Minorca). 1802 Spain.
Basilians. 358. Monastic order of St. Basil.
Beadle, George. 1903-89. US geneticist. Role of genes in heredity.
Beaufort, Francis. 1774-1857. English hydrographer: wind scale 1805.
Belarus. (White Russia). 1386 Lithuania. 1569 Poland. 1780s Russia. 1917 USSR. 1991 Belarus. CIS.
Bellini, Giovanni. c1429-1516. Venetian Renaissance painter. New sensuous realism of form and color. Adoration of the Magi. St. Francis 1480.
Black Hand. 1911-17. (Unity or Death) Serbian secret society assassinated Francis-Ferdinand 1914.
Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.
Bocskay, István. 1557-1606. Hungarian rebel vs HRE Catholicism. Gained Transylvania from Rudolf II. Vienna Peace, 1606.
Boethius. 475-524. Roman translator of Aristotle. Neoplatonic. Stoic. Consolation of Philosophy 523 (while imprisoned).
Bohr, Niels. 1885-1962. Danish atomic physicist. Electron quantum levels, 1913.
Boltzmann, Ludwig. 1844-1906. Austrian physicist. Statistical Mechanics, 1870.
Bonaventure, St. 1217-1274. Italian Franciscan theologian.
Born, Max. 1882-1970. German/British quantum physicist. Mathematics of atom behavior.
Boyacá, Battle. 1819. South American rebels win independence from New Granada from Spain. Bolivar. Santander.
Broglie, Louis de. 1892-1987. Italian/French physicist. Wave/particle theory.
Cagoulards. 1930s. French Fascist terrorists vs Third Republic.
Capuchin. 1525. Powerful Franciscan mendicant order of monks.
Carpocrations. 2C-6C. Gnostic heretic sect.
Cathars. 11-14C. Christian Gnostic heretic sect. Albigens. 1030 burned in Italy.
Cavendish, Henry. 1731-1810. English chemist, physicist. Disc. hydrogen, 1766. Synthesis of water.