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Bardeen, John. 1908-91. US developer of transistor 1948 with Shockley. . BCS superconductivity 1957.
Baroque Art. 1600-1750. Orig in Italy, spread across W. Europe. Architecture: Ornate style characterized by stucco, frescoes, rood screens. Vanbrugh. Bernini’s Barberini Palace. Music: Counterpoint vs Renaissance polyphony. Opera, cantata. Bach. Monteverdi. Vivaldi. Painting: Dynamic, emotional. Caravaggio. Reni. Rubens.Van Dyck. Rococo.
Bartlett, John. 1820-1905. US compiler of Familiar Quotations 1855.
Behaviourism. 1913. Actions are response to physical stimuli. Skinner. Watson. Pavlov.
Benét, Stephen. 1898-1943. US poet, writer. Devil and Daniel Webster 1937. John Brown’s Body 1928.
Bible. Hebrew and Christian sacred scriptures translated from Hebrew and Aramaic. 3C BC Greek translation. 1382 Wycliffe, Rogers, English. 1522-34 Luther, German. 1611 King James version. Vulgate by St. Jerome. Apocrypha.
Biddle, John. 1615-62. Founded Unitarianism. 12 Arguments 1644.
Birch, John. -1945. US missionary killed in China. Cold War hero of John Birch Society.
Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.
Blow, John. 1649-1708. Westminster organist. First English opera, Venus and Adonis 1685.
Booth, John Wilkes. 1838-65. US actor. Shot Lincoln, 1865.
Boswell, James. 1740-95. Scottish author. Life of Samuel Johnson 1791.
Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.
Brown, Arthur. 1886-1948. First non-stop transatlantic flight, 1919, with Alcock.
Brown, John. 1800-59. US slavery abolitionist. Harper’s Ferry. Hung.
Buckingham Palace. 1703. Rebuilt by Nash 1825. London residence of British sovereigns since 1837.
Bull, John. 1562-1628. English early keyboard composer. Often credited with God Save the Queen.
Bull, John. Personification of England popularized by Arbuthnot 1712.
Bunyan, John. 1628-88. English Puritan author: Pilgrim’s Progress 1678.
Burke, John. 1787-1848. Peerage 1826-.
Burnet, John. 1859-1938. Scottish architect: British Museum.
Cabal. 1667-73. Charles II’s advisers: Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, Lauderdale.
Cabot, John. c1450-99. Genoese explorer for England. Discovered Newfoundland, Labrador, 1497.
Cage, John. 1912-92. Father of US avant-garde musical movement. Experiments with randomness and new sounds.
Calvin, John. 1509-64. Reformist in Switzerland and France. Predestination, truth by faith. Institutes of Christian Religion 1536, used by others to justify Protestantism. Calvinism.