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Asquith, Herbert. 1852-1928. Liberal Prime Minister of England, 1908-16: Pensions and unemployment insurance. Parliament Act.
Attalid. c230-135BC. Dynasty of Pergamum.
Attlee, Clement. 1883-1967. British Labour Prime Minister. 1945-51. National Health. Nationalization.
Australia. c28,000BC Australoids. 1606 Sighted by Portuguese. 1668 Dampier lands. 1770 Cook claims for England. 1788-1868 Penal colonies. 1901 Independent commonwealth.
Aventine Secession. 1924. 150 Italian government members protest Fascist government. Matteotti.
Avicenna, Ali ibn-Sina. 980-1037. Arab physician, philosopher: Canon of Medicine.
Axis Pact. 1936-45. German-Italian Agreement, 1936. Cooperative alliance maintained through WWII. Allied with Spain, 1939; Japan, 1936. Yugoslavia 1941. Tripartite Pact.
Ayyubids. Sunni Caliphate dynasty in Egypt 1169-1250. Also in Yemen, Syria.
Ba’ath. 1943-. Pan-Arab Socialist unity party.
Babeuf, François. 1760-97. French Socialist egalitarian revolutionary. “Conspiracy of Equals” vs Directory.
Bactria. c1500BC Aryan. 545BC Persia. 328BC Alexander. 256BC-140 Graeco-Bactria. Badakhshan. 7C Moslem. 1220 Genghis Khan. Now Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.
Badoglio, Pietro. 1871-1956. Italian. Conquered Ethiopia 1936. Arranged 1943 armistice. Prime Minister 1943-44.
Baer, Karl. 1792-1876. Estonian/German naturalist: founded science of embryology. Discovered ovum 1827.
Bahrain. 1521 Portugal. 1602 Persia. 1783 Khalifa dynasty. 1861 British protectorate. 1971 Independent.
Bali. c1000 Java. 1596 Dutch discover. 1906 Netherlands. WWII Japan occupies. 1950 Indonesia.
Bandung Conference. 1955. 29 Asian and African countries oppose colonialism, promote peace.
Baptists. 1608-. Congregationalist Christian church. Baptism for believers only, (not infants).
Baronius, Caesar. 1538-1607.Italian. RC historian. Annales Eccles 1586-93.
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.
Bassi, Agostino. 1773-1856. Italian microscopist: contagion by microbes.
Bates, W. 1825-92. English naturalist. Supported Darwin with mimicry evidence.
Bayard, Pierre. 1476-1524. French knight in Italian wars. “The fearless and blameless knight.”
Beatrice. c1265-90. Florentine woman immortalized by Dante.
Beauvoir, Simone de. 1908-86. French Existentialist writer. The Second Sex 1949.