Buganda.19C African kingdom. 1890s Britain. 1962 Independent under Uganda. 1966 Uganda.

Buisson, Ferdinand. 1841-1932. French educator. Founded League of Human Rights 1898.

Bukharin, Nikolay. 1888-1938. Russian Bolshevik. Shot in Stalin’s Purge. Rehabilitated 1988.

Bulganin, Nikolai. 1895-1975. Soviet Prime Minister 1955-8 with Khrushchev.

Bulgaria. Balkans. 7C Bulgar Empire. 1018 Byzantine. 1185 2nd Bulgar Empire. 1396 Ottoman. 1878. Independent kingdom. 1946 People’s Republic. 1991Republic.

Bulgarian Horrors. 1876. Brutal Ottoman suppression of uprising. 15,000 killed in reprisals.

Bulge, Battle. 1945. Last German offensive on the Western Front at Ardennes. WWII.

Bull. Important papal pronouncement of Church doctrine, canonizations.

Bull, John. Personification of England popularized by Arbuthnot 1712.

Bull Moose. 1912-16. Liberal Republicans for Roosevelt in first US Progressive Party.

Bülow, Bernard. 1849-1929. Prussian Prime Minister 1900-9. Bismarckian Realpolitik. Social legislation.

Bulow, Friedrich. 1755-1816. Prussian general against Napoleon.

Bulwer-Lytton. 1803-73. English novelist. Last Days of Pompeii, 1834. -“It was a dark and stormy night”.

Bundesrat. Upper house of Swiss, German, Austria Parliaments.

Bundestag. Lower House of German Parliament 1949-. Elects Chancellor.

Bunin, Ivan. 1870-1953. Russian poet/novelist. Village 1923.

Bunker Hill, Battle. 1775. Early American victory in Revolution. Putnam.

Bunsen, Robert. 1811-99. German chemist, perfected bunsen burner. Discovered Caesium, Rubidium 1860. Spectroscopy 1859. Kirchhoff.

Bunuel, Luis. 1900-83. Spanish filmmaker. Controversial film of social injustice, Andalusian Dog 1928.

Bunyan, John. 1628-88. English Puritan author: Pilgrim’s Progress 1678.

Bunyan, Paul. Legendary US giant lumberjack with blue ox Babe.

Burckhardt, Jacob. 1818-97. Swiss cultural historian. Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860.

Burgess, Anthony. 1917-95. English Social novelist. Clockwork Orange 1962. Wanting Seed 1962.

Burgundian. c1075-1125. Style of Romanesque architecture. Tall proportional.

Burgundian. Dominant European musical school in 15C. Dufay.

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