Black Watch. 1725-. Scottish Highland Regiment.

Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.

Bloomer, Amelia. 1818-94. US temperance, women’s rights activist. Wore bloomers.

Blue Stockings. 1750s French literary salon held by educated women.

Boeotian League. 550-335BC. Federal government formed by Thebes. Opposed Sparta in Corinthian War. Defeated by Philip of Macedonia, 338. Destroyed by Alexander the Great, 335.

Böhme, Jakob. 1575-1624. German mystic. Explained world in terms of opposing elements. Aurora 1612.

Bolsheviks. (“Majority”) 1903-52. Revolutionary faction of Social Democratic Workers Party for dictatorship of Proletariat. =Communist. Mensheviks.

Bonus Army. 1932. US WWI vets march to demand accelerated bonus payment. Dispersed by force.

Borden, Robert. 1854-1937. Canadian Cons Prime Minister 1911-20. Union Gov’t. Imperial War Cabinet. Women suffrage.

Boyne, Battle. 1690. James II attempts to retake throne; defeated by William III, ending Catholic Stuart power in Ireland. Celebrated by Orangemen, Jul 12.

Brazzaville Declaration. 1944. Established colonial representation in French parliament, but not autonomy.

Brecht, Bertolt. 1898-1956. German experimental dramatist: Threepenny Opera 1928. Mother Courage.

Breda Declaration. 1660. Charles II conciliatory statement. Amnesty and religious toleration.

Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.

Bristol Riots. 1831. For British parliamentary reform.

British Empire, Order of. 1917. Honours service to government.

Broussel. Parliamentarian, whose arrest by Anne of Austria began the Fronde 1648.

Brown, Robert. 1773-1858. Scottish botanist: Brownian movement. Plant cell nucleus.

Buchmanism. 1922-65. Christian revivalist movement stressing honesty, purity, love, unselfishness. =Moral Rearmament 1938. Oxford Group.

Bull. Important papal pronouncement of Church doctrine, canonizations.

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

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

Bushmen. South African tribe. = San.

Cabinet. Evolved from English Privy Council, 18C. Ministers controlling government policy.

Cabochiens. 1411-18. Paris tradesmen. Supported Burgundians vs Armagnacs.

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