Book of the Dead. 24-16C BC. Egyptian prayers and spells buried with deceased.

Boole, George. 1815-64. British mathematician. Algebra of Logic 1854.

Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.

Booth, William. 1829-1912. British reformer. Founder of Salvation Army, 1878. In Darkest England and the Way Out 1890.

Borden, Lizzie. 1860-1927. US. Acquitted of father’s and stepmother’s axe murders 1892.

Boreas. Greek personification of the north wind.

Born, Max. 1882-1970. German/British quantum physicist. Mathematics of atom behavior.

Bosanquet, Bernard. 1848-1923. English neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher. History of Aesthetic 1892.

Boston Massacre. 1770. British soldiers kill 5 colonists rioting vs Townshend Acts. A cause of the American Revolution.

Boulle, Pierre. 1912-94. French novelist. Bridge on the River Kwai 1952.

Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.

Boveri, Theodor. 1864-1915. German cytologist. Chromosomes, 1904.

Bowditch, Nathaniel. 1773-1838. US self-educated astronomer, mathematician. New American Practical Navigator 1802.

Bradlaugh, Charles. 1833-91. Radical atheist MP, 1880-. Oath Act, permitting affirmation for swearing in.

Brady, Matthew. c1823-96. US Civil War photographer.

Braille, Louis. 1809-1852. French inventor of raised alphabet for the blind, 1824.

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

British Museum. World’s largest museum. Building 1823-52. Founded 1753 from Sloane Collection legacy. Elgin Marbles. Rosetta Stone.

British Virgin Is. Arawak. Carib. 1493 Columbus. 1555 Spain. 1648 Dutch. 1666 British settle. 1960 British Crown Colony.

Broglie, Louis de. 1892-1987. Italian/French physicist. Wave/particle theory.

Brongniart, Adolph. 1801-76. French father of paleobotany.

Bronte, Emily. 1818-48. English Romantic novelist of passionate intensity: Wuthering Heights 1847.

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

Brown, Charles. 1771-1810. “Father of American novel”. Wieland 1798.

Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.

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