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311 matches to Ile St-Louis
Bailey, Old. London Law Courts. Building 1907.
Baltimore Incident. 1891. Chileans attack US seamen; pay reparations to avert war.
Bannister, Roger. 1929-. English. Ran first 4 minute mile at Oxford, 1954.
Bartlett, John. 1820-1905. US compiler of Familiar Quotations 1855.
Bataan Death March. 1942. Japanese force 60 mile march; 54 of 70,000 prisoners arrive.
Bay of Pigs. 1961. CIA-financed Cuban invasion by exiles fails. Cuban Missile Crisis.
Beer Hall Putsch. 1923. Hitler’s unsuccessful Munich uprising. Wrote Mein Kampf while imprisoned 8 months.
Bellarmine, St. Robert. 1542-1621. Italian Jesuit defender of RC church vs Protestantism, Copernican theory, heretics. Galileo.
Bennett, Arnold. 1867-1931. English Staffordshire novelist. Meticulously detailed Naturalist. Clayhanger Series 1910.
Bertin, Jean. 1917-75. French engineer. Jet silencers; air cushion vehicles.
Blanche of Castile. 1188-1252. Mother, regent for St. Louis. Hôtel de Nesle. Helped unify France.
Blest Gana. 1830-1920. Chilean novelist. Arithmetic of Love 1862.
Boethius. 475-524. Roman translator of Aristotle. Neoplatonic. Stoic. Consolation of Philosophy 523 (while imprisoned).
Bohemia. Celts. 5-6C Slavs. 9C Unified. 1061 HRE. 10C + Moravia + Silesia + Galicia. 1158 Kingdom. 1526 Hapsburg. 1918 Czechoslovakia. 1939-45 German. 1993 Czech Republic.
Boileau, Nicolas. 1636-1711. French writer: Satires 1658.
Brahe, Tycho. 1546-1601. Danish astronomer. Compiled observations 1572 used by Kepler.
Bramah, Joseph. 1748-1814. English Invented combination lock 1784, hydraulic press, modern toilet.
Breslau, Treaty. 1742. Ends first Silesian War.
Browne, Robert. 1550-1633. English founder of congregationalist Brownist sect, 1580. Exiled.
Buchanan, James. 1791-1868. US President 1857-61. Compromise policy failed to avert civil war.
Cable, George. 1844-1925. US author on color problem: Ole Creole Days 1879. Silent South 1885.
Cadiz. 1100BC Phoenicia...501BC Carthage. 206BC Rome. 409 Visigoth. 535 Byzantine. 711 Moors 1262 Castile.
Calder, Alexander. 1898-1976. US sculptor of mobiles.
Cambrai League. 1508-10. Holy Roman Empire, Aragon, France, Rome vs Venice.
Carmelite. 1156- Mendicant friars. 1452- Nuns. 1562 vow of silence.