Brandywine, Battle. 1777. British victory in American Revolution. Diversion led to loss at Saratoga.

Branting, Karl. 1860-1925. Founder of Swedish Social Democratic Party, Prime Minister 1920-4.

Braque, Georges. 1882-1963. French painter. Developed Cubism with Picasso. First living artist in Louvre. Man with Guitar 1911.

Brattain, Walter. 1902-87. US transistor inventor.

Braun, Eva. 1912-45. Hitler’s mistress.

Brearly, Harry. English. Stainless steel 1913.

Brébeuf, St. Jean. 1593-1649. French missionary to Canadian Indians. Martyr.

Brest-Litovsk, Treaty. 1918. Russia exits WWI leaving 1/3 population in German hands.

Breton Succession War. 1341-65. Reestablishd Montfort rule in Brittany.

Briand, Aristide. 1862-1932. French Prime Minister 1909~29, orator. “Separation of Church and State”, 1905. Advocated union of Europe. Kellogg-Briand.

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

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

Brook Farm. 1841-7. Massachussets commune. Ripley. Hawthorne.

Brosse, Salomon de. 1571-1624. Architect: Luxembourg Palace 1615.

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

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

Bruckner, Anton. 1824-96. Austrian Classical Romantic composer of symphonies, masses. Romantic Symphony 1874.

Brussels, Treaty. 1948. = Western Union. 50 year alliance of Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands. 1954 + W Germany, Italy.

Bucharest, Treaty. 1812. Ended Russo-Turkish War. 1886. Serbia restores Rumelia to Bulgaria. 1913. Settled 2nd Balkan War. 1918. Romania capitulates to Central Powers. Voided by Allied victory.

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

Buck, Pearl S. 1892-1973. US novelist of Chinese life. Good Earth 1931.

Buffons, War of. 1752. Paris intellectuals debate Italian vs French opera. Rousseau.

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.

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

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