Bohr, Niels. 1885-1962. Danish atomic physicist. Electron quantum levels, 1913.

Borgia, Cesare. 1476-1507. Ruthless Italian Machiavellian statesman. Son of Pope Alexander VI.

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

Brackenridge, Hugh. 1748-1816. Scottish/US novelist. Modern Chivalry 1792.

Brains Trust. 1932. Roosevelt’s advisers on New Deal.

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

Bronte, Anne. 1820-49. English novelist. Agnes Grey 1847. Sister of Charlotte, Emily.

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

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

Bruegel, Jan (Velvet). 1568-1625. Flemish painter of landscape and still life.

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

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

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

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

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

Burney, Fanny. 1752-1840. English Mannerist novelist. Evelina 1778.

Capote, Truman. 1924-84. US novelist. Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1958. In Cold Blood 1965.

Cassivellaunus. English king def by J Caesar, 54BC.

Cather, Willa. 1873-1947. US novelist. O Pioneers 1913.

Cavalier Poets. 17C Royalists. Lovelace. Herrick.

Cavell, Edith. 1865-1915. British nurse in Brussels. Executed by Germans for helping POWs escape.

Chandler, Raymond. 1888-1959. US novelist. Big Sleep 1939. Detective Philip Marlow.

Chekhov, Anton. 1860-1904. Russian melancholic cynical novelist/dramatist: Seagull, Three Sisters.

Chesterton, G.K. 1874-1936. English satirical essayist/novelist: Napoleon of Notting Hill 1904. “Socialism aims to take capital out of the hands of the few and put it into the hands of the fewer-the politicians.”

Classical Music. ~1750-1820. Development of sonata, symphony, string quartet. Mozart. Beethoven. Haydn.

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