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Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.
Brindley, James. 1716-72. English engineer. Bridgewater Canal 1761.
Brinkmanship. Policy of staying at brink of war.
Britain, Battle of. 1940-1. German blitz air raids on British civilian centers. RAF defeats Luftwaffe, averting invasion.
British East India Company. 1600-1858. For trade with Asia. Took political control.
British Empire. 1500-1997. Britain, its colonies and protectorates. Commonwealth.
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.
Britten, Benjamin. 1913-76. Influential English composer of operas and symphonies. Paul Bunyan 1941. Billy Budd 1951. War Requiem 1962. Death in Venice 1973.
Brock, Isaac. 1769-1812. British military commander. Upper Canada hero in War of 1812.
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.
Brooke, James. 1803-68. British “White Raja”; family ruled Sarawak 1841-1946.
Broussel. Parliamentarian, whose arrest by Anne of Austria began the Fronde 1648.
Brown, Arthur. 1886-1948. First non-stop transatlantic flight, 1919, with Alcock.
Brown, Charles. 1771-1810. “Father of American novel”. Wieland 1798.
Brown, George. 1818-80. Scottish/Canadian statesman. Founded Toronto Globe 1844.
Brown, John. 1800-59. US slavery abolitionist. Harper’s Ferry. Hung.
Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.
Brown, Robert. 1773-1858. Scottish botanist: Brownian movement. Plant cell nucleus.
Browne, Robert. 1550-1633. English founder of congregationalist Brownist sect, 1580. Exiled.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. 1806-61. English poet: Sonnets from the Portuguese 1848. Aurora Leigh 1857. Wife of Robert.
Browning, Robert. 1812-89. English epic poet: Ring and the Book.