Bactria. c1500BC Aryan. 545BC Persia. 328BC Alexander. 256BC-140 Graeco-Bactria. Badakhshan. 7C Moslem. 1220 Genghis Khan. Now Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.

Badakhshan. 255BC-1584. Kingdom in Bactria claiming direct descendance from Alexander the Great.

Bain, Alexander. 1818-1903. Scottish pragmatist philosopher, psychologist. Logic 1870.

Baker, Benjamin. 1840-1907. English engineer: London Underground 1869. Forth Bridge 1882. Aswan Dam.

Balder. Scandinavian god of peace, felled by Hoder’s mistletoe arrow.

Balkan Wars. 1912-13. Balkan League defeats Ottoman Empire. Turkish territory distributed. General dissatisfaction termed the “powder keg of Europe”.

Baltard, Victor. 1805-74. French architect. First to employ metal girders: Les Halles. St-Augustine’s Church.

Banting, Frederick. 1891-1941. Canadian physician: discovered insulin with Best, MacLeod, 1921.

Bar, Confederation of. 1768-72. Polish RC nobles vs Russian hegemony.

Barrackpore Mutiny. 1824. Indian troops vs British commanders. Troops massacred.

Barras, Paul. 1755-1829. French Directory founder. Led Army of Interior.

Barth, Karl. 1886-1968. Swiss Protestant theologian. Can only understand God through word of Christ.

Bartholdi, Frédéric. 1834-1904. French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty 1886.

Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.

Baruch, Bernard. 1870-1965. US financier/elder statesman; adviser to US presidents, Churchill.

Basel, Treaty. 1795. Prussia, France exchange Rhine territories.

Basil, St. 330-79. Founder of Basilians...Greek Orthodox Church.

Basilians. 358. Monastic order of St. Basil.

Bateau-Lavoir. 1900. Paris birthplace of cubism (Picasso, Braque) and modern poetry (Jacob, Apollinaire, Orlan). Desmoiselles d’Avignon.

Bath, Order of. 1399. A British knighthood.

Baudelaire, Charles. 1821-67. French modernist poet: Fleurs du Mal 1857. Influenced Symbolists.

Bauer, Sebastian. 1822-75. Invented submarine, 1850. First underwater photography.

Bazaine, Achille. 1811-88. French marshal, surrendered Metz, 1870. Condemned as traitor. Escaped 1874.

Bazille, Jean-Frédéric. 1841-70. Early French Impressionist painter.

Beauregard, Pierre. 1818-93. Confederate general. Ordered attack on Ft. Sumter.

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