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584 matches to Mindon Min
Bengal Famine. 1770. 1/3 of population died. No British aid.
Bengal Partition. 1905-11. Split for administrative ease. Creates nationalistic opposition.
Benjamin. Youngest son of Jacob and Rachel. Led 1 of 10 Lost Tribes.
Bennett, Richard B. 1870-1947. Canadian Conservative Prime Minister 1930-5. Advocated Empire Free Trade. Imperial Conference 1932.
Benten. Japanese god of reasoning. Patron of literature, music, femininity.
Biafra. 1967-70. Ojukwu-led Ibos try to secede from Nigeria resulting in famine.
Bismarck, Otto von. 1815-98. Prince. Prussian Prime Minister 1862-90. Founded German Empire; First Chancellor 1871-90. Provoked Franco-Prussian War. Ems Dispatch. Schleswig.
Black Hand. 19-20C. Sicilian criminal secret society.
Blow, John. 1649-1708. Westminster organist. First English opera, Venus and Adonis 1685.
Blum, Léon. 1872-1950. French Socialist Prime Minister 1936-7. 40 hr. week.
Borden, Robert. 1854-1937. Canadian Cons Prime Minister 1911-20. Union Gov’t. Imperial War Cabinet. Women suffrage.
Borromini, Francesco. 1599-1667. Italian Baroque architect. S Carlo alle Quattro Fontane 1665-67.
Botha, Louis. 1862-1919. First Prime Minister 1910- of South Africa.
Boulanger, Georges. 1837-91. French popular war minister. Conspired coup 1889. Banished.
Branting, Karl. 1860-1925. Founder of Swedish Social Democratic Party, Prime Minister 1920-4.
Briand, Aristide. 1862-1932. French Prime Minister 1909~29, orator. “Separation of Church and State”, 1905. Advocated union of Europe. Kellogg-Briand.
British North America Act. 1867. Granted Canada self-governing Dominion status.
Britten, Benjamin. 1913-76. Influential English composer of operas and symphonies. Paul Bunyan 1941. Billy Budd 1951. War Requiem 1962. Death in Venice 1973.
Brut. Unrestricted style of art produced by those outside of society: insane, criminal, etc.
Bulganin, Nikolai. 1895-1975. Soviet Prime Minister 1955-8 with Khrushchev.
Bülow, Bernard. 1849-1929. Prussian Prime Minister 1900-9. Bismarckian Realpolitik. Social legislation.
Burgundian. Dominant European musical school in 15C. Dufay.
Burns, Robert. 1759-96. Scottish national poet: Auld Lang Syne, Comin’ Through the Rye. Kilmarnock Edition 1786.
Byzantine Art. 6C-1453. Miniature enamels, mosaics, frescoes.