Black Friday. Sept 24, 1869. Fisk corners gold. US market collapses.

Black Hand. 19-20C. Sicilian criminal secret society.

Black Hand. 1911-17. (Unity or Death) Serbian secret society assassinated Francis-Ferdinand 1914.

Black Hole of Calcutta. 1756. Small cell in which 123 of 146 British alledgedly died after being imprisoned by Bengalis.

Black Muslims. 20C US movement to apply Islam to Black life. Malcolm X.

Black Panthers. 1966-80. Revolutionary US political party. Bobby Seale. Huey Newton.

Black Thursday. Oct. 24, 1929. NY Stock Exchange crash.

Black War. 1804-30. Tasmanian natives defeated by European settlers.

Blake, William. 1757-1827. English mystical poet and engraver of his own books. Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790-3. Job 1821. Dante’s Divine Comedy 1825.

Blanc, Louis. 1811-82. French Utopian Socialist. Theory of equal wages. National Workshops. Organization du Travail 1839.

Blanche of Castile. 1188-1252. Mother, regent for St. Louis. Hôtel de Nesle. Helped unify France.

Blandine, St. Martyr at Lyon, 177.

Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider). 1911-14. Organization of Abstract Expressionist artists. Kandinsky. Klee.

Blavatsky, Helena. 1831-91. Founded Theosophical Society, 1875.

Bleeding Kansas. 1854-59. Antislavery vs Slavery advocates for control of Kansas. Wyandotte Constitution.

Blenheim, Battle. 1704. Bavaria. Marlborough’s victory in War of Spanish Succession. First French defeat in 50 years, saves Vienna.

Bligh, William. 1754-1817. English captain of Bounty. Discovered breadfruit.

Bliss, Arthur. 1891-1975. English subjective composer. Colour Symphony 1922.

Blockade. Naval strategy preventing access to an enemy’s coast.

Bloody Assizes. 1685. Trial of Monmouth’s rebels. 320 hung. 800 deported.

Bloody Sunday. 1887. Police kill 2 Socialists in Trafalgar Square Riot. 1905. Slaughter of petitioners to Winter Palace of Nicholas II leads to Russian Revolution. 1972. 13 killed in Londonderry riot.

Bloody Week. 1871. Paris Commune toppled. 20,000 dead.

Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.

Blow, John. 1649-1708. Westminster organist. First English opera, Venus and Adonis 1685.

Blue Laws. US laws that control Sunday activities. 1781 originals on blue paper.

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