INDEX
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B: 151
Baal: 151; temple of 152
Baasha: 116
Baba Nanak: 1756
Babcock Test: 151
Babaeus, Bishop: 1322
Babel, Tower of: 152
Babington, Anthony: 1181
Baboon: 152
Babylon: 152; 1210 hanging gardens 152,
631, 1722, 1727; wall 152, 700 Babylonia: 152; cuneiform writings 486;
literature 1080 Bacchus (myth.): 153 Bach, Johann Sebastian: 153, 593 Bache, Alexander Dallas: 153 Bacheller, Irving: 1097 Bacillus: 153 Bacon, Francis (Baron Verulam and Viscount
Saint Albans): 154, 1080,1089,1109, 1655 Bacon, Leonard: 154 Bacon, Nathaniel: 154, 959 Bacon, Roger: 154 Bacon's Rebellion: 154, 959 Bacteria: 154
Bad-Ems or Ems, Germany: 613 Baden, Germany: 155 Baden-Baden (City), Germany: 155 Baden-Powell, Robert S. S: 155 Badger: 154
Bad Lands, South Dakota: 1786 Baer, Karl Ernst von: 156, 525 Baffin, William: 156 Baffin's Bay: 156 Bafulab6, West Africa: 1724 Bagdad or Baghdad, Asiatic Turkey: 156 Bagehot, Walter: 157 Baggesen, Jens: 1087 Bagpipe: 157 Bahamas: 157, 2070 Bahia, Brazil: 157 Baiima, West Africa: 1754 Baikal, Lake: 157 Bainbridge, William: 157 Baird, Spencer Fullerton: 158, 677 Baireuth or Bayreuth: 158 Bajazet, Sultan: 1720, 1914 Baker, Alfred M.A: 158 Baker, Edward Dickinson: 158, 162 Baker, Sir Samuel White: 158, 40, 1351 Baker, Mount: 344 Baking-Powder: 159 Baku, Transcaucasia: 159 Balaam: 159
Bala-Hissar Fortress: 986 Balaklava, Battle of: 159, 781 Balanced Ration: 159 Balboa, Vasco Nunez de: 159, 1407 Balder (myth.): 160 Baldwin, James Mark: 160, 1776 Baldwin, R: 160 Baldwin I of Flanders: 681 Baldwin V of Flanders: 681
Bale, Switzerland: 178
Balearic Isles: 160, 1151, 1237, 1788
Balfe, Michael William: 160
Balfour, Arthur James: 160
Balfour, Francis Maitland: 161
Balfour, Gerald: 161
Balize or Belize: 196
Balkan Mountains: 161,632; Peninsula; 161
Balkan War: 161
Ball, Sir Robert S: 161
Ballad: 161; minnesing&r 1236, 1087; troubadours 1085
Ballarat, Victoria: 162
Balliol College: 162
Balliol, Edward: 586
Balliol, John, King of Scotland: 161, 586,1405
Balloon: 18
Ballot: 144, 2030
Ball's Bluff, Battle of: 162
Balmaceda, Jos6 Manuel: 387
Balm of Gilead: 1958
Balmoral Castle: 162
Balsam: 1602
Baltic, Battle of the: 162
Baltic Sea: 162
Baltimore, Md: 162
Baltimore, Lord: 164
Baltimore Oriole: 164
Baluchistan: 164
Balzac, Honore" de: 165, 1085
Bamboo: 165
Banana: 165, 421
Bancroft, George: 165, 1094, 1311
Bancroft, Hubert Howe: 166
Banda, Moluccas: 1249
Banff, Canada: 166
Bangalore, India: 166
Bangkok, Siam: 166, 1749
Bangor, Maine: 166
Bangs, John Kendrick: 166
Bangweolo Lake: 442, 1104
Banks: 166; Bank of England mi; Bank of France 1301; national 168; Bank of North America 167; savings 167; Bank of the U. S. 167
Bankrupt: 169
Bankruptcy: 169
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss: 170
Banks of Newfoundland: 170
Bannockburn, Battle of: 170, 1708
Banshee (myth.): 646
Banstead Downs, Epsom, England: 622
Banyan or Banian: 170
Baptists: 1976
Barada River, Damascus: 498
Barak and Deborah: 512
Barbados: 170
Barbarossa (Frederick I of the Holy Roman Empire): 711
Barbarossa the Corsair: 170
Barbary States: 171, 1765; Algeria 49; Barca. 171; Fezzan 658; Morocco 1263; Tripoli 1943; Tunis 1950
