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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