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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: BALLET
Ballard, John - Babington Plot
Balliol, Devorguilla de - Sweetheart Abbey
Balliol, Edward de - and the Scottish throne
Balliol, John de - king of Scots
- brief biography
ballista - in siege warfare
ballistics - and Galileo
balloon - hot air
- hydrogen
- flight from Paris in 1870
ballot - secret
Ballot Act - of 1872
Balmaceda, José Manuel - in Chile
Balmoral - built for Victoria and Albert
- brief account
Balon, Jean - dancer
BALTIC
Baltic peoples - in the 2nd millennium BC
Baltimore - and national convention in 1831
Baltimore, Lord - and Maryland
Balts - in northern Europe
Bamako - captured by French in 1883
Bamberg - and Albrecht Pfister
Bamberg cathedral - equestrian figure
bamboo books - in China
Bambuk - African gold field
Bamburgh (Northumberland)
Bamiyan - and Buddhist sculpture
bananas - transplanted to America
Banat - and the Austrian empire
Banbury (Oxon)
Banco della Piazza di Rialto - in Venice in 1587
Banco Giro - in Venice in 1617
Banda, Hastings
Bandar Abbas - founded by Shah Abbas
bandeiras - in Brazil
bangers and mash
Bangkok - falls to Japanese in 1941
Bangladesh - and Britain
Bangladeshis - in Britain
Bangor
Bangui - capital of Central African Republic
Banjul - and anti-slave-trade from 1816
Bankes, Lady - and Corfe Castle
bank holiday
BANKING
bank notes in China - described by Marco Polo
Bank of England - founded in 1694
- nationalized in 1946
- brief account
- and Kenneth Grahame
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