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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: BALMORAL
 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
Bank of Scotland
Bank of Sweden - founded in 1668
Bank of the United States - and Hamilton
Banks, Joseph - and Captain Cook
- and a penal colony in Australia
- Kew Gardens
- brief biography
Bankside - and London's theatres
- brief account
Banna, Hasan al- - and Muslim Brotherhood
Bannister, Roger - 4-minute mile
bannock (unleavened bread)
Bannockburn - battle in 1314
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