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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: BOOTS
 Boots the chemist
 Bora, Catherine von - and Luther
Borch, Gerard ter - and the Dutch interior
Bordeaux - taken by Muslims in 732
Borghese, Pauline - sculpted by Canova
Borghese, Scipione - patron of Bernini
- bust by Bernini
Borgia, Cesare - son of pope Alexander VI
- as duke of Romagna
- and Machiavelli
Borgia, Lucrezia - as duchess of Ferrara
Borgu - disputed region
Boris I - and Greek Orthodoxy in Bulgaria
Bormann, Martin - at Hitler's wedding
Borneo - reached by humans
Bornu - African kingdom
- reached by Europeans in 1823
Borobudur - in Java
Borodino - battle in 1812
borough (in British politics)
borstal (young offenders)
Boscawen, Edward - at Lagos
Bosch, Hieronymus
Boscobel - and the escape of Charles II
- brief account
Bosnia - and Hungary
- conquered by Mehmed II in 1463-4
- occupied by Turks from 1464
- and Hercegovina in 1875-8
- annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908
Bossuet, Jacques - and Albion
Boston (Lincs)
Boston (Mass) - founded in 1630
- an early postal system
- port closed in 1773
- siege of 1775-6
Boston Massacre - in 1770
- and Crispus Attucks
Boston Tea Party - in 1773
Boswell, James
- brief biography
- at the Mitre tavern
- in The Club
 - uses condoms
Bosworth Field - battle in 1485
- brief account
botanic gardens - in Britain
- in India
botany - becomes an academic subject
Botha, Louis - in South Africa
- and South West Africa in 1915
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