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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: BANK
 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
- brief account
Banque de France - established in 1800
Banque Générale - in Paris in 1716
 banqueting hall, Norman - at Hedingham
Banqueting House, Whitehall - by Inigo Jones
- and Rubens
- and Charles I
- and death of Charles I
- brief description
Banting, Frederick - discovers insulin
Bantock House - Wolverhampton
Bantu - African tribes
Bantu languages - region of origin
Bantustans - in South Africa
Banu Nabhan - king of Muscat and Oman
Banzer Suarez, Hugo - president of Bolivia
bap (Scottish bread roll)
baptism - and the Reformation
Baptism of Christ - by Piero della Francesca
Baptistery in Florence - competition in 1401
Baptists - origins
- brief history
Bar - of the House of Commons
Bar, in British court of law
Barakzai - tribe ruling in Afghanistan
- settled in 1627
- as thriving English colony
- deportation from Ireland
- and Britain
Barbara Allen (in ballads)
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