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Belle Vue Zoological Gardens
Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex, and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, that opened in 18…
Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec
In September 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge…
Bengali language movement
The Bengali language movement was a political movement in East Bengal in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua franca of the D…
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British statesman, Conservative politician a…
Benty Grange hanging bowl
The Benty Grange hanging bowl is a fragmentary Anglo-Saxon artefact from the seventh century AD. All that remains are parts of two escutcheons: bronze frames th…
Benty Grange helmet
The Benty Grange helmet is an Anglo-Saxon boar-crested helmet from the 7th century AD. It was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1848 from a tumulus at the Benty Gr…
Berlin-to-Kitchener name change
The city of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, changed its name to Kitchener by referendum in May and June 1916. Named in 1833 after the capital of Prussia and later the …
Beth Hamedrash Hagodol
Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Hebrew: בֵּית הַמִּדְרָש הַגָּדוֹל, lit. 'Great Study House') was an Orthodox Jewish congregation that for over 120 years was loca…
BioShock 2
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BioShock 2: Minerva's Den
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Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Chr…
Birth control movement in the United States
The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception in the U…
Black Christian Siriano gown of Billy Porter
The tuxedo dress, pictured at Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, Victoria and Albert Museum, March 2022
American actor Billy Porter wore a tuxedo dr…
Blackbeard
Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the easter…
Bone Wars
The rivalry between Othniel Charles Marsh (left) and Edward Drinker Cope (right) sparked the Bone Wars.
The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, wa…
Bonn–Oberkassel dog
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Book of Kells
The Book of Kells (Latin: Codex Cenannensis; Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba)…
Boroughitis
The 70 municipalities of Bergen County, New Jersey
Boroughitis (also borough fever or borough mania) was the creation in the 1890s, usually by referendum, of l…
Boulton and Park
Frederick Park (right) and Ernest Boulton as Fanny and Stella, 1869
Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were Victorian cross-dressers. Both were ho…
Boundary Fire (2017)
The Boundary Fire was a 2017 wildfire in Arizona that burned 17,788 acres (7,199 ha) of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. The fire was ignited on J…
Brass threepence
The brass threepence, or "threepenny bit", is a twelve-sided British coin equivalent to 1⁄80 of a pound, was struck between 1937 and 1967, with a final is…
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar
The Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar (also the Bridgeport Centennial half dollar or Bridgeport half dollar) is a commemorative fifty-cent piece i…
Brighton hotel bombing
On 12 October 1984 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government, including the prime minister, Margare…
Brighton War Memorial
Memorial in Brighton, England
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