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Ben Crosby

Benjamin Lewis Crosby Jr. (March 22, 1868 – December 29, 1892) was an American college football player and coach. Born in Halcott Centre, New York, Crosby atten…
Sports Society

Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20t…
Arts Science Society

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of t…
Military Society

Bert Combs

Bertram Thomas Combs (August 13, 1911 – December 4, 1991) was an American jurist and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. After serving on the Kentucky…
Military Society

Bessie Braddock

Elizabeth Margaret Braddock (née Bamber; 24 September 1899 – 13 November 1970) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parl…
Society

Bill Denny

William Joseph Denny MC (6 December 1872 – 2 May 1946) was an Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian…
Society Military

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…
Society History

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…
History Society

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…
Society History

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…
Society History

Bristol

Bristol (/ˈbrɪstəl/ ⓘ) is a city and ceremonial county in South West England. It is located on the River Avon, and bordered by Gloucestershire to the north …
Geography Society

British National (Overseas)

British National (Overseas), abbreviated as BN(O), is a class of British nationality associated with the former colony of Hong Kong. The status was acquired thr…
Society

Brown Dog affair

The Brown Dog affair was a political controversy about vivisection that raged in Britain from 1903 until 1910. It involved the infiltration of University of Lo…
Society Nature History

Bæddel and bædling

The word bædlingas appears alongside molles in the Cleopatra Glossaries as a translation of the Latin word effeminati ('effeminate ones'). Bæddel and bædling ar…
Society History

Cai Lun

Cai Lun (Chinese: 蔡伦; courtesy name: Jingzhong (敬仲); c. 50–62 – 121 CE), formerly romanized as Ts'ai Lun, was a Chinese eunuch court official of the E…
Society

Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; /ˈkuːlɪdʒ/ KOOL-ij; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States, …
Society

Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the…
Society Military

Charles William Fremantle

Sir Charles William Fremantle KCB JP FRSA (12 August 1834 – 8 October 1914) was a British governmental official who served 26 years as deputy master of …
Society

Checkers speech

The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by then-Senator Richard Nixon, six weeks before the 1952 United States presidentia…
Society

Chester A. Arthur

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New Y…
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