| Question |
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| Answer |
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| Bacon |
Knight , attorney general and Lord Chancellor under James I |
| Bacon |
1621 pled guilty to accepting bribes and was banished from office so spent life writing. |
| Bacon |
Instauration Magna |
| Bacon |
The Advancement of Learning |
| Bacon |
Novum Organum |
| Bacon |
Three Studies for Figures at the base of a crucifixion. |
| Bacon |
Led rebellion against Sir William Berkley |
| Sir William Berkley |
governor of Virginia |
| Bacon |
Died from malaria. |
| Bacon’s rebellion |
mad that governor was not protecting from Indians. |
| Bacon |
Forsee Microscope, gunpoweder, aircraft. |
| Baden-Powell |
founded the Boy Scouts |
| Baffin |
Discovered Baffin Bay |
| Baffin |
failed to find the Northwest passage. |
| Bagot |
minister to the US, he negotiated the Rush - ___ |
| Rush-Bagot |
limited US arms on the Canadian border. |
| Baker |
Campaign chairman for George Bush’s unsuccessful run in 1980 |
| Baker |
Chief of Staff under Regan in 1981 |
| Baker |
Treasury secretary in 1985 for Regan |
| Baker |
Resign in 1988 to manage Bush’s successful presidential campaign. |
| Baker |
Served as secretary of state 89-92 for Bush |
| Baker |
Chief of Staff 1992-1993 for Bush |
| Balanchine |
Meember of Ballet russe |
| Balanchine |
move to US to help found School of American Ballet. |
| Balanchine |
Artistic director and principle choreographer of the New York City Ballet. |
| Balboa |
fled Hispaniola in 1510 he hid in ship that took him to panama |
| Balboa |
After reaching New World he seized command of expedition that came to panama. |
| Balboa |
crossed the isthmus and discovered the pacific Ocean. |
| Balboa |
1513 claimed the ocean and its shores for Spain. |
| Baldwin |
Wrote of African American race relation |
| Baldwin |
Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Baldwin |
Just Above my Head |
| Baldwin |
Just Above my Head |
| Baldwin |
Notes of a Native Son |
| Balfour |
Prime minister from 1902 to 1905. Conservative. |
| Balfour |
Foreign secretary under Lloyd George. Issue namesake decleration. |
| Balzac |
The Human Comedy |
| Balzac |
Pere Goriot |
| Balzac |
Cousin Bette |
| The Human Comedy |
collection of novels written over a 20 year period. |
| Bannister- First man to run the mile under 5 minutes. |
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| Banting |
1923 Nobel Prize in physiology with MacLeod for isolating insulin |
| Barber |
Adagio for Strings |
| Barber |
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 |
| Barber |
Vanessa (Opera) |
| Barber |
Antony and Cleopatra (Opera) |
| Bardeen |
First person to win nobel prize twice in same field |
| Bardeen |
Shared 1956 physics nobel prize with Brattain and Shockley for developing the transistor |
| Bardeen |
1927 physics nobel with Cooper and Schrieffer for work in superconductivity. |
| Barnard |
first successful human heart transplant in 1967 in Cape Town |
| Barnum |
Open his American Museum in New York City. |
| Barnum |
Tom Thumb and Siamese Twins exhibits. |
| Barnum |
Organized successful US tour of Swedish singer Lind |
| Barnum |
1871 opened circus, The Greatest Show on Earth |
| Barnum |
Merged with competitor Bailey in 1881. |
| Barrie |
Peter Pan |
| Barrie |
The Little minister. |
| Barrie |
The little white bird. |
| Bartholdi |
Statue of Liberty |
| Bartok |
The Miraculous Mandarin |
| Bartok |
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle |
| Barton |
Angel of the Battlefield |
| Barton |
set up supply service and was nurse in civil war |
| Barton |
American Red Cross |
| Baryshnikov |
russia defected to Us and dacnced with American Ballet Theatre and new York City Ballet |
| Baum |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Beatrix |
Queen of Netherlands |
| Beatrix |
Ascended to the throne in 1980 after her mother Juliana abdicated. |
| Beaumarchais |
The Barber of Seville |
| Beaumarchais |
The Marriage of Figaro |
| Beumont |
Best known for his collaboration with Fletcher |
| Beaumont |
the woman hater. |
| Beauregard |
Attak of forst Sumter |
| Beauvoir |
existentialist and close friend and companion to Sartre |
| Beauvoir |
The mandarins |
| Beauvoir |
The Second Sex |
| Beauvoir |
The Coming of Age |