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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: BLEAK
 Bleak House
 Bleda - leader of the Huns
bleeding - as a basic remedy
Blenheim - battle in 1704
- brief account
Blenheim bomber
Blenheim Palace - and baroque architecture
- brief description
Blesberg - and the Great Trek
Bletchley Park - and codebreaking
- and Alan Turing
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
Bligh, Captain
Blighty
Blimp, Colonel
Blind Girl, The (Millais)
 blindness - caused by gonorrhoea
Bliss, Arthur
Blitta - railway link to Lomé
Blitz - on Britain in 1940-41
- brief account
blitzkrieg - in 1939-40
bloater (smoked fish)
block books - in 15th-century Europe
Bloemfontein - conference in 1899
- in the Boer War
Blomfield, Reginald - Menin Gate
Blondel - and Richard I
blood - as a life force
- and the discovery of atmospheric gases
- measuring oxygen content
- venesection
blood corpuscles - and Leeuwenhoek
blood gas analyser - history
blood-letting - as a basic remedy
- in 16th century
blood pressure - Stephen Hales
- history of measurement
Blood River - battle in 1838
blood transfusion - early experiments
- in 17th century
Bloody Assizes - and Judge Jeffreys
Bloody Mary - nickname of Mary I
- origin
Bloody Sunday - St Petersburg in 1905
- Petrograd in 1917
- 1887 and 1972 in Britain
Bloody Sunday - Derry in 1972
Bloody Tower (Tower of London)
Bloomsbury Group
- and Virginia Woolf
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