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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: BADMINTON
 badminton (the game)
Badminton House
 Badoglio, Pietro - succeeds Mussolini in 1943
Badshahi Mosque - Lahore
Baedeker raids
Bagamoyo - Burton-Speke expedition
Bagaza, Jean-Baptiste - in Burundi
Bagehot, Walter
Baghdad - founded in 762
- and the Abbasid caliphs
- and the Arabian Nights
- and alchemy
- school of translators
- and paper
 - pharmacies
- and the Seljuks
- and Hulagu
- destroyed by Timur
- disputed between Persians and Turks
- and homing pigeons
- captured by Suleiman I in 1534
- captured in 1917
Baghdad Pact - and CENTO
Bagot family - and Levens Hall
Bagpipe Music (MacNeice)
bagpipes in Scotland
Bagutti, Giovanni - Orleans House
- and Columbus
- settled in 1648
- and Britain
Bahia - as capital of Brazil
Bahrain - and Britain
Bahr el Ghazal - and French in 1896
Baikie, William - and quinine
Bailén - battle in 1808
Bailey bridge
Baily, Edward Hodges
- Marble Arch
- Nelson's Column
Bairam Khan - and Akbar
Baird, John Logie
- and fibreoptic image technology
Bairnsfather, Bruce - 'better 'ole'
Baisunqur Mirza - and Persian painting
baka - suicide missile in World War II
Bakassi peninsula - disputed region
Baker, Henry - Hymns Ancient and Modern
Baker, Herbert - New Delhi
Baker, Samuel - and the source of the Nile
- and the khedive of Egypt
- brief biography
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