British Empire
By 1913 the British Empire held sway over 23% of the world population. By 1920 it covered 35,500,000 km2 – 24% ...
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British contribution to the Manhattan Project
Scientists Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch calculated that the critical mass of a metallic sphere of pure uranium-235 was as ...
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Blackwater Fire of 1937
The Blackwater Fire was started by a lightning strike on August 18, 1937. Fifteen firefighters were killed by the forest ...
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Birmingham campaign
Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States in the early 1960s. Martin Luther King ...
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Benedict Arnold’s expedition to Quebec
Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge in the Province of ...
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Bath School disaster
The Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew ...
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Baltimore railroad strike of 1877
The Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 involved several days of work stoppage and violence in Baltimore, Maryland. It formed a ...
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Bal des Ardents
The Bal des Ardents or Bal des Sauvages was a masquerade ball held on 28 January 1393 in Paris. Four ...
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Baker Street robbery
The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in ...
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson. It explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due ...
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