| Battle of Waterloo French Empire Battle_of_Waterloo
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| Biological warfare Biological warfare (BW) — known as a germ warfare, biological weapons and bioweaponry — is the use of any pathogen (bacterium, virus or other disease-causing organism) as a weapon of war. Using nonliving toxic products, even if produced by living organisms (e. Biological_warfare
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| Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara (born 2 May 1969) (nicknamed, "The Prince of Port-of-Spain", "The Prince of Trinidad" or simply "The Prince") is a retired record-breaking cricketer, and one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the game. He has topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds two of the most prestigious world records for batting in Tests: highest individual innings and the all-time leading run scorer. Brian_Lara
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| Beagle the Beagle
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| Barry Bonds | birthplace = Barry_Bonds
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| Rail transport in Great Britain The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world. It consists of 21,000 miles of standard gauge track, of which 3062 is electrified. Rail_transport_in_Great_Britain
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| Big Brother (TV series) Big Brother is a reality television show. In each series, which lasts for around three months, a group of people (normally fewer than sixteen at any one time) live together full-time in the Big Brother House, isolated from the outside world but under the continuous gaze of television cameras. Big_Brother_(TV_series)
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| Beaver Beavers are two primarily nocturnal, semi-aquatic species of rodent, one native to North America and one to Europe. They are known for building dams, canals, and lodges (homes). Beaver
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| Bear Bears (family Ursidae) are mammals in the order Carnivora. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Bear
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| Brown Bear | image = Grizzlybear55.jpg Brown_Bear
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| Buddy Holly , Lubbock, Texas U.S. Buddy_Holly
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| Beauty Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. Beauty
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| Man Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland. Man_Booker_Prize
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| Babrak Karmal |birth_place = Kamari, Afghanistan Babrak_Karmal
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| Liberal Democrats Talk:Liberal_Democrats
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| Beltane Talk:Beltane
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| The Beach Boys The Beach Boys is an American rock band. Formed in 1961 the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing. The_Beach_Boys
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| Beatrix Potter | deathplace = Near Sawrey Beatrix_Potter
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| Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party (the SDP) to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats. Liberal_Party_(UK)
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| Bank of England Threadneedle Street,London EC3, UK Bank_of_England
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| Baghdad . By Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, and Les Roberts. Baghdad
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| Black Death The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis (Bubonic plague),Researchers sound the alarm: the multidrug resistance of the plague bacillus could spread but recently attributed by some to other diseases. Black_Death
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| Brussels Talk:Brussels
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| Boudica Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, formerly known as Boadicea, and known in Welsh culture and legends as "Buddug") (d. AD 60 or 61) was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia who led an uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Boudica
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| Ballpoint pen A ballpoint pen (Hungarian: golyóstoll, also eponymously known in British English and Australian English as a biro and bye-roe in Britain and Australia but sometimes bee-roh" elsewhere, named after its inventor László Bíró), is a modern writing instrument. A ballpoint pen has an internal chamber filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a small metal sphere (0. Ballpoint_pen
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| Bipolar disorder Bipolar_disorder
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| Bikini A bikini or two-piece is a type of women's swimsuit, characterized by two separate parts — one covering the breasts (optionally in the case of the Monokini), the other the groin (and optionally the buttocks), leaving an uncovered area between the two garments. It is often worn in hot weather or while swimming. Bikini
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| Brian Aldiss | birthplace = East Dereham, Norfolk, England Brian_Aldiss
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| Battle of Jutland The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak); Danish: Søslaget ved Jylland / Søslaget om Skagerrak) was the largest naval battle of World War I, the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war, and the last major fleet action between battleships in any war. It is also, by certain criteria, the largest naval battle in history. Battle_of_Jutland
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| Blackbeard Edward Teach (; c. 1680 – November 22, 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic during the early 18th century, a period referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy. Blackbeard
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| Björn Borg |placebirth= Södertälje Björn_Borg
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| Battle of the Nile France Battle_of_the_Nile
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| Burhanuddin Rabbani Burhanuddin Rabbani ( - Burhânuddîn Rabbânî) (born 1940), an ethnic Tajik, is a former President of Afghanistan. Burhanuddin Rabbani is the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan). Burhanuddin_Rabbani
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| Boeing 747 |name = Boeing 747 Boeing_747
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| Battle of Agincourt |strength1= Battle_of_Agincourt
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| Bronze Age The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use) included techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifacts. These naturally-occurring ores typically included arsenic as a common impurity. Bronze_Age
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| BBC News (TV channel) BBC News is the BBC's 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom and also available in the Republic of Ireland. The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News which had been running since 1989. BBC_News_(TV_channel)
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| Bill Oddie |birth_place = Rochdale, Lancashire, England Bill_Oddie
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| British Isles Talk:British_Isles
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| BT Group ) | BT_Group
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| Bee Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. Bee
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| Bat | ordo = Chiroptera Bat
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| British Museum or in 94 GalleriesSaturday, 29 January 2000 British_Museum
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| Boxing Day Boxing Day is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well as many other members of the Commonwealth of Nations. It is based on the tradition of giving gifts to the less fortunate members of society. Boxing_Day
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| British Empire The British Empire was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. It was a product of the Age of Discovery, which began with the maritime explorations of the 15th century, that sparked the era of the European colonial empires. British_Empire
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| Black people The term black people usually refers to a racial group of humans with dark skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group. Some definitions of the term include only people of relatively recent Sub Saharan African descent (see African diaspora), while others extend the term to any of the populations characterized by dark skin color, a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania and Southeast Asia. Black_people
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| Plague (disease) Plague_(disease)
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| Blue Streak missile The Blue Streak missile was a British ballistic missile designed in 1955. The ballistic missile programme was cancelled in 1960 but the rocket was used as the first-stage of the European satellite launcher Europa. Blue_Streak_missile
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| Bakassi Bakassi is the peninsular extension of the African territory of Calabar into the Atlantic Ocean. It is currently ruled by Cameroon following the transfer of sovereignty from neighbouring NigeriaFull ownership transferred as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice. Bakassi
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| Business ethics Business ethics is a form of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. Business_ethics
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