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Bhils

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A rude pro-Aryan race of Central India, still untrained to settled life; number 750,000.

Bhod-pa

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Name given to the aborigines of Thibet, and applied by the Hindus to all the Thibetan peoples.

Bhagalpur

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A town in Bengal, on the right bank of the Ganges, 265 m. NW. of Calcutta.

Black Forest

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A wooded mountain chain 4000 ft. high (so called from the black pines that cover it), which runs parallel with the Rhine, and E. of it, through Wurtemberg and Baden, from the Swiss frontier to ...

Bjornsen

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A Norwegian author, born at Kvikne; composed tales, dramas, and lyrics, all of distinguished merit and imbued with a patriotic spirit; his best play "Sigurd the Bastard"; an active and zealous ...

Black Death

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A name given to a succession of fatal epidemics that devastated the world from China to Ireland in the 14th century, believed to be the same as the Oriental plague, though attended with peculiar ...

Bitzius

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A Swiss author, composed storeys of Swiss life under the nom de plume of Jeremias Gotthelf, fascinating from their charming simplicity and truth; he is much admired by Ruskin; was by profession a ...