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Brasidas
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A Spartan general, distinguished in the Peloponnesian war; his most celebrated action, the defeat at the expense of his life, in 422 B.C., of the flower of the Athenian army at Amphipolis, with a ...
Brasses
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Sepulchral tablets of a mixed metal, called latten, inlaid in a slab of stone, and insculpt with figures and inscriptions of a monumental character; the oldest in England is at Stoke d'Abernon, in ...
Bravest of the Brave
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Marshal Ney, so called from his fearlessness in battle; Napoleon had on one occasion said, "That man is a lion."
Brandt
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A Swedish chemist; chanced on the discovery in 1669 of phosphorus while in quest of a solvent to transmute metals, such as silver, into gold; d. 1692.
Braxy
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An inflammatory disease in sheep, due to a change in food from succulent to dry; and the name given to the mutton of sheep affected with it.
Brandywine Creek
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A small river in Delaware; scene of a victory of the British over the Americans in 1777.
Brazen Age
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In the Greek mythology the age of violence, that succeeded the weak Silver Age. See Ages.
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