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Joseph Leon Bonnat
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A French painter, born at Bayonne; imitated for a time the religious paintings of the old masters, but since 1862 has followed a style of his own; "Christ at the Cross" in the Palais de Justice, ...
Joseph René Bellot
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A naval officer, born in Paris, distinguished in the expedition of 1845 to Madagascar, and one of those who went in quest of Sir John Franklin; drowned while crossing the ice (1826-1853).
Joseph Victor Broussais
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A French materialist, founder of the "physiological school" of medicine; resolved life into excitation, and disease into too much or too little (1772-1838).
Joseph Bosworth
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An Anglo-Saxon scholar, born in Derbyshire; became professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford; was the author of an Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Dictionary (1789-1876).
Joseph Brant
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Indian chief who sided with the British in the American war; a brave and good man; d. 1807.
Judge Bridlegoose
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A judge in Rabelais' "Pantagruel," who decided cases by the throw of dice.
Nicolaus Becker
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Author of the "Wacht am Rhein," was an obscure lawyer's clerk, and unnoted for anything else (1810-1845).
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