Bahadur, G., 632
Balakrishnan, P., 757
“The Ballad of John Wesley
Harding,” 153
Ballistae (throwers), 790
Bandô, 544, 633–634. See also
Thaing
Bands
and dueling, 100
Bansenshukai(Ten Thousand Rivers
Collect in the Sea) (Fujibayashi
Yasuyoshi), 812
Banshay, 544. See alsoThaing
Banzai, 86
Baopu zi, 491
Bar fights
and stage combat, 551
Barbara, Saint, 802
Barbells, 823
Baré, Jeanne, 673
Bare-knuckle boxing, 801
Barnum, P. T., 679
Barry, James Miranda, 678
Bartisu, 823
Bartolomeo Dardi, Filippo di, 320
Barton-Wright, Edward W., 822–823
Baruzy, Pierre, 522
Basketball, women’s, 686–687
Bastille Day, 670
Battle
and Christianity, 792
Battle of Mactan, 426
Battle of the Red River Delta, 549
Batto-jutsu, 807
Batuque
and capoeira, 63
Baudouin II, 368
Bavarian Company of the Cloister of
Ettal, 392
Bayinnaung, King, 350
Baynard, Godefroy, 798
Bayon Temple, 541
Bayonets
and military training, 83–84, 85–86
Beecher, Catherine, 676
Bei ying jow pai (northern eagle
claw), 38
Beijing Opera, 420
Beijing Physical Education Research
Association, 824
Beiquan shu, 33
Belt ranking system. SeeRanking
system
Belts, championship, 817
Benedict, Ruth, 154
Benedictine abbeys, 371
Benedictine monks, 369–370Benedictine Rule, 371, 377
Bengal University, 825
Benin
and Kadjia, 10
Benkei, 660
Bennett, James Gordon, 818
Benton, Jesse, 99
Benton, Thomas H., 99
Beowulf,667, 795
Bergman-Osterberg, Martina, 679
Berimbau, 8
Bernard, Saint, 368, 370, 372, 669,
801
Bersilat, 524, 530, 542, 543–544. See
alsoSilat
Betchold von Zaringenn, 800
Bethgibelin castle, 371
Bhagavad-Gita, 788
Bhakti Negara, 529–530
Bhima, 173
Bibb, Henry, 10
Bichi Hyôranki, 694
Biddle, Anthony J. Drexel, 87
Biddle, Francis, 87
The Big Boss, 828
Billy the Kid, 149, 150, 152, 153
Bimba, Mestre, 63
Bing jiqiao, 65
Bingham, Will, 826
Black Belt Society, 220
Black Militant Ohm, 829
Black Prince, 81
Blades, Japanese, 191
Blair, Eric, 632
Blau, Herbert, 421
Blavatsky, Helena, 821
Blessed Gerard, 371
Blitzkreig, 86
Bo (striking), 26
Boadicea, 666
Bochee castle, 371
Bodhidharma, 126, 129, 131, 220,
460, 728, 792
Bodybuilding, women’s, 678, 826
Bodyguards, 792, 796
women as, 665, 670, 672, 673,
790, 813
Boesch, Paul, 740
Bohemond, 452
Bois, 563
Boji Mein His, 632
Bôjutsu, 556
Bokken, 13
Bologna University, 320
Bolshevik revolution of 1917, 507,
509
Bolt, Jeffrey, 39842 Index