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Var. Banswara (bän-swä'rä). A small tributary state in Rajputana, British India, about lat. 230 30′ N., long. 74° 30′ Ε. Bantam (bän-täm' or ban'tam). [Malay and Javanese Bantan .] A decayed seaport of Java, 61 miles west of Batavia, formerly of great commercial importance. Bantia (ban's hi-ä). In ancient geography, a town in southern Italy, southeast of Venusia and northeast of the modern Potenza. Banting (ban'ting), William. Born 1797: died at Kensington, March 16, 1878. A London undertaker who, in 1863, in a pamphlet entitled "A Letter on Corpulence," recommended a course of diet for the reduction of corpulence, which has been named from him "banting." The diet recommended was originally prescribed for Banting by William Harvey, and consists of the use of lean Baptist a (bap-tis'tä). In Shakspere's "Taming of the Shrew," a rich gentleman of Padua, the father of Katharine. Baptistery of San Giovanni. A baptistery at Florence, Italy, remodeled by Arnolfo di Cambio in the 13th century. It is octagonal in plan (108 feet in diameter); the exterior is in white and black marble, with arcades and inlaid panels; and the interior is domed, with a small lantern. It is famous for its three magnificent double gates in bronze, of which that on the south is by Andrea Pisano (1330), and those on the north and east by Ghiberti (1403-24). Andrea's gate has a beauful wreathed framing of leaves, flowers, and birds, and twenty-eight panel-reliefs of the story of John the Baptist. The north Ghiberti gate has also twenty-eight reliefs, mostly of the life of Christ; and the chief gate, that toward east, has in richly ornamented framing ten reliefs from the Old Testament. Baquedano (bä-kā-rhä'nō), Manuel. Born in Santiago, 1826. A Chile an soldier. He began the Peruvian campaign of 1879 as a brigadier-general under Escala, and in 1880 succeeded that general in command of the army of invasion, conducting the Tacna and Lima ries, the Peruvian forces being inferior. For his services "campaigns with an almost uninterrupted series of victohe was made generali imo of the Chile an army. meats principally, and abstinence from fats, starch, and sugar. Bär, Karl Ernst von. See Baer . Bar (bär). An ancient territory in eastern France, whose capital was Bar-le-Duc. It was a county and later a duchy, was united with the duchy of Lorraine in 1473, was annexed by France in 1659, and was restored in 1661 to Lorraine, whose fortunes it followed. Bar. A town in the government of Podolia, Ru ia, situated on the Roff in lat. 49° 5' N., long. 27° 40′ E. Population, 13,434.