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3237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Alliance%20%28Italy%29 | National Alliance (Italy) | National Alliance (, AN) was a conservative political party in Italy. It was the successor of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), which had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 199... |
3240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno | Arno | The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.
Source and route
The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Floren... |
3244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aveiro%2C%20Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Aveiro ( or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. In 2021, the population was 80,880, in an area of : it is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal (after Coimbra). Along with the neighbouring city of Ílhavo, Aveiro is part of an urban agglomeration that includes 120,000 inhabitants, making... |
3246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20the%20Great | Anthony the Great | Anthony or Antony the Great ( Antṓnios; ; ; ; c. 12 January 251 – 17 January 356), was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony such as , by various epithets: , , , , , , and . For his importance among the Desert Fathers and to all later Christ... |
3250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblypoda | Amblypoda | Amblypoda was a taxonomic hypothesis uniting a group of extinct, herbivorous mammals. They were considered a suborder of the primitive ungulate mammals and have since been shown to represent a polyphyletic group.
Characteristics
The Amblypoda take their name from their short and stumpy feet, which were furnished with ... |
3251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblygonite | Amblygonite | Amblygonite () is a fluorophosphate mineral, (Li,Na)AlPO4(F,OH), composed of lithium, sodium, aluminium, phosphate, fluoride and hydroxide. The mineral occurs in pegmatite deposits and is easily mistaken for albite and other feldspars. Its density, cleavage and flame test for lithium are diagnostic. Amblygonite forms a... |
3252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin | Amygdalin | Amygdalin (from Ancient Greek: "almond") is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in many plants, most notably in the seeds (kernels) of apricots, bitter almonds, apples, peaches, cherries, and plums.
Amygdalin is classified as a cyanogenic glycoside because each amygdalin molecule includes a nitrile group, ... |
3253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running%20amok | Running amok | Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok or having gone amok, also spelled amuck or amuk, is the act of behaving disruptively or uncontrollably. The word derives from Southeast Asian Austronesian languages, traditionally meaning "an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects, usually by a single... |
3255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27%20Creed | Apostles' Creed | The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith".
The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old Roman Symbol, the old Latin creed of the 4th century... |
3259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicable%20numbers | Amicable numbers | Amicable numbers are two different natural numbers related in such a way that the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. That is, σ(a)=b and σ(b)=a, where σ(n) is equal to the sum of positive divisors of n (see also divisor function).
The smallest pair of amicable numbers is (220, 284). They ... |
3262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar | Agar | Agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from ogonori (Gracilaria) and "tengusa" (Gelidiaceae).
Agar is a mixture of two components, the linear polysaccharide agarose and a heterogeneous mixture of smaller ... |
3263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20rain | Acid rain | Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). Most water, including drinking water, has a neutral pH that exists between 6.5-8.5, but acid rain has a pH level lower than this and ranges from 4-5 on average. The more acidic t... |
3266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acephali | Acephali | In church history, the term (from Ancient Greek: ἀκέφαλοι akephaloi, "headless", singular ἀκέφαλος akephalos from ἀ- a-, "without", and κεφαλή kephalé, "head") has been applied to several sects that supposedly had no leader. E. Cobham Brewer wrote, in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, that acephalites, "properly means m... |
3269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20of%20Saxony | Anthony of Saxony | Anthony of Saxony (; 27 December 1755 – 6 June 1836) was a King of Saxony from the House of Wettin. He became known as Anton der Gütige ("Anthony the Kind").
He was the fifth but third surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony and his wife Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria.
Early life
With few chances to... |
3270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20III%2C%20Duke%20of%20Saxony | Albert III, Duke of Saxony | Albert III () (27 January 144312 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony. He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
Biography
Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son (but fifth child in order of birth) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elec... |
3273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo%20Guthrie | Arlo Guthrie | Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American retired folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father Woody Guthrie. Guthrie's best-known work is his debut piece, "Alice's Restaurant Massacr... |
3275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Alma | Book of Alma | The Book of Alma: The Son of Alma (), usually referred to as the Book of Alma, is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The title refers to Alma the Younger, a prophet and "chief judge" of the Nephites. Alma is the longest book in the Book of Mormon and consists of sixty-three chapters, taking up almost a t... |
3277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant | Antioxidant | Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation, a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals and chain reactions that may damage the cells of organisms. Antioxidants such as thiols or ascorbic acid (vitamin C) may act to inhibit these reactions. To balance oxidative stress, plants and animals maintain complex ... |
3292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass | Brass | Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve varying mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties. It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.
Brass is similar to bronze, another alloy containing copper ... |
3295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn | Bonn | The federal city of Bonn ( ) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. It is a ... |
3332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballroom%20dance | Ballroom dance | Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.
Ballroom dance may refer, at its widest definition, to almost any recreati... |
3333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Birth%20of%20a%20Nation | The Birth of a Nation | The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry... |
3335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Sea | Baltic Sea | The Baltic Sea (in Latin Mare Balticum) is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. A marginal sea of the Atlantic, with... |
3336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish%20water | Brackish water | Brackish water, also sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment having more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) with fresh water together, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from t... |
3338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bronx | The Bronx | The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx has a land ar... |
3340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BearShare | BearShare | BearShare was a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. for Microsoft Windows and also a rebranded version of iMesh by MusicLab, LLC, tightly integrated with their music subscription service.
History
The principal operators of Free Peers, Inc. were Vincent Falco and Louis Tatta. ... |
3343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium | Belgium | Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making... |
3347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLM | BLM | BLM most commonly refers to:
Black Lives Matter, an international anti-racism movement and organization
Bureau of Land Management, a U.S. federal government agency
BLM may also refer to:
Organizations
BLM (law firm), United Kingdom and Ireland
Blue Lives Matter, an American pro-police movement
Black Lives Matter... |
3352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues | Blues | Blues is a music genre and musical form which was originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs and spirituals. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues for... |
3353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass | Bluegrass | Bluegrass or Blue Grass may refer to:
Agriculture
Bluegrass (grass), several species of grasses of the genus Poa
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), a perennial grass species
Arts and media
Bluegrass music, a form of American roots music
Bluegrass (Sirius), a bluegrass music satellite radio channel
Bluegrass Films... |
3354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin | Berlin | Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with ... |
3355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Lee%20Whorf | Benjamin Lee Whorf | Benjamin Lee Whorf (; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer. Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that differences between the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. This principle has frequently been ... |
3356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Clinton | Bill Clinton | William Jefferson Clinton (; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992, and as attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979. A member o... |
3358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20letter%20law | Black letter law | In common law legal systems, black letter laws are the well-established legal rules that are no longer subject to reasonable dispute. Some examples are the "black-letter law" that the formation of a contract requires consideration, or the "black-letter law" that the registration of a trademark requires established use ... |
3359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20law | Blue law | Blue laws, also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws and Sunday closing laws, are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for religious reasons, specifically to promote the observance of the Christian day of worship, but... |
3360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar | Bar | Bar or BAR may refer to:
Food and drink
Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages
Candy bar
Chocolate bar
Science and technology
Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment
Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud
Bar (unit), a unit of pressure
BAR domain, a protein domain
Bar stock, of metal
Sandb... |
3363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer | Beer | Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly from malted barley, though wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are a... |
3364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit | Bit | The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as either , but other representations such as true/false, yes/no, +/−, or on/of... |
3365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte | Byte | The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized b... |
3370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron%20nitride | Boron nitride | Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline forms that are isoelectronic to a similarly structured carbon lattice. The hexagonal form corresponding to graphite is the most stable and soft among BN polymorp... |
3371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bach (disambiguation) | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer of the Baroque period.
Bach may also refer to:
People
Bach (surname)
Bach family, a noted family in music
Bach (actor), stage name of French actor, singer and music hall performer Charles-Joseph Pasquier (1882–1953)
Sebastian Bach (born 1968), stage name of ... |
3374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20on%20the%20Tracks | Blood on the Tracks | Blood on the Tracks is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 20, 1975 by Columbia Records. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia Records after a two-album stint with Asylum Records. Dylan began recording the album in New York City in September 1974. In December, s... |
3375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20and%20Theft%20%28Bob%20Dylan%20album%29 | Love and Theft (Bob Dylan album) | "Love And Theft" (generally referred to as Love and Theft) is the 31st studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on September 11, 2001, by Columbia Records. (In the UK its release was one day earlier, September 10, following the tradition for albums to be released on Mondays in the UK.) It featured... |
3376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beverly%20Hillbillies | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. It had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor, backwoods family from the hills of the Ozarks, who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after stri... |
3378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium | Beryllium | Beryllium is a chemical element with the symbol Be and atomic number 4. It is a steel-gray, strong, lightweight and brittle alkaline earth metal. It is a divalent element that occurs naturally only in combination with other elements to form minerals. Notable gemstones high in beryllium include beryl (aquamarine, emeral... |
3382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney%20Spears | Britney Spears | Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. She is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s, for which she is referred to as the "Princess of Pop". Regarded as a pop icon, Spears has sold nearly 150 million records worldwide, ... |
3383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil | Brazil | Brazil (, ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 211 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paul... |
3385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Forest | Black Forest | The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in south-west Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, bounded by the Rhine valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers.
Its highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation... |
3386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sea | Black Sea | The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia. It lies to the east of the Balkans in Southeast Europe, south of the East European Plain in Eastern Europe; and north of Anatolia and west of the Caucasus, both in Western Asia. The Black Sea is supplied by major rivers, ... |
3390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible | Bible | The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other faiths. It appears in the form of an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms, originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts in... |
3392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Columbia | British Columbia | British Columbia (abbreviated as BC; ) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the continental divide of the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.2million as of 2021, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its larg... |
3395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama%20Buddha | Gautama Buddha | Gautama Buddha, popularly known as the Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama or Shakyamuni), was an ascetic, a religious leader and teacher who lived in ancient India (c. 6th to 5th century BCE or c. 5th to 4th century BCE). He is regarded as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism, and re... |
3397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge | Bridge | A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross. There are many differen... |
3398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beadwork | Beadwork | Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth. Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced. Most often, beadwork is a form of personal ado... |
3401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board%20game | Board game | Board games are tabletop games that typically use moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well.
Most feature a competition between two or more players. In checkers, a player wins by capturing all opposing pieces, while Eu... |
3402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead | Bead | A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under to over in diameter.
Beads represent some of the earliest forms of jewellery, w... |
3403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead%20weaving | Bead weaving | Bead weaving (or beadweaving) using seed beads can be done either on a loom or using one of a number of off-loom stitches.
On-loom beadweaving
When weaving on a loom, the beads are locked in between the warp threads by the weft threads. The most common bead weaving technique requires two passes of the weft thread. ... |
3406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branchiopoda | Branchiopoda | Branchiopoda is a class of crustaceans. It comprises fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, Diplostraca (or Cladocera), Notostraca and the Devonian Lepidocaris. They are mostly small, freshwater animals that feed on plankton and detritus.
Description
Members of the Branchiopoda are unified by the presence of gills on many of the ... |
3408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch%20Spinoza | Baruch Spinoza | Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. One of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism including modern conceptions of the self and the... |
3409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being | Being | In philosophy, being is the material or immaterial existence of a thing. Anything that exists is being. Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies being. Being is a concept encompassing objective and subjective features of existence. Anything that partakes in being is also called a "being", though often this usa... |
3410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird | Bird | Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves , characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the os... |
3411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Baby%20One%20More%20Time%20%28album%29 | ...Baby One More Time (album) | ...Baby One More Time is the debut studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on January 12, 1999, through Jive Records. It is Spears' most successful album with sales of over 25 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time, as well as the best-selling debut album ... |
3412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn%20card | Burn card | In card games, a burn card is a playing card dealt from the top of a deck, and discarded ("burned"), unused by the players. Burn cards are usually not shown to the players.
Burning is most often performed in casinos to deter a form of cheating known as card marking. In poker, for example, the top card of the deck stub... |
3415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria | Bulgaria | Bulgaria (; ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It occupies the whole eastern part of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers a territory of , and is... |
3416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryozoa | Bryozoa | Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding. Most marine bryozoa... |
3417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biennial%20plant | Biennial plant | A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years, generally in a temperate climate, to complete its biological life cycle. In the first year, the plant undergoes primary growth, in which its leaves, stems, and roots (vegetative structures) develop. Usually, the stem of the plant remains short and the leaves a... |
3419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20leaf | Bay leaf | The bay leaf is an aromatic leaf commonly used in cooking. It can be used whole or in a dried or ground form.
Sources
Bay leaves come from several plants, such as:
Bay laurel (Laurus nobilis, Lauraceae). Fresh or dried bay leaves are used in cooking for their distinctive flavour and fragrance. The leaves should be r... |
3421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis | Basis | Basis may refer to:
Finance and accounting
Adjusted basis, the net cost of an asset after adjusting for various tax-related items
Basis point, 0.01%, often used in the context of interest rates
Basis trading, a trading strategy consisting of the purchase of a security and the sale of a similar security
Basis of futur... |
3422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess%20Shale | Burgess Shale | The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
The rock unit is a black shale and c... |
3427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis%20and%20Butt-Head | Beavis and Butt-Head | Beavis and Butt-Head is an American adult animated comedy television series created by Mike Judge. The series follows the eponymous Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, lack of intelligence, lowbrow humor, and failure to attract women.
The characters ori... |
3428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromeliales | Bromeliales | Bromeliales is an order of flowering plants. Such an order has been recognized by a few systems of plant taxonomy, with a various placement. It appears that it always has had the same circumscription:
consisting only of the family Bromeliaceae, the bromeliad or pineapple family. The order is not recognized in the A... |
3429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassicales | Brassicales | The Brassicales (or Cruciales) are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system. One character common to many members of the order is the production of glucosinolate (mustard oil) compounds. Most systems of classification have included this order, although som... |
3430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20board%20system | Bulletin board system | A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS) is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, an... |
3435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20Quartet%20No.%2016%20%28Beethoven%29 | String Quartet No. 16 (Beethoven) | The String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826 and was the last major work he completed. Only the final movement of the Quartet Op. 130, written as a replacement for the Große Fuge, was composed later. The op. 135 quartet was premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet in... |
3436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%209%20%28Beethoven%29 | Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) | The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as Beethoven's greatest work and one of the supreme achievements i... |
3437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Trios%2C%20Op.%201%20%28Beethoven%29 | Piano Trios, Op. 1 (Beethoven) | Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 1 is a set of three piano trios (written for piano, violin, and cello), first performed in 1795 in the house of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom they are dedicated. The trios were published in 1795.
Despite the Op. 1 designation, these trios were not Beethoven's first published compositions; this... |
3438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Trios%2C%20Op.%2070%20%28Beethoven%29 | Piano Trios, Op. 70 (Beethoven) | Opus 70 is a set of two Piano Trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, written for piano, violin, and cello. Both trios were composed during Beethoven's stay at Countess Marie von Erdödy's estate, and both are dedicated to her for her hospitality. They were published in 1809.
The first, in D major, known as the Ghost, is one of... |
3439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Trio%2C%20Op.%2097%20%28Beethoven%29 | Piano Trio, Op. 97 (Beethoven) | The Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio completed in 1811. It is commonly referred to as the Archduke Trio, because it was dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the youngest of twelve children of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. Rudolf was an amateur pianist and a patron, fri... |
3441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin%20Sonata%20No.%205%20%28Beethoven%29 | Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven) | The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, is a four movement work for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was first published in 1801. The work is commonly known as the Spring Sonata (Frühlingssonate), although the name "Spring" was apparently given to it after Beethoven's death. The sonata was dedicated t... |
3443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry%20%28common%20law%29 | Barratry (common law) | Barratry ( ) is a legal term that, at common law, described a criminal offense committed by people who are overly officious in instigating or encouraging prosecution of groundless litigation, or who bring repeated or persistent acts of litigation for the purposes of profit or harassment.
Although it remains a crime i... |
3446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber | Bomber | A bomber is a military combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), launching torpedoes, or deploying air-launched cruise missiles. The first use of bombs dropped from an aircraft occurred in the Italo-Turkish War, with the first major deployments comin... |
3447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20sports | Cue sports | Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports,
are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
Historically, the umbrella... |
3449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Dipper%20%28disambiguation%29 | Big Dipper (disambiguation) | The Big/Great Dipper is the American English term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major (The Plough in British English).
Big Dipper also may refer to:
Entertainment
Big Dipper (Battersea Park), a wooden roller coaster operating in Battersea Park, London, England, from 1951 until 1972
Big Dipper (Blackpool), a... |
3450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursa | Bursa | (; , Latin: Prusa) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of Turkey's automotive production takes place in Bursa.
As of 2019, t... |
3451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bahamas | The Bahamas | The Bahamas (), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a sovereign country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islan... |
3453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%20Island | Baker Island | Baker Island (previously New Nantucket) is an uninhabited atoll just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north-northwest; both have been claimed as territories of the ... |
3454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh | Bangladesh | Bangladesh (; , ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 163 million people in an area of either or , making it one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Bangladesh shares land borders... |
3455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados | Barbados | Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
Inhabited by Kalinago people sinc... |
3456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassas%20da%20India | Bassas da India | Bassas da India () is an uninhabited, roughly circular French atoll that is part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Located in the southern Mozambique Channel, about halfway between Mozambique and Madagascar (about further east) and around northwest of Europa Island, the rim of the atoll averages around in ... |
3457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus | Belarus | Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, and historically Byelorussia, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.3 million, Belaru... |
3458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize | Belize | Belize () is a Caribbean country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It borders Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It has an area of and a population of 419,199 (2020). Its mainland is about long and wide. It has the lowest population and population den... |
3459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin | Benin | Benin ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Benin () and formerly known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its population lives on the small southern coastline of the Bight of Beni... |
3460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda | Bermuda | Bermuda (; historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, approximately to the west-northwest.
Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands, although the most sig... |
3462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia | Bolivia | Bolivia, officially the The Republic of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orienta... |
3463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina ( / , ), abbreviated BiH or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. The capital and largest city is Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro ... |
3464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana | Botswana | Botswana (, also ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( ; is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with up to 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to the north-... |
3466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei | Brunei | Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam (, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is separated into two parts by the Sarawak district of Limbang. Brunei is the ... |
3469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Virgin%20Islands | British Virgin Islands | The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesse... |
3470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina%20Faso | Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso (, ; ) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. It has a population of 20,321,378. Previously called Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it ... |
3477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Bahamas | Economy of the Bahamas | The economy of the Bahamas is dependent upon tourism and offshore banking. The Bahamas is the richest country in the West Indies and is ranked 14th in North America for nominal GDP. It is a stable, developing nation in the Lucayan Archipelago, with a population of 391,232 (2016). Steady growth in tourism receipts and a... |
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