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3989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%20space | Banach space | In mathematics, more specifically in functional analysis, a Banach space (pronounced ) is a complete normed vector space. Thus, a Banach space is a vector space with a metric that allows the computation of vector length and distance between vectors and is complete in the sense that a Cauchy sequence of vectors always c... |
3992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram%20Stoker | Bram Stoker | Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
Early life
Stoker was born on 8 N... |
3993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion%20%28disambiguation%29 | Billion (disambiguation) | Billion is a name for a large number. It may refer specifically to:
1,000,000,000 (, one thousand million), the short scale definition
1,000,000,000,000 (, one million million), the long scale definition
Billion may also refer to:
Billions (TV series), a Showtime series
Billions (film), a 1920 silent comedy
Bil... |
3995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract%20bridge | Contract bridge | Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends... |
3996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat | Boat | A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size, shape, cargo or passenger capacity, or its ability to carry boats.
Small boats are typically found on inland waterways such as rivers and lakes, or in protected coastal areas. Howev... |
3997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood | Blood | Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
Blood is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of b... |
3999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit%20Mandelbrot | Benoit Mandelbrot | Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a ... |
4001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%20of%20Nursia | Benedict of Nursia | Benedict of Nursia (; ; 2 March 480 AD – 21 March 548 AD) was a Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches. He is a patron saint of Europe.
Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Laz... |
4005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Pharsalus | Battle of Pharsalus | The Battle of Pharsalus was the decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War fought on 9 August 48 BC near Pharsalus in central Greece. Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the Roman Republic under the command of Pompey. Pompey had the backing of a majority of Roman senators and his army significantly o... |
4009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot | Bigfoot | Bigfoot, also commonly referred to as Sasquatch, is a purported ape-like creature said to inhabit the forests of North America. Many dubious articles have been offered in attempts to prove the existence of Bigfoot, including anecdotal claims of visual observations as well as alleged video and audio recordings, photogra... |
4010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%20Crosby | Bing Crosby | Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He made... |
4011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base | Base | Base or BASE may refer to:
Brands and enterprises
Base (mobile telephony provider), a Belgian mobile telecommunications operator
Base CRM, an enterprise software company founded in 2009 with offices in Mountain View and Kraków, Poland
Base Design, an international design, communications, audiovisual, copywriting and p... |
4012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel%20Convention | Basel Convention | The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to... |
4013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Kokhba%20%28album%29 | Bar Kokhba (album) | Bar Kokhba is a double album by John Zorn, recorded between 1994 and 1996. It features music from Zorn's Masada project, rearranged for small ensembles. It also features the original soundtrack from The Art of Remembrance – Simon Wiesenthal, a film by Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel (1994–95).
Reception
The AllMusic... |
4015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC | BASIC | BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computer... |
4016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Byzantine%20emperors | List of Byzantine emperors | This is a list of the Byzantine emperors from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD, which marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire (or the Eastern Roman Empire), to its fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority a... |
4024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20effect | Butterfly effect | In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
The term is closely associated with the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. He not... |
4027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland | Borland | Borland Software Corporation was a computer technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was the development and sale of software development and software deployment products. Borland was first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cup... |
4031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster%20Fuller | Buckminster Fuller | Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymax... |
4032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Watterson | Bill Watterson | William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is a retired American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achie... |
4035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black | Black | Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and gray. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have often been used to describe opposites such as good and evil, the Dark Ages versu... |
4036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Flag | Black Flag | Black Flag or black flag may refer to:
Places
Black Flag, Western Australia, an abandoned town named after the Black Flag gold mine and farm
Black Flag to Ora Banda Road, the road in Western Australia on which the abovementioned town is located
People
The Black Flag, a nom de guerre of terror suspect Ali Charaf Dam... |
4037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley%20Park | Bletchley Park | Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Sir Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic,... |
4041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede | Bede | Bede ( ; , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (), was an English monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England).
Born on ... |
4045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20tea | Bubble tea | Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, or boba tea or boba; , ; ) is a tea-based drink that originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s. It most commonly consists of tea accompanied by chewy tapioca balls ("boba" or "pearls"), but it can be made with other toppings as well.
Bubble tea... |
4049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Blenheim | Battle of Blenheim | The Battle of Blenheim (; ; ) fought on , was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the reconstituted Grand Alliance.
Louis XIV of France sought to knock the Holy Roman Emperor, Le... |
4050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Ramillies | Battle of Ramillies | The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the Grand Alliance – Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic – the battle had followed an indecisive campaign against the Bourbon armies of King Louis XIV of France in 1705. Although the Allies had captured Barcel... |
4051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Kernighan | Brian Kernighan | Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist.
He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language (The C Programming... |
4052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL | BCPL | BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language") is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language. Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use. However, its influence is still felt because a stripped down and syntactically changed version of BCPL, called B... |
4054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship | Battleship | A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The term battleship came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship, now referred to by historians as pre-dreadnought battleships. I... |
4055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifr%C3%B6st | Bifröst | In Norse mythology, Bifröst () or Bilröst is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. The bridge is attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as Bifröst in the Prose Edda; written in the 13th century... |
4057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser | Battlecruiser | The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of attributes. Battlecruisers typically had thinner armour (to a varying degree) a... |
4059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Hawke | Bob Hawke | Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Hawke was born in Border Town, South Australia. He attended the University of Western Australia an... |
4060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr | Baldr | Baldr (also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, Baldr (Old Norse: ) is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. In wider Germanic mythology, the god was known in Old English as , and in Old High German as , all ultimately stemming fro... |
4061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breidablik | Breidablik |
In Norse mythology, Breiðablik (Broad-gleaming) is the home of Baldr. It is briefly described in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning as one of the halls of Asgard:
"Then there is also in that place the abode called Breidablik, and there is not in heaven a fairer dwelling."
Later in the work, when Snorri describes Baldr... |
4062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilskirnir | Bilskirnir | Bilskirnir (Old Norse "lightning-crack") is the hall of the god Thor in Norse mythology. Here he lives with his wife Sif and their children. According to Grímnismál, the hall is the greatest of buildings and contains 540 rooms, located in Asgard, as are all the dwellings of the gods, in the kingdom of Þrúðheimr (or Þrú... |
4063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADsingamen | Brísingamen | In Norse mythology, Brísingamen (or Brísinga men) is the torc or necklace of the goddess Freyja. The name is an Old Norse compound brísinga-men whose second element is men "(ornamental) neck-ring (of precious metal), torc". The etymology of the first element is uncertain. It has been derived from Old Norse brísingr, a ... |
4064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsuk%E2%80%93Ulam%20theorem | Borsuk–Ulam theorem | In mathematics, the Borsuk–Ulam theorem states that every continuous function from an n-sphere into Euclidean n-space maps some pair of antipodal points to the same point. Here, two points on a sphere are called antipodal if they are in exactly opposite directions from the sphere's center.
Formally: if is continuous ... |
4067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragi | Bragi | Bragi (; Old Norse: ) is the skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology.
Etymology
The theonym Bragi probably stems from the masculine noun bragr, which can be translated in Old Norse as 'poetry' (cf. Icelandic bragur 'poem, melody, wise') or as 'the first, noblest' (cf. poetic Old Norse bragnar 'chiefs, men', bragningr... |
4068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise%20Pascal | Blaise Pascal | Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and Catholic theologian.
He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant tre... |
4069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittonic%20languages | Brittonic languages | The Brittonic, Brythonic, or British Celtic languages (; ; ) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic. The name Brythonic was derived by Welsh Celticist John Rhys from the Welsh word , meaning Ancient Britons as opposed to an Anglo-Saxon or Gael.
The Brittonic languages... |
4071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronski%20Beat | Bronski Beat | Bronski Beat were a British synthpop trio which achieved success in the mid-1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy", from their debut album The Age of Consent. "Smalltown Boy" was their only US Billboard Hot 100 single. All members of the band were openly gay and their songs reflected this, often co... |
4074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel%20%28disambiguation%29 | Barrel (disambiguation) | A barrel is a cylindrical container, traditionally made with wooden material.
Barrel may also refer to:
BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses), a NASA mission
Barrel (album), a 1970 album by Lee Michaels
Barrel (horology), a watch component
Barrel (unit), several units of volume
Barrel (win... |
4077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20prefix | Binary prefix | A binary prefix is a unit prefix for multiples of units in data processing, data transmission, and digital information, principally in association with the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of 2. As shown in the table to the right there are two sets of symbols for binary prefixes, one set establi... |
4078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Baseball%20Hall%20of%20Fame%20and%20Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests. It serves as the central point of the history of baseball in the United States and displays baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, honoring those who have excelled in playing, ma... |
4079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPP%20%28complexity%29 | BPP (complexity) | In computational complexity theory, bounded-error probabilistic polynomial time (BPP) is the class of decision problems solvable by a probabilistic Turing machine in polynomial time with an error probability bounded away from 1/3 for all instances.
BPP is one of the largest practical classes of problems, meaning most p... |
4080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQP | BQP | In computational complexity theory, bounded-error quantum polynomial time (BQP) is the class of decision problems solvable by a quantum computer in polynomial time, with an error probability of at most 1/3 for all instances. It is the quantum analogue to the complexity class BPP.
A decision problem is a member of BQP... |
4081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade%20Runner%203%3A%20Replicant%20Night | Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night | Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night is a science fiction novel by American writer K. W. Jeter published in 1996. It is a continuation of Jeter's novel Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was itself a sequel to both the film Blade Runner and the novel upon which the film was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of... |
4082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade%20Runner%202%3A%20The%20Edge%20of%20Human | Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human | Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (1995) is a science fiction novel by American writer K. W. Jeter. It is a continuation of both the film Blade Runner and the novel upon which the film was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Plot
Several months after the events depicted in Blade Runner, Deckar... |
4086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck | Brainfuck | Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Urban Müller.
Notable for its extreme minimalism, the language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer and an instruction pointer. While it is fully Turing complete, it is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse programm... |
4091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo%20Ammannati | Bartolomeo Ammannati | Bartolomeo Ammannati (18 June 151113 April 1592) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino (assisting on the design of the Library of St. Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice) and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo.
He w... |
4092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop | Bishop | A bishop is an ordained member in a religious institution, who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.
In traditional Christianity, i.e., existing denominations that predate the Protestant Reformation, bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve A... |
4093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20Andrieu | Bertrand Andrieu | Bertrand Andrieu (24 November 1761 – 6 December 1822) was a French engraver of medals. He was born in Bordeaux. In France, he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV. During the last twenty years of his life, the French government commissioned him to undertake every maj... |
4097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux | Bordeaux | Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon ) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France.
The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 257,804 (2019). Bordeaux is the centre of Bordeaux Métropole that has a population of 796,273 (2019), the sixth-largest in France after Paris, L... |
4098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle%20Bobble | Puzzle Bobble | also known as Bust-a-Move, is a 1994 tile-matching puzzle arcade game developed and published by Taito. It is based on the 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from that game. Its characteristically cute Japanese animation and music, along with its play mechanics and level designs, made it su... |
4099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone | Bone | A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the various other organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, provide structure and support for the body, and enable mobility. Bones come in a variety of shapes and sizes and have a complex... |
4100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretwalda | Bretwalda | Bretwalda (also brytenwalda and bretenanwealda, sometimes capitalised) is an Old English word. The first record comes from the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is given to some of the rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the 5th century onwards who had achieved overlordship of some or all of the other Anglo-Sa... |
4101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%20fixed-point%20theorem | Brouwer fixed-point theorem | Brouwer's fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in topology, named after L. E. J. (Bertus) Brouwer. It states that for any continuous function mapping a compact convex set to itself there is a point such that . The simplest forms of Brouwer's theorem are for continuous functions from a closed interval in the... |
4106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzoic%20acid | Benzoic acid | Benzoic acid is a white (or colorless) solid with the formula C6H5CO2H. It is the simplest aromatic carboxylic acid. The name is derived from gum benzoin, which was for a long time its only source. Benzoic acid occurs naturally in many plants and serves as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of many secondary metabol... |
4107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann%20distribution | Boltzmann distribution | In statistical mechanics and mathematics, a Boltzmann distribution (also called Gibbs distribution) is a probability distribution or probability measure that gives the probability that a system will be in a certain state as a function of that state's energy and the temperature of the system. The distribution is express... |
4109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg%20theory | Leg theory | Leg theory is a bowling tactic in the sport of cricket. The term leg theory is somewhat archaic and seldom used any longer, but the basic tactic remains a play in modern cricket.
Simply put, leg theory involves concentrating the bowling attack at or near the line of leg stump. This may or may not be accompanied by a c... |
4110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe%20Danner | Blythe Danner | Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on Huff (2004–2006), and a Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in Butterflies Ar... |
4111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioleaching | Bioleaching | Bioleaching is the extraction of metals from their ores through the use of living organisms. This is much cleaner than the traditional heap leaching using cyanide. Bioleaching is one of several applications within biohydrometallurgy and several methods are used to recover copper, zinc, lead, arsenic, antimony, nickel,... |
4113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouldering | Bouldering | Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers use climbing shoes to help secure footholds, chalk to keep their hands dry and to provide a firmer grip, and ... |
4115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling%20point | Boiling point | The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor.
The boiling point of a liquid varies depending upon the surrounding environmental pressure. A liquid in a partial vacuum has a lower boiling point... |
4116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bang | Big Bang | The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model explaining the existence of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature, and offers a comprehensive expla... |
4119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock | Bock | Bock is a strong beer of German origin, brewed as a lager when made with only barley malt, and brewed as an ale when wheat malt is added. In addition to the main style of bock, several substyles exist, including:
Maibock (literally, the month of May bock), a paler, more hopped version generally made for consumption at ... |
4124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu%20languages | Bantu languages | The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus ... |
4127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing | Bearing | Bearing may refer to:
Bearing (angle), a term for direction
Bearing (mechanical), a component that separates moving parts and takes a load
Bridge bearing, a component separating a bridge pier and deck
Bearing BTS Station in Bangkok
See also
Bearings (album), by Ronnie Montrose in 2000 |
4130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIM-10%20Bomarc | CIM-10 Bomarc | The Boeing CIM-10 BOMARC (Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center) (IM-99 Weapon System prior to September 1962) was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America. In addition to being the first operational long-range SAM and the f... |
4132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branco%20River | Branco River | The Branco River (; Engl: White River) is the principal affluent of the Rio Negro from the north.
Basin
The river drains the Guayanan Highlands moist forests ecoregion.
It is enriched by many streams from the Tepui highlands which separate Venezuela and Guyana from Brazil. Its two upper main tributaries are the Uraric... |
4146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus | Bus | A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a public transport road vehicle designed to carry significantly more passengers than the average cars or vans. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers, although the average bus usually carries between 30 to 100. The most com... |
4147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali | Bali | Bali (; ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the most populous city in t... |
4149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20language | Bulgarian language | Bulgarian (, ; , ) is a South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians.
Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic dialect continuu... |
4153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipyramid | Bipyramid | A (symmetric) n-gonal bipyramid or dipyramid is a polyhedron formed by joining an n-gonal pyramid and its mirror image base-to-base. An n-gonal bipyramid has 2n triangle faces, 3n edges, and 2 + n vertices.
The referenced n-gon in the name of a bipyramid is not a face but the internal polygon base, lying in the mirror... |
4154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast%20of%20Bodmin%20Moor | Beast of Bodmin Moor | In British folklore, the Beast of Bodmin Moor, () is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, South West Britain. Bodmin Moor became a centre of purported sightings after 1978, with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock; the alleged panther/ leopard-like black cats of the same region came to be popul... |
4157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20University | Brown University | Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered befo... |
4158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Atkinson | Bill Atkinson | Bill Atkinson (born March 17, 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.
Atkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Apple Lisa and, later, one of the first thirty members of the original Apple Macint... |
4160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lostwithiel | Battle of Lostwithiel | The Battle of Lostwithiel took place over a 13-day period from 21 August to 2 September 1644, around the town of Lostwithiel and along the River Fowey valley in Cornwall during the First English Civil War. A Royalist army led by Charles I of England defeated a Parliamentarian force commanded by the Earl of Essex.
Alth... |
4162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeb | Beeb | Beeb or BEEB may refer to:
BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, sometimes called the Beeb or Auntie Beeb
BEEB, a BBC children's magazine published in 1985
BBC Micro, a home computer built for the BBC by Acorn Computers Ltd., nicknamed The Beeb
Beeb.com or BBC online
Beeb Birtles (born 1948), Dutch-Australia... |
4163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20Russell | Bertrand Russell | Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a Welsh polymath. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science... |
4165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20767 | Boeing 767 | The Boeing 767 is an American wide-body aircraft developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
The aircraft was launched as the 7X7 program on July 14, 1978, the prototype first flew on September 26, 1981, and it was certified on July 30, 1982.
The original 767-200 entered service on September 8, 1982 wit... |
4166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Walsh%20%28American%20football%20coach%29 | Bill Walsh (American football coach) | William Ernest Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007) was a professional and college American football coach. He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. After retiring from the 49ers, Walsh worked as a sports broadcaster for ... |
4168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility%20knife | Utility knife | An utility knife is any type of knife used for general manual work purposes. Such knives were originally fixed-blade knives with durable cutting edges suitable for rough work such as cutting cordage, cutting/scraping hides, butchering animals, cleaning fish scales, reshaping timber, and other tasks. Craft knives are s... |
4169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze | Bronze | Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminum, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than c... |
4170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelux | Benelux | The Benelux Union (; ; ), also known as simply Benelux, is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a portmanteau formed from joining the first few letters of each country's name—... |
4171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Herald | Boston Herald | The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area. It was founded in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States. It has been awarded eight Pulitzer Prizes in its history, including four for editorial writing and three for pho... |
4173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe%20Ruth | Babe Ruth | George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston R... |
4177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge | Barge | A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of bulk goods. Originally barges were towed by draft horses on an adjacent towpath. Barges have changed throughout time. From 1967 to 1983 barges were considered a flat bottom boat that was nineteen feet in length or larger. Today, barges may b... |
4178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Schelter | Bill Schelter | William Frederick Schelter (1947 – July 30, 2001) was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer. Schelter is credited with the development of the GNU Common Lisp (GCL) implementation of Common Lisp and the GPL'd version of the computer algebra system Macsyma ca... |
4179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20English | British English | British English (BrE) or Anglo-English is the standard dialect of "the English language used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere." Variations exist in formal, written English in the United Kingdom. For example, the adjective wee is almost exclusively used in parts of Scotland, North East England, Ire... |
4181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle | Battle | A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces an... |
4182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry%20Berenson | Berry Berenson | Berinthia "Berry" Berenson-Perkins ( Berenson; April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001) was an American photographer, actress, and model. Berenson, who was married to actor Anthony Perkins from 1973 until his death in 1992, died in the September 11 attacks as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11.
Early life
Berry Be... |
4183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany | Botany | Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (botanē) meaning "pasture", "herbs" "grass", or "fodder"; is in turn deri... |
4184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus%20thuringiensis | Bacillus thuringiensis | Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt) is a Gram-positive, soil-dwelling bacterium, the most commonly used biological pesticide worldwide. B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars of various types of moths and butterflies, as well on leaf surfaces, aquatic environments, animal feces, insect-rich enviro... |
4185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage | Bacteriophage | A bacteriophage (), also known informally as a phage (), is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea. The term was derived from "bacteria" and the Greek φαγεῖν (), meaning "to devour". Bacteriophages are composed of proteins that encapsulate a DNA or RNA genome, and may have structures that are e... |
4187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactericide | Bactericide | A bactericide or bacteriocide, sometimes abbreviated Bcidal, is a substance which kills bacteria. Bactericides are disinfectants, antiseptics, or antibiotics.
However, material surfaces can also have bactericidal properties based solely on their physical surface structure, as for example biomaterials like insect wings.... |
4188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion%20Gysin | Brion Gysin | Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommervill... |
4190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian | Bulgarian | Bulgarian may refer to:
Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
Bulgarian alphabet
A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
Bulgarian culture
Bulgarian cuisine, a representative of the cuisine of Southeas... |
4191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG%20vaccine | BCG vaccine | Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis (TB). It is named after its inventors Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. In countries where tuberculosis or leprosy is common, one dose is recommended in healthy babies as soon after birth as possible. In areas where tuberculosis i... |
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