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4192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen | Bunsen | Bunsen may refer to:
Christian Charles Josias Bunsen (1791–1860), Prussian diplomat and scholar
Frances Bunsen (1791–1876), or Baroness Bunsen, Welsh painter and author, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), German chemist, after whom is named:
Bunsen burner
Bunsen cell
Bunsen crater ... |
4193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20buzzard | Common buzzard | The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-to-large bird of prey which has a large range. A member of the genus Buteo, it is a member of the family Accipitridae. The species lives in most of Europe and extends its breeding range across much of the Palearctic as far as northwestern China (Tian Shan), far western Siber... |
4194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohrium | Bohrium | Bohrium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Bh and atomic number 107. It is named after Danish physicist Niels Bohr. As a synthetic element, it can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature. All known isotopes of bohrium are highly radioactive; the most stable known isotope is 270Bh with a half-... |
4195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Olson | Barbara Olson | Barbara Kay Olson (née Bracher; December 27, 1955September 11, 2001) was an American lawyer and conservative television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorre... |
4196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s%20Star | Barnard's Star | Barnard's Star is a red dwarf about six light-years from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus. It is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system, and the closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. Its stellar mass is about 14% of the Sun's. Des... |
4199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer%20designation | Bayer designation | A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name. The original list of Bayer designations contained 1,564 stars. The brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the Germa... |
4200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes | Boötes | Boötes ( ) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. The name comes from Latin Boōtēs, which comes from Greek Βοώτης Boṓtēs 'herdsman' or 'plowman' (literally, 'ox-driver'; from βοῦς boûs 'cow').
One of the 48 conste... |
4203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino%20Ochino | Bernardino Ochino | Bernardino Ochino (1487–1564) was an Italian, who was raised a Roman Catholic and later turned to Protestantism and became a Protestant reformer.
Biography
Bernardino Ochino was born in Siena, the son of the barber Domenico Ochino, and at the age of 7 or 8, in around 1504, was entrusted to the order of Franciscan Fria... |
4204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20of%20Quinte | Bay of Quinte | The Bay of Quinte () is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter "Z" on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is just west of the head of the Saint Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is located about east of Toronto and west of Montreal.... |
4207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon | Bassoon | The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuosity. It is a non-transposing instrument and typically its music is written ... |
4210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipedalism | Bipedalism | Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs. An animal or machine that usually moves in a bipedal manner is known as a biped , meaning 'two feet' (from Latin bis 'double' and pes 'foot'). Types of bipedal movement include walking, running, and hopping.
... |
4211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping | Bootstrapping | In general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input.
Etymology
Tall boots may have a tab, loop or handle at the top known as a bootstrap, allowing one to use fingers or a boot hook tool to help pulling the boots on. The saying "to " was alre... |
4213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20languages | Baltic languages | The Baltic languages presumably belong to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Baltic languages are spoken by the Balts, mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
Scholars usually regard them as a single language family divided into two branches: Wester... |
4214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, information engineering, ma... |
4216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20De%20Palma | Brian De Palma | Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for his work in the suspense, crime and psychological thriller genres. His prominent films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (198... |
4218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20B-25%20Mitchell | North American B-25 Mitchell | The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Major General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in every theater of World War II, and after the war ended, many remained in service... |
4219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Open%20%28disambiguation%29 | British Open (disambiguation) | The British Open is the Open Championship men's golf tournament.
British Open may also refer to:
British Open (ballroom), the dancing competitions of the Blackpool Dance Festival
BDO British Open, a darts tournament
Women's British Open of golf
British Open Show Jumping Championships
British Open (snooker), an an... |
4224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Charlton | Bobby Charlton | Sir Robert Charlton (born 11 October 1937), known as Bobby Charlton, is an English former footballer who played either as a midfielder or a forward. Considered one of the greatest players of all time, he was a member of the England team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the year he also won the Ballon d'Or. He played ... |
4227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Lyndon | Barry Lyndon | Barry Lyndon is a 1975 period drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter, and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unravelli... |
4230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20%28biology%29 | Cell (biology) | The cell (from the Latin word 'cellula' meaning "small room") is the basic structural and functional unit of life. Every cell consists of a cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane, which contains many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids.
Most plant and animal cells are only visible under a light microscope, ... |
4231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy%20the%20Vampire%20Slayer%20%28film%29 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) | Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui and starring Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, and Hilary Swank. It follows a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires. It was a moderate succes... |
4232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter | Barter | In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. Economists distinguish barter from gift economies in many ways; barter, for example, features immediat... |
4233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe%20Morisot | Berthe Morisot | Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government and judged by Academicians, th... |
4237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%20College | Barnard College | Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by Annie Nathan Meyer as a response to Columbia University's refusal to admit women and is named after Columbia's 10th president, Frederick Barnard.
Barnard is one of four undergraduate colleges of... |
4240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictines | Benedictines | The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as OSB), are a monastic religious order of the Catholic Church following the Rule of Saint Benedict. They are also sometimes called the Black Monks, in reference to the colour of their religious habits. They were founded by Benedict of Nursia, a 6t... |
4241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayezid%20I | Bayezid I | Bayezid I (, ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (, ; – 8 March 1403) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of Sultan-i Rûm, Rûm being an old Islamic name for the Roman Empire. He decisively defeated the Crusaders at Nicopolis (in modern Bulgaria) in 1396. Bayezid unsuccessfully besieged ... |
4242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayezid%20II | Bayezid II | Bayezid II (, December 1447 – 26 May 1512, Turkish: II. Bayezid) was the eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, Bayezid II consolidated the Ottoman Empire and thwarted a Safavid rebellion soon before abdicating his throne to his son, Selim I. H... |
4243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing | Boxing | Boxing (also known as "western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring. More generally, the term "boxing" can refer t... |
4246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood | Bollywood | Hindi cinema, often known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The term is a portmanteau of "Bombay" and "Hollywood". The industry is part of the larger Indian cinema—the world's largest by number of feature films produced, along with ... |
4248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowls | Bowls | Bowls, or lawn bowls, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-green bowls") or convex or uneven (for "crown green bowls"). It is normally played outdoors (although there... |
4249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelonnette | Barcelonnette | Barcelonnette (; , also ; obsolete ) is a commune of France and a subprefecture in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is located in the southern French Alps, at the crossroads between Provence, Piedmont and the Dauphiné, and is the largest town in the Ubaye Valley. T... |
4251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD%20Faith | Baháʼí Faith | The Baháʼí Faith (; ) is a relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th century, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its inception. The religion is estimate... |
4256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiuvarii | Baiuvarii | The Baiuvarii or Bavarians () were a Germanic people. The Baiuvarii had settled modern-day Bavaria (which is named after them), Austria, and South Tyrol by the 6th century AD, and are considered the ancestors of modern-day Bavarians and Austrians. The Baiuvarii spoke the early Bavarian language.
Name
The name of the B... |
4257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundians | Burgundians | The Burgundians (; ; ; ) were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near the Roman Empire, and were later moved into the empire, in the western Alps and eastern Gaul. They were possibly mentioned much earlier in the time of the Roman Empire as living in part of the region... |
4260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots%20and%20Boxes | Dots and Boxes | Dots and Boxes is a pencil-and-paper game for two players (sometimes more). It was first published in the 19th century by French mathematician Édouard Lucas, who called it . It has gone by many other names, including the dots and dashes, game of dots, dot to dot grid, boxes, and pigs in a pen.
The game starts with an ... |
4261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28Nineteen%20Eighty-Four%29 | Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) | Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the ruling party, Ingsoc, wields total power "for its own sake" over the inhabitants. In the society that Orwell describes, every citizen is ... |
4266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20search%20algorithm | Binary search algorithm | In computer science, binary search, also known as half-interval search, logarithmic search, or binary chop, is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array. Binary search compares the target value to the middle element of the array. If they are not equal, the half in which the targ... |
4267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20and%20Sebastian | Belle and Sebastian | Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish indie pop band formed in Glasgow in 1996. Led by Stuart Murdoch, the band has released ten albums. Much of their work had been released on Jeepster Records before signing with Matador Records.
History
Formation and early years (1994–1998)
Belle and Sebastian were formed in Glasgow, ... |
4279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20domain | Broadcast domain | A broadcast domain is a logical division of a computer network, in which all nodes can reach each other by broadcast at the data link layer. A broadcast domain can be within the same LAN segment or it can be bridged to other LAN segments.
In terms of current popular technologies, any computer connected to the same Eth... |
4282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft | Beechcraft | Beechcraft is a brand of Textron Aviation since 2014. Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft, ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military trainers. Beech la... |
4283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Peleliu | Battle of Peleliu | The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the US military, was fought between the United States and Japan during the Mariana and Palau Campaign of World War II, from September 15 to November 27, 1944, on the island of Peleliu.
US Marines of the 1st Marine Division and then soldiers of the US Army's 81... |
4284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Stalingrad | Battle of Stalingrad | In the Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 19422 February 1943), Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids. The Battle of Stalingrad was the dead... |
4285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma | Bodhidharma | Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the ... |
4286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biconditional%20introduction | Biconditional introduction | In propositional logic, biconditional introduction is a valid rule of inference. It allows for one to infer a biconditional from two conditional statements. The rule makes it possible to introduce a biconditional statement into a logical proof. If is true, and if is true, then one may infer that is true. For example... |
4287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biconditional%20elimination | Biconditional elimination | Biconditional elimination is the name of two valid rules of inference of propositional logic. It allows for one to infer a conditional from a biconditional. If is true, then one may infer that is true, and also that is true. For example, if it's true that I'm breathing if and only if I'm alive, then it's true that i... |
4292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20pair | Base pair | A base pair (bp) is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds. They form the building blocks of the DNA double helix and contribute to the folded structure of both DNA and RNA. Dictated by specific hydrogen bonding patterns, "Watson–Crick" (... |
4293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20Ravens | Baltimore Ravens | The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore. The Ravens compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The team plays its home games at M&T Bank Stadium and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.
The cl... |
4294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20National%20Party | British National Party | The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, and its current leader is Adam Walker. A minor party, it has no elected representatives at any level of UK government. Founded in 1982, the party reached its greatest level of success ... |
4295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavi%20%28Germanic%20tribe%29 | Batavi (Germanic tribe) | The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD. The name is also applied to several military units employed by the Romans that were originally raised among the Batav... |
4298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism | Baptism | Baptism (from the Greek noun βάπτισμα báptisma) is a Christian rite of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into Christianity. It may be performed by sprinkling or pouring water on the head, or by immersing in water either partially or completely, traditionally three times, once for each per... |
4300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocce | Bocce | (, or , ), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci or boccie, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to British bowls and French , with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. Bocce is played around western, southern and... |
4301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatmatching | Beatmatching | Beatmatching or pitch cue is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching an upcoming track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track, and to adjust them such that the beats (and, usually, the bars) are synchronised — e.g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time wh... |
4306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane | Beltane | Beltane () is the Gaelic May Day festival. Most commonly it is held on 1 May, or about halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. In Irish the name for the festival day is (), in Scottish Gaelic () and in Manx Gaelic ... |
4312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem | Bethlehem | Bethlehem (; , "House of Meat"; , , "House of Bread"; ; ; initially named after Canaanite fertility god Laḫmu) is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000, and it is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. The economy is primarily tourist-driven,... |
4313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin | Benjamin | Benjamin () was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative.
... |
4314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sabbath | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970), and Mast... |
4315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20Bills | Buffalo Bills | The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. Founded i... |
4318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Dig | Big Dig | The Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), commonly known as the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery of Interstate 93 (I-93), the chief highway through the heart of the city, into the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tunnel named the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel. The project also included the construc... |
4319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books%20of%20Chronicles | Books of Chronicles | The Book of Chronicles ( ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third section of the Jewish Tanakh, the Ketuvim ("Writings"). It contains a genealogy starting with Adam and a history of ancient Judah and Israel up to the Edict of Cyrus in 539 BCE.
Chronicles i... |
4320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20search%20tree | Binary search tree | In computer science, a binary search tree (BST), also called an ordered or sorted binary tree, is a rooted binary tree data structure whose internal nodes each store a key greater than all the keys in the node's left subtree and less than those in its right subtree. The time complexity of operations on the binary searc... |
4321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20tree | Binary tree | In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, which are referred to as the and the . A recursive definition using just set theory notions is that a (non-empty) binary tree is a tuple (L, S, R), where L and R are binary trees or the empty set and S is a single... |
4322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%20measure | Borel measure | In mathematics, specifically in measure theory, a Borel measure on a topological space is a measure that is defined on all open sets (and thus on all Borel sets). Some authors require additional restrictions on the measure, as described below.
Formal definition
Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space, and let be t... |
4326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder | Blackadder | Blackadder is a series of four period British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired on BBC One from 1983 to 1989. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historic... |
4327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boii | Boii | The Boii (Latin plural, singular Boius; ) were a Gallic tribe of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy), Pannonia (Hungary), parts of Bavaria, in and around Bohemia (after whom the region is named in most languages; comprising the bulk of today's Czech Republic), parts of Polan... |
4329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon | Backgammon | Backgammon is a member of the large family of tables games whose history can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archaeological discoveries in the Jiroft culture, of Persia. Its immediate ancestor was the 16th-century game of Irish, the Anglo-Scottish equivalent of the French Toutes Tables and Spanish Todas Tablas, t... |
4331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Joshua | Book of Joshua | The Book of Joshua ( ) is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile. It tells of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan, the destructi... |
4332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Ezra | Book of Ezra | The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible; which formerly included the Book of Nehemiah in a single book, commonly distinguished in scholarship as Ezra–Nehemiah. The two became separated with the first printed rabbinic bibles of the early 16th century, following late medieval Latin Christian tradition. Composed in... |
4333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Daniel | Book of Daniel | The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BCE biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BCE setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", it combines a prophecy of history with an eschatology (a portrayal of end times) both cosmic in scope and political in focus, and it... |
4335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman | Batman | Batman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in the 27th issue of the comic book Detective Comics on March 30, 1939. In the DC Universe continuity, Batman is the alias of Bruce Wayne, a wealthy American p... |
4338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittonic | Brittonic | Brittonic or Brythonic may refer to:
Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain
Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic
Britons (Celtic people), or Celtic Britons, the Celtic people of Great Britain in ancient times
Language and ... |
4339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Red%20Sox | Boston Red Sox | The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox' home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The ... |
4340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20Orioles | Baltimore Orioles | The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore. The Orioles compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. As one of the American League's eight charter teams in 1901, the franchise spent its first year as a major league club in Mi... |
4342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastarnae | Bastarnae | The Bastarnae (Latin variants: Bastarni, or Basternae; ) and Peucini () were two ancient peoples who between 200 BC and 300 AD inhabited areas north of the Roman frontier on the Lower Danube. The Bastarnae lived in the region between the Carpathian Mountains and the river Dnieper, to the north and east of ancient Dacia... |
4343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian | Bavarian | Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.
Bavarian may also refer to:
Bavarii, a Germanic tribe
Bavarians, a nation and ethnographic group of Germans
Bavarian, Iran, a village in Fars Province
Bavarian language, a group of closely related Upper Ge... |
4345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia | Bohemia | Bohemia ( ; ; ; ; ) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, in which case the smaller region i... |
4348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%201 | BBC Radio 1 | BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, whilst its sister station 1Xtra plays Black contemporary music, ... |
4349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Red%20Button | BBC Red Button | BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom. The services replaced Ceefax, the BBC's analogue teletext service. BBC Red Button's text services were due to close on 30 January 2020, but the switch off was suspended on 29 January 2... |
4352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backplane | Backplane | A backplane (or "backplane system") is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus. It is used as a backbone to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complet... |
4353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldric | Baldric | A baldric (also baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick as well as other rare or obsolete variations) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon (usually a sword) or other implement such as a bugle or drum. The word may also refer to any belt in general, but this usage is poetic or archaic. In mode... |
4356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Waterloo | Battle of Waterloo | The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,... |
4359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang | Boomerang | A boomerang () is a thrown tool, typically constructed as a flat airfoil, that is designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight. A returning boomerang is designed to return to the thrower. It is well-known as a weapon used by some Aboriginal Australian peoples for hunting.
Boomerangs have... |
4360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding | Bodybuilding | Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one's muscles (muscle building) by muscle hypertrophy for aesthetic purposes. It is distinct from similar activities such as powerlifting because it focuses on physical appearance instead of strength. An individual who engages in this act... |
4361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20warfare | Biological warfare | Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio... |
4362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Nehemiah | Book of Nehemiah | The Book of Nehemiah, in the Hebrew Bible, largely takes the form of a first-person memoir concerning the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws (Torah). Since the 16th ce... |
4363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Jeremiah | Book of Jeremiah | The Book of Jeremiah (; abbreviated Jer. or Jerm. in citations) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. The superscription at chapter Jeremiah 1:1–3 identifies the book as "the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah". Of all the prophets, Jeremi... |
4364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Isaiah | Book of Isaiah | The Book of Isaiah (, ) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet Isaiah ben Amoz, but there is extensive evidence that much of it was composed during the Ba... |
4365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear%20map | Bilinear map | In mathematics, a bilinear map is a function combining elements of two vector spaces to yield an element of a third vector space, and is linear in each of its arguments. Matrix multiplication is an example.
Definition
Vector spaces
Let and be three vector spaces over the same base field . A bilinear map is a funct... |
4366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20Blake | Blind Blake | Arthur Blake (1896 – December 1, 1934), known as Blind Blake, was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He is known for recordings he made for Paramount Records between 1926 and 1932.
Early life
Little is known of Blake's life. Promotional materials from Paramount Records indicate he was born blind and g... |
4367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Lara | Brian Lara | Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cric... |
4368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle | Beagle | The beagle is a breed of small scent hound, similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound. The beagle was developed primarily for hunting hare (beagling). Possessing a great sense of smell and superior tracking instincts, the beagle is the primary breed used as a detection dog for prohibited agricultural imports an... |
4371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled%20leather | Boiled leather | Boiled leather, often referred to by its French translation, cuir bouilli (), was a historical material for various uses common in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. It was leather that had been treated so that it became tough and rigid, as well as able to hold moulded decoration. It was the usual material for th... |
4373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20overflow | Buffer overflow | In information security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory locations.
Buffers are areas of memory set aside to hold data, often while moving it from one section of a program ... |
4374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug | Bug | Bug may refer to:
Common uses
Bug (engineering), a defect in the design, manufacture or operation of machinery, circuitry, electronics, hardware, or software
Software bug
Hardware bug
Covert listening device, or bug, commonly used in surveillance, espionage and police investigations
Hemiptera, or true bugs, an ... |
4375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Bonds | Barry Bonds | Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Bonds was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and the San Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2007. He is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players... |
4376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Numbers | Book of Numbers | The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi; , Bəmīḏbar, "In the desert [of]"), also known as the Fourth Book of Moses, is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. The book has a long and complex history; its final form is possibly due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., e... |
4377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Judges | Book of Judges | The Book of Judges (, ) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. In the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, it covers the time between the conquest described in the Book of Joshua and the establishment of a kingdom in the Books of Samuel, during which biblical judges served as temporary leade... |
4378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books%20of%20Samuel | Books of Samuel | The Book of Samuel (, Sefer Shmuel) is a book in the Hebrew Bible and two books (1 Samuel and 2 Samuel) in the Christian Old Testament. The book is part of the narrative history of Ancient Israel called the Deuteronomistic history, a series of books (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) that constitute a theological hist... |
4379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Revelation | Book of Revelation | The Book of Revelation – also called the Apocalypse of John, Revelation to John or Revelation of Jesus Christ – is the final book of the New Testament and consequently is also the final book of the Christian Bible. Its title is derived from the first word of the Koine Greek text: apokalypsis, meaning "unveiling" or "re... |
4380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books%20of%20Kings | Books of Kings | The Book of Kings (, sefer melakhim) is a book in the Hebrew Bible and two books (1 Kings and 2 Kings) in the Christian Old Testament. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history, a history of Israel also including the books of Joshua and Judges and the Books of Samuel.
Biblical commentators believe the Books of Kings w... |
4381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Ruth | Book of Ruth | The Book of Ruth (abbreviated Rth) (, Megilath Ruth, "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible. In most Christian canons it is treated as one of the historical books and placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.
The book, written in Hebr... |
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