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4382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Esther | Book of Esther | The Book of Esther (Hebrew: , Megillat Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" (Megillah), is a book in the third section (Ketuvim, "Writings") of the Jewish Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible). It is one of the five Scrolls (Megillot) in the Hebrew Bible and later became part of the Christian Old Testament.
The book re... |
4384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Great%20Britain | Rail transport in Great Britain | The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest railway system in the world. The first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825, which was followed by an era of rapid expansion. Most of the track is managed by Network Rail, which in 2017 had a network of of standard-gauge lines, of which were electrified. Th... |
4385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail | British Rail | British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies, and was privatised in stages between 1994 and 1997. Ori... |
4386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Job | Book of Job | The Book of Job (; – ʾIyyōḇ) addresses the problem of theodicy, meaning why God permits evil in the world, through the experiences of the eponymous protagonist. Job is a wealthy and God-fearing man with a comfortable life and a large family; God, having asked Satan ( – , literally "the accuser") for his opinion of Job... |
4387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser | Browser | Browse, browser or browsing may refer to:
Programs
Web browser, a program used to access the World Wide Web
Code browser, a program for navigating source code
File browser or file manager, a program used to manage files and related objects
Hardware browser, a program for displaying networked hardware devices
Browser s... |
4388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Proverbs | Book of Proverbs | The Book of Proverbs (, , "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became (, "Proverbs"); in the Latin Vulgate the tit... |
4389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Lamentations | Book of Lamentations | The Book of Lamentations (, , from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. In the Hebrew Bible it appears in the Ketuvim ("Writings") as one of the Five Megillot (or "Five Scrolls") alongside the Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes and the Book of ... |
4390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Ezekiel | Book of Ezekiel | The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh and one of the major prophetic books in the Old Testament, following Isaiah and Jeremiah. According to the book itself, it records six visions of the prophet Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC, although it is the produ... |
4391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28franchise%29 | Big Brother (franchise) | Big Brother is a Dutch reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999, and subsequently syndicated internationally. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "HouseGuests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from... |
4392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20City%20F.C. | Bristol City F.C. | Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. They currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded in 1894, they have played their home games at Ashton Gate since 1904. The club has spent all but 11 years of its history playing in either the s... |
4393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioterrorism | Bioterrorism | Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. These agents are bacteria, viruses, insects, fungi or toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same way as in biological warfare. Further, modern agribusiness is vulnerable to anti... |
4394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter | Bitter | Bitter may refer to:
Common uses
Resentment, negative emotion or attitude, similar to being jaded, cynical or otherwise negatively affected by experience
Bitter (taste), one of the five basic tastes
Books
Bitter (novel), a 2022 novel by Akwaeke Emezi.
Food and drink
Bitter (beer), a British term for pale ale
B... |
4396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%20Grumman%20B-2%20Spirit | Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit | The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses. Designed during the Cold War, it is a flying wing design with a crew of two. The bomber is subsoni... |
4399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver | Beaver | Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus Castor native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) and the Eurasian beaver (C. fiber). Beavers are the second-largest living rodents after the capybaras. They have stout bodies with large hea... |
4400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear | Bear | Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found on the... |
4401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald%20eagle | Bald eagle | The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all o... |
4402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20bear | Brown bear | The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear species found across Eurasia and North America. In North America, the populations of brown bears are called grizzly bears, while the subspecies that inhabits the Kodiak Islands of Alaska is known as the Kodiak bear. It is one of the largest living terrestrial members of the... |
4403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS%20theory | BCS theory | BCS theory or Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory (named after John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer) is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's 1911 discovery. The theory describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect caused by a condensation of Cooper pairs.... |
4405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon | Biathlon | The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not timed per se, but depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra di... |
4407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20and%20squeak | Bubble and squeak | Bubble and squeak is a British dish made from cooked potatoes and cabbage, mixed together and fried. The food writer Howard Hillman classes it as one of the "great peasant dishes of the world". The dish has been known since at least the 18th century, and in its early versions it contained cooked beef; by the mid-20th c... |
4408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%20Holly | Buddy Holly | Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his sibl... |
4410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewing | Brewing | Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or communally. Brewing has taken place since around the... |
4417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz | Benz | Benz, an old Germanic clan name dating to the fifth century (related to "bear", "war banner", "gau", or a "land by a waterway") also used in German as an alternative for names such as Berthold, Bernhard, or Benedict, may refer to:
People
Alias
Nicky Benz (born 1980), ring name of Nick Berk, American wrestler
Nikki B... |
4419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20reconstruction | Breast reconstruction | Breast reconstruction is the surgical process of rebuilding the shape and look of a breast, most commonly in women who have had surgery to treat breast cancer. It involves using autologous tissue, prosthetic implants, or a combination of both with the goal of reconstructing a natural-looking breast. This process often... |
4424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Diamond | Bob Diamond | Bobby or Bob Diamond may refer to:
Bob Diamond (actor) (1943–2019), American actor and lawyer a/k/a Bobby Diamond and Robert Diamond
Bob Diamond (banker) (born 1951), Anglo-American business executive
Characters
Bob Diamond (comics), Marvel Comics character since 1974
Bob Diamond, played by Rip Torn in 1991 American ... |
4425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%20Historic%20Railway%20Association | Brooklyn Historic Railway Association | The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a shop, trolley barn and offices located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, on the historic Beard Street Piers (c. 1870). BHRA had a fleet of 16 trolleys (15 PCC trolleys and a leased 1897 trolley car from the Oslo Trams, in Oslo,... |
4427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-lactam | Beta-lactam | A beta-lactam (β-lactam) ring is a four-membered lactam. A lactam is a cyclic amide, and beta-lactams are named so because the nitrogen atom is attached to the β-carbon atom relative to the carbonyl. The simplest β-lactam possible is 2-azetidinone. β-lactams are significant structural units of medicines as manifested... |
4429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-Bishopric%20of%20Brandenburg | Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg | The Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg () was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the 12th century until it was secularized during the second half of the 16th century. It should not be confused with the larger Diocese of Brandenburg () established by King Otto I of Germany in 948, in the territory... |
4430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE%20jumping | BASE jumping | BASE jumping () is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend safely to the ground.
"BASE" is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antenna (referring to radio masts), spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
Participants exit... |
4431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty | Beauty | Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is ... |
4436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20motion | Brownian motion | Brownian motion, or pedesis (from "leaping"), is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas).
This pattern of motion typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position inside a fluid sub-domain, followed by a relocation to another sub-domain. Each relocation is followed b... |
4443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona | Barcelona | Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities with... |
4444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy | Bandy | Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is the Federation of International Bandy (FIB). Internationally, bandy's stronge... |
4445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Frankston | Bob Frankston | Robert M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949) is an American software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts.
Early life and education
Frankston was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Stuyvesant Hi... |
4446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker%20Prize | Booker Prize | The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner of the Booker Prize receives international publicity which usually lea... |
4447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Joel | Book of Joel | The Book of Joel is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.
Content
After a superscription ascribing the prophecy to Joel (son of Pethuel), the book may be broken down into the following sections:
La... |
4449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Hosea | Book of Hosea | The Book of Hosea (, romanized: Sefer Hōšēaʿ) is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament. According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the Twelve.
Set around the fall of... |
4450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Obadiah | Book of Obadiah | The Book of Obadiah is a book of the Bible whose authorship is attributed to Obadiah, a prophet who lived in the Assyrian Period. Obadiah is one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the final section of Nevi'im, the second main division of the Hebrew Bible. The text consists of a single chapter, divided into 21 verses, maki... |
4451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Jonah | Book of Jonah | The Book of Jonah is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.
Set in the reign of Jeroboam II (786–746 BC), it tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah, son of Amittai, who is sent by God to prophesy the de... |
4452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Micah | Book of Micah | The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. Ostensibly, it records the sayings of Micah, whose name is Mikayahu (), meaning "Who is like Yahweh?", an 8th-century BCE prophet from the village of Moresheth in Judah (Hebrew name from the opening verse: מיכה המרשתי).
The book has three... |
4453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Nahum | Book of Nahum | The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible. It is attributed to the prophet Nahum, and was probably written in Jerusalem in the 7th century BC.
Background
Josephus places Nahum during the reign of Jotham, while others place him in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz, Judah's next... |
4454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Haggai | Book of Haggai | The Book of Haggai, also known as the Book of Aggeus, is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and has its place as the third-to-last of the Minor Prophets. It is a short book, consisting of only two chapters. The historical setting dates around 520 BC before the Temple has been rebuilt.
Authorship
The Book of Hagga... |
4455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Malachi | Book of Malachi | The Book of Malachi (or Malachias; , ) is the last book of the Neviim contained in the Tanakh, canonically the last of the Twelve Minor Prophets. In the Christian ordering, the grouping of the prophetic books is the last section of the Old Testament, making Malachi the last book before the New Testament.
The book is c... |
4456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Zechariah | Book of Zechariah | The Book of Zechariah, attributed to the Hebrew prophet Zechariah, is included in the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Historical context
Zechariah's prophecies took place during the reign of Darius the Great and were contemporary with Haggai in a post-exilic world after the fall of Jerusalem in 587/586 B... |
4457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Zephaniah | Book of Zephaniah | The Book of Zephaniah (, Tsfanya) is the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, preceded by the Book of Habakkuk and followed by the Book of Haggai. Zephaniah means "Yahweh has hidden/protected," or "Yahweh hides". Zephaniah is also a male given name.
Authorship and date
The book's superscription attributes its author... |
4458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Habakkuk | Book of Habakkuk | The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the 12 minor prophets of the Bible. It is attributed to the prophet Habakkuk, and was probably composed in the late 7th century BC.
Of the three chapters in the book, the first two are a dialogue between Yahweh and the prophet. The message that "the just shall live by his fai... |
4459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward%20compatibility | Backward compatibility | Backward compatibility (sometimes known as backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially in telecommunications and computing.
Modifying a system in a way that does ... |
4460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20conjugation | Bacterial conjugation | Bacterial conjugation is the transfer of genetic material between bacterial cells by direct cell-to-cell contact or by a bridge-like connection between two cells. This takes place through a pilus. It is a parasexual mode of reproduction in bacteria.
It is a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer as are transformation a... |
4461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galjoen | Galjoen | The galjoen, black bream, or blackfish (Dichistius capensis) is a species of marine fish found only along the coast of southern Africa from Angola to South Africa.
Galjoen is the national fish of South Africa.
Distribution and habitat
The galjoen is indigenous to the coasts of southern Africa from Angola to South ... |
4462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20crane | Blue crane | The blue crane (Grus paradisea), also known as the Stanley crane and the paradise crane, is the national bird of South Africa. The species is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
Description
The blue crane is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family. It is tall, with a wing... |
4463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babrak%20Karmal | Babrak Karmal | Babrak Karmal (Dari/Pashto , born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan for seven years.
Born in Kabul Province into a Tajikized family... |
4468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist%20philosophy | Buddhist philosophy | Buddhist philosophy refers to the philosophical investigations and systems of inquiry that developed among various Buddhist schools in India following the parinirvana (i.e. death) of the Buddha and later spread throughout Asia. The Buddhist path combines both philosophical reasoning and meditation. The Buddhist traditi... |
4471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Bob%20Thornton | Billy Bob Thornton | Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor. He had his first break when he co-wrote and starred in the 1992 thriller One False Move, and received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best... |
4472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20O | The Big O | is a Japanese mecha-anime television series created by designer Keiichi Sato and director Kazuyoshi Katayama for Sunrise. The writing staff was assembled by the series' head writer, Chiaki J. Konaka, who is known for his work on Serial Experiments Lain and Hellsing. The story takes place forty years after a mysterious ... |
4473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS | BIOS | In computing, BIOS (, ; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup). The BIOS firmware comes pre-installed on ... |
4474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein%20condensate | Bose–Einstein condensate | In condensed matter physics, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (−273.15 °C or −459.67 °F). Under such conditions, a large fraction of bosons occupy the lowest quantum state, at which ... |
4475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%20%28programming%20language%29 | B (programming language) | B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969. It was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
B was derived from BCPL, and its name may possibly be a contraction of BCPL. Thompson's coworker Dennis Ritchie speculated that the name might be based on Bon, an earlier, but unrelated, programming la... |
4476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer%E2%80%93Lambert%20law | Beer–Lambert law | The Beer–Lambert law, also known as Beer's law, the Lambert–Beer law, or the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law relates the attenuation of light to the properties of the material through which the light is travelling. The law is commonly applied to chemical analysis measurements and used in understanding attenuation in physical ... |
4477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beach%20Boys | The Beach Boys | The Beach Boys are an American rock band that formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Distinguished for their vocal harmonies, adolescent-oriented themes, and musical ingenuity, they are on... |
4479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCE%20%28disambiguation%29 | BCE (disambiguation) | BCE is an abbreviation meaning Before Common Era, an alternative to the use of BC.
BCE, B.C.E. or bce may also refer to:
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, an academic degree
Banco Central del Ecuador
Basic Chess Endings, a chess book on chess endgames by Reuben Fine
BCE Inc. (formerly Bell Canada Enterprises), the la... |
4480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC | BC | BC most often refers to:
Before Christ, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada
Baja California, a state of Mexico
BC may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
"B.C.", a song by Sparks from the 1974 album Prop... |
4481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix%20Potter | Beatrix Potter | Helen Beatrix Potter (, 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up iso... |
4482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal%20Party%20%28UK%29 | Liberal Party (UK) | The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom with the opposing Conservative Party in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The party arose from an alliance of Whigs and free trade–supporting Peelites and the reformist Radicals in the 1850s. By the end of the 19th century, it had forme... |
4484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20of%20England | Bank of England | The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank. It was privately own... |
4485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite | Bakelite | Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, better known as Bakelite ( ), was the first plastic made from synthetic components. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. It was developed by the Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907.... |
4487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean | Bean | A bean is the seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes throughout the world.
Terminology
The word "bean" and its... |
4489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast | Breast | The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of a primate's torso. Both females and males develop breasts from the same embryological tissues.
In females, it serves as the mammary gland, which produces and secretes milk to feed infants. Subcutaneous fat covers and envelops a network of duc... |
4492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad | Baghdad | Baghdad (; ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient Akkadian city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. In 762 CE, Baghdad was chosen as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, and became its most not... |
4493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20biology | Outline of biology | Biology – The natural science that studies life. Areas of focus include structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
History of biology
History of anatomy
History of biochemistry
History of biotechnology
History of ecology
History of genetics
History of evolutionary thought:
The eclipse... |
4495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20thermal%20unit | British thermal unit | The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a unit of heat; it is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. It is also part of the United States customary units. Heat is now known to be equivalent to energy. The modern SI unit for heat and energy is the... |
4497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti | Bugatti | Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a German then French manufacturer of high-performance automobiles. The company was founded in 1909 in the then-German city of Molsheim, Alsace, by the Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Bugatti. The cars were known for their design beauty and for their many race victories. Famous Bug... |
4498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark | Benchmark | Benchmark may refer to:
Business and economics
Benchmarking, evaluating performance within organizations
Benchmark price
Benchmark (crude oil), oil-specific practices
Benchmark, an investment performance attribution
Science and technology
Benchmark (surveying), a point of known elevation marked for the purpose o... |
4499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band | Band | Band or BAND may refer to:
Places
Bánd, a village in Hungary
Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania
Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
People
Band (surname), various people with the surname
Arts, entertainment,... |
4501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Death | Black Death | The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Bubonic pla... |
4502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology | Biotechnology | Biotechnology is "the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services." The term biotechnology was first used by Karl Ereky in 1919, meaning the production of products from raw materials wit... |
4503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Poitiers | Battle of Poitiers | The Battle of Poitiers was fought between a French army commanded by King JohnII and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince, on 19September 1356 during the Hundred Years' War. It was fought in western France, south of Poitiers. Approximately 14,000–16,000 French attacked a strong defensive position held ... |
4505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone%20cabal | Backbone cabal | The backbone cabal was an informal organization of large-site news server administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet. It existed from about 1983 at least into the 2000s.
The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts. While in the 197... |
4506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongo%20%28antelope%29 | Bongo (antelope) | The bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate. Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes and long slightly spiralled horns. They are the only tragelaphid in which both sexes have horns. They have a complex social inte... |
4507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip | Bunyip | The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.
Name
The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of the Aboriginal people of Victoria, in South-Eastern Australia.
The word ... |
4508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant | Brabant | Brabant is a traditional geographical region (or regions) in the Low Countries of Europe. It may refer to:
Place names in Europe
Belgium
Province of Brabant, which in 1995 was split up into two provinces and an autonomous region:
Flemish Brabant, in the Flanders region
Walloon Brabant, in the Wallonia region
Brus... |
4512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boone%2C%20North%20Carolina | Boone, North Carolina | Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the disaster and medical relief organization Samaritan's Purse. The population was 17,122 a... |
4513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee | Banshee | A banshee ( ; Modern Irish , from , "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by wailing, shrieking, or keening. Her name is connected to the mythologically important tumuli or "mounds" that dot the Irish countryside, which are k... |
4514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20maize | Genetically modified maize | Genetically modified maize (corn) is a genetically modified crop. Specific maize strains have been genetically engineered to express agriculturally-desirable traits, including resistance to pests and to herbicides. Maize strains with both traits are now in use in multiple countries. GM maize has also caused controversy... |
4516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20substance%20isolation | Body substance isolation | Body substance isolation is a practice of isolating all body substances (blood, urine, feces, tears, etc.) of individuals undergoing medical treatment, particularly emergency medical treatment of those who might be infected with illnesses such as HIV, or hepatitis so as to reduce as much as possible the chances of tran... |
4517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica | Boudica | Boudica or Boudicca (, ), also known as Boadicea (, also ) or Boudicea, and in Welsh as (), was a queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. According to Roman sources, shortly after the uprising failed, she poisoned herself or died of her wou... |
4518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo | Borneo | Borneo (; ) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra.
The island is politically divided among three countries: Malaysia and Brunei in... |
4519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint%20pen | Ballpoint pen | A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro (British English), ball pen (Philippine English), or dot pen (Nepali) is a pen that dispenses ink (usually in paste form) over a metal ball at its point, i.e. over a "ball point". The metal commonly used is steel, brass, or tungsten carbide. The design was conceived and developed a... |
4524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs%20Corporation | Burroughs Corporation | The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company. In 1986, it merged with Sperry UNIVAC to form Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start, it produced mechanica... |
4526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick | Brick | A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured construction blocks. Bricks can be joined using mortar, adhesives or by interlocking the... |
4527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Bart%C3%B3k | Béla Bartók | Béla Viktor János Bartók (; , ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Through his collection and analytical study of folk musi... |
4528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Haley | Bill Haley | William John Clifton Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was a pioneering American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator... |
4529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20bobwhite | Northern bobwhite | The northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), also known as the Virginia quail or (in its home range) bobwhite quail, is a ground-dwelling bird native to Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, with introduced populations elsewhere in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. It is a member of the group of species known as ... |
4531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar%20disorder | Bipolar disorder | Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mood disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally-elevated mood that last from days to weeks each. If the elevated mood is severe or associated with psychosis, it is called mania; if it is less severe, it is called hypomania. Duri... |
4536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz | Blitz | Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:
Blitzkrieg, a rapid attack by combined forces, used by Germany in the Second World War
The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War
Blitz (gridiron football), a type of defensive tactic
Computing
Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and perf... |
4537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt%20Lancaster | Burt Lancaster | Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and producer. Initially known for playing tough guys with a tender heart, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in film and, later, television. He was a four-time nominee for the Ac... |
4540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balts | Balts | The Balts or Baltic people (, ) are an ethno-linguistic group of people who speak the Baltic languages of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages.
One of the features of Baltic languages is the number of conservative or archaic features retained. Among the Baltic peoples are modern-day Lithuanians and L... |
4541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt-in%20timecode | Burnt-in timecode | Burnt-in timecode (often abbreviated to BITC by analogy to VITC) is a human-readable on-screen version of the timecode information for a piece of material superimposed on a video image. BITC is sometimes used in conjunction with "real" machine-readable timecode, but more often used in copies of original material on to ... |
4542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket%20notation | Bra–ket notation | In quantum mechanics, bra–ket notation, or Dirac notation, is used ubiquitously to denote quantum states. The notation uses angle brackets, and , and a vertical bar , to construct "bras" and "kets".
A ket is of the form . Mathematically it denotes a vector, , in an abstract (complex) vector space , and physically it ... |
4543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue | Blue | Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional color theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometre... |
4544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20Willie%20McTell | Blind Willie McTell | Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues. Unlike his contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string guitars exclusive... |
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