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4545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM | BDSM | BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves to be practising BDSM, inclusion in the... |
4547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash%20%28Unix%20shell%29 | Bash (Unix shell) | Bash is a Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell. First released in 1989, it has been used as the default login shell for most Linux distributions. A version is also available for Windows 10 via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It is ... |
4548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard | Blizzard | A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least and lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically three hours or more. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling but loose snow on the ground is lifted and blown by strong winds. Blizzards can have an immen... |
4550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini | Bikini | A bikini is a women's two-piece swimsuit featuring two triangles of fabric on top that cover the woman's breasts, and two triangles of fabric on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but exposing the navel, and the back covering the buttocks. The size of the top and bottom can vary, from bikinis that offer full cov... |
4551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babur | Babur | Babur (; 14 February 148326 December 1530), born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother respectively. He was also given the posthumous name of Firdaws Makani ('Dwelling in Paradise').
Of Chagata... |
4552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20of%20Clairvaux | Bernard of Clairvaux | Bernard of Clairvaux (; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was a Burgundian abbot and a major leader in the revitalization of Benedictine monasticism through the nascent Cistercian Order.
He was sent to found Clairvaux Abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe, about southeast ... |
4554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishkek | Bishkek | Bishkek (, ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of the region but rather a region-level unit of Kyrgyzstan. It is also near the Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzsta... |
4560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart | Braveheart | Braveheart is a 1995 American epic historical drama film directed and co-produced by Mel Gibson, who portrays Sir William Wallace, a late-13th-century Scottish warrior. The film depicts the life of Wallace leading the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England. The film also stars ... |
4561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Aldiss | Brian Aldiss | Brian Wilson Aldiss (; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
Greatly influenced by science fiction pion... |
4563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Jutland | Battle of Jutland | The Battle of Jutland (, the Battle of Skagerrak) was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during the First World War. The battle unfolded in extensive manoeuvring and three ma... |
4565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambara%20language | Bambara language | Bambara (Arabic script: ), also known as Bamana (N'Ko script: ) or Bamanankan (), is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 15 million people, natively by 5 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users. It is estimated that about 80 percent of the population of Mali speak B... |
4566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku | Baku | Baku (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern... |
4567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balalaika | Balalaika | The balalaika (, ) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the third string is a perfect fourth higher. The higher-pitched balalaikas are used to play melodies and chords. The instru... |
4568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20of%20China%20Tower%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 | Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) | The Bank of China Tower (BOC Tower) is a skyscraper located in Central, Hong Kong. Located at 1 Garden Road on Hong Kong Island, the tower houses the headquarters of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. One of the most recognisable landmarks in Hong Kong, the building is notable for its distinct shape and design, con... |
4569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20Lemon%20Jefferson | Blind Lemon Jefferson | Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer-songwriter and musician. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s and has been called the "Father of the Texas Blues".
Due mainly to his high-pitched voice and the originality of his gu... |
4571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku%20%28mythology%29 | Baku (mythology) | are Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares. According to legend, they were created by the spare pieces that were left over when the gods finished creating all other animals. They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in manga and anime.
The Japanese ... |
4572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard | Blackbeard | Edward Teach (alternatively spelled Edward Thatch, – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen A... |
4573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugzilla | Bugzilla | Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking system and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License.
Released as open-source software by Netscape Communications in 1998, it has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a bug track... |
4574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor | Bangor | Bangor may refer to:
Places
Australia
Bangor, New South Wales
Bangor, Tasmania
Canada
Bangor, Nova Scotia
Bangor, Saskatchewan
Bangor, Prince Edward Island
France
Bangor, Morbihan
Republic of Ireland
Bangor Erris, County Mayo
United Kingdom
Cornwall
Bangors, Cornwall, England
Northern Ireland
Bangor, Co... |
4575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad | Ballad | A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They we... |
4579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20%C3%96yster%20Cult | Blue Öyster Cult | Blue Öyster Cult ( ; sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed in Stony Brook, New York, in 1967, best known for the singles "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Burnin' for You", and "Godzilla". They have sold 25 million records worldwide, including seven million in the United States alone. The band's ... |
4580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20Park%20City | Battery Park City | Battery Park City is a mainly residential planned community and neighborhood on the west side of the southern tip of the island of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by the Hudson River on the west, the Hudson River shoreline on the north and south, and the West Side Highway on the east. The neighborhood is nam... |
4581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20vaginosis | Bacterial vaginosis | Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a disease of the vagina caused by excessive growth of bacteria. Common symptoms include increased vaginal discharge that often smells like fish. The discharge is usually white or gray in color. Burning with urination may occur. Itching is uncommon. Occasionally, there may be no symptoms. Hav... |
4582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud%20Selig | Bud Selig | Allan Huber "Bud" Selig (; born July 30, 1934) is an American baseball executive who currently serves as the Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball. Previously, he served as the ninth Commissioner of Baseball. He initially served as the acting commissioner beginning in 1992 before being named the official commissioner in 19... |
4583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison | Bison | Bison are large bovines in the genus Bison within the tribe Bovini. Two extant species and numerous extinct species are recognised.
Of the two surviving species, the American bison, B. bison, found only in North America, is the more numerous. Although colloquially referred to as a buffalo in the United States and Cana... |
4584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon | Baryon | In particle physics, a baryon is a type of composite subatomic particle which contains an odd number of valence quarks (at least 3). Baryons belong to the hadron family of particles; hadrons are composed of quarks. Baryons are also classified as fermions because they have half-integer spin.
The name "baryon", introduc... |
4589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille%20embosser | Braille embosser | A braille embosser is an impact printer that renders text as tactile braille cells. Using braille translation software, a document or digital text can be embossed with relative ease. This makes braille production efficient and cost-effective. Braille translation software may be free and open-sourced or paid.
Blind use... |
4592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20Role-Playing | Basic Role-Playing | Basic Role-Playing (BRP) is a tabletop role-playing game which originated in the RuneQuest fantasy role-playing game. Chaosium released the BRP standalone booklet in 1980 in the boxed set release of the second edition of RuneQuest. Greg Stafford and Lynn Willis are credited as the authors. Chaosium used the percentile ... |
4594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20cipher | Block cipher | In cryptography, a block cipher is a deterministic algorithm operating on fixed-length groups of bits, called blocks. They are specified elementary components in the design of many cryptographic protocols and are widely used to the encryption of large amounts of data, including data exchange protocols. It uses blocks ... |
4595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20broadband | Wireless broadband | Wireless broadband is telecommunications technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area. The term comprises both fixed and mobile broadband.
The term broadband
Originally the word "broadband" had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind ... |
4601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn%20Borg | Björn Borg | Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles (six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimbledon), but he never won the US Open despite four finals appearances. He is the fir... |
4603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booch%20method | Booch method | The Booch method is a method for object-oriented software development. It is composed of an object modeling language, an iterative object-oriented development process, and a set of recommended practices.
The method was authored by Grady Booch when he was working for Rational Software (acquired by IBM), published in 1... |
4606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Nile | Battle of the Nile | The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; ) was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt from the 1st to the 3rd of August 1798. The battle was the climax of a naval campaig... |
4607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnabas | Barnabas | Barnabas (; Aramaic: ܒܪܢܒܐ; Greek: Βαρνάβας), born Joseph (Ἰωσήφ) or Joses (Ἰωσής), was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Named an apostle in , he and Paul the Apostle undertook missionary journeys togeth... |
4608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birka | Birka | Birka (Birca in medieval sources), on the island of Björkö (lit. "Birch Island") in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia and Finland as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient. Björkö is located in Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers west of contemporary... |
4609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-lactamase | Beta-lactamase | Beta-lactamases are enzymes () produced by bacteria that provide multi-resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillins, cephalosporins, cephamycins, monobactams and carbapenems (ertapenem), although carbapenems are relatively resistant to beta-lactamase. Beta-lactamase provides antibiotic resistance by breaki... |
4611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhanuddin%20Rabbani | Burhanuddin Rabbani | Burhānuddīn Rabbānī (Persian: ; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011) was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 2001 (in exile from 1996 to 2001).
Born in the Badakhshan Province, Rabbani studied at Kabul University and worked there as a professor of Islamic theology. He... |
4614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20747 | Boeing 747 | The Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States.
After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30% to democratize air travel. In 1965, Joe Sutter left the 737 development... |
4615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Agincourt | Battle of Agincourt | The Battle of Agincourt ( ; ) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France. The unexpected English victory against the numerically superior French army boosted English morale and prestige, crippled France and started a new ... |
4616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundian | Burgundian | Burgundian can refer to any of the following:
Someone from Burgundy.
Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe, who first appear in history in South East Europe. Later Burgundians colonised the area of Gaul that is now known as Burgundy (French Bourgogne)
The Old Burgundian language (Germanic), an East Germanic language spo... |
4620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze%20Age | Bronze Age | The Bronze Age is a historic period, approximately 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE, that was characterized by the use of bronze, in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age Stone-Bronze-Iron system, as proposed in 1836 by Christian Jür... |
4621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20News%20%28TV%20channel%29 | BBC News (TV channel) | BBC News (also known as the BBC News Channel) is a British free-to-air television news channel. It was launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 5:30pm as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989. For a time, loop... |
4622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Oddie | Bill Oddie | William Edgar Oddie (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, comedian, songwriter, musician, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies.
A birder since his childhood in Quinton, Birmingham, Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservatio... |
4626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway%20%28Manhattan%29 | Broadway (Manhattan) | Broadway () is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Broadway runs from State Street at Bowling Green for through the borough of Manhattan and through the Bronx, exiting north from New York City to run an additional through the Westchester County municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington,... |
4628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear%20transform | Bilinear transform | The bilinear transform (also known as Tustin's method) is used in digital signal processing and discrete-time control theory to transform continuous-time system representations to discrete-time and vice versa.
The bilinear transform is a special case of a conformal mapping (namely, a Möbius transformation), often used... |
4631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Boitano | Brian Boitano | Brian Anthony Boitano (born October 22, 1963) is an American figure skater from Sunnyvale, California. He is the 1988 Olympic champion, the 1986 and 1988 World Champion, and the 1985–1988 U.S. National Champion. He turned professional following the 1988 season. He returned to competition in 1993 and competed at the 199... |
4633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20political%20scandals%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | List of political scandals in the United Kingdom | This is a list of political scandals in the United Kingdom in chronological order. Scandals implicating political figures or governments of the UK, often reported in the mass media, have long had repercussions for their popularity. Issues in political scandals have included alleged or proven financial and sexual matter... |
4635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier%20Inc. | Bombardier Inc. | Bombardier Inc. () is a Canadian business jet manufacturer. It was also formerly a manufacturer of commercial jets, public transport vehicles, trains, and recreational vehicles, with the last being spun-off as Bombardier Recreational Products. The company originally produced snowmobiles, over the years it expanded into... |
4636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break%20key | Break key | The Break key (or the symbol ⎉) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a telegraph circuit and originated with 19th century practice. In modern usage, the key has no well-defined purpose, but while this is the case, it can be used by software for miscellaneous tasks, such as to switch between multiple login sessions... |
4640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogie | Bogie | A bogie ( ) (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of transport. A bogie may remain normally attached (as on many railroad cars and semi-trail... |
4641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Steel%20%281967%E2%80%931999%29 | British Steel (1967–1999) | British Steel was a major British steel producer. It originated from the nationalised British Steel Corporation (BSC), formed in 1967, which was privatised as a public limited company, British Steel plc, in 1988. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company merged with Koninklijke Hoogovens to form Coru... |
4642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT%20Group | BT Group | BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broadband and mobile services in the UK, and also provides subscription televisio... |
4644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmoral%20Castle | Balmoral Castle | Balmoral Castle () is a large estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, owned by Queen Elizabeth II. It is near the village of Crathie, west of Ballater and west of Aberdeen.
Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British royal family since 1852, when the estate and its original castle were bou... |
4647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton%20language | Breton language | Breton (, ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken in Brittany, modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still in use on the European mainland.
Breton was brought from Great Britain to Armorica (the ancient name for the coastal region that includes the Br... |
4648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broch | Broch | A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s. Their origin is a matter of some controversy.
Origin and definition
The word broch is derived from Lowland Scots 'brough', meani... |
4649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Crystal | Billy Crystal | William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, and writer. He gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s for television roles as Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and as a cast member and frequent host of Saturday Night Live. Crystal then became a Hollywood film star du... |
4650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20hole | Black hole | A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing — no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light — can escape from it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the... |
4651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20decay | Beta decay | In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron) is emitted from an atomic nucleus, transforming the original nuclide to an isobar of that nuclide. For example, beta decay of a neutron transforms it into a proton by the emission of an... |
4652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg | Blitzkrieg | Blitzkrieg ( , ; from 'lightning' + 'war') is a military doctrine in which a surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations, together with close air support, has the intent to break through the opponent's lines of defense, t... |
4653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beano | The Beano | The Beano (formerly The Beano Comic, also known as Beano) is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Its first issue was published on 30 July 1938, and it became the world's longest-running comic issued weekly in 2018, publishing its 4000th issue in August 2019. Popular and... |
4654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee | Bee | Bees are insects with wings closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila. There a... |
4660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basques | Basques | The Basques ( or ; ; ; ) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians. Basques are indigenous to and primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country (), a region that is located... |
4661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blot | Blot | Blot may refer to:
Surname
Guillaume Blot (born 1985), French racing cyclist
Harold W. Blot (born 1938), served as United States Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation
Jean-François Joseph Blot (1781–1857), French soldier and politician
Yvan Blot (1948–2018), French conservative political figure, founder and president of... |
4662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookkeeping | Bookkeeping | Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business and other organizations. It involves preparing source documents for all transactions, operations, and other events of a business. Transactions include purchases, sales, receipts and payments by an individual per... |
4664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier%20curve | Bézier curve | A Bézier curve ( ) is a parametric curve used in computer graphics and related fields. A set of discrete "control points" defines a smooth, continuous curve by means of a formula. Usually the curve is intended to approximate a real-world shape that otherwise has no mathematical representation or whose representation is... |
4665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%20algebra | Banach algebra | In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a Banach algebra, named after Stefan Banach, is an associative algebra A over the real or complex numbers (or over a non-Archimedean complete normed field) that at the same time is also a Banach space, that is, a normed space that is complete in the metric induced by the ... |
4667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Pasternak | Boris Pasternak | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; ; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Sch... |
4668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20coefficient | Binomial coefficient | In mathematics, the binomial coefficients are the positive integers that occur as coefficients in the binomial theorem. Commonly, a binomial coefficient is indexed by a pair of integers and is written It is the coefficient of the term in the polynomial expansion of the binomial power , and is given by the formula
F... |
4669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Holbrook | Bill Holbrook | Bill Holbrook (born 1958) is an American cartoonist and webcomic writer and artist, best known for his syndicated comic strip On the Fastrack.
Born in Los Angeles, Holbrook grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and began drawing at an early age. While majoring in illustration and visual design at Auburn University, Holbrook... |
4670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Campbell | Bruce Campbell | Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is known for portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise, beginning with the 1978 short film Within the Woods. He has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundow... |
4671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron%20Aberdare | Baron Aberdare | Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 August 1873 for the Liberal politician Henry Bruce. He served as Home Secretary from 1868 to 1873. His grandson, the third Baron, was a soldier, cricketer and tennis player and a member of the In... |
4673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20band | Boy band | A boy band or boy group is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation, singing love songs marketed towards girls. Many boy bands dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances.
Some such bands ... |
4674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree | B-tree | In computer science, a B-tree is a self-balancing tree data structure that maintains sorted data and allows searches, sequential access, insertions, and deletions in logarithmic time. The B-tree generalizes the binary search tree, allowing for nodes with more than two children. Unlike other self-balancing binary search... |
4675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Museum | British Museum | The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British ... |
4676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody%20Sunday | Bloody Sunday | Bloody Sunday may refer to:
Historical events
Bloody Sunday (1887), a police and military attack on a demonstration in London against British rule in Ireland
Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa
Bloody Sunday (1905), a massacre in Saint Petersburg that led to the 1905... |
4677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20theorem | Binomial theorem | In elementary algebra, the binomial theorem (or binomial expansion) describes the algebraic expansion of powers of a binomial. According to the theorem, it is possible to expand the polynomial into a sum involving terms of the form , where the exponents and are nonnegative integers with , and the coefficient of eac... |
4680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa | Balboa | Balboa may refer to:
Boats
Balboa 16, an American sailboat design
Balboa 20, an American sailboat design
Balboa 21, an American sailboat design
Balboa 22, an American sailboat design
Balboa 23, an American sailboat design
Balboa 24, an American sailboat design
Places
Balboa, Cauca, a town and municipality in ... |
4681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20Day | Boxing Day | Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December). Though it originated as a holiday to give gifts to the poor, today Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday. It originated in Great Britain and is celebrated in a number of countries that previ... |
4687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan%2C%20Pakistan | Balochistan, Pakistan | Balochistan (; ; ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. It is the largest province in terms of land area, forming the southwestern region of the country, but is the least populated. Its provincial capital and largest city is Quetta.
Balochistan shares borders with Punjab and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the northeas... |
4688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20M.%20Tweed | William M. Tweed | William Magear Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), often erroneously referred to as "William Marcy Tweed" (see below), and widely known as "Boss" Tweed, was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19... |
4689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balsall%20Heath | Balsall Heath | Balsall Heath is an inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It has a diverse cultural mix of people and is the location of the Balti Triangle.
History
Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.... |
4690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunge%20%26%20Born | Bunge & Born | Bunge & Born was a multinational corporation based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose diverse interests included food processing and international trade in grains and oilseeds. It is now known as Bunge Limited.
History
Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had be... |
4691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Apple | Big Apple | "The Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities.
Origin of the name
Although the history of Big... |
4692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Corbett | Boston Corbett | Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett (January 29, 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894) was a Union Army soldier who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett was initially arrested for disobeying orders, but was later released on the orders of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who referre... |
4693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber%20languages | Berber languages | The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages ( ; Berber name: , , ; , , ), are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by the Berbers, who are indigenous to North Africa. The languages were traditionally written with the ancient Libyco-Berber s... |
4695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor.
Bankrupt is not the only legal status that an insolvent person may have... |
4699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols | Blissymbols | Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. Blissymbols differ from most of the world's... |
4700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel%20function | Bessel function | Bessel functions, first defined by the mathematician Daniel Bernoulli and then generalized by Friedrich Bessel, are canonical solutions of Bessel's differential equation
for an arbitrary complex number , the order of the Bessel function. Although and produce the same differential equation, it is conventional to def... |
4701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacking | Backpacking | Backpacking may refer to:
Backpacking (travel), low-cost, independent, international travel
Backpacking (hiking), trekking and camping overnight in the wilderness
Ultralight backpacking, a style of wilderness backpacking with an emphasis on carrying as little as possible
See also
Hiking
Backpacking with animals, ... |
4702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahui%20language | Brahui language | Brahui (; ) is a northern Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Brahui people in the central part of Balochistan Province, in Pakistan and in scattered parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan and by expatriate Brahui communities in Iraq, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. It is isolated from the nearest Dravidian... |
4706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20DB | Berkeley DB | Berkeley DB (BDB) is a software library intended to provide a high-performance embedded database for key/value data. Berkeley DB is written in C with API bindings for C++, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, Tcl, and many other programming languages. BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, and sup... |
4715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20satisfiability%20problem | Boolean satisfiability problem | In logic and computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (sometimes called propositional satisfiability problem and abbreviated SATISFIABILITY, SAT or B-SAT) is the problem of determining if there exists an interpretation that satisfies a given Boolean formula. In other words, it asks whether the variables of ... |
4717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Jones%20University | Bob Jones University | Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private, non-denominational evangelical university in Greenville, South Carolina, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions. The university, with approximately 2,500 students, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS... |
4721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Empire | British Empire | The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries.
At its height... |
4726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%20%281989%20film%29 | Batman (1989 film) | Batman is a 1989 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Produced by Jon Peters and Peter Guber, it is the first installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series. The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle... |
4727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%20%281966%20film%29 | Batman (1966 film) | Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) is a 1966 American superhero film based on the Batman television series, and the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character Batman. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. The film hit theaters two months... |
4728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%20Returns | Batman Returns | Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Denise Di Novi and Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman. The sequel to the 1989 film Batman, it is the second installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, and stars Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alon... |
4729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%20%26%20Robin%20%28film%29 | Batman & Robin (film) | Batman & Robin is a 1997 American superhero film based on the DC Comics characters Batman and Robin. It is the fourth and final installment of Warner Bros.'s initial Batman film series, a sequel to Batman Forever and the only film in the series made without the involvement of Tim Burton in any capacity. Directed by Joe... |
4730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%20Forever | Batman Forever | Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman. The third installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, it is a sequel to the 1992 film Batman Returns, starring Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne... |
4731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%3A%20Year%20One | Batman: Year One | Batman: Year One is an American comic book story arc written by Frank Miller and illustrated by David Mazzucchelli. Year One was originally published by DC Comics in Batman #404–407 in 1987. There have been several reprints of the story: a hardcover, multiple trade paperbacks, several deluxe editions in hardcover and ... |
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