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4906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20sheet | Beta sheet | The beta sheet, (β-sheet) (also β-pleated sheet) is a common motif of the regular protein secondary structure. Beta sheets consist of beta strands (β-strands) connected laterally by at least two or three backbone hydrogen bonds, forming a generally twisted, pleated sheet. A β-strand is a stretch of polypeptide chain ty... |
3972882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20Navy | Bulgarian Navy | The Bulgarian Navy () is the navy of the Republic of Bulgaria and forms part of the Bulgarian Armed Forces. It has been largely overlooked in the reforms that Bulgaria had to go through in order to comply with NATO standards, mostly because of the great expense involved and the fact that naval assaults are not consider... |
4910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl | Beryl | Beryl ( ) is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2Si6O18. Well-known varieties of beryl include emerald and aquamarine. Naturally occurring, hexagonal crystals of beryl can be up to several meters in size, but terminated crystals are relatively rare. Pure beryl is col... |
4911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel | Basel | Basel ( , ) or Basle ( ; ; ; ) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine, located on the borders with France and Germany. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 175,000 inhabitants. The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, ... |
4913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Russian | Black Russian | The Black Russian is a cocktail of vodka and coffee liqueur. It contains 50 ml vodka and 20 ml coffee liqueur, per IBA specified ingredients.
The drink is made by pouring the vodka and coffee liqueur over ice cubes or cracked ice in an old-fashioned glass and stirring. The Black Russian is often garnished with a lemo... |
4914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRP | BRP | BRP can mean:
Basic Role-Playing game system
Biometric Residence Permit, a type of card in lieu of visa which allows a non-British citizen to work & reside in the UK.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Bombardier Recreational Products, Canadian company
Brief reactive psychosis
British Racing Partnership, former British motor rac... |
4915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnies%20%26%20Burrows | Bunnies & Burrows | Bunnies & Burrows (B&B) is a role-playing game (RPG) inspired by the 1972 novel Watership Down. Published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, the game centered on intelligent rabbits. It introduced several innovations to role-playing game design, being the first game to allow players to have non-humanoid roles, and the... |
4916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundaberg%20Rum | Bundaberg Rum | Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum produced in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia, by the Bundaberg Distilling Company. In 2010, the Bundaberg Distilling Company was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.
History
Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had... |
4917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Nevis | Ben Nevis | Ben Nevis ( ; ) is the highest mountain in Scotland and the British Isles. The summit is above sea level and is the highest land in any direction for . Ben Nevis stands at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Highland region of Lochaber, close to the town of Fort William.
The mountain is a popular destin... |
4918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar%20I%20disorder | Bipolar I disorder | Bipolar I disorder (BD-I; pronounced "type one bipolar disorder") is a type of bipolar spectrum disorder characterized by the occurrence of at least one manic episode, with or without mixed or psychotic features. Most people also, at other times, have one or more depressive episodes, and all experience a hypomanic stag... |
4921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi | Bacardi | Bacardi Limited (; ) is one of the largest privately held, family-owned spirits companies in the world. Originally known for its eponymous Bacardi white rum, it now has a portfolio of more than 200 brands and labels. Founded in Cuba in 1862 and family-owned for seven generations, Bacardi Limited employs more than 7,000... |
4922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20and%20Tans | Black and Tans | The Black and Tans () were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence. Recruitment began in Great Britain in January 1920 and about 10,000 men enlisted during the conflict. The vast majority were unemployed former British soldiers from Britain who... |
4924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen%20burner | Bunsen burner | A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.
The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture. Combus... |
4925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20whale | Blue whale | The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of and weighing up to , it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can be of various shades of greyish-blue dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath.
The S... |
4927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks | Bolsheviks | The Bolsheviks (, from большинство bolshinstvo, 'majority'), also known in English as the Bolshevists, were a far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that split with the Mensheviks from the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), a revolutionary socialist political party formed... |
4928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20%C5%9Awiecino | Battle of Świecino | The Battle of Świecino (named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Die Schlacht bei Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years' War. The Polish forces, commanded by Piotr Dunin and consisting of some 2,000 mercenarie... |
4930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20Bubbles | Barney Bubbles | Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher; 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983) was an English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction. Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British indepen... |
4933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackridge%2C%20Pennsylvania | Blackridge, Pennsylvania | Blackridge is a community in eastern Allegheny County and is a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This community consists of about 650 private homes built from 1920 to 1949. Blackridge Estates was and remains one of the area's largest residential communities.
Blackridge lies in the municipalities of Wilkinsburg, Penn... |
4934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20English | Basic English | Basic English (British American Scientific International and Commercial English) is an English-based controlled language created by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language. Basic English is, in essence, a simplified subs... |
4937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BND | BND | BND may refer to:
Organisations
Federal Intelligence Service (Germany) (), the foreign intelligence agency of Germany
Bank of North Dakota, a state-owned and -run financial institution, based in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
Belleville News-Democrat, a newspaper in Belleville, Illinois, USA
Bulgarian New Democracy (... |
4940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass%20instrument | Brass instrument | A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones or labrophones, from Latin and Greek elements meaning 'lip' and 'sound'.
There are several factors invo... |
4941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20libel | Blood libel | Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canard which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christian boys (or other gentiles) in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. Historically, echoing very old myths of secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societie... |
4942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpuss | Bagpuss | Bagpuss is a British children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of 13 episodes was first broadcast from Tuesday 12 February to Tuesday 7 May 1974. The title character was "a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Although onl... |
4944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive%20set%20theory | Naive set theory | Naive set theory is any of several theories of sets used in the discussion of the foundations of mathematics.
Unlike axiomatic set theories, which are defined using formal logic, naive set theory is defined informally, in natural language. It describes the aspects of mathematical sets familiar in discrete mathematics (... |
4946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathy%20voice | Breathy voice | Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound. A simple breathy phonation, (not actually a fricative consonant, as a... |
4947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zout%27s%20identity | Bézout's identity | In mathematics, Bézout's identity (also called Bézout's lemma), named after Étienne Bézout, is the following theorem:
Here the greatest common divisor of and is taken to be . The integers or polynomials and are called Bézout coefficients for ; they are not unique. A pair of Bézout coefficients can be computed by t... |
4948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banacek | Banacek | Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows, but was the only one of them to last beyond its first season.
Premise
P... |
4949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Angels | Blue Angels | The Blue Angels is a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy. Formed in 1946, the unit is the second oldest formal aerobatic team (under the same name) in the world, after the French formed in 1931. The team, composed of five Navy and one Marine Corps demonstration pilot, fly Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet... |
4950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20again | Born again | Born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is distinctly and separately caused by baptism in the Holy Spirit, it is not caused by baptism in ... |
4952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell%20B-1%20Lancer | Rockwell B-1 Lancer | The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers serving in the U.S. Air Force fleet along with the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress .
The B-1 was first envisioned i... |
4953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Common%20Prayer | Book of Common Prayer | Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign of King Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation followin... |
4955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokken | Bokken | A bokken (, , "wood", and ken, "sword") (or a bokutō ) is a Japanese wooden sword used for training in kenjutsu. It is usually the size and shape of a katana, but is sometimes shaped like other swords, such as the wakizashi and tantō. Some ornamental bokken are decorated with mother-of-pearl work and elaborate carvings... |
4957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMI | BMI | BMI may refer to:
Companies and organizations
BMI Foundation, founded by Broadcast Music Incorporated
BMI Healthcare, UK
BMI Film & TV Awards
BMI Research, a research firm
Flybmi airline, formerly BMI Regional and a BMI mainline subsidiary
Bmibaby.com, former airline, BMI subsidiary
British Midland Internationa... |
4959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA | BSA | BSA may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Basketball South Africa
Bearing Specialists Association
Belarusian Socialist Assembly
Bibliographical Society of America
Birmingham Small Arms Company, UK manufacturer of firearms and vehicles
Black Socialists in America
Boston Society of Architects
Botanical Soc... |
4960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20Small%20Arms%20Company | Birmingham Small Arms Company | The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard ch... |
4961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril | Bovril | Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick and salty meat extract paste similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston. It is sold in a distinctive bulbous jar, and as cubes and granules. Bovril is owned and distributed by Unilever UK. Its appearance is similar to Marmite and Vegemite.
Bov... |
4963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20D.%20Santer | Benjamin D. Santer | Benjamin David Santer (born June 3, 1955) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. He also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology from 1987 to 1992. He specializes mainly in statistical analysis of clim... |
4964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%20number | Bernoulli number | In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers which occur frequently in analysis. The Bernoulli numbers appear in (and can be defined by) the Taylor series expansions of the tangent and hyperbolic tangent functions, in Faulhaber's formula for the sum of m-th powers of the first n positive in... |
4965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20Bobble | Bubble Bobble | is a 1986 platform arcade game developed and published by Taito. It was distributed in the United States by Romstar, and in Europe by Electrocoin. Players control Bub and Bob, two dragons that set out to save their girlfriends from a world known as the Cave of Monsters. In each level, Bub and Bob must defeat each enemy... |
4967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood%20convention | Blackwood convention | In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a bidding convention developed by Easley Blackwood in 1933 and still widely used in the modern game. Its purpose is to enable the partnership to explore its possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps to judge whether a sl... |
4969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Bixby | Bill Bixby | Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) professionally known stage name as Bill Bixby, was an American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panelist.
Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series. He is k... |
4971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boers | Boers | Boers ( ; ) are the descendants of the Dutch-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled this area, but the United Kingdom incorporated it into the British Empire in 1806. The name of the gro... |
4972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze%20Star%20Medal | Bronze Star Medal | The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.
When the medal is awarded by the Army, Air Force, or Space Force for acts of valor... |
4973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballarat | Ballarat | Ballarat () is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. In 2020, Ballarat had a population of 109,553, making it the third-largest city in Victoria.
Within months of Victoria separating from the colony of New South Wales in 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, sparking the Victorian gold rush. Balla... |
4975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Abritus | Battle of Abritus | The Battle of Abritus, also known as the Battle of Forum Terebronii, occurred near Abritus (modern Razgrad) in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior in the summer of 251. It was fought between the Romans and a federation of Gothic and Scythian tribesmen under the Gothic king Cniva. The Roman army of three legions was s... |
4978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Berestechko | Battle of Berestechko | The Battle of Berestechko (; ) was fought between the Ukrainian Cossacks, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, aided by their Crimean Tatar allies, and a Polish army under King John II Casimir. It was a battle of a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine that took place in the years 1648–1657 after the expiration of a two-year truce... |
4980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan%20Khmelnytsky | Bohdan Khmelnytsky | Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богдан Хмелнiцкiи; modern ; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654)... |
4982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Bova | Ben Bova | Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, six-time winner of the Hugo Award, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, an editorial director of Omni; he was also preside... |
4986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Okinawa | Battle of Okinawa | The , codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps (USMC) forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of Wor... |
4987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20El%20Alamein | Battle of El Alamein | There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942. The Battles occurred in North Africa, in Egypt, in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein.
First Battle of El Alamein: 1–27 July 1942
Second Battle of El Alamein: 23 October – 4 November 1942
In addition, the Battle ... |
4988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev%20Doctrine | Brezhnev Doctrine | The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed any threat to socialist rule in any state of the Soviet bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to them all, and therefore justified the intervention of fellow socialist states. It was proclaimed in order to justify the Soviet-led occupation of C... |
4990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain-marie | Bain-marie | A bain-marie (; also known as a water bath or double boiler), a type of heated bath, is a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently or to keep materials warm over a period of time. A bain-marie is also used to melt ingredients for cooking.
History
The name comes from the medi... |
4992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian | Belgian | Belgian may refer to:
Something of, or related to, Belgium
Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent
Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German
Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language formerly spoken in Gallia Belgica
Belgian Dutch or Flemish, a variant of Du... |
4994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballu%20tundu | Ballu tundu | Ballu tundu or ballu sardu is a traditional Sardinian folk dance which is typically danced in a closed or open circle. The dance was described as early as 1805 by Mameli and by La Marmora in 1825. In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied b... |
4995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbagia | Barbagia | Barbagia (; or ) is a geographical, cultural and natural region of inner Sardinia, contained for the most part in the province of Nuoro and located alongside the Gennargentu massif.
The name comes from Cicero, who described the land as inhabited by barbarians (Barbaria, Βαρβαρία in Ancient Greek); Roman domination ov... |
4996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham | Brabham | Brabham is the common name for Motor Racing Developments Ltd., a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by Australian driver Jack Brabham and British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four Drivers' and two Constructors' World Championships in its 30-year Formula One h... |
4997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20B-17%20Flying%20Fortress | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry (prototype Model 299/XB-17) outperformed both competitors and exceeded the Air Corps' performance... |
5001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste%20%28bathyscaphe%29 | Trieste (bathyscaphe) | Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe which reached a record depth of about in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench near Guam in the Pacific. On 23 January 1960, Jacques Piccard (son of the boat's designer Auguste Piccard) and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh achieved the goal o... |
5003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Bouvines | Battle of Bouvines | The Battle of Bouvines was fought on 27 July 1214 near the town of Bouvines in the County of Flanders. It was the concluding battle of the Anglo-French War of 1213–1214. A French army of approximately 7,000 men commanded by King Philip Augustus defeated an Allied army of approximately 9,000 men commanded by Holy Roman ... |
5008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Actium | Battle of Actium | The Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought between a maritime fleet led by Octavian and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII Philopator. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea, near the former Roman colony of Actium, Greece, and was the climax of over a decade of rivalry b... |
5009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish | Zebrafish | The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes. Native to South Asia, it is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio (and thus often called a "tropical fish" although both tropical and subtropical). It is also foun... |
5011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance | Balance | Balance or balancing may refer to:
Common meanings
Balance (ability) in biomechanics
Balance (accounting)
Balance or weighing scale
Arts and entertainment
Film
Balance (1983 film), a Bulgarian film
Balance (1989 film), a short animated film
La Balance, a 1982 French film
Television
Balance: Television for Li... |
5013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Adwa | Battle of Adwa | The Battle of Adwa (; ; , also spelled Adowa) was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of... |
5014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistability | Bistability | In a dynamical system, bistability means the system has two stable equilibrium states. Something that is bistable can be resting in either of two states. An example of a mechanical device which is bistable is a light switch. The switch lever is designed to rest in the "on" or "off" position, but not between the two. ... |
5015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn%20Lomborg | Bjørn Lomborg | Bjørn Lomborg (; born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book, The Skeptical Enviro... |
5020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda%20Islands | Banda Islands | The Banda Islands () are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java, and constitute an administrative district (kecamatan) within the Central Maluku Regency in the Indonesian province of Maluku. The islands rise out of deep ocean and have a tot... |
5025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane%20Broncos | Brisbane Broncos | The Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club Ltd., commonly referred to as the Broncos, are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. Founded in April 1988, the Broncos play in Australia's elite competition, the National Rugby League ... |
5026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane%20Lions | Brisbane Lions | The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).
The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Fitzroy Lions Football Club and the Brisbane Bears. The club's colours of maroon, gold and blue are drawn from both... |
5030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody%20Sunday%20%281972%29 | Bloody Sunday (1972) | Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his inj... |
5031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20of%20Querfurt | Bruno of Querfurt | Bruno of Querfurt ( 974 – 14 February or 9/14 March 1009 AD), also known as Brun and Boniface, was a Christian missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania for trying to spread Christianity. He is also called the second "Apostle of the Prussians".
Biography
Early life
Br... |
5033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%20Diddley | Bo Diddley | Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Bates; December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling S... |
5034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela%20Lugosi | Bela Lugosi | Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), known professionally as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian-American actor best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film, Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956.
Lugosi began actin... |
5035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%20of%20the%20Monster | Bride of the Monster | Bride of the Monster is a 1955 American science fiction horror film, co-written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood Jr., and starring Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson with a supporting cast featuring Tony McCoy and Loretta King.
The film is considered to have Wood's biggest budget ($70,000). Production commenced in 19... |
5036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry%20paradox | Berry paradox | The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a phrase with fifty-seven letters).
Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's... |
5038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Olympic%20medalists%20in%20biathlon | List of Olympic medalists in biathlon | This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in biathlon.
Medalists in military patrol, a precursor to biathlon, are listed separately.
Men
The numbers in brackets denotes biathletes who won gold medal in corresponding disciplines more than one time. Bold numbers denotes record number of victories in certain discip... |
5039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon%20World%20Championships | Biathlon World Championships | The first Biathlon World Championships (BWCH) was held in 1958, with individual and team contests for men. The number of events has grown significantly over the years. Beginning in 1984, women biathletes had their own World Championships, and finally, from 1989, both genders have been participating in joint Biathlon Wo... |
5040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia | Inedia | Inedia (Latin for 'fasting') or breatharianism () is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water. It is a deadly pseudoscience and several adherents of these practices have died from starvation or dehydration. Multiple cases where this practice was attempted have resulted in... |
5041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bihar (disambiguation) | Bihar is a state in India.
Bihar may also refer to:
Places
India
Bihar Province, former colonial province in British India
Bihar Subah, a Bihar-based Mughal imperial province
Bihar Sharif, headquarters of Nalanda district, Bihar, India
Bihar River, a border river of Palamu district, Jharkhand, India
Bihar, Unna... |
5046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast | Belfast | Belfast ( , elsewhere ; from , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom and the second-largest on the island of Ireland. It had a population of 343,542 . Belf... |
5047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotite | Biotite | Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula . It is primarily a solid-solution series between the iron-endmember annite, and the magnesium-endmember phlogopite; more aluminous end-members include siderophyllite and eastonite. Biotite was regarded as... |
5048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham%20Young | Brigham Young | Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvo... |
5049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns%20supper | Burns supper | A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), the author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, known as Burns Night (; ; also called Robert Burns Day or Rabbie Burns Day). However, in principle, ce... |
5050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Bryson | Bill Bryson | William McGuire Bryson (; born 8 December 1951) is an American–British author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other nonfiction topics. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the U.S. between 1995 and 2003, and holds dual American and... |
5051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Audio%20Dynamite | Big Audio Dynamite | Big Audio Dynamite (later known as Big Audio Dynamite II and Big Audio, and often abbreviated BAD) were an English band formed in London in 1984 by Mick Jones, the former guitarist and singer of The Clash. The band mixed various musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip hop, reggae, and funk... |
5052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley | Bentley | Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs, and a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group since 1998.
Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded as Bentley Motors Limited by W. O. Bentley in 1919 in Cricklewood, North London, and became widely known for winning the 2... |
5131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate | Chordate | A chordate () is an animal of the phylum Chordata (). All chordates possess 5 synapomorphies, or primary characteristics, at some point during their larval or adulthood stages that distinguish them from all other taxa. These 5 synapomorphies include a notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, endostyle or thyroid, pharyngea... |
5132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlize%20Theron | Charlize Theron | Charlize Theron ( ; ; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential... |
5134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess | Chess | Chess is a board game played between two players. It is sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi and shogi. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from chaturanga, a similar but m... |
5142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more ... |
5163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20Factbook | The World Factbook | The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the Government Printing Office. Other companies—such as Skyhorse Publishing—al... |
5165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country | Country | A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity. It may be an independent sovereign state or part of a larger state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, a physical territory with a government, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently ass... |
5166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen | Copenhagen | Copenhagen ( or .; ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. As of 1 January 2022, the city had a population of 805,402 (644,431 in Copenhagen Municipality, 103,608 in Frederiksberg Municipality, 42,723 in Tårnby Municipality, and 14,640 in Dragør Municipality). It forms the core of the wider urban area of... |
5170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics | Combinatorics | Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics and from evolutionary bio... |
5176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus | Calculus | Calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape, and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations.
It has two major branches, differential calculus and integra... |
5177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication | Communication | Communication (from Latin communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is "an apparent answer to the painful divisions between self and other, private and public, and inner thought and outer world." As this definition indicates, communication is difficult to define in a consistent manner, because it is ... |
5178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics | Classics | Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity, and in the Western world traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Latin literature and the related languages. It also includes Greco-Roman philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, art, mythology and society as secondary subjects. ... |
5180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry | Chemistry | Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds composed of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other substances... |
5184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasm | Cytoplasm | In cell biology, the cytoplasm is all of the material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus. The material inside the nucleus and contained within the nuclear membrane is termed the nucleoplasm. The main components of the cytoplasm are cytosol (a gel-like substance), the or... |
5185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20%28title%29 | Christ (title) | Christ, used by Christians as both a name and a title, is synonymous with Jesus. It is also used as a title, in the reciprocal use "Christ Jesus", meaning "the Messiah Jesus", and independently as "the Christ". The Pauline epistles, the earliest texts of the New Testament, often refer to Jesus as "Christ Jesus" or "Chr... |
5187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital | Capital | Capital most commonly refers to:
Capital letter, an upper-case letter in any type of writing
Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government
Capital (economics), a factor of production that is not wanted for itse... |
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