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Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). Most water, including drinking water, has a neutral pH that exists between 6.5 and 8.5, but acid rain has a pH level lower than this and ranges from 4–5 on average. The more acid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20rain |
In church history, the term (from Ancient Greek: , "headless", singular from , "without", and , "head") has been applied to several sects that supposedly had no leader. E. Cobham Brewer wrote, in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, that acephalites, "properly means men without a head." Jean Cooper wrote, in Dictionar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acephali |
Anthony of Saxony (; 27 December 1755 – 6 June 1836) was a King of Saxony from the House of Wettin. He became known as Anton der Gütige ("Anthony the Kind").
He was the fifth but third surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony and his wife Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria.
Early life
With few chances to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%2C%20King%20of%20Saxony |
Albert III () (27 January 144312 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony. He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
Biography
Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son (but fifth child in order of birth) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20III%2C%20Duke%20of%20Saxony |
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father, Woody Guthrie. Guthrie's best-known work is his debut piece, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo%20Guthrie |
The Book of Alma: The Son of Alma (), usually referred to as the Book of Alma, is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The title refers to Alma the Younger, a prophet and "chief judge" of the Nephites. Alma is the longest book in the Book of Mormon and consists of sixty-three chapters, taking up almost a t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Alma |
Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals. Autoxidation leads to degradation of organic compounds, including living matter. Antioxidants are frequently added to industrial products, such as polymers, fuels, and lubricants, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant |
Brass is an alloy of copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn), in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic, and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion. In use since prehistoric times, it is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass |
Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. It has a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. It is a un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn |
Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.
Ballroom dance may refer, at its widest definition, to almost any recreati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballroom%20dance |
The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Birth%20of%20a%20Nation |
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. It is a shelf sea and marginal sea of the Atlantic wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Sea |
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish%20water |
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx has a land ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bronx |
BearShare was a peer-to-peer-file-sharing-application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. for Microsoft Windows and also a rebranded version of iMesh by MusicLab, LLC, tightly integrated with their music subscription service.
History
The principal operators of Free Peers, Inc. were Vincent Falco and Louis Tatta. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BearShare |
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium |
BLM most commonly refers to:
Black Lives Matter, an international anti-racism movement and organization
Bureau of Land Management, a U.S. federal government agency
BLM may also refer to:
Organizations
BLM (law firm), United Kingdom and Ireland
Blue Lives Matter, an American pro-police movement
Black Lives Matter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLM |
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues |
Bluegrass or Blue Grass may refer to:
Plants
Bluegrass (grass), several species of grasses of the genus Poa
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), one well-known species of the genus
Arts and media
Bluegrass music, a form of American roots music
Bluegrass (Sirius), a bluegrass music satellite radio channel
Bluegrass ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass |
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and conti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin |
Benjamin Lee Whorf (; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer who is famous for proposing the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis." He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named after him... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Lee%20Whorf |
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. Clinton, whose policies reflec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Clinton |
In common law legal systems, black-letter law refers to well-established legal rules that are no longer subject to reasonable dispute. For example, it is "black-letter law" that the formation of a contract requires consideration, or that the registration of a trademark requires established use in the course of trade. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20letter%20law |
Blue laws, also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws and Sunday closing laws, are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for religious reasons, specifically to promote the observance of the Christian day of worship, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20law |
Bar or BAR may refer to:
Food and drink
Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages
Candy bar
Chocolate bar
Science and technology
Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment
Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud
Bar (unit), a unit of pressure
BAR domain, a protein domain
Bar stock, of metal
Sandb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar |
Beer is one of the oldest types of alcoholic drinks in the world, and the most widely consumed. It is the third most popular drink overall after potable water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, though wheat, maize (corn), r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer |
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as either , but other representations such as true/false, yes/no, on/off, or +/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit |
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte |
Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline forms that are isoelectronic to a similarly structured carbon lattice. The hexagonal form corresponding to graphite is the most stable and soft among BN polymorp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron%20nitride |
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer of the Baroque period.
Bach may also refer to:
People
Bach (surname)
Bach family, a noted family in music
Bach (actor), stage name of French actor, singer and music hall performer Charles-Joseph Pasquier (1882–1953)
Sebastian Bach (born 1968), stage name of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Blood on the Tracks is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 20, 1975, by Columbia Records. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia Records after a two-album stint with Asylum Records. Dylan began recording the album in New York City in September 1974. In December, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20on%20the%20Tracks |
"Love and Theft" is the 31st studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on September 11, 2001, by Columbia Records. It featured backing by his touring band of the time, with keyboardist Augie Meyers added for the sessions. It peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified Gold by the R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20and%20Theft%20%28Bob%20Dylan%20album%29 |
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. It had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor, backwoods family from Silver Dollar City in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, who move to posh Beverly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beverly%20Hillbillies |
Beryllium is a chemical element with the symbol Be and atomic number 4. It is a steel-gray, strong, lightweight and brittle alkaline earth metal. It is a divalent element that occurs naturally only in combination with other elements to form minerals. Gemstones high in beryllium include beryl (aquamarine, emerald, red b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium |
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Often referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million in the United States, making her on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney%20Spears |
Brazil (; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in South America and in Latin America. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil |
The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers.
Its highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Forest |
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The Black Sea is supplied by major rivers, principally the Danube, Dn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sea |
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which, are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, Baha'i'ism and many other religions. The Bible is an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms, originally w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible |
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains. British... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Columbia |
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Buddha |
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross. There are many diffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge |
Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth. Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced. Most often, beadwork is a form of personal ado... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beadwork |
Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well.
Many board games feature a competition between two or more players. To show a few examples: in checkers (Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board%20game |
A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under to over in diameter.
Beads represent some of the earliest forms of jewellery, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead |
Bead weaving (or beadweaving) is a set of techniques for weaving sheets and objects of seed beads. Threads are strung through and/or around the beads to hold them together. It can be done either on a loom or using one of a number of off-loom stitches.
On-loom beadweaving
When weaving on a loom, the beads are strung o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead%20weaving |
Branchiopoda is a class of crustaceans. It comprises fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, Diplostraca (or Cladocera), Notostraca and the Devonian Lepidocaris. They are mostly small, freshwater animals that feed on plankton and detritus.
Description
Members of the Branchiopoda are unified by the presence of gills on many of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branchiopoda |
Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, born in Amsterdam, the Dutch Republic, and mostly known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza. One of the foremost and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment, modern biblical criticism, and 17th-century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch%20Spinoza |
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird |
...Baby One More Time is the debut studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on January 12, 1999, by Jive Records. Spears had been a child performer on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994, and was looking to expand her career as a teen singer. After being turned away by several record ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Baby%20One%20More%20Time%20%28album%29 |
In card games, a burn card is a playing card dealt from the top of a deck, and discarded ("burned"), unused by the players. Burn cards are usually not shown to the players.
Burning is most often performed in casinos to deter a form of cheating known as card marking. In poker, for example, the top card of the deck stub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn%20card |
Bulgaria (; ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria |
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding. Most marine bryozoa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryozoa |
A biennial plant is a flowering plant that, generally in a temperate climate, takes two years to complete its biological life cycle.
In its first year, the biennial plant undergoes primary growth, during which its vegetative structures (leaves, stems, and roots) develop. Usually, the stem of the plant remains short an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biennial%20plant |
The bay leaf is an aromatic leaf commonly used as a herb in cooking. It can be used whole, either dried or fresh, in which case it is removed from the dish before consumption, or less commonly used in ground form. The flavor that a bay leaf imparts to a dish has not been universally agreed upon, but most agree it is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20leaf |
Basis may refer to:
Finance and accounting
Adjusted basis, the net cost of an asset after adjusting for various tax-related items
Basis point, 0.01%, often used in the context of interest rates
Basis trading, a trading strategy consisting of the purchase of a security and the sale of a similar security
Basis of futur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis |
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
The rock unit is a black shale and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess%20Shale |
Beavis and Butt-Head is an American adult animated television series created by Mike Judge for MTV (seasons 1–8) and later Paramount+ (season 9–present, as Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head). The series follows Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, lack of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis%20and%20Butt-Head |
Bromeliales is an order of flowering plants. Such an order has been recognized by a few systems of plant taxonomy, with a various placement. It appears that it always has had the same circumscription:
consisting only of the family Bromeliaceae, the bromeliad or pineapple family. The order is not recognized in the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromeliales |
The Brassicales (or Cruciales) are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system. One character common to many members of the order is the production of glucosinolate (mustard oil) compounds. Most systems of classification have included this order, although som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassicales |
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20board%20system |
The String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826 and was the last major work he completed. Only the final movement of the Quartet Op. 130, written as a replacement for the Große Fuge, was composed later. The work was premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet in March 1828... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20Quartet%20No.%2016%20%28Beethoven%29 |
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%209%20%28Beethoven%29 |
Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 1 is a set of three piano trios (written for piano, violin, and cello), first performed in 1795 in the house of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom they are dedicated. The trios were published in 1795.
Despite the Op. 1 designation, these trios were not Beethoven's first published compositions; this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Trios%2C%20Op.%201%20%28Beethoven%29 |
Op. 70 is a set of two Piano Trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, written for piano, violin, and cello. Both trios were composed during Beethoven's stay at Countess Marie von Erdödy's estate, and both are dedicated to her for her hospitality. They were published in 1809.
The first, in D major, known as the Ghost, is one of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Trios%2C%20Op.%2070%20%28Beethoven%29 |
The Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio completed in 1811. It is commonly referred to as the Archduke Trio, because it was dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the youngest of twelve children of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. Rudolf was an amateur pianist and a patron, fri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Trio%2C%20Op.%2097%20%28Beethoven%29 |
The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, is a four movement work for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was first published in 1801. The work is commonly known as the Spring Sonata (Frühlingssonate), although the name "Spring" was apparently given to it after Beethoven's death. The sonata was dedicated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin%20Sonata%20No.%205%20%28Beethoven%29 |
Barratry ( ) is a legal term that, at common law, described a criminal offense committed by people who are overly officious in instigating or encouraging prosecution of groundless litigation, or who bring repeated or persistent acts of litigation for the purposes of profit or harassment.
Although it remains a crime i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry%20%28common%20law%29 |
A bomber is a military combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), launching torpedoes, or deploying air-launched cruise missiles. The first use of bombs dropped from an aircraft occurred in the Italo-Turkish War, with the first major deployments comin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber |
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:
Carom billiards, played on tables without , typicall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20sports |
The Big/Great Dipper is the American English term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major (The Plough in British English).
Big Dipper also may refer to:
Entertainment
Big Dipper (Battersea Park), a wooden roller coaster operating in Battersea Park, London, England, from 1951 until 1972
Big Dipper (Blackpool), a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Dipper%20%28disambiguation%29 |
(, Latin: Prusa, ) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of Turkey's automotive production takes place in Bursa.
As of 2019, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursa |
The Bahamas ( ), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bahamas |
Baker Island, formerly known as New Nantucket, is an uninhabited atoll just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north-northwest; both have been claimed as territories ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%20Island |
Bangladesh (; , ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most-populous and among the most densely populated countries, with a population of around 170 million in an area of . Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh |
Barbados ( ; ; ) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It lies on the boundary of the South American and the Caribbean Plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
Inhabited by Kalinago people si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados |
Bassas da India (; ) is an uninhabited, roughly circular French atoll that is part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Located in the southern Mozambique Channel, about halfway between Mozambique and Madagascar (about further east) and around northwest of Europa Island, the rim of the atoll averages around i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassas%20da%20India |
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.2 million, Belarus is the 13th-largest and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus |
Belize (, ; ) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a water boundary with Honduras to the southeast. It has an area of and a population of 441,471 (2022). Its mainland is abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize |
Benin ( , ; , , ), officially the Republic of Benin (), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its population lives on the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, part of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin |
Bermuda (; historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest.
Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands, although the most significant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda |
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government and administrative capital is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia |
Bosnia and Herzegovina (; sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia) is a country in Southeast Europe, in the Balkans, bordering Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest. In the south it has a long coast on the Adriatic Sea. Bosnia has a moderate cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina |
Botswana (; , ), officially the Republic of Botswana (, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana |
Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam (, Jawi: , ), is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with its territory bifurcated by the Sarawak district of Limbang.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei |
The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Virgin%20Islands |
Burkina Faso ( , ; , ) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. As of 2021, the country had an estimated population of 20,321,378. Previously called Repu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina%20Faso |
The economy of the Bahamas is dependent upon tourism and offshore banking. The Bahamas is the richest country in the West Indies and is ranked 14th in North America for nominal GDP. It is a stable, developing nation in the Lucayan Archipelago, with a population of 391,232 (2016). Steady growth in tourism receipts and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Bahamas |
The Government of Barbados (GoB), is a unitary parliamentary republic, where the President of Barbados is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Barbados is the head of government.
Structure
The country has a bicameral legislature and a political party system, based on universal adult suffrage and fair elections... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20of%20Barbados |
The Government of the Republic of Belarus (), which consists of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (), is the executive branch of state power in Belarus, and is appointed by the President of Belarus. The head of the Government is the President of Belarus, who manages the main agenda of the government a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20of%20Belarus |
Telecommunications in Belarus involves the availability and use of electronic devices and services, such as the telephone, television, radio or computer, for the purpose of communication.
Telephone system
Telephone lines in use: 3,9741 million (2011).
Mobile/cellular: 11,559,473 subscribers (Q1 2019).
The phone ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Belarus |
This article is about transport in Belarus.
Railways
Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunka
total:
country comparison to the world: 32
broad gauge:
of gauge ( electrified) (2006)
City with underground railway system: Minsk, see Minsk Metro
For tramway systems: see List of town tramway sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Belarus |
The Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus (; ) are the military forces of Belarus. It consists of the Ground Forces and the Air Force and Air Defence Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defence. As a landlocked country, Belarus has no navy.
In 2017, IISS estimated that personnel in the armed forces numb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20Belarus |
The Byelorussian SSR was one of only two Soviet republics to be separate members of the United Nations (the other being the Ukrainian SSR). Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.
Prior to 2001
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Belarus |
Communications in Belgium are extensive and advanced. Belgium possesses the infrastructure for both mobile and land-based telecom, as well as having significant television, radio and internet infrastructure. The country code for Belgium is BE.
Services
Mail
Mail regulation is a national competency. Postal service in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Belgium |
Transport in Belgium is facilitated with well-developed road, air, rail and water networks. The rail network has of electrified tracks. There are of roads, among which there are of motorways, of main roads and of other paved roads. There is also a well-developed urban rail network in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Belgium |
The economy of Benin remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture and cotton. Cotton accounts for 40% of Benin's GDP and roughly 80% of official export receipts. There is also production of textiles, palm products, and cocoa beans. Maize (corn), beans, rice, peanuts, cashews, pineapples, cassava, yam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Benin |
The economy of Bhutan is based on agriculture and forestry, which provide the main livelihood for more than 60% of the population. Agriculture consists largely of subsistence farming and animal husbandry. Rugged mountains dominate the terrain and make the building of roads and other infrastructure difficult. Bhutan is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Bhutan |
The Lhop or Doya people are a little-known tribe of southwest Bhutan. The Bhutanese believe them to be the aboriginal inhabitants of the country. The Lhop are found in the low valleys of Dorokha Gewog and near Phuntsholing in the Duars.
The dress of the Lhop resembles the Lepcha, but they bear little similarity with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhop%20people |
Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in Southeastern Europe. Situated in the western Balkans, it has a border with Croatia to the north and southwest, a border with Serbia to the east, and a border with Montenegro to the southeast. It borders the Adriatic Sea along its coastline.
The most striking features of the loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina |
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