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Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea. It lies between the Cross River estuary, near the city of Calabar and the Rio del Ray estuary on the east. It is governed by Cameroon, following the transfer of sovereignty from neighbouring Nigeria as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice. On 22 Nove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakassi |
A bestiary (from bestiarum vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This refl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary |
"The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the United States Army Special Forces. It is one of the few popular songs of the Vietnam War years to cast the military in a positive light. In 1966 it became a major hit, reaching No. 1 for five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and four weeks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ballad%20of%20the%20Green%20Berets |
Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre, and opera.
English country dance
The majority of surviving choreographies from the period are English country dances, such as those in the many editions of Playford's The Dancing Master. Playford only gives th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque%20dance |
The Borzoi or Russian Hunting Sighthound is a Russian breed of hunting dog of sighthound type. It was formerly used for wolf hunting, and until 1936 was known as the Russian Wolfhound.
Etymology
The system by which Russians over the ages named their sighthounds was a series of descriptive terms rather than actual na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borzoi |
The Basenji () is a breed of hunting dog. It was bred from stock that originated in central Africa. The Fédération Cynologique Internationale places the breed in the Spitz and primitive types. The Basenji produces an unusual yodel-like sound, due to its unusually shaped larynx. This trait also gives the Basenji the nic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basenji |
The brit milah ( bərīṯ mīlā, ; Ashkenazi pronunciation: , "covenant of circumcision"; Yiddish pronunciation: bris ) is the ceremony of circumcision in Judaism. According to the Book of Genesis, God commanded the biblical patriarch Abraham to be circumcised, an act to be followed by his male descendants on the eighth da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit%20milah |
Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20ethics |
BBS may refer to:
Ammunition
BBs, BB gun metal bullets
BBs, airsoft gun plastic pellets
Computing and gaming
Bulletin board system, a computer server users dial into via dial-up or telnet; precursor to the Internet
BIOS Boot Specification, a firmware specification for the boot process
Blum Blum Shub, a pseudoran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS |
British Standards (BS) are the standards produced by the BSI Group which is incorporated under a royal charter and which is formally designated as the national standards body (NSB) for the UK. The BSI Group produces British Standards under the authority of the charter, which lays down as one of the BSI's objectives to:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Standards |
A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization, which offers banking and related financial services, especially savings and mortgage lending. They exist in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and formerly in Ireland and several Commonwealth countries, including So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20society |
The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear armed standoff missile, built to arm the V bomber force. It allowed the bomber to launch the missile against its target while still outside the range of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). The missile proceeded to the target at speeds up to Mach 3, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Steel%20%28missile%29 |
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are an apocalyptic cult founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden. They regard themselves as a continuation of the General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists, established by Victor Houteff in 1935.
Houteff, a Bulgarian immi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20Davidians |
Burwash Hall refers to both Burwash Dining Hall and Burwash Hall proper, the second oldest of the residence buildings at Victoria University in Toronto, Canada. Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1913. It was named after Nathanael Burwash, president of Victoria from 1887 to 1912. The building is an extrav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwash%20Hall |
Benzodiazepines (BZD, BDZ, BZs), colloquially called "benzos", are a class of depressant drugs whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring. They are prescribed to treat conditions such as anxiety disorders, insomnia, and seizures. The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide (Libriu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine |
The bell curve is typical of the normal distribution.
Bell curve may also refer to:
Gaussian function, a specific kind of function whose graph is a bell-shaped curve
The Bell Curve, a 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
Bell curve grading, a method of evaluating scholastic performance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20curve%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person. The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms (kg) and height in metres (m).
The BMI may be determined first by measuring its comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20mass%20index |
The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; , Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun%20Inscription |
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964.
Goldwater was born in Phoenix, where he helped manage his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Goldwater |
The Baralong incidents were two incidents during the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-ship and two German U-boats. Baralong sank , which had been preparing to attack a nearby merchant ship, the Nicosian. About a dozen of the crewmen managed to escape from the sinking submarine a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baralong%20incidents |
Banda may refer to:
People
Banda (surname)
Banda Prakash (born 1954), Indian politician
Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao (1907–1968), Indian actor
Banda Karthika Reddy (born 1977), Indian politician
Banda Singh Bahadur (1670–1716), Sikh warrior
Places
Argentina
Banda Department, a part of Santiago del Estero Province, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda |
The bladder (or urinary bladder) is an organ that collects urine for excretion in animals.
Bladder may also refer to:
Biology
Artificial urinary bladder, in humans
Gallbladder, which stores bile for digestion
Pig bladder, urinary bladder of a domestic pig, with many human uses
Swim bladder, in bony fishes, an int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladder%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Robert Young (born 1953/1954) is a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding Red Hat Inc., the open source software company. He owns the franchises for Forge FC of the Canadian Premier League as well as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League for which he serves as self-styled Caretaker of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Young%20%28businessman%29 |
Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, Baby... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon%205 |
BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1990. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware.
BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Classic Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. It was ultimately... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS |
A biome () is a biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to the physical environment in which they are found and a shared regional climate. Biomes may span more than one continent. Biome is a broader term than habitat and can comprise a variety of habitats.
While a biome ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome |
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or organisms as well as the inanimate physical environment. It is the computed response of the sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior |
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece. The Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Marathon |
The balance of trade, commercial balance, or net exports (sometimes symbolized as NX), is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period. Sometimes a distinction is made between a balance of trade for goods versus one for services. The balance of trade measures a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance%20of%20trade |
The biosphere (from Greek βίος bíos "life" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere"), also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος oîkos "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on Earth. The biosphere (which is technically a spherical shell) is virtually a closed sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere |
A biological membrane, biomembrane or cell membrane is a selectively permeable membrane that separates the interior of a cell from the external environment or creates intracellular compartments by serving as a boundary between one part of the cell and another. Biological membranes, in the form of eukaryotic cell membra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20membrane |
The Balfour Declaration of 1926, issued by the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after Arthur Balfour, who was Lord President of the Council. It declared the United Kingdom and the Dominions to be:
The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Balfour, drew up the document pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour%20Declaration%20of%201926 |
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a let... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour%20Declaration |
Unification or Death (, ), popularly known as the Black Hand (, ), was a secret military society formed in 1901 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia. It gained a reputation for its alleged involvement in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 and for the earlier assassination of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Hand%20%28Serbia%29 |
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
The powers, duties, and responsibilities of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board%20of%20directors |
The Balkan Wars were a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan states of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defeated it, in the process stripping the Ottomans of their European provinces, leavin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan%20Wars |
Buffalo most commonly refers to:
True buffalo or Bubalina, a subtribe of wild cattle, including most "Old World" buffalo, such as water buffalo
Buffalo (bison), a genus of wild cattle, including the American buffalo
Buffalo, New York, a city in the northeastern United States
Buffalo or buffaloes may also refer to:
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo |
The BeBox is a dual CPU personal computer, briefly sold by Be Inc. to run the company's own operating system, BeOS. It has PowerPC CPUs, its I/O board has a custom "GeekPort", and the front bezel has "Blinkenlights".
The BeBox made its debut in October 1995 in a dual PowerPC 603 at 66 MHz configuration. The processors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox |
Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences to advance health care treatment, including diagnosis, monitoring, and therap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20engineering |
The Balkans ( ), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria. The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans |
In atomic physics, the Bohr model or Rutherford–Bohr model of the atom, presented by Niels Bohr and Ernest Rutherford in 1913, consists of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons. It is analogous to the structure of the Solar System, but with attraction provided by electrostatic force rather than gravit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%20model |
Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin that is distilled by the Bombay Spirits Company, a subsidiary company of Bacardi, at Laverstoke Mill in the village of Laverstoke in the English county of Hampshire.
The brand was first launched in 1986 by English wine-merchant IDV. In 1997 Diageo sold the brand to Bacardi. Its name o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay%20Sapphire |
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Wills |
BadTrans is a malicious Microsoft Windows computer worm distributed by e-mail. Because of a known vulnerability in older versions of Internet Explorer, some email programs, such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook programs, may install and execute the worm as soon as the e-mail message is viewed.
Once... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badtrans |
Mehmet Barış Manço (born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço; 2 January 1943 – 1 February 1999), better known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, composer, actor, television producer and show host. Beginning his musical career while attending Galatasaray High School, he was a pioneer of rock ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%C4%B1%C5%9F%20Man%C3%A7o |
Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. The languages are game-programming oriented but are often found general purp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz%20BASIC |
The Bliss bibliographic classification (BC) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss (1870–1955) and published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953. Although originally devised in the United States, it was more commonly adopted by British libraries. A second edition of the system (BC2) has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss%20bibliographic%20classification |
Blood alcohol content (BAC), also called blood alcohol concentration or blood alcohol level, is a measurement of alcohol intoxication used for legal or medical purposes; it is expressed as mass of alcohol per volume of blood. For example, a BAC of 0.10 (0.10% or one tenth of one percent) means that there is 0.10 g of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20alcohol%20content |
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include arguing cases in courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching the law and giving legal opinions.
Barristers are distinguished from solicitors and other type... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrister |
The Battle of Gettysburg () was a battle in the American Civil War fought by Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
In the Battle of Gettysburg, Union Major General George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Gettysburg |
Budweiser () is an American-style pale lager, a brand of Belgian company AB InBev. Introduced in 1876 by Carl Conrad & Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, Budweiser has become a large selling beer company in the United States. Budweiser is a filtered beer, available on draft and in bottles and cans, made with up to 30% rice in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser |
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an urban legend focused on a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The idea of the area as uniquely prone to disappearances aros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20Triangle |
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
History
In the Middle Ages, boroughs were settlements in England that were granted some self-government; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough |
Bodmin () is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor.
The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordered to the east by Cardinham parish, to the southeast by Lanhydrock parish, to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodmin |
Bodmin Moor () is a granite moorland in north-eastern Cornwall, England. It is in size, and dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history. It includes Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall, and Rough Tor, a slightly lower peak. Many of Cornwall's rivers have their sources here. It has been inhabited s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodmin%20Moor |
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated commun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%2C%20California |
Bolventor () is a hamlet on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in Altarnun civil parish between Launceston and Bodmin.
Toponymy
The hamlet has been said to take its name from the "Bold Venture" that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolventor |
Bengal ( ; , ) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Bengal proper is divided between modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. The Indian states of Assam and T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal |
Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument (also known as Newton's bucket) was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies. It is one of five arguments from the "properties, causes, and effects" of "true moti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket%20argument |
The Roman Breviary (Latin: Breviarium Romanum) is a breviary of the Roman Rite in the Catholic Church. A liturgical book, it contains public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office (i.e., at the canonical hours, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Breviary |
Boomer, or baby boomer, is a child born between 1946 and 1964.
Boomer may refer to:
People
Boomers (Oklahoma settlers), two groups of settlers
Boomer (surname)
Boomer (nickname)
Places
Boomer Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Boomer Township, Wilkes County, North Carolina
Boomer, Missouri
Boomer, West Vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. Considered the father of Behaviorism, he was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.
Considering free will to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20F.%20Skinner |
Bill(s) may refer to:
Common meanings
Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States)
Bill (law), a proposed law put before a legislature
Invoice, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer
Bill, a bird or animal's beak
Places
Bill, Wyoming, an unincorporated community, United States
Billstown, Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill |
Wolf Martin Garber (May 18, 1922 – October 17, 2019), known professionally as Bill Macy, was an American television, film and stage actor known for his role in the CBS television series Maude (1972–1978).
Early life
Bill Macy was born Wolf Martin Garber on May 18, 1922, in Revere, Massachusetts, the son of Mollie (né... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Macy |
Robert Montgomery Knight (born October 25, 1940) is an American former basketball coach. Nicknamed "the General", Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement, and currently fifth all-time. Knight is best known as the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Knight |
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.
Du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20metal |
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) was a Saudi-born terrorist and the leader of al-Qaeda.
bin Laden or Bin Laden may also refer to:
People
bin Laden family, Saudi business family
General Bin Laden, former Liberian warlord
Tom Adam alias Bin Laden, former Central African warlord
Other uses
Osama bin Laden (elephant), an ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin%20Laden%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded in February 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard%20Entertainment |
Robert Bellarmine, SJ (; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 37. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation.
Bellarmine was a professor of theology and late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Bellarmine |
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (, plural Bildungsromane, ) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is important. The term comes from the German words ("education", alternatively "forming") a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman |
A bachelor is a man who is not and has never been married.
Etymology
A bachelor is first attested as the 12th-century bacheler: a knight bachelor, a knight too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner. The Old French presumably derives from Provençal and Italian , but the ultimate source of the word is u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor |
Background radiation is a measure of the level of ionizing radiation present in the environment at a particular location which is not due to deliberate introduction of radiation sources.
Background radiation originates from a variety of sources, both natural and artificial. These include both cosmic radiation and envi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20radiation |
Balmoral may refer to:
Places
Australia
Balmoral, New South Wales, a locality of Sydney
Balmoral, New South Wales (Lake Macquarie)
Balmoral, New South Wales (Southern Highlands)
Balmoral, Queensland
Balmoral Ridge, Queensland
Balmoral, Victoria
Belgium
Balmoral, a hamlet near the town of Spa, Belgium
Canad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmoral |
Bannock may mean:
Bannock (food), a kind of bread, cooked on a stone or griddle
Bannock (Indigenous American), various types of bread, usually prepared by pan-frying
Bannock people, a Native American people of what is now southeastern Oregon and western Idaho
Bannock County, Idaho
Bannock, Ohio
Bannock Pass, bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannock |
Lord Banquo , the Thane of Lochaber, is a semi-historical character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth. In the play, he is at first an ally of Macbeth (both are generals in the King's army) and they meet the Three Witches together. After prophesying that Macbeth will become king, the witches tell Banquo that he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquo |
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. the British Army comprises 76,225 regular full-time personnel, 4,139 Gurkhas, 26,755 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,532 "other personnel", for a total of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Army |
Bruin, (from Dutch for "brown"), is an English folk term for brown bear.
Bruin, Bruins or BRUIN may also refer to:
Places
Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana
Lake Bruin State Park
Bruin, Kentucky, United States
Bruin, Pennsylvania, United States
Bruin's Slave Jail, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruin |
Bayesian probability ( or ) is an interpretation of the concept of probability, in which, instead of frequency or propensity of some phenomenon, probability is interpreted as reasonable expectation representing a state of knowledge or as quantification of a personal belief.
The Bayesian interpretation of probability... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20probability |
De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was the National Football League (NFL) commissioner from 1946 until his death in 1959. As commissioner, he introduced competitive parity into the NFL to improve the league's commercial viability and promote its popularity.
Whereas Bell had become the chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Bell |
Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster who is known for his long tenure with NBC Sports, from 1980 through 2019. He has received 28 Emmy awards for his work and was the prime-time host of 12 Olympic Games from 1988 until 2016. He is currently employed by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Costas |
Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: Bambärch) is a town in Upper Franconia district in Bavaria, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg had 79,000 inhabitants in 2022. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby castle. Cited as one of German... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberg |
Black cow or Black Cow can refer to:
A root beer float
Black Cow Vodka, a brand of vodka made from whey, a byproduct of cheesemaking
"Black Cow", a song on Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja
See also
Black Bull (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20cow |
Bloody Mary originally referred to:
Mary I of England (1516–1558), Queen of England and Ireland, so called because of her persecution of Protestants
Bloody Mary may also refer to:
Film
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, a 2005 horror film
Bloody Mary (2006 film), a 2006 horror film
Bloody Mary (2022 film), a 2022 crime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody%20Mary |
Charles William Mumy Jr. (; born February 1, 1954) is an American actor, writer, and musician and a figure in the science-fiction community/comic book fandom. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor whose work included television appearances on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Mumy |
The House of Bonaparte is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of Corsican origin. It was founded in 1804 by Napoleon I, the son of Corsican nobleman Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Buonaparte (née Ramolino). Napoleon was a French military leader who rose to power during the French Revolution and who, in 1804, tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Bonaparte |
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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20sheet |
Beryl ( ) is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium silicate 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 colorles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl |
Basel ( , ), also known as Basle ( ), is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, and the main ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel |
The Black Russian is a cocktail of vodka and kahlua. 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 lemon slice a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Russian |
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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRP |
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 encourage players to have non-humanoid roles, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnies%20%26%20Burrows |
Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum owned by Diageo. Is 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 l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundaberg%20Rum |
Ben Nevis ( ; , ) is the highest mountain in Scotland, the United Kingdom 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 mountai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Nevis |
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.
It is a type of bipolar disorder a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar%20I%20disorder |
Bacardi Limited ( , , ) is the largest privately held, family-owned spirits company in the world. Originally known for its Bacardí brand of white rum, it now has a portfolio of more than 200 brands and labels. Founded in Cuba in 1862 by Facundo Bacardí Massó, Bacardi Limited has been family-owned for seven generations,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi |
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 who had fought i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20and%20Tans |
A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of ambient air 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 mix... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen%20burner |
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 ever to have existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can be of various shades of greyish-blue dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath. Four s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20whale |
The Bolsheviks (, ; from большинство, , 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party seized power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917, and was la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks |
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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20%C5%9Awiecino |
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