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4099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone | Bone | A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the various other organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, provide structure and support for the body, and enable mobility. Bones come in a variety of shapes and sizes and have complex i... |
4101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%20fixed-point%20theorem | Brouwer fixed-point theorem | Brouwer's fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in topology, named after L. E. J. (Bertus) Brouwer. It states that for any continuous function mapping a nonempty compact convex set to itself, there is a point such that . The simplest forms of Brouwer's theorem are for continuous functions from a closed interv... |
4113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouldering | Bouldering | Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers use climbing shoes to help secure footholds, chalk to keep their hands dry and to provide a firmer grip, and ... |
4116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bang | Big Bang | The Big Bang event is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. Various cosmological models of the Big Bang explain the evolution of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale form. These models offer... |
4124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu%20languages | Bantu languages | The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The total number of Bantu languages is estimated at between 440 an... |
4130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIM-10%20Bomarc | CIM-10 Bomarc | The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc ("Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center") (IM-99 Weapon System prior to September 1962) was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America. In addition to being the first operational long-range SAM and the... |
4146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus | Bus | A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for charter purposes, or through private ownership. Although the average bus carries ... |
4147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali | Bali | Bali (; ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the most popul... |
4149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20language | Bulgarian language | Bulgarian (, ; , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians.
Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic dialect co... |
4157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20University | Brown University | Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. One of nine colonial colleges chartered before the Ame... |
4163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20Russell | Bertrand Russell | Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and various areas... |
4165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20767 | Boeing 767 | The Boeing 767 is an American wide-body aircraft developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
The aircraft was launched as the 7X7 program on July 14, 1978, the prototype first flew on September 26, 1981, and it was certified on July 30, 1982. The initial 767-200 variant entered service on September 8, 1... |
4166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Walsh%20%28American%20football%20coach%29 | Bill Walsh (American football coach) | William Ernest Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007) was an American professional and college football coach. He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. After retiring from the 49ers, Walsh worked as a sports broadcaster for... |
4169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze | Bronze | Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such as arsenic or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be ... |
4173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe%20Ruth | Babe Ruth | George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red S... |
4179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20English | British English | British English (BrE, en-GB, or BE) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance ... |
4181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle | Battle | A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces an... |
4183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany | Botany | Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word () meaning "pasture", "herbs" "grass", or... |
4184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus%20thuringiensis | Bacillus thuringiensis | Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt) is a gram-positive, soil-dwelling bacterium, the most commonly used biological pesticide worldwide. B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars of various types of moths and butterflies, as well on leaf surfaces, aquatic environments, animal feces, insect-rich enviro... |
4185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage | Bacteriophage | A bacteriophage (), also known informally as a phage (), is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea. The term was derived from "bacteria" and the Greek φαγεῖν (), meaning "to devour". Bacteriophages are composed of proteins that encapsulate a DNA or RNA genome, and may have structures that are e... |
4191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG%20vaccine | BCG vaccine | Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis (TB). It is named after its inventors Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. In countries where tuberculosis or leprosy is common, one dose is recommended in healthy babies as soon after birth as possible. In areas where tuberculosis i... |
4193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20buzzard | Common buzzard | The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-to-large bird of prey which has a large range. It is a member of the genus Buteo in the family Accipitridae. The species lives in most of Europe and extends its breeding range across much of the Palearctic as far as northwestern China (Tian Shan), far western Siberia and nor... |
4196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s%20Star | Barnard's Star | Barnard's Star is a small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus. At a distance of from Earth, it is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system, and the closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. Its stellar mass is about 16% of the Sun... |
4200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes | Boötes | Boötes ( ) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. The name comes from , which comes from 'herdsman' or 'plowman' (literally, 'ox-driver'; from boûs 'cow').
One of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd-centu... |
4207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon | Bassoon | The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuosity. It is a non-transposing instrument and typically its music is written in t... |
4210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipedalism | Bipedalism | Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where a tetrapod moves by means of its two rear (or lower) limbs or legs. An animal or machine that usually moves in a bipedal manner is known as a biped , meaning 'two feet' (from Latin bis 'double' and pes 'foot'). Types of bipedal movement include walking or running (a ... |
4211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping | Bootstrapping | In general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input.
Etymology
Tall boots may have a tab, loop or handle at the top known as a bootstrap, allowing one to use fingers or a boot hook tool to help pull the boots on. The saying "to " was already... |
4214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, computer programming, information engineering, mathematics and st... |
4216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20De%20Palma | Brian De Palma | Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for work in the suspense, crime and psychological thriller genres. His films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Scarface (... |
4218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20B-25%20Mitchell | North American B-25 Mitchell | The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in every theater of World War II, and after the war ended, many remained in ser... |
4224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Charlton | Bobby Charlton | Sir Robert Charlton (11 October 1937 – 21 October 2023) was an English professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, central midfielder, and left winger. Widely considered one of the greatest players of all time, he was a member of the England team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the year he also wo... |
4227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Lyndon | Barry Lyndon | Barry Lyndon is a 1975 historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter, and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unrav... |
4230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20%28biology%29 | Cell (biology) | The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life. Every cell consists of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane, and contains many macromolecules such as proteins, DNA and RNA, as well as many small molecules of nutrients and metabolites. The term comes from the Latin word meaning 'small room'.
... |
4232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter | Barter | In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. Economists usually distinguish barter from gift economies in many ways; barter, for example, features ... |
4233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe%20Morisot | Berthe Morisot | {{Infobox artist
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| birth_name = Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot
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| birth_place = Bourges, Cher, France
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| death_place = Paris, France
| resting_place = Cimetière de Passy
| nationality = French
| field = Pai... |
4237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%20College | Barnard College | Barnard College, officially titled as Barnard College, Columbia University, is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia University's trustees to create an affi... |
4240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictines | Benedictines | The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly a contemplative monastic religious order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. The male religious are also sometimes called the Black Monks, in reference to the colour of their rel... |
4241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayezid%20I | Bayezid I | Bayezid I (, ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (, ; – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of Sultan-i Rûm, Rûm being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 1394, Bayezid unsuccessfully besieged Constantinople. He defeated the Crusaders at the Bat... |
4242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayezid%20II | Bayezid II | Bayezid II (; ; 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, Bayezid consolidated the Ottoman Empire, thwarted a Safavid rebellion and finally abdicated his throne to his son, Selim I. Bayezid evacuated Sephardi Jews from Spain after the proclamation of the Al... |
4243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing | Boxing | Boxing (also known as "western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport and a martial art in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.
Although the term boxing i... |
4246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi%20cinema | Hindi cinema | Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian... |
4248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowls | Bowls | Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-green bowls") or convex or uneven (for "crown green bowls"). It is normally play... |
4251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD%20Faith | Baháʼí Faith | The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh ("Bahaa Allah", Arabic: "Glory to God"), it initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its ince... |
4257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundians | Burgundians | The Burgundians (; ; ; ) were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near the Roman Empire, and were later moved into the empire, in eastern Gaul. They were possibly mentioned much earlier in the time of the Roman Empire as living in part of the region of Germania that is ... |
4266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20search%20algorithm | Binary search algorithm | In computer science, binary search, also known as half-interval search, logarithmic search, or binary chop, is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array. Binary search compares the target value to the middle element of the array. If they are not equal, the half in which the targ... |
4283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Peleliu | Battle of Peleliu | The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the US military, was fought between the United States and Japan during the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign of World War II, from 15 September to 27 November 1944, on the island of Peleliu.
US Marines of the 1st Marine Division and then soldiers of the US Ar... |
4284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Stalingrad | Battle of Stalingrad | The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd) in Southern Russia. The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters com... |
4285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma | Bodhidharma | Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and is regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to a 17th-century apocryphal story found in a manual called Yijin Jing, he began the physical ... |
4293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20Ravens | Baltimore Ravens | The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore. The Ravens compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The team plays its home games at M&T Bank Stadium and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.
The Baltimo... |
4294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20National%20Party | British National Party | The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, British fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, and is led by Adam Walker. A minor party, it has no elected representatives at any level of UK government. The party was founded in 1982, and reached its greatest level of succ... |
4298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism | Baptism | Baptism (from ) is a Christian sacrament of initiation and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water. It may be performed by sprinkling or pouring water on the head, or by immersing in water either partially or completely, traditionally three times, once for each person of the Trinity. The synoptic gospels reco... |
4306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane | Beltane | Bealtaine (, approximated in English as /ˈbɒltɪnə/ or /ˈbjɒltɪnə/ ) is the Gaelic May Day festival. It is traditionally held on May 1st in the Northern Hemisphere and November 1st in the Southern Hemisphere, or about midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The festival name is ... |
4312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem | Bethlehem | Bethlehem (; , , ; ) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate, and has a population of approximately 25,000 people. The city's economy is largely tourist-driven; international tourism peaks around and during Christmas, when Christians emba... |
4314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sabbath | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970) and Maste... |
4315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20Bills | Buffalo Bills | The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, ... |
4318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Dig | Big Dig | The Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T Project), commonly known as the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery of Interstate 93 (I-93), the chief highway through the heart of the city, into the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel. The project also included the construction of t... |
4321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20tree | Binary tree | In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, referred to as the left child and the right child. That is, it is a k-ary tree with . A recursive definition using set theory is that a binary tree is a tuple (L, S, R), where L and R are binary trees or the empty s... |
4326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder | Blackadder | Blackadder is a series of four period British sitcoms, plus several one-off installments, which originally aired on BBC1 from 1983 to 1989. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical... |
4329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon | Backgammon | Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia. The earliest record of backgammon itself dates to 17th-century Englan... |
4331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Joshua | Book of Joshua | The Book of Joshua ( , Tiberian: Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ) is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile. It tells of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Cana... |
4333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Daniel | Book of Daniel | The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", it combines a prophecy of history with an eschatology (a portrayal of end times) both cosmic in scope and political in focus, and its ... |
4335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman | Batman | Batman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in the 27th issue of the comic book Detective Comics on March 30, 1939. In the DC Universe continuity, Batman is the alias of Bruce Wayne, a wealthy American p... |
4339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Red%20Sox | Boston Red Sox | The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the team's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "R... |
4340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20Orioles | Baltimore Orioles | The Baltimore Orioles (also known as the O's) are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Orioles compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the American League (AL) East division. As one of the American League's eight charter teams in 1901, the franchise spent its first year... |
4342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastarnae | Bastarnae | The Bastarnae (Latin variants: Bastarni or Basternae; ), sometimes called the Peuci or Peucini (), were an ancient people who between 200 BC and 300 AD inhabited areas north of the Roman frontier on the Lower Danube. The Bastarnae lived in the region between the Carpathian Mountains and the river Dnieper, to the north ... |
4345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia | Bohemia | Bohemia ( ; ; ; ; ) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, in which case the smaller region is referred to as Bohemia proper... |
4348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%201 | BBC Radio 1 | BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, while its sister station 1Xtra plays black contemporary mus... |
4356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Waterloo | Battle of Waterloo | The Battle of Waterloo () was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition. One of these was a British-led for... |
4359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang | Boomerang | A boomerang () is a thrown tool typically constructed with aerofoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight. A returning boomerang is designed to return to the thrower, while a non-returning boomerang is designed as a weapon to be thrown straight and is traditionally use... |
4360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding | Bodybuilding | Bodybuilding is the practice of progressive resistance exercise to build, control, and develop one's muscles via hypertrophy. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. It is primarily undertaken for aesthetic purposes over functional ones, distinguishing it from similar activities such... |
4361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20warfare | Biological warfare | Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio... |
4364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Isaiah | Book of Isaiah | The Book of Isaiah ( ) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet Isaiah ben Amoz, but there is evidence that much of it was composed during the Babylonian ca... |
4367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Lara | Brian Lara | Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cric... |
4368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle | Beagle | The beagle is a breed of small scent hound, similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound. The beagle was developed primarily for hunting hare, known as beagling. Possessing a great sense of smell and superior tracking instincts, the beagle is the primary breed used as a detection dog for prohibited agricultural i... |
4373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20overflow | Buffer overflow | In programming and information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations.
Buffers are areas of memory set aside to hold data, often while moving it from one section of a program to an... |
4375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Bonds | Barry Bonds | Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Bonds was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and the San Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2007. He is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players... |
4376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Numbers | Book of Numbers | The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi, literally "numbers"; , Bəmiḏbar, literally "In the desert [of]") is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. The book has a long and complex history; its final form is possibly due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of ... |
4378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books%20of%20Samuel | Books of Samuel | The Book of Samuel (, Sefer Shmuel) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament. The book is part of the Deuteronomistic history, a series of books (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) that constitute a theological history of the Israelites and that aim to explain God's law for Is... |
4379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Revelation | Book of Revelation | The Book of Revelation, also erroneously called the Book of Revelations, is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible). Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text: , meaning 'unveiling' or 'revelation'. The Book of Revelation is the only a... |
4380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books%20of%20Kings | Books of Kings | The Book of Kings (, Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history, a history of Israel also including the books of Joshua, Judges and Samuel.
Biblical commentators believe the Books of Kings were writt... |
4382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Esther | Book of Esther | The Book of Esther (), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section (, "Writings") of the Hebrew Bible. It is one of the five Scrolls () in the Hebrew Bible and later became part of the Christian Old Testament. The book relates the story of a Jewish woman in Persia, born as Had... |
4384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Great%20Britain | Rail transport in Great Britain | The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest railway system in history. The first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825, which was followed by an era of rapid expansion. Most of the track is managed by Network Rail, which in 2017 had a network of of standard-gauge lines, of which were electrified. Thes... |
4385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail | British Rail | British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies, and was privatised in stages between 1994 and 1997. Originall... |
4386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Job | Book of Job | The Book of Job (; ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Scholars generally agree that it was written between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE. It addresses theodicy (why God permits ... |
4391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28franchise%29 | Big Brother (franchise) | Big Brother is a Dutch reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999 and subsequently syndicated internationally. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "HouseGuests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from ... |
4392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20City%20F.C. | Bristol City F.C. | Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the , the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The club's home colours are red and white, and their nickname is The Robins—a robin... |
4393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioterrorism | Bioterrorism | Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. These agents include bacteria, viruses, insects, fungi, and/or toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same way as in biological warfare. Further, modern agribusiness is vulnerabl... |
4396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%20Grumman%20B-2%20Spirit | Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit | The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wing with a crew of two, the plane was designed by Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) and produced fr... |
4399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver | Beaver | Beavers (genus Castor) are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) and the Eurasian beaver (C. fiber). Beavers are the second-largest living rodents, after capybaras, weighing up to . They have stout bodies with large heads, lo... |
4400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear | Bear | Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae (). They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are f... |
4401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald%20eagle | Bald eagle | The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all o... |
4402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20bear | Brown bear | The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear species found across Eurasia and North America. In North America, the populations of brown bears are called grizzly bears, while the subspecies that inhabits the Kodiak Islands of Alaska is known as the Kodiak bear. It is one of the largest living terrestrial members of the... |
4405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon | Biathlon | The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not timed per se, but depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra di... |
4408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%20Holly | Buddy Holly | Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his ... |
4410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewing | Brewing | Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or communally. Brewing has taken place since around the... |
4419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20reconstruction | Breast reconstruction | Breast reconstruction is the surgical process of rebuilding the shape and look of a breast, most commonly in women who have had surgery to treat breast cancer. It involves using autologous tissue, prosthetic implants, or a combination of both with the goal of reconstructing a natural-looking breast. This process often... |
4430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE%20jumping | BASE jumping | BASE jumping () is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend safely to the ground. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennae (referring to radio masts), spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs). Participants exi... |
4431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty | Beauty | Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is ... |
4436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20motion | Brownian motion | Brownian motion is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas).
This motion pattern typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position inside a fluid sub-domain, followed by a relocation to another sub-domain. Each relocation is followed by more fluctuations within the new ... |
4443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona | Barcelona | Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities with... |
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