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81d410c227e063b46e3bc2eceed32991 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-30-bk-radosh30-story.html | Even Worse Than We Thought | Even Worse Than We Thought
It is the claim of Jerrold and Leona Schecter, a husband-and-wife journalist-historian team, that the Cold War was made up “sacred secrets,” that is, critical intelligence operations carried out by major nations, in particular by the Soviet Union. These operations were of such vital importanc... |
4cb4a7f4b2c25205ae60910652c5cc03 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-04-sp-tennis04-story.html | Hewitt Outlasts Agassi for Title | Hewitt Outlasts Agassi for Title
Lleyton Hewitt’s return to tennis tested his stamina, both mentally and physically.
The top-ranked Australian got off to a rocky start but recovered to beat Andre Agassi, 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4), in the Siebel Open final Sunday in San Jose.
Second-seeded Agassi, playing in his first tourn... |
9932084abc5fdf94e7cab0aa42da8bba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-05-mn-31165-story.html | U.S. Boosting Allies’ Military Aid | U.S. Boosting Allies’ Military Aid
The Bush administration is preparing to provide U.S. military advisors, weapons and special training to governments in Central Asia, the Mideast and Africa over the next six months as part of an expanded effort to mount proxy fights against terrorists in more than half a dozen countri... |
97dae8d73068df669e50e357aad0b207 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-09-sp-pucin09-story.html | Walton Knows the Drill So Well | Walton Knows the Drill So Well
Luke Walton is a quiet basketball player. He is not prone to back-slapping, high-fiving, bring-the-fans-to-their-feet dunks or between-the-leg passes or behind-the-back cleverness.
He is not often heard whooping or hollering or seen wiggling his rear end or pounding his chest in proud aff... |
f9c6e0d0eefaa83ae0af497d7d1bb5fb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-16-me-nixon16-story.html | Nixon Rift Much More Than a Sister Act | Nixon Rift Much More Than a Sister Act
In a simmering controversy over the stewardship of the Richard M. Nixon Library & Birthplace, advocates for the former president’s feuding daughters sought to frame the dispute Friday in sharply different terms--and to lay some of the bad blood to backroom politicking within the N... |
61a4f54ccdd8001d7cc20f8199add5ce | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bacau-county-Romania | Bacău | Bacău
Bacău, județ (county), eastern Romania, occupying an area of 2,551 square miles (6,606 square km). The Eastern Carpathians and the sub-Carpathians rise above the settlement areas that are situated in intermontane valleys and lowlands. The county is drained southeastward by the Siret River and its tributaries. It... |
3a92205a8a4e49c92d6d84a83f1cb95a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Back-Bay-area-Boston-Massachusetts | Back Bay | Back Bay
…and known collectively as the Back Bay. The Charles River flowed through the Back Bay to Boston Harbor and separated the peninsula from the mainland to the north and west. To the east, Town Cove indented Boston’s harbour front and divided the city into the North End and the South…
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38a700a481f68077b8d0bc7b329b3c02 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bad-Harzburg | Bad Harzburg | Bad Harzburg
Bad Harzburg, city, Lower Saxony Land (state), eastern Germany. It is located on the northern slope of the Oberharz (Upper Harz) mountains, at the entrance to the Radau River valley about 25 miles (40 km) south of Braunschweig and near Harz National Park. It developed around a castle built about 1066 by t... |
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Bad Homburg, in full Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, city, Hesse Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies at the foot of the wooded Taunus, just north of Frankfurt am Main.
First mentioned in records of the 12th century, it changed hands often, passing to the house of Hesse in 1521 and later becoming the inde... |
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Badacsony, basalt-covered residual butte, 1,437 feet (438 metres) in elevation, on the north bank of Lake Balaton in the Balaton Highlands of western Hungary. The butte bears witness to the original level of the basalt layer that formed at the end of the Pliocene Epoch (i.e., about 5.3 to 2.6 million years a... |
0d665d89069ad11046617baed0518065 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Badalona | Badalona | Badalona
Badalona, city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is a northeastern industrial suburb of Barcelona, lying on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Besós River. The city’s outstanding landmark is the 15th-century Monaster... |
8ded80ce281590ceb3f26c7fcaa6de5f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baden-Baden-Germany | Baden-Baden | Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden, city, Baden-Württemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies along the middle Oos River in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald). Baden-Baden is one of the world’s great spas. Its Roman baths (parts of which survive) were built in the reign of Caracalla (211–217 ce) for the garrison of Strasbo... |
391c834542aab7eb5e97fb30b80d98f0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baffin | Baffin | Baffin
Baffin, northernmost and easternmost region of Nunavut territory, Canada. In 1967 it was created as Baffin region, Northwest Territories, from most of what was formerly Franklin district, and it took on its present borders with the creation of Nunavut in April 1999. The largest of Nunavut’s three regions, Baffi... |
a5fd138d4ab3d2872090cfd5ad434828 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baffin-Bay | Baffin Bay | Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay, arm of the North Atlantic Ocean with an area of 266,000 square miles (689,000 square km), extending southward from the Arctic for 900 miles (1,450 km) between the Greenland coast (east) and Baffin Island (west). The bay has a width varying between 70 and 400 miles (110 and 650 km). Davis Strait... |
84f31e9ffaebd5a224efb74550ef6b4d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bago | Bago | Bago
Bago, city, western portion of the island of Negros, Philippines. Bago lies along Guimaras Strait at the mouth of the Bago River and is situated between Bacolod and its outport to the southwest, Pulupandan. Bago is located in an agricultural area that produces rice and sugarcane. Sugar milling is the principal in... |
2e9c816bbfc0543abca8c79ae59db24e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bahr-al-Zaraf | Baḥr al-Zarāf | Baḥr al-Zarāf
Baḥr al-Zarāf, also spelled Bahr el-Zaraf, English Giraffe River, river, an arm of the Nile River in Al-Sudd region of South Sudan. It is formed in the swamps north of Shambe, diverting water from the Baḥr al-Jabal (Mountain Nile), and flows 150 miles (240 km) north, past Fangak, to join the Baḥr al-Jaba... |
742623cd27ca6fa6939b2d7832ce4785 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baikalsky-Nature-Reserve | Baikalsky Nature Reserve | Baikalsky Nature Reserve
Baikalsky Nature Reserve, natural area set aside for research in the natural sciences, on the southern shore of Lake Baikal, southeastern Russia. The reserve was established in 1969 and has an area of 640 square miles (1,657 square km). It includes part of the Khamar-Daban mountain range. The... |
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Baikonur Cosmodrome, also spelled Baykonur, Baykonyr, or Bajkonur, also called Tyuratam or Turatam, former Soviet and current Russian space centre in south-central Kazakhstan. Baikonur was a Soviet code name for the centre, but American analysts often called it Tyuratam, after the railroad statio... |
32c0dca9696a11bd63ce9a7af8b63048 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bailudong-Academy | Bailudong Academy | Bailudong Academy
The Bailudong (“White Deer Grotto”) Academy, near Lushan, where Zhu Xi taught, became a renowned centre of Confucian learning. From 1069 to 1076 Wang Anshi, a native of Linquan, southeast of Nanchang, was prime minister; Wang introduced reforms to curb the rich and help the poor,…
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In 68 ce the Baima (“White Horse Temple”), one of the earliest Buddhist foundations in China, was built about 9 miles (14 km) east of the present-day east town.
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…Army captured much of the Bainsizza Plateau (Banjška Planota), north of Gorizia, strained Austrian resistance very severely. To avert an Austrian collapse, Ludendorff decided that the Austrians must take the offensive against Italy and that he could, with difficulty, lend them six German divisions fo... |
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…receives its largest tributary, the Baishui River. In the 1950s, in order to prevent flooding, a large retention basin was built at the confluence with the Baishui to accumulate floodwaters and to regulate the flow of the Han itself; four extensive irrigation projects were also built in the area.
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…of Beja, in the Baixo Alentejo, ridges of quartz and marble oriented northwest-southeast account for a monotonously undulating relief between 300 and 600 feet (90 and 180 metres). This terminates in the east with the schistose Caldeirão Mountains (1,893 feet [577 metres]). Sheltered by the mountains fro... |
c910a2a6aee73e92fe3c24f7c8d62056 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Balaghat | Balaghat | Balaghat
Balaghat, town, southeastern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. The town lies in a plateau region at the southern base of the Satpura Range, just east of the Wainganga River, and is about 95 miles (155 km) south of Jabalpur.
Balaghat formerly consisted of two villages, Burha and Burhi, which collectively we... |
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…expansive squatter community known as Balbala, which originally developed just beyond the barbed-wire boundary erected by the French colonial administration to prevent migration to the capital, tripled in size within a decade after independence. In 1987 it was officially incorporated into the city, with the pr... |
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Balboa Heights, residential area, situated on a hill overlooking Balboa, central Panama. It was the administrative headquarters for the U.S.-owned Panama Canal Company during the period (1903–79) when the Canal Zone was in operation. Murals in the administration building (still in use by the Panama Cana... |
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Baldy Mountain, summit (11,403 feet [3,476 metres]) in the White Mountains, Apache county, eastern Arizona, U.S. Springs on the mountain’s northern slope form the headwaters of the Little Colorado River. Also called Dzil Ligai (Apache: “Mountain of White Rock”), Baldy is located within a 7,000-acre (2,8... |
6da1c569193f10d6c87683685c4e53b5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Balearic-Islands | Balearic Islands | Balearic Islands
Balearic Islands, Spanish Islas Baleares, Catalan Illes Balears, archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea and a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Spain coextensive with the Spanish provincia (province) of the same name. The archipelago lies 50 to 190 miles (80 to 300 km) east of the Sp... |
89dca48f8fbc5a0064a3fbab9dca3cf7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Balkan-Mountains | Balkan Mountains | Balkan Mountains
Balkan Mountains, Bulgarian Stara Planina (“Old Mountains”), Latin Haemus, chief range of the Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria and an extension of the Alpine-Carpathian folds. The range extends from the Timok River valley near the Yugoslav (Serbian) border, spreading out eastward for about 330 miles (530... |
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The Romans were different from other major conquerors of the Balkans in that they first arrived in the west. Later attacks were launched from the southeast as well, so that by the 1st century ce the entire peninsula was under Roman control. At the height of Roman power, the Balkan peoples were the m... |
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Ballymoney, Irish Baile Monaidh, town and former district (1973–2015) within the former County Antrim, now part of Causeway Coast and Glens district, northern Northern Ireland. The town of Ballymoney, located on the eastern side of the valley on a tributary of the River Bann, was the birthplace of James McK... |
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…developments in the towns of Ballymun and Ballyfermot; unfortunately, these proved no more immune to the crime and vandalism that plagued such buildings practically everywhere. Recognizing this, in the early 21st century Dublin City Council approved the demolition of nearly all the tower buildings in Ballymun... |
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Balqash, also spelled Balkhash, city, east-central Kazakhstan. The city is a landing on the north shore of Lake Balqash (Balkhash).
Balqash is a major centre of nonferrous (copper, predominantly, and molybdenum) metallurgy. It came into being in 1937 in connection with the construction of large copper-smelting... |
40d8f29efaa61fc41a1e5ad1ca1adc43 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltic-states/The-early-modern-age | The early modern age | The early modern age
During its first two centuries Lithuania’s political union with Poland consisted of a loose alliance based on a joint ruler. On July 1, 1569, the purely personal union was refashioned by a joint parliament meeting in Lublin into a Commonwealth of Two Peoples. While the state entity thereafter had a... |
88ee76fc360e48473c53aaa2c2be7bc0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Banana-Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo | Banana | Banana
Banana, port on the Atlantic coast in far southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, central Africa, at the mouth of the Congo River. One of the nation’s older towns, it was known as a trading centre in the 19th century, mainly during the slaving era. In the 1970s and 1980s its port was developed to increas... |
7f78553c4dde58ab35dc5700bcc680d3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bandar-Seri-Begawan | Bandar Seri Begawan | Bandar Seri Begawan
Bandar Seri Begawan, formerly (until 1970) Brunei Town, capital of Brunei. The city lies along the Brunei River near its mouth on Brunei Bay, an inlet of the South China Sea on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Bandar Seri Begawan was once predominantly an agricultural trade centre and ri... |
02966e9d696af7799e96d8f1c99b8a2b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bankura | Bankura | Bankura
Bankura, city, western West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies on a densely populated alluvial plain just north of the Dhaleshwari (Dhalkisor) River (known locally as the Dwarkeswar River, a tributary of the Damodar River to the east), about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Durgapur.
Bankura was constitute... |
17980e81cae8dccc8ae190ca85ce8974 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bannack | Bannack | Bannack
) Nearby Bannack, now a ghost town and site of Montana’s first major gold strike (1862), was once a bustling community of 8,000 and the first territorial capital. Dillon’s economy now depends on ranching and farming (livestock, hay, and seed potatoes), mining, and tourism. Dude ranches dot…
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Banyuwangi, also spelled Banjuwangi or Banjoewangi, city, East Java (Jawa Timur) propinsi (or provinsi; province), Java, Indonesia. A major port on the Bali Strait, opposite Bali just to the east, it is located about 120 miles (195 km) southeast of Surabaya, the capital of East Java.
It is linked by railway... |
645a53224dcf728365ed9cc434f80dd0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baptistery-of-the-Orthodox | Baptistery of the Orthodox | Baptistery of the Orthodox
…his fellow apostles in the Baptistery of the Orthodox, Ravenna (c. 450). But the designer’s mastery and sophistication are nowhere more overwhelmingly illustrated than in the glowing interior of the so-called Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (c. 450) at Ravenna, with its blue star-filled mosaic d... |
96d54e28f18ff9792ea882dc69e3c0bf | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baranagar | Baranagar | Baranagar
Baranagar, also spelled Barahanagar, city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies on the east bank of the Hugli (Hooghly) River opposite Bally and is part of the Kolkata (Calcutta) urban agglomeration.
The site was originally a Portuguese settlement that became the seat of a Dutch tradin... |
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…and the mountains of Admiralty, Baranof, and Chicagof islands. Those islands have small glaciers and rugged coastlines indented by fjords. The archipelago is composed of southeast–northwest-trending belts of Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary, metasedimentary, and volcanic rocks. Metamorphic facies rock... |
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He was commissioned by the Barcelona Cathedral in 1517 to make wooden reliefs for the choir stalls and marble reliefs for the trascoro (a screen wall at the rear of the choir).
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404e1fec37ad6be8132cc372d3349b1d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Barcelona/History | History of Barcelona | History of Barcelona
According to tradition, Barcelona was founded by either the Phoenicians or the Carthaginians, who had trading posts along the Catalonian coast. It is no longer thought, however, that the city owes its name to the family of the Carthaginian leader Hamilcar Barca. In Roman times the Colonia Faventia ... |
10983b9dd9bb77c97113bdfa17cfd1af | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bareilly | Bareilly | Bareilly
Bareilly, city, northwest-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is situated just east of the Ramganga River (a tributary of the Ganges [Ganga] River), about 130 miles (210 km) east-southeast of Delhi.
The city, founded in 1537, was built largely by the Mughal governor Makrand Ray. It later became th... |
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…plain along the west; the Barisan Mountains, which extend the length of the island close to its western edge and include a number of active volcanoes; an inner nonvolcanic zone of low hills grading down toward the stable platform of the Asian mainland; and the broad alluvial lowland, lying no…
…provi... |
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Barrois, ancient county, then duchy, on the western frontier of Lorraine, a territory of the Holy Roman Empire, of which Barrois was long a fiefdom or holding before being absorbed piecemeal by France. The centre and capital was the town that later came to be known as Bar-le-Duc, in the modern French départem... |
728f3a63bd2fa263256276540f64f28b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bartica | Bartica | Bartica
Bartica, town, north-central Guyana, in tropical rainforests in which the Essequibo, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni rivers meet. A small commercial centre, Bartica is situated at the head of the Essequibo River, 50 miles (80 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, and it is linked by air with Georgetown, the national capita... |
61ce6b7a5d622f0b34c1acf07e4baec0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Basilica-of-Our-Lady-of-Lourdes | Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes | Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes
The basilica, built above the grotto in 1876, eventually became overcrowded by the increasing number of pilgrims, and in 1958 an immense prestressed concrete underground church, seating 20,000, was dedicated. Lourdes is visited by millions every year, and tourism plays a dominant role in... |
7bdcf2e8b10e055f37d5e4a2a78fe737 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Basodino | Basodino | Basodino
…feet (3,273 m) at the Basodino. The canton is dominated physically by three river systems occupying steep-sided valleys extending from the mountain frontier southward to Lake Maggiore. The chief system is that of the Ticino River, which rises in the northwest, flows east through the Bedretto valley and then s... |
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…with the Hau Giang (Bassac) River, which is a major branch of the lower Mekong River. The city has a hospital and a commercial airport. Cultural features include a pagoda built under the emperor Gia Long and a Cambodian Buddhist pagoda 2 miles (3 km) north of the city.…
…the Mekong proper and the Bassac (Basak)... |
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…artistic director of the new Bastille Opera in Paris, but he fell into disputes with representatives of the socialist government in Paris and was dismissed (in January 1989) before the first season was to commence, in 1990. Almost immediately, in January 1989, he accepted the post of music director of…
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607d41bd08fd4437f23d6c9ac2821358 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bastrop | Bastrop | Bastrop
Bastrop, city, Morehouse parish, northeastern Louisiana, U.S., 24 miles (38 km) northeast of Monroe. Settlement of the area began after a Dutch nobleman, Baron de Bastrop, was given a large land grant by the Spanish in 1796. The baron subsequently sold much of his land to Abram Morehouse, a settler from Kentuc... |
9ed044e65b1800f342076e53747bfd86 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Batavian-Republic | Batavian Republic | Batavian Republic
Batavian Republic, French République Batave, Dutch Bataafse Republiek, republic of the Netherlands, established after it was conquered by the French during the campaign of 1794–95. Formalized in a constitution of 1798, it possessed a centralized government patterned after that of the Directory in Fra... |
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Bathinda, also spelled Bhatinda, city, southwest-central Punjab state, northwestern India. It is situated in the Malwa Plains on the Bathinda Branch Canal (which joins the Sutlej River to the northeast).
Bathinda is a major rail hub, with lines converging on it from other Indian states and from nearby Pakista... |
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…flatlands, with some depressions (the Batyr Depression is 425 feet [130 m] below sea level). It is rich in petroleum and natural gas, especially in the oil and gas region of the Mangghystaū Peninsula. The peninsula also contains deposits of phosphorites and coquina. The desert climate is continental a... |
139a61e8a2671f2b538ec0f0d1ec7009 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bavarian-Alps | Bavarian Alps | Bavarian Alps
Bavarian Alps, German Bayerische Alpen, northeastern segment of the Central Alps along the German-Austrian border. The mountains extend east-northeastward for 70 miles (110 km) from the Lechtaler Alps to the bend of the Inn River near Kufstein, Austria. Zugspitze (9,718 feet [2,962 metres]) is the highes... |
f4d1b7f870bd26a999f5b26d0a1e7b3f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bay-of-Quinte | Bay of Quinte | Bay of Quinte
Bay of Quinte, arm of Lake Ontario, southeastern Ontario, Canada, extending for 75 miles (121 km) from its entrance near Amherst Island to Murray Canal at the western end. It is a narrow bay, ranging from one to six miles in width. The bay is scenic, having many small inlets; and it receives several rive... |
acb77eee3f48b112012572a040230d7d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bayan-Har-Mountains | Bayan Har Mountains | Bayan Har Mountains
…of the province extend the Bayan Har (Bayankala) Mountains (a spur of the Kunlun Mountains), which help delineate the northern limit of the Plateau of Tibet region in Qinghai and serve as the watershed of the headwaters of the Huang He (Yellow River) and Yangtze River (Chang Jiang). In the…
…feet (... |
95c820c32835e1d48f98611c4a4607e2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Baylor-University | Baylor University | Baylor University
Baylor University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Waco, Texas, U.S. Baylor, affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, is the world’s largest Baptist university and the oldest college in Texas. The university offers about 160 bachelor’s, 75 master’s, an... |
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The Bayt al-Ḥikmah (“House of Wisdom”), founded in ad 830 in Baghdad, contained a public library with a large collection of materials on a wide range of subjects, and the 10th-century library of Caliph al-Ḥakam in Cordova, Spain, boasted more than 400,000 books.
…the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Ḥikmah) to w... |
059b391df0b7ede36d1ce13cafbb971d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Beagle-Channel | Beagle Channel | Beagle Channel
Beagle Channel, strait in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the southern tip of South America. The channel, trending east–west, is about 150 miles (240 km) long and 3 to 8 miles wide; it separates the archipelago’s main island to the north from Navarino, Hoste, and other smaller islands to the south. ... |
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Beardmore Glacier, glacier in central Antarctica, descending about 7,200 ft (2,200 m) from the South Polar Plateau to Ross Ice Shelf, dividing the Transantarctic Mountains of Queen Maud and Queen Alexandra. One of the world’s largest known valley glaciers, it is 125 mi (200 km) long and is 25 mi in w... |
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Beas River, Beas also spelled Bias, ancient Greek Hyphasis, Sanskrit Vipasha, river in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab states, northwestern India. It is one of the five rivers that give the Punjab (“Five Rivers”) its name.
The Beas rises at an elevation of 14,308 feet (4,361 metres) at Rohtang Pass in the weste... |
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Beaucaire, town, Gard département, Occitanie région, southeastern France. It lies along the Rhône River, opposite Tarascon, to which it is linked by several bridges.
Called Ugernum by the Romans, Beaucaire derived its modern name from the medieval Belli Quadrum, which described the pine-clad rock rising abru... |
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Beaufort Sea, outlying sea of the Arctic Ocean situated north of Canada and Alaska. It extends northeastward from Point Barrow, Alaska, toward Lands End on Prince Patrick Island, and westward from Banks Island to the Chukchi Sea. Its surface area is about 184,000 sq mi (476,000 sq km). The average depth ... |
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…between several divisions of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, for which it is headquarters, in an area of old mining camps. (This history is reflected in the Beaverhead County Museum in Dillon.) Nearby Bannack, now a ghost town and site of Montana’s first major gold strike... |
92e122fd31684596f01377f857c23205 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bechar | Béchar | Béchar
Béchar, formerly Colomb-Béchar, town, western Algeria. It lies in the northern reaches of the Sahara, 36 miles (58 km) south of the border with Morocco. The town is named for nearby Mount Béchar, rising to 1,600 feet (488 metres). Béchar’s former European quarter contains a military station and has modern build... |
bed7be224966f31b03da14e3d4d090b0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Beijing/Landscape | Landscape of Beijing | Landscape of Beijing
The city of Beijing is situated at the northern apex of the roughly triangular North China Plain and lies at an elevation between about 100 and 130 feet (30 and 40 metres) above sea level. The larger municipality is almost completely surrounded by Hebei province, except for two short stretches bord... |
439eacfb78e9c7ca12454bdbe6488b35 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Beirut | Beirut | Beirut
Beirut, Arabic Bayrūt, French Beyrouth, capital, chief port, and largest city of Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean coast at the foot of the Lebanon Mountains.
Beirut is a city of baffling contradictions whose character blends the sophisticated and cosmopolitan with the provincial and parochial. Before... |
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Béja, also spelled Bājah, town in northern Tunisia, located in the hills on the northern edge of the Majardah (Medjerda) valley. Béja is built on the site of ancient Vacca (or Vaga)—a Punic town and Roman colony. It became an important agricultural market beginning in the 1st century bce and was conquered by the ... |
f6f7ac9b0311cf6a914c6ab1bf548c41 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Belarus/Resources-and-power | Resources and power | Resources and power
Belarus is generally poorly endowed with mineral resources. The government is attempting to accelerate the development of its raw-material base, but Belarus remains dependent on Russia for most of its energy and fossil-fuel requirements. In the 1960s, petroleum was discovered in the southeastern par... |
725605f6a034e23ad54bc22a724da269 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Belgian-Congo | Belgian Congo | Belgian Congo
Belgian Congo, French Congo Belge, former colony (coextensive with the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) in Africa, ruled by Belgium from 1908 until 1960. It was established by the Belgian parliament to replace the previous, privately owned Congo Free State, after international outrage over a... |
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…the north of Once lies Belgrano, home to a relatively small Chinese community. Belgrano is dominated by high-rise apartment buildings and private homes squeezed between a series of small hills.
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5c5a33210f606bf1656a36323566529f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Belitung | Belitung | Belitung
Belitung, also spelled Belitoeng or Belitong, also called Billiton, island and kabupaten (regency), Bangka Belitung propinsi (or provinsi; province), Indonesia. With 135 associated smaller islands, it lies between the South China and Java seas, southwest of Borneo and east of Bangka island. Tanjungpandan on t... |
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Belize, country located on the northeast coast of Central America. Belize, which was known as British Honduras until 1973, was the last British colony on the American mainland. Its prolonged path to independence was marked by a unique international campaign (even while it was still a British colony) against the... |
8983fdb90749e58fee55dc5f48f667e2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Belleville-section-Paris-France | Belleville | Belleville
…19th arrondissement is known as Belleville, a formerly independent village that stretches south into the 20th arrondissement. The 20th also is home to the Ménilmontant neighbourhood and Père-Lachaise Cemetery—the site of the Federalists’ Wall (Mur des Fédérés), against which the last of the fighters of the ... |
a57d35e473f2bf7abf15faf40ef43dc2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bellville | Bellville | Bellville
Bellville, city, Western Cape province, South Africa. It lies east of Cape Town within the Cape Peninsula urban area. Originally a village called Twelfth Mile Stone, Bellville was established by proclamation in 1861 and named after Charles D. Bell, surveyor general of the Cape. It became a town in 1940 and a... |
51d4cf13502a4566fd253de1130e828b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Benjamin-Franklin-Bridge | Benjamin Franklin Bridge | Benjamin Franklin Bridge
…board of engineers of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge over the Delaware River, which, upon completion in 1926, was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
…Philadelphia-Camden Bridge (now called the Benjamin Franklin Bridge), over the Delaware River, is another wire-cable steel suspension bri... |
8f04c6a2582da79fa8f58efaae42ac69 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bensonville | Bensonville | Bensonville
Bensonville, also called Bentol, city, northwestern Liberia. Bensonville is a marketing and commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural area. Prior to the outbreak of civil war in the 1990s, its industrial activity included the production of milled rice, sawn wood, soap, plastics, paints, furniture ... |
3c5382f3578f2fae9c14b978de60100c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Benue | Benue | Benue
Benue, state, east-central Nigeria. A wooded savanna region, it is bounded on the south by Cross River, Ebonyi, and Enugu states, on the west by Kogi state, on the north by Nassawara state, and on the northeast by Taraba state. The Benue River defines the western half of Benue’s northern boundary; to the southea... |
3b723af2b02d19536e053940480d3bc8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bergen-Norway | Bergen | Bergen
Bergen, city and port, southwestern Norway. The principal port and business section is on a peninsula projecting into By Fjord, bounded to the north by the inlet and harbour of Vågen (for small ships) and on the south by Pudde Bay (for larger vessels) and the Store Lungegårds Lake.
Originally called Bjørgvin, t... |
1a2f3b278599ecdbc29d396a7653d006 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bering-Sea | Bering Sea and Strait | Bering Sea and Strait
Bering Sea and Strait, Russian Beringovo More and Proliv Beringa, northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, separating the continents of Asia and North America. To the north the Bering Sea connects with the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait, at the narrowest point of which the two continents a... |
7fa87ed5a08855f202078f00f20725c3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Berlin | Berlin | Berlin
Berlin, capital and chief urban centre of Germany. The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany. Berlin’s former glory ended in 1945, but the city surv... |
4df2e269ad4d270f30c4c87634f0cd1a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Berlin/History | History of Berlin | History of Berlin
The name Berlin appears for the first time in recorded history in 1244, seven years after that of its sister town, Kölln, with which it later merged. Both were founded near the beginning of the 13th century. In 1987 both East and West Berlin celebrated the city’s 750th anniversary. Whatever the date o... |
f02e07759a1bd98b0ea9597446c221b4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bermuda | Bermuda | Bermuda
Bermuda, self-governing British overseas territory in the western North Atlantic Ocean. It is an archipelago of 7 main islands and about 170 additional (named) islets and rocks, situated about 650 miles (1,050 km) east of Cape Hatteras (North Carolina, U.S.). Bermuda is neither geologically nor spatially assoc... |
878c140cc45e00a60aee9d27b66833fd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bet-Shean | Bet Sheʾan | Bet Sheʾan
Bet Sheʾan, also spelled Beth-shan, Arabic Baysān, or Beisān, town, northeastern Israel, principal settlement in the low ʿEmeq Bet Sheʾan (ʿemeq, “valley”), site of one of the oldest inhabited cities of ancient Palestine. It is about 394 ft (120 m) below sea level. Overlooking the town to the north is Tel B... |
a89c9c5c31087b4bb88b624d2ef64844 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Beta-Pictoris | Beta Pictoris | Beta Pictoris
Beta Pictoris, fourth-magnitude star located 63 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Pictor and notable for an encircling disk of debris that might contain planets. The star is of a common type somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun. In 1983 it was discovered to be an unexpectedly... |
82719f562d744da9542088317cb73013 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Betul | Betul | Betul
Betul, city, south-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated in a plateau region south of the Satpura Range and just north of the Tapti River. Formerly called Badnur, Betul was constituted a municipality in 1867.
The city is a major road junction and agricultural trade centre. Sawmilling, oilse... |
27849ead73e798581d753dbd9a38ba71 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Betwa-River | Betwa River | Betwa River
Betwa River, Sanskrit Vetravati (“Containing Reeds”), river in northern India, rising in the Vindhya Range just north of Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh. It flows generally northeast through Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states and empties into the Yamuna River just east of Hamirpur after a 380-mile (610-km... |
b5648cc035911ef47f52583e832eb658 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Beziers | Béziers | Béziers
Béziers, city, Hérault département, Occitanie région, southern France, 9 miles (14 km) from the Mediterranean Sea, on a hilly site overlooking the Orb River where it is intersected by the Canal of the Midi, southwest of Montpellier.
There are remains of an arena from the Roman colony Beterrae. In the 12th cent... |
a57984f0a7bc58b8f9d34de9e277a7b9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bhagirathi-River | Bhagirathi River | Bhagirathi River
Bhagirathi River, river in West Bengal state, northeastern India, forming the western boundary of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta. A distributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River, it leaves that river just northeast of Jangipur, flows south, and joins the Jalangi at Nabadwip to form the Hugli (Hooghly) River ... |
58d677023a1e0b6996b83a69b446e470 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bhimbetka-rock-shelters | Bhimbetka rock shelters | Bhimbetka rock shelters
Bhimbetka rock shelters, series of natural rock shelters in the foothills of the Vindhya Range, central India. They are situated some 28 miles (45 km) south of Bhopal, in west-central Madhya Pradesh state. Discovered in 1957, the complex consists of some 700 shelters and is one of the largest r... |
2640f232ff29006e34baa632280e9f53 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bhutan | Bhutan | Bhutan
Bhutan, country of south-central Asia, located on the eastern ridges of the Himalayas. Historically a remote kingdom, Bhutan became less isolated in the second half of the 20th century, and consequently the pace of change began to accelerate. With improvements in transportation, by the early 21st century a trip... |
839b35add3574252cebc4986bda62032 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bibai | Bibai | Bibai
Bibai, city, western Hokkaido, northern Japan. It is located on the Ishikari Plain between the cities of Asahikawa to the northeast and Sapporo to the southwest.
Bibai was settled in 1891 by Japanese farmer-soldiers (tondenhei) and became the main rice-producing centre of the Sorachi region in the early 20th cen... |
e177ec63a0b50ef4d7dfcef1a554d23f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bicetre | Bicêtre | Bicêtre
…London in 1247) and the Bicêtre (the Paris asylum for men) were typical of 18th-century mental institutions in which the sufferers were routinely shackled. Inmates of these places often were believed to be devoid of human feeling, and their management was indifferent if not brutal; the primary consideration wa... |
409c805c03aa175e73f4b4b2db00dd24 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bien-Hoa | Bien Hoa | Bien Hoa
Bien Hoa, city, southern Vietnam. It is located 19 miles (30 km) northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), on the left bank of the Dong Nai River, northeast of the Mekong River delta.
Bien Hoa is one of the oldest cities of southern Vietnam. The French conquered it in 1861 after prolonged Vietnamese re... |
f8b204617e51ff903a72cc7f94a4dcf0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Big-Horn-Hot-Springs | Big Horn Hot Springs | Big Horn Hot Springs
…polis, “city,” for the nearby Big Horn Hot Springs (within present-day Hot Springs State Park), which are among the world’s largest, with an outflow of 18,600,000 gallons (70,400,000 litres) a day and a water temperature of 135 °F (57 °C). Gottsche Rehabilitation Center for hot-water treatment of ... |
9a8cf21952f33ddfb19d20cf10395806 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Big-Wood-River | Big Wood River | Big Wood River
Big Wood River, watercourse, south-central Idaho, U.S., that rises in the south slopes of the Sawtooth Range in the Sawtooth National Forest and flows south past Sun Valley, Ketchum, and Hailey, then west to join the Snake River near Gooding after a course of about 129 miles (208 km). Magic Reservoir, i... |
54a66b428c566ffd789d614dff94a1d8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Bijlmermeer | Bijlmermeer | Bijlmermeer
…south, and, in the 1970s, Bijlmermeer in the southeast. Bijlmermeer was the ultimate in modernist utopian urban planning, with bicycle paths, playgrounds, and high-rises built along the city’s new metro line. However, it was not a success and was later partly demolished and redeveloped in a mix of building... |
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