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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... |
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... |
the book of ezra is a book of the hebrew bible; which formerly included the book of nehemiah in a single book, commonly distinguished in scholarship as ezra–nehemiah. the two became separated with the first printed rabbinic bibles of the early 16th century, following late medieval latin christian tradition. composed in... |
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 ... |
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... |
brittonic or brythonic may refer to: common brittonic, or brythonic, the celtic language anciently spoken in great britain brittonic languages, a branch of the celtic languages descended from common brittonic britons (celtic people), or celtic britons, the celtic people of great britain in ancient times language and na... |
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 "re... |
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... |
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 ... |
bavarian is the adjective form of the german state of bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from bavaria. bavarian may also refer to: bavarii, a germanic tribe bavarians, a nation and ethnographic group of germans bavarian, iran, a village in fars province bavarian language, a west germanic language see also bavari... |
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 ... |
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 musi... |
bbc red button is a brand used for digital interactive television services provided by the bbc, and broadcast in the united kingdom. the services replaced ceefax, the bbc's analogue teletext service. bbc red button's text services were due to close on 30 january 2020, but the switch off was suspended on 29 january 2020... |
a backplane (or "backplane system") is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus. it is used to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complete computer sys... |
a baldric (also baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick as well as other rare or obsolete variations) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon (usually a sword) or other implement such as a bugle or drum. the word may also refer to any belt in general, but this usage is poetic or archaic. in mode... |
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 forc... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
the book of nehemiah in the hebrew bible, largely takes the form of a first-person memoir by nehemiah, a jew who is a high official at the persian court, concerning the rebuilding of the walls of jerusalem after the babylonian exile and the dedication of the city and its people to god's laws (torah). since the 16th cen... |
the book of jeremiah () is the second of the latter prophets in the hebrew bible, and the second of the prophets in the christian old testament. the superscription at chapter jeremiah 1:1–3 identifies the book as "the words of jeremiah son of hilkiah". of all the prophets, jeremiah comes through most clearly as a perso... |
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... |
in mathematics, a bilinear map is a function combining elements of two vector spaces to yield an element of a third vector space, and is linear in each of its arguments. matrix multiplication is an example. definition vector spaces let and be three vector spaces over the same base field . a bilinear map is a function s... |
arthur blake (1896 – december 1, 1934), known as blind blake, was an american blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. he is known for recordings he made for paramount records between 1926 and 1932. early life little is known of blake's life. promotional materials from paramount records indicate he was born blind and gi... |
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 crick... |
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 im... |
boiled leather, often referred to by its french translation, cuir bouilli (), was a historical material common in the middle ages and early modern period and used for various purposes. it was leather that had been treated so that it became tough and rigid, as well as able to hold moulded decoration. it was the usual ma... |
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 ano... |
bug or bug may refer to: common uses a terrestrial arthropod animal (with at least six legs) insect, a six-legged arthropod hemiptera, the true bugs covert listening device, used in surveillance and espionage bug (engineering), a defect in an engineered system software bug hardware bug bug (tag), a computer programming... |
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... |
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 ... |
the book of judges (, ) is the seventh book of the hebrew bible and the christian old testament. in the narrative of the hebrew bible, it covers the time between the conquest described in the book of joshua and the establishment of a kingdom in the books of samuel, during which biblical judges served as temporary leade... |
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... |
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... |
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 writte... |
the book of ruth (, megillath ruth, "the scroll of ruth", one of the five megillot) is included in the third division, or the writings (ketuvim), of the hebrew bible. in most christian canons it is treated as one of the historical books and placed between judges and 1 samuel. the book, written in hebrew in the 6th–4th ... |
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 hada... |
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. these ... |
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... |
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 ... |
browse, browser or browsing may refer to: programs web browser, a program used to access the world wide web code browser, a program for navigating source code file browser or file manager, a program used to manage files and related objects hardware browser, a program for displaying networked hardware devices image brow... |
the book of proverbs (, , "proverbs (of solomon)") is a book in the third section (called ketuvim) of the hebrew bible and a book of the christian old testament. when translated into greek and latin, the title took on different forms: in the greek septuagint (lxx) it became (, "proverbs"); in the latin vulgate the titl... |
the book of lamentations (, , from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of jerusalem in 586 bce. in the hebrew bible it appears in the ketuvim ("writings") as one of the five megillot (or "five scrolls") alongside the song of songs, book of ruth, ecclesiastes and the book of ... |
the book of ezekiel is the third of the latter prophets in the tanakh (hebrew bible) and one of the major prophetic books in the christian bible, where it follows isaiah and jeremiah. according to the book itself, it records six visions of the prophet ezekiel, exiled in babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 bce,... |
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 ... |
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... |
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... |
bitter may refer to: common uses resentment, negative emotion or attitude, similar to being jaded, cynical or otherwise negatively affected by experience bitter (taste), one of the five basic tastes books bitter (novel), a 2022 novel by akwaeke emezi. food and drink bitter (beer), a british term for pale ale bitters, a... |
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... |
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... |
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