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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 fo... |
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... |
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... |
in physics, the bardeen–cooper–schrieffer (bcs) theory (named after john bardeen, leon cooper, and john robert schrieffer) is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since heike kamerlingh onnes's 1911 discovery. the theory describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect caused by a condensation of cooper... |
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... |
bubble and squeak is a british dish made from cooked potatoes and cabbage, mixed together and fried. the food writer howard hillman classes it as one of the "great peasant dishes of the world". the dish has been known since at least the 18th century, and in its early versions it contained cooked beef; by the mid-20th c... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
benz, an old germanic clan name dating to the fifth century (related to "bear", "war banner", "gau", or a "land by a waterway") also used in german () as an alternative for names such as berthold, bernhard, or benedict, may refer to: people surname amy benz (born 1962), american golfer bertha benz (1849–1944), german m... |
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 ... |
bobby or bob diamond may refer to: bob diamond (actor) (1943–2019), american actor and lawyer a/k/a bobby diamond and robert diamond bob diamond (banker) (born 1951), anglo-american business executive characters bob diamond (comics), marvel comics character since 1974 bob diamond, played by rip torn in 1991 american fi... |
the brooklyn historic railway association (bhra) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a shop, trolley barn and offices located in red hook, brooklyn, new york, on the historic beard street piers (c. 1870). bhra had a fleet of 16 trolleys (15 pcc trolleys and a leased 1897 trolley car from the oslo trams, in oslo,... |
a beta-lactam (β-lactam) ring is a four-membered lactam. a lactam is a cyclic amide, and beta-lactams are named so because the nitrogen atom is attached to the β-carbon atom relative to the carbonyl. the simplest β-lactam possible is 2-azetidinone. β-lactams are significant structural units of medicines as manifested i... |
the prince-bishopric of brandenburg () was an ecclesiastical principality of the holy roman empire from the 12th century until it was secularized during the second half of the 16th century. it should not be confused with the larger diocese of brandenburg () established by king otto i of germany in 948, in the territory... |
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... |
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 ... |
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 c... |
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... |
bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. the playing surface, called a bandy field or bandy rink, is a sheet of ice which measures 90–110 metres by 45–65 metres, ab... |
robert m. frankston (born june 14, 1949) is an american software engineer and businessman who co-created, with dan bricklin, the visicalc spreadsheet program. frankston is also the co-founder of software arts. early life and education frankston was born and raised in brooklyn, new york. he graduated from stuyvesant hig... |
the booker prize, formerly the booker prize for fiction (1969–2001) and the man booker prize (2002–2019), is a literary award conferred each year for the best novel written in the english language, which was published in the united kingdom and ireland. the winner of the booker prize receives international publicity tha... |
the book of joel is a jewish prophetic text containing a series of "divine announcements". the first line attributes authorship to "joel the son of pethuel". it forms part of the book of the twelve minor prophets or the nevi'im ("prophets") in the hebrew bible, and is a book in its own right in the christian old testam... |
the book of hosea () is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the nevi'im ("prophets") in the tanakh, and as a book in its own right in the christian old testament. according to the traditional order of most hebrew bibles, it is the first of the twelve. set around the fall of the northern kingdom of israel, ... |
the book of obadiah is a book of the bible whose authorship is attributed to obadiah, a prophet who lived in the assyrian period. obadiah is one of the twelve minor prophets in the final section of nevi'im, the second main division of the hebrew bible. the text consists of a single chapter, divided into 21 verses, maki... |
the book of jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the nevi'im ("prophets") in the hebrew bible, and an individual book in the christian old testament. the book tells of a hebrew prophet named jonah, son of amittai, who is sent by god to prophesy the destruction of nineveh, but attempts to escape his divine missi... |
the book of micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the hebrew bible. ostensibly, it records the sayings of micah, whose name is mikayahu (), meaning "who is like yahweh?", an 8th-century bce prophet from the village of moresheth in judah (hebrew name from the opening verse: מיכה המרשתי). the book has three ... |
the book of nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the hebrew bible. it is attributed to the prophet nahum, and was probably written in jerusalem in the 7th century bc. background josephus places nahum during the reign of jotham, while others place him in the beginning of the reign of ahaz, judah's next ... |
the book of haggai (; ) is a book of the hebrew bible or tanakh, and is the third-to-last of the twelve minor prophets. it is a short book, consisting of only two chapters. the historical setting dates around 520 bc before the temple had been rebuilt. the original text was written in biblical hebrew. authorship the boo... |
the book of malachi (hebrew: , ) is the last book of the neviim contained in the tanakh, canonically the last of the twelve minor prophets. in most christian orderings, the grouping of the prophetic books is the last section of the old testament, making malachi the last book before the new testament. most scholars cons... |
the book of zechariah, attributed to the hebrew prophet zechariah, is included in the twelve minor prophets in the hebrew bible. historical context zechariah's prophecies took place during the reign of darius the great and were contemporary with haggai in a post-exilic world after the fall of jerusalem in 587/586 bc. e... |
the book of zephaniah (, ṣəfanyā; sometimes latinized as sophonias) is the ninth of the twelve minor prophets of the old testament and tanakh, preceded by the book of habakkuk and followed by the book of haggai. zephaniah means "yahweh has hidden/protected," or "yahweh hides". zephaniah is also a male given name. autho... |
the book of habakkuk is the eighth book of the 12 minor prophets of the bible. it is attributed to the prophet habakkuk, and was probably composed in the late 7th century bc. the original text was written in the hebrew language. of the three chapters in the book, the first two are a dialogue between yahweh and the prop... |
backward compatibility (sometimes known as backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially in telecommunications and computing. modifying a system... |
bacterial conjugation is the transfer of genetic material between bacterial cells by direct cell-to-cell contact or by a bridge-like connection between two cells. this takes place through a pilus. it is a parasexual mode of reproduction in bacteria. it is a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer as are transformation an... |
the galjoen, black bream, or blackfish (dichistius capensis) is a species of marine fish found only along the coast of south africa. galjoen is the national fish of south africa. distribution and habitat the galjoen is indigenous to the coasts of southern africa from angola to south africa, and is generally found aroun... |
the blue crane (grus paradisea), also known as the stanley crane and the paradise crane, is the national bird of south africa. the species is listed as vulnerable by the iucn. description the blue crane is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family. it is tall, with a wingspa... |
babrak karmal (dari/pashto: , born sultan hussein; 6 january 1929 – 1 or 3 december 1996) was an afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the people's democratic party of afghanistan from 1979 to 1986. born in kabul province into a taji... |
buddhist philosophy is the ancient indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of buddhism. it comprises all the philosophical investigations and systems of rational inquiry that developed among various schools of buddhism in ancient india following the parinirvāṇa of gautama b... |
billy bob thornton (born august 4, 1955) is an american film actor, writer and director. he had his first break when he co-wrote and starred in the 1992 thriller one false move, and received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film sling blade (1996), for which he won... |
is a japanese mecha-anime television series created by designer keiichi sato and director kazuyoshi katayama for sunrise. the writing staff was assembled by the series' head writer, chiaki j. konaka, who is known for his work on serial experiments lain and hellsing. the story takes place forty years after a mysterious ... |
in computing, bios (, ; basic input/output system, also known as the system bios, rom bios, bios rom or pc bios) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup). the bios firmware comes pre-installed on ... |
in condensed matter physics, a bose–einstein condensate (bec) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at very low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (−273.15 °c or −459.67 °f). under such conditions, a large fraction of bosons occupy the lowest quantum state, at w... |
b is a programming language developed at bell labs circa 1969 by ken thompson and dennis ritchie. b was derived from bcpl, and its name may possibly be a contraction of bcpl. thompson's coworker dennis ritchie speculated that the name might be based on bon, an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that thompson ... |
the beer-lambert law is commonly applied to chemical analysis measurements to determine the concentration of chemical species that absorb light. it is often referred to as beer's law. in physics, the bouguer–lambert law is an empirical law which relates the extinction or attenuation of light to the properties of the ma... |
the beach boys are an american rock band who was formed in hawthorne, california, in 1961. the group's original lineup consisted of brothers brian, dennis, and carl wilson, their cousin mike love, and friend al jardine. distinguished by their vocal harmonies, adolescent-oriented lyrics, and musical ingenuity, they are ... |
bce is an abbreviation meaning before common era, an alternative to the use of bc. bce, b.c.e. or bce may also refer to: bachelor of civil engineering banco central del ecuador basic chess endings, a book by reuben fine bce inc., formerly bell canada enterprises bce place, toronto, canada, later brookfield place brackn... |
bc most often refers to: before christ, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of jesus of nazareth british columbia, the westernmost province of canada baja california, a state of mexico bc may also refer to: arts and entertainment "b.c.", a song by sparks from the 1974 album propaganda b... |
helen beatrix potter (, 28 july 186622 december 1943) was an english writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. she is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as the tale of peter rabbit, which was her first commercially published work in 1902. her books, including 23 tales, have s... |
the liberal party was one of the two major political parties in the united kingdom, along with the conservative party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. beginning as an alliance of whigs, free trade–supporting peelites, and reformist radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century, it had formed four governme... |
the bank of england is the central bank of the united kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. established in 1694 to act as the english government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the government of the united kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank. it was privately own... |
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