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Baripada: city, northeastern Orissa state, eastern India, lying along the Burhabalang River. Founded about 1800, the city is a trade centre for rice, sugarcane, and timber and has some industry, including ...
Barisal: town, south-central Bangladesh. It lies in the Ganges (Padma) River delta on an offshoot of the Arial Khan River. Incorporated as a municipality in 1876, it is a transshipment centre ...
barite: the most common barium mineral, barium sulfate (BaSO₄). Barite occurs in hydrothermal ore veins (particularly those containing lead and silver), in sedimentary rocks such as limestone, in clay deposits formed ...
baritone: (from Greek barytonos, "deep-sounding"), in vocal music, the most common category of male voice, between the bass and the tenor and with some characteristics of both. Normally, the baritone parts ...
baritone: valved brass instrument pitched in B♭ or C; it is a popular band instrument dating from the 19th century and was derived from the cornet and flugelhorn (valved bugle). It ...
barium: (Ba), chemical element, one of the alkaline-earth metals of main Group IIa of the periodic table. The element is used in metallurgy, and its compounds in pyrotechnics, petroleum mining, and ...
bark: sailing ship of three or more masts, the rear (mizzenmast) being rigged for a fore-and-aft rather than a square sail. Until fore-and-aft rigs were applied to large ships to reduce ...
bark: in woody plants, tissues external to the vascular cambium (the growth layer of the vascular cylinder); the term bark is also employed more popularly to refer to all tissues outside ...
bark beetle: any member of the insect family Scolytidae (Ipidae, with more than 2,000 species) of the order Coleoptera. They are cylindrical, usually under 6 mm (0.25 inch) long, brown or black ...
bark painting: nonwoven fabric decorated with figurative and abstract designs usually applied by scratching or by painting. The basic clothlike material, produced from the inner bark, or bast, of certain trees (see ...
bark-gnawing beetle: any member of the insect family Trogossitidae (Ostomidae), containing about 500 species, most of which are tropical. Bark-gnawing beetles range from 5 to 20 mm (0.2 to 0.8 inch) and ...
barkentine: sailing ship of three or more masts having fore-and-aft sails on all but the front mast (foremast), which is square rigged. Because of the reduction of square sails, it required ...
Barker, George: English poet mostly concerned with the elemental forces of life. His first verses were published in the 1930s, and he became popular in the '40s, about the same time as ...
Barker, Lady Mary Anne: writer best known for her book Station Life in New Zealand (1870), a lively account of life in colonial New Zealand.
Barker, Ma: matriarch of an outlaw gang of brothers and allies engaged in kidnapping and in payroll, post-office, and bank robberies in the 1920s and '30s. The activities of the gang, which ...
Barkerville: restored ghost town, east-central British Columbia, Canada, in the western foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, just west of Bowron Lake Provincial Park and 55 miles (88 km) east of Quesnel. ...
Barkhausen effect: series of sudden changes in the size and orientation of ferromagnetic domains, or microscopic clusters of aligned atomic magnets, that occurs during a continuous process of magnetization or demagnetization. The ...
Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg: German physicist who discovered the Barkhausen effect, a principle concerning changes in the magnetic properties of metal.
Barking and Dagenham: outer borough of London, on the eastern perimeter of the metropolis. It is part of the historic county of Essex, on the north bank of the River Thames. The borough ...
Barkla, Charles Glover: British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917 for his work on X-ray scattering, which occurs when X rays pass through a material and are deflected ...
Barkley, Alben W: 35th vice president of the United States (1949-53) in the Democratic administration of President Harry S. Truman. He was one of the chief architects of the New Deal in the ...
Barkly Tableland: region of Australia, south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and extending southeastward about 350 mi (560 km) from Newcastle Creek, Northern Territory, to Camooweal, Queen. A grassy, undulating upland (average ...
Barkly, Sir Henry: British colonial administrator who played a major role in the establishment of responsible governments in Victoria (Australia) and Cape Colony (South Africa).
Barlach, Ernst: outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called "modern Gothic." Barlach also experimented with graphic art and playwriting, and his work in all media is notable ...
Barletta: city, Bari province, Puglia (Apulia) region, southeastern Italy, and port and resort on the Adriatic Sea, northwest of Bari. Originating as the ancient Barduli, it served as the port and ...
barley: cereal plant belonging to the genus Hordeum of the grass family Poaceae (Gramineae) and its edible grain. Hordeum comprises four sections, and all cultivated barleys belong to the section Cerealia. ...
Barlow, Joel: public official, poet, and author of the mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding.
Barlow, Peter: optician and mathematician who invented two varieties of achromatic (non-colour-distorting) telescope lenses known as Barlow lenses.
Barmakids: priestly family of Iranian origin, from the city of Balkh in Khorasan, who achieved prominence in the 8th century as scribes and viziers to the early 'Abbasid caliphs. Their ancestor ...
Barmen, Synod of: meeting of German Protestant leaders at Barmen in the Ruhr, in May 1934, to organize Protestant opposition to the teachings of the so-called German Christians, who sought to reinterpret Christianity ...
Barmer: town, western Rajasthan state, extreme western India. Standing on a rocky hill crowned by a fort, the town is said to have been founded in the 13th century, when it ...
barn: in agriculture, farm building for sheltering animals, their feed and other supplies, farm machinery, and farm products. Barns are named according to their purpose, as hog barns, dairy barns, tobacco ...
barn: unit of area used to measure the absorption cross section of atomic nuclei in the study of interactions between the nuclei and other particles. It is equal to 10^-24 square ...
barn owl: any of several species of nocturnal birds of prey of the genus Tyto (family Tytonidae). Barn owls are sometimes called monkey-faced owls because of their heart-shaped facial disks and absence ...
Barnabas, Letter of: an early Christian work written in Greek by one of the so-called Apostolic Fathers, Greek Christian writers of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries. Ascribed by tradition to St. ...
Barnabas, Saint: Apostolic Father, an important early Christian missionary.
Barnack, Oskar: designer of the first precision miniature camera to become available commercially, the Leica I, which was introduced in 1924 by the Ernst Leitz optical firm at Wetzlar, Ger.
barnacle: any of a majority of the 1,000 species of marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia. Adults of cirripedes other than barnacles are internal parasites of crabs, jellyfish, starfish, and some ...
barnacle goose: (Branta leucopsis), water bird of the family Anatidae (order Anseriformes) that resembles a small Canada goose, with dark back, white face, and black neck and bib. It winters in the ...
Barnard Castle: town, Teesdale district, administrative and historic county of Durham, England, on the north bank of the River Tees (there crossed by a medieval bridge). It developed around a Norman castle ...
Barnard's star: second nearest star to the Sun, at a distance of about 6 light-years. It is named for Edward Emerson Barnard, the American astronomer who discovered it in 1916. Barnard's star ...
Barnard, Chester Irving: American business executive, public administrator, and sociological theorist who specialized in the nature of corporate organization. Although he was not himself an academician, his first book, Functions of the Executive ...
Barnard, Christiaan: South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant operation.
Barnard, Edward Emerson: astronomer who pioneered in celestial photography and who was the leading observational astronomer of his time.
Barnard, Frederick: scientist, educator, and for nearly 25 years president of Columbia College in New York City, during which time Columbia was transformed from a small undergraduate institution for men into a ...
Barnard, George Grey: sculptor whose works were characterized by a vitality and individuality that brought him early fame.
Barnard, Henry: educator, jurist, and the first U.S. commissioner of education (1867-70). With Horace Mann he shared early leadership in improving the U.S. educational system.
Barnard, Kate: Oklahoma welfare leader and the first woman to hold statewide elective office in the United States.
Barnard, Lady Anne: author of the popular ballad "Auld Robin Gray" (1771).
Barnardo, Thomas John: pioneer in social work who founded more than 90 homes for destitute children. Under his direction, the children were given care and instruction of high quality despite the then unusual ...
Barnato, Barney: financier and diamond magnate who rivaled Cecil Rhodes in struggling for control in the development of the South African mining industry.
Barnaul: city and administrative centre, Altay kray (region), south-central Russia, on the left bank of the Ob River at its confluence with the Barnaulka. In 1738 a silver-refining ...
Barnave, Antoine: prominent political figure of the early French Revolutionary period whose oratorical skill and political incisiveness made him one of the most highly respected members of the National Assembly.
Barnes, Albert C.: American inventor of the antiseptic Argyrol (a mild silver protein) and noted art collector, whose collection resides in the Barnes Foundation Galleries in Merion, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia.
Barnes, Barnabe: Elizabethan poet, one of the Elizabethan sonneteers and the author of Parthenophil and Parthenophe.
Barnes, Djuna: avant-garde American writer who was a well-known figure in the Parisian literary scene of the 1920s and '30s.
Barnes, Ernest William: controversial Anglican bishop of Birmingham, a leader in the Church of England modernist movement.
Barnes, George Nicoll: trade-union leader, socialist, a founder (1900) and chairman (1910) of the British Labour Party, and member of David Lloyd George's coalition ministry during World War I.
Barnes, Julian: British television critic and author of inventive and intellectual novels about obsessed characters curious about the past.
Barnes, Pancho: aviator and movie stunt pilot, one of the first American women to establish a reputation and a business in the field of aviation.
Barnes, Robert: English Lutheran who was martyred after being used by King Henry VIII to gain support for his antipapal campaign in England.
Barnes, Thomas: British journalist who as editor of The Times for many years established its reputation and founded a tradition of independent journalism.
Barnes, William: English dialect poet whose work gave a simple and sincere picture of the life and labour of rural southwestern England. A gifted philologist, his linguistic theories as well as his ...
Barnet: outer borough of London, on the northwestern perimeter of the metropolis. The borough lies mostly within the historic county of Middlesex, but many of the borough's northern districts (including New ...
Barnet, Battle of: (April 14, 1471), in the English Wars of the Roses, a momentous victory for the Yorkist king Edward IV over his Lancastrian opponents, the adherents of Henry VI. It was ...
Barnet, Charlie: American band leader and saxophonist of the swing jazz era.
Barnet, Miguel: novelist, poet, ethnographer, and expert on Afro-Cuban culture.
Barnett, Samuel A: Anglican priest and social reformer who founded building programs and cultural centres (notably Toynbee Hall, 1884, which Barnett served as its first warden) in London's impoverished East End. In his ...
Barney, Nora Stanton Blatch: American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist whose professional and political activities built on her family's tradition of women leaders.
Barnsley: town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. Situated on the River Dearne, a tributary of the Don, Barnsley is an old market town ...
Barnstable: county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is bounded by Cape Cod Bay to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Nantucket Sound to the south, Vineyard Sound to the southwest, ...
Barnstable: city, Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is situated between Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Sound, on the "biceps" of Cape Cod. It was settled in 1638 by farmers who ...
Barnstaple: town ("parish"), North Devon district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. It lies on the north bank of the Taw estuary, about 10 miles (16 km) from the Bristol ...
Barnum, P.T.: American showman who employed sensational forms of presentation and publicity to popularize such amusements as the public museum, the musical concert, and the three-ring circus. In partnership with James A. ...
Barnwell: county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a low-lying region on the Coastal Plain bordered to the northeast by the South Fork Edisto River and to the southwest by ...
barnyard grass: (Echinochloa crus-galli), coarse annual grass of the family Poaceae (Gramineae) and one of about 20 species comprising the genus Echinochloa. The common name also applies to a similar species, E. ...