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- (from the article "Mali") ...as "Arab" had occurred intermittently. On September 6, 16 Kounta and Arab prisoners, who had been jailed for fighting, broke out of prison in Gao. In a major flare-up on ...
- bamba
- (from the article "Native American dance") ...zarabanda of Guatemala. Sometimes the theme of flirtation or female coyness blossoms forth in humorous interludes. Contests of improvisations to la bamba, widely danced in the Mexican ...
- Bamba M'backe, Amadou
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...where French continues to be the chief literary language for most writers, especially in Morocco and Algeria. Yet there is no hard and fast rule: a leading member of the ...
- Bambara
- ethnolinguistic group of the upper Niger region of Mali whose language, Bambara (Bamana), belongs to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Bambara are to a great extent ... [13 Related Articles]
- Bambara groundnut
- (from the article "Fabales") Notable among the locally useful plants of the legume family is Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut), a leguminous plant that develops underground fruits in the arid lands of Africa. Important too ...
- Bambara language
- (from the article "Mande languages") Many scholars divide Mande into western and eastern groups. The larger western group of 27 languages includes several estimated as having more than a million speakers: Bambara (which has four ...
- Bambara states
- two separate West African states, one of which was based on the town of Segou, between the Senegal and Niger rivers, and the other on Kaarta, along the middle Niger ... [4 Related Articles]
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- American writer, civil-rights activist, and teacher who wrote about the concerns of the African-American community. [3 Related Articles]
- Bambatana language
- (from the article "Melanesian languages") ...languages of note are Motu, in the form of Police Motu (a pidgin), used widely as a lingua franca in Papua New Guinea; Roviana, the language of the Methodist Mission ...
- Bambatha
- (from the article "South Africa") ...protest occurred through the new middle-class organizations, however. Some black farmers from Natal refused to pay a poll tax in 1906, and their resistance developed into an armed rising led ...
- Bamberg
- city, Bavaria Land (state), south-central Germany. It lies along the canalized Regnitz River, 2 miles (3 km) above the latter's confluence with the Main River, north of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bamberg
- county, south-central South Carolina, U.S. Bordered to the northeast by the South Fork Edisto River and to the southwest by the Salkehatchie River, it is also drained by the Little ...
- Bamberg cathedral
- (from the article "Bamberg") ...book printed in the German language was published in Bamberg. The city passed to Bavaria in 1802 after the secularization of the see. An archbishopric was established in 1817. Bamberg's ...
- Bamberger, Ludwig
- economist and publicist, a leading authority on currency problems in Germany. Originally a radical, he became a moderate liberal in Bismarck's Germany.
- Bamboccianti
- group of painters working in Rome in the mid-17th century who were known for their relatively small, often anecdotal paintings of everyday life. The word derives from the nickname "Il ...
- bamboo
- any of the tall, treelike grasses comprising the subfamily Bambusoideae of the family Poaceae. More than 75 genera and 1,000 species of bamboos have been proposed in botanical literature, but ... [19 Related Articles]
- Bamboo Annals
- set of Chinese court records written on bamboo slips, from the state of Wei, one of the many small states into which China was divided during the Dong (Eastern) Zhou ...
- bamboo palm
- (from the article "houseplant") ...Best known of the feather palms is the paradise palm (Howea, or Kentia), which combines grace with sturdiness; its thick, leathery leaves can stand much abuse. The parlour palms and ...
- bamboo rat
- any of four Asiatic species of burrowing, slow-moving, nocturnal rodents. Bamboo rats have a robust, cylindrical body, small ears and eyes, and short, stout legs. The three species of
- bamboo worm
- (from the article "annelid") ...biramous; setae all simple; size, 1 to 20 or more cm; examples of genera: Capitella, Notomastus, Arenicola, Maldane, ...
- bambuco
- (from the article "Native American dance") ...mingle indigenous and African features. The Colombian fandango derives more from Spanish diversions. The national dance, the bambuco, originated in the Andean zone. Male ...
- Bamburgh
- coastal village, Berwick-upon-Tweed borough, administrative and historic county of Northumberland, England. The site is dominated by Bamburgh Castle, which stands on a cliff 150 feet (45 metres) above the North ...
- Bamburgh Castle
- (from the article "Bamburgh") coastal village, Berwick-upon-Tweed borough, administrative and historic county of Northumberland, England. The site is dominated by Bamburgh Castle, which stands on a cliff 150 feet (45 metres) above the North ...
- Bambusa arundinacea
- (from the article "bamboo") ...Chinese cuisines. The raw leaves are a useful fodder for livestock. The pulped fibres of several bamboo species, especially Dendrocalamus strictus and Bambusa arundinacea, ...
- Bambuti
- a group of Pygmies of the Ituri Forest of eastern Congo (Kinshasa). They are the shortest group of Pygmies in Africa, averaging under 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm) in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Bamenda
- town, northwestern Cameroon. It is situated in the volcanic Bamenda highlands. Although communications are difficult because of heavy rainfall and rugged relief, the town serves as a trade and export ...
- Bamford, Samuel
- English radical reformer who was the author of several widely popular poems (principally in the Lancashire dialect) showing sympathy with the condition of the working class. He became a working ...
- Bamileke
- any of about 90 West African peoples in the Bamileke region of Cameroon. They speak a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family. They do not refer to ... [3 Related Articles]
- Bamiyan
- town located in central Afghanistan. It lies about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Kabul, the country's capital, in the Bamiyan valley, at an elevation of 8,495 feet (2,590 metres). [2 Related Articles]
- Bammera Potana
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...life in Warangal; and Palanati Vira Caritra, a popular ballad on a fratricidal war. Many erotic catus, or stray epigrams, are also attributed to him. Bammera Potana, a great Saiva ...
- Bampton lectures
- (from the article "Bampton, John") English clergyman who gave his name to one of Protestant Christendom's most distinguished lectureships, the Bampton lectures at Oxford University.
- Bampton, John
- English clergyman who gave his name to one of Protestant Christendom's most distinguished lectureships, the Bampton lectures at Oxford University.
- Bamum
- a West African people speaking a language that is often used as a lingua franca and belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family. Their kingdom, with its capital ... [3 Related Articles]
- Bamum language
- (from the article "Bamum") a West African people speaking a language that is often used as a lingua franca and belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family. Their kingdom, with its capital ...
- ban
- former Hungarian title denoting a governor of a military district (banat) and later designating a local representative of the Hungarian king in outlying possessions, e.g., Bosnia and Croatia. Originally a ... [2 Related Articles]
- ban
- (from the article "The Protestant Heritage") ...means of church discipline than could their magisterial counterparts. Social control was more feasible in these smaller and well-defined groups than in the established churches, and "the ban," a form ...
- ban
- (from the article "luogu") ...xiaoluo (small gong without a boss, beaten with a stick or a thin plate), ling (handbells), and ban (woodblock) are sometimes added. Whatever the ...
- Ban Biao
- eminent Chinese official of the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) who is reported to have begun the famous Han shu ("Book of Han"), considered the Confucian historiographic ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ban Chao
- Chinese general and colonial administrator of the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) who reestablished Chinese control over Central Asia.
- Ban Gu
- Chinese scholar-official of the Dong (Eastern), or Hou (Later), Han dynasty and one of China's most noteworthy historians. His Han shu (translated as The ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ban Ki-moon
- South Korean diplomat and politician, who became the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) in 2007. [10 Related Articles]
- Ban Zhao
- renowned Chinese scholar and historian of the Dong (Eastern) Han dynasty. [2 Related Articles]
- Ban, Shigeru
- Before a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Kobe area in Japan on Jan. 17, 1995, Shigeru Ban was recognized as a rising Japanese architect. He therefore felt he had to help ...
- Bana
- one of the greatest masters of Sanskrit prose, famed principally for his chronicle, Harsacarita ("Deeds of Harsa"), depicting the court and times of the Buddhist emperor Harsa (reigned c. 606-647) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banaba
- coral and phosphate formation, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. It is located 250 miles (400 km) west of the nearest Gilbert Islands and has a circumference of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Banabakintu, Saint Luke
- (from the article "Uganda, Martyrs of") ...Kibuka, Anatole Kiriggwajjo, Achilles Kiwanuka, Mugagga, Mukasa Kiriwawanvu, Adolphus Mukasa Ludigo, Gyavira, and Kizito. The soldiers and officials Saints Bruno Serunkuma, James Buzabaliawo, and Luke Banabakintu were martyred with them.
- Banach space
- (from the article "analysis") ...different areas of analysis all came together in a single generalization-rather, two generalizations, one more general than the other. These were the notions of a Hilbert space and a Banach ...
- Banach, Stefan
- Polish mathematician who founded modern functional analysis and helped develop the theory of topological vector spaces. [1 Related Articles]
- Banach-Tarski paradox
- (from the article "axiom of choice") Nonetheless, the axiom of choice does have some counterintuitive consequences. The best-known of these is the Banach-Tarski paradox. This shows that for a solid sphere there exists (in the sense ...
- banais righi
- (from the article "Celtic religion") ...central institution of sacral kingship. A good example is the pervasive and persistent concept of the hierogamy (sacred marriage) of the king with the goddess of sovereignty: the sexual union, ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- banana
- fruit of the genus Musa, of the family Musaceae, one of the most important food crops of the world. The banana is consumed extensively throughout the tropics, where it is ... [13 Related Articles]
- Banana, Canaan Sodindo
- Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and statesman (b. March 5, 1936, Esiphezini, Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia-d. Nov. 10, 2003, Harare, Zimb.), held the largely ceremonial post of president of Zimbabwe from 1980, ...
- Bananal Island
- island, Tocantins estado (state), central Brazil. The island is formed by the Araguaia River, which for 200 miles (320 km) divides into major (western) and minor (eastern) branches, with Bananal ...
- bananaquit
- (Coereba flaveola), bird of the West Indies (except Cuba) and southern Mexico to Argentina. It is usually placed with honeycreepers in the family Emberizidae (order Passeriformes), but it may belong ...
- Banaras Hindu University
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...in the Deccan in the 1880s. The movement for national education spread throughout Bengal, as well as to Varanasi (Banaras), where Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861-1946) founded his private Banaras ...
- Banaras, Treaties of
- (1773; 1775), two agreements regulating relations between the British government of Bengal and the ruler of the Muslim state of Oudh. The defense of Oudh had been guaranteed in 1765 ...
- Banarjee, Bibhuti Bhusan
- (from the article "Ray, Satyajit") ...house as a commercial illustrator, becoming a leading Indian typographer and book-jacket designer. Among the books he illustrated (1944) was the novel Pather Panchali by Bibhuti Bhushan Banarjee, the cinematic ...
- Banas River
- river in Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It rises near Kumbhalgarh and cuts its way tortuously through the Aravali Range. It then flows in a northeasterly course onto the plains and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banat
- ethnically mixed historic region of eastern Europe; it is bounded by Transylvania and Walachia in the east, by the Tisza River in the west, by the Mures River in the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Banat Mountains
- (from the article "Romania") Among the massifs themselves, the Banat and Poiana Ruscai mountains contain a rich variety of mineral resources and are the site of two of the country's three largest metallurgical complexes, ...
- Banawali
- (from the article "India") ...one direction being used for taller crops, such as peas, and the narrow perpendicular rows being used for oilseed plants such as those of the genus Sesamum ...
- Banbridge
- (from the article "Banbridge") ...vehicle components. Much of the land in the surrounding area is utilized for crops, including oats, potatoes, and barley, or as pasture for livestock (mostly pigs). Primary roads connect the ...
- Banbridge
- town, seat, and district (established 1973), formerly within County Down, southeastern Northern Ireland. Located on the River Bann, the town of Banbridge came into existence following the building of a ...
- Banbury
- town, Cherwell district, administrative and historic county of Oxfordshire, England. It lies along the River Cherwell. For centuries Banbury was noted for its ale, cheese, and Banbury cakes, a spiced ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banbury mixer
- (from the article "plastic") The workhorse mixer of the plastics and rubber industries is the internal mixer, in which heat and pressure are applied simultaneously. The Banbury ® mixer, shown in Figure 1, resembles ...
- Banc One
- (from the article "Bank One") Former U.S. bank holding company that merged with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in 2004. Bank One had been created through the 1998 merger of First Chicago NBD Corp. and ...
- Banca Popolare Italiana
- (from the article "Italy") ...who promptly forbade Fazio to speak for Italy at a World Bank meeting in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors reportedly wanted Fazio to explain why in July he had given the green ...
- Banca Romana
- (from the article "Italy") ...former treasury minister Giovanni Giolitti, who was prime minister from May 1892 to November 1893. Politicians needed the money to finance their election expenses and to run or bribe newspapers. ...
- Banchieri, Adriano
- one of the principal composers of madrigal comedies, choral pieces that suggest plots and action to be imagined by the performers and listeners. [1 Related Articles]
- Banco National Park
- national park, southeastern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It lies immediately north of Abidjan, the national capital. Declared a national park in 1953, Banco conserves both flora and fauna in some ...
- Bancroft
- village, Hastings county, in the hills of southeastern Ontario, Canada. Bancroft lies 60 miles (95 km) northeast of Peterborough. It originated as a farming settlement called York River in 1855, ...
- Bancroft, Ann
- American explorer who was the first woman to participate in and successfully finish several arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Bancroft, Anne
- American actress (b. Sept. 17, 1931, Bronx, N.Y.-d. June 6, 2005, New York, N.Y.), was a versatile performer whose half-century-long career was studded with renowned successes on stage, screen, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bancroft, Edward
- secretary to the American commissioners in France during the American Revolution who spied for the British.
- Bancroft, George
- American historian whose comprehensive 10-volume study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the "father of American history." [2 Related Articles]
- Bancroft, Hubert Howe
- historian of the American West who collected and published 39 volumes on the history and peoples of western North America. His work remains one of the great sources of information ...
- Bancroft, Richard
- (from the article "Archbishops of Canterbury") ...was made chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and it was there that a series of conflicts took place that eventually broke his judicial career. At the time ...
- Bancroft, Sir Squire
- English actor and manager whose espousal of careful craft in the writing and staging of plays did much to lay the foundations of modern theatrical production. [3 Related Articles]
- bancroftian filariasis
- (from the article "filariasis") ...into motile, infective larvae that, at the insect's next blood meal, are introduced into the human host, where they reach maturity in about a year. The term filariasis is commonly ...
- band
- (from the article "Carboniferous Period") ...in Great Britain includes the Millstone Grit and the Coal Measures-names in use since the naming of the system. Local names are applied to specific intervals, and marine horizons, called ...
- band
- in anthropology, a notional type of human social organization consisting of a small number of people (usually no more than 30 to 50 persons in all) who form a fluid, ... [9 Related Articles]
- band
- (from Middle French bande, "troop"), in music, an ensemble of musicians playing chiefly woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments, in contradistinction to an orchestra, which contains stringed instruments. Apart from this ... [3 Related Articles]
- band 3
- (from the article "blood group") ...and carry antigens of the ABO, Hh, Ii, and P systems. Glycoproteins, which traverse the red cell membrane, have a polypeptide backbone to which carbohydrates are attached. An abundant glycoprotein, ...
- band displacement method
- (from the article "rare-earth element") The band displacement method of separating individual rare-earth elements was first published in 1952. This process is capable of being scaled up to handle any quantity of rare earths. The ...
- band gap
- (from the article "superconductivity") As stated above, the thermal properties of superconductors indicate that there is a gap in the distribution of energy levels available to the electrons, and so a finite amount of ...
- band saw
- (from the article "saw") The vertical bandsaw blade is an endless narrow metal strip, with teeth along one edge, that runs around two large motorized pulleys or wheels that are mounted on a frame ...
- band spectrum
- (from the article "spectrum") ...the elements that emit the radiation. Line spectra are also called atomic spectra because the lines represent wavelengths radiated from atoms when electrons change from one energy level to another. ...
- band theory
- in solid-state physics, theoretical model describing the states of electrons, in solid materials, that can have values of energy only within certain specific ranges. The behaviour of an electron in ... [8 Related Articles]
- Band, the
- Canadian-American band that began as the backing group for both Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan, then branched out on its own in 1968. The Band's pioneering blend of traditional country, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Band-e amir
- (from the article "Buyid Dynasty") The Buyid state was then at its peak; it engaged in public works, building hospitals and the Band-e amir (Emir's Dam) across the Kur River near Shiraz; it had relations ...
- Band-e Qeysar
- (from the article "Shapur I") ...later famous as a centre of learning. Using the same captives, who excelled the Persians in technical skill, he built the dam at Shushtar known from that time as the ...
- band-pass filter
- arrangement of electronic components that allows only those electric waves lying within a certain range, or band, of frequencies to pass and blocks all others. The components may be conventional ... [2 Related Articles]
- band-winged grasshopper
- (from the article "short-horned grasshopper") The band-winged grasshoppers, subfamily Oedipodinae, produce a crackling noise during flight. When they are not in flight, their conspicuous, brightly coloured hind wings are covered by their forewings, which blend ...
- Banda
- a people of the Central African Republic, some of whom also live in Congo (Kinshasa) and Cameroon and possibly in the Sudan. The Banda speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi ... [1 Related Articles]
- banda
- (from the article "Tejano") In the 1930s Tejano's second major form, banda, or orquesta, emerged. Tejano big bands, most notably La Orquesta de Beto Villa, building upon the ...
- Banda
- city, southern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, near the Ken River (a tributary of the Yamuna). An agricultural marketplace, Banda lies at a road junction on a major rail line. ...
- Banda
- (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...people as possible. On the northern fringes of the forest, astride the routes along which gold and kola nuts were brought for exchange with the Dyula, important new kingdoms emerged ...
- Banda Aceh
- kotamadya (municipality), capital of Aceh semiautonomous province, Indonesia. It is located on the Aceh River at the northwestern tip of the island of Sumatra, facing the Andaman Sea. [2 Related Articles]
- Banda Islands
- island group, Maluku propinsi (province), Indonesia. The islands lie in the Banda Sea, southeast of Ambon Island and south of Ceram. The largest of the nine islands, which have a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banda Oriental del Rio Uruguay
- (from the article "Argentina") ...achieved by setting aside, rather than resolving, certain fundamental difficulties. In particular, the institutional organization of the country was not carried out, and nothing was done about the Banda Oriental ...
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