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- portion of the western South Pacific Ocean, bounded by the southern islands of the Moluccas of Indonesia (Alor, Timor, Wetar, Babar, Tanimbar, and Kai on the south and Ceram, Buru, ...
- Banda Singh Bahadur
- first Sikh military leader to wage an offensive war against the Mughal rulers of India, thereby temporarily extending Sikh territory. [4 Related Articles]
- Banda, Hastings Kamuzu
- first president of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) and the principal leader of the Malawi nationalist movement. He ruled Malawi from 1963 to 1994, combining totalitarian political controls with conservative economic policies. [4 Related Articles]
- Banda, Rupiah
- (from the article "Zambia") ...and he died several weeks later. Under the terms of the constitution, a special election to choose a new president was eventually scheduled for later that year; in the interim, ...
- Bandai Sikh
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...("Victory to the Guru!"). He also required his followers to be vegetarians and to wear red garments instead of the traditional blue. Those who accepted these changes were called Bandai ...
- Bandak Canal
- (from the article "Skien") ...Skien's lumber and mining concerns began the development of the area in the mid-1600s. The ore has been exhausted, but the town has important foundries and a thriving lumber and ...
- Bandama River
- longest and, commercially, most important river in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast); with its major tributaries, the Red Bandama (Marahoue) and the Nzi, it drains half of the surface area of ...
- Bandar Lampung
- port city, kotamadya (municipality), and capital of Lampung propinsi (province), Indonesia. It lies at the head of Lampung Bay on the south coast of Sumatra. Bandar Lampung was created in ...
- Bandar Seri Begawan
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- Bandar-e 'Abbas
- port city on the Strait of Hormuz, the main maritime outlet for much of southern Iran. It lies on the northern shore of Hormuz Bay opposite the islands of Qeshm, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bandar-e Bushehr
- port city, southwestern Iran. It lies near the head of the Persian Gulf at the northern end of a flat and narrow peninsula that is connected with the mainland by ...
- Bandaranaike, Anura P. S. D.
- (from the article "Bandaranaike, Sirimavo R.D.") Bandaranaike's children, in the meantime, had become major political figures within the SLFP. Her son, Anura P.S.D. Bandaranaike (b. 1949), was first elected to parliament in 1977 and had become ...
- Bandaranaike, S.W.R.D.
- statesman and prime minister of Ceylon (1956-59), whose election marked a significant change in the political history of modern Ceylon. [4 Related Articles]
- Bandaranaike, Sirimavo R.D.
- stateswoman who, upon her party's victory in the 1960 Ceylon general election, became the world's first woman prime minister. She left office in 1965 but returned to serve two more ... [3 Related Articles]
- banded cat-eyed snake
- (from the article "cat snake") ...of the New World tropics are superficially similar to Old World cat snakes. Ten species of cat-eyed snakes occur in dry habitats from Mexico to Argentina. The most common species ...
- banded coal
- (from the article "Coal type according to appearance") The term coal type is also employed to distinguish between banded coals and nonbanded coals (see table). Banded coals contain varying amounts of vitrinite and opaque material. They include bright ...
- banded gabbroic complex
- (from the article "gabbro") Banded, or layered, gabbroic complexes in which monomineral or bimineral varieties are well developed have been described from Montana, the Bushveld in South Africa, and the island of Skye. There ...
- banded gecko
- (from the article "gecko") Geckos are abundant throughout the warm areas of the world, and at least a few species occur on all continents except Antarctica. The banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus), ...
- banded krait
- (from the article "krait") The banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus) of Southeast Asia grows to 2 metres (6.6 feet), and other species commonly reach more than a metre in length. All have ...
- banded linsang
- (from the article "linsang") any of three species of long-tailed, catlike mammals belonging to the civet family (Viverridae). The African linsang (Poiana richardsoni), the banded linsang (Prionodon linsang), and the spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) ...
- banded mongoose
- (from the article "mongoose") ...and are terrestrial, although the marsh mongoose (Atilax paludinosus) and a few others are semiaquatic. Some mongooses live alone or in pairs, but others, such as the ...
- banded stilt
- (from the article "stilt") The banded, or red-breasted, stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephala), of Australia, is white with brown wings, reddish breast band, and yellowish legs.
- banded woolly bear
- (from the article "tiger moth") ...the Isabella tiger moth (Isia isabella), emerges in spring and attains a wingspan of 37 to 50 mm (1.5 to 2 inches). Black spots mark its abdomen and yellow wings. ...
- banded-iron formation
- chemically precipitated sediment, typically thin bedded or laminated, consisting of 15 percent or more iron of sedimentary origin and layers of chert, chalcedony, jasper, or quartz. Such formations occur on ... [5 Related Articles]
- bandeira
- Portuguese slave-hunting expedition into the Brazilian interior in the 17th century. The bandeirantes (members of such expeditions) were usually mamelucos (of mixed Indian and Portuguese ancestry) from Sao Paulo who ... [5 Related Articles]
- Bandeira Mountain
- (from the article "Brazil") ...Serra do Espinhaco; in southern Minas Gerais the Mantiqueira range reaches 9,143 feet (2,787 metres) at Agulhas Negras Peak on the Rio de Janeiro state border and 9,482 feet (2,890 ...
- Bandeira, Manuel
- poet who was one of the principal figures in the Brazilian literary movement known as Modernismo. [2 Related Articles]
- bandeirante
- (from the article "Brazil") ...centuries of Brazilian colonization, little attention was paid to the nearly inaccessible and seemingly unproductive highlands, although parties of explorers, known as bandeirantes, traversed them from time ...
- Bandelier National Monument
- archaeological area and scenic wilderness of the Pajarito Plateau in north-central New Mexico, U.S. It lies along the Rio Grande 20 miles (32 km) west-northwest of Santa Fe. Established in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bandelier, Adolph
- Swiss-American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist who was among the first to study the American Indian cultures of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Peru-Bolivia. His works, particularly those relating to ...
- Bandello, Matteo
- Italian writer whose Novelle (stories) started a new trend in 16th-century narrative literature and had a wide influence in England, France, and Spain. [5 Related Articles]
- Bandera, Stepan
- (from the article "Ukraine") ...rent by factional strife between the followers of Andry Melnyk, who headed the organization from abroad after the assassination of Konovalets by a Soviet agent in 1938, and the younger ...
- Banderas, Antonio
- Spanish-born film actor whose good looks, sensuality, and emotional range made him a leading international star. [1 Related Articles]
- banderilla
- (from the article "bullfighting") ...the mounted assistants with pike poles who lance the bull in the bullfight's first act; the banderilleros, the assistants on foot who execute the initial capework and place the barbed ...
- banderillero
- (from the article "bullfighting") ...a word that harkens back to the days of mounted bullfighters), consist of the picadors, the mounted assistants with pike poles who lance the bull in the bullfight's first act; ...
- Banderoles, Master of the
- (from the article "printmaking") ...For shading he used slightly diagonal parallel cuts. The Master of the Playing Cards heralds the beginning of a century of great printmakers in Germany. Another significant engraver, the Master ...
- bandhani work
- Indian tie dyeing, or knot dyeing, in which parts of a silk or cotton cloth are tied tightly with wax thread before the whole cloth is dipped in a dye ...
- Bandiagara Escarpment
- (from the article "Dogon") ...family, but its relationship to other languages of the family, if any, is uncertain. The Dogon number about 600,000, and the majority of them live in the rocky hills, mountains, ...
- bandicoot
- any of about 22 species of Australasian marsupial mammals comprising the family Peramelidae. (For Asian rodents of this name, see bandicoot rat.) Bandicoots are 30 to 80 cm (12 to ...
- bandicoot rat
- any of five Asiatic species of rodents closely associated with human populations. The greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) is the largest, weighing 0.5 to 1 kg (1.1 to 2.2 pounds). ...
- Bandiera brothers
- Italian brothers who were followers of Giuseppe Mazzini and who led an abortive revolt against Austrian rule in Italy. Attilio Bandiera (b. May 24, 1810, Venice [Italy], -d. July 23, ...
- Bandiera, Attilio
- (from the article "Bandiera brothers") The sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austrian navy, Attilio and Emilio themselves became naval officers but were converted to the cause of Italian independence by Mazzini, ...
- Bandiera, Emilio
- (from the article "Bandiera brothers") The sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austrian navy, Attilio and Emilio themselves became naval officers but were converted to the cause of Italian independence by Mazzini, ...
- Bandinelli, Baccio
- Florentine Mannerist sculptor whose Michelangelo-influenced works were favoured by the Medici in the second quarter of the 16th century. [1 Related Articles]
- banding
- (from the article "gneiss") Gneiss is medium- to coarse-grained and may contain abundant quartz and feldspar, which some petrographers regard as essential components. The banding is usually due to the presence of differing proportions ...
- banding
- (from the article "ornithology") ...gained through simple, direct field observation (usually aided only by binoculars), some areas of ornithology have benefited greatly from the introduction of such instruments and techniques as bird banding, radar, ...
- banding pattern
- (from the article "blood group") ...character and for evidence of the nonindependent segregation of pairs of characters. The results must be assessed statistically to determine linkage. Individual chromosomes are identified by the banding patterns revealed ...
- Bandini, Domenico
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...as Suidas was the first such work to be completely arranged alphabetically, but it had no influence on succeeding encyclopaedias, although glossaries, when included, were so arranged. Bandini's Fons memorabilium ...
- Bandini, Fernando
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...Eugenio Montale; the Calabrian Symbolist Lorenzo Calogero, who has been compared to Stephane Mallarme, Rainer Marie Rilke, Dino Campana, and Friedrich Holderlin; experimentalist Fernando Bandini, who was equally at home ...
- Bandirma
- port and town, northwestern Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara. It was used in the 13th century by the Latin crusaders as a base of operation against the Greeks of ...
- Bandol, Jean de
- (from the article "tapestry") ...1363-1400). This monumental set originally included seven tapestries, each measuring approximately 16.5 feet in height by 80 feet in length (5.03 by 24.38 metres). Based on cartoons drawn by Jean ...
- Bandon
- town, County Cork, Ireland, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Cork. Founded in 1608 by Richard Boyle, later Earl of Cork, Bandon was initially populated by English and Scottish settlers. ...
- Bandon, River
- river in County Cork, Ireland, flowing in a valley cut in rocks of the Carboniferous period (360 to 286 million years ago) but covered with glacial drift and alluvium. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- bandonion
- (from the article "accordion") Accordions are played as both concert and folk instruments. A variant of both the accordion and the concertina is the bandonion, a single- or double-action instrument with square shape and ...
- Bandula, Maha
- Myanmar general who fought against the British in the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26).
- Bandundu
- city, southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the junction of the Kwango and Kwilu rivers. It is a river port serving navigation on the Congo River system from Kinshasa ...
- Bandung
- kotamadya (municipality) and capital of West Java (Jawa Barat) propinsi (province), Indonesia, in the interior of Java on the northern edge of a plateau nearly 2,400 feet (730 metres) above ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bandung Conference
- a meeting of Asian and African states-organized by Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan-which took place April 18-24, 1955, in Bandung, Indonesia. In all, 29 countries representing ... [4 Related Articles]
- Bandung Institute of Technology
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The city's prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology, which originated as a college of architecture and engineering in the Dutch period, today represents the faculties of mathematics and of the natural ...
- Bandung line
- (from the article "China") ...Conference in April 1955, held at Bandung, Indonesia, which discussed Asian-African issues. His slogan was "Unity with all," according to the line of peaceful coexistence. This "Bandung line" associated with ...
- Bandung Study Club
- (from the article "Indonesia") The defeat of the communist revolt and the earlier decline of Sarekat Islam left the way open for a new nationalist organization, and in 1926 a "general study club" was ...
- bandura
- a stringed instrument of the psaltery family considered the national musical instrument of Ukraine. It is used chiefly to accompany folk music. The bandura has an oval ...
- Bandura, Albert
- (from the article "imitation") ...predisposition. Later writers have viewed the mechanisms of imitation as those of social learning. Imitation is central to the social learning approach of Canadian-born American psychologist Albert Bandura. His investigations ...
- bandurria
- stringed musical instrument of the lute family, with a design derived from the cittern and guitar. The modern bandurria has a small, pear-shaped wooden body, a short ...
- bandwagon effect
- (from the article "public opinion") Critics allege also that election polls create a "bandwagon effect"-that people want to be on the winning side and therefore switch their votes to the candidates whom the polls show ...
- bandwidth
- in electronics, the range of frequencies occupied by a modulated radio-frequency signal, usually given in hertz (cycles per second) or as a percentage of the radio frequency. For example, an ... [8 Related Articles]
- bandwidth-limited channel
- (from the article "information theory") A signal is said to be band-limited or bandwidth-limited if it can be represented by a finite number of harmonics. Engineers limit the bandwidth of signals to enable multiple signals ...
- bandy
- a game similar to ice hockey. It is played almost exclusively in the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic countries, and Mongolia. A team is composed of from 8 to 11 players ...
- bandy-bandy
- Australian snake of the cobra family Elapidae, strikingly ringed with black and white or yellowish bands. Adults are about 50-80 cm (20-31 inches) long and are venomous but inoffensive. Five ...
- baneberry
- any of about eight species of perennial herbaceous plants constituting the genus Actaea of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae); they are all native to North Temperate Zone woodlands.
- Baner, Johan
- Swedish field marshal who was one of the foremost soldiers in the Thirty Years' War. [1 Related Articles]
- Banerjea, Sir Surendranath
- one of the founders of modern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. [2 Related Articles]
- Banerjee, N. V.
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") Among later philosophers, N.V. Banerjee (1901-81) and Kalidas Bhattacharyya (1911-84), the son of K.C. Bhattacharyya, have made important contributions. In Language, Meaning and Persons (1963), Banerjee examines the development of ...
- Banes
- city, eastern Cuba. It serves as a commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural district, which mainly produces sugarcane, although bananas and other fruits also are grown. Produce is shipped from ...
- Banff
- town, southwestern Alberta, Canada. Banff lies along the glacial-green Bow River, near scenic Lake Louise and within the boundaries of Banff National Park, of which it is the headquarters. Named ...
- Banff
- ancient royal burgh (town), Aberdeenshire council area, historic county of Banffshire, northeastern Scotland. It is a North Sea port and lies on the western bank of the River Deveron opposite ...
- Banff National Park
- national park in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Located on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Banff occupies 2,564 square miles (6,641 square km). It is adjacent to Yoho and Kootenay ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banffshire
- historic county, northeastern Scotland, extending from the Grampian Mountains to the North Sea. The northeastern portion of the county, including the historic county town (seat) of Banff, is part of ...
- Banfield, Edmund James
- (from the article "Australian literature") E.J. Banfield stepped aside from the world for reasons of health and wrote from his island on the Great Barrier Reef a series of books beginning with Confessions of a ...
- Banfield, Edward
- (from the article "political science") ...regimes in the 20th century in Russia, Germany, and Italy, and many early studies (e.g., The Authoritarian Personality) focused on Nazi Germany; one early political culture study, Edward Banfield's The ...
- Banfora Escarpment
- (from the article "Burkina Faso") ...converge in Ghana to the south to form the Volta River. The Oti, another tributary of the Volta, rises in southeastern Burkina Faso. In the southwest there are sandstone plateaus ...
- Bang & Olufsen
- (from the article "industrial design") ...after World War II. In Denmark, for instance, architect Arne Jacobsen established an international reputation with his iconic plywood-and-steel Ant chair (1951), and Jacob Jensen designed minimalist Bang & Olufsen ...
- bang di
- (from the article "di") ...qu di, so named because it is used to accompany kunqu, a form of southern Chinese opera, and bang di, so named because it ...
- Bang Kapi
- (from the article "Bangkok") ...mostly for the wealthy foreign community, usually takes the form of large, modern, two-story masonry structures set in private compounds and equipped with separate servants' quarters and kitchens. Bang Kapi ...
- Bang, Bernhard Lauritz Frederik
- Danish veterinarian who in 1897 discovered Brucella abortus (Bang's bacillus), the causative agent of contagious abortion in cattle and of brucellosis (undulant fever) in human beings.
- Bang, Herman
- novelist who was a major Danish representative of literary Impressionism. His work reflected the profound pessimism of his time. [1 Related Articles]
- banga
- (from the article "Munakata Shiko") ...childhood, despite limited schooling. In 1924 he went to Tokyo, studied woodblock printing with Hiratsuka Un'ichi, and, after several years, developed his own style, preferring to call his works banga ...
- Bangabandhu Bridge
- (from the article "Sirajganj") ...mills were the first to be established in the Bengal area. It was constituted a municipality in 1869. The city has several government colleges and many private institutions of higher ...
- Bangalore
- city and capital (since 1830) of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. One of India's largest cities, Bangalore lies 3,113 feet (949 metres) above sea level atop an east-west ridge ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banganga River
- (from the article "Rajasthan") ...and perennial river in the state. Its principal tributary, the Banas, rises in the Aravalis near Kumbhalgarh and collects all the drainage of the Mewar Plateau. Farther north, the Banganga, ...
- Banggai Islands
- archipelago consisting of two major islands and approximately 100 islets in Sulawesi Tengah provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. The archipelago is situated between the Sula and Celebes islands at the entrance to ...
- Banghazi
- city and major seaport of northeastern Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra. It was founded by the Greeks of Cyrenaica as Hesperides (Euesperides) and received from the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bangia
- (from the article "algae") ...with flattened cristae; flagella completely absent; coralline red algae contribute to coral reefs and coral sands; predominantly marine; approximately 4,100 described species; Bangia, Palmaria, ...
- Bangka
- island, Bangka-Belitung propinsi (province), Indonesia. The island is situated off the eastern coast of Sumatra across the Bangka Strait, which is only 9 miles (14 km) wide ...
- Bangka-Belitung
- (from the article "Sumatera Selatan") ...Indonesia, bounded by the provinces of Lampung to the south, Bengkulu to the west, and Jambi to the north. In 2000 the eastern islands of Sumatera Selatan were made into ...
- Bangkok
- city, capital, and chief port of Thailand. It is the only cosmopolitan city in a country of small towns and villages and is Thailand's cultural and commercial centre. [7 Related Articles]
- Bangkok International Banking Facility
- (from the article "Thailand") ...as one of the most important factors in the rapid growth of the national economy. As part of the liberalization of the country's financial markets in the early 1990s, the ...
- Bangladesh
- country of south-central Asia, located in the delta of the Padma (Ganges [Ganga]) and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent. [30 Related Articles]
- Bangladesh cyclone of 1991
- (April 22-30, 1991), one of the deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded. The storm hit near the Chittagong region, one of the most populated areas in Bangladesh. An estimated 140,000 people ...
- Bangladesh National Party
- (from the article "Bangladesh") ...22, 2007, apprehension mounted, and many feared that the outcome would be marred by bloodshed. The opposition Awami League (AL) and its allies were poised to boycott the event because ...
- Bangladesh, flag of
- national flag consisting of a dark bluish green field (background) incorporating a large, off-centre orange-red disk. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 3 to 5.
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