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- Italian fencing master, much respected in both Italy and Hungary. A student of the great Italian sabre teacher Giuseppe Radaelli, Barbasetti in many ways outstripped his master. His unique insight ...
- barbastelle
- either of two bats of the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae, found in Europe and North Africa (B. barbastellus) and in the Middle East and Asia (B. leucomelas). Barbastelles have short, ... [1 Related Articles]
- barbat
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...samisen). In Japan the Imperial Treasury at Nara preserves three biwas used at a great concert held in 752. The biwa-pipa family can be traced ultimately to Persia, where, as ...
- Barbatia
- (from the article "ark shell") ...species are found in tropical seas, with only a few species occurring in temperate areas. Ark shells are slow-moving or sedentary. Many species, especially those of the genera Arca and ...
- Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
- British writer, poet, and editor whose best writings are on political and social themes. Her poetry belongs essentially in the tradition of 18th-century meditative verse. [1 Related Articles]
- barbe de capucin
- (from the article "chicory") The roots are grown in the open during the summer and are taken up in the fall to be forced, or grown indoors out of season, during the winter. One ...
- Barbe, Jean
- (from the article "Literature") ...with Nadine Bismuth, whose Scrapbook was set in a university environment. Readers in their 20s and 30s, a group often neglected in publishing, found their lives reflected in this novel. ...
- Barbe-Marbois, Francois, marquis de
- French statesman who in 1803 negotiated the Louisiana Purchase by the United States.
- Barbeau Peak
- (from the article "Ellesmere Island") ...with towering mountains (especially in the north), vast ice fields, and a deeply indented coastline. Cape Columbia, at latitude 83°07' N, is the most northerly point of Canada, and Barbeau ...
- barbecue
- an outdoor meal, usually a form of social entertainment, at which meats, fish, or fowl, along with vegetables, are roasted over a wood or charcoal fire. The term also denotes ... [1 Related Articles]
- barbed wire
- fence wire usually consisting of two longitudinal wires twisted together to form cable and having wire barbs wound around either or both of the cable wires at regular intervals. The ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barbegal
- (from the article "waterwheel") Little is known of the details of geared-mill development between the time of Vitruvius and the 12th century. An outstanding installation was the grain mill at Barbegal, near Arles, Fr., ...
- Barbeitos, Arlindo
- Angolan poet, many of whose works, written in Portuguese, portray in a subtle manner the struggle of his people for independence as well as the essential harmony between man and ...
- barbel
- (from the article "barb") The barbel (B. barbus) of central and western European rivers is a slender, rather elongate fish with a thick-lipped, crescent-shaped mouth and four barbels, which it uses to search out ...
- barbel
- (from the article "barb") ...any of numerous freshwater fishes belonging to a genus in the carp family, Cyprinidae. The barbs are native to Europe, Africa, and Asia. The members of this genus typically have ...
- barbell
- (from the article "weight lifting") The weight used in modern competitive lifting is the barbell, a steel bar or rod to which cast-iron or steel disk weights are attached at each end on a revolving ...
- barber
- a person whose primary activities in the 20th century are trimming and styling the hair of men, shaving them, and shaping their beards, sideburns, and moustaches. Barbers, or hairdressers, often ... [1 Related Articles]
- barber paradox
- (from the article "mathematics, foundations of") ...involving sets that contain themselves as elements-e.g., by taking phi(x) to be ¬(x ∈ x). Russell illustrated this by what has come to be known as the barber paradox: A ...
- Barber, Bernard
- (from the article "drug use") To consider drugs only as medicinal agents or to insist that drugs be confined to prescribed medical practice is to fail to understand man. The remarks of the American sociologist ...
- Barber, John
- (from the article "gas-turbine engine") ...with the modern gas-turbine engine, which includes a compressor, combustion chamber, and turbine to make up a self-contained prime mover. The first patent to approximate such a system was issued ...
- Barber, Patricia
- She rose from Chicago cult performer to international jazz star, but Patricia Barber's rise was slow and far from steady. On one opening night in 1984 at a small club ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barber, Red
- American baseball broadcaster, who was the homespun radio and television announcer for the Cincinnati Reds (1934-39), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939-53), and New York Yankees (1954-66) professional baseball teams.
- Barber, Samuel
- American composer who is considered one of the most expressive representatives of the lyric and Romantic trends in 20th-century classical music. [2 Related Articles]
- Barber, Tiki
- (from the article "Football") MVP Shaun Alexander of Seattle led the league with 1,880 yd rushing, 168 points, and a record 28 touchdowns. The unusually high number of MVP candidates included league leaders Tiki ...
- Barbera, Joseph Roland
- American motion-picture animator (b. March 24, 1911, New York, N.Y.-d. Dec. 18, 2006, Los Angeles, Calif.), collaborated for more than half a century with William Hanna, and the two created ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barberi, Domenico, Blessed
- mystic and Passionist who worked as a missionary in England.
- Barberini Family
- an aristocratic Roman family, originally of Barberino in the Else valley; they later settled first in Florence and then in Rome, where they became wealthy and powerful.
- Barberini ivory
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...a bust of Christ. They thus illustrated the Byzantine ideas of hierarchy, Christ above and the world below, dominated by the emperor as Christ's vice-regent. The finest of them, known ...
- Barberini, Antonio
- (from the article "Barberini Family") Antonio Barberini defended Florence in 1530 and then went to Rome, to which in 1555 he summoned his nephew Francesco (1528-1600), the real founder of the Barberini dynasty. Francesco and ...
- Barberini, Francesco
- (from the article "Barberini Family") Antonio Barberini defended Florence in 1530 and then went to Rome, to which in 1555 he summoned his nephew Francesco (1528-1600), the real founder of the Barberini dynasty. Francesco and ...
- Barberini, Francesco
- (from the article "Barberini Family") Antonio Barberini defended Florence in 1530 and then went to Rome, to which in 1555 he summoned his nephew Francesco (1528-1600), the real founder of the Barberini dynasty. Francesco and ...
- Barberini, Palazzo
- (from the article "Rome") ...The Palazzo della Consulta (1734) was erected for part of the papal administration. The Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, built by a Borghese cardinal in 1603, is still a private house. The Palazzo ...
- barberry
- any of almost 500 species of thorny evergreen or deciduous shrubs constituting the genus Berberis of the family Berberidaceae, mostly native to the North Temperate Zone, particularly Asia. Species of ... [2 Related Articles]
- barbershop quartet singing
- form of popular choral music consisting of unaccompanied male singing, with three voices harmonizing to the melody of a fourth voice. The voice parts are tenor, lead, baritone, and bass, ...
- Barberton
- city, Summit county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., just south of Akron, on the Tuscarawas River, there dammed to form the Portage Lakes. It was founded in 1890 by Ohio C. Barber ...
- Barberton belt
- (from the article "Precambrian time") The first fossil evidence of terrestrial life is found in the early Archean sedimentary rocks of the greenstone-granite belts (metamorphosed oceanic crust and island arc complexes) of the Barberton craton ...
- barbet
- any of about 75 species of tropical birds constituting the family Capitonidae (order Piciformes). Barbets are named for the bristles at the bases of their stout, sharp bills. They are ... [1 Related Articles]
- barbette
- (from the article "artillery") In the 1890s the "barbette" mounting for coastal-defense guns became the preferred pattern. Here the mounting was in a shallow pit, protected from enemy fire, but the muzzle and upper ...
- Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules-Amedee
- French novelist and influential critic who in his day was influential in matters of social fashion and literary taste. A member of the minor nobility of Normandy, he remained throughout ...
- Barbeya
- genus of dicotyledonous flowering tree, the sole species of which is B. oleoides. It grows in Ethiopia and Somalia and on the Arabian Peninsula. Barbeya has the general aspect of ...
- Barbeya oleoides
- (from the article "Barbeya") genus of dicotyledonous flowering tree, the sole species of which is B. oleoides. It grows in Ethiopia and Somalia and on the Arabian Peninsula. Barbeya has the general aspect of ...
- Barbican
- area in the City of London containing residential towers and Barbican Centre, a complex of theatres, halls, and cultural facilities. The London Symphony Orchestra is resident in the arts complex, ... [1 Related Articles]
- barbican
- (from the article "castle") ...front of the gateways by drawbridges-i.e., bridges that could be drawn back or raised from the inner side in order to prevent the moats from being crossed. The gateway was ...
- Barbie
- an 11-inch- (29-cm-) tall plastic doll with the figure of an adult woman that was introduced in 1959 by Mattel, Inc., a southern California toy company. Ruth Handler, who cofounded ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barbie, Klaus
- Nazi leader, head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, who was held responsible for the death of some 4,000 persons and the deportation of some 7,500 others.
- Barbier, Antoine-Alexandre
- French librarian and bibliographer who compiled a standard reference directory of anonymous writings and who helped in preserving scholarly books and manuscripts during and after the French Revolution.
- Barbier, Charles
- (from the article "Braille") When Louis Braille entered the school for the blind in Paris, in 1819, he learned of a system of tangible writing using dots, invented in 1819 by Capt. Charles Barbier, ...
- Barbin, Francois
- (from the article "pottery") A factory at the Rue de Charonne, in Paris, was started by Francois Barbin in 1735 and removed to Mennecy in 1748. The early productions were in the manner of ...
- Barbirolli, Sir John
- English conductor and cellist.
- barbital
- (from the article "barbiturate") ...a calming effect), as hypnotics (to produce sleep), or as an adjunct in anesthesia. Barbiturates are derivatives of barbituric acid (malonyl urea), which is formed from malonic acid and urea. ...
- barbiturate
- any of a class of organic compounds used in medicine as sedatives (to produce a calming effect), as hypnotics (to produce sleep), or as an adjunct in anesthesia. Barbiturates are ... [11 Related Articles]
- barbituric acid
- an organic compound of the pyrimidine family, a class of compounds with a characteristic six-membered ring structure composed of four carbon atoms and two nitrogen atoms, that is regarded as ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barbizon school
- mid-19th-century French school of painting, part of a larger European movement toward naturalism in art, that made a significant contribution to the establishment of Realism in French landscape painting. Inspired ... [13 Related Articles]
- Barbon, Nicholas
- English economist, widely considered the founder of fire insurance.
- Barbon, Praise-God
- English sectarian preacher from whom the Cromwellian Barebones Parliament derived its nickname.
- barbooth
- dice game of Middle Eastern origin, used for gambling; in the United States it is played chiefly by persons of Greek or Jewish ancestry. The shooter casts two dice (traditionally ...
- Barbosa de Rosario, Pilar
- Puerto Rican historian and political adviser who in 1921 became the first woman to teach at the University of Puerto Rico; she was named the commonwealth's official historian in 1993 ...
- Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, Alexandre Jose
- Brazilian journalist and politician (b. Jan. 22, 1897, Recife, Braz.-d. July 16, 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.), was a longtime columnist for the daily newspaper Jornal do Brasil and head ...
- Barbosa, Jorge
- African poet who expressed in Portuguese the cultural isolation and the tragic nature of life on the drought-stricken Cape Verdean islands. In delicately phrased verse that became a model for ...
- Barbot, Clement
- (from the article "Duvalier, Francois") ...a program of popular reform and black nationalism, Duvalier was elected president in September 1957. Setting about to consolidate his power, he reduced the size of the army and, with ...
- Barbotine ware
- pottery decorated with a clay slip applied by means of a technique first employed on Rhenish pottery prior to the 3rd century AD. The slip was applied by piping, in ...
- Barbou, Joseph Gerard
- (from the article "graphic design") ...One such artist was Frenchman Charles Eisen, who illustrated French poet Jean de La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers (1762; Tales and Novels in Verse). In this work, Joseph ...
- Barbour, Dave
- (from the article "Lee, Peggy") Lee married Goodman's guitarist, Dave Barbour, in late 1943 and briefly retired. Upon returning to the music scene in 1945, she launched a second career as a songwriter and collaborated ...
- Barbour, Ian
- On May 11, 1999, American theologian and physicist Ian Barbour was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the world's largest annual monetary award-$1,240,000-for his "deep and lasting contribution ...
- Barbour, John
- author of a Scottish national epic known as The Bruce, the first major work of Scottish literature. [1 Related Articles]
- Barbour, Philip P
- associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1836-41) and political figure known for his advocacy of states' rights and strict construction of the U.S. Constitution.
- Barbourville
- city, seat of Knox county, southeastern Kentucky, U.S. It lies on the Cumberland River, in the Cumberland Mountains, and is a gateway to Daniel Boone National Forest. It was founded ...
- Barbuda People's Movement
- (from the article "Antigua and Barbuda") ...whose family had ruled Antigua and Barbuda since independence in 1981, lost his seat, with the UPP grabbing 12 of the 17 electoral districts. ALP retained four, and the Barbuda ...
- barbule
- (from the article "feather") ...typical feather consists of a central shaft (rachis), with serial paired branches (barbs) forming a flattened, usually curved surface-the vane. The barbs possess further branches -the barbules-and the barbules of ...
- Barbusse, Henri
- novelist, author of Le Feu (1916; Under Fire, 1917), a firsthand witness of the life of French soldiers in World War I. Barbusse belongs to an important lineage of French ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barc
- (from the article "Cuman") ...expeditionary forces; but, by the beginning of the 13th century, they had become more aggressive and launched their own raids into southeastern Transylvania. Soon afterward the Cuman prince Barc and ...
- BARC
- (from the article "logistics") ...vehicles and tanks, landing ramps, and heavy-cargo-handling equipment. More revolutionary additions to the technology of amphibious logistics were the American landing vehicle hydrofoil and the BARC, both amphibians with pneumatic-tired ...
- Barc de Boutteville, Le
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...with drama; it inspired its own periodical, La Revue Blanche, and Le Theatre de l'Oeuvre (both founded in Paris in 1891); there were exhibitions twice a year at a Paris ...
- Barcaccia
- (from the article "Bernini, Pietro") ...in the Church of Gesu Nuovo, and the Virgin in the National Museum of San Martino (reworked by Cosimo Fanzago). He also carved the Medina Fountain in ...
- barcarole
- (from Italian barcarola, "boatman" or "gondolier"), originally a Venetian gondolier's song typified by gently rocking rhythms in 68 or 128 time. In the 18th and 19th centuries the barcarole inspired ...
- Barcelo, Gertrudis
- Mexican-born businesswoman who built her fortune through casinos and trade ventures in the early American Southwest.
- Barcelona
- (from the article "France") ...pillagers, in this case the Muslims, and who profited from urban growth to establish a dynastic authority of their own. This authority was fractured in the early 12th century, when ...
- Barcelona
- provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It was formed in 1833. The province follows the axis of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barcelona
- city, capital of Anzoategui estado (state), northeastern Venezuela. Established in 1671 from a merger of two settlements, the town was named for the capital of the Spanish home province of ...
- Barcelona
- city, seaport, and capital of Barcelona provincia (province) and of Catalonia comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), northeastern Spain, located 90 miles (150 km) south of ... [15 Related Articles]
- Barcelona chair
- one of the most recognized chairs of the 20th century. It was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German Pavilion, which he also designed, at the International Exposition ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barcelona nut
- (from the article "filbert") ...is a variety of the European filbert; Lambert's filbert is a variety of the giant filbert. Nuts produced by the Turkish filbert (C. colurna) are sold commercially as Constantinople nuts. ...
- Barcelona Olympic Games
- (from the article "Olympic Games") The 1992 Games were perhaps the most successful modern Olympics. More than 9,300 athletes representing 169 countries participated. For the first time in three decades, there was no boycott. The ...
- Barcelona, Archaeological Museum of
- institution in Barcelona, Spain, notable for its collection of prehistoric objects and for its collection of ancient Greek and Roman art and examples illustrating Iberian archaeology. Exhibits include a scale ...
- Barcelona, countess of
- Spanish royal (b. Dec. 23, 1910, Madrid, Spain-d. Jan. 2, 2000, Lanzarote, Canary Islands), was the mother of King Juan Carlos I and the wife of Don Juan de Borbon, ...
- Barcelona, treaties of
- (from the article "Charles VIII") ...also agreed in the Treaty of Etaples (1492) to pay heavy compensation to King Henry VII of England for the abandonment of English interests in Brittany. Furthermore, in 1493, by ...
- Barcelona, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The University of Barcelona was founded in 1450. It is one of seven public and private universities in the city. Others include the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1968) and the ...
- barchan
- crescent-shaped sand dune produced by the action of wind predominately from one direction. One of the commonest types of dunes, it occurs in sandy deserts all over the world. [4 Related Articles]
- Barchuk
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") When the time of the Mongol conquests came, the Uighurs lived up to their best cultural traditions. Realizing that resistance would be vain and would lead only to the destruction ...
- Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich, Knyaz
- Russian field marshal who was prominent in the Napoleonic Wars. [1 Related Articles]
- Barclay, Alexander
- poet who won contemporary fame chiefly for his adaptation of a popular German satire, Das Narrenschiff, by Sebastian Brant, which he called The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde (first ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barclay, Arthur
- (from the article "Liberia") ...they were still unable to control all the coastal area they claimed. Efforts to end the frontier disputes resulted in treaties with Great Britain in 1885 and with France in ...
- Barclay, John
- Scottish satirist and Latin poet whose Argenis (1621), a long poem of romantic adventure, had great influence on the development of the romance in the 17th century.
- Barclay, Robert
- Quaker leader whose Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1678) became a standard statement of Quaker doctrines. His friendship with James II, then duke of York, helped obtain the patent ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barclaya
- (from the article "Nymphaeales") The genus Barclaya (four species) is sometimes considered a separate family, Barclayaceae. It is distinguished from Nymphaeaceae by an extended perianth tube (combined sepals and petals) arising from the top ...
- Barclays Global Investors
- (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...of equities listed on the exchange edging up only slightly to 1,156. Moreover, the Amex's leading role in the popular but competitive ETF arena was challenged several times during the ...
- Barclays PLC
- British banking and trust firm registered July 20, 1896, under the name Barclay & Co. Ltd. and assuming the name Barclays Bank Ltd. in 1917. It was converted into a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barco Vargas, Virgilio
- Colombian politician (b. Sept. 17, 1921, Cucuta, Colom.--d. May 20, 1997, Bogota, Colom.), served as president of Colombia from 1986 to 1990 after having won the election by the largest ... [1 Related Articles]
- bard
- a poet, especially one who writes impassioned, lyrical, or epic verse. Bards were originally Celtic composers of eulogy and satire; the word came to mean more generally a tribal poet-singer ... [9 Related Articles]
- Bard College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, U.S. It is affiliated with the Episcopal church. A liberal arts college, it includes divisions of social studies, languages and ...
- Bard, Philip
- (from the article "motivation") Cannon and a colleague, Philip Bard, proposed an alternative arousal theory, subsequently known as the Cannon-Bard theory. According to this approach, the experience of an event, such as the automobile ...
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