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Bacchanalia: in GrecoRoman religion, any of the several festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus), the wine god. They probably originated as rites of fertility gods. The most famous of the Greek Dionysia were ...
Bacchelli, Riccardo: Italian poet, playwright, literary critic, and novelist who championed the literary style of Renaissance and 19th-century masters against the innovations of Italian experimental writers.
Bacchus Marsh: town in southern Victoria, Australia. It is located 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Melbourne (to which a growing proportion of its residents commute daily) on the east bank of ...
Bacchylides: Greek lyric poet of the Aegean island of Ceos, nephew of the poet Simonides and a younger contemporary of the Boeotian poet Pindar, whom he rivaled in the composition of ...
Baccio D'agnolo: wood-carver, sculptor, and architect who exerted an important influence on the Renaissance architecture of Florence. Between 1491 and 1502 he did much of the decorative carving in the church of ...
Bach Long Vi: island of northern Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, halfway between the mouth of the Red River (Song Hong) near Nam Dinh and the Chinese island of Hainan. The island ...
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: second surviving son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, and the leading composer of the pre-Classical period.
Bach, Johann Christian: composer called the "English Bach," youngest son of J.S. and Anna Magdalena Bach and prominent in the pre-Classical period.
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich: longest surviving son of J.S. and Anna Magdalena Bach.
Bach, Johann Sebastian: composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of northern German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, ...
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann: eldest son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, composer during the period of transition between Baroque and Rococo styles.
Bachchan, Amitabh: Indian film actor, perhaps the most popular star in the history of that nation's cinema, known primarily for his roles in action films.
Bachelet, Michelle: Chilean politician, president of Chile (2006- ). She was the first woman president of Chile and the first popularly elected South American woman president whose political career was established independent ...
Bacheller, Irving: journalist and novelist whose books, generally set in upper New York State, are humorous and full of penetrating character delineations, especially of rural types.
Bachman, John: naturalist and Lutheran minister who helped write the text of works on North American birds and mammals by renowned naturalist and artist John James Audubon.
Bachmann, Ingeborg: Austrian author whose sombre, surreal writings often deal with women in failed love relationships, the nature of art and humanity, and the inadequacy of language.
Bachofen, Johann Jakob: Swiss jurist and anthropologist whose book Das Mutterrecht (1861; "Mother Right") is regarded as a fundamental contribution to modern social anthropology.
Baciccia: leading Roman Baroque painter of the second half of the 17th century.
Bacillariophyta: division of algae the members of which are commonly known as diatoms. See diatom.
bacillite: in geology, a type of crystallite (q.v.).
bacillus: (genus Bacillus), any of a group of rod-shaped, gram-positive, aerobic or (under some conditions) anaerobic bacteria widely found in soil and water. The term bacillus in a general sense has ...
back swimmer: any insect of the family Notonectidae (order Heteroptera), containing approximately 200 species. These relatively small insects occur worldwide. Most are less than 15 mm (0.6 inch) in length. Their long, ...
Back, Sir George: naval officer who helped to trace the Arctic coastline of North America. He twice accompanied the British explorer John Franklin to Canada's Northwest Territories (1819-22 and 1825-27) and later conducted ...
Backbone Mountain: highest point in Maryland, U.S., reaching an elevation of 3,360 feet (1,024 metres). It is located on a ridge of the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains, located in Garrett county 12 ...
backcross: the mating of a hybrid organism (offspring of genetically unlike parents) with one of its parents or with an organism genetically similar to the parent. The backcross is useful in ...
backgammon: game played by moving counters on a board or table, the object of the game being a race to a goal, with the movement of the counters being controlled by ...
Backhaus, Wilhelm: German pianist who was best known for his interpretation of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Backhuysen, Ludolf: Dutch painter, celebrated for his sea pieces.
backpacking: recreational activity of hiking while carrying clothing, food, and camping equipment in a pack on the back. Originally, in the early 20th century, backpacking was practiced in the wilderness as ...
Backus, Isaac: controversial American religious leader and historian.
Bacolod: city, northwestern portion of the island of Negros, Philippines. On a coastal plain washed by Guimaras Strait, it lies opposite Guimaras Island and has been called the Philippine sugar capital ...
bacon: a side of a pig that, after removal of the spare ribs, is cured, either dry or in pickle, and smoked. Some varieties, notably Canadian bacon, are cut from the ...
Bacon, Albion Fellows: American reformer and writer, remembered largely for her campaigns to improve public housing standards.
Bacon, Delia Salter: American writer who developed the theory, still subscribed to by some, that Francis Bacon and others were the true authors of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.
Bacon, Francis: British painter whose powerful, predominantly figural images express isolation, brutality, and terror.
Bacon, Francis Thomas: British engineer who developed the first practical hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells, which convert air and fuel directly into electricity through electrochemical processes.
Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban, Baron of Verulam: lord chancellor of England (1618-21). A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen ...
Bacon, Henry: American architect, best-known as the designer of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Bacon, John: British Neoclassical sculptor who perfected certain sculpturing techniques.
Bacon, John: American clergyman, legislator, and judge who was an early advocate of civil and religious liberty.
Bacon, Nathaniel: Virginia planter and leader of Bacon's Rebellion. His wife's disinheritance (her father opposed her marriage) and his involvement in a plan to defraud a neighbour of his inheritance contributed to ...
Bacon, Roger: English Franciscan philosopher and educational reformer who was a major medieval proponent of experimental science. Bacon studied mathematics, astronomy, optics, alchemy, and languages. He was the first European to describe ...
Bacon, Sir Nicholas: high official in the government of Queen Elizabeth I and father of the renowned philosopher Francis Bacon.
Baconian method: methodical observation of facts as a means of studying and interpreting natural phenomena. This essentially empirical method was formulated early in the 17th century by Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, ...
Baconthorpe, John: English theologian and philosopher who, although he did not subscribe to the heterodox doctrine of the great Muslim philosopher Averroes, was regarded by the Renaissance Averroists as Princeps Averroistarum ("the ...
Bacs-Kiskun: megye (county), south-central Hungary. The country's largest megye, it has an area of 3,229 square miles (8,362 square km) and extends eastward from the Danube River to the Tisza. Wheat, ...
bacteremia: the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream, whether associated with active disease or not. The transient bacteremia that follows dental manipulation or surgical procedures may have little significance in the ...
bacteria: any of a group of microscopic organisms that are prokaryotic, i.e., that lack a membrane-bound nucleus and organelles. They are unicellular (one-celled) and may have spherical (coccus), ...
bacteriology: branch of microbiology dealing with the study of bacteria.
bacteriophage: any of a group of viruses that infect bacteria. Bacteriophages were discovered independently by Frederick W. Twort in Great Britain (1915) and Felix d'Herelle in France (1917). D'Herelle coined the ...
Bactria: ancient country lying between the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) in what is now part of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Bactria was especially ...
Bactrites: genus of extinct cephalopods (animals related to the modern squid, octopus, and nautilus) found as fossils in marine rocks from the Devonian to the Permian periods (between 408 and 245 ...
Baculites: genus of extinct cephalopods (animals related to the modern squid, octopus, and nautilus) found as fossils in Late Cretaceous marine rocks (formed from 97.5 to 66.4 million years ago). Baculites, ...
baculum: the penis bone of certain mammals. The baculum is one of several heterotropic skeletal elements-i.e., bones dissociated from the rest of the body skeleton. It is found in all insectivores ...
Bad Aussee: town, Steiermark Bundesland (federal province of Styria), central Austria, in the Traun Valley, southeast of Bad Ischl. The former centre of the Salzkammergut (salt region), it has the 15th-century Kammerhof ...
Bad Durkheim: city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies on the eastern slope of the Haardt Mountains at the entrance to the Isenach Valley, 13 miles (21 km) west of Mannheim. ...
Bad Gandersheim: city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies in the Leine River valley. Bad Gandersheim is remarkable for an 11th-century convent church containing the tombs of ...
Bad Godesberg: southern district of the city of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies on the west bank of the Rhine River opposite the Siebengebirge (Seven Hills), a scenic ...
Bad Harzburg: city, Lower Saxony Land (state), northeastern Germany. It is located on the northern slope of the Oberharz (Upper Harz) mountains, at the entrance to the Radau River valley about 25 ...
Bad Homburg: city, Hesse Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies at the foot of the wooded Taunus, just north of Frankfurt am Main.
Bad Ischl: town, Oberosterreich Bundesland (federal state), central Austria. It lies at the confluence of the Traun and Ischler Ache rivers, about 26 miles (42 km) east-southeast of Salzburg. First mentioned in ...
Bad Kreuznach: city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies along the Nahe River, a tributary of the Rhine, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Mainz. The site of a Roman ...
Bad Mergentheim: city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), south-central Germany. It lies on the Tauber River, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Nurnberg. An ancient settlement, it became the property ...
Bad Reichenhall: city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies in the Alpine Saalach River valley, 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Salzburg, Austria. Bad Reichenhall is a noted ...
Bada'uni, 'Abd al-Qadir: Indo-Persian historian, one of the most important writers on the history of the Mughal period in India.
Badaga: any member of the largest tribal group living in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The Badaga have increased very rapidly, from fewer than 20,000 in ...
Badagara: town and port, northern Kerala state, southwestern India. Located on the Arabian Sea about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the town of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut), Badagara is a fishing ...
Badagry: town and lagoon port in Lagos state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies on the north bank of Porto Novo Creek, an inland waterway that connects the national capitals of Nigeria (Lagos) ...
Badajoz: province in the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), the largest province in Spain. Badajoz borders on Portugal and has an area of 8,362 square miles (21,657 square ...
Badajoz: city, capital of Badajoz province, in the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), southwestern Spain, on the south bank of the Guadiana River, near the Portuguese frontier; it ...
Badakhshan: historic region of northeastern Afghanistan, roughly encompassing the northern spurs of the Hindu Kush and chiefly drained by the Kowkcheh River. Mountain glaciers and glacial lakes are found in the ...
Badalona: town, Barcelona provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is a northeastern industrial suburb of Barcelona, lying on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of ...
Badami: town, northern Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southwestern India. The town was known as Vatapi in ancient times and was the first capital of the Calukya kings. It is the site ...
Badarian culture: Egyptian predynastic cultural phase, first discovered at al-Badari, its type-site, on the east bank of the Nile River in Asyut muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt. British excavations there during the 1920s ...
Baddeck: unincorporated place, seat of Victoria county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies in the centre of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of Bras d'Or Lake.
Baden: town, Aargau canton, northern Switzerland, on the Limmat River, northwest of Zurich. The hot sulfur springs, mentioned as early as the 1st century AD by the Roman historian Tacitus, still ...