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- (from the article "Babylon") The present site, an extensive field of ruins, contains several prominent mounds. The main mounds are (1) Babil, the remains of Nebuchadrezzar's palace in the northern corner of the outer ...
- Babinga
- (from the article "Pygmy") North of the Congo, in the forest west of the Ubangi River, are the Babinga. This is also an acculturated group of pygmoids, but perhaps because of similarity of habitat ...
- Babington Plot
- (from the article "Bales, Peter") ...Elizabeth I, who greatly admired it. His skill in imitating handwriting was used for secret state purposes by Elizabeth's principal secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, and helped uncover Anthony Babington's plot ...
- Babington, Anthony
- English conspirator, a leader of the unsuccessful "Babington Plot" to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and install Elizabeth's prisoner, the Roman Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. [2 Related Articles]
- Babinka
- (from the article "bivalve") ...Some of these deposit feeders also possess, like the subclass Cryptodonta, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in the ctenidia and are thought to have ancient origins, represented by the fossil
- babirusa
- (Babirousa babyrussa), wild East Indian swine, family Suidae (order Artiodactyla), of Celebes and the Molucca islands. [1 Related Articles]
- Babism
- religion that developed in Iran around Mirza 'Ali Mohammad's claim to be a bab (Arabic: "gateway"), or divine intermediary, in 1844. See Bab, the. [1 Related Articles]
- Babits, Mihaly
- Hungarian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator who, from the publication of his first volume of poetry in 1909, played an important role in the literary life of his country.
- baboen
- (from the article "Suriname") ...seed plants and a large number of mosses, weeds, and mildews. About 90 percent of Suriname's area is covered with heterogeneous tropical forest consisting of more than 1,000 species of ...
- Babol
- city, northern Iran, on the Babol River, about 15 miles (24 km) south of the Caspian Sea. Babol gained importance during the reign (1797-1834) of Fath 'Ali Shah, though 'Abbas ...
- Babol Sar
- (from the article "Babol") Meshed-e Sar, now called Babol Sar, was formerly the port of Babol on the Caspian, but it lost its function after the water level dropped. It is now a fashionable ...
- Babolna
- village, Komarom-Esztergom megye (county), western Hungary, located on the Little Alfold (Little Hungarian Plain) between the towns of Gyor and Tata.
- baboon
- any of five species of large, robust, and primarily terrrestrial monkeys found in dry regions of Africa and Arabia. Males of the largest species, the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), average ... [5 Related Articles]
- Babor, Mount
- (from the article "Atlas Mountains") With increased altitude the temperature drops rapidly; despite the proximity of the sea, the coastal massifs are cold regions. At 6,575 feet the summits of Mount Babor in the Little ...
- Babri Mosjid
- (from the article "India") ...ambivalence within the coalition was seen with respect to events in Ayodhya (in Uttar Pradesh), an ancient capital and-as most orthodox Hindus believe-birthplace of the deity Rama. The Babri Masjid, ...
- Babrius
- author of a collection of fables in Greek. Nothing is known of the author. The fables are for the most part versions of the stock stories associated with the name ... [1 Related Articles]
- Babson College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S. Business management education is emphasized at the college, which offers B.S. and M.B.A. degrees. It consists of divisions of accounting ... [1 Related Articles]
- Babu Chhiri Sherpa
- Nepalese mountaineer (b. June 22, 1965, Taksindu, Nepal-d. April 29, 2001, Mt. Everest), was a legendary guide who reached the summit of Mt. Everest 10 times and set two records ... [1 Related Articles]
- Babu, Abdul Rahman Mohammed
- Tanzanian politician who, as left-wing champion of the anticolonial Pan-African movement of the mid-20th century, laid the ideological groundwork for the Zanzibar revolution of January 1964, which led, three months ...
- Babuje, Lawan
- (from the article "Bedde") ...of Bedde. Dispersed about 1808 by warriors in the jihad (holy war) conducted by the Fulani, the Bade sought protection and again agreed to pay tribute in slaves to Bornu. ...
- babul tree
- (from the article "acacia") ...in adhesives, pharmaceuticals, inks, confections, and other products. The bark of most acacias is rich in tannin, which is used in tanning and in dyes, inks, pharmaceuticals, and other products. ...
- Babur
- emperor (1526-30) and founder of the Mughal dynasty of India, a descendant of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan and also of Timur (Tamerlane). He was a military adventurer and soldier ... [14 Related Articles]
- Babur's garden
- (from the article "Kabul") ...old and new buildings. Much of the old city has been torn down and rebuilt on modern lines. Kabul has many historical monuments, including the tombs of some of its ...
- Baburen, Dirck van
- Dutch painter who was a leading member of the Utrecht school, which was influenced by the dramatic chiaroscuro style of the Italian painter Caravaggio. [1 Related Articles]
- Babuyan Islands
- island group of the Philippines that is a northerly extension of the Philippine archipelago. The Babuyan Islands lie in the Luzon Strait, south of the Batan Islands and Balintang Channel. ...
- Baby Bell
- (from the article "Sherman Antitrust Act") ...the 20th century was the 1984 breakup of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, which left the parent company, AT&T, as a provider of long-distance service while seven regional "Baby ...
- baby blue-eyes
- (from the article "Nemophila") genus of annual herbs of the family Boraginaceae. The 11 species, most of which bear blue or white, bell-like blooms, are North American, mostly Pacific coast in origin. Baby blue-eyes ...
- baby boom
- (from the article "population") For many industrialized countries, the period after World War II was marked by a "baby boom." One group of four countries in particular-the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-experienced ...
- Baby Snooks
- (from the article "Brice, Fanny") ...She appeared with such major Broadway performers as W.C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, and Will Rogers in the Follies and in other shows. In Crazy Quilt (1931), she introduced the character ...
- baby tears
- (from the article "Urticaceae") ...clusters. Pilea, a genus of creeping plants that includes the artillery plant (P. microphylla), and pellitory (Parietaria), a genus of wall plants, are grown as ornamentals. Baby tears (Helxine soleiroli), ...
- baby veal
- (from the article "meat processing") Veal is classified into several categories based on the ages of the animals at the time of slaughter. Baby veal (bob veal) is 2-3 days to 1 month of age ...
- Baby Yar
- large ravine on the northern edge of the city of Kiev in Ukraine, the site of a mass grave of victims, mostly Jews, whom Nazi German SS squads killed between ... [2 Related Articles]
- baby's breath
- either of two species of herbaceous plants of the genus Gypsophila, of the pink family (Caryophyllaceae), having profuse small blossoms. Both G. elegans, an annual, and G. paniculata, a perennial, ...
- Babyface
- (from the article "New jack swing") The key producers were L.A., Babyface, and Teddy Riley, who crafted romantic songs for the dance floor. L.A. (Antonio Reid, whose nickname was derived from his allegiance to the Los ...
- Babylon
- one of the most famous cities of antiquity. It was the capital of southern Mesopotamia (Babylonia) from the early 2nd millennium to the early 1st millennium BC and capital of ... [12 Related Articles]
- Babylon
- town (township), Suffolk county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on southern Long Island, along Great South Bay, east of Freeport. Established in 1872 after separation from Huntington (founded 1653), ...
- Babylonia
- ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern southern Iraq from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf). Because the city of Babylon was the capital ... [87 Related Articles]
- Babylonian calendar
- chronological system used in ancient Mesopotamia, based on a year of 12 synodic months; i.e., 12 complete cycles of phases of the Moon. This lunar year of about 354 days ... [3 Related Articles]
- Babylonian dialect
- (from the article "Akkadian language") ...Sumerian remained in use as the written language of sacred literature. At about the same time, the Akkadian language divided into the Assyrian dialect, spoken in northern Mesopotamia, and the ...
- Babylonian Exile
- the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the latter's conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 BC. The exile formally ended in 538 BC, when the ... [17 Related Articles]
- Babylonian Talmud
- one of two compilations of Jewish religious teachings and commentary that was transmitted orally for centuries prior to its compilation by Jewish scholars in Babylon about the 5th century AD. ... [11 Related Articles]
- Bac Lieu
- city, eastern Ca Mau Peninsula, southern Vietnam. It has a hospital and a commercial airport and is linked by highway to Ho Chi Minh City, 120 miles (195 km) to ...
- Bac, Ferdinand
- (from the article "Barragan, Luis") ...to travel, mostly in Spain, France, Italy, and Greece. During this period of extensive travel, he first came across the published works of the German-born French landscape architect and illustrator ...
- Baca-Flor, Carlos
- (from the article "Latin American art") By the beginning of the 20th century, the Impressionist technique had become so accepted in Latin America that it was used by stylish society painters, such as the Peruvian artists ...
- Bacab
- in Mayan mythology, any of four gods, thought to be brothers, who, with upraised arms, supported the multilayered sky from their assigned positions at the four cardinal points of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bacairi
- (from the article "Plata, Rio de la") ...language. In Brazil, however, miscegenation was less general, and some groups of indigenous peoples have remained relatively intact, forming isolated nuclei. Others, like the Bororo, Tereno, and Bacairi, constitute minorities ...
- bacalhau
- (from the article "Portugal") ...areas. In the countryside the staple diet is one of fish, vegetables, and fruit. Although Portugal's waters abound with fresh fish, the dried salted codfish known as
- Bacall, Lauren
- American motion-picture and stage actress known for her portrayals of provocative women who hid their soft core underneath a layer of hard-edged pragmatism. [1 Related Articles]
- Bacalov, Luis Enrique
- (from the article "1995: Other Winners") ...Screenplay: Emma Thompson for Sense and SensibilityCinematography: John Toll for BraveheartArt Direction: Eugenio Zanetti for RestorationOriginal Dramatic Score: Luis Enrique Bacalov for The Postman (Il postino)Original Musical or Comedy Score: ...
- Bacan
- island, North Maluku propinsi (province), Indonesia. One of the northern Moluccas, in the Molucca Sea, it lies just southwest of the large island of Halmahera. The islands ...
- Bacar, Mohamed
- (from the article "Comoros") ...2007 when the country faced a serious political crisis. The three autonomous islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Moheli each chose local presidents every five years, but Anjouan Pres. Col. ...
- Bacau
- judet (county), eastern Romania, occupying an area of 2,551 square miles (6,606 square km). The Eastern Carpathians and the sub-Carpathians rise above the settlement areas that are ...
- Bacau
- city, capital of Bacau judet (county), eastern Romania, near the confluence of the Bistrita and Siret rivers, 150 miles (240 km) northeast of Bucharest. Bacau was an ...
- Bacca pipes jig
- (from the article "sword dance") ...the swords. The famed Scottish solo dance Gillie Callum, which is danced to a folk melody of the same name, is first mentioned only in the early 19th century. In ...
- baccalaureat
- (from the article "higher education") ...have systems of higher education that are basically administered by state agencies. Entrance requirements for students are also similar in both countries. In France an examination called the baccalaureat is ...
- baccalaureate test
- (from the article "Education") French students organized massive street demonstrations to protest changes that Minister of Education Francois Fillon proposed for the traditional baccalaureate test ("le bac"), which for two centuries had been high-school ...
- baccarat
- casino card game resembling, but simpler than, blackjack. In basic baccarat the house is the bank. In the related game chemin de fer, or chemmy, the bank passes from player ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baccarat glass
- glassware produced by an important glasshouse founded in 1765 at Baccarat, Fr. Originally a producer of soda glass for windows, tableware, and industrial uses, Baccarat was acquired by a Belgian ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baccha
- (from the article "hover fly") ...or sting. They are distinguished from other flies by a false (spurious) vein that closely parallels the fourth longitudinal wing vein. The species vary from small, elongated, and slender (e.g., ...
- Bacchanalia
- in Greco-Roman 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 ... [12 Related Articles]
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Bacchiadae
- (from the article "ancient Greek civilization") ...a small number of exclusive clans within cities monopolized citizenship and political control. At Corinth, for example, political control was monopolized by the adult males of a single clan, the ...
- 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 ...
- Bacchus, George
- (from the article "Guyana") ...way." A commission of inquiry was set up by Pres. Bharrat Jagdeo, though it faced the difficulty of attracting information from anyone knowledgeable about the "phantom squad." George Bacchus, the ...
- Bacchus, Temple of
- (from the article "Baalbeck") The Temple of Bacchus, almost entirely preserved, is also Corinthian, with 42 columns, 8 on each front and 15 on each flank. Its symbolic decoration shows that it was dedicated ...
- Bacchylides
- Greek lyric poet, nephew of the poet Simonides and a younger contemporary of the Boeotian poet Pindar, with whom he competed in the composition of epinician poems (odes commissioned by ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bacchylides roll
- (from the article "calligraphy") If this writing is made to lean to the right and to revive the 3rd-century-BCE distinction between narrow and broad letters, it takes on the aspect of the "severe" style ...
- 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, Alexander, Freiherr von
- (from the article "Austria") Under Francis Joseph and Schwarzenberg, order was restored. Schwarzenberg died in 1852, and the new regime passed largely to the direction of Alexander, Freiherr (baron) von Bach, minister of the ...
- Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
- second surviving son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, and the leading composer of the early Classical period. [10 Related Articles]
- Bach, Howard
- (from the article "Badminton") ...Hidayat of Indonesia beat Lin to become the first men's singles player to capture the world championship after having won Olympic gold the previous year. The men's doubles team of ...
- Bach, Johann Christian
- composer called the "English Bach," youngest son of J.S. and Anna Magdalena Bach and prominent in the early Classical period. [5 Related Articles]
- 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, ... [50 Related Articles]
- Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
- eldest son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, composer during the period of transition between Baroque and Rococo styles. [1 Related Articles]
- Bach-Gesellschaft
- (from the article "Hauptmann, Moritz") ...by a crowd of enthusiastic pupils, among whom were Joseph Joachim, Hans von Bulow, Arthur Sullivan, and Frederic Hymen Cowen. In 1850, with Otto Jahn and Robert Schumann, Hauptmann founded ...
- Bach-Institute
- (from the article "Bach, Johann Sebastian") ...Its chief publication is its research journal, the Bach-Jahrbuch (from 1904). By 1950 the deficiencies of the BG edition had become painfully obvious, and the Bach-Institut was ...
- Bach-y-Rita, Paul
- (from the article "neuroplasticity") ...research in neuroplasticity was carried out in the 1960s, when scientists attempted to develop machines that interface with the brain in order to help blind people. In 1969 American neurobiologist ...
- bacha nagma
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...(devotional music of the Muslim mystics known as Sufis) was banned in the 1920s by the ruling maharaja, who felt this dance was becoming too sensual. It was replaced by ...
- Bacharach, Burt
- (from the article "1969: Other Winners") ...Conrad Hall for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidArt Direction: Herman Blumenthal, John DeCuir and, Jack Martin Smith for Hello, Dolly!Original Score for a Motion Picture: Burt Bacharach for Butch ...
- Bachchan Rai, Aishwarya
- Indian actress whose classic beauty made her one of Bollywood's premier stars. [1 Related Articles]
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- Bachchan, Harivansh Rai
- Indian poet (b. Nov. 27, 1907, Allahabad, United Provinces [now Uttar Pradesh], India-d. Jan. 18, 2003, Mumbai [Bombay], Maharashtra, India), was one of the most acclaimed Hindi-language poets of the ...
- Bacheh Saqqaw
- (from the article "Amanollah Khan") ...proposals that caused his popular support to drop and enraged the mullahs (Muslim religious leaders). In 1928 a tribal revolt resulted in a chaotic situation during which a notorious bandit ...
- Bachelard, Gaston
- (from the article "nonfictional prose") ...thinkers who were also superb stylists and who deemed it a function of philosophy to understand the aesthetic phenomenon: Henri Bergson (1859-1941), Paul Valery (1871-1945), and Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962). No ...
- Bachelard, Suzanne
- (from the article "Phenomenology") Suzanne Bachelard, who in 1957 translated Husserl's Formale und transzendentale Logik: Versuch einer Kritik der logischen Vernunft, has pointed to the significance of Husserl for modern logic; and Jacques Derrida, ...
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- Bachelier, Louis
- (from the article "probability theory") The most important stochastic process is the Brownian motion or Wiener process. It was first discussed by Louis Bachelier (1900), who was interested in modeling fluctuations in prices in financial ...
- 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.
- bachelor
- (from the article "degree") ...certifications that they had attained the guild status of a "master." There was originally only one degree in European higher education, that of master or doctor. The baccalaureate, or bachelor's ...
- Bachelor of Arts
- (from the article "degree") ...four years. The master's degree involves one to two years' additional study, while the doctorate usually involves a lengthier period of work. British and American universities customarily grant the bachelor's ...
- Bachelor of Science
- (from the article "degree") ...are now awarded in the United States, for example, with the largest number in science, technology, engineering, medicine, and education. The commonest degrees, however, are still the B.A. and the ...
- Bachelor, Charles
- (from the article "Edison, Thomas Alva") ...laboratory and machine shop in the rural environs of Menlo Park, N.J.-12 miles south of Newark-where he moved in March 1876. Accompanying him were two key associates, Charles Batchelor and ...
- Bachelors, Community of
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...were to be local men, appointed for one year. The households of the king and queen were to be reformed. The drafting of further measures took time. In October 1259 ...
- Bachet de Meziriac, Claude-Gaspar
- (from the article "number game") ...produced books devoted solely to recreational problems not only in mathematics but frequently in mechanics and natural philosophy as well. The first important contribution was that of the Frenchman Claude-Gaspar ...
- Bachiacca
- (from the article "tapestry") Cartoons were designed by such leading Mannerist artists of Florence as Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1556/57), Francesco Salviati (1510-63), Il Bronzino (1503-72), and Bachiacca (1494-1557), who designed the "Grotesques" (c. 1550; Uffizi, ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 early anthropological writer whose book Das Mutterrecht (1861; "Mother Right") is regarded as a major contribution to the development of modern social anthropology.
- baci
- (from the article "Laos") The ethnic Lao ritual of the baci, in which strings are tied around a person's wrist to preserve good luck, has indeed been elevated in Laos to the place of ...
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