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- any of some 500 species of beetles (order Coleoptera) that are found under bark, in woody fungi, and in dry plant material, mostly in the tropics. Bark-gnawing beetles range from ...
- Barka River
- (from the article "Eritrea") The other two major rivers that drain the highlands of Eritrea are the Barka and the Anseba. Both of these rivers flow northward into a marshy area on the eastern ...
- Barkashov, Aleksandr
- (from the article "fascism") The Russian National Unity (Russkoe Natsionalnoe Edinstvo; RNE), a paramilitary organization founded in 1990 by Aleksandr Barkashov, claimed to have an extensive network of local branches, but its electoral support ...
- barkentine
- sailing ship of three or more masts having fore-and-aft sails on all but the front mast (foremast), which is square rigged. Because of the reduction of square sails, it required ...
- Barker lever
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...admitted to the motor, which, in turn, operated the tracker action. Lacking encouragement at home, Barker went to France, where the great French builder Aristide Cavaille-Coll employed the Barker lever ...
- Barker's mill
- (from the article "energy conversion") During the mid-1700s a reaction waterwheel for generating small amounts of power became popular in the rural areas of England. In this type of device, commonly known as a Barker's ...
- Barker, Arthur
- (from the article "Barker, Ma") ...and in payroll, post-office, and bank robberies in the 1920s and '30s. The activities of the gang, which included her sons, the "Bloody Barkers"-Herman (1894-1927), Arthur, known as "Doc" (1899-1939), ...
- Barker, Charles Spackman
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") The first effective system was developed in the 1830s by Charles Spackman Barker, an Englishman. It consisted of a series of small, high-pressure pneumatic bellows or motors, one attached to ...
- Barker, Fred
- (from the article "Barker, Ma") ...in the 1920s and '30s. The activities of the gang, which included her sons, the "Bloody Barkers"-Herman (1894-1927), Arthur, known as "Doc" (1899-1939), and Fred (1902-35)-ranged throughout the midwestern United ...
- Barker, George
- English poet mostly concerned with the elemental forces of life. His first verses were published in the 1930s, and he became popular in the '40s, about the same time as ...
- Barker, Herman
- (from the article "Barker, Ma") ...and allies engaged in kidnapping and in payroll, post-office, and bank robberies in the 1920s and '30s. The activities of the gang, which included her sons, the "Bloody Barkers"-Herman (1894-1927), ...
- Barker, Lady Mary Anne
- writer best known for her book Station Life in New Zealand (1870), a lively account of life in colonial New Zealand.
- Barker, Lloyd
- (from the article "Barker, Ma") ...and Fred were killed at a Florida resort in a gun battle with the FBI; Arthur was killed in an attempted escape from Alcatraz; Herman, cornered by Kansas police, shot ...
- Barker, Louisa Dupont
- American blues singer whose trademark style combined her innocent girlish voice with bawdy songs (b. Nov. 13, 1913, New Orleans, La.--d. May 7, 1998, New Orleans).
- Barker, Ma
- matriarch of an outlaw gang of brothers and allies engaged in kidnapping and in payroll, post-office, and bank robberies in the 1920s and '30s. The activities of the gang, which ...
- Barker, Robert
- (from the article "panorama") The first panorama was executed by the Scottish painter Robert Barker, who exhibited in Edinburgh in 1788 a view of that city, followed by panoramas of London and battle scenes ...
- Barker, Ronnie
- British television comedian, writer, and actor (b. Sept. 25, 1929, Bedford, Bedfordshire, Eng.-d. Oct. 3, 2005, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, Eng.), gained international recognition as the costar, with Ronnie Corbett, of the ...
- Barkerville
- restored ghost town, east-central British Columbia, Canada, in the western foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, just west of Bowron Lake Provincial Park and 55 miles (88 km) east of Quesnel. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barkhausen effect
- series of sudden changes in the size and orientation of ferromagnetic domains, or microscopic clusters of aligned atomic magnets, that occurs during a continuous process of magnetization or demagnetization. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg
- German physicist who discovered the Barkhausen effect, a principle concerning changes in the magnetic properties of metal. [1 Related Articles]
- Barkhausen-Kurz oscillator
- (from the article "Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg") In 1920 Barkhausen developed, with Karl Kurz, the Barkhausen-Kurz oscillator for ultrahigh frequencies (a forerunner of the microwave tube), which led to the understanding of the principle of velocity modulation. ...
- barking
- (from the article "dog") Both dogs and wolves have a repertoire of barks, growls, and howls that are identifiable among themselves and to humans who have studied their vocabulary. Dog owners can determine by ...
- Barking Abbey
- (from the article "Barking and Dagenham") From the 7th to the mid-16th century AD, development in the area was centred on Barking Abbey (founded c. 666), which, before the dissolution of monastic institutions in the 1530s, ...
- Barking and Dagenham
- outer borough of London, on the eastern perimeter of the metropolis. It is part of the historic county of Essex, on the north bank of the River Thames. The borough ...
- barking tree frog
- (from the article "tree frog") ...New World tropics but are also present in Europe, Australia, and across much of nontropical Asia. The genus Hyla includes hundreds of species; better-known representatives include the barking tree frog ...
- Barkinzade Suleyman Pasa
- (from the article "Tirana") city, capital of Albania. It lies 17 miles (27 km) east of the Adriatic coast and along the Ishm River, at the end of a fertile plain. It was founded ...
- Barkla, Charles Glover
- British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917 for his work on X-ray scattering, which occurs when X rays pass through a material and are deflected ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barkley, Alben W
- 35th vice president of the United States (1949-53) in the Democratic administration of President Harry S. Truman. He was one of the chief architects of the New Deal in the ...
- Barkley, Lake
- (from the article "Kentucky Lake") Lake Barkley, another huge TVA reservoir that has an approximately 1,000-mile (1,600-km) shoreline and is impounded on the Cumberland River by Barkley Dam, lies east of Kentucky Lake. A wooded ...
- barklouse
- (from the article "psocid") The majority of psocids, usually called barklice, generally have four membranous wings that are held rooflike over the body when at rest. They are found on tree bark and foliage, ...
- Barkly Tableland
- region of Australia, south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and extending southeastward about 350 miles (560 km) from Newcastle Creek, Northern Territory, to Camooweal, Queen. A grassy, undulating upland (average ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barkly, Sir Henry
- British colonial administrator who played a major role in the establishment of responsible governments in Victoria (Australia) and Cape Colony (South Africa). [1 Related Articles]
- Barks, Carl
- (from the article "comic strip") ...a comic book artist's personal work and critical oeuvre catalogue in a luxury format such as had once been reserved to the great artists of the world. One of the ...
- Barksdale, James L.
- (from the article "Netscape Communications Corp.") In January 1995 the company recruited James L. Barksdale, an executive experienced with raising capital for new companies in the telecommunications and overnight-delivery industries, to be its president and chief ...
- Barlaam the Calabrian
- (from the article "Gregoras, Nicephorus") ...however, Gregoras was, as was the custom, forced to retire to a nearby monastery. Gregoras emerged victorious in a philosophical disputation, accompanied by polemical tracts, against the monk Barlaam of ...
- Barlach, Ernst
- outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called "modern Gothic." Barlach also experimented with graphic art and playwriting, and his work in all media is notable ...
- Barlad
- (from the article "Vaslui") ...Tutova rivers drain the county. Vaslui (q.v.) city is the county capital. Building materials, timber, wood products, and foodstuffs are manufactured in Vaslui, Husi, and Falciu. Barlad is a machinery- ...
- Barleria
- (from the article "Acanthaceae") ...Justicia (about 600 species; see photograph; now comprising former segregate genera such as Jacobinia and Beloperone), Stobilanthes (250), Barleria (230), Aphelandra (200; see photograph), ...
- Barletta
- city, Puglia (Apulia) region, southeastern Italy, and port and resort on the Adriatic Sea, northwest of Bari. Originating as the ancient Barduli, it served as the port and bathing resort ...
- barley
- cereal plant belonging to the genus Hordeum of the grass family Poaceae (Gramineae) and its edible grain. Hordeum comprises four sections, and all cultivated barleys belong to the section Cerealia. ... [10 Related Articles]
- Barley Mother
- (from the article "Rice Mother") ...ritually cut and dressed as a woman. This is believed to contain the concentrated soul-stuff of the field (analogous customs occur in peasant Europe, where the last sheaf is designated ...
- barley wine
- (from the article "beer") The strength of beer may be measured by the percentage by volume of ethyl alcohol. Strong beers are in excess of 4 percent, the so-called barley wines 8 to 10 ...
- Barlow lens
- (from the article "Barlow, Peter") optician and mathematician who invented two varieties of achromatic (non-colour-distorting) telescope lenses known as Barlow lenses.
- Barlow, Joel
- public official, poet, and author of the mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding. [2 Related Articles]
- Barlow, Peter
- optician and mathematician who invented two varieties of achromatic (non-colour-distorting) telescope lenses known as Barlow lenses.
- Barlow, Peter W.
- (from the article "Greathead, James Henry") Greathead arrived in 1859 in England, where he studied with the noted civil engineer Peter W. Barlow between 1864 and 1867. The tunneling shield invented by Marc Isambard Brunel and ...
- Barlow, William H.
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...across a huge space, 385 feet (117 metres) long and 150 feet (45 metres) high. Similar spaces had already been created in railway stations in England such as St. Pancras, ...
- Barma
- (from the article "Chad") Among the inhabitants of the semiarid tropical zone are the Barma of Bagirmi, the founders of the kingdom of the same name; they are surrounded by groups of Kanuri, Fulani, ...
- barmak
- (from the article "Barmakids") ...of Iranian origin, from the city of Balkh in Khorasan, who achieved prominence in the 8th century as scribes and viziers to the early 'Abbasid caliphs. Their ancestor was a ...
- Barmakids
- priestly family of Iranian origin, from the city of Balkh in Khorasan, who achieved prominence in the 8th century as scribes and viziers to the early 'Abbasid caliphs. Their ancestor ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barmann, Heinrich
- (from the article "Weber, Carl Maria von") Disappointed in not winning a post in Darmstadt, Weber traveled on to Munich, where his friendship with the clarinet virtuoso Heinrich Barmann led to the writing of the
- Barmen
- (from the article "Wuppertal") ...(state), northwestern Germany. The city extends for 10 miles (16 km) along the steep banks of the Wupper River, a right-bank tributary of the Rhine, northeast of Dusseldorf. Formed as ...
- Barmen Declaration
- (from the article "Barmen, Synod of") At Barmen the representatives adopted six articles, called the Theological Declaration of Barmen, or the Barmen Declaration, that defined the Christian opposition to any interpretation of Christianity based on racial ...
- Barmen, Synod of
- meeting of German Protestant leaders at Barmen in the Ruhr, in May 1934, to organize Protestant opposition to the teachings of the so-called German Christians, who sought to reinterpret Christianity ... [4 Related Articles]
- Barmens lace
- (from the article "textile") ...yarns. Bobbinet lace, essentially a hexagonal net, is used as a base for applique work for durable non-run net hosiery, and, when heavily sized, for such materials as millinery and ...
- Barmens machine
- (from the article "textile") ...the 19th century: Nottingham-lace machines, used primarily for coarse-lace production, employ larger bobbins, and the pattern threads are wound independently on section spools; in another type, the Barmens machine, threads ...
- Barmer
- town, western Rajasthan state, extreme western India. Standing on a rocky hill crowned by a fort, the town is said to have been founded in the 13th century, when it ...
- barn
- in agriculture, farm building for sheltering animals, their feed and other supplies, farm machinery, and farm products. Barns are named according to their purpose, as hog barns, dairy barns, tobacco ...
- barn
- unit of area used to measure the reaction cross section (generally different from the geometric cross section) of atomic nuclei and subatomic particles in the study of their interactions with ... [2 Related Articles]
- barn owl
- any of several species of nocturnal birds of prey of the genus Tyto (family Tytonidae). Barn owls are sometimes called monkey-faced owls because of their heart-shaped facial disks and absence ... [1 Related Articles]
- barn raising
- (from the article "Amish") ...of their brow over the ease of modern conveniences. What modern machinery they do use will often be operated not by electricity but by an alternative power source. The Amish ...
- barn-door skate
- (from the article "conservation") As to the hundreds of stocks about which fisheries biologists know too little, most of them are not considered economically important enough to warrant more investigation. One species, the barn-door ...
- Barnabas, Letter of
- an early Christian work written in Greek by one of the so-called Apostolic Fathers, Greek Christian writers of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries. Ascribed by tradition to St. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Barnabas, Saint
- Apostolic Father, an important early Christian missionary. [3 Related Articles]
- Barnack, Oskar
- designer of the first precision miniature camera to become available commercially, the Leica I, which was introduced in 1924 by the Ernst Leitz optical firm at Wetzlar, Ger.
- barnacle
- any of more than 1,000 predominantly marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia highly modified for sedentary life. There are about 850 free-living species (all marine) and about 260 species that ... [11 Related Articles]
- barnacle goose
- (Branta leucopsis), water bird of the family Anatidae (order Anseriformes) that resembles a small Canada goose, with dark back, white face, and black neck and bib. It winters in the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barnard Castle
- town, Teesdale district, administrative and historic county of Durham, England, on the north bank of the River Tees (there crossed by a medieval bridge). It developed around a Norman castle ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barnard College
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") American educator and historian, remembered especially for her early influence on the academic quality of Barnard College in New York City.Meyer
- Barnard's star
- third nearest star to the Sun (after Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri's A and B components considered together), at a distance of about 6 light-years. It is named for Edward ... [3 Related Articles]
- Barnard, Chester Irving
- American business executive, public administrator, and sociological theorist who studied the nature of corporate organization. Although he was not himself an academic, his first book, Functions of the Executive (1938), ...
- Barnard, Christiaan
- South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant operation. [3 Related Articles]
- Barnard, Edward Emerson
- astronomer who pioneered in celestial photography and who was the leading observational astronomer of his time. [2 Related Articles]
- Barnard, Frederick
- scientist, educator, and for nearly 25 years president of Columbia College in New York City, during which time Columbia was transformed from a small undergraduate institution for men into a ...
- Barnard, George Grey
- sculptor whose works were characterized by a vitality and individuality that brought him early fame.
- Barnard, Henry
- educator, jurist, and the first U.S. commissioner of education (1867-70). With Horace Mann he shared early leadership in improving the U.S. educational system. [2 Related Articles]
- Barnard, Kate
- Oklahoma welfare leader and the first woman to hold statewide elective office in the United States.
- Barnard, Lady Anne
- author of the popular ballad "Auld Robin Gray" (1771).
- Barnardo, Thomas John
- pioneer in social work who founded more than 90 homes for destitute children. Under his direction, the children were given care and instruction of high quality despite the then unusual ...
- Barnato Walker, Diana
- British pilot as a prominent member of the Atagirls, the women's branch of the World War II Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), delivered some 250 Spitfires and other planes to Royal ...
- Barnato, Barney
- financier and diamond magnate who rivaled Cecil Rhodes in struggling for control in the development of the South African mining industry. [1 Related Articles]
- Barnaul
- city and administrative centre, Altay kray (region), south-central Russia, on the left bank of the Ob River at its confluence with the Barnaulka. In 1738 a silver-refining ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barnave, Antoine
- prominent political figure of the early French Revolutionary period whose oratorical skill and political incisiveness made him one of the most highly respected members of the National Assembly. [5 Related Articles]
- Barnegat Lighthouse
- (from the article "Long Beach") Extending 12 miles (19 km) southward from historic Barnegat Lighthouse (rebuilt in 1858; 165 feet [50 metres] high and near the scene of more than 200 shipwrecks in sailing-ship days), ...
- Barnenes
- (from the article "archaeology") ...pagan sanctuary. Similarly, the first cache of the Dead Sea Scrolls was discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin looking for a stray animal. These accidental finds often lead to important ...
- Barnes Foundation Galleries
- fine art museum and educational facility located in Merion, Pa., noted for its extensive collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. [1 Related Articles]
- Barnes Taeuber, Irene
- (from the article "Taeuber, Conrad; and Barnes Taeuber, Irene") ...1951-68; associate director, 1968-73). From 1973-85 he was the senior professor of demography at the Kennedy Institute of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. After he married Irene Barnes, they collaborated ...
- Barnes, Albert
- U.S. Presbyterian clergyman and writer.
- Barnes, Albert C.
- American inventor of the antiseptic Argyrol (a mild silver protein) and noted art collector, whose collection resides in the Barnes Foundation Galleries in Merion, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. [2 Related Articles]
- Barnes, Barnabe
- Elizabethan poet, one of the Elizabethan sonneteers and the author of Parthenophil and Parthenophe.
- Barnes, Clive
- British-born American theatre and dance critic championed critical dance coverage and made the stage medium accessible to a generation of theatregoers. Following graduation from the University of Oxford, where he ...
- Barnes, Djuna
- avant-garde American writer who was a well-known figure in the Parisian literary scene of the 1920s and '30s.
- Barnes, Edward Larrabee
- (from the article "Architecture") Modernist Edward Larrabee Barnes, who died in 2004, received the top American honour, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). His best-known building was the Haystack Mountain ...
- Barnes, Ernest William
- controversial Anglican bishop of Birmingham, a leader in the Church of England modernist movement.
- Barnes, George
- (from the article "1940: Other Winners") ...Philadelphia StoryOriginal Story: Benjamin Glazer and John S. Toldy for Arise, My LoveOriginal Screenplay: Preston Sturges for The Great McGintyCinematography, Black-and-White: George Barnes for RebeccaCinematography, Color: Georges Perinal for The ...
- Barnes, George Nicoll
- trade-union leader, socialist, a founder (1900) and chairman (1910) of the British Labour Party, and member of David Lloyd George's coalition ministry during World War I.
- Barnes, Julian
- British television critic and author of inventive and intellectual novels about obsessed characters curious about the past.
- Barnes, Pancho
- aviator and movie stunt pilot, one of the first American women to establish a reputation and a business in the field of aviation.
- Barnes, Paul
- (from the article "Religion") ...and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life." Another prominent ...
- Barnes, Peter
- British playwright and screenwriter (b. Jan. 10, 1931, London, Eng.-d. July 1, 2004, London), was an imaginative, thoroughly unorthodox-and often underappreciated-writer best known for the satiric play The Ruling Class ...
- Barnes, Robert
- English Lutheran who was martyred after being used by King Henry VIII to gain support for his antipapal campaign in England. [1 Related Articles]
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