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- British journalist who as editor of The Times for many years established its reputation and founded a tradition of independent journalism. [1 Related Articles]
- Barnes, Tracy
- (from the article "balloon flight") American aeronaut Tracy Barnes adapted a venting system used in parachutes to make the most important advance in safety and control of hot-air balloons since the rip panel. Barnes's parachute ...
- Barnes, William
- English dialect poet whose work gives a vivid picture of the life and labour of rural southwestern England and includes some moving expressions of loss and grief, such as
- Barnet
- outer borough of London, on the northwestern perimeter of the metropolis. The borough lies mostly within the historic county of Middlesex, but many of the borough's northern districts (including New ...
- Barnet, Battle of
- (April 14, 1471), in the English Wars of the Roses, a momentous victory for the Yorkist king Edward IV over his Lancastrian opponents, the adherents of Henry VI. It was ... [4 Related Articles]
- Barnet, Charlie
- American band leader and saxophonist of the swing jazz era.
- Barnet, Miguel
- novelist, poet, ethnographer, and expert on Afro-Cuban culture. [1 Related Articles]
- Barnett, Gary
- Gary Barnett in 1995 played the fairy godmother in the most compelling Cinderella story to come along in years. As head coach he guided the Northwestern University football team, longtime ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barnett, S. H.
- (from the article "1964: Other Winners") Story and Screenplay: S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff for Father GooseAdapted Screenplay: Edward Anhalt for BecketCinematography, Black-and-White: Walter Lassally for Zorba the GreekCinematography, Color: Harry Stradling for...
- Barnett, Samuel A
- Anglican priest and social reformer who founded building programs and cultural centres (notably Toynbee Hall, 1884, which Barnett served as its first warden) in London's impoverished East End. In his ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barney, Matthew
- American sculptor and video artist whose five-part Cremaster film cycle was praised for its inventiveness. Some art critics considered him one of the most significant artists of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barney, Natalie Clifford
- (from the article "Brooks, Romaine Goddard") In 1905 Romaine Brooks moved to Paris, where she established herself in literary, artistic, and homosexual circles. In 1915 she met Natalie Clifford Barney, who was to be her lover ...
- Barney, Nora Stanton Blatch
- American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist whose professional and political activities built on her family's tradition of women leaders.
- Barnhart, Clarence Lewis
- U.S. lexicographer and editor (b. Dec. 30, 1900, near Plattsburg, Mo.--d. Oct. 24, 1993, Peekskill, N.Y.), devoted his life to the compilation and revision of dictionaries and, together with educational ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barnier, Michel
- (from the article "France") ...he had no option but to give Sarkozy an even bigger role by making him finance minister. Sarkozy's place at interior went to Dominique de Villepin, whose job at the ...
- Barnsley
- (from the article "Barnsley") town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. Situated on the River Dearne, a tributary of the Don, Barnsley is an old market ...
- Barnsley
- town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. Situated on the River Dearne, a tributary of the Don, Barnsley is an old market ...
- Barnsley family
- (from the article "furniture") ...his high ideals to discovering a way in which machines might be used to the best advantage. Morris' followers in the field of cabinetmaking included such designer-craftsmen as Ernest Gimson ...
- Barnstable
- county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is bounded by Cape Cod Bay to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Nantucket Sound to the south, Vineyard Sound to the southwest, ...
- Barnstable
- city, Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is situated between Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Sound, on the "biceps" of Cape Cod. It was settled in 1638 by farmers who ...
- Barnstaple
- town ("parish"), North Devon district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. It lies on the north bank of the Taw estuary, about 10 miles (16 km) from the Bristol ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barnum & Bailey Circus
- (from the article "Bailey, James A") U.S. impresario credited with the great success of the Barnum & Bailey Circus.history of circusescircusHistory...19th century, but they had so ...
- Barnum, P.T.
- American showman who employed sensational forms of presentation and publicity to popularize such amusements as the public museum, the musical concert, and the three-ring circus. In partnership with James A. ... [8 Related Articles]
- Barnwell
- county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a low-lying region on the Coastal Plain bordered to the northeast by the South Fork Edisto River and to the southwest by ...
- Barnwell, John
- (from the article "Barnwell") When the county was established in 1798, it was a region of plantations named for John Barnwell, who early in the 18th century had led settlers in subduing a Tuscarora ...
- barnyard grass
- (Echinochloa crus-galli), coarse annual grass of the family Poaceae (Gramineae) and one of about 20 species comprising the genus Echinochloa. The common name also applies to a similar species, E. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baro
- town and river port, Niger State, west central Nigeria, on the Niger River, 400 miles (650 km) from the sea. Originally a small village of the Nupe people, it was ...
- Baro River
- (from the article "Ethiopia") Ethiopia has three principal drainage systems. The first and largest is the western system, which includes the watersheds of the Blue Nile (known as the Abay in Ethiopia), the Tekeze, ...
- Barocci, Federico
- leading painter of the central Italian school in the last decades of the 16th century and an important precursor of the Baroque style. [1 Related Articles]
- Barockscholastik
- (from the article "Scholasticism") ...have been explicit attempts to go back to Scholastic thinkers and inspire a renascence of their basic ideas. Two chief movements of this kind were the Scholasticism of the Renaissance ...
- baroclinic atmosphere
- (from the article "climate") ...attached to it. This stationary or very slow-moving front forms a boundary between cold and warm air and thus is a zone of strong horizontal temperature gradient (sometimes referred to ...
- baroclinic field of mass
- (from the article "ocean") ...independent of depth. The oceans of the world, however, are not homogeneous. Horizontal variations in temperature and salinity cause the horizontal pressure gradient to vary with depth. This is the ...
- baroclinic instability
- (from the article "atmosphere") ...of the tropical air. Cyclones that progress no farther than the developing stage are referred to as wave cyclones, while extratropical lows that reach the mature and occluded stages are ...
- Baroco
- (from the article "logic, history of") Second figure:Cesare, Camestres, Festino, Baroco,
- Baroghil Pass
- (from the article "Hindu Kush") In its extreme eastern section, between the passes of Karambar and Baroghil (Barowghil; 12,480 feet [3,804 metres]), the eastern Hindu Kush is not very high and has mountains that often ...
- barograph
- (from the article "barometer") A barometer that mechanically records changes in barometric pressure over time is called a barograph. Though mercury barographs have been made, aneroid barographs are much more common. The motion of ...
- Baroja, Pio
- Basque writer who is considered to be the foremost Spanish novelist of his generation. [2 Related Articles]
- Barom Reachea I
- (from the article "Chan I") ...reoccupation and rehabilitation of the former Khmer capital of Angkor (largely abandoned in the 15th century). This rehabilitation is, however, most correctly associated with the reign of his son, Barom ...
- barometer
- device used to measure atmospheric pressure. Because atmospheric pressure changes with distance above or below sea level, a barometer can also be used to measure altitude. There are two main ... [6 Related Articles]
- barometric light
- luminous glow appearing in the vacuum above the mercury in a barometer tube when the tube is shaken, first noticed in 1675 by a French astronomer, Jean Picard. The electrical ...
- baron
- title of nobility, ranking below a viscount (or below a count in countries without viscounts). In the feudal system of Europe, a baron was a "man" who pledged his loyalty ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baron Bliss Day
- (from the article "Belize") Among the numerous celebrations in Belize are the Christian religious holidays. Baron Bliss Day (March 9) is a national festival honouring a British resident who died while on vacation in ...
- Baron Cohen, Sacha
- With his trio of outrageously ignorant alter egos-Ali G, Borat, and Bruno-British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen took political incorrectness to new lows, creating social satire that had many ...
- Baron de Hirsch Fund
- (from the article "Hirsch, Maurice, baron de") In 1891 Hirsch founded and endowed the Baron de Hirsch fund in the United States, principally to help Jewish immigrants there to learn a trade. In the late 20th century ...
- Baron, Michel
- French actor, from 1670 until his retirement in 1691 the undisputed master of the French stage.
- Baron, Salo Wittmayer
- Austrian-born American historian who spent much of his life compiling the multivolume magnum opus A Social and Religious History of the Jews (1937), originally published in three volumes but later ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barone, Enrico
- Italian mathematical economist who expanded on the concepts of general equilibrium previously formulated by French economist Leon Walras.
- baronet
- British hereditary dignity, first created by King James I of England in May 1611. The baronetage is not part of the peerage, nor is it an order of knighthood. A ...
- barong
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...hunter, demon, bull, girls, and deer enact the ritual of a deer hunt to ensure its success in real life. The Dayak of Kalimantan perform a dance to exorcise sickness. ...
- barong-barong
- (from the article "Manila") ...accessoria, whose dwelling units have individual entrances from the outside; the apartment building with common entrance; and the barong-barong, a makeshift shack built of ...
- Baronius, Caesar
- ecclesiastical historian and apologist for the Roman Catholic Church. [1 Related Articles]
- Baronova, Irina
- Russian-born ballerina was the youngest and most graceful of the "baby ballerinas," a trio of teenage dancers who in the 1930s captured public attention and attracted audiences to the Ballet ...
- Barons' War
- (1264-67), in English history, the civil war caused by baronial opposition to the costly and inept policies of Henry III. The barons in 1258 had attempted to achieve reform by ... [5 Related Articles]
- Barons, Articles of the
- (from the article "John") ...out in May 1215. John was compelled to negotiate once more when London went over to the rebels in May, and on June 15 at Runnymede he accepted the baronial ...
- Baroque architecture
- (from the article "column") ...columns tend to be simple in shape but richly decorated. Craftsmen of the Gothic and Romanesque era used the bases and capitals of supporting stone columns as spaces for intricate ...
- Baroque music
- (from the article "musical composition") Even though the Baroque preoccupation with style worked somewhat to the detriment of structural definition, certain closed forms did gradually emerge. The da capo aria distinguished clearly between an initial ...
- baroque pearl
- pearl that is irregularly or oddly shaped. Pearl formation does not always occur in soft-tissue areas, where the expanding pearl sac grows regularly because it encounters no appreciable resistance. Pearl ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baroque period
- era in the history of the Western arts roughly coinciding with the 17th century. Its earliest manifestations, which occurred in Italy, date from the latter decades of the 16th century, ... [38 Related Articles]
- baroque theology
- (from the article "Congar, Yves") As a young Dominican at the Saulchoir, Congar determined that the mission of the church was impeded by what he and Chenu termed "baroque theology." This theology, which had dominated ...
- baroreception
- (from the article "shock") ...operation. An acute loss of blood reduces the amount of venous blood returning to the heart, in turn reducing the cardiac output and causing a drop in arterial blood pressure. ...
- baroreceptor reflex
- (from the article "nervous system, human") Mechanoreceptors trigger what is called the baroreceptor reflex, which causes a decrease in the discharge of sympathetic vasomotor and cardiac outflows whenever an increase in blood pressure occurs. In addition, ...
- Barossa Valley
- important wine-producing region of South Australia, located 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Adelaide in the Mount Lofty Ranges. The valley, drained by the North Para River, is about 19 ...
- barotrauma
- any of several injuries arising from changes in pressure upon the body. Humans are adapted to live at an atmospheric pressure of 760 mm of mercury (the pressure at sea ...
- barotropic field of mass
- (from the article "ocean") ...if the sea surface is tilted. In this case, surfaces of equal pressure, called isobaric surfaces, are tilted in the deeper layers by the same amount as the sea surface. ...
- barotropic instability
- (from the article "climate") It is also possible for Rossby waves to amplify through a process called barotropic instability. Barotropic instability, however, requires horizontal shear, not vertical shear; kinetic energy for the waves comes ...
- Barotse Flood Plain
- (from the article "Zambezi River") ...tributaries of varying sizes. Shortly after reentering Zambia, the river flows over the Chavuma Falls and enters a broad region of hummocky, sand-covered floodplains, the largest of which is the ...
- Barquisimeto
- city, capital of Lara estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. Situated on a wide terrace of the Turbio River at 1,856 feet (566 m) above sea level, Barquisimeto is swept by the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barquq
- (from the article "Damanhur") ...in the Middle Ages it prospered as a caravan town on the post road from Cairo to Alexandria. It was severely damaged in 1302 by an earthquake, but in the ...
- Barr body
- (from the article "sex chromosome") ...for this is that, in each somatic cell of a normal female, one of the X chromosomes is randomly deactivated. This deactivated X chromosome can be seen as a small, ...
- Barr Pharmaceuticals
- (from the article "Croatia") Economically, the year was marked by a war between Iceland-based Actavis and American Barr Pharmaceuticals over acquisition of stock in the Croatian pharmaceutical company Pliva, Eastern Europe's biggest drugmaker. On ...
- Barr, Alfred H., Jr.
- (from the article "art criticism") ...the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1929 under the auspices of the Rockefeller family was the consummate sign of the social and economic success of avant-garde ...
- Barr, Bob
- American politician and attorney who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995-2003). He was the Libertarian Party's nominee for president in 2008. [1 Related Articles]
- Barra
- Atlantic island of the Outer Hebrides group, Western Isles council area, historic county of Inverness-shire, Scotland, about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of the neighbouring island of South Uist. Formed ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barra Mansa
- city, western Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It lies along the Paraiba do Sul River, at an elevation of 1,234 feet (376 metres) above sea ...
- Barra phase
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The Barra (c. 1800-1500 BC), Ocos (1500-1200 BC), and Cuadros (1100-900 BC) phases of the Pacific coasts of Chiapas and Guatemala are good examples of early village cultures. The Barra ...
- Barraca, La
- (from the article "Garcia Lorca, Federico") ...Asi que pasen cinco anos (1931; Once Five Years Pass), and he assumed the directorship of a traveling student theatre group, La Barraca (the ...
- Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture
- in Rome, museum devoted to ancient sculpture and comprising the collection formed by Giovanni Barracco (1829-1914). The collection was given to Rome in 1902. There are fine examples of Egyptian, ...
- Barrace, Cipriano
- (from the article "Trinidad") city, northeastern Bolivia. It lies in the Moxos (Mojos) Plains, an ancient lake bed stretching eastward from the foothills of the Andean eastern cordillera. In 1686 Jesuits led by Father ...
- Barrackpore
- town, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the Hooghly River and is part of the Calcutta urban agglomeration, lying 15 miles (24 km) north of ...
- Barrackpore Mutiny
- (Nov. 2, 1824), incident during the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26), generally regarded as a dress rehearsal for the Indian Mutiny of 1857 because of its similar combination of Indian grievances ...
- barracuda
- any of about 20 species of predacious fishes of the family Sphyraenidae (order Perciformes). Barracudas are found in all warm and tropical regions; some also range into more temperate areas. ...
- barracudina
- any of about 50 species of marine fishes of the family Paralepididae, found almost worldwide in deep waters. Barracudinas are long-bodied, slender fishes with large eyes, pointed snouts, and large ...
- Barragan, Luis
- Mexican engineer and architect, whose serene and evocative houses, gardens, plazas, and fountains won him the Pritzker Prize in 1980. [1 Related Articles]
- barrage rocket
- (from the article "rocket and missile system") The Germans began the war with a lead in this category of weapon, and their 150-millimetre and 210-millimetre bombardment rockets were highly effective. These were fired from a variety of ...
- Barran, John
- (from the article "clothing and footwear industry") ...used by the clothing industry. The next major development was the introduction in England in 1860 of the band-knife machine that cut several thicknesses of cloth at one time. It ...
- barranca
- (from the article "Mexico") ...feet (2,400-2,700 metres) and extends roughly 700 miles (1,100 km) from north to south. It has been highly incised by westward-flowing streams that have formed a series of gorges, or ...
- Barrancabermeja
- city, Santander departamento, north-central Colombia, on the Magdalena River. In 1536 a Spanish conquistador, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quezada, discovered the wooden-stockaded Indian settlement of La Tora. The ...
- Barranco
- city in the southern portion of the Lima-Callao metropolitan area, Peru. It lies along the Pacific coast at an elevation of 213 feet (65 m) above sea level. Founded as ...
- Barrande, Joachim
- geologist and paleontologist whose studies of the fossil strata of Bohemia revealed the abundance and rich variety of life in the Early Paleozoic era (the Paleozoic lasted from 540 million ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barranquilla
- capital of Atlantico departamento, northwestern Colombia. It is situated in the Caribbean lowlands, 15 miles (24 km) upstream from the mouth of the Magdalena River, and is ... [3 Related Articles]
- Barras, Paul-Francois-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de
- one of the most powerful members of the Directory during the French Revolution. [1 Related Articles]
- Barrault, Jean-Louis
- French actor, director, and producer whose work with both avant-garde and classic plays helped revive French theatre after World War II. [4 Related Articles]
- barre
- (from the article "Benin") Behind the coastal region extends the barre country-the word being a French adaptation of the Portuguese word barro ("clay"). A fertile plateau, the barre region contains the Lama Marsh, a ...
- barre
- in ballet, the horizontal handrail, usually wooden, that is fixed to the walls of a ballet studio approximately 3.5 feet (1 m) from the floor. It is used by dancers ...
- Barre
- city, Washington county, central Vermont, U.S. It lies just southeast of Montpelier, the state capital. The area, settled about 1788, was organized as a town (township) in 1793 under the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barre des Ecrins
- (from the article "Ecrins National Park") ...Isere, southeastern France. The park, which was created in 1973, occupies 226,694 acres (91,740 hectares) and is the second largest national park in France. It encompasses the Alpine peaks of ...
- Barre, Raymond
- economist and politician who served as prime minister of France (1976-81). [1 Related Articles]
- Barre-Sinoussi, Francoise
- French virologist who was a corecipient, with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She and Montagnier shared half the prize for ...
- barred button quail
- (from the article "button quail") ...region. The Andalusian hemipode, 15 cm (6 in.) long, has streaked, reddish-gray upperparts and pale underparts with an orange breast patch and black-spotted sides. The sexes look much alike. In ...
- barred owl
- (from the article "wood owl") The barred owl (Strix varia) of eastern North America has an overall barred pattern in brown and white. It is about 40 to 50 cm (1.3 to 1.7 feet) long.
- barred pickerel
- (from the article "pickerel") ...scaled cheeks and gill covers, and banded or chainlike markings. The chain pickerel (Esox niger) grows to about 0.6 metre (2 feet) and a weight of 1.4 to 1.8 kilograms ...
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