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- (from the article "poultry farming") ...generally classified as American, Mediterranean, English, and Asiatic. The American breeds of importance today are the Plymouth Rock, the Wyandotte, the Rhode Island Red, and the New Hampshire. The Barred ...
- barred Spanish mackerel
- (from the article "mackerel") ...found throughout the warm seas of the world. They are elongated with small scales, large mouths and teeth, and three keels on either side of the tail base. There are ...
- barred spiral galaxy
- (from the article "galaxy") The luminosities, dimensions, spectra, and distributions of the barred spirals tend to be indistinguishable from those of normal spirals. The subclasses of SB systems exist in parallel sequence to those ...
- barred surfperch
- (from the article "surfperch") Surfperches are relatively deep-bodied and have small mouths, large scales, and a single, long dorsal fin. The species range in length from 13 to 45 cm (5 to 18 inches). ...
- barred woodcreeper
- (from the article "woodcreeper") A typical form is the barred woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes certhia), of southern Mexico to northern Brazil; it is 28 cm long, is heavy-billed, and has scalloped, black markings. Xiphorhynchus woodcreepers, such ...
- barred wren-warbler
- (from the article "wren-warbler") ...sylviid wren-warblers are those of the African genus Calamonastes (sometimes included in Camaroptera), in which the tail is rather long and the underparts are barred. An example is the barred ...
- Barreda, Gabino
- (from the article "Mexico") ...to improve public education and to put the economy on a sound footing. In part to outmaneuver the Roman Catholic Church, Juarez entrusted the development of a national educational system ...
- barrel
- large, bulging cylindrical container of sturdy construction traditionally made from wooden staves and wooden or metal hoops. The term is also a unit of volume measure, specifically 31 gallons of ...
- barrel
- (from the article "rifle") firearm with a rifled bore-i.e., having shallow spiral grooves cut inside the barrel to impart a spin to the projectile. The name, most often applied to a weapon fired from ...
- barrel
- unit of both liquid and dry measure in the British Imperial and United States Customary systems, ranging from 31.5 to 42 gallons for liquids and fixed at 7,056 cubic inches ... [1 Related Articles]
- barrel cactus
- name for a group of more or less barrel-shaped cacti, family Cactaceae, native to North and South America. It is most often used for two large-stemmed North American genera, Ferocactus ...
- barrel distortion
- (from the article "aberration") ...when the enlarging paper or projection screen lie on a flat surface. Distortion refers to deformation of an image. There are two kinds of distortion, either of which may be ...
- barrel drum
- (from the article "drum") ...modern Indian damaru is an hourglass-shaped clapper drum-when it is twisted its heads are struck by the ends of one or two cords attached to the shell. ...
- barrel organ
- musical instrument in which a pinned barrel turned by a handle raises levers, admitting wind to one or more ranks of organ pipes; the handle simultaneously actuates the bellows. Ten ...
- barrel piano
- stringed musical instrument (chordophone) in which a simple pianoforte action is worked by a pinned barrel turned with a crank, rather than by a keyboard mechanism. It is associated primarily ...
- barrel race
- (from the article "rodeo") ...and team roping. There is no ban on additional contests, and there are usually contract acts-professional specialty performances such as trick riding, fancy roping, and other exhibitions. The barrel race, ...
- barrel vault
- (from the article "barrel vault") ceiling or roof consisting of a series of semicylindrical arches. See vault.ILLUSTRATIONFour common types of vault. A barrel vault (also called a cradle vault, tunnel vault, or wagon ...
- barreleye
- (from the article "spookfish") The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma), a spookfish of the Pacific, occurs along the North American coast. It is less than 10 cm (4 inches) in length and brownish in colour.
- Barrell, Joseph
- geologist who proposed that sedimentary rocks were produced by the action of rivers, winds, and ice (continental), as well as by marine sedimentation.
- Barremian Stage
- fourth of six main divisions (in ascending order) in the Lower Cretaceous Series, representing rocks deposited worldwide during the Barremian Age, which occurred 130 to 125 million years ago during ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barren Grounds
- vast sub-Arctic prairie (tundra) region of northern mainland Canada lying principally in the territory of Nunavut but also including the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories. It extends westward from ... [1 Related Articles]
- barrens
- (from the article "conservation") The original habitats locally called barrens constituted a visually striking and ecologically special habitat. Restoring them was a particular challenge, and the main conservation problem was finding the right mix ...
- Barrens, the
- (from the article "Kentucky") ...the local pronunciation of pennyroyal, a plant of the mint family that is abundant in the area. The Pennyrile encompasses wooded rocky hillsides, small stock farms, cliffs, and an area ...
- Barrera, Marco Antonio
- (from the article "Boxing") ...a rubber match in Las Vegas, with Pacquiao scoring a spectacular third-round knockout in front of a crowd of more than 18,000. Again, approximately 350,000 homes purchased the pay-per-view telecast. ...
- Barres, Maurice
- French writer and politician, influential through his individualism and fervent nationalism. [4 Related Articles]
- Barreto, Francisco
- Portuguese soldier and explorer. [1 Related Articles]
- Barretos
- city, north-central Sao Paulo estado (state), Brazil. It lies near the Pardo River at 1,713 feet (522 m) above sea level. Known at various times as Amaral dos Barretos, Espirito ...
- Barrett Company
- (from the article "AlliedSignal") The corporation was formed in 1920 in the consolidation of several chemical manufacturers; the Barrett Company (founded 1903), supplying coal-tar chemicals and roofing; General Chemical Company (founded 1899), specializing in ...
- Barrett esophagus
- (from the article "esophageal cancer") ...can be controlled. People who accidently swallowed lye as children also have a higher risk of esophageal cancer as adults. Long-term problems with acid reflux may lead to a condition ...
- Barrett, Janie Porter
- American welfare worker and educator who developed a school to rehabilitate previously incarcerated African-American girls by improving their self-reliance and discipline.
- Barrett, Kate Harwood Waller
- American physician who directed the rescue-home movement for unwed mothers in the United States.
- Barrett, Lawrence
- one of the leading American actors of the 19th century, especially noted for his Shakespearean interpretations.
- Barrett, Syd
- British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. Jan. 6, 1946, Cambridge, Eng.-d. July 7, 2006, Cambridge), was the original creative force behind the rock group Pink Floyd. Barrett provided the band's name ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barretto, Ray
- American percussionist and bandleader (b. April 29, 1929, New York, N.Y.-d. Feb. 17, 2006, Hackensack, N.J.), played conga drums on jazz albums and in Latin bands before he became one ...
- Barricades, Day of the
- (from the article "France") ...toward the Huguenots, was an object of attack. In town after town, royalist officials were replaced by members of the league. In Paris the mob was systematically aroused; in 1588, ...
- Barrie
- city, seat (1837) of Simcoe county, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies along Kempenfelt Bay, an arm of Lake Simcoe, 55 miles (90 km) north-northwest of Toronto. In 1812 a storehouse ...
- Barrie, J.M.
- Scottish dramatist and novelist who is best known as the creator of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. [2 Related Articles]
- Barrientos, Rene
- (from the article "Bolivia") With the support of many conservatives and the peasant masses, the vice president, General Rene Barrientos, seized the government and proceeded to dissolve most of the organized labour opposition, marking ...
- barrier bar
- (from the article "sandbar") Barrier bars or beaches are exposed sandbars that may have formed during the period of high-water level of a storm or during the high-tide season. During a period of lower ...
- barrier island
- (from the article "coastal landforms") ...embayments, many of which are fed by streams. Such embayments are called estuaries, and they receive much sediment due to runoff from an adjacent coastal plain. Seaward of the estuaries ...
- barrier island lagoon
- (from the article "ocean") ...may be either a sandy or shingly wave-built feature, or it may be a coral reef. Thus, there are two main types of lagoons: (1) elongated or irregular stretches of ...
- barrier reef
- a coral reef (q.v.) roughly parallel to a shore and separated from it by a lagoon or other body of water. A barrier reef is usually pierced by several channels ... [4 Related Articles]
- barrier separation
- (from the article "Separations based on rate phenomena") ...methods is based on the diffusion of molecules through semipermeable barriers. Besides differing in charge, proteins also differ in size, and this latter property can be used as the basis ...
- barrier-layer capacitor
- (from the article "capacitor dielectric and piezoelectric ceramics") Two other strategies to produce ceramic materials with high dielectric constants involve surface barrier layers or grain-boundary barrier layers; these are referred to as barrier-layer (BL) capacitors. In each case ...
- Barriere de la Villette
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...barrieres (tollgates) for Paris (1784-89), that ensure to Ledoux his central role in the evolution of Neoclassical and, indeed, of modern architecture. The Barriere de la Villette, consisting of a ...
- Barrington
- town (township), Bristol county, eastern Rhode Island, U.S. The town lies on the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay just southeast of East Providence and occupies two peninsulas separated by the ...
- Barrington, George
- Irish adventurer notorious for his activities as a pickpocket in England in the 1770s and '80s; he was falsely said to be the author of several histories of Australia.
- Barrio Adentro
- (from the article "Venezuela") ..."missions" program managed directly out of the president's office and aimed at increasing basic literacy, access to primary education, and cultural opportunities. One special mission, Barrio Adentro, provided housing and ...
- Barrio Norte
- (from the article "Buenos Aires") ...abandoned mansions that were subdivided into smaller living spaces and that are now mainly inhabited by poorer Argentinians and recent immigrants. On the other hand, Barrio Norte, north of Plaza ...
- Barrios, Eduardo
- Chilean writer best known for his psychological novels.
- Barrios, Jose Maria Reina
- (from the article "Barrios, Justo Rufino") His nephew Jose Maria Reina Barrios was president of Guatemala from 1892 until his assassination in 1898.Estrada CabreraEstrada Cabrera, Manuel...a ...
- Barrios, Justo Rufino
- president of Guatemala (1873-85), who carried out liberal domestic policies by dictatorial means and persistently advocated Central American unity, to be imposed by force if diplomacy proved inadequate. [3 Related Articles]
- barrister
- one of the two types of practicing lawyers in England, the other being the solicitor. In general, barristers engage in advocacy (trial work) and solicitors in office work, but there ... [6 Related Articles]
- Barro Colorado
- (from the article "Hitchcock, Albert Spear") ...as chairman (1920-26) of the executive committee of the Institute for Research in Tropical America (called the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute from 1946), for the designation of Barro Colorado Island ...
- Barroco de Indias
- (from the article "Latin American literature") In poetry, the Barroco de Indias begins with a gleeful acceptance of the manner originated by Luis de Gongora y Argote, the great Spanish Baroque poet, who had brought about ...
- Barrois
- ancient county, then duchy, on the western frontier of Lorraine, a territory of the Holy Roman Empire, of which Barrois was long a fiefdom or holding before being absorbed piecemeal ...
- Barron lock
- (from the article "lock") ...is a lever, or pawl, that falls into a slot in the bolt and prevents it being moved until it is raised by the key to exactly the right height ...
- Barron River
- river in northeastern Queensland, Australia, rising near Herberton in the Hugh Nelson Range of the Eastern Highlands and flowing north across the Atherton Plateau past Mareeba and then east and ...
- Barron, Clarence W
- financial editor and publisher who founded Barron's Financial Weekly.
- Barros Arana, Diego
- Chilean historian, educator, and diplomat best known for his Historia general de Chile, 16 vol. (1884-1902; "General History of Chile").
- Barros, Ademar de
- (from the article "Sao Paulo") ...Paulo governors and mayors, seeking to use their position as a springboard to national office, began to emulate Mayor Prestes Maia by undertaking sorely needed public works programs. The bon ...
- Barros, Cristovao de
- (from the article "Sergipe") ...government) in the 16th century, Sergipe Rei, as it was then called, was conquered and settled by cattlemen and sugar planters from Bahia. The local Indians were easily subdued by ...
- Barros, Edmundo de
- (from the article "Iguacu Falls") The first Spanish explorer to visit the falls was Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541. In 1897 Edmundo de Barros, a Brazilian army officer, envisaged the establishment of a ...
- Barros, Joao de
- Portuguese historian and civil servant who wrote Decadas da Asia, 4 vol. (1552-1615), one of the first great accounts of European overseas exploration and colonization. [3 Related Articles]
- Barros, Tierra de
- (from the article "Badajoz") ...of the mountains of Toledo province. It is crossed from east to west by the Guadiana River, the most important tributary of which is the Zujar. Typifying the wider central ...
- Barroso, Jose Manuel Durao
- (from the article "European Union") ...opened with Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel, whose country had taken on the rotating six-month EU presidency in January, dismissing 2005 as a "terrible year for Europe." Pres. Jose Manuel Barroso ...
- Barrot, Odilon
- prominent liberal monarchist under the July Monarchy in France (1830-48) and a leader of the electoral reform movement of 1847.
- barrow
- in England, ancient burial place covered with a large mound of earth. In Scotland, Ireland, and Wales the equivalent term is cairn. Barrows were constructed in England from Neolithic (c. ... [8 Related Articles]
- Barrow
- (from the article "permafrost") The most conspicuous change in thickness of permafrost is related to climate. At Barrow, Alaska, U.S., the mean annual air temperature is -12° C (10° F), and the thickness is ...
- Barrow Island
- Australian island in the Indian Ocean, 30 miles (50 km) off the northwest coast of Western Australia and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of the Monte Bello Islands. Measuring 12 ...
- Barrow's goldeneye
- (from the article "goldeneye") ...a characteristic whistling sound with their rapidly beating wings. The common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) breeds throughout the Northern Hemisphere; the major breeding areas of Barrow's goldeneye (B. islandica) are in ...
- Barrow, Clyde
- (from the article "Bonnie and Clyde") Barrow had been a criminal long before he met Parker in January 1930. After 20 months in prison in 1930-32, he teamed up with Parker, and the two began a ...
- Barrow, Dame Nita
- Barbadian public health official and diplomat (b. Nov. 15, 1916, St. Lucy, Barbados--d. Dec. 19, 1995, Bridgetown, Barbados), capped a long and distinguished career with her appointment in 1990 as ...
- Barrow, Dean
- (from the article "Belize") Musa's decision to raise taxes to pay off foreign debt sparked riots throughout Belize in 2005, and his administration was accused of corruption. The UDP, now led by Dean Barrow, ...
- Barrow, Errol
- (from the article "Barbados") Barbados is a member of the Commonwealth and continues to play a leading role in the establishment of regional cooperation. In 1968 Errol Barrow, who served as prime minister in ...
- Barrow, Henry
- lawyer and early Congregationalist martyr who challenged the established Anglican church by supporting the formation of separate and independent churches in England.
- Barrow, Isaac
- English classical scholar, theologian, and mathematician who was the teacher of Isaac Newton. He developed a method of determining tangents that closely approached the methods of calculus, and he first ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barrow, John D.
- British astrophysicist and winner of the 2006 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities. [2 Related Articles]
- Barrow, River
- river rising in the Slieve Bloom mountain range in the centre of Ireland and flowing for about 120 miles (190 km) to Waterford harbour in the southeast, where it joins ...
- Barrow-in-Furness
- (from the article "Barrow-in-Furness") port town and borough (district), administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies on the seaward side of the Furness peninsula between the estuary of the River ...
- Barrow-in-Furness
- port town and borough (district), administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies on the seaward side of the Furness peninsula between the estuary of the River ...
- Barry
- Bristol Channel port town, Vale of Glamorgan county, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales. Barry has associations with Baruch, a 7th-century Celtic monk, and with the Normans, who built a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barry, James
- Irish-born artist whose major work, "The Progress of Human Culture," is a series of six monumental paintings of historical and allegorical subjects done for the Great Room of the Royal ...
- Barry, Jeanne Becu, comtesse du
- last of the mistresses of the French king Louis XV (reigned 1715-74). Although she exercised little political influence at the French court, her unpopularity contributed to the decline of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barry, Jeff
- (from the article "The Brill Building") ...across the street at 1650 Broadway) was Aldon Music, founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Brill Building-era songwriting teams such as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Barry Mann and ...
- Barry, John
- (from the article "1966: Other Winners") ...Direction, Black-and-White: Richard Sylbert for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Art Direction, Color: Dale Hennesy and Jack Martin Smith for Fantastic VoyageOriginal Music Score: John Barry for Born FreeScoring of Music ...
- Barry, John
- American naval officer who won significant maritime victories during the American Revolution (1775-83). Because he trained so many young officers who later became celebrated in the nation's history, he was ...
- Barry, John
- (from the article "1977: Other Winners") ...Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman for Annie HallAdapted Screenplay: Alvin Sargent for JuliaCinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond for Close Encounters of the Third KindArt Direction: John Barry, Leslie Dilley, Norman Reynolds for ...
- Barry, Marion
- American civil rights activist and politician who served four terms as mayor of Washington, D.C. Barry received a bachelor's degree from LeMoyne College (1958) and a master's degree from Fisk ...
- Barry, Miranda
- (from the article "dress") ...plasterer. By 1866 Helen Bruce had been working in male dress since she was 17, as an errand boy, shop lad, ship's stoker, tallyman at a mine, and clerk. As ...
- Barry, Philip
- American dramatist best known for his comedies of life and manners among the socially privileged.
- Barry, Phillips
- (from the article "ballad") ...a folk singer, tradition serving simply as the vehicle for the oral perpetuation of the creation. According to the widely accepted communal re-creation theory, put forward by the American collector ...
- Barry, Sir Charles
- one of the architects of the Gothic Revival in England and chief architect of the British Houses of Parliament. [3 Related Articles]
- Barrymore, Drew
- (from the article "Barrymore, John") ...Much, Too Soon (1957), was made into a motion picture in 1958. His son, John Blyth Barrymore, Jr. (1932-2004), known as John Drew Barrymore, was also a film actor and ...
- Barrymore, Ethel
- American stage and film actress whose distinctive style, voice, and wit made her the "first lady" of the American theatre. [1 Related Articles]
- Barrymore, Georgiana
- actress and, with Maurice Barrymore, founder of the famous stage and screen family Barrymore, which occupied a preeminent position in American theatre in the first half of the 20th century.
- Barrymore, John
- American actor, called "The Great Profile," who is remembered both for his roles as a debonair leading man and for his interpretations of Shakespeare's Richard III and Hamlet. (See .) [2 Related Articles]
- Barrymore, John Drew
- American actor (b. June 4, 1932, Beverly Hills, Calif.-d. Nov. 29, 2004, Los Angeles, Calif.), was a fourth-generation member of one of the most famous American theatrical families-and the father ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barrymore, Lionel
- one of the most important character actors in the early 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Barrymore, Maurice
- actor and sometime playwright, founder, with his wife, Georgiana Barrymore, of the renowned Barrymore theatrical family.
- Barsac
- (from the article "Bordeaux wine") The natural sweet wines, fruity with enduring rich flavour, of this district are usually considered among the world's finest. To achieve their quality the grapes are left until overripe on ...
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