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- (from the article "Mamluk") ...in the East contributed to economic decay. In such conditions the Mamluks were unable to defend Syria against the Turkic conqueror Timur (Timur Lenk) in 1400. Under the rule of ...
- Barseback 2
- (from the article "The Environment") ...Social Democratic government was said to have approved a 15 billion Swedish kronor (about $2.1 billion) modernization program to increase capacity at 7 of the existing 10 reactors. Nevertheless, the ...
- Barsisa
- in Islamic legend, an ascetic who succumbed to the devil's temptations and denied God.
- barsman
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...and custody of the sacred fire was no doubt observed under the Sasanians. The officiating priest was girt with a sword and carried in his hand the
- Barss
- (from the article "harness racing") ...most famous trotting event, was first run in 1777 at Soestdijk. About the same time Aleksey, Count Orlov, began to develop a powerful trotting strain at his stud farm in ...
- barstool
- (from the article "stool") By the 19th century, stools had become primarily rustic or ornamental furniture. The exception was the development of the barstool, a high stool (with or without arms and back) usually ...
- Barstovian stage
- uppermost major division of the Miocene epoch (23.7 million to 5.3 million years ago) in North America. The Barstovian stage follows the Hemingfordian stage and precedes the Clarendonian stage of ...
- Barstow
- city, San Bernardino county, south-central California, U.S. Located in the Mojave Desert, the city lies at a junction of pioneer trails. It was founded in 1880 during a silver-mining rush ...
- Barstow, Stan
- English novelist who achieved success with his first book, A Kind of Loving (1960; filmed 1962; stage play 1970).
- Barsumas
- (from the article "patristic literature") ...was the author of extensive commentaries, now lost, and of metrical homilies, dialogue songs, and liturgical hymns. In 447, when a Monophysite reaction set in, he was expelled from Edessa ...
- barszcz
- (from the article "borsch") ...is often eaten with a sour cream garnish and with pirozhki, turnovers filled with beef and onions. A meatless beet soup is made with a stock flavoured with forest mushrooms; ...
- Bart, Jean
- French privateer and naval officer, renowned for his skillful and daring achievements in the wars of Louis XIV.
- Bart, Lionel
- British composer, lyricist, and playwright who helped revive the British stage musical with such shows as Lock Up Your Daughters (1959), Fings Ain't Wot ...
- Bartali, Gino
- Italian cyclist (b. July 18, 1914, Ponte a Ema, near Florence, Italy-d. May 5, 2000, Ponte a Ema), became a national hero and helped unite Italy during a period of ...
- Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur du
- author of La Semaine (1578), an influential poem about the creation of the world. [1 Related Articles]
- Bartel, Paul
- American director, screenwriter, and actor (b. Aug. 6, 1938, Brooklyn, N.Y.-d. May 13, 2000, New York, N.Y.), was perhaps best remembered for creating and starring in the black comedy Eating ...
- Bartenstein, Johann Christoph, Freiherr von
- Austrian statesman and trusted counsellor of Emperor Charles VI. He created the political system that was based upon the Pragmatic Sanction; it was intended to guarantee the peaceful accession of ...
- Barter
- (from the article "Beaufort Sea") ...steeply to 5,000 or 6,500 ft in the sea's upper part. Small gravel islands or shallows are often found. The largest islands are west of the Mackenzie River mouth-Herschel (7 ...
- barter
- the direct exchange of goods or services-without an intervening medium of exchange or money-either according to established rates of exchange or by bargaining. It is considered the oldest form of ... [6 Related Articles]
- Barter Theatre
- (from the article "Virginia") ...are an active concern of the state government, as well as of private patrons. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond was the first state museum of the arts ...
- Barth, Heinrich
- German geographer and one of the great explorers of Africa. [4 Related Articles]
- Barth, John
- American writer best known for novels that combine philosophical depth and complexity with biting satire and boisterous, frequently bawdy humour. Much of Barth's writing is concerned with the seeming impossibility ... [3 Related Articles]
- Barth, Karl
- Swiss Protestant theologian, probably the most influential of the 20th century. Closely supported by his lifelong friend and colleague, the theologian Eduard Thurneysen, he initiated a radical change in Protestant ... [15 Related Articles]
- Barth, Paul
- German philosopher and sociologist who considered society as an organization in which progress is determined by the power of ideas.
- Barthelemy, Jean-Jacques
- French archaeologist and author whose novel about ancient Greece was one of the most widely read books in 19th-century France.
- Barthelemy-Saint-Hilaire, Jules
- French politician, journalist, and scholar.
- Barthelme, Donald
- American short-story writer known for his modernist "collages," which were marked by technical experimentation and a kind of melancholy gaiety. [2 Related Articles]
- Barthelme, Frederick
- American writer of short stories and novels featuring characters who are shaped by the impersonal suburban environments in which they live.
- Barthes, Roland
- French essayist and social and literary critic whose writings on semiotics, the formal study of symbols and signs pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, helped establish structuralism and the New Criticism ... [4 Related Articles]
- Bartholdi, Frederic-Auguste
- French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. [2 Related Articles]
- Bartholin's gland
- (from the article "reproductive system, animal") Female mammals have fewer accessory sex glands than males, the most prominent being Bartholin's glands and prostates. Bartholin's (bulbovestibular) glands are homologues of the bulbourethral glands of males. One pair ...
- Bartholin, Caspar Berthelsen
- Danish physician and theologian who wrote one of the most widely read Renaissance manuals of anatomy.
- Bartholin, Erasmus
- Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist who discovered the optical phenomenon of double refraction. [3 Related Articles]
- Bartholin, Thomas
- Danish anatomist and mathematician who was first to describe fully the entire human lymphatic system (1652).
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus
- Franciscan encyclopaedist who was long famous for his encyclopaedia, De proprietatibus rerum ("On the Properties of Things"). [3 Related Articles]
- Bartholome, Albert
- sculptor whose works, particularly his funerary art, made him one of the best known of modern French sculptors.
- Bartholomew I
- 270th ecumenical patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox church from 1991. [4 Related Articles]
- Bartholomew, Dave
- (from the article "Domino, Fats") From a musical family, Domino received early training from his brother-in-law, guitarist Harrison Verrett. He began performing in clubs in his teens and in 1949 was discovered by Dave Bartholomew-the ...
- Bartholomew, Freddie
- child actor who epitomized Hollywood's vision of a proper little English boy in such Depression-era films as Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and Captains Courageous (1937).
- Bartholomew, Harry Guy
- (from the article "publishing, history of") ...1.5 million new readers, so that by the end of the decade there was a national newspaper aimed at every socioeconomic class. The Daily Mirror was revived ...
- Bartholomew, John
- (from the article "John Bartholomew and Son") mapmaking and publishing company of the United Kingdom, located in Edinburgh and specializing in the use of hypsometric (layer) colouring in relief maps. The company was established in 1826 by ...
- Bartholomew, John George
- (from the article "John Bartholomew and Son") ...(layer) colouring in relief maps. The company was established in 1826 by John Bartholomew. It originally published such diverse items as checkbooks, election literature, and maps. In 1856 his son ...
- Bartholomew, John George
- cartographer and map and atlas publisher who improved the standards of British cartography and introduced into Great Britain the use of contours and systematic colour layering to show relief.
- Bartholomew, Peter
- (from the article "Holy Lance") ...routing them in battle and securing Christian possession of Antioch. Disputes about the authenticity of the lance, however, caused internal dissension among the crusaders, and its discoverer, Peter Bartholomew, was ...
- Bartholomew, Saint
- one of the Twelve Apostles. [1 Related Articles]
- Barthou, Louis
- French premier (1913), conservative statesman, and long-time colleague of Raymond Poincare. He was assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia during the latter's visit to France in 1934. [1 Related Articles]
- Bartica
- town, north-central Guyana, in tropical rainforests in which the Essequibo, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni rivers meet. A small commercial centre, Bartica is situated at the head of the Essequibo River, 50 ...
- Bartisch, Georg
- (from the article "ophthalmology") ...with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the eye. The first ophthalmologists were oculists. These paramedical specialists practiced on an itinerant basis during the Middle Ages. Georg ...
- Bartkey, Walter
- (from the article "The decision to use the atomic bomb") ...should be used. However, sharp dissent came from a group of scientists at the project's facilities at the University of Chicago. Their leader, Leo Szilard, along with two prestigious colleagues, ...
- Bartle Frere, Mount
- mountain in Bellenden-Ker Range, northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is the highest point in the state and rises to 5,287 ft (1,611 m) in an area reserved as a national park. ...
- Bartlesville
- city, seat (1907) of Washington county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S., on the Caney River. It was settled in the 1870s around Jacob Bartles's trading post. Growth was spurred by the discovery ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bartlett, John
- American bookseller and editor best known for his Familiar Quotations.
- Bartlett, John Russell
- bibliographer who made his greatest contribution to linguistics with his pioneer work, Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases, Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States (1848). ...
- Bartlett, Joseph M.
- (from the article "Clinton") ...county, eastern Iowa, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (there bridged to Fulton and East Clinton, Illinois), about 40 miles (65 km) north-northeast of Davenport. The original settler, Joseph ...
- Bartlett, Sir Frederic C
- British psychologist best known for his studies of memory. [1 Related Articles]
- Bartley, Luella
- (from the article "Fashions") Singapore retail and hotel tycoon Christina Ong's interest in Luella Bartley allowed the Shoreditch (Eng.)-based designer and former British Vogue journalist-who described her signature as "English countryside-meets-London's avant-garde"-to open a ...
- Bartley, Robert LeRoy
- American journalist (b. Oct. 12, 1937, Marshall, Minn.-d. Dec. 10, 2003, New York, N.Y.), served as the editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page for three of his nearly ...
- Bartman incident
- (from the article "Chicago Cubs") ...from making it to the World Series, the Cubs missed the chance at another out when fan interference blocked an attempted catch by outfielder Moises Alou of a pop foul ...
- Bartmannkrug
- type of 16th-century German jug, characterized by a round belly and a mask of a bearded man applied in relief to the neck. This salt-glazed stoneware jug is associated particularly ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bartok String Quartet
- Hungarian musical ensemble that is one of the world's most renowned string quartets. It was founded in 1957 as the Komlos Quartet by graduates of the College of Musical Arts ...
- Bartok, Bela
- Hungarian composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and teacher, noted for the Hungarian flavour of his major musical works, which include orchestral works, string quartets, piano solos, several stage works, a cantata, and ... [17 Related Articles]
- Bartold, Vasily Vladimirovich
- Russian anthropologist who made valuable contributions to the study of the social and cultural history of Islam and of the Tajik Iranians and literate Turkic peoples of Central Asia.
- Bartoli, Cecilia
- When Cecilia Bartoli attempted a concert tour in the United States in 1991, she returned to Italy with less than $1,000 in her pocket, mostly because American promoters were not ...
- Bartoli, Daniello
- Jesuit historian and humanist who ranked among classic Italian writers.
- Bartoli, Marion
- (from the article "Tennis") Henin, victorious at least once in every other major, seemed ready to make her breakthrough at Wimbledon but played an inexplicably mediocre match in the semifinals, losing to number 18 ...
- Bartoli, Matteo Giulio
- linguist who emphasized the geographic spread of linguistic changes and their interpretation in terms of history and culture.
- Bartolini, Lorenzo
- (from the article "Western sculpture") In Milan, Camillo Pacetti directed the sculptural decoration of the Arco della Pace. The work of Gaetano Monti, born in Ravenna, can be seen in many northern Italian churches. The ...
- Bartolommeo, Fra
- painter who was a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style. [1 Related Articles]
- Bartolozzi, Francesco
- Florentine engraver in the service of George III of England.
- Bartolus of Saxoferrato
- lawyer, law teacher at Perugia, and chief among the postglossators, or commentators, a group of northern Italian jurists who, from the mid-14th century, wrote on the Roman (civil) law. Their ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barton Aqueduct
- (from the article "Brindley, James") ...to the textile-manufacturing centre at Manchester. Brindley's solution to the problem included a subterranean channel, extending from the barge basin at the head of the canal into the mines, and ...
- Barton Beds
- (from the article "Bartonian Stage") ...Bartonian Age (40.4 million to 37.2 million years ago) of the Paleogene Period (65.5 million to 23 million years ago). The name of the stage is derived from the Barton ...
- Barton reaction
- (from the article "Barton, Sir Derek H.R.") In 1958 Barton collaborated on aldosterone with the Schering Corporation at its Research Institute for Medicine and Chemistry in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He discovered what is now known as the Barton ...
- Barton, Blanche
- (from the article "Church of Satan") ...to these schisms, LaVey disbanded the grottoes, but the church continued as a loose affiliation of individual members associated with the national headquarters. In 1997, following LaVey's death, Blanche Barton ...
- Barton, Clara
- founder of the American Red Cross. [1 Related Articles]
- Barton, Derek H. R.
- (from the article "hydrocarbon") ...important in the area of hydrocarbons but also is essential to an understanding of the properties of biologically important molecules, especially steroids and carbohydrates. Odd Hassel of Norway and Derek ...
- Barton, Elizabeth
- English ecstatic whose outspoken prophecies aroused public opinion over the matrimonial policy of King Henry VIII and led to her execution. [1 Related Articles]
- Barton, Otis
- (from the article "Beebe, William") ...New York Zoological Gardens from 1899 and director of the department of tropical research of the New York Zoological Society from 1919. He led numerous scientific expeditions abroad and in ...
- Barton, Richard N.
- American creator of the do-it-yourself Web sites Expedia.com and Zillow.com. [2 Related Articles]
- Barton, Sir Derek H.R.
- joint recipient, with Odd Hassel of Norway, of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on "conformational analysis," the study of the three-dimensional geometric structure of complex molecules, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barton, Sir Edmund
- statesman who guided the Australian federation movement to a successful conclusion and became the first prime minister of the resulting commonwealth in 1901. [1 Related Articles]
- Barton-McCombie deoxygenation
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...focus was the development of chemical reactions that reduced or eliminated the use of toxic substances and the production of toxic by-products. A notable advance in this area in 2005 ...
- Bartonella henselae
- (from the article "cat scratch disease") bacterial infection in human beings caused by Bartonella henselae, which is transmitted by a cat bite or scratch. Transmission of the bacterium from cat to cat is ...
- bartonellosis
- rickettsial infection limited to South America, caused by the bacterium Bartonella bacilliformis of the order Rickettsiales. Bartonellosis is characterized by two distinctive clinical stages: Oroya fever, an acute febrile anemia ...
- Bartonian Stage
- the third of four divisions (in ascending order) of Eocene rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Bartonian Age (40.4 million to 37.2 million years ago) of the Paleogene ...
- Bartosch, Berthold
- (from the article "motion picture") The symbolic political fable L'Idee (1934), by the Austro-Hungarian animator Berthold Bartosch, represented a rare use of animation to present a serious, as distinct from comic or ...
- Bartow
- city, seat (1861) of Polk county, central Florida, U.S. It lies near the Peace River and Lake Hancock, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Lakeland. In 1851 the Readding Blount ...
- Bartram, John
- naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany." [2 Related Articles]
- Bartter syndrome
- (from the article "endocrine system, human") Another cause of hyperaldosteronism is Bartter syndrome (potassium wasting syndrome), named after American endocrinologist Frederic Bartter, who initially described the primary characteristics of the disorder, including hyperplasia of the juxtaglomerular ...
- baru
- (from the article "astrology") ...a part of a vast array of ominous events-it was believed that their unpleasant forebodings might be mitigated or nullified by ritual means or by contrary omens. The
- Baru
- (from the article "Panama") ...the southwestern has the largest number of settlements; however, the environs of the canal account for most of Panama's population and commerce. The country's highest peak is an inactive volcano, ...
- Baruch
- (from the article "Jeremiah") ...and the remnant of the Assyrians, Jeremiah delivered an oracle against Egypt. Realizing that this battle made a great difference in the world situation, Jeremiah soon dictated to his scribe, ...
- Baruch Plan
- (from the article "international relations") ...conducted for peaceful purposes only. Once controls were in place, the United States would relinquish its arsenal and scientific information to the world community. Truman entrusted the diplomatic task to ...
- Baruch, Apocalypse of
- a pseudepigraphal work (not in any canon of scripture), whose primary theme is whether or not God's relationship with man is just. The book is also called The Syriac Apocalypse ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baruch, Bernard
- American financier who was an adviser to U.S. presidents. [4 Related Articles]
- Baruch, Book of
- ancient text purportedly written by Baruch, secretary and friend of Jeremiah, the Old Testament prophet. The text is still extant in Greek and in several translations from Greek into Latin, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baruni
- town, north-central Bihar state, northeastern India. It lies north of the Ganges River and is part of the Begusarai urban agglomeration. Formerly called Jhuldabhaj, it merged with Phulwaria township in ...
- Baruta
- city, northwestern Miranda estado (state), northern Venezuela, in the central highlands. Formerly a commercial centre in a fertile agricultural area producing coffee, cacao, and sugarcane, the city has become a ...
- Baruwa, Hemchandra
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Assamese literature began with Hemchandra Baruwa, a satirist and playwright, author of the play Bahiri-Rang-Chang Bhitare Kowabhaturi (1861; "All That Glitters Is Not Gold"). The most outstanding among the early ...
- Barwa-Sagar
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...temples was built, including the Mala-de at Dyaraspur, the Siva temples at Mahka and Indore, and a temple dedicated to an unidentified mother goddess at Barwa-Sagar. The period appears to ...
- Barwalde, Treaty of
- (from the article "France") ...the Thirty Years' War. To undermine the power of the Habsburgs, he prolonged this conflict, negotiating with the United Provinces; with Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, with whom he concluded ...
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