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Belgic Confession: statement of the Reformed faith in 37 articles written by Guido de Bres, a Reformer in the southern Low Countries (now Belgium) and northern France. First printed in 1561 at ...
Belgica: one of the four provinces of Gaul under the Roman Empire. As established by Augustus (27 BC), Belgica stretched from the Seine River eastward to the Rhine and included the ...
Belgioioso: town, Pavia provincia, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy. It lies on the left bank of the Po River. Situated in an area of well-irrigated plateaus, the town is the agricultural ...
Belgium: country of northwestern Europe. One of the smallest and most densely populated European countries, it has been, since its birth in 1830 and 1831, a hereditary, representative, and constitutional monarchy. ...
Belgium, history of: history of the Belgian territories after 1579. For information concerning the period prior to that date, see Low Countries, history of .
Belgorod: city and administrative centre of Belgorod oblast ("region"), western Russia. Located near the Russia-Ukraine border, Belgorod lies along the upper Donets River where it is crossed by ...
Belgorod: oblast ("region"), western Russia. It lies chiefly in the basins of the upper Vorskla, Donets, and Oskol rivers. The region, formed in 1954 and centred on Belgorod ...
Belgrade: city, administrative centre of Serbia and Montenegro and capital of the component republic of Serbia. It lies at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. Belgrade is located at ...
Belgrade, Treaty of: (September 1739), either of two peace settlements achieved by the Ottoman Empire that ended a four-year war with Russia and a two-year war with Austria.
Belgrano, Manuel: military leader in the Argentine war for independence.
Belgravia: neighbourhood in the London borough of Westminster. It lies east of Chelsea, south of Hyde Park, and southwest of the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Part of London's fashionable West End, ...
Belidor, Bernard Forest de: military and civil engineer and author of a classic work on hydraulics.
belief: a mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its truth. Believing is either an intellectual judgment or, as the 18th-century ...
Belin, Edouard: French engineer who in 1907 made the first telephoto transmission, from Paris to Lyon to Bordeaux and back to Paris, using an apparatus of his own invention. The first transatlantic ...
Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich: eminent Russian literary critic who is often called the "father" of the Russian radical intelligentsia.
Belisarius: Byzantine general, the leading military figure in the age of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (527-565). As one of the last important figures in the Roman military tradition, he led ...
Beliveau, Jean: professional ice hockey centre who was noted for scoring winning goals in Stanley Cup playoff games. He played his entire career (1953-71) with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey ...
Belize: country located on the northeast coast of Central America. With an area of 8,867 square miles (22,965 square km), it is the smallest nation, after El Salvador, on the mainland ...
Belize Barrier Reef: coral reef that is second in size to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and the largest of its kind in the Northern and Western hemispheres. Extending for more than ...
Belize City: former capital and chief seaport of Belize (formerly British Honduras). The city occupies both banks of the Haulover Creek, a delta mouth of the Belize River on the Caribbean coast. ...
Belize River: river rising in northeastern Guatemala as the Rio Mopan and flows about 180 mi (290 km) northeast past Benque Viejo, San Ignacio (El Cayo), and Roaring Creek (site of Belmopan, ...
Belknap: county, east-central New Hampshire, U.S. It comprises a hilly upland region with numerous lakes. The Pemigewasset River constitutes a portion of the northwestern border before flowing through the western part ...
bell: hollow vessel usually of metal, but sometimes of horn, wood, glass, or clay, struck near the rim by an interior clapper or exterior hammer or mallet to produce a ringing ...
Bell Bay: port and site of a large aluminum-production facility, northern Tasmania, Australia, on the east bank of the River Tamar estuary in George Town municipality. Electric power is supplied from the ...
bell chime: (from medieval Latin cymbala: "bells"), set of stationary bells tuned in a musical series, traditionally in diatonic sequence (seven-note scale) plus a few accidentals (sharps and flats). The bells generally ...
Bell Island: island in southeastern Newfoundland, Canada; it lies in Conception Bay 3 mi (5 km) off the Avalon Peninsula. Bell Island is 6 mi long and 3 mi wide, and has ...
Bell Laboratories: the longtime research and development arm of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). It now serves the same function in Lucent Technologies Inc., which was spun off from AT&T ...
bell pepper: any of various thick-fleshed, mild peppers of the genus Capsicum. See pepper.
Bell Rock: sandstone reef in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Arbroath, Angus. It is 2,000 feet (600 metres) long and is exposed for ...
Bell System: a former American telephone system, governed by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (now AT&T Corporation; q.v.) and including Western Electric Company (q.v.), the system's manufacturer; Bell Laboratories (q.v.), the research ...
Bell Trade Act: an act passed by the U.S. Congress specifying the economic conditions governing the emergence of the Republic of the Philippines from U.S. rule; the act included controversial provisions that tied ...
Bell, Alexander Graham: Scottish-born American audiologist best known as the inventor of the telephone (1876). For two generations his family had been recognized as leading authorities in elocution and speech correction, with Alexander ...
Bell, Andrew: Scottish engraver, and cofounder, with the printer Colin Macfarquhar, of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Bell, Andrew: Scottish clergyman who developed popular education by the method of supervised mutual teaching among students.
bell, book, and candle: in Roman Catholicism, a ceremony formerly used in pronouncing the "major excommunication" or "anathema" (see excommunication). Its origins are not clear, but it dates back certainly to the late 9th ...
Bell, Charles Frederic Moberly: British journalist who played a significant part in the management of The Times (London) during a troubled period.
Bell, Clive: English art critic who helped popularize the art of the Post-Impressionists in Great Britain.
Bell, Cool Papa: American professional baseball player, reputedly the fastest baserunner of all time.
Bell, Daniel: American sociologist and journalist who used sociological theory to reconcile what he believed were the inherent contradictions of capitalist societies.
Bell, Eric Temple: Scottish American mathematician, educator, and writer who made significant contributions to analytic number theory.
Bell, George Kennedy Allen: Anglican bishop of Chichester, outstanding ecumenicist, and leading British churchman during World War II.
Bell, Gertrude: English traveler, administrator in Arabia, and writer who played a principal part in the establishment in Baghdad of the Hashimite dynasty.
Bell, Henry: Scottish engineer who launched the first commercially successful steamship in Europe.
Bell, John: Scottish physician and traveler whose vivid account of his journeys did much to awaken Westerners to the way of life of the peoples of Russia and the East, particularly China.
Bell, John: American politician and nominee for president on the eve of the American Civil War.
Bell, John: English publisher who was one of the first to organize a book-publishing company on a joint-stock basis. Beginning in 1777 he issued the 109 volumes of The Poets of Great ...
Bell, Josephine: English physician and novelist best known for her numerous detective novels, in which poison and unusual methods of murder are prominent.
Bell, Lawrence Dale: U.S. aircraft designer whose experimental X-1 rocket-propelled airplane in 1947 was the first to break the sound barrier in level flight.
Bell, Sir Charles: Scottish anatomist whose New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain (1811) has been called the "Magna Carta of neurology." A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Bell went to London ...
Bell, Sir Francis Henry Dillon: New Zealand lawyer and statesman who had a leading role in the Cabinets of Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey (1912-25). He himself also served for a short time as prime ...
bell-magpie: Australasian songbird belonging to the family Cracticidae (order Passeriformes), named for its loud, metallic voice and magpie-like black-and-white plumage. Most authorities consider the bell-magpies to represent a single widespread species, ...
Bella Coola: North Pacific Coast Indians whose villages were located in what is now the central British Columbia coast, along the upper Dean and Burke channels and the lower parts of the ...
Bella, Stefano della: Baroque printmaker noted for his engravings of military events, in the manner of Jacques Callot.
belladonna: tall bushy herb, the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), of the family Solanaceae (order Solanales), and the crude drug consisting of its dried leaves or roots. The plant, which grows to ...
Bellah, Robert Neelly: American sociologist who addressed the problem of change in modern religious practice and who offered innovative procedures for reconciling traditional religious societies with social change.
Bellamy, Edward: American writer known chiefly for his utopian novel Looking Backward, 2000-1887.
Bellamy, George Anne: English actress whose stage career and personal life were, in their irregularity, not entirely atypical of her era. Her best performances were in such tragic roles as Desdemona in Othello ...
Bellamy, Ralph: American film and stage actor.
Bellanca, Dorothy Jacobs: Latvian-born American labour leader, remembered for her zealous union activism in the garment industry.
Bellanca, Giuseppe Mario: airplane designer and builder who created the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin.
Bellarmine, Saint Robert: Italian cardinal and theologian, an opponent of the Protestant doctrines of the Reformation.
Bellary: town, east-central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. Of medieval origin, the town is dominated by a 16th-century fort on a granitic rock, 2 miles (3 km) in circumference, which ...
Bellay, Guillaume du, Seigneur De Langey: French soldier and writer known for his diplomatic exploits during the reign of King Francis I of France.
Bellay, Jean du: French cardinal and diplomat, one of the chief counsellors of King Francis I of France and a protector of humanists and religious reformers.
Bellay, Joachim du: French poet, leader with Pierre de Ronsard of the literary group known as La Pleiade. Du Bellay is the author of the Pleiade's manifesto, La Defense et illustration de la ...
bellbird: any of several unrelated birds from various locations around the world that are named for their ringing voices.
Belle Fourche: city, seat (1894) of Butte county, western South Dakota, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Redwater and Belle Fourche rivers, near the Wyoming border, about 60 miles (100 ...
Belle Glade: city, Palm Beach county, south-central Florida, U.S., about 40 miles (65 km) west of West Palm Beach, near the southeastern shores of Lake Okeechobee. The area was originally inhabited by ...
Belle Isle, Strait of: northern entrance from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada. The strait, 90 mi (145 km) long, 10 to 17 mi wide, and lying between Newfoundland ...
Belle-Ile-en-Mer: island (area 32 square miles [83 square km]) off the south coast of Brittany, France, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Presqu'Ile de Quiberon and administratively part of Morbihan
Belle-Isle, Charles Fouquet, duc de, Duc De Gisors: marshal of France and statesman chiefly important for his role in involving France in the War of the Austrian Succession.
Belleau, Remy: Renaissance scholar and poet who wrote highly polished portraits known as miniatures. He was a member of the group called La Pleiade, a literary circle that sought to enrich French ...
Bellecour: playwright who also was one of the leading comic actors of the Comedie-Francaise (q.v.).
Bellecour, Madame: French actress noted for her performances in works of Moliere and Regnard.
Belleek ware: porcelain from the factory at Belleek, in Fermanagh, Ire. (now Northern Ireland). Extensive local deposits of white feldspar and Cornish china clay and the use of skilled labour from England ...
Bellefontaine: city, seat (1820) of Logan county, west central Ohio, U.S., 45 mi (72 km) northwest of Columbus. The site was once occupied by a Shawnee village called Blue Jacket's Town ...