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bacteriorhodopsin: (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...molecules. Valentyn Prokhorenko of the University of Toronto and colleagues investigated whether the wave property of matter could influence the chemistry of retinal, a molecule in the protein bacteriorhodopsin. Bacteriorhodopsin ...
bacteriostatic: (from the article "sulfa drug") Sulfa drugs are bacteriostatic; i.e., they inhibit the growth and multiplication of bacteria but do not kill them. They act by interfering with the synthesis of folic acid (folate), a ...
Bactria: ancient country lying between the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) in what is now part of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Bactria was especially ... [13 Related Articles]
Bactrian camel: (from the article "camel hair") animal fibre obtained from the camel and belonging to the group called specialty hair fibres. The most satisfactory textile fibre is gathered from camels of the Bactrian type. Such camels ...
Bactrian language: (from the article "Iranian languages") ...have been themselves mutually intelligible. The main known languages of this group are Khwarezmian (Chorasmian), Sogdian, and Saka. Less well-known are Old Ossetic (Scytho-Sarmatian) and Bactrian, but from what is ...
Bactris: (from the article "palm") ...abundance of palms may also be considered in relation to numbers of species per genus, in that a few palm genera have large numbers of species. Calamus with about 379 ...
Bactrites: genus of extinct cephalopods (animals related to the modern squid, octopus, and nautilus) found as fossils in marine rocks from the Devonian to the Permian periods (between 408 and 245 ... [1 Related Articles]
Baculites: genus of extinct cephalopods (animals related to the modern squid, octopus, and nautilus) found as fossils in Late Cretaceous marine rocks (formed from 97.5 to 66.4 million years ago). Baculites, ...
baculum: the penis bone of certain mammals. The baculum is one of several heterotropic skeletal elements-i.e., bones dissociated from the rest of the body skeleton. It is found in all insectivores ... [2 Related Articles]
Bad Aussee: town, central Austria, in the Traun Valley, southeast of Bad Ischl. The former centre of the Salzkammergut (salt region), it has the 15th-century Kammerhof (old offices of the salt administration) ...
Bad Gandersheim: city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies in the Leine River valley. Bad Gandersheim is remarkable for an 11th-century convent church containing the tombs of ...
Bad Godesberg: southern district of the city of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies on the west bank of the Rhine River opposite the Siebengebirge (Seven Hills), a scenic ...
Bad Godesberg Resolution: (from the article "socialism") ...economies" that combined largely private ownership with government direction of the economy and substantial welfare programs, and other socialist parties followed suit. Even the SPD, in its Bad Godesberg program ...
Bad Harzburg: city, Lower Saxony Land (state), eastern Germany. It is located on the northern slope of the Oberharz (Upper Harz) mountains, at the entrance to the Radau River valley about 25 ...
Bad Homburg: city, Hesse Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies at the foot of the wooded Taunus, just north of Frankfurt am Main.
Bad Ischl: town, central Austria. It lies at the confluence of the Traun and Ischler Ache rivers, about 26 miles (42 km) east-southeast of Salzburg. First mentioned in records of 1262, it ...
Bad Kreuznach: city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies along the Nahe River, a tributary of the Rhine, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Mainz. The site of a Roman ...
Bad Mergentheim: city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), south-central Germany. It lies on the Tauber River, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Nurnberg. An ancient settlement, it became the property ...
Bad Ragaz: (from the article "Switzerland") ...beauty, and others, such as Crans-Montana on the slopes above the Rhone valley in Valais canton and Wengen in the Berner Oberland, have developed into famous resorts. Places such as ...
Bad Reichenhall: city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies in the Alpine Saalach River valley, 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Salzburg, Austria. Bad Reichenhall is a noted ...
Bad-tibira: (from the article "Tammuz") ...Although the cult is attested for most of the major cities of Sumer in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, it centred in the cities around the central steppe area ...
Bada'uni, 'Abd al-Qadir: Indo-Persian historian, one of the most important writers on the history of the Mughal period in India.
Badacsony: basalt-covered residual butte, 1,437 ft (438 m) in height, on the north bank of Lake Balaton in the Balaton Highlands of western Hungary. The butte bears witness to the original ...
Badaga: any member of the largest tribal group living in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The Badaga have increased very rapidly, from fewer than 20,000 in ... [2 Related Articles]
Badagara: town and port, northern Kerala state, southwestern India. Located on the Arabian Sea about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the town of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut), Badagara is a fishing ...
Badagry: town and lagoon port in Lagos state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies on the north bank of Porto Novo Creek, an inland waterway that connects the national capitals of Nigeria (Lagos) ...
Badain Jaran: (from the article "Alxa Plateau") Chinese geographers divide the region into three smaller deserts, the Tengger (Tengri) Desert in the south, the Badain Jaran (Baden Dzareng, or Batan Tsalang) in the west, and the Ulan ...
Badajoz: provincia (province) in the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), extreme western Spain. Badajoz is bordered by Portugal to the west. Along with the province ... [1 Related Articles]
Badajoz: city, capital of Badajoz provincia (province), in the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), southwestern Spain. Situated on the south bank of the Guadiana River ... [3 Related Articles]
Badajoz, Peace of: (from the article "Portugal") ...subjected to pressure from the French Directory and from the Spanish minister, Manuel de Godoy, Portugal remained unmolested until 1801, when Godoy sent an ultimatum and invaded the Alentejo. By ...
Badajoz, Plan: (from the article "Badajoz") In 1952 the Spanish government promoted a project known as the Plan Badajoz, which raised the standard of living, productivity, and agriculture and intensified development and industrialization in the area. ...
Badakhshan: historic region of northeastern Afghanistan, roughly encompassing the northern spurs of the Hindu Kush and chiefly drained by the Kowkcheh River. Mountain glaciers and glacial lakes are found in the ... [2 Related Articles]
Badalona: city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is a northeastern industrial suburb of Barcelona, lying on ...
Badami: town, northern Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southwestern India. The town was known as Vatapi in ancient times and was the first capital of the Calukya kings. It is the site ... [1 Related Articles]
Badami, Anita Rau: (from the article "Canadian literature") ...(1987), Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2001) are set mostly in Bombay (now Mumbai) among the Parsi community, while Anita Rau Badami's novels ...
Badarayana: (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...the development of Vedanta philosophy. The relation of the Vedanta-sutras to the Mimamsa-sutras, however, is difficult to ascertain. Badarayana approves of the Mimamsa view that the relation between words and ...
Badari: (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...hermeneutics (critical interpretations). Jaimini, who composed sutras about the 4th century BC, was critical of earlier Mimamsa authors, particularly of one Badari, to whom is attributed the view that the ...
Badari, Al-: (from the article "art and architecture, Egyptian") ...Sir Flinders Petrie at Naqadah, at al-'Amirah (el-'Amra), and at al-Jazirah (el-Gezira). Another somewhat earlier stage of predynastic culture has been identified at al-Badari in Upper Egypt.remains of Badarian culture
Badarian culture: Egyptian predynastic cultural phase, first discovered at Al-Badari, its type site, on the east bank of the Nile River in Asyut muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt. British excavations ... [1 Related Articles]
Badawi, Abdel Rahman: Egyptian philosopher and academic (b. Feb. 17, 1917, Sharabass, Egypt-d. July 25, 2002, Cairo, Egypt), was generally regarded as Egypt's first and foremost existential philosopher. Badawi received much of his ...
Badawi, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad: Five months after becoming prime minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi received a surprisingly strong personal mandate in general elections held on March 21, 2004. Gains by his ... [6 Related Articles]
Badbury Rings: (from the article "East Dorset") ...at the old parish (town) of Wimborne Minster, the district seat. Wimborne Minster is located in the middle of a market gardening area for fruits and vegetables; watercress is harvested ...
Baddeck: unincorporated village, seat of Victoria county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies in the centre of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of Bras d'Or Lake.
Baddeley, Robert: actor chiefly remembered for his will, in which he bequeathed property to found a home for aged and impoverished actors and also money to provide wine and cake in the ...
baddeleyite: (from the article "dating") ...intercalibration. In some cases the discovery of a rare trace mineral results in a major breakthrough as it allows precise ages to be determined in formerly undatable units. For example, ...
Bade: (from the article "Bedde") traditional emirate, Yobe state, northern Nigeria. Although Bade (Bedde, Bede) peoples settled in the vicinity of Tagali village near Gashua as early as the 14th century, they shortly thereafter came ...
Baden: spa, eastern Austria. It lies along the Schwechat River, at the eastern edge of the Wiener Forest, south of Vienna. Settled in prehistoric times, it was a Roman watering place, ...
Baden: former state on the east bank of the Rhine River in the southwestern corner of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state) of Germany. The former Baden ... [3 Related Articles]
Baden: town, Aargau canton, northern Switzerland, on the Limmat River, northwest of Zurich. The hot sulfur springs, mentioned as early as the 1st century AD by the Roman historian Tacitus, still ... [1 Related Articles]
Baden Powell: Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. Aug. 6, 1937, Varre-e-Sai, Braz.-d. Sept. 26, 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.), helped popularize the bossa nova ("new trend"), a romantic, sensual style of the ...
Baden-Baden: (from the article "Baden") ...members of the house of Zahringen, acquired part of the countship of Breisgau and later added other lands west of the Rhine. In 1535 their territory was divided into the ...
Baden-Baden: city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies along the middle Oos River in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald). Baden-Baden is one of the world's great spas. Its ...
Baden-Durlach: (from the article "Baden") ...of Zahringen, acquired part of the countship of Breisgau and later added other lands west of the Rhine. In 1535 their territory was divided into the margravates of Baden-Baden in ...
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron: British army officer who became a national hero for his 217-day defense of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the South African War of 1899-1902; he later became famous as founder of ... [4 Related Articles]
Baden-Wurttemberg: Land (state) in southwestern Germany. Baden-Wurttemberg is bordered by the states of Rhineland-Palatinate to the northwest, Hessen to the north, and Bavaria to the east and by ... [1 Related Articles]
Badeni, Kasimir Felix, Graf von: Polish-born statesman in the Austrian service, who, as prime minister (1895-97) of the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, sponsored policies to appease Slav nationalism within the empire but ... [2 Related Articles]
Badgastein: town in the Gastein Valley of west-central Austria, on the Gasteiner Ache (river). Its radioactive thermal springs have been visited since the 13th century, and royal and other eminent patrons ...
badge: (from the article "animal communication") ...There are, of course, other information sources in animals, some of which have also undergone evolutionary specialization toward a communication function. Among them are what may be called badges-i.e., attributes ...
badge: (from the article "heraldry") The badge is older than the heraldic system. Such a symbol identifying a person, a body, or an impersonal idea can be found from ancient times. The eagle of Rome ...
badger: common name for any of several stout carnivores, most of them members of the weasel family (Mustelidae), that are found in various parts of the world and are known for ... [3 Related Articles]
Badgro, Morris Hiram: American football player and coach who was an offensive and defensive end for the New York Giants from 1930 to 1935, during which time he was on four All-Pro teams, ...
Badi II Abu Daqn: (from the article "Funj Dynasty") ...expanded westward across the hills of Sakadi and Muya about 1554 and then across the White Nile (whose shores were dominated by the pagan Shilluk), where they established a bridgehead ...
Badi IV Abu Shulukh: (from the article "Funj Dynasty") ...defeating the Shilluk and by raiding and later imposing tributary status on Takali, a Muslim hill state south of Kordofan. The plains of Kordofan proper did not fall to the ...
badi': (from the article "Arabic literature") ...(or, some critics claimed, the extreme) manifestation of a trend in poetic creativity toward elaboration in imagery and diction that was subsumed under the heading of badi' ...
Badidae: (from the article "labyrinth fish") There are about 70 species of labyrinth fishes; some are commonly kept in home aquariums. The various species, once grouped together in the family Anabantidae, may be placed in five ...
Badile, Antonio: (from the article "Veronese, Paolo") ...Veronese after his birthplace. Though first apprenticed as a stonecutter, his father's trade, he showed such a marked interest in painting that in his 14th year he was apprenticed to ...
Badin: town, southern Sindh province, southeastern Pakistan. The town, founded in 1750, lies in swampy deltaic land east of the Indus River. Rice is the major crop in the region. Badin ...
Badings, Henk: Dutch composer, best known for his music featuring electronic sounds and the compositional use of tape recorders.
Badjava plateau: (from the article "Ngada") tribe inhabiting the south coast of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia. They live around the Inerie volcano and inland on the Badjava plateau. Primarily of Proto-Malay ...
Badkhyz: (from the article "Karakum Desert") ...km) from north to south. It is bordered on the north by the Sarykamysh Basin, on the northeast and east by the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) valley, and on ...
badland: area cut and eroded by many deep, tortuous gullies with intervening saw-toothed divides. The gullies extend from main rivers back to tablelands about 150 m (500 feet) and higher. The ...
Badlands: (from the article "badland") ...trappers called the mauvaises terres pour traverser (the "bad lands to cross"); later it was applied to other areas with similarly eroded topography. The South Dakota Badlands comprise an area ...
Badlands National Park: rugged, eroded area of buttes, saw-toothed divides, and gullies in southwestern South Dakota, U.S. It was established as a national monument in 1939 and designated a national park in 1978. ...
Badme: (from the article "Eritrea") ...between the two countries in December 2000, following two years of warfare that claimed 70,000 lives, tottered on the brink of collapse. The biggest obstacle to peace remained the small ...
Badminton: village ("parish"), South Gloucestershire unitary authority, historic county of Gloucestershire, southwestern England. Badminton House, seat of the dukes of Beaufort, stands in a large park in the locality. The original ... [1 Related Articles]
badminton: court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock. Historically, the shuttlecock was a small, cork hemisphere with 16 goose feathers attached and weighing about 0.17 ounce (5 ... [14 Related Articles]
Badminton Cabinet: (from the article "Christie's International PLC") ...pictures from Sir George Drummond's collection (1919), and conducting the sale of the Ford Collection of Impressionist paintings (1980). In 1990 the firm set two records-the sale of the Badminton ...
Badminton World Federation: (from the article "badminton") The Badminton World Federation (BWF; originally the International Badminton Federation), the world governing body of the sport, was formed in 1934. Badminton is also popular in Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and ...
Badoer, Villa: (from the article "Palladio, Andrea") ...at Montagnana, the portico is two-storied, with principal rooms on two floors. Normally (as at the Villa Foscari at Mira, called Malcontenta [1560]; the Villa Emo at Fanzolo [late 1550s]; ...
Badoglio, Pietro: general and statesman during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43). In September 1943 he extricated Italy from World War II by arranging an armistice with the Allies. [4 Related Articles]
Badoli: (from the article "South Asian arts") ...is remarkable for the exquisite quality of the carving. Some of the finest temples of the style date from the 10th century, the most important of which are the Ghatesvara ...
Badr ad-Din Lu'lu': (from the article "Zangid Dynasty") ...held on to al-Jazirah and successfully repulsed several attempts made by Saladin to capture Mosul (1182 and 1185); they were, however, forced to accept his suzerainty. The rise to power ...
Badr al-Jamali: (from the article "Mustansir, al-") ...of these events, although there were times when he personally led troops in battle. By 1073 he was reduced to desperation and secretly offered military authority in Egypt to the ...
Badr Khani Jaladat: Kurdish nationalist leader and editor who was one of the chief 20th-century spokesmen for Kurdish independence.
Badr, Battle of: (624), first military victory of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It seriously damaged Meccan prestige, while strengthening the political position of Muslims in Medina and establishing Islam as a viable force ... [3 Related Articles]
Badr, Muhammad al-: Yemeni king and imam who came to power in 1962 but was almost immediately overthrown during an Egyptian-backed coup; after his numerous attempts to restore the monarchy failed, he went ... [1 Related Articles]
Badran, Adnan: (from the article "Jordan") ...Palestinian refugees, most of whom hold Jordanian citizenship) | Capital: Amman | Head of state and government: King Abdullah II, assisted by Prime Ministers Faisal al-Fayez and, from April 7, ...
Badran, Rassem: (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of art. Other major Muslim contributors to a contemporary Islamic architecture are the Iranians Nader Ardalan and Kemzan Diba, the Iraqis Rifat Chaderji and Muhammad Makkiya, the Jordanian Rassem Badran, ...
Badrinath: uninhabited village and shrine in northern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. Situated in the Himalayas along a headstream of the Ganges River, it lies at an elevation of about 10,000 ...
badriyun: (from the article "Badr, Battle of") ...was not you who slew them, it was God . . . in order that He might test the Believers by a gracious trial from Himself" (8:17). Those Muslims who ...
Badshahi Mosque: (from the article "Lahore") ...by Akbar (reigned 1556-1605) and extended by the next three emperors. The mosque and the fort are decorated in marble and kashi, or encaustic tile work. Other historic landmarks include ...
Badu, Erykah: By 1998, just one year after the release of her phenomenally successful debut album, Baduizm, singer-songwriter Erykah Badu had become one of the fastest-rising American recording artists. The phrasing and ...
Badulla: town, southeastern Sri Lanka (Ceylon), southeast of Kandy, on the Badulu Oya (river). It is surrounded by mountains and is the site of two large and wealthy temples. Badulla is ...
Badwater Basin: (from the article "Death Valley") ...great salt pan that forms part of the floor of the valley are the lowest land areas of the Americas. About 550 square miles (1,425 square km) of the valley's ...
Badzhalsky Mountains: (from the article "Russia") Southeastern Siberia contains many high mountain ranges and extensive lowland plains. The most prominent mountains are the Badzhalsky Mountains, which rise to 8,661 feet (2,640 metres), to the west of ...
BAE Systems: major British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, and other aerospace and defense products. It was formed in 1999 from the merger of British Aerospace PLC (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems, ... [4 Related Articles]
Bae Yong Jun: South Korean actor, who achieved fame as the romantic lead in a number of globally syndicated televised drama series. [1 Related Articles]
Baeck, Leo: Reform rabbi and theologian, the spiritual leader of German Jewry during the Nazi period, and the leading liberal Jewish religious thinker of his time. His magnum opus, The Essence of ... [1 Related Articles]
Baecula: (from the article "ancient Rome") ...of the prerequisite senior magistracies. He signalized his arrival by a bold and successful coup de main upon the great arsenal of Carthago Nova (Cartagena) in 209. Though after an ...
Baedeker, Karl: founder of a German publishing house known for its guidebooks.
Baegun: (from the article "Sobaek Mountains") ...ft [1,561 m]) in Kangwon Province to the Kohung Peninsula near Yosu. Its high mountains, Sobaek (4,760 ft), Munju (2,437 ft), Songni (3,468 ft), Dokyu (5,276 ft), and Baegun (4,190 ...