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Bananal Island: island, Tocantins estado ("state"), central Brazil. The island is formed by the Araguaia River, which for 200 miles (320 km) divides into major (western) and minor (eastern) branches, with Bananal ...
bananaquit: (Coereba flaveola), bird of the West Indies (except Cuba) and southern Mexico to Argentina. It is usually placed with honeycreepers in the family Emberizidae (order Passeriformes), but it may belong ...
Banaras, Treaties of: (1773; 1775), two agreements regulating relations between the British government of Bengal and the ruler of the Muslim state of Oudh. The defense of Oudh had been guaranteed in 1765 ...
Banas River: river in Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It rises near Kumbhalgarh and cuts its way tortuously through the Aravali Range. It then flows in a northeasterly course onto the plains and ...
Banat: ethnically mixed historic region of eastern Europe; it is bounded by Transylvania and Walachia in the east, by the Tisza River in the west, by the Mures River in the ...
Banbridge: town, seat, and district (established 1973), formerly within County Down, N.Ire. Located on the River Bann, the town of Banbridge came into existence following the building of a stone bridge ...
Banbury: town, Cherwell district, administrative and historic county of Oxfordshire, England. It lies along the River Cherwell. For centuries Banbury was noted for its ale, cheese, and Banbury cakes, a spiced ...
Banchieri, Adriano: one of the principal composers of madrigal comedies, choral pieces that suggest plots and action to be imagined by the performers and listeners.
Banco National Park: national park, southeastern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It lies immediately north of Abidjan, the national capital. Declared a national park in 1953, Banco preserves both flora and fauna in some ...
Bancroft: village, Hastings county, in the hills of southeastern Ontario, Canada. Bancroft lies 60 miles (95 km) northeast of Peterborough. It originated as a farming settlement called York River in 1855, ...
Bancroft, Ann: American explorer who was the first woman to participate in and successfully finish several arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
Bancroft, Edward: secretary to the American commissioners in France during the American Revolution who spied for the British.
Bancroft, George: American historian whose comprehensive 10-volume study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the "father of American history."
Bancroft, Hubert Howe: historian of the American West who collected and published 39 volumes on the history and peoples of western North America. His work remains one of the great sources of information ...
Bancroft, Sir Squire: British actor and manager whose espousal of careful craft in the writing and staging of plays did much to lay the foundations of modern theatrical production.
band: in cultural anthropology, theoretical type of human social organization consisting of a small number of nuclear families (usually no more than 30 to 50 persons in all) who are loosely ...
band: (from Middle French bande, "troop"), in music, an ensemble of musicians playing chiefly woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments, in contradistinction to an orchestra, which contains stringed instruments. Apart from this ...
band theory: in solid-state physics, theoretical model describing the states of electrons, in solid materials, that can have values of energy only within certain specific ranges. The behaviour of an electron in ...
Band, the: Canadian-American band that began as the backing group for both Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan, then branched out on its own in 1968. The Band's pioneering blend of traditional country, ...
band-pass filter: arrangement of electronic components that allows only those electric waves lying within a certain range, or band, of frequencies to pass and blocks all others. The components may be conventional ...
Banda: city, southern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, near the Ken River (a tributary of the Yamuna). An agricultural marketplace, Banda lies at a road junction on a major rail line. ...
Banda: a people of the Central African Republic, some of whom also live in Congo (Kinshasa) and Cameroon and possibly in The Sudan. The Banda speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi ...
Banda Aceh: kotamadya (municipality), capital of Aceh semiautonomous province, Indonesia. It is located on the Aceh River at the northwestern tip of the island of Sumatra, facing the Andaman Sea.
Banda Islands: island group, Maluku provinsi (province), Indonesia. They lie in the Banda Sea, southeast of Ambon Island and south of Ceram. The largest of the nine islands, which have a total ...
Banda Sea: portion of the western South Pacific, bounded by the southern islands of the Moluccas of Indonesia (Alor, Timor, Wetar, Babar, Tanimbar, and Kai on the south and Ceram, Buru, and ...
Banda Singh Bahadur: first Sikh military leader to wage an offensive war against the Mughal rulers of India, thereby temporarily extending Sikh territory.
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu: first president of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) and the principal leader of the Malawi nationalist movement. He ruled Malawi from 1963 to 1994, combining totalitarian political controls with conservative economic policies.
Bandama River: longest and, commercially, most important river in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast); with its major tributaries, the Red Bandama (Marahoue) and the Nzi, it drains half of the surface area of ...
Bandar Lampung: port city, kotamadya (municipality), and capital of Lampung provinsi (province), Indonesia. It lies at the head of Lampung Bay on the south coast of Sumatra. Bandar Lampung was created in ...
Bandar Seri Begawan: capital of Brunei. The city lies along the Brunei River near its mouth on Brunei Bay, an inlet of the South China Sea. It is an agricultural trade centre and ...
Bandar-e 'Abbas: port city on the Strait of Hormuz, the main maritime outlet for much of southern Iran. It lies on the northern shore of Hormuz Bay opposite the islands of Qeshm, ...
Bandar-e Bushehr: port city, southwestern Iran. It lies near the head of the Persian Gulf at the northern end of a flat and narrow peninsula that is connected with the mainland by ...
Bandaranaike, S.W.R.D.: statesman and prime minister of Ceylon (1956-59), whose election marked a significant change in the political history of modern Ceylon.
Bandaranaike, Sirimavo R.D.: stateswoman who, upon her party's victory in the 1960 Ceylon general election, became the world's first woman prime minister. She left office in 1965 but returned to serve two more ...
banded-iron formation: chemically precipitated sediment, typically thin bedded or laminated, consisting of 15 percent or more iron of sedimentary origin and layers of chert, chalcedony, jasper, or quartz. Such formations occur on ...
bandeira: Portuguese slave-hunting expedition into the Brazilian interior in the 17th century. The bandeirantes (members of such expeditions) were usually mamelucos (of mixed Indian and Portuguese ancestry) from Sao Paulo who ...
Bandeira, Manuel: poet who was perhaps the principal figure in the Brazilian literary movement known as Modernismo.
Bandelier National Monument: archaeological area and scenic wilderness of the Pajarito Plateau in north-central New Mexico, U.S. It lies along the Rio Grande 20 miles (32 km) west-northwest of Santa Fe. Established in ...
Bandelier, Adolph: Swiss-American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist who was among the first to study the American Indian cultures of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Peru-Bolivia. His works, particularly those relating to ...
Bandello, Matteo: Italian writer whose Novelle (stories) started a new trend in 16th-century narrative literature and had a wide influence in England, France, and Spain.
Banderas, Antonio: Spanish-born film actor whose good looks, sensuality, and emotional range have made him a leading international star.
bandhani work: Indian tie dyeing, or knot dyeing, in which parts of a silk or cotton cloth are tied tightly with wax thread before the whole cloth is dipped in a dye ...
bandicoot: any of about 22 species of Australasian marsupial mammals comprising the family Peramelidae. (For Asian rodents of this name, see bandicoot rat.) Bandicoots are 30 to 80 cm (12 to ...
bandicoot rat: any of five Asiatic species of rodents closely associated with human populations. The greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) is the largest, weighing 0.5 to 1 kg (1.1 to 2.2 pounds). ...
Bandiera, Attilio; and Bandiera, Emilio: followers of Giuseppe Mazzini who led an abortive revolt against Austrian rule in Italy and whose execution made a profound impression on the Italian revolutionary movement.
Bandinelli, Baccio: Florentine Mannerist sculptor whose Michelangelo-influenced works were favoured by the Medici in the second quarter of the 16th century.
Bandirma: port and town, northwestern Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara. It was used in the 13th century by the Latin crusaders as a base of operation against the Greeks of ...
Bandon: town, County Cork, Ireland, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Cork. Founded in 1608 by Richard Boyle, later Earl of Cork, Bandon was initially populated by English and Scottish settlers. ...
Bandon, River: river in County Cork, Ireland, flowing in a valley cut in rocks of the Carboniferous period (360 to 286 million years ago) but covered with glacial drift and alluvium. The ...
Bandula, Maha: Myanmar general who fought against the British in the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26).
Bandundu: city, southwestern Congo (Kinshasa), at the junction of the Kwango and Kwilu rivers. It is a river port serving navigation on the Congo River system from Kinshasa (the national capital, ...
Bandung: kotamadya (municipality), kabupaten (regency), and capital of Jawa Barat provinsi (province), Indonesia, in the interior of Java on the northern edge of a plateau nearly 2,400 feet (730 m) above ...
Bandung Conference: a meeting of Asian and African states-organized by Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan-which took place April 18-24, 1955, in Bandung, Indonesia. In all, 29 countries representing ...
bandura: a stringed instrument of the psaltery family considered the national musical instrument of Ukraine. It is used chiefly to accompany folk music. The bandura has an oval wooden body with ...
bandurria: stringed musical instrument of the lute family. The modern bandurria has a small, pear-shaped wooden body, a short neck, and a flat back, with six paired courses ...
bandwidth: in electronics, the range of frequencies occupied by a modulated radio-frequency signal, usually given in hertz (cycles per second) or as a percentage of the radio frequency. For example, an ...
bandy: a game similar to ice hockey. It is played almost exclusively in the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic countries, and Mongolia. A team is composed of from 8 to 11 players ...
bandy-bandy: (species Vermicella annulata), Australian snake of the cobra family Elapidae, strikingly ringed with black and white or yellow. It is about 76 cm (30 inches) long and is venomous but ...
baneberry: any of about eight species of perennial herbaceous plants constituting the genus Actaea of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae); they are all native to North Temperate Zone woodlands.
Baner, Johan: Swedish field marshal who was one of the foremost soldiers in the Thirty Years' War.
Banerjea, Sir Surendranath: one of the founders of modern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth.
Banff: ancient royal burgh (town), Aberdeenshire council area, historic county of Banffshire, northeastern Scotland. It is a North Sea port and lies on the western bank of the River Deveron opposite ...
Banff: town, southwestern Alberta, Canada. Banff lies along the glacial-green Bow River, near the scenic Lake Louise and the British Columbia border; it is the headquarters of Banff National Park. Named ...
Banff National Park: national park in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Located on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Banff occupies 2,564 square miles (6,641 square km). It is adjacent to Yoho and Kootenay ...
Banffshire: historic county, northeastern Scotland, extending from the Grampian Mountains to the North Sea. The northeastern portion of the county, including the historic county town (seat) of Banff, is part of ...
Bang, Bernhard Lauritz Frederik: Danish veterinarian who in 1897 discovered Brucella abortus (Bang's bacillus), the causative agent of contagious abortion in cattle and of brucellosis (undulant fever) in human beings.
Bang, Herman: novelist who was a major Danish representative of literary Impressionism. His work reflected the profound pessimism of his time.
Bangalore: city and capital (since 1830) of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. One of India's largest cities, Bangalore lies 3,113 feet (949 metres) above sea level atop an east-west ridge ...
Banggai Islands: archipelago consisting of two major islands and approximately 100 islets in Sulawesi Tengah provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. The archipelago is situated between the Sula and Celebes islands at the entrance to ...
Banghazi: city and major seaport of northeastern Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra. It was founded by the Greeks of Cyrenaica as Hesperides (Euesperides) and received from the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy ...
Bangka: island of Bangka-Belitung propinsi (province), Indonesia. The island is situated off the eastern coast of Sumatra across the Bangka Strait, which is only 9 miles (14 km) ...
Bangkok: city, capital, and chief port of Thailand. It is the only cosmopolitan city in a country of small towns and villages and is Thailand's cultural and commercial centre.
Bangladesh: country of south-central Asia, located in the delta of the Ganges and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
Bangor: city, seat (1816) of Penobscot county, east-central Maine, U.S. It is a port of entry at the head of navigation on the Penobscot River opposite Brewer. The site, visited in ...
Bangor: town, North Down district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the southern shore of Belfast Lough (inlet of the sea). About 555, St. Comgall founded ...
Bangor: cathedral city, Gwynedd county, historic county of Caernarvonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), Wales. It commands the northern entrance to the Menai Strait, the narrow strip of water separating Anglesey from the mainland. ...