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- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...Sisir's style has been refined by actor-director Sombhu Mitra and his actress wife Tripti, who worked in the Left-wing People's Theatre movement in the 1940s. With other actors they founded the Bahurupee group in 1949 and produced many Tagore plays ...
- Bahuti, al-
- teacher and the last major exponent in Egypt of the Hanbali school of Islamic law.
- Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda
- dayyan-i.e., judge of a rabbinical court-in Muslim Spain and author of a highly influential and popular work of ethical guidance. [2 Related Articles]
- Bai
- people of northwestern Yunnan province, southwest China. Minjia is the Chinese (Pinyin) name for them; they call themselves Bai or Bo in their own language, which has been classified within the Yi group of Tibeto-Burman languages. Until recently the language ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bai Feng-yan
- (from the article "sanxian") ...by powerful, resonant rolls and chords and large glissandos. It is popular in theatrical accompaniment, ballad-singing accompaniment, and the orchestra. In the 20th century, the musicians Bai Fengyan (1899-1975) and Li Yi (b. 1932) made the sanxian ...
- Bai Juyi
- Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (618-907) who used his elegantly simple verse to protest the social evils of his day, including corruption and militarism. [5 Related Articles]
- Bai River
- (from the article "Chaobai River") river in Hebei province and Beijing and Tianjin municipalities, northern China. The Chaobai originates in metropolitan Beijing at the confluence of its two main tributaries, the Chao and Bai ("White") rivers, about 2 miles (3 km) south of the town ...
- Baia Mare
- city, capital of Maramures judet (county), northwestern Romania. It is situated in the Sasar River valley, surrounded by mountains. This location affords the city protection from the cold northeastern winds and sustains a quasi-Mediterranean vegetation. Founded in the 12th century ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baiae
- ancient city of Campania, Italy, located on the west coast of the Gulf of Puteoli (Pozzuoli) and lying 10 miles (16 km) west of Naples and 212 miles (4 km) from Cumae, of which it was a dependency. According to ...
- Baic languages
- (from the article "Tibeto-Burman languages") ...Thesaurus project, directed by James Matisoff (the author of this article) at the University of California, Berkeley. The Berkeley schema identifies seven major subgroups of Tibeto-Burman: Baic, Karenic, Lolo-Burmese-Naxi, Jingpo-Nungish-Luish, Qiangic, Himalayish, and Kamarupan.
- Baicheng
- city, northwestern Jilin sheng (province), northeastern China. The region was originally a hunting ground reserved for the Mongols, and farming was not allowed legally by the Qing government until 1902; it is now an area of extensive ...
- Baidoa
- (from the article "Somalia") ...Union (ICU), an Islamic fundamentalist movement, had seized control of much of the country, including the capital city of Mogadishu, and was closing in on the TFG's last stronghold, the city of Baidoa, near the Ethiopian border. Commanding only a ...
- Baie-Comeau
- town, regional county municipality (RCM) of Cote-Nord region, east-central Quebec province, Canada. It lies on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River, near the mouth of the Manicouagan River. Named after Napoleon-Alexandre Comeau, a local naturalist, it was founded ...
- Baier, Kurt
- (from the article "Rationalism") ...were receiving renewed attention in the mid-20th century. Prominent among these developments has been the "good-reasons" approach taken by the broadly gauged scholar Stephen Toulmin, by Kurt Baier, and others, which examines the contexts of various moral situations and explores ...
- Baiera
- (from the article "ginkgophyte") There is one type of ginkgophyte leaf in the fossil record that is generally regarded as a distinct form and is given the generic designation Baiera. The leaf is deeply lobed into four segments and lacks a stalk (petiole). Following ...
- Baif, Jean-Antoine de
- most learned of the seven French poets who constituted the group known as La Pleiade. [4 Related Articles]
- baihua
- vernacular style of Chinese that was adopted as a written language in a movement to revitalize the Classical Chinese literary language and make it more accessible to the common people. Started in 1917 by the philosopher and historian Hu Shi, ... [7 Related Articles]
- baiji
- (from the article "conservation") ...with some success, and the alala (or Hawaiian crow, Corvus hawaiiensis), which has not. Other species have not been as lucky. In the early 21st century an exhaustive search for the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), ...
- Baijini
- (from the article "Northern Territory") Arnhem Land legends speak of the "Baijini," seafaring people who came from the northwest long ago in search of the sea cucumber. These people may have been Chinese sailors, known to have reached nearby Timor early in the 15th century. ...
- Baikal cod
- (from the article "scorpaeniform") The two members of the family Comephoridae, called Baikal cods (Comephorus baicalensis and C. dybowskii), are pelagic fishes, the latter living at depths to 1,000 metres (more than 3,000 feet). The feeding habits of these Baikal cottoid fishes all exploit ...
- Baikal Mountains
- (from the article "Asia") ...may have separated Angara from the North American platform. Orogenic activity, which initiated the evolution of the Altaids, started along this margin about 850 million years ago and created the Baikal mountain belt.
- Baikal Rift Zone
- (from the article "mountain") ...is actively occurring. The eastward displacement of crustal blocks along major strike-slip faults also seems to have caused rift systems to open in a northwest-southeast direction. The Baikal Rift Zone in Siberia and the Shansi Graben in northern China seem ...
- Baikal seal
- (from the article "seal") The Baikal seal (Phoca sibirica) of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, is the smallest at 1.1-1.4 metres (3.6-4.6 feet) long and 50-130 kg (110-290 pounds), but some female fur seals weigh less. The largest is the male ...
- Baikal, Lake
- lake located in the southern part of eastern Siberia within the republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk oblast (province) of Russia. It is the oldest existing freshwater lake on Earth (20-25 million years old), as well as the deepest continental body ... [13 Related Articles]
- Baikal-Amur Magistral
- (from the article "Siberia") ...of oil and gas pipelines was built between the new fields and the Urals, and new industries were also established, such as aluminum refining and cellulose pulp making. The construction of the BAM (Baikal-Amur Magistral) railroad between Ust-Kut, on the ...
- Baikalides
- (from the article "Asia") The Altaids constitute a large and complex tectonic collage that accreted around the Angaran platform from late in the Proterozoic to early in the Mesozoic Era. Its oldest part, the Baikalides, formed between about 850 and 570 million years ago ...
- Baikalsky Nature Reserve
- natural area set aside for research in the natural sciences, on the southern shore of Lake Baikal, southeastern Russia. The reserve was established in 1969 and has an area of 640 square miles (1,657 square km). It includes part of ...
- Baikiaea
- (from the article "Zambezi River") ...is predominant on the alluvial flats of the low-lying river valleys and is highly susceptible to fire. Grass, when present, is typically short and sparse. Forestland with species of the genus Baikiaea, found extensively on sandy interfluves between drainage channels, ...
- Baikie, William Balfour
- explorer and philologist whose travels into Nigeria helped open up the country to British trade. [2 Related Articles]
- Baikonur
- former Soviet and current Russian space centre in south-central Kazakhstan. Baikonur was a Soviet code name for the centre, but American analysts often called it Tyuratam, after the railroad station at Tyuratam (Leninsk), the nearest large city. Baikonur lies on ... [2 Related Articles]
- bail
- (from the article "cricket") ...a game in which country boys bowled at a tree stump or at the hurdle gate into a sheep pen. This gate consisted of two uprights and a crossbar resting on the slotted tops; the crossbar was called a bail ...
- bail
- procedure by which a judge or magistrate sets at liberty one who has been arrested or imprisoned, upon receipt of security to ensure the released prisoner's later appearance in court for further proceedings. Release from custody is ordinarily effected by ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baildon, John
- (from the article "calligraphy") ...in England, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570; this title also translates Cresci's), is the work of a French Huguenot immigrant writing master, Jean de Beauchesne, and John Baildon (or Basildon), about whom nothing further is known. Divers ...
- baile
- (from the article "flamenco") After the mid-19th century, flamenco song was usually accompanied by guitar music and a palo seco (Spanish: "dry stick," a stick that was beat on the floor to keep time) and a dancer performing a series of ...
- bailee
- (from the article "bailment") in Anglo-American property law, delivery of specific goods by one person, called the bailor, to another person, called the bailee, for some temporary purpose such as storage, transportation, deposit for sale, pawn or pledge, repair or loan for use, with ...
- bailey
- (from the article "castle") ...built in France in the 10th century often included a high mound encircled by a ditch and surmounted by the leader's particular stronghold, as in the castles at Blois and Saumur. Later, one or more baileys or wards (grounds between ...
- Bailey bridge
- (from the article "Bailey, Sir Donald Coleman") British engineer who invented the Bailey bridge, which was of great military value in World War II.military engineeringmilitary bridge...riverbanks are steep or navigation must be kept open, are made up ...
- Bailey, Alice A.
- (from the article "New Age movement") Blavatsky's successor, Annie Besant, predicted the coming of a messiah, or world saviour, who she believed was the Indian teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti. In the 1940s Alice A. Bailey, founder of the Arcane School (an organization that disseminated spiritual teachings), suggested ...
- Bailey, Ann
- American scout, a colourful figure in fact and legend during the decades surrounding the American Revolutionary War.
- Bailey, Anna Warner
- American patriot, the subject of heroic tales of the Revolutionary War and early America.
- Bailey, Buster
- (from the article "jazz") ...to determine when their playing turned from embellished rags to improvisatory jazz. Musicians confirmed the tenuousness and variety of these early developments in statements such as that of reedman Buster Bailey (speaking of the years before 1920): "I &elipsis; was ...
- Bailey, David
- British photographer known for his advertising, celebrity, and fashion photographs.
- Bailey, Derek
- British guitarist (b. Jan. 29, 1930, Sheffield, Eng.-d. Dec. 25, 2005, London, Eng.), was the guru of free improvisation, a technique of creating arhythmic music without preset forms or melodies. Although he was first a pop and jazz musician who ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bailey, Donovan
- At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey won the 100-m dash in 9.84 sec to earn the appellation "the world's fastest man." Then he ran the last leg of the 4 ×100-m relay and helped ...
- Bailey, Florence Augusta Merriam
- American ornithologist and author of popular field guides.
- Bailey, Gamaliel
- journalist and a leader of the abolition movement prior to the American Civil War.
- Bailey, Hackaliah
- (from the article "circus") The second elephant on American shores, Old Bet, was even more popular and is credited with having established the circus tradition of the animal menagerie. Old Bet was owned by Hackaliah Bailey of Somers, New York. Between 1809 and 1816 ...
- Bailey, Hannah Clark Johnston
- U.S. reformer who was a leading advocate of the peace movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Bailey, James A
- U.S. impresario credited with the great success of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. [2 Related Articles]
- Bailey, Jeremiah
- (from the article "reaper") ...but modern machines include harvesters, combines, and binders, which also perform other harvesting operations. A patent for a reaper was issued in England to Joseph Boyce in 1800. In the 1830s Jeremiah Bailey of the United States patented a mower-reaper, ...
- Bailey, Jerry
- When the 2003 Thoroughbred racing Eclipse Awards were handed out on Jan. 26, 2004, Jerry Bailey was proclaimed the outstanding jockey in North America for an unprecedented seventh time (1995-97 and 2000-03); in 1997 he had been the first jockey ... [1 Related Articles]
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