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- botanist whose systematic study of cultivated plants transformed U.S. horticulture from a craft to an applied science and had a direct influence on the development of genetics, plant pathology, and agriculture.
- Bailey, Mildred
- American singer known for her light soprano voice, clear articulation, and jazz phrasing. As a singer Bailey was especially influenced by Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith, and she was one of the first nonblack performers to become a skilled jazz ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bailey, Nathan
- (from the article "dictionary") ...earlier lexicographers. As a result, it served the reasonable needs of ordinary users of the language. Kersey later produced some bigger works, but all these were superseded in the 1720s when Nathan Bailey, a schoolmaster in Stepney, issued several innovative ...
- Bailey, Pearl
- American entertainer notable for her sultry singing and mischievous humour. [1 Related Articles]
- Bailey, Samuel
- English economist and philosopher remembered for his argument that value is a relationship and implies a particular state of mind.
- Bailey, Sir Donald Coleman
- British engineer who invented the Bailey bridge, which was of great military value in World War II.
- Bailey, William Shreve
- (from the article "Newport") ...the first ship to reach Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. The only antislavery newspaper (The Free South), published in Kentucky during the 1850s, was edited in Newport by William Shreve Bailey, who, after a pro-slavery mob threw his ...
- Bailie, Kim
- South African-born aerospace engineer earned a global reputation as a designer of missile bodies. After training as an engineer in England, he immigrated in 1956 to the U.S., where he worked for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (now a division of Lockheed ...
- bailiff
- a minor court official with police authority to protect the court while in session and with power to serve and execute legal process. In earlier times it was a title of more dignity and power. [4 Related Articles]
- Baillet, Adrien
- (from the article "Descartes, Rene") ...who began the process of turning Descartes into a saint by cutting, adding to, and selectively publishing his letters. This cosmetic work culminated in 1691 in the massive biography by Father Adrien Baillet, who was at work on a 17-volume ...
- Baillie, Charles
- (from the article "Ridolfi, Roberto") Ridolfi's plot was exposed in April 1571 when his messenger, Charles Baillie, was arrested at Dover, Kent. Baillie's confession and the letters that he was carrying incriminated many conspirators, including Leslie, who was imprisoned for two years, and Norfolk, who ...
- Baillie, Joanna
- poet and prolific dramatist whose plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline. Her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol. (1798-1812), brought her fame but have long been forgotten. She is remembered, ...
- Baillie, Lady Grizel
- Scottish poet remembered for her simple and sorrowful songs.
- Baillie, Matthew
- Scottish pathologist whose Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body (1793) was the first publication in English on pathology as a separate subject and the first systematic study of pathology ever made.
- Baillie, Robert
- Presbyterian minister and theological scholar who led the movement in Scotland to reject (1637) the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer. He was a member of the Glasgow Assembly (1638), at which the Church of Scotland broke away from ...
- Baillie, Robert
- Scottish Presbyterian executed for allegedly conspiring to assassinate King Charles II of Great Britain. The evidence against him was inconclusive, and Scottish nationalist sentiment has regarded him as a martyr for the cause of religious liberty.
- Baillon, Andre
- Belgian novelist whose ironic and clear-eyed works signaled a change in the direction of Belgian literature.
- Baillou, Guillaume de
- physician, founder of modern epidemiology, who revived Hippocratic medical practice in Renaissance Europe. Dean of the University of Paris medical faculty (1580), he compiled a clear account of epidemics between 1570 and 1579, the first comprehensive work of its kind ...
- Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
- French astronomer noted for his computation of an orbit for Halley's Comet (1759) and for his studies of the four satellites of Jupiter then known. He was also a statesman who took part in the revolutionary events of his age. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baily's beads
- arc of bright spots seen during a total eclipse of the Sun. They are named for Francis Baily, an English astronomer, who first called attention to them. Just before the Moon's disk completely covers the Sun, the narrow crescent of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baily, Edward Hodges
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...few British artists of the period with an international reputation. The last generation of Neoclassicists included the sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott, John Bacon the Younger, Sir Francis Chantrey, Edward Hodges Baily, John Gibson, and William Behnes.
- Baily, Francis
- astronomer who detected the phenomenon called "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse of the Sun on May 15, 1836. His vivid description aroused new interest in the study of eclipses.
- Baima
- (from the article "Luoyang") ...Luoyang did not become the Han capital until the 1st century CE, at the beginning of the Dong (Eastern) Han period, though its economic importance had been recognized earlier. In 68 CE the Baima ("White Horse Temple"), one of the ...
- baimiao
- in Chinese painting, brush technique that produces a finely controlled, supple ink outline drawing without any colour or wash (diluted ink or paint applied in broad sweeps) embellishment. It is commonly used for figure painting, in which precise description is ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bain, Alexander
- (from the article "telephone and telephone system") Facsimile transmission over wires traces its origins to Alexander Bain, a Scottish mechanic. In 1843, less than seven years after the invention of the telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse, Bain received a British patent for "improvements in producing and regulating ...
- Bain, Alexander
- Scottish philosopher who advanced the study of psychology with his work on mental processes and who strove to improve education in Scotland. [3 Related Articles]
- Bainbridge
- city, seat (1823) of Decatur county, far southwestern Georgia, U.S. It lies along the Flint River, near the Florida border, about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Tallahassee, Florida. The city was founded in 1823 near Fort Hughes, an earthwork ...
- Bainbridge, Beryl
- English novelist known for her psychologically astute portrayals of lower-middle-class English life. [1 Related Articles]
- Bainbridge, John
- astronomer noted for his observations of comets.
- Bainbridge, Kenneth
- U.S. physicist and director of the Trinity test, the first test explosion of the atomic bomb, which took place in the remote Jornado del Muerto desert in central New Mexico on July 16, 1945; he later served as chairman of ...
- Bainbridge, William
- American naval officer who captured the British frigate Java in the War of 1812.
- Baines, Thomas
- English-born artist, explorer, naturalist, and author who spent most of his life in southern Africa.
- Bainimarama, Voreqe
- Fijian military leader who led a 2006 coup that resulted in him becoming acting president (2006-07) and later acting prime minister (2007- ) of Fiji. [3 Related Articles]
- Baining
- (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") The mountains south of the Tolai's coastal area are inhabited by the Baining, who consist of several groups of seminomads. Virtually their only works of art were masks and other objects carried in dances; these, however, being constructed of light ...
- Bainsizza Plateau
- (from the article "World War I") ...Cadorna's 10th Battle of the Isonzo in May-June 1917 won very little ground; but his 11th, from August 17 to September 12, during which General Luigi Capello's 2nd Army captured much of the Bainsizza Plateau (Banjska Planota), north of Gorizia, ...
- Bainter, Fay
- (from the article "1938: Best Supporting Actress") Other Nominees
- Bainville, Jacques
- French political writer and historian, a leading exponent of conservative ideals between World Wars I and II.
- Baiovarii
- (from the article "Bavaria") ...Germanic attacks. The lands were eventually settled by Germanic tribes from the east and north who mixed with the remaining Celts and Romans. The tribe that gave the territory its name was the Baiovarii (Bavarians), which settled in the south ...
- Bairat
- (from the article "Rajasthan") ...and post-Harappan culture (3rd-2nd millennium BC) are traceable at Kalibangan, Ahar, and Gilund. Pottery fragments at Kalibangan are carbon-dated to 2700 BC. The discovery near Bairat of two rock inscriptions (c. 250 BC) of the emperor Asoka seems to show ...
- Baird's beaked whale
- (from the article "beaked whale") ...dorsal fin located toward the rear of the body. Ranging in length from 3.7 metres (12.1 feet) for the dwarf, or pygmy, beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus) to nearly 13 metres for the giant bottlenose whale (Berardius bairdii), these mammals weigh ...
- Baird, Bil
- (from the article "Baird, Bil and Cora") Bil Baird began building and using puppets as a child. After graduating from the State University of Iowa in 1926, he studied stage design at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then worked for five years under the noted ...
- Baird, Bil and Cora
- puppeteers who led the 20th-century revival of puppet theatre in the United States.
- Baird, Cora
- (from the article "Baird, Bil and Cora") ...for five years under the noted American puppeteer Tony Sarg. He traveled on the road giving puppet performances and in the mid-1930s began producing his own independent puppet shows. He married Cora Eisenberg, who had acted under the name of ...
- Baird, Dale
- (from the article "Equestrian Sports") ...(16 in Grade 1 stakes) in 83 starts and retired at age nine in 1984 as Thoroughbred racing's all-time money winner, with $6,591,860. In November the sport mourned the death of jockey Bill Hartack. Dale Baird, 72, the all-time leading ...
- Baird, John Logie
- Scottish engineer, the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion. [3 Related Articles]
- Baird, Scott
- (from the article "The XX Olympic Winter Games") ...Olympics debut. The diversity of countries present was matched by the wide range in ages of the individual competitors, from 14-year-old snowboarder Sun Zhifeng of China to 54-year-old American Scott Baird, who shared the silver medal won by the U.S. ...
- Baird, Spencer Fullerton
- American naturalist, vertebrate zoologist, and in his time the leading authority on North American birds and mammals.
- Baire, Rene-Louis
- French mathematician whose study of irrational numbers and the concept of continuity of functions that approximate them greatly influenced the French school of mathematics.
- Bairiki
- (from the article "Kiribati") Area: 811 sq km (313 sq mi) | Population (2004 est.): 89,100 | Capital: Bairiki, on Tarawa | Head of state and government: President Anote Tong |
- Bairnsdale
- town, southeastern Victoria, Australia, named for Bernisdale, Isle of Skye, Scot. It lies at the mouth of the Mitchell River on Lake King, a lagoon. Its development dates from the late 19th century, when the town served initially as a ...
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