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- strait between Arabia (northeast) and Africa (southwest) that connects the Red Sea (northwest) with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean (southeast). The strait is 20 miles (32 km) wide and is divided into two channels by Perim Island; ...
- Bab, the
- merchant's son whose claim to be the Bab (Gateway) to the hidden imam (the perfect embodiment of Islamic faith) gave rise to the Babi religion and made him one of the three central figures of the Baha'i faith. [7 Related Articles]
- Bab-ilu
- (from the article "Babel, Tower of") ...never completed, and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth. The myth may have been inspired by the Babylonian tower temple north of the Marduk temple, which in Babylonian was called Bab-ilu ("Gate of God"), Hebrew form ...
- Baba Chinese
- (from the article "Malaysia") ...languages are not mutually intelligible, it is not uncommon for two Chinese to converse in a lingua franca such as Mandarin Chinese, English, or Malay. The community that is colloquially called Baba Chinese includes those Malaysians of mixed Chinese and ...
- Baba Malay language
- (from the article "Malay language") ...in the East Indian archipelago and was the basis of the colonial language used in Indonesia by the Dutch. The version of Bazaar Malay used in Chinese merchant communities in Malaysia is called Baba Malay. Languages or dialects closely related ...
- Baba Mountains
- (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...Mount Tirich Mir; the central Hindu Kush, which then continues to the Shebar (Shibar) Pass (9,800 feet [2,987 metres]) to the northwest of Kabul; and the western Hindu Kush, also known as the Baba Mountains (Kuh-e Baba), which gradually descends ...
- Baba Tahir
- one of the most revered early poets in Persian literature. [2 Related Articles]
- Baba'i rebellion
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...his realm by annexing Amida (Diyarbakir), thus pushing the boundaries of the Anatolian Seljuq state up to those of modern Turkey, he faced two severe challenges to his rule. The first was the Baba'i rebellion, a three-year religio-political uprising led ...
- Baba, Malam
- (from the article "Agaie") ...The town lies at the intersection of roads from Bida, Baro, Tagagi, Lapai, and Ebba. Originally inhabited by the Dibo (Ganagana, Zitako), a people associated with the Nupe, it fell under the sway of Malam Baba, a Fulani warrior, in ...
- Baba-aha-iddina
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...As king he campaigned with varying success in southern Armenia and Azerbaijan, later turning against Babylonia. He won several battles against the Babylonian kings Marduk-balassu-iqbi and Baba-aha-iddina (about 818-12) and pushed through to Chaldea. Babylonia remained independent, however.
- Baba-Yaga
- in Russian folklore, an ogress who steals, cooks, and eats her victims, usually children. A guardian of the fountains of the water of life, she lives with two or three sisters (all known as Baba-Yaga) in a forest hut which ...
- Babahoyo
- city, west-central Ecuador, on the southern shore of the Babahoyo River, a major branch of the Guayas River. A processing and trade centre for the surrounding agricultural region, the city handles rice, sugarcane, fruits, balsa wood, and tagua nuts (vegetable ...
- Babak
- leader of the Iranian Khorram-dinan, a religious sect that arose following the execution of Abu Muslim, who had rebelled against the 'Abbasid caliphate. Denying that Abu Muslim was dead, the sect predicted that he would return to spread justice throughout ... [4 Related Articles]
- Babak
- (from the article "Ardashir I") Ardashir was the son of Babak, who was the son or descendant of Sasan and was a vassal of the chief petty king in Persis, Gochihr. After Babak got Ardashir the military post of argabad in the town of Darabgerd ...
- Babalola, Joseph
- (from the article "Aladura") The main expansion occurred when a prophet-healer, Joseph Babalola (1906-59), became the centre of a mass divine-healing movement in 1930. Yoruba religion was rejected, and pentecostal features that had been suppressed under U.S. influence were restored. Opposition from traditional rulers, ...
- Babalola, S Adeboye
- poet and scholar known for his illuminating study of Yoruba ijala (a form of oral poetry) and his translations of numerous folk tales. He devoted much of his career to collecting and preserving the oral traditions of his homeland.
- Babangida, Ibrahim
- Nigerian military leader, who served as head of state (1985-93). [4 Related Articles]
- Babar
- (from the article "children's literature") ...the very decade they scorned saw at least three magnificent achievements. The first was Jean de Brunhoff's. Equally talented as author and artist, in 1931 he gave the world that enlightened monarch Babar the Elephant, one of the dozen or ...
- Babar Island
- island and island group in the Banda Sea, Maluku propinsi (province), Indonesia. Located between Timor to the west and the Tanimbar Islands to the east, the group consists of Babar, the largest island, surrounded by the five islets of Wetan, ...
- Babashoff, Shirley
- American swimmer who won eight Olympic medals and was one of only two women to win five medals in swimming during one Olympic Games.
- babassu oil
- (from the article "babassu palm") ...martiana, A. oleifera, or A. speciosa), tall palm tree with feathery leaves that grows wild in tropical northeastern Brazil. The kernels of its hard-shelled nuts are the source of babassu oil, similar in properties and uses to coconut oil and ...
- babassu palm
- (Attalea martiana, A. oleifera, or A. speciosa), tall palm tree with feathery leaves that grows wild in tropical northeastern Brazil. The kernels of its hard-shelled nuts are the source of babassu oil, similar in properties and uses to coconut oil ... [2 Related Articles]
- Babbage, Charles
- English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. [10 Related Articles]
- babbitt metal
- any of several tin- or lead-based alloys used as bearing material for axles and crankshafts, based on the tin alloy invented in 1839 by Isaac Babbitt for use in steam engines. Modern babbitts provide a low-friction lining for bearing shells ... [5 Related Articles]
- Babbitt, Bruce
- (from the article "Phoenix") In the late 1960s and early '70s corruption was an impediment to convincing nonmilitary employers to move into the Phoenix area. Bruce Babbitt, who in the mid-1970s was the state attorney general, warned that not only the Phoenix area but ...
- Babbitt, Irving
- American critic and teacher, leader of the movement in literary criticism known as the "New Humanism," or Neohumanism. [2 Related Articles]
- Babbitt, Isaac
- American inventor of a tin-based alloy (now known as babbitt) widely used for bearings.
- Babbitt, Milton
- American composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialism-i.e., musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale (as in 12-tone music) but also of dynamics, duration, timbre (tone colour), ... [3 Related Articles]
- Babcock test
- (from the article "Babcock, Stephen Moulton") agricultural research chemist, often called the father of scientific dairying chiefly because of his development of the Babcock test, a simple method of measuring the butterfat content of milk. Introduced in 1890, the test discouraged milk adulteration, stimulated improvement of ...
- Babcock, Alpheus
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...case to the pinblock but finally in the form of a single massive casting that took the entire tension of the strings upon itself. The one-piece cast-iron frame was first applied to square pianos by Alpheus Babcock of Boston in ...
- Babcock, Ernest B.
- (from the article "Stebbins, George Ledyard, Jr.") ...in Plants (1950) established Stebbins as one of the first biologists to apply this theory to plant evolution. Working with several species of flowering plants, Stebbins and his coworker, Ernest B. Babcock, studied polyploid plants, which are new species of ...
- Babcock, Harold Delos
- astronomer who with his son Horace Welcome Babcock invented (1951) the solar magnetograph, an instrument allowing detailed observation of the Sun's magnetic field. With their magnetograph the Babcocks demonstrated the existence of the Sun's general field and discovered magnetically variable ...
- Babcock, Horace Welcome
- American astronomer who with his father, Harold Delos Babcock, invented the solar magnetograph, an instrument allowing detailed observation of the Sun's magnetic field. [1 Related Articles]
- Babcock, Joseph P.
- (from the article "mah-jongg") ...ma ch'iau. The sparrow or a mythical "bird of 100 intelligences" appears on one of the tiles. The name mah-jongg was coined and copyrighted by Joseph P. Babcock, an American resident of Shanghai, who is credited with introducing mah-jongg to ...
- Babcock, Orville E.
- (from the article "Grant, Ulysses S.") ...the operation of the "Whiskey Ring," which had the aid of high-placed officials in defrauding the government of tax revenues. When the evidence touched the president's private secretary, Orville E. Babcock, Grant regretted his earlier statement, "Let no guilty man ...
- Babcock, Stephen Moulton
- agricultural research chemist, often called the father of scientific dairying chiefly because of his development of the Babcock test, a simple method of measuring the butterfat content of milk. Introduced in 1890, the test discouraged milk adulteration, stimulated improvement of ...
- Babe Ruth League
- (from the article "Little League") A number of organizations similar to Little League have also been successful, including the Babe Ruth League (Little Bigger League, 1952-53), for boys and girls 13 through 18. The Babe Ruth leagues were founded in 1952 in Trenton, New Jersey, ...
- Babel, Isaak Emmanuilovich
- Soviet short-story writer noted for his war stories and Odessa tales. He was considered an innovator in the early Soviet period and enjoyed a brilliant reputation in the early 1930s. [3 Related Articles]
- Babel, Tower of
- in biblical literature, structure built in the land of Shinar (Babylonia) some time after the Deluge. The story of its construction, given in Genesis 11:1-9, appears to be an attempt to explain the existence of diverse human languages. According to ... [7 Related Articles]
- Babelthuap
- largest of the Caroline Islands and largest island within the country of Palau. It has an area of 143 square miles (370 square km) and lies in the western Pacific Ocean, 550 miles (885 km) east of the Philippines. Partly ... [2 Related Articles]
- Babenberg, House of
- Austrian ruling house in the 10th-13th century. Leopold I of Babenberg became margrave of Austria in 976. The Babenbergs' power was modest, however, until the 12th century, when they came to dominate the Austrian nobility. With the death of Duke ... [4 Related Articles]
- Babenco, Hector
- Brazilian film director known for socially conscious films that examine the lives of society's outsiders.
- Babergh
- district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England. Babergh extends across the southern part of Suffolk. Babergh includes much of the area made familiar by the paintings of John Constable (1776-1837), who was born within the district at East Bergholt ...
- Babesia
- (from the article "babesiosis") any of a group of tick-borne diseases of animals caused by species of Babesia, protozoans that destroy red blood cells and thereby cause anemia. Cattle tick fever, from B. bigemina, occurs in cattle, buffalo, and zebu. Other Babesia species attack ...
- Babesia bigemina
- (from the article "babesiosis") any of a group of tick-borne diseases of animals caused by species of Babesia, protozoans that destroy red blood cells and thereby cause anemia. Cattle tick fever, from B. bigemina, occurs in cattle, buffalo, and zebu. Other Babesia species attack ...
- babesiosis
- any of a group of tick-borne diseases of animals caused by species of Babesia, protozoans that destroy red blood cells and thereby cause anemia. Cattle tick fever, from B. bigemina, occurs in cattle, buffalo, and zebu. Other Babesia species attack ...
- Babeuf, Francois-Noel
- early political journalist and agitator in Revolutionary France whose tactical strategies provided a model for left-wing movements of the 19th century and who was called Gracchus for the resemblance of his proposed agrarian reforms to those of the 2nd-century-BC Roman ... [2 Related Articles]
- Babi faith
- (from the article "Baha'i faith") The Baha'i religion originally grew out of the Babi faith, or sect, which was founded in 1844 by Mirza 'Ali Mohammad of Shiraz in Iran. He proclaimed a spiritual doctrine emphasizing the forthcoming appearance of a new prophet or messenger ...
- Babia, Mount
- highest mountain (5,659 feet [1,725 m] at Diablok) peak in the Beskid Mountains, on the Slovakia-Poland border and one of the highest peaks in Poland. It is 12 miles (19 km) north-northeast of Namestovo, Slovakia, and 12 miles (19 km) ... [3 Related Articles]
- Babiali
- (from the article "vizier") ...the sultan, whose signet ring he kept as an insignia of office. His actual power, however, varied with the vigour of the sultans. In 1654 the grand vizier acquired an official residence known as the Babiali (Sublime Porte), which replaced ...
- Babil
- (from the article "Babylon") The present site, an extensive field of ruins, contains several prominent mounds. The main mounds are (1) Babil, the remains of Nebuchadrezzar's palace in the northern corner of the outer rampart, (2) Qasr, comprising the palace complex (with a building ...
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