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- town, seat, and district (established 1973), formerly within County Down, southeastern Northern Ireland. Located on the River Bann, the town of Banbridge came into existence following the building of a stone bridge across the river in 1712. It is the ...
- 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 currant pastry. Part of the original 16th-century cake house remains, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banbury mixer
- (from the article "plastic") The workhorse mixer of the plastics and rubber industries is the internal mixer, in which heat and pressure are applied simultaneously. The Banbury ® mixer, shown in Figure 1, resembles a robust dough mixer in that two interrupted spiral rotors ...
- Banc One
- (from the article "Bank One") Former U.S. bank holding company that merged with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in 2004. Bank One had been created through the 1998 merger of First Chicago NBD Corp. and Banc One. Although the 1998 merger created one of the ...
- Banca Popolare Italiana
- (from the article "Italy") ...who promptly forbade Fazio to speak for Italy at a World Bank meeting in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors reportedly wanted Fazio to explain why in July he had given the green light for the Italian Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI) to bid ...
- Banca Romana
- (from the article "Italy") ...former treasury minister Giovanni Giolitti, who was prime minister from May 1892 to November 1893. Politicians needed the money to finance their election expenses and to run or bribe newspapers. The Banca Romana scandal of 1893 was the first of ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 conserves both flora and fauna in some 116 square miles (300 square km). Tropical hardwood trees occupy ...
- 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, but later became a lumbering community and was renamed in ...
- Bancroft, Ann
- American explorer who was the first woman to participate in and successfully finish several arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Bancroft, Anne
- American actress (b. Sept. 17, 1931, Bronx, N.Y.-d. June 6, 2005, New York, N.Y.), was a versatile performer whose half-century-long career was studded with renowned successes on stage, screen, and television. She won both a Tony Award and an Academy ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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." [2 Related Articles]
- 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 on the West.
- Bancroft, Richard
- (from the article "Archbishops of Canterbury") ...was made chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and it was there that a series of conflicts took place that eventually broke his judicial career. At the time of Coke's appointment, Archbishop Richard Bancroft had already started his ...
- Bancroft, Sir Squire
- English 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. [3 Related Articles]
- bancroftian filariasis
- (from the article "filariasis") ...into motile, infective larvae that, at the insect's next blood meal, are introduced into the human host, where they reach maturity in about a year. The term filariasis is commonly used to designate bancroftian filariasis, caused by Wuchereria bancrofti, organisms ...
- band
- (from the article "Carboniferous Period") ...in Great Britain includes the Millstone Grit and the Coal Measures-names in use since the naming of the system. Local names are applied to specific intervals, and marine horizons, called bands, are named either for their characteristic fossil occurrence (i.e., ...
- band
- in anthropology, a notional type of human social organization consisting of a small number of people (usually no more than 30 to 50 persons in all) who form a fluid, egalitarian community and cooperate in activities such as subsistence, security, ... [9 Related Articles]
- 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 specific designation, the word band has wide vernacular application, from ... [3 Related Articles]
- band 3
- (from the article "blood group") ...and carry antigens of the ABO, Hh, Ii, and P systems. Glycoproteins, which traverse the red cell membrane, have a polypeptide backbone to which carbohydrates are attached. An abundant glycoprotein, band 3, contains ABO, Hh, and Ii antigens. Another integral ...
- band displacement method
- (from the article "rare-earth element") The band displacement method of separating individual rare-earth elements was first published in 1952. This process is capable of being scaled up to handle any quantity of rare earths. The mixture can be resolved so that 98 or 99 percent ...
- band gap
- (from the article "superconductivity") As stated above, the thermal properties of superconductors indicate that there is a gap in the distribution of energy levels available to the electrons, and so a finite amount of energy, designated as delta (Delta), must be supplied to an ...
- band saw
- (from the article "saw") The vertical bandsaw blade is an endless narrow metal strip, with teeth along one edge, that runs around two large motorized pulleys or wheels that are mounted on a frame so that one is directly above the other. The blade ...
- band spectrum
- (from the article "spectrum") ...the elements that emit the radiation. Line spectra are also called atomic spectra because the lines represent wavelengths radiated from atoms when electrons change from one energy level to another. Band spectra is the name given to groups of lines ...
- 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 a solid (and hence its energy) is related to the ... [8 Related Articles]
- 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, folk, old-time string band, blues, and rock music brought them ... [3 Related Articles]
- Band-e amir
- (from the article "Buyid Dynasty") The Buyid state was then at its peak; it engaged in public works, building hospitals and the Band-e amir (Emir's Dam) across the Kur River near Shiraz; it had relations with the Samanids, Hamdanids, Byzantines, and Fatimids; it patronized artists, ...
- Band-e Qeysar
- (from the article "Shapur I") ...later famous as a centre of learning. Using the same captives, who excelled the Persians in technical skill, he built the dam at Shushtar known from that time as the Band-e Qeysar, Dam of Caesar.feature of Shushtar
- 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 coils and capacitors, or the arrangement may be made up ... [2 Related Articles]
- band-winged grasshopper
- (from the article "short-horned grasshopper") The band-winged grasshoppers, subfamily Oedipodinae, produce a crackling noise during flight. When they are not in flight, their conspicuous, brightly coloured hind wings are covered by their forewings, which blend into surrounding vegetation. The band-winged grasshoppers are the only type ...
- 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 subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family that is related to ... [1 Related Articles]
- banda
- (from the article "Tejano") In the 1930s Tejano's second major form, banda, or orquesta, emerged. Tejano big bands, most notably La Orquesta de Beto Villa, building upon the big band lineup popularized by swing bands, quickly incorporated Mexican ...
- 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. The city's trade has been declining, and the road leading ...
- Banda
- (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...people as possible. On the northern fringes of the forest, astride the routes along which gold and kola nuts were brought for exchange with the Dyula, important new kingdoms emerged such as Bono and Banda, both of which were probably ...
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- Banda Islands
- island group, Maluku propinsi (province), Indonesia. The islands lie in the Banda Sea, southeast of Ambon Island and south of Ceram. The largest of the nine islands, which have a total land area of 17 square miles (44 square km), ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banda Oriental del Rio Uruguay
- (from the article "Argentina") ...achieved by setting aside, rather than resolving, certain fundamental difficulties. In particular, the institutional organization of the country was not carried out, and nothing was done about the Banda Oriental (the east bank of the Uruguay River), which was occupied ...
- Banda Sea
- portion of the western South Pacific Ocean, bounded by the southern islands of the Moluccas of Indonesia (Alor, Timor, Wetar, Babar, Tanimbar, and Kai on the south and Ceram, Buru, and Sula on the north). It occupies a total of ...
- Banda Singh Bahadur
- first Sikh military leader to wage an offensive war against the Mughal rulers of India, thereby temporarily extending Sikh territory. [4 Related Articles]
- 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. [4 Related Articles]
- Banda, Rupiah
- (from the article "Zambia") ...and he died several weeks later. Under the terms of the constitution, a special election to choose a new president was eventually scheduled for later that year; in the interim, Vice President Rupiah Banda served as acting president. The election, ...
- Bandai Sikh
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...("Victory to the Guru!"). He also required his followers to be vegetarians and to wear red garments instead of the traditional blue. Those who accepted these changes were called Bandai Sikhs, while those opposed to them-led by Mata Sundari, one ...
- Bandak Canal
- (from the article "Skien") ...Skien's lumber and mining concerns began the development of the area in the mid-1600s. The ore has been exhausted, but the town has important foundries and a thriving lumber and pulp trade. The Bandak Canal (also known as the Telemark ...
- 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 the country. It rises as the White Bandama in the ...
- Bandar Lampung
- port city, kotamadya (municipality), and capital of Lampung propinsi (province), Indonesia. It lies at the head of Lampung Bay on the south coast of Sumatra. Bandar Lampung was created in the 1980s from the amalgamation of the former provincial capital, ...
- 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 on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Bandar Seri Begawan was once predominantly an agricultural ... [6 Related Articles]
- 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, Larak, and Hormuz. The inhabitants are mainly Arabs and African ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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 tidal marshes. Bandar-e Bushehr rose to prominence during the reign ...
- Bandaranaike, Anura P. S. D.
- (from the article "Bandaranaike, Sirimavo R.D.") Bandaranaike's children, in the meantime, had become major political figures within the SLFP. Her son, Anura P.S.D. Bandaranaike (b. 1949), was first elected to parliament in 1977 and had become the leader of the SLFP's right-wing faction by 1984. He ...
- 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. [4 Related Articles]
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