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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 terms (1970-77, 1994-2000) as prime minister. The family she founded ... [3 Related Articles]
banded cat-eyed snake: (from the article "cat snake") ...of the New World tropics are superficially similar to Old World cat snakes. Ten species of cat-eyed snakes occur in dry habitats from Mexico to Argentina. The most common species is the banded cat-eyed snake (L. annulata), ...
banded coal: (from the article "Coal type according to appearance") The term coal type is also employed to distinguish between banded coals and nonbanded coals (see table). Banded coals contain varying amounts of vitrinite and opaque material. They include bright coal, which contains more than 80 percent vitrinite, and splint ...
banded gabbroic complex: (from the article "gabbro") Banded, or layered, gabbroic complexes in which monomineral or bimineral varieties are well developed have been described from Montana, the Bushveld in South Africa, and the island of Skye. There are also gabbro complexes that are locally streaky and inhomogeneous ...
banded gecko: (from the article "gecko") Geckos are abundant throughout the warm areas of the world, and at least a few species occur on all continents except Antarctica. The banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus), the most widespread native North American species, grows to 15 ...
banded krait: (from the article "krait") The banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus) of Southeast Asia grows to 2 metres (6.6 feet), and other species commonly reach more than a metre in length. All have bodies that are strongly triangular in cross-section. Some are boldly ...
banded linsang: (from the article "linsang") any of three species of long-tailed, catlike mammals belonging to the civet family (Viverridae). The African linsang (Poiana richardsoni), the banded linsang (Prionodon linsang), and the spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) vary in colour, but all resemble elongated cats. They grow ...
banded mongoose: (from the article "mongoose") ...and are terrestrial, although the marsh mongoose (Atilax paludinosus) and a few others are semiaquatic. Some mongooses live alone or in pairs, but others, such as the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo), dwarf mongooses (genus ...
banded stilt: (from the article "stilt") The banded, or red-breasted, stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephala), of Australia, is white with brown wings, reddish breast band, and yellowish legs.
banded woolly bear: (from the article "tiger moth") ...the Isabella tiger moth (Isia isabella), emerges in spring and attains a wingspan of 37 to 50 mm (1.5 to 2 inches). Black spots mark its abdomen and yellow wings. The larva, known as the banded woolly bear, is brown ...
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 all the continents and usually are older than 1.7 billion ... [5 Related Articles]
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 went in search of profit and adventure as they penetrated ... [5 Related Articles]
Bandeira Mountain: (from the article "Brazil") ...Serra do Espinhaco; in southern Minas Gerais the Mantiqueira range reaches 9,143 feet (2,787 metres) at Agulhas Negras Peak on the Rio de Janeiro state border and 9,482 feet (2,890 metres) at Bandeira Peak, near the Serra dos Aimores, which ...
Bandeira, Manuel: poet who was one of the principal figures in the Brazilian literary movement known as Modernismo. [2 Related Articles]
bandeirante: (from the article "Brazil") ...centuries of Brazilian colonization, little attention was paid to the nearly inaccessible and seemingly unproductive highlands, although parties of explorers, known as bandeirantes, traversed them from time to time, capturing Indians for slaves and searching for precious ...
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 1916, it occupies an area of 53 square miles (137 ... [1 Related Articles]
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 the Southwest and Peru-Bolivia, are still of considerable value.
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. [5 Related Articles]
Bandera, Stepan: (from the article "Ukraine") ...rent by factional strife between the followers of Andry Melnyk, who headed the organization from abroad after the assassination of Konovalets by a Soviet agent in 1938, and the younger supporters of Stepan Bandera with actual experience in the conspiratorial ...
Banderas, Antonio: Spanish-born film actor whose good looks, sensuality, and emotional range made him a leading international star. [1 Related Articles]
banderilla: (from the article "bullfighting") ...the mounted assistants with pike poles who lance the bull in the bullfight's first act; the banderilleros, the assistants on foot who execute the initial capework and place the barbed darts (banderillas) into the bull in the second act; and ...
banderillero: (from the article "bullfighting") ...a word that harkens back to the days of mounted bullfighters), consist of the picadors, the mounted assistants with pike poles who lance the bull in the bullfight's first act; the banderilleros, the assistants on foot who execute the initial ...
Banderoles, Master of the: (from the article "printmaking") ...For shading he used slightly diagonal parallel cuts. The Master of the Playing Cards heralds the beginning of a century of great printmakers in Germany. Another significant engraver, the Master of the Banderoles, was named after the ribbon scrolls characteristic ...
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 vat; the threads are afterward untied, the parts so protected ...
Bandiagara Escarpment: (from the article "Dogon") ...family, but its relationship to other languages of the family, if any, is uncertain. The Dogon number about 600,000, and the majority of them live in the rocky hills, mountains, and plateaus of the Bandiagara Escarpment. They are mainly an ...
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 31 inches) long, including the 10- to 30-centimetre (4- 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). The shaggy, blackish brown body is 19 to 33 cm ...
Bandiera brothers: Italian brothers who were followers of Giuseppe Mazzini and who led an abortive revolt against Austrian rule in Italy. Attilio Bandiera (b. May 24, 1810, Venice [Italy], -d. July 23, 1844, Cosenza, Kingdom of Naples, ) and Emilio Bandiera (b. ...
Bandiera, Attilio: (from the article "Bandiera brothers") The sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austrian navy, Attilio and Emilio themselves became naval officers but were converted to the cause of Italian independence by Mazzini, carrying on correspondence with him and with members of his ...
Bandiera, Emilio: (from the article "Bandiera brothers") The sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austrian navy, Attilio and Emilio themselves became naval officers but were converted to the cause of Italian independence by Mazzini, carrying on correspondence with him and with members of his ...
Bandinelli, Baccio: Florentine Mannerist sculptor whose Michelangelo-influenced works were favoured by the Medici in the second quarter of the 16th century. [1 Related Articles]
banding: (from the article "gneiss") Gneiss is medium- to coarse-grained and may contain abundant quartz and feldspar, which some petrographers regard as essential components. The banding is usually due to the presence of differing proportions of minerals in the various bands; dark and light bands ...
banding: (from the article "ornithology") ...gained through simple, direct field observation (usually aided only by binoculars), some areas of ornithology have benefited greatly from the introduction of such instruments and techniques as bird banding, radar, radio transmitters (telemeters), and high-quality, portable audio equipment.
banding pattern: (from the article "blood group") ...character and for evidence of the nonindependent segregation of pairs of characters. The results must be assessed statistically to determine linkage. Individual chromosomes are identified by the banding patterns revealed by different staining techniques. Segments of chromosomes or chromosomes that ...
Bandini, Domenico: (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...as Suidas was the first such work to be completely arranged alphabetically, but it had no influence on succeeding encyclopaedias, although glossaries, when included, were so arranged. Bandini's Fons memorabilium universi ("The Source of Noteworthy Facts of the Universe"), though ...
Bandini, Fernando: (from the article "Italian literature") ...Eugenio Montale; the Calabrian Symbolist Lorenzo Calogero, who has been compared to Stephane Mallarme, Rainer Marie Rilke, Dino Campana, and Friedrich Holderlin; experimentalist Fernando Bandini, who was equally at home in Italian and Latin, to say nothing of his ancestral ...
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 Asia Minor and was taken by the Ottomans in the ...
Bandol, Jean de: (from the article "tapestry") ...1363-1400). This monumental set originally included seven tapestries, each measuring approximately 16.5 feet in height by 80 feet in length (5.03 by 24.38 metres). Based on cartoons drawn by Jean de Bandol of Bruges (flourished 1368-81), the official painter to ...
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. Parts of the original town wall remain; the ruins of ...
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 river rises in the Maughanaclea Hills in western Cork and ... [1 Related Articles]
bandonion: (from the article "accordion") Accordions are played as both concert and folk instruments. A variant of both the accordion and the concertina is the bandonion, a single- or double-action instrument with square shape and finger buttons, invented by Heinrich Band of Krefeld, Ger., in ...
Bandula, Maha: Myanmar general who fought against the British in the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26).
Bandundu: city, southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 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, 186 miles [300 km] southwest). There are ...
Bandung: kotamadya (municipality) and capital of West Java (Jawa Barat) propinsi (province), Indonesia, in the interior of Java on the northern edge of a plateau nearly 2,400 feet (730 metres) above sea level. The city, founded in 1810 by the Dutch, ... [1 Related Articles]
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 more than half the world's population sent delegates. [4 Related Articles]
Bandung Institute of Technology: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The city's prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology, which originated as a college of architecture and engineering in the Dutch period, today represents the faculties of mathematics and of the natural and applied sciences of the National University of Indonesia. Also ...
Bandung line: (from the article "China") ...Conference in April 1955, held at Bandung, Indonesia, which discussed Asian-African issues. His slogan was "Unity with all," according to the line of peaceful coexistence. This "Bandung line" associated with Zhou gained worldwide attention when he told the delegates there ...
Bandung Study Club: (from the article "Indonesia") The defeat of the communist revolt and the earlier decline of Sarekat Islam left the way open for a new nationalist organization, and in 1926 a "general study club" was founded in Bandung, with a newly graduated engineer, Sukarno, as ...
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; a short, fretless neck attached to the soundboard ...
Bandura, Albert: (from the article "imitation") ...predisposition. Later writers have viewed the mechanisms of imitation as those of social learning. Imitation is central to the social learning approach of Canadian-born American psychologist Albert Bandura. His investigations showed how much human behaviour is learned through imitating another ...
bandurria: stringed musical instrument of the lute family, with a design derived from the cittern and guitar. The modern bandurria has a small, pear-shaped wooden body, a short neck, and a flat back, with five to seven (but ...