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- (from the article "public opinion") Critics allege also that election polls create a "bandwagon effect"-that people want to be on the winning side and therefore switch their votes to the candidates whom the polls show to be ahead. They complain that surveys undermine representative democracy, ...
- bandwidth
- in electronics, the range of frequencies occupied by a modulated radio-frequency signal, usually given in hertz (cycles per second) or as a percentage of the radio frequency. For example, an AM (amplitude modulation) broadcasting station operating at 1,000,000 hertz has ... [8 Related Articles]
- bandwidth-limited channel
- (from the article "information theory") A signal is said to be band-limited or bandwidth-limited if it can be represented by a finite number of harmonics. Engineers limit the bandwidth of signals to enable multiple signals to share the same channel with minimal interference. A key ...
- bandy
- a game similar to ice hockey. It is played almost exclusively in the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic countries, and Mongolia. A team is composed of from 8 to 11 players who wear skates and use curved sticks to hit a ...
- bandy-bandy
- Australian snake of the cobra family Elapidae, strikingly ringed with black and white or yellowish bands. Adults are about 50-80 cm (20-31 inches) long and are venomous but inoffensive. Five species of Vermicella are recognized.
- baneberry
- any of about eight species of perennial herbaceous plants constituting the genus Actaea of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae); they are all native to North Temperate Zone woodlands.
- Baner, Johan
- Swedish field marshal who was one of the foremost soldiers in the Thirty Years' War. [1 Related Articles]
- Banerjea, Sir Surendranath
- one of the founders of modern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. [2 Related Articles]
- Banerjee, N. V.
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") Among later philosophers, N.V. Banerjee (1901-81) and Kalidas Bhattacharyya (1911-84), the son of K.C. Bhattacharyya, have made important contributions. In Language, Meaning and Persons (1963), Banerjee examines the development of personhood from a stage of individualized bondage to liberation in ...
- Banes
- city, eastern Cuba. It serves as a commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural district, which mainly produces sugarcane, although bananas and other fruits also are grown. Produce is shipped from the city's small port, Embarcadero de Banes, which lies on ...
- Banff
- town, southwestern Alberta, Canada. Banff lies along the glacial-green Bow River, near scenic Lake Louise and within the boundaries of Banff National Park, of which it is the headquarters. Named by Lord Strathcona for the Scottish royal burgh of Banff, ...
- Banff
- ancient royal burgh (town), Aberdeenshire council area, historic county of Banffshire, northeastern Scotland. It is a North Sea port and lies on the western bank of the River Deveron opposite its sister town, Macduff, to which it is connected by ...
- Banff National Park
- national park in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Located on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Banff occupies 2,564 square miles (6,641 square km). It is adjacent to Yoho and Kootenay national parks and south of Jasper National Park. Noted for ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banffshire
- historic county, northeastern Scotland, extending from the Grampian Mountains to the North Sea. The northeastern portion of the county, including the historic county town (seat) of Banff, is part of the council area of Aberdeenshire, while the remainder of the ...
- Banfield, Edmund James
- (from the article "Australian literature") E.J. Banfield stepped aside from the world for reasons of health and wrote from his island on the Great Barrier Reef a series of books beginning with Confessions of a Beachcomber (1908) that reflected, often wryly, on natural history and ...
- Banfield, Edward
- (from the article "political science") ...regimes in the 20th century in Russia, Germany, and Italy, and many early studies (e.g., The Authoritarian Personality) focused on Nazi Germany; one early political culture study, Edward Banfield's The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958), argued that poverty ...
- Banfora Escarpment
- (from the article "Burkina Faso") ...converge in Ghana to the south to form the Volta River. The Oti, another tributary of the Volta, rises in southeastern Burkina Faso. In the southwest there are sandstone plateaus bordered by the Banfora Escarpment, which is about 500 feet ...
- Bang & Olufsen
- (from the article "industrial design") ...after World War II. In Denmark, for instance, architect Arne Jacobsen established an international reputation with his iconic plywood-and-steel Ant chair (1951), and Jacob Jensen designed minimalist Bang & Olufsen stereo equipment from 1963 to 1993. In England the economical ...
- bang di
- (from the article "di") ...qu di, so named because it is used to accompany kunqu, a form of southern Chinese opera, and bang di, so named because it is used to accompany bangzixi, a form ...
- Bang Kapi
- (from the article "Bangkok") ...mostly for the wealthy foreign community, usually takes the form of large, modern, two-story masonry structures set in private compounds and equipped with separate servants' quarters and kitchens. Bang Kapi is perhaps the most affluent neighbourhood. High-rise offices, hotels, and ...
- Bang, Bernhard Lauritz Frederik
- Danish veterinarian who in 1897 discovered Brucella abortus (Bang's bacillus), the causative agent of contagious abortion in cattle and of brucellosis (undulant fever) in human beings.
- Bang, Herman
- novelist who was a major Danish representative of literary Impressionism. His work reflected the profound pessimism of his time. [1 Related Articles]
- banga
- (from the article "Munakata Shiko") ...childhood, despite limited schooling. In 1924 he went to Tokyo, studied woodblock printing with Hiratsuka Un'ichi, and, after several years, developed his own style, preferring to call his works banga ("panel pictures") instead of hanga ("woodblock prints"). Munakata's style was ...
- Bangabandhu Bridge
- (from the article "Sirajganj") ...mills were the first to be established in the Bengal area. It was constituted a municipality in 1869. The city has several government colleges and many private institutions of higher education. The Bangabandhu Bridge, one of the largest in South ...
- Bangalore
- city and capital (since 1830) of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. One of India's largest cities, Bangalore lies 3,113 feet (949 metres) above sea level atop an east-west ridge in the Karnataka Plateau in the southeastern part of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Banganga River
- (from the article "Rajasthan") ...and perennial river in the state. Its principal tributary, the Banas, rises in the Aravalis near Kumbhalgarh and collects all the drainage of the Mewar Plateau. Farther north, the Banganga, after rising near Jaipur, flows east toward the Yamuna before ...
- Banggai Islands
- archipelago consisting of two major islands and approximately 100 islets in Sulawesi Tengah provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. The archipelago is situated between the Sula and Celebes islands at the entrance to Tolo Gulf. Peleng, the largest of the Banggai Islands, is ...
- Banghazi
- city and major seaport of northeastern Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra. It was founded by the Greeks of Cyrenaica as Hesperides (Euesperides) and received from the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III the additional name of Berenice in honour of his ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bangia
- (from the article "algae") ...with flattened cristae; flagella completely absent; coralline red algae contribute to coral reefs and coral sands; predominantly marine; approximately 4,100 described species; Bangia, Palmaria, Polysiphonia, Porphyra, and
- Bangka
- island, Bangka-Belitung propinsi (province), Indonesia. The island is situated off the eastern coast of Sumatra across the Bangka Strait, which is only 9 miles (14 km) wide at its narrowest point. On the east, Gaspar Strait separates ...
- Bangka-Belitung
- (from the article "Sumatera Selatan") ...Indonesia, bounded by the provinces of Lampung to the south, Bengkulu to the west, and Jambi to the north. In 2000 the eastern islands of Sumatera Selatan were made into the separate province of Bangka-Belitung. Palembang is the provincial capital ...
- Bangkok
- city, capital, and chief port of Thailand. It is the only cosmopolitan city in a country of small towns and villages and is Thailand's cultural and commercial centre. [7 Related Articles]
- Bangkok International Banking Facility
- (from the article "Thailand") ...as one of the most important factors in the rapid growth of the national economy. As part of the liberalization of the country's financial markets in the early 1990s, the government established the Bangkok International Banking Facility (BIBF), an offshore ...
- Bangladesh
- country of south-central Asia, located in the delta of the Padma (Ganges [Ganga]) and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent. [30 Related Articles]
- Bangladesh cyclone of 1991
- (April 22-30, 1991), one of the deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded. The storm hit near the Chittagong region, one of the most populated areas in Bangladesh. An estimated 140,000 people were killed by the storm, as many as 10 million ...
- Bangladesh National Party
- (from the article "Bangladesh") ...22, 2007, apprehension mounted, and many feared that the outcome would be marred by bloodshed. The opposition Awami League (AL) and its allies were poised to boycott the event because the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its coalition allies ...
- Bangladesh, flag of
- national flag consisting of a dark bluish green field (background) incorporating a large, off-centre orange-red disk. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 3 to 5.
- Bangladesh, history of
- (from the article "Bangladesh") Although Bangladesh has existed as an independent country only since the late 20th century, its national character within a broader South Asian context dates to the ancient past. The country's history, then, is intertwined with that of India, Pakistan, and ...
- Bangor
- town, North Down district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the southern shore of Belfast Lough (inlet of the sea). About 555, St. Comgall founded a monastery at Bangor, which became a celebrated seat of ...
- Bangor
- cathedral city, Gwynedd county, historic county of Caernarvonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), Wales. It commands the northern entrance to the Menai Strait, the narrow strip of water separating Anglesey from the mainland. Bangor Cathedral is dedicated to the Celtic St. Deiniol, who ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bangor
- city, seat (1816) of Penobscot county, east-central Maine, U.S. It is a port of entry at the head of navigation on the Penobscot River opposite Brewer. The site, visited in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain, was settled in 1769 by ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bangor Cathedral
- (from the article "Bangor") ...Gwynedd county, historic county of Caernarvonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), Wales. It commands the northern entrance to the Menai Strait, the narrow strip of water separating Anglesey from the mainland. Bangor Cathedral is dedicated to the Celtic St. Deiniol, who founded a ...
- Bangor Is-coed
- (from the article "Flintshire") ...tribe known as the Deceangli held the region before they were overrun by the Romans in the 1st century AD. Roman remains in the area are quite sparse, however. According to legend, the village of Bangor Is-coed, in the present ...
- Bangoura, Fode
- (from the article "Guinea") ...two men. The president named a new cabinet on May 29, marked by the return of several former ministers. No new prime minister was announced, but Conte's closest aide and longtime associate, Fode Bangoura, was made minister of state for ...
- Bangs, Lester
- (from the article "Rock criticism") ...then filling arenas across America. The resulting vacuum of sympathetic coverage of hard, electric-guitar-based music was occupied by Creem, whose most famous writer, Lester Bangs, had been fired from Rolling Stone after panning one ...
- Bangsa Moro Army
- (from the article "Moro National Liberation Front") ...insurgency against the Philippine government that began in 1973, soon after President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law. The MNLF's well-organized and sophisticated military force, known as the Bangsa Moro Army, had 30,000 fighters at the time of its greatest strength ...
- bangsawan
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") Bangsawan was created by professional Malay-speaking actors in the 1920s as light, popular entertainment. Songs and contemporary dances were added to a repertory of dramatic pieces drawn from Islamic romances and adventure stories. Troupes traveled to Sumatra, ...
- bangu
- Chinese frame drum that, when struck by one or two small bamboo sticks, creates a sharp dry sound essential to the aesthetics of Chinese opera. It is also used in many Chinese chamber music ensembles. The drum, which is about ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bangui
- city, capital of the Central African Republic, located on the west bank of the Ubangi River. It is connected by an extended 1,100-mile (1,800-km) river-and-rail transport system with Pointe-Noire on the west-central African coast and with Brazzaville (both in the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Bangweulu
- shallow lake with extensive swamps in northeastern Zambia. It is part of the Congo River system. Lying at an elevation of 3,740 feet (1,140 m), the waters of Bangweulu, fluctuating with the rainy season, cover a triangular area of about ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bangweulu Swamps
- (from the article "Zambia") ...the Copperbelt, the Kafue River drains the Lukanga Swamp and Kafue Flats before an abrupt descent to the Zambezi. The Luangwa River, mostly confined within its rift trough, is quite different. The Bangweulu Swamps and the Kafue Flats are wetlands ...
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