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- (from the article "Pygmy") North of the Congo, in the forest west of the Ubangi River, are the Babinga. This is also an acculturated group of pygmoids, but perhaps because of similarity of habitat they share more cultural characteristics with the Pygmies of the ...
- Babington Plot
- (from the article "Bales, Peter") ...Elizabeth I, who greatly admired it. His skill in imitating handwriting was used for secret state purposes by Elizabeth's principal secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, and helped uncover Anthony Babington's plot to assassinate the queen. He headed a penmanship school in ...
- Babington, Anthony
- English conspirator, a leader of the unsuccessful "Babington Plot" to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and install Elizabeth's prisoner, the Roman Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. [2 Related Articles]
- Babinka
- (from the article "bivalve") ...Some of these deposit feeders also possess, like the subclass Cryptodonta, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in the ctenidia and are thought to have ancient origins, represented by the fossil Babinka. Babinka is itself interesting and is ...
- babirusa
- (Babirousa babyrussa), wild East Indian swine, family Suidae (order Artiodactyla), of Celebes and the Molucca islands. [1 Related Articles]
- Babism
- religion that developed in Iran around Mirza 'Ali Mohammad's claim to be a bab (Arabic: "gateway"), or divine intermediary, in 1844. See Bab, the. [1 Related Articles]
- Babits, Mihaly
- Hungarian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator who, from the publication of his first volume of poetry in 1909, played an important role in the literary life of his country.
- baboen
- (from the article "Suriname") ...seed plants and a large number of mosses, weeds, and mildews. About 90 percent of Suriname's area is covered with heterogeneous tropical forest consisting of more than 1,000 species of trees. The baboen (Virola surinamensis), which grows in the coastal ...
- Babol
- city, northern Iran, on the Babol River, about 15 miles (24 km) south of the Caspian Sea. Babol gained importance during the reign (1797-1834) of Fath 'Ali Shah, though 'Abbas I (died 1629) had laid out a pleasure garden and ...
- Babol Sar
- (from the article "Babol") Meshed-e Sar, now called Babol Sar, was formerly the port of Babol on the Caspian, but it lost its function after the water level dropped. It is now a fashionable resort and has an airport. Pop. (2006) 201,335.
- Babolna
- village, Komarom-Esztergom megye (county), western Hungary, located on the Little Alfold (Little Hungarian Plain) between the towns of Gyor and Tata.
- baboon
- any of five species of large, robust, and primarily terrrestrial monkeys found in dry regions of Africa and Arabia. Males of the largest species, the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), average 30 kg (66 pounds) or so, but females are only ... [5 Related Articles]
- Babor, Mount
- (from the article "Atlas Mountains") With increased altitude the temperature drops rapidly; despite the proximity of the sea, the coastal massifs are cold regions. At 6,575 feet the summits of Mount Babor in the Little Kabylie region are covered with snow for four or five ...
- Babri Mosjid
- (from the article "India") ...ambivalence within the coalition was seen with respect to events in Ayodhya (in Uttar Pradesh), an ancient capital and-as most orthodox Hindus believe-birthplace of the deity Rama. The Babri Masjid, a mosque erected by the Mughal emperor Babur in Ayodhya, ...
- Babrius
- author of a collection of fables in Greek. Nothing is known of the author. The fables are for the most part versions of the stock stories associated with the name of Aesop. Babrius has rendered them into the [1 Related Articles]
- Babson College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S. Business management education is emphasized at the college, which offers B.S. and M.B.A. degrees. It consists of divisions of accounting and law, arts and humanities, economics, finance, history and society, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Babu Chhiri Sherpa
- Nepalese mountaineer (b. June 22, 1965, Taksindu, Nepal-d. April 29, 2001, Mt. Everest), was a legendary guide who reached the summit of Mt. Everest 10 times and set two records on the world's tallest peak; in May 1999 he survived ... [1 Related Articles]
- Babu, Abdul Rahman Mohammed
- Tanzanian politician who, as left-wing champion of the anticolonial Pan-African movement of the mid-20th century, laid the ideological groundwork for the Zanzibar revolution of January 1964, which led, three months later, to Tanganyika's uniting with Zanzibar to form Tanzania (b. ...
- Babuje, Lawan
- (from the article "Bedde") ...of Bedde. Dispersed about 1808 by warriors in the jihad (holy war) conducted by the Fulani, the Bade sought protection and again agreed to pay tribute in slaves to Bornu. About 1825, however, Lawan Babuje, the Bade mai ("ruler"), found ...
- babul tree
- (from the article "acacia") ...in adhesives, pharmaceuticals, inks, confections, and other products. The bark of most acacias is rich in tannin, which is used in tanning and in dyes, inks, pharmaceuticals, and other products. The babul tree (A. arabica), of tropical Africa and across ...
- Babur
- emperor (1526-30) and founder of the Mughal dynasty of India, a descendant of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan and also of Timur (Tamerlane). He was a military adventurer and soldier of distinction and a poet and diarist of genius, as ... [14 Related Articles]
- Babur's garden
- (from the article "Kabul") ...old and new buildings. Much of the old city has been torn down and rebuilt on modern lines. Kabul has many historical monuments, including the tombs of some of its rulers, and a number of gardens. Babur's garden, including his ...
- Baburen, Dirck van
- Dutch painter who was a leading member of the Utrecht school, which was influenced by the dramatic chiaroscuro style of the Italian painter Caravaggio. [1 Related Articles]
- Babuyan Islands
- island group of the Philippines that is a northerly extension of the Philippine archipelago. The Babuyan Islands lie in the Luzon Strait, south of the Batan Islands and Balintang Channel. They lie 20 miles (32 km) north of Luzon across ...
- Baby Bell
- (from the article "Sherman Antitrust Act") ...the 20th century was the 1984 breakup of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, which left the parent company, AT&T, as a provider of long-distance service while seven regional "Baby Bell" companies provided local telephone service. Many of the original ...
- baby blue-eyes
- (from the article "Nemophila") genus of annual herbs of the family Boraginaceae. The 11 species, most of which bear blue or white, bell-like blooms, are North American, mostly Pacific coast in origin. Baby blue-eyes (Nemophila menziesii) often blooms conspicuously along the borders of moist ...
- baby boom
- (from the article "population") For many industrialized countries, the period after World War II was marked by a "baby boom." One group of four countries in particular-the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-experienced sustained and substantial rises in fertility from the depressed levels ...
- Baby Snooks
- (from the article "Brice, Fanny") ...She appeared with such major Broadway performers as W.C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, and Will Rogers in the Follies and in other shows. In Crazy Quilt (1931), she introduced the character of Baby Snooks, a mischievous brat she had first played ...
- baby tears
- (from the article "Urticaceae") ...clusters. Pilea, a genus of creeping plants that includes the artillery plant (P. microphylla), and pellitory (Parietaria), a genus of wall plants, are grown as ornamentals. Baby tears (Helxine soleiroli), a mosslike creeping plant with round leaves, often is grown ...
- baby veal
- (from the article "meat processing") Veal is classified into several categories based on the ages of the animals at the time of slaughter. Baby veal (bob veal) is 2-3 days to 1 month of age and yields carcasses weighing 9 to 27 kilograms. Vealers are ...
- Baby Yar
- large ravine on the northern edge of the city of Kiev in Ukraine, the site of a mass grave of victims, mostly Jews, whom Nazi German SS squads killed between 1941 and 1943. After the initial massacre of Jews, Baby ... [2 Related Articles]
- baby's breath
- either of two species of herbaceous plants of the genus Gypsophila, of the pink family (Caryophyllaceae), having profuse small blossoms. Both G. elegans, an annual, and G. paniculata, a perennial, are cultivated for their fine misty effect in rock gardens ...
- Babyface
- (from the article "New jack swing") The key producers were L.A., Babyface, and Teddy Riley, who crafted romantic songs for the dance floor. L.A. (Antonio Reid, whose nickname was derived from his allegiance to the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team) and Babyface (youthful-looking Kenneth Edmonds) had ...
- Babylon
- one of the most famous cities of antiquity. It was the capital of southern Mesopotamia (Babylonia) from the early 2nd millennium to the early 1st millennium BC and capital of the Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) empire in the 7th and 6th centuries ... [12 Related Articles]
- Babylon
- town (township), Suffolk county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on southern Long Island, along Great South Bay, east of Freeport. Established in 1872 after separation from Huntington (founded 1653), it includes the villages of Babylon (incorporated 1893), Amityville (1894), ...
- Babylonia
- ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern southern Iraq from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf). Because the city of Babylon was the capital of this area for so many centuries, the term Babylonia ... [87 Related Articles]
- Babylonian calendar
- chronological system used in ancient Mesopotamia, based on a year of 12 synodic months; i.e., 12 complete cycles of phases of the Moon. This lunar year of about 354 days was more or less reconciled with the solar year, or ... [3 Related Articles]
- Babylonian dialect
- (from the article "Akkadian language") ...Sumerian remained in use as the written language of sacred literature. At about the same time, the Akkadian language divided into the Assyrian dialect, spoken in northern Mesopotamia, and the Babylonian dialect, spoken in southern Mesopotamia. At first the Assyrian ...
- Babylonian Exile
- the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the latter's conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 BC. The exile formally ended in 538 BC, when the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, Cyrus the Great, gave the Jews ... [17 Related Articles]
- Babylonian Talmud
- one of two compilations of Jewish religious teachings and commentary that was transmitted orally for centuries prior to its compilation by Jewish scholars in Babylon about the 5th century AD. The other such compilation, produced in Palestine, is called the ... [11 Related Articles]
- Bac Lieu
- city, eastern Ca Mau Peninsula, southern Vietnam. It has a hospital and a commercial airport and is linked by highway to Ho Chi Minh City, 120 miles (195 km) to the northeast. In addition to rice growing, there is mat ...
- Bac, Ferdinand
- (from the article "Barragan, Luis") ...to travel, mostly in Spain, France, Italy, and Greece. During this period of extensive travel, he first came across the published works of the German-born French landscape architect and illustrator Ferdinand Bac. When Barragan returned to Guadalajara, he began to ...
- Baca-Flor, Carlos
- (from the article "Latin American art") By the beginning of the 20th century, the Impressionist technique had become so accepted in Latin America that it was used by stylish society painters, such as the Peruvian artists Carlos Baca-Flor and Teofilo Castillo. In his paintings, such as ...
- Bacab
- in Mayan mythology, any of four gods, thought to be brothers, who, with upraised arms, supported the multilayered sky from their assigned positions at the four cardinal points of the compass. (The Bacabs may also have been four manifestations of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bacairi
- (from the article "Plata, Rio de la") ...language. In Brazil, however, miscegenation was less general, and some groups of indigenous peoples have remained relatively intact, forming isolated nuclei. Others, like the Bororo, Tereno, and Bacairi, constitute minorities who have adopted some aspects of Christianity and Brazilian culture ...
- bacalhau
- (from the article "Portugal") ...areas. In the countryside the staple diet is one of fish, vegetables, and fruit. Although Portugal's waters abound with fresh fish, the dried salted codfish known as bacalhau, now often imported, is considered the national dish. A ...
- Bacall, Lauren
- American motion-picture and stage actress known for her portrayals of provocative women who hid their soft core underneath a layer of hard-edged pragmatism. [1 Related Articles]
- Bacalov, Luis Enrique
- (from the article "1995: Other Winners") ...Screenplay: Emma Thompson for Sense and SensibilityCinematography: John Toll for BraveheartArt Direction: Eugenio Zanetti for RestorationOriginal Dramatic Score: Luis Enrique Bacalov for The Postman (Il postino)Original Musical or Comedy Score: Music and Orchestral Score by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen ...
- Bacan
- island, North Maluku propinsi (province), Indonesia. One of the northern Moluccas, in the Molucca Sea, it lies just southwest of the large island of Halmahera. The islands of Kasiruta to the northwest, Mandioli to the west, and ...
- Bacar, Mohamed
- (from the article "Comoros") ...2007 when the country faced a serious political crisis. The three autonomous islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Moheli each chose local presidents every five years, but Anjouan Pres. Col. Mohamed Bacar, who was elected to the office in 2002 ...
- Bacau
- judet (county), eastern Romania, occupying an area of 2,551 square miles (6,606 square km). The Eastern Carpathians and the sub-Carpathians rise above the settlement areas that are situated in intermontane valleys and lowlands. The county is drained ...
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