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- member of a group of Protestant Christians who share the basic beliefs of most Protestants but who insist that only believers should be baptized and that it should be done by immersion rather than by the sprinkling or pouring of ... [24 Related Articles]
- Baptist Bible Fellowship
- (from the article "fundamentalism, Christian") Although fundamentalism was pushed to the fringe of the Christian community by the new Evangelical movement, it continued to grow as new champions arose. The Baptist Bible Fellowship, formed in 1950, became one of the largest fundamentalist denominations; Jerry Falwell, ...
- Baptist Bible Union
- (from the article "fundamentalism, Christian") ...annual preconvention conferences on Baptist fundamentals. When their attempts to carry their views into the convention failed to make immediate progress, the more militant among them founded the Baptist Bible Union. Eventually the militants left the denomination to form several ...
- Baptist Federation of Canada
- cooperative agency for several Canadian Baptist groups, organized in 1944 in Saint John, N.B., by the United Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces, the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, and the Baptist Union of Western Canada.
- Baptist General Conference
- conservative Baptist denomination that was organized in 1879 as the Swedish Baptist General Conference of America; the present name was adopted in 1945. It developed from the work of Gustaf Palmquist, a Swedish immigrant schoolteacher and lay preacher who became ...
- Baptist Missionary Association of America
- association of independent, conservative Baptist churches, organized as the North American Baptist Association in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S., in 1950, in protest against the American Baptist Association's policy of seating at meetings messengers who were not members of the churches ...
- Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland
- largest Baptist group in the British Isles, organized in 1891 as a union of the Particular Baptist and New Connection General Baptist associations. These groups were historically related to the first English Baptists, who originated in the 17th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Baptist World Alliance
- international advisory organization for Baptists, founded in 1905 in London. Its purpose is to promote fellowship and cooperation among all Baptists. It sponsors regional and international meetings for various groups for study and promotion of the gospel, and it works ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baptista
- (from the article "Taming of the Shrew, The") Following the induction, the play opens in Padua, where several eligible bachelors have gathered to claim the hand of Bianca, the youngest daughter of the wealthy Baptista. But Baptista has stated that Bianca will not be wed before her older ...
- Baptista, Mariano
- (from the article "Bolivia") ...in the 19th century had been either silver magnates themselves (Gregorio Pacheco, 1884-88; Aniceto Arce, 1888-92) or closely associated with such magnates as partners or representatives (Mariano Baptista, 1892-96; Severo Fernandez Alonso, 1896-99), the Liberals and subsequent 20th-century presidents were ...
- Baptiste
- one of the leading actors of sentimental comedy (comedie larmoyante) in France.
- baptistery
- hall or chapel situated close to, or connected with, a church, in which the sacrament of baptism is administered. The form of the baptistery originally evolved from small, circular Roman buildings that were designated for religious purposes (e.g., the Temple ...
- baqa'
- (from the article "fana") ...he then, through the grace of God, is revived, and the secrets of the divine attributes are revealed to him. Only after regaining full consciousness does he attain the more sublime state of baqa' (subsistence) and finally become ready for ...
- Baqarah, Al-
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...which is regularly used by Muslims as a prayer and at the conclusion of contracts (including that of marriage), the suras of the Qur'an are arranged in order of length: the longest (Al-Baqarah ["The Cow"], with 286 verses) is second ...
- Baqdash, Khalid
- Syrian politician who acquired control of the Syrian Communist Party in 1932 and remained its most prominent spokesman until 1958, when he went into exile.
- Baqikhanl, 'Abbas Qoli Aghaiq
- (from the article "Azerbaijan") ...Azerbaijanis, some of whom turned from their religious upbringing to a more secular outlook. Prominent among the early scholars and publicists who began the study of the Azerbaijani language were 'Abbas Qoli Agha Baqikhanli (Bakikhanov), who wrote poetry as well ...
- Baqqarah
- (Arabic: "Cattlemen"), nomadic people of Arab and African ancestry who live in a part of Africa that will support cattle but not camels-south of latitude 13° and north of latitude 10° from Lake Chad eastward to the Nile River. Probably ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baquero y Diaz, Gaston
- Cuban poet who left his homeland after the 1959 revolution and spent the rest of his life in exile in Spain; only in 1994 did his poems begin to be published once again in Cuba (b. May 4, 1918--d. May ...
- bar
- (from the article "numerals and numeral systems") ...appears in various other forms, including the cursive ∞. All these symbols persisted until long after printing became common. In the Middle Ages a bar (known as the vinculum or titulus) was placed over ...
- Bar
- (from the article "ballade") ...century in Germany is cast in a similar form, though normally without the envoi or the refrain line; when in Richard Wagner's music drama Die Meistersinger (1868) Fritz Kothner defines a Bar (a poetic form) as consisting of several Gesetze ...
- bar
- (from the article "steel") Bars are long products, usually of round, square, rectangular, or hexagonal cross section and of 12- to 50-millimetre diameter or equivalent. (Since bar mills are also capable of rolling small shaped products such as angles, flats, channels, fence posts, and ...
- bar
- (from the article "beach") ...and a shallow bottom. In some areas the low-tide terrace terminates with another inclined shoreface, if the nearshore sea zone is rather deep. Finally, one or several parallel, submarine, long-shore bars with intervening troughs may exist along sandy shores; if ...
- Bar
- port in Montenegro, on the Adriatic Sea. It is the country's principal port and the only maritime outlet for the landlocked republic of Serbia. The current city is known as Novi ("New") Bar. Stari ("Old") Bar's ruins lie farther inland ... [2 Related Articles]
- BAR
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") Ironically, the team that made the strongest impression in 2004 was BAR, which took a superb second place to Ferrari in the constructors' championship stakes and carried British driver Jenson Button to third place in the drivers' points table. Button ...
- bar association
- group of attorneys, whether local, national, or international, that is organized primarily to deal with issues affecting the legal profession. In general, bar associations are concerned with furthering the best interests of lawyers. This may mean the advocacy of reforms ... [2 Related Articles]
- bar code
- a printed series of parallel bars or lines of varying width that is used for entering data into a computer system. The bars are typically black on a white background, and their width and quantity vary according to application. The ... [2 Related Articles]
- bar code scanner
- (from the article "bar code") ...in a sequence is read by the computer as either a 0 or 1. Most such codes use bars of only two different widths (thick and thin), though some codes employ four widths. The numbers represented by a bar code ...
- Bar form
- in music, the structural pattern aab as used by the medieval German minnesingers and meistersingers, who were poet-composers of secular monophonic songs (i.e., those having a single line of melody). The modern term Bar form derives from a medieval verse ... [1 Related Articles]
- bar graph
- (from the article "statistics") A number of graphical methods are available for describing data. A bar graph is a graphical device for depicting qualitative data that have been summarized in a frequency distribution. Labels for the categories of the qualitative variable are shown on ...
- Bar Harbor
- coastal town, Hancock county, southern Maine, U.S. It is on Mount Desert Island at the foot of Cadillac Mountain (1,530 feet [466 metres]) facing Frenchman Bay, 46 miles (74 km) southeast of Bangor. Settled in 1763, it was incorporated in ...
- Bar Hebraeus
- medieval Syrian scholar noted for his encyclopaedic learning in science and philosophy and for his enrichment of Syriac literature by the introduction of Arabic culture. [2 Related Articles]
- bar joist
- (from the article "building construction") ...deep and 60 centimetres (24 inches) wide. They are usually welded to the supporting steel members and can span up to 4.5 metres (15 feet). The lightest and most efficient structural shape is the bar (or open web) joist, a ...
- Bar Kokhba
- Jewish leader who led a bitter but unsuccessful revolt (AD 132-135) against Roman dominion in Palestine. [9 Related Articles]
- bar line
- (from the article "rhythm") ...at regular intervals, the beats fall into natural time measures. Although in European music the concept of time measures reaches back to a remote age, only since the 15th century have they been indicated by means of bar lines. Thus, ...
- bar machine
- (from the article "machine tool") Turret lathes may be classified as either bar machines or chucking machines. Bar machines formerly were called screw machines, and they may be either hand controlled or automatic. A bar machine is designed for machining small threaded parts, bushings, and ...
- bar magnet
- (from the article "geomagnetic field") To a first approximation the magnetic field observed at the surface of the Earth is like that of a magnet aligned with the planet's rotation axis. The figure shows such a field for a bar magnet located at the centre ...
- Bar Mitzvah
- Jewish religious ritual and family celebration commemorating the religious adulthood of a boy on his 13th birthday. The boy, now deemed personally responsible for fulfilling all the commandments, may henceforth don phylacteries (religious symbols worn on the forehead and left ... [3 Related Articles]
- bar Sauma, Rabban
- Nestorian Christian ecclesiastic, whose important but little-known travels in western Europe as an envoy of the Mongols provide a counterpart to those of his contemporary, the Venetian Marco Polo, in Asia.
- bar shot
- (from the article "military technology") ...into the gun but designed to separate upon leaving the muzzle. Because they dispersed widely upon leaving the gun, the projectiles were especially effective at short range against massed troops. Bar shot and chain shot consisted of two heavy projectiles ...
- bar tracery
- (from the article "tracery") After 1220 English designers began to conceive of the tympanum as a series of openings separated only by thin, stone, upright bars (bar tracery). In France a developed type of bar tracery with cusped circles (having pointed bars of stone ...
- Bar, Confederation of
- league of Polish nobles and gentry that was formed to defend the liberties of the nobility within the Roman Catholic Church and the independence of Poland from Russian encroachment. Its activities precipitated a civil war, foreign intervention, and the First ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bar, Francois de
- French historiographer and scholar of ecclesiastical law, whose church histories are considered the most detailed and complete of his time.
- BAR-Honda
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") ...$20 million cost of reimbursing the disappointed spectators and bought a large number of tickets for the 2006 U.S. race. The biggest disappointments of the 2005 F1 season were the Williams-BMW and BAR-Honda teams.
- Bar-le-Duc
- capital of Meuse departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France. It extends out along the narrow valley of the Ornain River, west of Nancy. To the northeast is the Canal de la Marne au Rhin, on ...
- Bar-On, Roni
- (from the article "Netanyahu, Benjamin") ...as by voters' growing dislike of his inconsistent peace policies and his often abrasive style. In addition, a series of scandals had plagued his administration, including his appointment in 1997 of Roni Bar-On, a Likud party functionary, as attorney general. ...
- Bar-Salibi, Jacob
- the great spokesman of the Jacobite (monophysite) church in the 12th century.
- Bara
- Malagasy people who live in south-central Madagascar and speak a dialect of Malagasy, a West Austronesian language.
- Bara Banki
- town, east-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies northeast of Lucknow and includes the larger town of Nawabganj. Nawabganj is an agricultural market and cotton-weaving centre. The two towns are on a main road between Lucknow and Faizabad and ...
- Bara River
- (from the article "Peshawar") city, central North-West Frontier province, Pakistan. The city (capital of the province) lies just west of the Bara River, a tributary of the Kabul River, near the Khyber Pass. The Shahji-ki Dheri mounds, situated to the east, cover ruins of ...
- Bara, Theda
- American silent-film star who was the first screen vamp who lured men to destruction. Her films set the vogue for sophisticated sexual themes in motion pictures and made her an international symbol of daring new freedom.
- Barabaig
- (from the article "African architecture") ...to termites. The huts are aerodynamically proof against high winds, and the manyatta thicket boundary acts as a defensive barrier. A number of other tribes use a similar structure; the Barabaig of Tanzania, for example, build thornbush enclosures in the ...
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