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- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...foundations and the few examples imitating wooden originals that were cut into the rock, notably the Sudama and the Lomas Rsi caves in the Nagarjuni and Barabar hills near Gaya. The latter has an intersesting entrance showing an edged barrel-vault ...
- Barabas, Miklos
- painter and printmaker whose name is associated with the birth of "romantic pictography" in Hungary and who was one of the most popular artists of his time.
- Barabbas
- in the New Testament, a prisoner or criminal mentioned in all four gospels who was chosen by the crowd, over Jesus Christ, to be released by Pontius Pilate in a customary pardon before the feast of Passover.
- Baraboo
- city, seat (1847) of Sauk county, south-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies in a hilly region on the Baraboo River, about 35 miles (55 km) northwest of Madison. Ho-Chunk Nation (Winnebago), Fox, Sauk, and Kickapoo Indians were early inhabitants of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- barack palinka
- (from the article "brandy") ...characterized by a bitter-almond flavour contributed by the release of oil from the fruit pits during mashing, include slivovitz, a golden-brown plum brandy produced in various Balkan countries; barack palinka, from Hungary, the best known of apricot brandies; Kirschwasser, or ...
- Baracoa
- port city, eastern Cuba. It is situated on the extreme eastern part of the island, along a small semicircular bay on the north coast. Surrounded by rugged mountains, Baracoa was isolated from the rest of Cuba until a road was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barad, Jill E.
- On Jan. 1, 1998, Jill Barad celebrated her first anniversary as chairman and CEO of Mattel, the world's largest toy manufacturer. In January 1997, after 16 years with the company, Barad joined the small number of female executives who head ...
- Barada River
- river of western Syria. It rises in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and flows southward for 52 miles (84 km) through Damascus to intermittent Lake Al-'Utaybah and its marshes. The Barada River sets out peacefully on its course only to become within ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baradaeus, Jacob
- (from the article "Bar Hebraeus") ...age of 17 became a hermit. He was made a bishop at 20 and an archbishop at 26, and by 1264 he was assistant patriarch (chief prelate) of the Eastern Jacobite church, a group named after its founder, Jacob Baradaeus. ...
- Baradostian industry
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") Locally, the Mousterian is followed by an Upper Paleolithic flint industry called the Baradostian. Radiocarbon dates suggest that this is one of the earliest Upper Paleolithic complexes; it may have begun as early as 36,000 BC. Its relationship to neighbouring ...
- Baragwanath
- (from the article "Johannesburg") ...of these is Johannesburg General, a 2,000-bed formerly "white" hospital that opened on Parktown Ridge in 1978. The largest hospital in Johannesburg, and indeed in all Africa, is Baragwanath, a sprawling complex on the northern edge of Soweto; it serves ...
- Baragwanathia
- genus of early lycopsid plants that had true leaves bearing a single strand of vascular tissue and kidney-bean-shaped sporangia arranged in zones along the stem. These features relate it to both ancient and modern club mosses. The first confirmed occurrence ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barahona
- city, southwestern Dominican Republic. It lies along Neiba Bay, off the Caribbean Sea, at the northeastern foot of the Sierra de Baoruco. The gateway to the Dominican Republic's lake district, Barahona is an important port and fishing centre. Sugarcane is ...
- Barahona de Soto, Luis
- Spanish poet who is remembered for his Primera parte de la Angelica (1586; "The First Part of the Angelica"), more commonly known as Las lagrimas de Angelica ("The Tears of Angelica"), a continuation of the Angelica and Medoro episode in ...
- Baraita
- any of the ancient oral traditions of Jewish religious law that were not included in the Mishna (the first authoritative codification of such laws). The Baraitot that are found dispersed singly throughout the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds are often recognizable ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barajas Airport
- (from the article "Madrid") The road and rail systems both converge on the capital from all corners of the country. A subway system, the Metro, serves Madrid with various lines that extend throughout the city. Barajas Airport, Madrid's international airport, lies about 8 miles ...
- Barak River valley
- (from the article "Assam") ...and is surrounded on all sides, except on the west, by mountains. Numerous streams and rivulets that flow from the neighbouring hills empty into the Brahmaputra. Although only a small portion of the Barak River valley lies within Assam's borders, ...
- Barak, Ehud
- soldier and politician who was the prime minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. [6 Related Articles]
- Baraka, Amiri
- writer who presented the experiences and anger of black Americans with an affirmation of black life. [6 Related Articles]
- barakah
- (from the article "nature worship") ...as Mulungu, Imana, Jok, and others in Africa) that Western scholars have noted outside of the Austronesian and American peoples are often wrongly interpreted as concepts of God. Only the barakah (derived from the pre-Islamic thought world ...
- Barakaldo
- industrial suburb, northern Vizcaya provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Basque Country, northeastern Spain. It lies on the south bank of the Nervion River. The city was traditionally known for manufacturing ...
- Barakat II
- (from the article "Arabia, history of") In 1517 the Ottoman sultan Selim I conquered Egypt and proclaimed the Hejaz part of the Ottoman dominions. Sharif Barakat II of Mecca sent his son to negotiate at the Ottoman court and was confirmed as lord of the Holy ...
- Barakat, Henri Antoine
- Egyptian filmmaker who made 112 motion pictures during his 55-year career and was known for the "poetic realism" of his works (b. June 11, 1914--d. May 27, 1997).
- Barakat, Sidi
- (from the article "Islamic world") ...last been relied on with the Idrisids; now the sharifs were often associated with Sufi holy men, known as marabouts. It was one such Sufi, Sidi Barakat, who legitimated the Sa'di family of sharifs as leaders of a jihad that ...
- Barakzay Dynasty
- ruling family in Afghanistan in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Barakzay brothers seized control of Afghanistan and in 1826 divided the region between them. Dost Mohammad Khan gained preeminence and founded the dynasty about 1837. Thereafter his descendants ruled ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baram River
- river in northwestern Borneo. Rising in the Iran Mountains, it flows 250 miles (400 km) west and northwest, mostly through primary rain forest to the South China Sea at Baram Point. Above the lowest 100 miles, gorges and rapids make ...
- Barama Ngolo
- (from the article "Bambara states") ...between the Senegal and Niger rivers, and the other on Kaarta, along the middle Niger (both in present-day Mali). According to tradition, the Segu kingdom was founded by two brothers, Barama Ngolo and Nia Ngolo. Initially little more than marauding ...
- Barama River Carib
- (from the article "South American Indian") ...Cariban-, and Tupian-speaking peoples, such as the coastal Arawak proper and those of the Greater Antilles, the Achagua, Guahibo, Palicur, and others; the Carib of the Guianas, such as the Barama River Carib, the Taulipang, and the Makushi (Macushi); the ...
- baramasa
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...such as the siharfi ("golden alphabet"), in which each line or each stanza begins with succeeding letters of the Arabic alphabet. In Muslim India the baraiasa ("12 months") is a sort of lovers' calendar in which the poet, assuming the ...
- Baramula
- town in the northwestern part of Jammu and Kashmir state, northern India. It is situated on the Jhelum River about 7 miles (11 km) beyond the river's emergence from Wular Lake. Located some 28 miles (45 km) west and slightly ...
- Baranagar
- town, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India, just east of the Hooghly River, part of the Calcutta urban agglomeration. Originally a Portuguese settlement, it became the seat of a Dutch trading station and an important river anchorage for Dutch shipping; ...
- Baranauskas, Antanas
- Roman Catholic bishop and poet who wrote one of the greatest works in Lithuanian literature, Anykysciu silelis (1858-59; The Forest of Anyksciai). The 342-line poem, written in East High Lithuanian dialect, describes the former beauty of a pine grove near ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baranga, Aurel
- (from the article "Romanian literature") Dramatists included Aurel Baranga, who dealt with the problems of contemporary life; Horia Lovinescu, whose plays depicted changing intellectual attitudes; and M. Davidoglu, author of plays set in mines and factories.
- barangay
- type of early Filipino settlement; the word is derived from balangay, the name for the sailboats that originally brought settlers of Malay stock to the Philippines from Borneo. Each boat carried a large family group, and the master of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- barani
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...more than 20 inches (500 mm) of precipitation annually, namely the Potwar Plateau and the upper Indus plain. Such areas where dry farming is practiced are referred to as barani. Later, large areas of uncultivated land in ...
- Barani, Ziya'-ud-Din
- the first known Muslim to write a history of India; he resided for 17 years at Delhi as nadim (boon companion) of Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq. [1 Related Articles]
- Baranof Island
- (from the article "Alaskan mountains") ...of the archipelago range in elevation from 2,000-3,500 feet in the southern Prince of Wales Mountains to more than 4,000-7,500 feet in the Chilkat Range and the mountains of Admiralty, Baranof, and Chicagof islands. These islands have small glaciers and ...
- Baranov, Aleksandr A.
- (from the article "Sitka") ...Pacific Ocean. The area was originally inhabited by Tlingit Indians. It was explored by a Russian expedition in 1741, and Old Sitka, or Fort St. Michael, was established in July 1799 by Aleksandr Baranov (Baranof), the first Russian governor of ...
- Baranovichi
- town, Brest oblast (province), Belarus, on the southern edge of the Novogrudok Hills. It developed from a small village in the late 19th century into a major railway junction, with lines to Moscow, Warsaw, and other eastern ...
- Barante, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugiere, baron de
- French statesman, historian, and political writer, a liberal representative under the Bourbon restoration and a leading member of the narrative school of Romanticist historians who portrayed historical episodes with high literary style and in the vivid and intimate manner of ...
- Barany, Robert
- Austrian otologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1914 for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular (balancing) apparatus of the inner ear.
- Baranya
- megye (county), southern Hungary, bounded by the counties of Tolna to the north and Bacs-Kiskun to the east, by Croatia to the south, and by the county of Somogy to the west. Pecs is the county seat.
- Barari Ghat, Battle of
- (Jan. 9, 1760), in Indian history, one of a series of Afghan victories over the Marathas in their war to gain control of the decaying Mughal Empire, which gave the British time in which to consolidate their power in Bengal. ...
- Barasat
- town, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. Connected by road and rail with Calcutta and Howrah, it is an important trade centre for rice, legumes, sugarcane, potatoes, and coconuts; cotton weaving is the major industry. An annual fair held in ...
- Barash, Asher
- (from the article "Hebrew literature") ...concerned with the past. An exception was Yehuda Burla, who wrote about Jewish communities of Middle Eastern descent. The transition from ghetto to Palestine was achieved by few writers, among them Asher Barash, who described the early struggles of Palestinian ...
- barasingha
- (species Cervus duvauceli), graceful deer, belonging to the family Cervidae (order Artiodactyla), found in open forests and grasslands of India and Nepal. The barasingha stands about 1.1 m (45 inches) at the shoulder. In summer, its coat is reddish or ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barat, Saint Madeleine-Sophie
- nun and founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart. [1 Related Articles]
- Barataria Bay
- inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, about 15 miles (24 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, in southeastern Louisiana, U.S. Its entrance, largely blocked by Grand Isle and the Grand Terre Islands, is via a narrow Gulf channel ...
- Baratieri, Oreste
- general and colonial governor who was responsible for both the development of the Italian colony of Eritrea and the loss of Italian influence over Ethiopia. [1 Related Articles]
- Baratynsky, Yevgeny Abramovich
- foremost Russian philosophical poet contemporary with Aleksandr Pushkin. In his poetry he combined an elegant, precise style with spiritual melancholy in dealing with abstract idealistic concepts.
- barb
- (from the article "feather") The typical feather consists of a central shaft (rachis), with serial paired branches (barbs) forming a flattened, usually curved surface-the vane. The barbs possess further branches -the barbules-and the barbules of adjacent barbs are attached to one another by hooks, ...
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