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- (genus Barbus), any of numerous freshwater fishes belonging to a genus in the carp family, Cyprinidae. The barbs are native to Europe, Africa, and Asia. The members of this genus typically have one or more pairs of barbels (slender, fleshy ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barb
- native horse breed of the Barbary states of North Africa. It is related to, and probably an offshoot of, the Arabian horse but is larger, with a lower placed tail, and has hair at the fetlock (above and behind the ...
- Barba de Padilla, Sebastian
- (from the article "Cochabamba") city, central Bolivia. It lies in the densely populated, fertile Cochabamba Basin, at 8,432 feet (2,570 metres) above sea level. Founded as Villa de Oropeza in 1574 by the conquistador Sebastian Barba de Padilla, it was elevated to city status ...
- Barba, Eugenio
- (from the article "theatre") ...of "the greatest possible effect from the least possible means." The internationalism of the theatre is now such that groups modeled on Grotowski's have appeared throughout the world. Eugenio Barba, of Odin Theater in Holstebro, Den., a pupil of Grotowski, ...
- Barbacena
- city, southeastern Minas Gerais estado (state), Brazil. It is situated in the Serra da Mantiquera, at 3,727 feet (1,136 metres) above sea level. The settlement was made the seat of a municipality in 1791 and elevated to ...
- Barbad
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...religion related to Manichaeanism, a Gnostic religion), music was considered as one of the four spiritual powers. In the king's entourage musicians occupied high rank. Some became famous, such as Barbad, to whom is attributed the invention of the complicated ...
- Barbados
- island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 20 miles (32 km) from northwest to southeast and about 15 miles ... [21 Related Articles]
- Barbados cherry
- common name for various tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs of the genera Bunchiosa and Malpighia (family Malpighiaceae), especially M. glabra, M. punicifolia, and M. urens.
- Barbados Labour Party
- (from the article "Barbados") The governing Barbados Labour Party (BLP) picked up an extra supporter in the House of Assembly in January 2006 when Clyde Mascoll resigned from the opposition Democratic Labour Party, which he had led in the parliament, to join the BLP. ...
- Barbados nut
- (from the article "Representative poisonous plants") The barbados nut (J. curcas), with yellow-green flowers and three- to five-lobed leaves on trees 6 m tall from Mexico and Central America, produces seeds from which cooking oil, soap, and a strong purgative are obtained. The seeds themselves are ...
- Barbados Ridge
- submarine ridge of the Caribbean Sea rising from the southern end of the axis of the Puerto Rico Trench. The Barbados Ridge is paralleled on either side by a shallow trough. Negative gravity anomalies (observed gravity values less than theoretically ...
- Barbados, flag of
- vertically striped national flag of blue-yellow-blue with a central black trident head. It has a width-to-length ratio of 2 to 3.
- Barbaia, Domenico
- (from the article "Rossini, Gioachino") Rossini's fame soon spread to Naples, where the reigning impresario was Domenico Barbaia, an ambitious former coffeehouse waiter, who by gambling and running a gaming house had amassed a fortune and was now in charge of the two great Neapolitan ...
- Barbalissus, Battle of
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") Several years later, in 256 (or 252), another confrontation between the Persians and Romans occurred:We attacked the Roman empire and we destroyed an army of 60,000 men at Barbalissus [in Syria]. Syria and its surrounding areas we burned, devastated and ...
- Barbar
- (from the article "Dilmun") Barbar, the remains of an ancient temple (largely built of limestone) situated on al-Bahrain, and many thousands of burial mounds attest to the island's prominence. Qala'at (fort) al-Bahrain, a large low tell covering about 45 ac (18 ha) on the ...
- Barbara
- French singer and composer who specialized in singing the songs of Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens in Belgium before she found stardom in France singing many of her own compositions, notably "L'Aigle noir" ("Black Eagle"), "Ma plus belle histoire d'amour, ...
- Barbara
- (from the article "logic, history of") ..."beta," and "gamma" are variables-i.e., placeholders. Any argument that fits this pattern is a valid syllogism and, in fact, a syllogism in the form known as Barbara. (On this terminology, see below.)
- Barbara, Saint
- virgin martyr of the early church and patroness of artillerymen. According to legend, which dates only to the 7th century, she was the daughter of a pagan, Dioscorus, who kept her guarded to protect her beauty from harm. When she ...
- Barbari
- (from the article "logic, history of") *Barbari, *Celaront.
- Barbari, Jacopo de'
- Venetian painter and engraver influenced by Antonello da Messina. Barbari probably painted the first signed and dated (1504) pure still life (a dead partridge, gauntlets, and arrow pinned against a wall). Until c. 1500 he remained in Venice. A large ... [2 Related Articles]
- barbarian
- (from the article "Scholasticism") It was a decisive and astonishing fact that the so-called barbarian peoples who penetrated from the north into the ancient world often became Christians and set out to master the body of tradition that they found, including the rich harvest ...
- barbarian invasions
- (from the article "Athens") ...capture of the city in 86 BC and had fallen into ruin, were rebuilt, and the circuit was extended to include the new suburb northeast of the Olympieion. This was done because of the threat of a barbarian invasion, but ...
- Barbaro
- (from the article "Equestrian Sports") The valiant eight-month battle to save the life of Thoroughbred racehorse Barbaro following a catastrophic injury to his right hind leg in the Preakness Stakes two weeks after he won the 2006 Kentucky Derby was lost on Jan. 29, 2007, ...
- Barbaro, Daniele
- (from the article "Palladio, Andrea") ...published Le antichita di Roma ("The Antiquities of Rome"), which for 200 years remained the standard guidebook to Rome. In 1556 he collaborated with the classical scholar Daniele Barbaro in reconstructing Roman buildings for the plates of Vitruvius' influential architectural ...
- Barbaro, Villa
- (from the article "Palladio, Andrea") ...one major story and the attic, the entire structure being raised on a base that contains service areas and storage. In a third type the temple front covers the whole front of the house, as at the Villa Barbaro (c. ...
- Barbarossa
- Barbary pirate and later admiral of the Ottoman fleet, by whose initiative Algeria and Tunisia became part of the Ottoman Empire. For three centuries after his death, Mediterranean coastal towns and villages were ravaged by his pirate successors. [6 Related Articles]
- Barbarossa, Operation
- (from the article "World War II") ...Germans would have conquered the whole European part of Russia and the Ukraine west of a line stretching from Archangel to Astrakhan. The invasion of the Soviet Union was given the code name "Operation Barbarossa."German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
- Barbary
- former designation for the coastal region of North Africa bounded by Egypt (east), by the Atlantic (west), by the Sahara (south), and by the Mediterranean Sea (north), and now comprising Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The name originates from that ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barbary fig
- (from the article "Morocco") ...(Quercus coccinea), arbutus, heather, myrtle, artemisia, cytisus (Medicago arborea), broom, and rosemary. In the arid interior plains, the dwarf palm, jujube tree, esparto grass, and Barbary fig (introduced from the Americas by way of Spain in the 16th century) cover ...
- Barbary ground squirrel
- (from the article "ground squirrel") ...The 38 species of North American ground squirrels and Eurasian sousliks (genus Spermophilus) are found from sea level to mountaintops in open habitats and occasionally in forests. The Barbary ground squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus) lives in rocky habitats from sea level ...
- Barbary macaque
- tailless ground-dwelling monkey that lives in groups in the upland forests of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Gibraltar. The Barbary macaque is about 60 cm (24 inches) long and has light yellowish brown fur and a bald pale pink face. Adult ... [7 Related Articles]
- Barbary pirate
- any of the Muslim pirates operating from the coast of North Africa, at their most powerful during the 17th century but still active until the 19th century. Captains, who formed a class in Algiers and Tunis, commanded cruisers outfitted by ... [4 Related Articles]
- Barbary shrike
- (from the article "shrike") ...with red-tinged underparts, is the tropical boubou (L. aethiopicus). Black above and bright red below are the black-headed, or Abyssinian, gonolek (L. erythrogaster) and the Barbary shrike (L. barbarus).
- Barbary Tongue
- (from the article "Senegal River") ...mouth of the Senegal has been deflected southward by the offshore Canary Current and by trade winds blowing from the north; the result has been the formation of a long sandspit, the Barbary Tongue (Langue de Barbarie). Saint-Louis lies in ...
- Barbasetti, Luigi
- Italian fencing master, much respected in both Italy and Hungary. A student of the great Italian sabre teacher Giuseppe Radaelli, Barbasetti in many ways outstripped his master. His unique insight into fencing helped guide the sport into the 20th century.
- barbastelle
- either of two bats of the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae, found in Europe and North Africa (B. barbastellus) and in the Middle East and Asia (B. leucomelas). Barbastelles have short, wide ears that are joined on the forehead. Their fur ... [1 Related Articles]
- barbat
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...samisen). In Japan the Imperial Treasury at Nara preserves three biwas used at a great concert held in 752. The biwa-pipa family can be traced ultimately to Persia, where, as the barbat, it influenced the music of Afghanistan and Turkistan ...
- Barbatia
- (from the article "ark shell") ...species are found in tropical seas, with only a few species occurring in temperate areas. Ark shells are slow-moving or sedentary. Many species, especially those of the genera Arca and Barbatia, live attached by a byssus (a tuft of horny ...
- Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
- British writer, poet, and editor whose best writings are on political and social themes. Her poetry belongs essentially in the tradition of 18th-century meditative verse. [1 Related Articles]
- barbe de capucin
- (from the article "chicory") The roots are grown in the open during the summer and are taken up in the fall to be forced, or grown indoors out of season, during the winter. One method of forcing produces barbe de capucin, the loose, blanched ...
- Barbe, Jean
- (from the article "Literature") ...with Nadine Bismuth, whose Scrapbook was set in a university environment. Readers in their 20s and 30s, a group often neglected in publishing, found their lives reflected in this novel. Jean Barbe weighed in with Comment devenir un monstre, a ...
- Barbe-Marbois, Francois, marquis de
- French statesman who in 1803 negotiated the Louisiana Purchase by the United States.
- Barbeau Peak
- (from the article "Ellesmere Island") ...with towering mountains (especially in the north), vast ice fields, and a deeply indented coastline. Cape Columbia, at latitude 83°07' N, is the most northerly point of Canada, and Barbeau Peak, at an elevation of 8,583 feet (2,616 metres), is ...
- barbecue
- an outdoor meal, usually a form of social entertainment, at which meats, fish, or fowl, along with vegetables, are roasted over a wood or charcoal fire. The term also denotes the grill or stone-lined pit for cooking such a meal, ... [1 Related Articles]
- barbed wire
- fence wire usually consisting of two longitudinal wires twisted together to form cable and having wire barbs wound around either or both of the cable wires at regular intervals. The varieties of barbed wire are numerous, with cables being single ... [2 Related Articles]
- Barbegal
- (from the article "waterwheel") Little is known of the details of geared-mill development between the time of Vitruvius and the 12th century. An outstanding installation was the grain mill at Barbegal, near Arles, Fr., which had 16 cascaded overshot wheels, each 7 feet (2 ...
- Barbeitos, Arlindo
- Angolan poet, many of whose works, written in Portuguese, portray in a subtle manner the struggle of his people for independence as well as the essential harmony between man and nature.
- barbel
- (from the article "barb") The barbel (B. barbus) of central and western European rivers is a slender, rather elongate fish with a thick-lipped, crescent-shaped mouth and four barbels, which it uses to search out fish, mollusks, and other food along the river bottom. The ...
- barbel
- (from the article "barb") ...any of numerous freshwater fishes belonging to a genus in the carp family, Cyprinidae. The barbs are native to Europe, Africa, and Asia. The members of this genus typically have one or more pairs of barbels (slender, fleshy protuberances) near ...
- barbell
- (from the article "weight lifting") The weight used in modern competitive lifting is the barbell, a steel bar or rod to which cast-iron or steel disk weights are attached at each end on a revolving sleeve. The range of weights added is 25, 20, 15, ...
- barber
- a person whose primary activities in the 20th century are trimming and styling the hair of men, shaving them, and shaping their beards, sideburns, and moustaches. Barbers, or hairdressers, often provide shampooing, manicuring, hair dying, permanent waves, and shoe polishing ... [1 Related Articles]
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