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- (from the article "feather") ...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, stiffening ...
- Barbusse, Henri
- novelist, author of Le Feu (1916; Under Fire, 1917), a firsthand witness of the life of French soldiers in World War I. Barbusse belongs to an important lineage of French war writers who span the period 1910 to 1939, mingling ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barc
- (from the article "Cuman") ...expeditionary forces; but, by the beginning of the 13th century, they had become more aggressive and launched their own raids into southeastern Transylvania. Soon afterward the Cuman prince Barc and 15,000 of his people were baptized (1227). The first bishopric ...
- BARC
- (from the article "logistics") ...vehicles and tanks, landing ramps, and heavy-cargo-handling equipment. More revolutionary additions to the technology of amphibious logistics were the American landing vehicle hydrofoil and the BARC, both amphibians with pneumatic-tired wheels for overland movement and, in the latter case, capacity ...
- Barc de Boutteville, Le
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...with drama; it inspired its own periodical, La Revue Blanche, and Le Theatre de l'Oeuvre (both founded in Paris in 1891); there were exhibitions twice a year at a Paris gallery, Le Barc de Boutteville, from 1891 to 1897.
- Barcaccia
- (from the article "Bernini, Pietro") ...in the Church of Gesu Nuovo, and the Virgin in the National Museum of San Martino (reworked by Cosimo Fanzago). He also carved the Medina Fountain in San Martino, and the Barcaccia (1627-29), a fountain in the ...
- barcarole
- (from Italian barcarola, "boatman" or "gondolier"), originally a Venetian gondolier's song typified by gently rocking rhythms in 68 or 128 time. In the 18th and 19th centuries the barcarole inspired a considerable number of vocal and instrumental compositions, ranging from ...
- Barcelo, Gertrudis
- Mexican-born businesswoman who built her fortune through casinos and trade ventures in the early American Southwest.
- Barcelona
- (from the article "France") ...pillagers, in this case the Muslims, and who profited from urban growth to establish a dynastic authority of their own. This authority was fractured in the early 12th century, when the houses of Barcelona and Toulouse secured portions by marriage; ...
- Barcelona
- provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It was formed in 1833. The province follows the axis of the Llobregat River basin, from which its regions are symmetrically arranged. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barcelona
- city, capital of Anzoategui estado (state), northeastern Venezuela. Established in 1671 from a merger of two settlements, the town was named for the capital of the Spanish home province of its Catalan founders. On the west bank of the Neveri ...
- Barcelona
- city, seaport, and capital of Barcelona provincia (province) and of Catalonia comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), northeastern Spain, located 90 miles (150 km) south of the French border. It is Spain's major Mediterranean port and ... [15 Related Articles]
- Barcelona chair
- one of the most recognized chairs of the 20th century. It was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German Pavilion, which he also designed, at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929. [2 Related Articles]
- Barcelona nut
- (from the article "filbert") ...is a variety of the European filbert; Lambert's filbert is a variety of the giant filbert. Nuts produced by the Turkish filbert (C. colurna) are sold commercially as Constantinople nuts. Barcelona nuts come from the Spanish, or Barcelona, filbert, usually ...
- Barcelona Olympic Games
- (from the article "Olympic Games") The 1992 Games were perhaps the most successful modern Olympics. More than 9,300 athletes representing 169 countries participated. For the first time in three decades, there was no boycott. The dramatic political changes that had swept across eastern Europe had ...
- Barcelona, Archaeological Museum of
- institution in Barcelona, Spain, notable for its collection of prehistoric objects and for its collection of ancient Greek and Roman art and examples illustrating Iberian archaeology. Exhibits include a scale model of a part of the excavation at Ampurias (Emporiae) ...
- Barcelona, countess of
- Spanish royal (b. Dec. 23, 1910, Madrid, Spain-d. Jan. 2, 2000, Lanzarote, Canary Islands), was the mother of King Juan Carlos I and the wife of Don Juan de Borbon, who was compelled by strongman Gen. Francisco Franco to renounce ...
- Barcelona, treaties of
- (from the article "Charles VIII") ...also agreed in the Treaty of Etaples (1492) to pay heavy compensation to King Henry VII of England for the abandonment of English interests in Brittany. Furthermore, in 1493, by the Treaty of Barcelona, he ceded Roussillon and Cerdagne back ...
- Barcelona, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The University of Barcelona was founded in 1450. It is one of seven public and private universities in the city. Others include the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1968) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1971). Most courses in the municipality's ...
- barchan
- crescent-shaped sand dune produced by the action of wind predominately from one direction. One of the commonest types of dunes, it occurs in sandy deserts all over the world. [4 Related Articles]
- Barchuk
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") When the time of the Mongol conquests came, the Uighurs lived up to their best cultural traditions. Realizing that resistance would be vain and would lead only to the destruction of his country, Barchuk, the ruler of the Uighurs of ...
- Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich, Knyaz
- Russian field marshal who was prominent in the Napoleonic Wars. [1 Related Articles]
- Barclay, Alexander
- poet who won contemporary fame chiefly for his adaptation of a popular German satire, Das Narrenschiff, by Sebastian Brant, which he called The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde (first printed 1509). [1 Related Articles]
- Barclay, Arthur
- (from the article "Liberia") ...they were still unable to control all the coastal area they claimed. Efforts to end the frontier disputes resulted in treaties with Great Britain in 1885 and with France in 1892. In 1904 President Arthur Barclay, who was born in ...
- Barclay, John
- Scottish satirist and Latin poet whose Argenis (1621), a long poem of romantic adventure, had great influence on the development of the romance in the 17th century.
- Barclay, Robert
- Quaker leader whose Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1678) became a standard statement of Quaker doctrines. His friendship with James II, then duke of York, helped obtain the patent to settle the province of East Jersey, in the New ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barclaya
- (from the article "Nymphaeales") The genus Barclaya (four species) is sometimes considered a separate family, Barclayaceae. It is distinguished from Nymphaeaceae by an extended perianth tube (combined sepals and petals) arising from the top of the ovary and by stamens that are joined basally. ...
- Barclays Global Investors
- (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...of equities listed on the exchange edging up only slightly to 1,156. Moreover, the Amex's leading role in the popular but competitive ETF arena was challenged several times during the year. In July Barclays Global Investors announced plans to move ...
- Barclays PLC
- British banking and trust firm registered July 20, 1896, under the name Barclay & Co. Ltd. and assuming the name Barclays Bank Ltd. in 1917. It was converted into a public limited company in 1981. The largest commercial banking concern ... [1 Related Articles]
- Barco Vargas, Virgilio
- Colombian politician (b. Sept. 17, 1921, Cucuta, Colom.--d. May 20, 1997, Bogota, Colom.), served as president of Colombia from 1986 to 1990 after having won the election by the largest margin in the country's history. During his term his ambitious ... [1 Related Articles]
- bard
- a poet, especially one who writes impassioned, lyrical, or epic verse. Bards were originally Celtic composers of eulogy and satire; the word came to mean more generally a tribal poet-singer gifted in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their ... [9 Related Articles]
- Bard College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, U.S. It is affiliated with the Episcopal church. A liberal arts college, it includes divisions of social studies, languages and literature, arts, and natural sciences and mathematics, as well as ...
- Bard, Philip
- (from the article "motivation") Cannon and a colleague, Philip Bard, proposed an alternative arousal theory, subsequently known as the Cannon-Bard theory. According to this approach, the experience of an event, such as the automobile accident mentioned earlier, leads to the simultaneous determination of emotion ...
- Bardas
- (from the article "Michael III") After a quarrel with his mother, Michael connived at the murder of Theoctistus by his maternal uncle Bardas (November 855) and in March 856, with the help of Bardas, took over direct control of the government. When Theodora attempted to ...
- Bardawil Lake
- (from the article "Shamal Sina'") ...155 miles (250 km) long, lies in the northeastern section of the governorate and empties into the Mediterranean Sea near Al-'Arish. Along the northern coast lies the large and brackish Bardawil Lake (266 square miles [690 square km]); this lake ...
- bardd teulu
- (from the article "Celtic literature") ...At the top of the order was the pencerdd ("chief of song or craft"), the ruler's chief poet, whose duty was to sing the praise of God, the ruler, and his family. Next came the bardd teulu, who was the ...
- Bardeen, John
- American physicist who was cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in both 1956 and 1972. He shared the 1956 prize with William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain for their joint invention of the transistor. With Leon N. Cooper ... [4 Related Articles]
- Bardem, Javier
- charismatic and versatile Spanish actor who first came to prominence in the 1990s. [2 Related Articles]
- Bardesanes
- a leading representative of Syrian Gnosticism. Bardesanes was a pioneer of the Christian faith in Syria who embarked on missionary work after his conversion in 179. [2 Related Articles]
- Bardhan, Shanti
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Shanti Bardhan, a junior colleague of Uday Shankar, produced some of the most imaginative dance-dramas of the modern period. After founding the Little Ballet Troupe in Andheri, Bombay, in 1952 he produced Ramayana, in which the actors moved and danced ...
- Bardi chapel
- (from the article "Giotto di Bondone") ...The Giugni Chapel frescoes are lost, as are all the Tosinghi-Spinelli ones, except for an Assumption over the entrance, not universally accepted as by Giotto. The Bardi and Peruzzi chapels contained cycles of St. Francis, St. John ...
- Bardi Family
- an aristocratic Florentine family that successfully developed its financial and banking company to become one of the most influential European business powers between 1250 and 1345. [1 Related Articles]
- Bardi, Giovanni, conte di Vernio
- musician, writer, and scientist, influential in the evolution of opera. About 1573 he founded the Florentine Camerata, a group that sought to revive ancient Greek music and drama. Among the members were the theorist Vincenzo Galilei (father of Galileo) and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bardi-Busini, Palazzo
- (from the article "Brunelleschi, Filippo") ...and palaces with which biographers and scholars have credited him, the most significant of which (all in Florence) are the Pitti Palace, a rejected plan for the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, and the Palazzo Bardi-Busini. Each of these palaces contains novel features ...
- Bardia
- (from the article "World War II") Falling back across the frontier into Cyrenaica, the remnant of the Italian forces from Sidi Barrani shut itself up in the fortress of Bardia (Bardiyah), which O'Connor's tanks speedily isolated. On Jan. 3, 1941, the British assault on Bardia began, ...
- Bardiya
- (6th century BC), king of Persia in 522-521 BC. [6 Related Articles]
- Bardo, Treaty of
- (1881), agreement that established France's protectorate over Tunisia. A French expeditionary force of 36,000 men was sent to Tunisia in 1881 at the urging of the French foreign minister, Jules Ferry, ostensibly to subdue attacks of the Tunisian Kroumer tribe ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bardossy, Laszlo
- Hungarian politician who played a key role in bringing his country into World War II as an ally of Germany. [2 Related Articles]
- Bardot, Brigitte
- French motion-picture actress who became an international sex symbol in the 1950s and '60s.
- Bardsey Island
- small island, with an area of 0.7 square mile (1.8 square km), off the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd county, historic county of Caernavonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), Wales. It is separated from the mainland by a channel 2 miles (3 ...
- Bardstown
- city, seat (1784) of Nelson county, in the outer Bluegrass region of central Kentucky, U.S., 39 miles (63 km) southeast of Louisville. Founded as Salem in 1778, it was later renamed to honour William Bard, one of the original landowners. ...
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