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- city, capital of Bacau judet (county), eastern Romania, near the confluence of the Bistrita and Siret rivers, 150 miles (240 km) northeast of Bucharest. Bacau was an early customs post, where trade routes came together at a ...
- Bacca pipes jig
- (from the article "sword dance") ...the swords. The famed Scottish solo dance Gillie Callum, which is danced to a folk melody of the same name, is first mentioned only in the early 19th century. In its close relative, the English solo Bacca pipes jig, crossed ...
- baccalaureat
- (from the article "higher education") ...have systems of higher education that are basically administered by state agencies. Entrance requirements for students are also similar in both countries. In France an examination called the baccalaureat is given at the end of secondary education. Higher education in ...
- baccalaureate test
- (from the article "Education") French students organized massive street demonstrations to protest changes that Minister of Education Francois Fillon proposed for the traditional baccalaureate test ("le bac"), which for two centuries had been high-school graduates' passport to a university education. Faced with such furor, ...
- baccarat
- casino card game resembling, but simpler than, blackjack. In basic baccarat the house is the bank. In the related game chemin de fer, or chemmy, the bank passes from player to player. In punto banco it appears to pass from ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baccarat glass
- glassware produced by an important glasshouse founded in 1765 at Baccarat, Fr. Originally a producer of soda glass for windows, tableware, and industrial uses, Baccarat was acquired by a Belgian manufacturer of lead crystal in 1817 and since then has ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baccha
- (from the article "hover fly") ...or sting. They are distinguished from other flies by a false (spurious) vein that closely parallels the fourth longitudinal wing vein. The species vary from small, elongated, and slender (e.g., Baccha) to large (bumblebee size), hairy, and yellow and black ...
- Bacchanalia
- in Greco-Roman religion, any of the several festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus), the wine god. They probably originated as rites of fertility gods. The most famous of the Greek Dionysia were in Attica and included the Little, or Rustic, Dionysia, characterized ... [12 Related Articles]
- Bacchelli, Riccardo
- Italian poet, playwright, literary critic, and novelist who championed the literary style of Renaissance and 19th-century masters against the innovations of Italian experimental writers. [1 Related Articles]
- Bacchiadae
- (from the article "ancient Greek civilization") ...a small number of exclusive clans within cities monopolized citizenship and political control. At Corinth, for example, political control was monopolized by the adult males of a single clan, the Bacchiadae. They perhaps numbered no more than a couple of ...
- Bacchus Marsh
- town in southern Victoria, Australia. It is located 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Melbourne (to which a growing proportion of its residents commute daily) on the east bank of the Werribee River. In 1838, Captain William Henry Bacchus founded ...
- Bacchus, George
- (from the article "Guyana") ...way." A commission of inquiry was set up by Pres. Bharrat Jagdeo, though it faced the difficulty of attracting information from anyone knowledgeable about the "phantom squad." George Bacchus, the key individual involved in the allegations against Gajraj, was assassinated ...
- Bacchus, Temple of
- (from the article "Baalbeck") The Temple of Bacchus, almost entirely preserved, is also Corinthian, with 42 columns, 8 on each front and 15 on each flank. Its symbolic decoration shows that it was dedicated to the same agricultural gods as the great temple, but ...
- Bacchylides
- Greek lyric poet, nephew of the poet Simonides and a younger contemporary of the Boeotian poet Pindar, with whom he competed in the composition of epinician poems (odes commissioned by victors at the major athletic festivals). [2 Related Articles]
- Bacchylides roll
- (from the article "calligraphy") If this writing is made to lean to the right and to revive the 3rd-century-BCE distinction between narrow and broad letters, it takes on the aspect of the "severe" style of the Bacchylides roll in the British Museum (2nd century ...
- Baccio d'Agnolo
- wood-carver, sculptor, and architect who exerted an important influence on the Renaissance architecture of Florence. Between 1491 and 1502 he did much of the decorative carving in the church of Santa Maria Novella and in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. ...
- Bach Long Vi
- island of northern Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, halfway between the mouth of the Red River (Song Hong) near Nam Dinh and the Chinese island of Hainan. The island is a plateau that rises abruptly to 190 ft (58 ...
- Bach, Alexander, Freiherr von
- (from the article "Austria") Under Francis Joseph and Schwarzenberg, order was restored. Schwarzenberg died in 1852, and the new regime passed largely to the direction of Alexander, Freiherr (baron) von Bach, minister of the interior and a competent bureaucrat. Despite its reputation as a ...
- Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
- second surviving son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, and the leading composer of the early Classical period. [10 Related Articles]
- Bach, Howard
- (from the article "Badminton") ...Hidayat of Indonesia beat Lin to become the first men's singles player to capture the world championship after having won Olympic gold the previous year. The men's doubles team of Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach also made history when they ...
- Bach, Johann Christian
- composer called the "English Bach," youngest son of J.S. and Anna Magdalena Bach and prominent in the early Classical period. [5 Related Articles]
- Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich
- longest surviving son of J.S. and Anna Magdalena Bach.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of northern German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ building, Bach is now generally regarded ... [50 Related Articles]
- Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
- eldest son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, composer during the period of transition between Baroque and Rococo styles. [1 Related Articles]
- Bach-Gesellschaft
- (from the article "Hauptmann, Moritz") ...by a crowd of enthusiastic pupils, among whom were Joseph Joachim, Hans von Bulow, Arthur Sullivan, and Frederic Hymen Cowen. In 1850, with Otto Jahn and Robert Schumann, Hauptmann founded the Bach-Gesellschaft ("Bach Society"); for the remainder of his life ...
- Bach-Institute
- (from the article "Bach, Johann Sebastian") ...Its chief publication is its research journal, the Bach-Jahrbuch (from 1904). By 1950 the deficiencies of the BG edition had become painfully obvious, and the Bach-Institut was founded, with headquarters at Gottingen and Leipzig, to produce a ...
- Bach-y-Rita, Paul
- (from the article "neuroplasticity") ...research in neuroplasticity was carried out in the 1960s, when scientists attempted to develop machines that interface with the brain in order to help blind people. In 1969 American neurobiologist Paul Bach-y-Rita and several of his colleagues published a short ...
- bacha nagma
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...(devotional music of the Muslim mystics known as Sufis) was banned in the 1920s by the ruling maharaja, who felt this dance was becoming too sensual. It was replaced by the bacha nagma, performed by young boys dressed like women. ...
- Bacharach, Burt
- (from the article "1969: Other Winners") ...Conrad Hall for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidArt Direction: Herman Blumenthal, John DeCuir and, Jack Martin Smith for Hello, Dolly!Original Score for a Motion Picture: Burt Bacharach for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidScore of a Musical Picture Original ...
- Bachchan Rai, Aishwarya
- Indian actress whose classic beauty made her one of Bollywood's premier stars. [1 Related Articles]
- Bachchan, Amitabh
- Indian film actor, perhaps the most popular star in the history of that nation's cinema, known primarily for his roles in action films. [2 Related Articles]
- Bachchan, Harivansh Rai
- Indian poet (b. Nov. 27, 1907, Allahabad, United Provinces [now Uttar Pradesh], India-d. Jan. 18, 2003, Mumbai [Bombay], Maharashtra, India), was one of the most acclaimed Hindi-language poets of the 20th century. His long lyric poem Madhushala (The House of ...
- Bacheh Saqqaw
- (from the article "Amanollah Khan") ...proposals that caused his popular support to drop and enraged the mullahs (Muslim religious leaders). In 1928 a tribal revolt resulted in a chaotic situation during which a notorious bandit leader, Bacheh Saqqaw (Bacheh-ye Saqqa; "Child of a Water Carrier"), ...
- Bachelard, Gaston
- (from the article "nonfictional prose") ...thinkers who were also superb stylists and who deemed it a function of philosophy to understand the aesthetic phenomenon: Henri Bergson (1859-1941), Paul Valery (1871-1945), and Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962). No more poetical advocate of reverie arose in the 20th century ...
- Bachelard, Suzanne
- (from the article "Phenomenology") Suzanne Bachelard, who in 1957 translated Husserl's Formale und transzendentale Logik: Versuch einer Kritik der logischen Vernunft, has pointed to the significance of Husserl for modern logic; and Jacques Derrida, an original French thinker on the limits of thought and ...
- Bachelet, Michelle
- Chilean politician, president of Chile (2006- ). She was the first woman president of Chile and the first popularly elected South American woman president whose political career was established independent of her husband. [6 Related Articles]
- Bachelier, Louis
- (from the article "probability theory") The most important stochastic process is the Brownian motion or Wiener process. It was first discussed by Louis Bachelier (1900), who was interested in modeling fluctuations in prices in financial markets, and by Albert Einstein (1905), who gave a mathematical ...
- Bacheller, Irving
- journalist and novelist whose books, generally set in upper New York State, are humorous and full of penetrating character delineations, especially of rural types.
- bachelor
- (from the article "degree") ...certifications that they had attained the guild status of a "master." There was originally only one degree in European higher education, that of master or doctor. The baccalaureate, or bachelor's degree, was originally simply a stage toward mastership and was ...
- Bachelor of Arts
- (from the article "degree") ...four years. The master's degree involves one to two years' additional study, while the doctorate usually involves a lengthier period of work. British and American universities customarily grant the bachelor's as the first degree in arts or sciences. After one ...
- Bachelor of Science
- (from the article "degree") ...are now awarded in the United States, for example, with the largest number in science, technology, engineering, medicine, and education. The commonest degrees, however, are still the B.A. and the B.S., to which the signature of a special field may ...
- Bachelor, Charles
- (from the article "Edison, Thomas Alva") ...laboratory and machine shop in the rural environs of Menlo Park, N.J.-12 miles south of Newark-where he moved in March 1876. Accompanying him were two key associates, Charles Batchelor and John Kruesi. Batchelor, born in Manchester in 1845, was a ...
- Bachelors, Community of
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...were to be local men, appointed for one year. The households of the king and queen were to be reformed. The drafting of further measures took time. In October 1259 a group calling itself the Community of Bachelors, which seems ...
- Bachet de Meziriac, Claude-Gaspar
- (from the article "number game") ...produced books devoted solely to recreational problems not only in mathematics but frequently in mechanics and natural philosophy as well. The first important contribution was that of the Frenchman Claude-Gaspar Bachet de Meziriac, one of the earliest pioneers in this ...
- Bachiacca
- (from the article "tapestry") Cartoons were designed by such leading Mannerist artists of Florence as Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1556/57), Francesco Salviati (1510-63), Il Bronzino (1503-72), and Bachiacca (1494-1557), who designed the "Grotesques" (c. 1550; Uffizi, Florence), one of the most famous and influential tapestry sets ...
- Bachman, John
- naturalist and Lutheran minister who helped write the text of works on North American birds and mammals by renowned naturalist and artist John James Audubon. [1 Related Articles]
- Bachmann, Ingeborg
- Austrian author whose sombre, surreal writings often deal with women in failed love relationships, the nature of art and humanity, and the inadequacy of language.
- Bachofen, Johann Jakob
- Swiss jurist and early anthropological writer whose book Das Mutterrecht (1861; "Mother Right") is regarded as a major contribution to the development of modern social anthropology.
- baci
- (from the article "Laos") The ethnic Lao ritual of the baci, in which strings are tied around a person's wrist to preserve good luck, has indeed been elevated in Laos to the place of a national custom. The baci is associated with transitions, namely, ...
- Baciccio
- leading Roman Baroque painter of the second half of the 17th century. [2 Related Articles]
- Bacilek, Karol
- (from the article "Czechoslovak region, history of") ...In 1960 he agreed to the rehabilitation of the Slovaks purged in the 1950s. The new constitution, however, restricted Slovak autonomy further. By 1963, new leaders had moved into power in Slovakia; Karol Bacilek, who was compromised by the purges ...
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