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- (from the article "camel hair") animal fibre obtained from the camel and belonging to the group called specialty hair fibres. The most satisfactory textile fibre is gathered from camels of the Bactrian type. Such camels have protective outer coats of coarse fibre that may grow ...
- Bactrian language
- (from the article "Iranian languages") ...have been themselves mutually intelligible. The main known languages of this group are Khwarezmian (Chorasmian), Sogdian, and Saka. Less well-known are Old Ossetic (Scytho-Sarmatian) and Bactrian, but from what is known it would seem likely that these languages were equally ...
- Bactris
- (from the article "palm") ...abundance of palms may also be considered in relation to numbers of species per genus, in that a few palm genera have large numbers of species. Calamus with about 379 is the largest and Bactris (the peach palm) with approximately ...
- Bactrites
- genus of extinct cephalopods (animals related to the modern squid, octopus, and nautilus) found as fossils in marine rocks from the Devonian to the Permian periods (between 408 and 245 million years ago). Some authorities have identified specimens dating back ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baculites
- genus of extinct cephalopods (animals related to the modern squid, octopus, and nautilus) found as fossils in Late Cretaceous marine rocks (formed from 97.5 to 66.4 million years ago). Baculites, restricted to a narrow time range, is an excellent guide ...
- baculum
- the penis bone of certain mammals. The baculum is one of several heterotropic skeletal elements-i.e., bones dissociated from the rest of the body skeleton. It is found in all insectivores (e.g., shrews, hedgehogs), bats, rodents, and carnivores and in all ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bad Aussee
- town, central Austria, in the Traun Valley, southeast of Bad Ischl. The former centre of the Salzkammergut (salt region), it has the 15th-century Kammerhof (old offices of the salt administration) and two 14th- to 15th-century churches. Anna Plochl (1804-85), the ...
- Bad Gandersheim
- city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies in the Leine River valley. Bad Gandersheim is remarkable for an 11th-century convent church containing the tombs of famous abbesses and for the former abbey, which was moved ...
- Bad Godesberg
- southern district of the city of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies on the west bank of the Rhine River opposite the Siebengebirge (Seven Hills), a scenic natural park. A village grew up around the Godesburg castle, ...
- Bad Godesberg Resolution
- (from the article "socialism") ...economies" that combined largely private ownership with government direction of the economy and substantial welfare programs, and other socialist parties followed suit. Even the SPD, in its Bad Godesberg program of 1959, dropped its Marxist pretenses and committed itself to ...
- Bad Harzburg
- city, Lower Saxony Land (state), eastern Germany. It is located on the northern slope of the Oberharz (Upper Harz) mountains, at the entrance to the Radau River valley about 25 miles (40 km) south of Braunschweig and near Harz National ...
- Bad Homburg
- city, Hesse Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies at the foot of the wooded Taunus, just north of Frankfurt am Main.
- Bad Ischl
- town, central Austria. It lies at the confluence of the Traun and Ischler Ache rivers, about 26 miles (42 km) east-southeast of Salzburg. First mentioned in records of 1262, it received municipal status in 1940. The centre of the Salzkammergut ...
- Bad Kreuznach
- city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), west-central Germany. It lies along the Nahe River, a tributary of the Rhine, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Mainz. The site of a Roman fortress and later (819) of a Carolingian palace (Cruciniacum), it ...
- Bad Mergentheim
- city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), south-central Germany. It lies on the Tauber River, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Nurnberg. An ancient settlement, it became the property of the Knights of the Teutonic Order in 1219 and ...
- Bad Ragaz
- (from the article "Switzerland") ...beauty, and others, such as Crans-Montana on the slopes above the Rhone valley in Valais canton and Wengen in the Berner Oberland, have developed into famous resorts. Places such as Bad Ragaz in the Rhine valley and Leukerbad in Valais ...
- Bad Reichenhall
- city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies in the Alpine Saalach River valley, 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Salzburg, Austria. Bad Reichenhall is a noted health and winter resort surrounded by mountains, including the Predigtstuhl ...
- Bad-tibira
- (from the article "Tammuz") ...Although the cult is attested for most of the major cities of Sumer in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, it centred in the cities around the central steppe area (the edin), for example, at Bad-tibira (modern Madinah) where Tammuz ...
- Bada'uni, 'Abd al-Qadir
- Indo-Persian historian, one of the most important writers on the history of the Mughal period in India.
- Badacsony
- basalt-covered residual butte, 1,437 ft (438 m) in height, on the north bank of Lake Balaton in the Balaton Highlands of western Hungary. The butte bears witness to the original level of the basalt layer that formed at the end ...
- Badaga
- any member of the largest tribal group living in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The Badaga have increased very rapidly, from fewer than 20,000 in 1871 to about 140,000 in the late 20th century. Their ... [2 Related Articles]
- Badagara
- town and port, northern Kerala state, southwestern India. Located on the Arabian Sea about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the town of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut), Badagara is a fishing port and trade centre for pepper, copra, timber, and other ...
- Badagry
- town and lagoon port in Lagos state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies on the north bank of Porto Novo Creek, an inland waterway that connects the national capitals of Nigeria (Lagos) and Benin (Porto-Novo), and on a road that leads to ...
- Badain Jaran
- (from the article "Alxa Plateau") Chinese geographers divide the region into three smaller deserts, the Tengger (Tengri) Desert in the south, the Badain Jaran (Baden Dzareng, or Batan Tsalang) in the west, and the Ulan Buh (Wulanbuhe) in the northeast.
- Badajoz
- provincia (province) in the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), extreme western Spain. Badajoz is bordered by Portugal to the west. Along with the province of Caceres, Badajoz makes up the autonomous and historic region ... [1 Related Articles]
- Badajoz
- city, capital of Badajoz provincia (province), in the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), southwestern Spain. Situated on the south bank of the Guadiana River near the Portuguese frontier, it occupies a low range of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Badajoz, Peace of
- (from the article "Portugal") ...subjected to pressure from the French Directory and from the Spanish minister, Manuel de Godoy, Portugal remained unmolested until 1801, when Godoy sent an ultimatum and invaded the Alentejo. By the Peace of Badajoz (June 1801), Portugal lost the town ...
- Badajoz, Plan
- (from the article "Badajoz") In 1952 the Spanish government promoted a project known as the Plan Badajoz, which raised the standard of living, productivity, and agriculture and intensified development and industrialization in the area. Irrigation was undertaken, using the waters of the Guadiana and ...
- Badakhshan
- historic region of northeastern Afghanistan, roughly encompassing the northern spurs of the Hindu Kush and chiefly drained by the Kowkcheh River. Mountain glaciers and glacial lakes are found in the higher elevations of the region. [2 Related Articles]
- Badalona
- city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is a northeastern industrial suburb of Barcelona, lying on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Besos River. ...
- Badami
- town, northern Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southwestern India. The town was known as Vatapi in ancient times and was the first capital of the Calukya kings. It is the site of important 6th- and 7th-century Brahmanical and Jaina cave temples. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Badami, Anita Rau
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...(1987), Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2001) are set mostly in Bombay (now Mumbai) among the Parsi community, while Anita Rau Badami's novels Tamarind Mem (1996) and The Hero's Walk (2000) portray the ...
- Badarayana
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...the development of Vedanta philosophy. The relation of the Vedanta-sutras to the Mimamsa-sutras, however, is difficult to ascertain. Badarayana approves of the Mimamsa view that the relation between words and their significations is eternal. There are, however, clear statements of...
- Badari
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...hermeneutics (critical interpretations). Jaimini, who composed sutras about the 4th century BC, was critical of earlier Mimamsa authors, particularly of one Badari, to whom is attributed the view that the Vedic injunctions are meant to be obeyed without the expectation ...
- Badari, Al-
- (from the article "art and architecture, Egyptian") ...Sir Flinders Petrie at Naqadah, at al-'Amirah (el-'Amra), and at al-Jazirah (el-Gezira). Another somewhat earlier stage of predynastic culture has been identified at al-Badari in Upper Egypt.remains of Badarian cultureBadarian ...
- Badarian culture
- Egyptian predynastic cultural phase, first discovered at Al-Badari, its type site, on the east bank of the Nile River in Asyut muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt. British excavations there during the 1920s revealed cemeteries dating to about 4000 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Badawi, Abdel Rahman
- Egyptian philosopher and academic (b. Feb. 17, 1917, Sharabass, Egypt-d. July 25, 2002, Cairo, Egypt), was generally regarded as Egypt's first and foremost existential philosopher. Badawi received much of his education in French and earned a Ph.D. from King Fuad ...
- Badawi, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad
- Five months after becoming prime minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi received a surprisingly strong personal mandate in general elections held on March 21, 2004. Gains by his party, the United Malays National Organization, demonstrated widespread support for ... [6 Related Articles]
- Badbury Rings
- (from the article "East Dorset") ...at the old parish (town) of Wimborne Minster, the district seat. Wimborne Minster is located in the middle of a market gardening area for fruits and vegetables; watercress is harvested locally. The Badbury Rings 4 miles (6 km) northwest of ...
- Baddeck
- unincorporated village, seat of Victoria county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies in the centre of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of Bras d'Or Lake.
- Baddeley, Robert
- actor chiefly remembered for his will, in which he bequeathed property to found a home for aged and impoverished actors and also money to provide wine and cake in the green room of Drury Lane Theatre on Twelfth Night, a ...
- baddeleyite
- (from the article "dating") ...intercalibration. In some cases the discovery of a rare trace mineral results in a major breakthrough as it allows precise ages to be determined in formerly undatable units. For example, the mineral baddeleyite, an oxide of zirconium (ZrO2), has been ...
- Bade
- (from the article "Bedde") traditional emirate, Yobe state, northern Nigeria. Although Bade (Bedde, Bede) peoples settled in the vicinity of Tagali village near Gashua as early as the 14th century, they shortly thereafter came under the jurisdiction of a galadima ("governor") of the Bornu ...
- Baden
- spa, eastern Austria. It lies along the Schwechat River, at the eastern edge of the Wiener Forest, south of Vienna. Settled in prehistoric times, it was a Roman watering place, or aquae, and was recorded in 869 as the seat ...
- Baden
- former state on the east bank of the Rhine River in the southwestern corner of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state) of Germany. The former Baden state comprised the eastern half of the Rhine River valley ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baden
- town, Aargau canton, northern Switzerland, on the Limmat River, northwest of Zurich. The hot sulfur springs, mentioned as early as the 1st century AD by the Roman historian Tacitus, still attract large numbers of people. The town, founded by the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baden Powell
- Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. Aug. 6, 1937, Varre-e-Sai, Braz.-d. Sept. 26, 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.), helped popularize the bossa nova ("new trend"), a romantic, sensual style of the 1950s and '60s that was created from a fusion of ...
- Baden-Baden
- (from the article "Baden") ...members of the house of Zahringen, acquired part of the countship of Breisgau and later added other lands west of the Rhine. In 1535 their territory was divided into the margravates of Baden-Baden in the south and Baden-Durlach in the ...
- Baden-Baden
- city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies along the middle Oos River in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald). Baden-Baden is one of the world's great spas. Its Roman baths (parts of which survive) were built in the ...
- Baden-Durlach
- (from the article "Baden") ...of Zahringen, acquired part of the countship of Breisgau and later added other lands west of the Rhine. In 1535 their territory was divided into the margravates of Baden-Baden in the south and Baden-Durlach in the north. Both margravates became ...
- Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron
- British army officer who became a national hero for his 217-day defense of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the South African War of 1899-1902; he later became famous as founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (also called Girl Scouts). [4 Related Articles]
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