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- Prussian-Estonian embryologist who discovered the mammalian ovum and the notochord and established the new science of comparative embryology alongside comparative anatomy. He was also a pioneer in geography, ethnology, and physical anthropology. [5 Related Articles]
- Baer, Max
- American boxer who won the world heavyweight championship by knocking out Primo Carnera in 11 rounds in New York City on June 14, 1934. He lost the title to James J. Braddock on a 15-round decision at Long Island City, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baer, Ralph
- (from the article "electronic game") After computers and arcades, the third inspiration for early electronic games was television. Ralph Baer, a television engineer and manager at the military electronics firm of Sanders Associates (now part of BAE Systems), began in the late 1960s to develop ...
- Baerum
- municipality, southeastern Norway. It is situated at the head of Oslo Fjord and adjoins the national capital of Oslo on the west. It has a broad frontage on Oslo Fjord and extends inland for several miles. Important settlements within Baerum ...
- Baerze, Jacques de
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...figures is combined with elaborate decorative work-on the canopy of the tomb of Philip the Bold, for example. A similar decorativeness is found in the contemporary carved Dijon altarpieces of Jacques de Baerze. The combination remained more or less constant ...
- Baetic Cordillera
- mountain system comprising the Andalusian mountains of southeastern Spain. The northern range (called pre-Baetic in Andalusia and sub-Baetic in Valencia) runs about 360 miles (580 km) from Cape Trafalgar in Andalusia to Cape Nao in Valencia, and it continues in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baetica
- (from the article "bullfighting") ...In the ensuing melee Barca was killed and his army annihilated. Carthaginians and Romans were astounded by accounts of Barca's demise. They were equally amazed at subsequent tales of games held in Baetica (the Spanish region of Andalusia) in which ...
- baetylus
- in Greek religion, a sacred stone or pillar. The word baetylus is of Semitic origin (-bethel). Numerous holy, or fetish, stones existed in antiquity, generally attached to the cult of some particular god and looked upon as his abiding place ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baeyer, Adolf von
- German research chemist who synthesized indigo (1880) and formulated its structure (1883). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1905. [5 Related Articles]
- Baez, Buenaventura
- politician who served five terms as president of the Dominican Republic and is noted principally for his attempts to have the United States annex his country. [1 Related Articles]
- Baez, Joan
- American folksinger and political activist who interested young audiences in folk music during the 1960s. Despite the inevitable fading of the folk music revival, Baez continued to be a popular performer into the 21st century. By touring with younger performers ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baeza, Braulio
- (from the article "Equestrian Sports") ...scheduled to end on Dec. 31, 2007, and after losing $15 million in 2004 and $22 million in 2003, the association was struggling to remain solvent. Clerk of scales Mario Sclafani and his assistant Braulio Baeza, a former jockey and ...
- Bafata
- region located in north-central Guinea-Bissau. Bafata is crosscut by the Geba River, which flows east-west through the northern half of the region and is navigable to Bafata town, the regional capital. The Corubal River flows east-west to form Bafata's southern ...
- Bafata
- town located in east-central Guinea-Bissau. It lies along the Geba River, which is navigable to that point. Bafata is an important trading centre for the interior regions of Guinea-Bissau. There also is intensive agriculture around the town. The town produces ...
- Bafata Plateau
- (from the article "Bafata") ...River flows east-west to form Bafata's southern border with the Quinara and Tombali regions and empties into the Geba; it is navigable throughout the Bafata region. The Bafata Plateau, rising to about 500 feet (150 metres) above sea level, is ...
- Baffin
- northernmost and easternmost region of Nunavut territory, Canada. In 1967 it was created as Baffin region, Northwest Territories, from most of what was formerly Franklin district, and it took on its present borders with the creation of Nunavut in April ...
- Baffin Bay
- arm of the North Atlantic Ocean with an area of 266,000 square miles (689,000 square km), extending southward from the Arctic for 900 miles (1,450 km) between the Greenland coast (east) and Baffin Island (west). The bay has a width ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baffin Island
- island lying between Greenland and the Canadian mainland. With an area of 195,928 square miles (507,451 square km), it is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest in the world. Baffin Island is separated from Greenland on the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baffin Island Current
- surface oceanic current, a southward-moving water outflow along the west side of Baffin Bay, Canada. The Baffin Island Current, flowing at a rate of about 11 miles (17 km) per day, is a combination of West Greenland Current inflow and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baffin, William
- navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage and gave his name to Baffin Island, now part of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and to the bay separating it from Greenland. His determination of longitude at sea by observing the occultation of ... [6 Related Articles]
- Baffinland Eskimo
- (from the article "Arctic") ...and eastern Hudson Bay were referred to as the Labrador Eskimo and the Eskimo of Quebec; these were often described as whole units, although each comprises a number of separate societies. The Baffinland Eskimo were often included in the Central ...
- baffle
- (from the article "electromechanical transducer") Loudspeakers are mounted in a box, horn, or other enclosure in order to separate the waves from the front and the rear of the loudspeaker and thereby prevent them from canceling each other. The most common type of enclosure is ...
- baffle
- (from the article "gasoline engine") Mufflers of early design contained sets of baffles that reversed the flow of the gases or otherwise caused them to follow devious paths so that interference between the pressure waves reduced the pulsations. The mufflers most commonly used in modern ...
- Bafing River
- river in western Africa, rising in the Fouta Djallon massif of Guinea and flowing generally northeast for about 200 miles (320 km). After passing the town of Bafing Makana in Mali, its only important riparian settlement, it curves around to ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bafoussam
- town, western Cameroon, north-northeast of Douala. A trading centre of the Bamileke peoples, it lies in a densely populated region where coffee, kola nuts, tobacco, tea, and cinchona (from which quinine is made) are grown and pigs and poultry are ...
- bag net
- (from the article "commercial fishing") Bag nets are kept vertically open by a frame and held horizontally stretched by the water current. There are small scoop nets that can be pushed and dragged and big stownets, with and without wings, held on stakes or on ...
- Baga
- people who inhabit the swampy coastal region between Cape Verga and the city of Conakry in Guinea. They speak a language of the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. The women cultivate rice; the men fish and tend palm and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bagabandi, Natsagiyn
- (from the article "Mongolia") Area: 1,564,116 sq km (603,909 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 2,550,000 | Capital: Ulaanbaatar | Chief of state: Presidents Natsagiyn Bagabandi and, from June 24, Nambaryn Enhbayar | Head of government: Prime Minister Tsahiagiyn Elbegdorj | BRITANNICA ...
- Bagamoyo
- town, historic seaport of eastern Tanzania. It lies on the Zanzibar Channel, 45 miles (75 km) northwest of Dar es Salaam. The town was formerly a slave-trading depot at the terminus of Arab caravan routes from Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika. ...
- Bagao Felix, Antonio
- (from the article "Portugal") ...a new government. Former Lisbon mayor and PSD vice president Pedro Santana Lopes was tapped as prime minister, and the coalition government included four ministers-including Finance Minister Antonio Bagao Felix-from the PP's ranks. Political analysts expected the new government to ...
- Bagapsh, Sergey
- (from the article "Georgia") On January 12 Sergey Bagapsh was elected president of the breakaway unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia and pledged closer ties with Russia. The abduction in early June of four Georgian residents of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia revived latent tensions ...
- bagasse
- fibre remaining after the extraction of the sugar-bearing juice from sugarcane. The word bagasse, from the French bagage via the Spanish bagazo, originally meant "rubbish," "refuse," or "trash." Applied first to the debris from the pressing of olives, palm nuts, ... [5 Related Articles]
- bagatelle
- game, probably of English origin, that is similar to billiards and was probably a modification of it. Bagatelle is played with billiard cues and nine balls on an oblong board or table varying in size from 6 by 1.5 ft ...
- Bagaudae
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...defensive wars whose success demonstrated the regime's efficiency. Constantius put down Carausius' attempted usurpation and fought the Alemanni fiercely near Basel; Maximian first hunted down the Bagaudae (gangs of fugitive peasant brigands) in Gaul, then fought the Moorish tribes in ...
- Bagayoko, Amadou
- (from the article "Amadou and Mariam") Amadou Bagayoko (b. Oct. 24, 1954Bamako, French West Africa [now Mali]) and Mariam Doumbia (b. April 15, 1958Bamako) met at the Bamako Institute for the Young Blind....contribution to Malian cultureMaliThe ...
- Bagaza, Jean-Baptiste
- (from the article "Burundi") ...of 1972 became the source of considerable tension within the Tutsi minority, thus paving the way for the overthrow of Micombero in 1976 and the advent of the Second Republic under the presidency of Jean-Baptiste Bagaza. Though himself a Tutsi-Bahima ...
- Bagbartu
- (from the article "Haldi") ...without wings, standing on a lion; in the absence of religious texts his attributes are otherwise unknown. A Urartian temple at ancient Musasir dedicated to Haldi and to the goddess Bagbartu, or Bagmashtu, was captured and plundered by Sargon II ...
- Bage
- city, south-central Rio Grande do Sul estado (state), Brazil, lying at 732 feet (223 metres) above sea level amid gently rolling hills covered with tall prairie grass. It was founded in 1811 and given city status in ...
- Bage, Robert
- (from the article "novel") ...springs out of direct experience of proletarian life and is not available to writers whose background is bourgeois or aristocratic. Consequently, William Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794) and Robert Bage's Hermsprong (1796), although, like Hard Times, sympathetic to the lot of ...
- Bagehot, Walter
- economist, political analyst, and editor of The Economist who was one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period. [6 Related Articles]
- bagel
- doughnut-shaped yeast-leavened roll that is characterized by a crisp, shiny crust and a dense interior. Long regarded as a Jewish specialty item, the bagel is commonly eaten as a breakfast food or snack, often with toppings such as cream cheese ...
- Bagerhat
- town, southwestern Bangladesh. It lies just south of the Bhairab River. Bagerhat was the capital of Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali-the 15th-century pioneer of the Sundarbans region of the southern Padma River (Ganges [Ganga] River) delta-and contains the ruins of his ...
- Baggesen, Jens
- leading Danish literary figure in the transitional period between Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
- Bagh
- (from the article "Madhya Pradesh") ...(eight miles southwest of Vidisha), originally constructed by Asoka, emperor of India from about 265 to 238 BC; additions to the stupa were made by the Sunga kings. The Bagh caves near Mhow, adorned with paintings on Buddhist topics, merit ...
- Baghdad
- city, capital of Iraq and capital of Baghdad governorate, central Iraq. Its location, on the Tigris River about 330 miles (530 km) from the headwaters of the Persian Gulf, is in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia. Baghdad is Iraq's largest ... [63 Related Articles]
- Baghdad Railway
- major rail line connecting Istanbul with the Persian Gulf region. Work on the first phase of the railway, which involved an extension of an existing line between Haidar Pasha and Ismid to Ankara, was begun in 1888 by the Ottoman ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baghdad school
- stylistic movement of Islamic manuscript illustration, founded in the late 12th century (though the earliest surviving works cannot be dated before the 13th century). The school flourished in the period when the 'Abbasid caliphs had reasserted their authority in Baghdad. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Baghdadi, al-
- (from the article "mathematics") ...that, if p is a prime, then p divides (p − 1) × (p − 2)⋯× 2 × 1 + 1, and al-Baghdadi gave a variant of the idea of amicable numbers by defining two numbers to "balance" if the sums of their divisors are equal.
- Baghdasaryan, Artur
- (from the article "Armenia") Parliament Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan, long rumoured to be at odds with Markaryan, finally stepped down on May 22, following a policy dispute with Kocharyan, and his Orinats Yerkir party quit the ruling three-party coalition government and went into opposition. Tigran ...
- Baghdatis, Marcos
- (from the article "Tennis") ...got the job done "Down Under," winning the season's first Grand Slam title for the second time. He capped a difficult fortnight with a hard-fought victory over the exhilarating Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis in the final. Baghdatis outplayed Federer in the ...
- Baghelkhand
- historic region, eastern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. The area is divided into two natural regions by the Kaimur Range. To the west lie elevated plains; to the east is a rough, hilly tract intersected by a succession of parallel ... [1 Related Articles]
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