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Berenene dor Ocmore Berenene dor Ocmore, Empress of Namorn is the title character in the young adult fantasy novel The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce. Based upon the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and Elizabeth IDid you base Berenene on a historical figure?
Berengar II of Neustria Berengar of Bayeux, was count of Rennes and paternal grandfather of Conan I of Rennes. Berengar married the daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany, by which relationship he attained countship of Rennes and her brother Judicael became Duke.
Berengar of Berga Berengar () (d.1093), the third son of Wilfred II of Cerdanya and Guisla, was the count of Berga in 1050 from the death of his brother Bernard I until he renounced the county later the same year to become bishop of Girona until his death.
Berengar of Gascony Berengar (French: BĂ©renger or BĂ©lenger, Latin: Berengarius or Belengarius, Spanish: Berenguer) was the eldest son of Alausia, daughter of Sancho VI of Gascony, and Hilduin, Count of AngoulĂŞme. He succeeded to the Duchy of Gascony on Sancho's death in 1032.
Berengar of Tours Berengar of Tours (c. 999 – January 6, 1088) was a French 11th century Christian theologian, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was soon followed at cathedral schools of Laon and Paris, and who disputed with the Church leadership over the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist.
Berengarians The Berengarians were a religious sect who adhered to the views of Berengar of Tours, Archdeacon of Angiers, who opposed the doctrine of transubstantiation and the real presence, a considerable time before Luther. He is further charged by the Roman Catholics with decrying marriage, and maintaining the common use of all sorts of women, and asserting infant baptism of no effect.
Berenguela of Castile Berenguela (or Berengaria) (1180 – November 8, 1246), was briefly queen of Castile and León. The eldest daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonora of England, she was briefly engaged to Conrad II, Duke of Swabia, but he was murdered in 1196 before they could be married.
Berenguer Estañol Berenguer Estañol de Ampurias (also spelled Estanyol) was the vicar general of the Duchy of Athens for four years from 1312 to 1316. He was sent there by Frederick II of Sicily to rule on behalf of his five year old son Manfred, who was installed as per the request of the Catalan Company.
Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona Berengar Raymond I the Crooked, also called the Hunchback (in Spanish, Berenguer RamĂłn I el Corvado or el Curvo; and in Catalan, Berenguer Ramon I el Corbat) (1005-26 May 1035) was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona from 1015 to his death.
Berenice (port) Berenice or Berenice Troglodytica (Greek: ), now known as Medinet-el Haras, is an ancient seaport of Egypt on the west coast of the Red Sea. It was founded or certainly converted from a village into a city, by Ptolemy II (285 BC—246 BC), who named it after his mother, Berenice I of Egypt.
Berenice Abbott Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.
Berenice I of Egypt Berenice I, daughter of Lagus, was first the wife of Philip, an obscure Macedonian nobleman, with whom she gave birth to the future Magas of Cyrene. Upon Philip's death, she came to Egypt as a lady-in-waiting to Eurydice, bride of Ptolemy I, Alexander's general and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Berenice III of Egypt Berenice III (120–80 BC, Greek: ΒεĎενίκη), sometimes called Cleopatra Berenice, ruled as queen of Egypt from 81 to 80 BC, and possibly from 101 to 88 BC jointly with her uncle/husband Ptolemy X Alexander. She was the first woman to rule Egypt alone in 1100 years, the last being Queen Twosret in 1185 BC.
Berenice IV of Egypt Berenice IV (Greek: ΒεĎενίκη), was the daughter of Ptolemy XII of Egypt and probably Cleopatra V of Egypt Tryphaena, sister of Cleopatra VI of Egypt Tryphaena, and the famous Cleopatra VII (loved by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony). Ptolemy XII was forced to flee to Rome in 58 BC and Berenice became co-regent with her mother.
Berenklauw A berenklauw (Bear's claw in English) is a fried fast food snack from the Netherlands. It consists of a sliced meatball and fried onion rings on a wooden skewer, smothered in peanut sauce (also known as satay sauce) which originated in the Indonesian cuisine.
Berenty Reserve Berenty Reserve is a small private reserve of gallery forest along the Mandrare river, set in the semi-arid spiny forest ecoregion of the far south of Madagascar. For some years Primatologist Alison Jolly and student volunteers have visited Berenty to conduct fieldwork on Lemurs.
Beresfield rail disaster In the Beresfield rail disaster of 23 October, 1997, a coal train passed a red signal and ploughed into the rear of another coal train, causing a collision and derailment that blocked all four tracks. The accident occurred at night at Beresfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Bereskin & Parr Bereskin & Parr LLP is a Canadian law firm, founded in 1965, which specializes in all forms of intellectual property law. The firm consists of 65 lawyers, patent and trade-mark agents and has offices in Toronto, Montreal, Kitchener and Mississauga.
Berestia Berestia is the part of Belarusian, Polish, and Ukrainian ethnic territory, bounded by the Bug River, Pripyat River, Yaselda River, and Narew (Narva) River. Its main cities were Berestia (now Brest), Dorohychyn, Kobryn, and Kamianiec.
Beretta 92 The Beretta 92 (also Beretta 96 and Beretta 98) is a series of semi-automatic pistols designed and manufactured by Beretta of Italy. It was designed in 1975 and production of many variants in different calibers continues to the present day.
Beretta 92G-SD/96G-SD The Beretta 92G-SD and 96G-SD Special Duty handguns were semi-automatic, locked-breech delayed recoil operated, double/single action pistols, fitted with the heavy, wide Brigadier slide, chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge (92G-SD) and the .40 S&W cartridge (96G-SD), framed with the addition of the tactical equipment rail, designed and manufactured by Beretta.
Beretta AS70/90 The Beretta AS70/90 is a light machine gun or squad automatic weapon derived from the Beretta AR70/90 rifle system. It uses the same gas operated, rotating bolt system as the rifle but fires from an open bolt and has a much heavier fixed barrel.
Beretta Cx4 Storm The Beretta Cx4 Storm is a pistol-caliber carbine aimed at sporting, personal defense and law enforcement. Seven different models accept full-size Beretta magazines from the 92/96, Cougar, and Px4 series pistols in 9 mm, .
Beretta M1934 The Beretta model 1934 is a compact, semi-automatic (or self-loading) pistol which was issued as a standard service firearm to the Italian armed forces beginning in 1934. Its caliber is 9 mm Corto (also known as 9 x 17 mm, and .
Beretta M1951 The Beretta M1951 (M951, 951, "Brigadier", Mod.51) is a semi-automatic single action pistol chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge, designed by Tullio Marengoni (Beretta design engineer) and manufactured by Beretta of Italy.
Beretta Model 1918 The Beretta Model 1918 was a submachine gun that entered service in 1918 with the Italian armed forces. It was the second submachine gun to enter service in World War I, after the Villar Perosa beating the German MP18 into service by a couple months.
Beretta Px4 Storm The Beretta Px4 Storm is a semi-automatic pistol intended for personal defense and law enforcement use. The Px4 uses the same recoil operated, locked-breech system with rotating barrel as the Beretta 8000 Models.
Berezayka River Berezayka () is a river in Novgorod Oblast and Tver Oblast of Russia. Berezayka starts from the Berezay Lake in the Valdai Hills at , flows through a number of lakes including the southeastern part of the Piros Lake, and joins the Msta River at Berezovsky Ryadok village at .
Berezhany Berezhany (, ) is a city located in the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Berezhanskyi Raion (district), and rests about 100 km from Lviv and 50 km from the oblast capital, Ternopil.
Berezin integral In mathematical physics, a Berezin integral is a way to define "integration" for functions of Grassmann variables. It is not an integral in the usual sense; it is called "integration" for convenience, since it is used in physics in a parallel manner to ordinary integration.
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 The Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 was a revolutionary russian Rocket plane that was developed several years before the more widely known Messerschmitt Me 163. Unlike the German rocket fighter, the BI-1 was not lost to any fuel accidents.
Berg Castle Berg Castle (Luxembourgish: Schlass Bierg, French: Château de Berg, German: Schloss Berg) is the principal residence of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. It is situated in the town of Colmar-Berg, in central Luxembourg, near the confluence of the Alzette and the Attert, two of Luxembourg's most important rivers.
Berg Court District , or Bergs tingslag, was a district of Jämtland and Härjedalen in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Berg report The Berg report is the name most commonly given to a famous report by Elliot Berg, which was published by the World Bank in 1981. The report was titled "Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action".
Berg River The Berg River (also called Great Berg River) is a river located just north of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is approximately 294 km long with a catchment area of 7,715 km² and outlets into the Atlantic Ocean.
Berg School Berg School is a secondary school in Oslo, Norway that was established in 1925. It provides education leading to the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma as well as the college preparatory "allmennfaglig studieretning" of the Norwegian school system.
Berg wind The Berg wind is a hot and dry föhn wind which blows from the South Africa plateau and is strongest in the western portion of the sub-continent. It is named from the Drakensberg mountain range, as it moves from inland to the coast and becomes trapped and forced under a cooler layer of air on the leeward side of the mountain range.
Bergama Bergama (Greek: Î ÎĎγαμος) is a city and its depending district in Turkey, in northwestern Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, about 100km north of Ä°zmir, located on a promontory on the north side of the Bakırçay river with a population of about 55,000. It is due east of the island of Lesbos (Midilli in Turkish).
Bergamot Station Bergamot Station is the historical name for the site on which the gallery complex is located, dating back to 1875 when it was a stop for the Red Line trolley running from Los Angeles to the Santa Monica Pier. Bergamot is a flower of the mint family that once flourished in the area.
Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-MĂĽrren The Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-MĂĽrren (BLM) is a mountain railway in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland, which connects the communes of Lauterbrunnen and MĂĽrren. The railway was opened in the year 1891, and since 1910 winter operation has also been possible.
Bergedorf Round Table The Bergedorf Round Table was founded in 1961 as the Körber Foundation's ongoing series of international conferences. It consists of select groups of senior politicians, analysts, business leaders, and journalists who gather three times a year at varying locations to discuss international policy issues.
Bergeijk Bergeijk () is a municipality and a town in North Brabant Province in the southern Netherlands. It has an area of 103 square kilometers, and a population of 18,027 as of 2005, for a population density of 175 people per square kilometer.
Bergen auf RĂĽgen Bergen auf RĂĽgen is the district seat (Kreisstadt) of RĂĽgen in the middle of the island of RĂĽgen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the Amt of Bergen auf RĂĽgen, which with a population of over 23,000 is Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's most populous Amt.
Bergen Air Transport Bergen Air Transport is an airline based at Bergen Airport, Flesland in Norway. The airline started seaplane charter flights in 1998 and now also operates scheduled flights to Notodden Airport with a Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft.
Bergen Arches Bergen Arches is the common name for the Erie Cut, Erie Railroad's mile-long, four-track cut in Jersey City, New Jersey through the New Jersey Palisades (also known as "Bergen Hill"). The cut linked the Erie's main line to its Hudson River waterfront terminal where travelers to New York City would transfer to ferries or the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad.
Bergen Bank Bergen Bank was a Norwegian commercial bank in exsistence between 1975 and 1990. It was created as a merger between Bergens Privatbank (founded in 1855 and Bergens Kreditbank (founded in 1928) while the bank Kvam Privatbank was acquired in 1979.
Bergen Catholic High School Bergen Catholic High School is an all-male Roman Catholic high school in Oradell, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade. It was founded in 1955 by the Irish Christian Brothers, with the first Freshman class made up of 114 students.
Bergen Cliff Hawks The Bergen Cliff Hawks are a proposed Atlantic League team to be based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Unless concurring negotiations fail, they will play in the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affilitated with Major League Baseball.
Bergen Community College Bergen Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Bergen County, New Jersey. Its primary campus is in Paramus where it was built on 9 holes of the Arcola Golf Course, cutting Arcola's size down in half.
Bergen County Academies The Bergen County Academies (sometimes referred to by its students and faculty as Bergen Academy or BCA) is a public magnet high school located in Hackensack that serves the high-school population of Bergen County, New Jersey. The school, originally the brainchild of the late Dr.
Bergen County Scholastic League The Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) is a New Jersey high school sports association under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The three conferences consist of thirty public and parochials high schools covering Bergen County and Hudson County in northern New Jersey.
Bergen County Technical High School Bergen County Technical High School, also known as Bergen Tech, or more commonly "BT", is a secondary school that offers an applied learning experience that strives to utilize the evolving technologies, equipment, and facilities that will define tomorrow’s workplace for students in Bergen County, New Jersey. Bergen Tech is located in Teterboro and is one of three campuses of the Bergen County Technical Schools.
Bergen County Technical Schools Bergen County Technical Schools is a county vocational school district that serves as the vocational / technical education arm of all the school districts within the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey. The primary programs offered are the Bergen County Academies and Bergen County Technical High School.
Bergen Family The Bergen family is consisted of many famous names and faces such as Candice Bergen and Edgar Bergen. The Bergen family has its main roots in Bergen, Hesse and Bergen, Lower Saxony in Germany and Bergen in Norway.
Bergen Museum The Bergen Museum in Bergen, Norway, was founded in 1825, with the intent of building large collections in the fields of culture and natural history. The museum became the grounds for much academic activity, a tradition which has prevailed since the museum became part of the University of Bergen, which was founded in 1946.
Bergen Prizes The Bergen Prizes were three British merchantmen (Betsy, Union, and Charming Polly) that were captured by Captain Pierre Landais of the USS Alliance and John Paul Jones of the USS Bonhomme Richard in 1779. Landais, who had had numerous disagreements with Jones over the command of the squadron in European waters, sent the vessels to Bergen, Norway.
Bergen Reads Bergen Reads is a program set up in conjunction with the UJA federation of northern New Jersey. The purpose of Bergen Reads is to organize adult volunteers to tutor / read with students that are below par for their grades.
Bergen Storsenter Bergen Storsenter is the largest shopping centre in central Bergen, Norway, with a turnover of 1,024 billion Norwegian krone in 2002. The first shopping centre on this location opened in 1988 and was called Bystasjonen.
Bergen Street (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Bergen Street is a station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway, located at Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. It is a local station with two side platforms; the express tracks are between the local tracks but slant upward to an upper level, and between those are the tracks of the BMT Brighton Line, which rise up from a lower level; the BMT tracks were built at the same time as the IRT tracks as part of the Dual Contracts.
Bergen Street Line The Bergen Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Bergen Street, as well as eastbound on Dean Street (as part of a one-way pair), between downtown Brooklyn and Ocean Hill (earlier Red Hook to City Line). Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B65 bus, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot.
Bergen Wave The Bergen Wave was a term used by the Norwegian press for the emergence of successful bands from Bergen in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Several of these artists also got an international breakthrough, which was very uncommon for Norwegian music at that time.
Bergen Woodwind Quintet The Bergen Woodwind Quintet is a well-known woodwind quintet based in Bergen, Norway. The ensemble's members are the principal wind musicians of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, also known as Harmonien, which was founded in 1765 and is one of the world's oldest orchestral institutions.
Bergen-Belsen DP camp Near the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, British forces established a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II. The site used abandoned German army Panzer barracks for housing facilities, and after November of 1945, Jewish refugees were given their own section.
Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League The Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League, abbreviated BPSL, is an athletic conference comprised of thirteen private and public high schools located in Bergen County and Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The BPSL operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Bergen, Lower Saxony Bergen is a small town in the northern Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is divided into twelve districts: Becklingen, Belsen, Bergen, Bleckmar, Diesten, Dohnsen, Eversen, Hagen, Hassel, Offen, Sülze and Wardböhmen.
Bergenfield High School Bergenfield High School is a four-year, comprehensive public high school serving students from Bergenfield, in Bergen County, New Jersey. A suburb of New York City, Bergenfield has a population of 28,000 people, mostly consisting of people in professional, business, and technical fields.
Bergenfield Public Schools The Bergenfield Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district in Bergenfield in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves a total of 3,900 students in grades Kindergarten through 12.
Bergenhus Bergenhus is a borough (bydel) of the city of Bergen, Norway which makes up the city centre and the neighborhoods immediately north of it such as Sandviken. It is named after the Bergenhus fortress which is west of the historical buildings of Bryggen.
Bergenia Bergenia is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae, native to central Asia, from Afghanistan to China and the Himalaya. They are herbaceous perennial plants with a spirally arranged rosette of leaves 6-35 cm long and 4-15 cm broad, and pink flowers produced in a cyme.
Bergenline Avenue (HBLR station) Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located at 49th Street in Union City, New Jersey. The station is the only underground station in the HBLR system, located 160 feet below Bergenline Avenue, near the borders with North Bergen and West New York.
Bergensk Bergensk, or the Bergen dialect, is a dialect of Norwegian used in Bergen, Norway. It is easy for Norwegians to recognise, as it, perhaps particularly phonetically, is more distinguishable from other dialects in Hordaland than for example the Stavanger dialect is from the dialects of Rogaland and the Trondheim dialect from is from Trøndelag dialects.
Bergentheim Bergentheim is a small village in the municipality of Hardenberg, the Netherlands with approximately 3000 inhabitants. Located between the canal Almelo- De Haandrik and the railway Zwolle-Emmen, the town used to have a railway station stationsweb), but it was closed in 1975.
Berger Blanc Suisse The Weisser Schweizer Schäferhund, or Berger Blanc Suisse (White Swiss Shepherd), was often considered a mutation of the German Shepherd, until recently when it was finally considered a separate breed after years of campaigning from White Shepherd enthusiasts. Currently, this breed is only recognised by the FCI and the UKC, but more efforts are being made to give the breed worldwide recognition as a separate and distinct breed from the German Shepherd.
Berger Picard The Berger Picard or Picardy Shepherd is a French breed of dog of the herding group of breeds. These dogs nearly became extinct after both World War I and World War II and still remain a rare breed to this date with only about 3500 dogs in France, around 500 in Germany and less than 100 in the United States.
Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. It starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in the fictional Bureau des Etrangers (Department of Non-Residents), part of the States of Jersey Police.
Bergere A Bergere is a type of upholstered chair, commonly found in the Regence/Rococo period in France in the 17th Century. It includes a loose cushion, upholstered back, upholstered seat, exposed wooden frame, and closed upholstered arms.
Bergeron v. Bergeron Bergeron v. Bergeron is a landmark child custody case decided by the Louisiana Supreme Court, in the dispute the Louisiana supreme court held that in order to modify a custody dispute that has previously been a considered decree, that the person seeking the modification bears a heavy burden of proving that the current custody is so deletrious to the child as to warrant it's modification, or by clear and convincing evidence that the benefits of the change outweigh the damages that will be done to the child.
Bergesen Worldwide Gas Bergesen Worldwide Gas is the worlds largest gas shipping company and is part of the Bergesen Worldwide Group. The company has 98 gas carriers with a total 4,688,531 dwt transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gases (propane and butane).
Bergger The Bergger company was begun over a century ago by legendary French manufacturer Guilleminot. The company manufactures monochrome photographic film 35mm to 20"x24" as well as photographic paper and chemicals.
Berghaus Berghaus is an outdoor clothing and equipment manufacturer owned by the Pentland group based of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1966 by Peter Lockey and Gordon Davison, initially as an importer and distributor of outdoors products.
Berghouata The Berghouata or Barghawata were a medieval Berber tribe of the Atlantic coast of Morocco, belonging to the Masmuda group of tribes. After allying with a failed Sufri Kharijite rebellion in Morocco against the Abbasids, they established a kingdom in the area of Tamesna between 744 and 1058, when the Almoravids conquered them.
Bergianska trädgården The Bergianska trädgården, the Bergian Garden, is a botanical garden located in the Frescati area on the outskirts of Stockholm, close to the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the main campus of Stockholm University.
Bergie Bergie is a derogatory term used for a subsection of homeless people in Cape Town, South Africa. The word originates from the Afrikaans berg meaning "mountain" - the term originally referred to the homeless people who sheltered in the forests of the slopes of Table Mountain.
Berglind ĂsgeirsdĂłttir Berglind ĂsgeirsdĂłttir is the Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD. She has been at this post since September 2002 and among her responsibilities are the areas of education, health, labour and social policy and public communication.
Bergman (crater) Bergman is a small lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It is located on the interior floor of the Mendeleev walled-plain, and is attached to the edge of the inner wall to the northwest.
Bergman cyclization The Bergman cyclization or Bergman reaction or Bergman cycloaromatization is an organic reaction and more specifically a rearrangement reaction taking place when an enyne is heated in presence of a suitable hydrogen donor (Scheme 1). The reaction product is a derivative of benzene.
Bergman's Bear The Bergman's Bear (Ursus arctos piscator) is allegedly an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear that lived in the Kamchatka Peninsula. The bear was identified and named by Swedish zoologist Sten Bergman in 1920 determined that the bear was a separate species after examining a hide (which had fur very different from other local bears) and series of footprints, measuring 14.
Bergmann MG15 nA Gun The Bergmann MG15 was the World War I production version of the earlier MG10, brainchild of Theodor Bergmann and Louis Schmeisser. Like many weapons in the history of German gun production, it was somewhat ahead of its time, using aluminium.
Bergmann's Rule In zoology, Bergmann's Rule is a principle that correlates environmental temperature with body mass in warm-blooded animals. It asserts that within a species, the body mass increases with latitude and colder climate.
Bergner's Bergner's is a major department store in central and northern Illinois, established in 1889 in Peoria, Illinois, and offering mid-line to higher end merchandise in their largest stores. The current flagship store is located in Peoria at The Shoppes at Grande Prairie.
Bergsala Bergsala AB, from Kungsbacka, Sweden, has operated as the Nordic and Baltic agent and distributor of Nintendo products since 1981. Bergsala's administrative center and warehouse is in Kungsbacka, Sweden, but there are local Bergsala offices in Norway, Denmark and Finland as well.
Bergsøysund Bridge Bergsøysund Bridge (Bergsøysundbrua) is a pontoon bridge that crosses Bergsøysundet between Aspøya and Bergsøya in Møre og Romsdal county in Norway. The bridge is 931 metres long, the longest span is 106 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 6 metres.
Bergsbók Bergsbók is an Icelandic manuscript from the early 15th century. It contains the kings' sagas Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, a long version of Óláfs saga helga and several short texts and poems, mostly associated with the two kings.
Bergse Maas The Bergse Maas or Bergsche Maas is a canal that was constructed in 1904 to be a branch of the Meuse River in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. River Meuse splits near Heusden into the Afgedamde Maas ("Dammed-off Meuse") to the north and the Bergse Maas to the west.
Bergsjö Court District , or Bergsjö tingslag, was a district of Hälsingland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Bergslagen The Mining district of Central Sweden, often referred to under its Swedish name Bergslagen, is a historically, culturally, and linguistically distinct region of Svealand in central Sweden. In Bergslagen mining and metallurgic industry have been important since the Middle Ages.
Bergslagernas Järnvägar Bergslagernas Järnvägar was the largest private railroad company of Sweden with a main line from Gothenburg to Falun, in all 478 km. Bergslagernas Järnvägar (BJ) was founded in the 1870s to form a transportation system from Bergslagen, the ore-rich areas in southern Sweden to the port in Gothenburg.
BergstraĂźe BergstraĂźe ("Mountain Road") is the name of a mountain route, and the area around it, which stretches across the western edge of the Odenwald in southern Hesse and northern Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany.
Bergur Sigurbjörnsson Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, (May 20 1917 – July 28 2005), was an Icelandic magazine editor and politician. He studied business in the University of Iceland, and later went on to study economics in Stockholm University.
Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal Bergville is a small town situated in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established as Bergville Mountain Village in 1897 and is now the commercial centre for a 2,500 km² dairy and cattle ranching area.
Berengar II of Neustria Berengar of Bayeux, was count of Rennes and paternal grandfather of Conan I of Rennes. Berengar married the daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany, by which relationship he attained countship of Rennes and her brother Judicael became Duke.
Berengar of Berga Berengar () (d.1093), the third son of Wilfred II of Cerdanya and Guisla, was the count of Berga in 1050 from the death of his brother Bernard I until he renounced the county later the same year to become bishop of Girona until his death.
Berengar of Gascony Berengar (French: BĂ©renger or BĂ©lenger, Latin: Berengarius or Belengarius, Spanish: Berenguer) was the eldest son of Alausia, daughter of Sancho VI of Gascony, and Hilduin, Count of AngoulĂŞme. He succeeded to the Duchy of Gascony on Sancho's death in 1032.
Berengar of Tours Berengar of Tours (c. 999 – January 6, 1088) was a French 11th century Christian theologian, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was soon followed at cathedral schools of Laon and Paris, and who disputed with the Church leadership over the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist.
Berengarians The Berengarians were a religious sect who adhered to the views of Berengar of Tours, Archdeacon of Angiers, who opposed the doctrine of transubstantiation and the real presence, a considerable time before Luther. He is further charged by the Roman Catholics with decrying marriage, and maintaining the common use of all sorts of women, and asserting infant baptism of no effect.
Berenguela of Castile Berenguela (or Berengaria) (1180 – November 8, 1246), was briefly queen of Castile and León. The eldest daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonora of England, she was briefly engaged to Conrad II, Duke of Swabia, but he was murdered in 1196 before they could be married.
Berenguer Estañol Berenguer Estañol de Ampurias (also spelled Estanyol) was the vicar general of the Duchy of Athens for four years from 1312 to 1316. He was sent there by Frederick II of Sicily to rule on behalf of his five year old son Manfred, who was installed as per the request of the Catalan Company.
Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona Berengar Raymond I the Crooked, also called the Hunchback (in Spanish, Berenguer RamĂłn I el Corvado or el Curvo; and in Catalan, Berenguer Ramon I el Corbat) (1005-26 May 1035) was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona from 1015 to his death.
Berenice (port) Berenice or Berenice Troglodytica (Greek: ), now known as Medinet-el Haras, is an ancient seaport of Egypt on the west coast of the Red Sea. It was founded or certainly converted from a village into a city, by Ptolemy II (285 BC—246 BC), who named it after his mother, Berenice I of Egypt.
Berenice Abbott Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.
Berenice I of Egypt Berenice I, daughter of Lagus, was first the wife of Philip, an obscure Macedonian nobleman, with whom she gave birth to the future Magas of Cyrene. Upon Philip's death, she came to Egypt as a lady-in-waiting to Eurydice, bride of Ptolemy I, Alexander's general and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Berenice III of Egypt Berenice III (120–80 BC, Greek: ΒεĎενίκη), sometimes called Cleopatra Berenice, ruled as queen of Egypt from 81 to 80 BC, and possibly from 101 to 88 BC jointly with her uncle/husband Ptolemy X Alexander. She was the first woman to rule Egypt alone in 1100 years, the last being Queen Twosret in 1185 BC.
Berenice IV of Egypt Berenice IV (Greek: ΒεĎενίκη), was the daughter of Ptolemy XII of Egypt and probably Cleopatra V of Egypt Tryphaena, sister of Cleopatra VI of Egypt Tryphaena, and the famous Cleopatra VII (loved by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony). Ptolemy XII was forced to flee to Rome in 58 BC and Berenice became co-regent with her mother.
Berenklauw A berenklauw (Bear's claw in English) is a fried fast food snack from the Netherlands. It consists of a sliced meatball and fried onion rings on a wooden skewer, smothered in peanut sauce (also known as satay sauce) which originated in the Indonesian cuisine.
Berenty Reserve Berenty Reserve is a small private reserve of gallery forest along the Mandrare river, set in the semi-arid spiny forest ecoregion of the far south of Madagascar. For some years Primatologist Alison Jolly and student volunteers have visited Berenty to conduct fieldwork on Lemurs.
Beresfield rail disaster In the Beresfield rail disaster of 23 October, 1997, a coal train passed a red signal and ploughed into the rear of another coal train, causing a collision and derailment that blocked all four tracks. The accident occurred at night at Beresfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Bereskin & Parr Bereskin & Parr LLP is a Canadian law firm, founded in 1965, which specializes in all forms of intellectual property law. The firm consists of 65 lawyers, patent and trade-mark agents and has offices in Toronto, Montreal, Kitchener and Mississauga.
Berestia Berestia is the part of Belarusian, Polish, and Ukrainian ethnic territory, bounded by the Bug River, Pripyat River, Yaselda River, and Narew (Narva) River. Its main cities were Berestia (now Brest), Dorohychyn, Kobryn, and Kamianiec.
Beretta 92 The Beretta 92 (also Beretta 96 and Beretta 98) is a series of semi-automatic pistols designed and manufactured by Beretta of Italy. It was designed in 1975 and production of many variants in different calibers continues to the present day.
Beretta 92G-SD/96G-SD The Beretta 92G-SD and 96G-SD Special Duty handguns were semi-automatic, locked-breech delayed recoil operated, double/single action pistols, fitted with the heavy, wide Brigadier slide, chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge (92G-SD) and the .40 S&W cartridge (96G-SD), framed with the addition of the tactical equipment rail, designed and manufactured by Beretta.
Beretta AS70/90 The Beretta AS70/90 is a light machine gun or squad automatic weapon derived from the Beretta AR70/90 rifle system. It uses the same gas operated, rotating bolt system as the rifle but fires from an open bolt and has a much heavier fixed barrel.
Beretta Cx4 Storm The Beretta Cx4 Storm is a pistol-caliber carbine aimed at sporting, personal defense and law enforcement. Seven different models accept full-size Beretta magazines from the 92/96, Cougar, and Px4 series pistols in 9 mm, .
Beretta M1934 The Beretta model 1934 is a compact, semi-automatic (or self-loading) pistol which was issued as a standard service firearm to the Italian armed forces beginning in 1934. Its caliber is 9 mm Corto (also known as 9 x 17 mm, and .
Beretta M1951 The Beretta M1951 (M951, 951, "Brigadier", Mod.51) is a semi-automatic single action pistol chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge, designed by Tullio Marengoni (Beretta design engineer) and manufactured by Beretta of Italy.
Beretta Model 1918 The Beretta Model 1918 was a submachine gun that entered service in 1918 with the Italian armed forces. It was the second submachine gun to enter service in World War I, after the Villar Perosa beating the German MP18 into service by a couple months.
Beretta Px4 Storm The Beretta Px4 Storm is a semi-automatic pistol intended for personal defense and law enforcement use. The Px4 uses the same recoil operated, locked-breech system with rotating barrel as the Beretta 8000 Models.
Berezayka River Berezayka () is a river in Novgorod Oblast and Tver Oblast of Russia. Berezayka starts from the Berezay Lake in the Valdai Hills at , flows through a number of lakes including the southeastern part of the Piros Lake, and joins the Msta River at Berezovsky Ryadok village at .
Berezhany Berezhany (, ) is a city located in the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Berezhanskyi Raion (district), and rests about 100 km from Lviv and 50 km from the oblast capital, Ternopil.
Berezin integral In mathematical physics, a Berezin integral is a way to define "integration" for functions of Grassmann variables. It is not an integral in the usual sense; it is called "integration" for convenience, since it is used in physics in a parallel manner to ordinary integration.
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 The Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 was a revolutionary russian Rocket plane that was developed several years before the more widely known Messerschmitt Me 163. Unlike the German rocket fighter, the BI-1 was not lost to any fuel accidents.
Berg Castle Berg Castle (Luxembourgish: Schlass Bierg, French: Château de Berg, German: Schloss Berg) is the principal residence of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. It is situated in the town of Colmar-Berg, in central Luxembourg, near the confluence of the Alzette and the Attert, two of Luxembourg's most important rivers.
Berg Court District , or Bergs tingslag, was a district of Jämtland and Härjedalen in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Berg report The Berg report is the name most commonly given to a famous report by Elliot Berg, which was published by the World Bank in 1981. The report was titled "Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action".
Berg River The Berg River (also called Great Berg River) is a river located just north of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is approximately 294 km long with a catchment area of 7,715 km² and outlets into the Atlantic Ocean.
Berg School Berg School is a secondary school in Oslo, Norway that was established in 1925. It provides education leading to the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma as well as the college preparatory "allmennfaglig studieretning" of the Norwegian school system.
Berg wind The Berg wind is a hot and dry föhn wind which blows from the South Africa plateau and is strongest in the western portion of the sub-continent. It is named from the Drakensberg mountain range, as it moves from inland to the coast and becomes trapped and forced under a cooler layer of air on the leeward side of the mountain range.
Bergama Bergama (Greek: Î ÎĎγαμος) is a city and its depending district in Turkey, in northwestern Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, about 100km north of Ä°zmir, located on a promontory on the north side of the Bakırçay river with a population of about 55,000. It is due east of the island of Lesbos (Midilli in Turkish).
Bergamot Station Bergamot Station is the historical name for the site on which the gallery complex is located, dating back to 1875 when it was a stop for the Red Line trolley running from Los Angeles to the Santa Monica Pier. Bergamot is a flower of the mint family that once flourished in the area.
Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-MĂĽrren The Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-MĂĽrren (BLM) is a mountain railway in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland, which connects the communes of Lauterbrunnen and MĂĽrren. The railway was opened in the year 1891, and since 1910 winter operation has also been possible.
Bergedorf Round Table The Bergedorf Round Table was founded in 1961 as the Körber Foundation's ongoing series of international conferences. It consists of select groups of senior politicians, analysts, business leaders, and journalists who gather three times a year at varying locations to discuss international policy issues.
Bergeijk Bergeijk () is a municipality and a town in North Brabant Province in the southern Netherlands. It has an area of 103 square kilometers, and a population of 18,027 as of 2005, for a population density of 175 people per square kilometer.
Bergen auf RĂĽgen Bergen auf RĂĽgen is the district seat (Kreisstadt) of RĂĽgen in the middle of the island of RĂĽgen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the Amt of Bergen auf RĂĽgen, which with a population of over 23,000 is Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's most populous Amt.
Bergen Air Transport Bergen Air Transport is an airline based at Bergen Airport, Flesland in Norway. The airline started seaplane charter flights in 1998 and now also operates scheduled flights to Notodden Airport with a Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft.
Bergen Arches Bergen Arches is the common name for the Erie Cut, Erie Railroad's mile-long, four-track cut in Jersey City, New Jersey through the New Jersey Palisades (also known as "Bergen Hill"). The cut linked the Erie's main line to its Hudson River waterfront terminal where travelers to New York City would transfer to ferries or the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad.
Bergen Bank Bergen Bank was a Norwegian commercial bank in exsistence between 1975 and 1990. It was created as a merger between Bergens Privatbank (founded in 1855 and Bergens Kreditbank (founded in 1928) while the bank Kvam Privatbank was acquired in 1979.
Bergen Catholic High School Bergen Catholic High School is an all-male Roman Catholic high school in Oradell, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade. It was founded in 1955 by the Irish Christian Brothers, with the first Freshman class made up of 114 students.
Bergen Cliff Hawks The Bergen Cliff Hawks are a proposed Atlantic League team to be based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Unless concurring negotiations fail, they will play in the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affilitated with Major League Baseball.
Bergen Community College Bergen Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Bergen County, New Jersey. Its primary campus is in Paramus where it was built on 9 holes of the Arcola Golf Course, cutting Arcola's size down in half.
Bergen County Academies The Bergen County Academies (sometimes referred to by its students and faculty as Bergen Academy or BCA) is a public magnet high school located in Hackensack that serves the high-school population of Bergen County, New Jersey. The school, originally the brainchild of the late Dr.
Bergen County Scholastic League The Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) is a New Jersey high school sports association under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The three conferences consist of thirty public and parochials high schools covering Bergen County and Hudson County in northern New Jersey.
Bergen County Technical High School Bergen County Technical High School, also known as Bergen Tech, or more commonly "BT", is a secondary school that offers an applied learning experience that strives to utilize the evolving technologies, equipment, and facilities that will define tomorrow’s workplace for students in Bergen County, New Jersey. Bergen Tech is located in Teterboro and is one of three campuses of the Bergen County Technical Schools.
Bergen County Technical Schools Bergen County Technical Schools is a county vocational school district that serves as the vocational / technical education arm of all the school districts within the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey. The primary programs offered are the Bergen County Academies and Bergen County Technical High School.
Bergen Family The Bergen family is consisted of many famous names and faces such as Candice Bergen and Edgar Bergen. The Bergen family has its main roots in Bergen, Hesse and Bergen, Lower Saxony in Germany and Bergen in Norway.
Bergen Museum The Bergen Museum in Bergen, Norway, was founded in 1825, with the intent of building large collections in the fields of culture and natural history. The museum became the grounds for much academic activity, a tradition which has prevailed since the museum became part of the University of Bergen, which was founded in 1946.
Bergen Prizes The Bergen Prizes were three British merchantmen (Betsy, Union, and Charming Polly) that were captured by Captain Pierre Landais of the USS Alliance and John Paul Jones of the USS Bonhomme Richard in 1779. Landais, who had had numerous disagreements with Jones over the command of the squadron in European waters, sent the vessels to Bergen, Norway.
Bergen Reads Bergen Reads is a program set up in conjunction with the UJA federation of northern New Jersey. The purpose of Bergen Reads is to organize adult volunteers to tutor / read with students that are below par for their grades.
Bergen Storsenter Bergen Storsenter is the largest shopping centre in central Bergen, Norway, with a turnover of 1,024 billion Norwegian krone in 2002. The first shopping centre on this location opened in 1988 and was called Bystasjonen.
Bergen Street (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Bergen Street is a station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway, located at Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. It is a local station with two side platforms; the express tracks are between the local tracks but slant upward to an upper level, and between those are the tracks of the BMT Brighton Line, which rise up from a lower level; the BMT tracks were built at the same time as the IRT tracks as part of the Dual Contracts.
Bergen Street Line The Bergen Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Bergen Street, as well as eastbound on Dean Street (as part of a one-way pair), between downtown Brooklyn and Ocean Hill (earlier Red Hook to City Line). Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B65 bus, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot.
Bergen Wave The Bergen Wave was a term used by the Norwegian press for the emergence of successful bands from Bergen in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Several of these artists also got an international breakthrough, which was very uncommon for Norwegian music at that time.
Bergen Woodwind Quintet The Bergen Woodwind Quintet is a well-known woodwind quintet based in Bergen, Norway. The ensemble's members are the principal wind musicians of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, also known as Harmonien, which was founded in 1765 and is one of the world's oldest orchestral institutions.
Bergen-Belsen DP camp Near the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, British forces established a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II. The site used abandoned German army Panzer barracks for housing facilities, and after November of 1945, Jewish refugees were given their own section.
Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League The Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League, abbreviated BPSL, is an athletic conference comprised of thirteen private and public high schools located in Bergen County and Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The BPSL operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Bergen, Lower Saxony Bergen is a small town in the northern Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is divided into twelve districts: Becklingen, Belsen, Bergen, Bleckmar, Diesten, Dohnsen, Eversen, Hagen, Hassel, Offen, Sülze and Wardböhmen.
Bergenfield High School Bergenfield High School is a four-year, comprehensive public high school serving students from Bergenfield, in Bergen County, New Jersey. A suburb of New York City, Bergenfield has a population of 28,000 people, mostly consisting of people in professional, business, and technical fields.
Bergenfield Public Schools The Bergenfield Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district in Bergenfield in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves a total of 3,900 students in grades Kindergarten through 12.
Bergenhus Bergenhus is a borough (bydel) of the city of Bergen, Norway which makes up the city centre and the neighborhoods immediately north of it such as Sandviken. It is named after the Bergenhus fortress which is west of the historical buildings of Bryggen.
Bergenia Bergenia is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae, native to central Asia, from Afghanistan to China and the Himalaya. They are herbaceous perennial plants with a spirally arranged rosette of leaves 6-35 cm long and 4-15 cm broad, and pink flowers produced in a cyme.
Bergenline Avenue (HBLR station) Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located at 49th Street in Union City, New Jersey. The station is the only underground station in the HBLR system, located 160 feet below Bergenline Avenue, near the borders with North Bergen and West New York.
Bergensk Bergensk, or the Bergen dialect, is a dialect of Norwegian used in Bergen, Norway. It is easy for Norwegians to recognise, as it, perhaps particularly phonetically, is more distinguishable from other dialects in Hordaland than for example the Stavanger dialect is from the dialects of Rogaland and the Trondheim dialect from is from Trøndelag dialects.
Bergentheim Bergentheim is a small village in the municipality of Hardenberg, the Netherlands with approximately 3000 inhabitants. Located between the canal Almelo- De Haandrik and the railway Zwolle-Emmen, the town used to have a railway station stationsweb), but it was closed in 1975.
Berger Blanc Suisse The Weisser Schweizer Schäferhund, or Berger Blanc Suisse (White Swiss Shepherd), was often considered a mutation of the German Shepherd, until recently when it was finally considered a separate breed after years of campaigning from White Shepherd enthusiasts. Currently, this breed is only recognised by the FCI and the UKC, but more efforts are being made to give the breed worldwide recognition as a separate and distinct breed from the German Shepherd.
Berger Picard The Berger Picard or Picardy Shepherd is a French breed of dog of the herding group of breeds. These dogs nearly became extinct after both World War I and World War II and still remain a rare breed to this date with only about 3500 dogs in France, around 500 in Germany and less than 100 in the United States.
Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. It starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in the fictional Bureau des Etrangers (Department of Non-Residents), part of the States of Jersey Police.
Bergere A Bergere is a type of upholstered chair, commonly found in the Regence/Rococo period in France in the 17th Century. It includes a loose cushion, upholstered back, upholstered seat, exposed wooden frame, and closed upholstered arms.
Bergeron v. Bergeron Bergeron v. Bergeron is a landmark child custody case decided by the Louisiana Supreme Court, in the dispute the Louisiana supreme court held that in order to modify a custody dispute that has previously been a considered decree, that the person seeking the modification bears a heavy burden of proving that the current custody is so deletrious to the child as to warrant it's modification, or by clear and convincing evidence that the benefits of the change outweigh the damages that will be done to the child.
Bergesen Worldwide Gas Bergesen Worldwide Gas is the worlds largest gas shipping company and is part of the Bergesen Worldwide Group. The company has 98 gas carriers with a total 4,688,531 dwt transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gases (propane and butane).
Bergger The Bergger company was begun over a century ago by legendary French manufacturer Guilleminot. The company manufactures monochrome photographic film 35mm to 20"x24" as well as photographic paper and chemicals.
Berghaus Berghaus is an outdoor clothing and equipment manufacturer owned by the Pentland group based of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1966 by Peter Lockey and Gordon Davison, initially as an importer and distributor of outdoors products.
Berghouata The Berghouata or Barghawata were a medieval Berber tribe of the Atlantic coast of Morocco, belonging to the Masmuda group of tribes. After allying with a failed Sufri Kharijite rebellion in Morocco against the Abbasids, they established a kingdom in the area of Tamesna between 744 and 1058, when the Almoravids conquered them.
Bergianska trädgården The Bergianska trädgården, the Bergian Garden, is a botanical garden located in the Frescati area on the outskirts of Stockholm, close to the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the main campus of Stockholm University.
Bergie Bergie is a derogatory term used for a subsection of homeless people in Cape Town, South Africa. The word originates from the Afrikaans berg meaning "mountain" - the term originally referred to the homeless people who sheltered in the forests of the slopes of Table Mountain.
Berglind ĂsgeirsdĂłttir Berglind ĂsgeirsdĂłttir is the Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD. She has been at this post since September 2002 and among her responsibilities are the areas of education, health, labour and social policy and public communication.
Bergman (crater) Bergman is a small lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It is located on the interior floor of the Mendeleev walled-plain, and is attached to the edge of the inner wall to the northwest.
Bergman cyclization The Bergman cyclization or Bergman reaction or Bergman cycloaromatization is an organic reaction and more specifically a rearrangement reaction taking place when an enyne is heated in presence of a suitable hydrogen donor (Scheme 1). The reaction product is a derivative of benzene.
Bergman's Bear The Bergman's Bear (Ursus arctos piscator) is allegedly an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear that lived in the Kamchatka Peninsula. The bear was identified and named by Swedish zoologist Sten Bergman in 1920 determined that the bear was a separate species after examining a hide (which had fur very different from other local bears) and series of footprints, measuring 14.
Bergmann MG15 nA Gun The Bergmann MG15 was the World War I production version of the earlier MG10, brainchild of Theodor Bergmann and Louis Schmeisser. Like many weapons in the history of German gun production, it was somewhat ahead of its time, using aluminium.
Bergmann's Rule In zoology, Bergmann's Rule is a principle that correlates environmental temperature with body mass in warm-blooded animals. It asserts that within a species, the body mass increases with latitude and colder climate.
Bergner's Bergner's is a major department store in central and northern Illinois, established in 1889 in Peoria, Illinois, and offering mid-line to higher end merchandise in their largest stores. The current flagship store is located in Peoria at The Shoppes at Grande Prairie.
Bergsala Bergsala AB, from Kungsbacka, Sweden, has operated as the Nordic and Baltic agent and distributor of Nintendo products since 1981. Bergsala's administrative center and warehouse is in Kungsbacka, Sweden, but there are local Bergsala offices in Norway, Denmark and Finland as well.
Bergsøysund Bridge Bergsøysund Bridge (Bergsøysundbrua) is a pontoon bridge that crosses Bergsøysundet between Aspøya and Bergsøya in Møre og Romsdal county in Norway. The bridge is 931 metres long, the longest span is 106 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 6 metres.
Bergsbók Bergsbók is an Icelandic manuscript from the early 15th century. It contains the kings' sagas Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, a long version of Óláfs saga helga and several short texts and poems, mostly associated with the two kings.
Bergse Maas The Bergse Maas or Bergsche Maas is a canal that was constructed in 1904 to be a branch of the Meuse River in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. River Meuse splits near Heusden into the Afgedamde Maas ("Dammed-off Meuse") to the north and the Bergse Maas to the west.
Bergsjö Court District , or Bergsjö tingslag, was a district of Hälsingland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Bergslagen The Mining district of Central Sweden, often referred to under its Swedish name Bergslagen, is a historically, culturally, and linguistically distinct region of Svealand in central Sweden. In Bergslagen mining and metallurgic industry have been important since the Middle Ages.
Bergslagernas Järnvägar Bergslagernas Järnvägar was the largest private railroad company of Sweden with a main line from Gothenburg to Falun, in all 478 km. Bergslagernas Järnvägar (BJ) was founded in the 1870s to form a transportation system from Bergslagen, the ore-rich areas in southern Sweden to the port in Gothenburg.
BergstraĂźe BergstraĂźe ("Mountain Road") is the name of a mountain route, and the area around it, which stretches across the western edge of the Odenwald in southern Hesse and northern Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany.
Bergur Sigurbjörnsson Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, (May 20 1917 – July 28 2005), was an Icelandic magazine editor and politician. He studied business in the University of Iceland, and later went on to study economics in Stockholm University.
Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal Bergville is a small town situated in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established as Bergville Mountain Village in 1897 and is now the commercial centre for a 2,500 km² dairy and cattle ranching area.
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