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Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is considered one of the major international statements on open access. It emerged in 2003 from a conference on open access, hosted in Berlin by the Max Planck Society.
Berlin Decree The Berlin Decree was issued by Napoleon on November 21, 1806, following the French success against Prussia at the battle of Jena. The decree forbade the import of British goods into European countries allied with or dependent upon France, and installed the Continental System in Europe.
Berlin Dresdener Bahnhof The Dresdener Bahnhof was a short-lived passenger railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, opened on 17 June 1875 and handling train services to and from Dresden (over the so-called "Dresdener course"), Prague and Vienna. It was fairly small in size and inconveniently located some distance from the centre of the city, south of the Landwehrkanal, in an area largely dominated by railway infrastructure.
Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the "Berlinale" (in reference to the Biennale at Venice), has been called one of the world's most prestigious film festivals. It is the film festival with most visitors worldwide.
Berlin Method The Berlin Method of biological filtration is method for keeping an aquarium, typically a saltwater aquarium, clean. It is basically the use of ample live rock (rock with live marine organisms and bacteria on or in it) in a refugium or tank.
Berlin Observatory The Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte in German) has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the Societät der Wissenschaften (Brandenburgische Science Society) which would later (1744) become the Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Prussian Academy of Sciences). The Society had no observatory, but nevertheless had an astronomer, Gottfried Kirch, who observed from a private observatory in Berlin.
Berlin Ostbahnhof Berlin Ostbahnhof (translates from German as Berlin East Station) is a mainline railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is in Friedrichshain, now part of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district, and has undergone several name changes in its history.
Berlin procedure The so-called Berlin procedure (BV) is a mathematical procedure for time series decomposition and seasonal adjustment of monthly and quarterly economic time series. The mathematical foundations of the procedure were developed in 1960's at the Technical University of Berlin and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (also known as Berlin Philharmonic or BPO; in German Berliner Philharmoniker), is one of the world's leading orchestras. Its current principal/Chief conductor is Sir Simon Rattle, who is known for his championing of contemporary classical music.
Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof The Potsdamer Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany. It was located at Potsdamer Platz, about 1 km south of the Brandenburg Gate, and kick-started the transformation of Potsdamer Platz from an area of quiet villas near the south-east corner of the Tiergarten into the bustling focal point that it eventually became.
Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn is a metro system operated by S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn. The Berlin S-Bahn consists of 16 lines and is integrated with the mostly underground U-Bahn to form the backbone of Berlin's rapid transport system.
Berlin Secession The Berlin Secession (Berliner Secession) was an art association founded by Berlin artists in 1898 as an alternative to the conservative state-run Association of Berlin Artists. That year the official salon jury rejected a landscape by Walter Leistikow, who was a key figure amongst a group of young artists interested in modern developments in art.
Berlin School The Berlin School of experimental psychology was headed by Carl Stumpf (a pupil of Franz Brentano and Rudolf Hermann Lotze), who became professor at the University of Berlin where he founded the Berlin laboratory of experimental psychology (in 1893).
Berlin School of electronic music The Berlin School of electronic music, or just Berlin School, was a development of electronic music in the 1970s, shaped by Berlin-based artists like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel. The style is characterized by soaring electric guitar or synthesizer melodies in high-register accompanied by complex, shifting sequencer bass lines.
Berlin Singakademie The Berlin Singakademie (formal name Sing-Akademie zu Berlin) is a musical (originally choral) society founded in Berlin in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Fasch, harpsichordist to the court of Prussia, on the model of the 18th century London Academy of Ancient Music.
Berlin Sportpalast The Berliner Sportpalast (built 1910, demolished 1973) was a multi-purpose winter sport venue and meeting hall in the Schöneberg section of Berlin. Depending on the type of event and seating configuration, the Sportpalast could hold up to 10,000 people and was for a time the biggest meeting hall in the German capital.
Berlin to Kitchener name change Through the latter half of the 19th century and into the first decade of the 20th, the City of Berlin, Ontario was a bustling industrial centre celebrating its German heritage (see Kitchener, Ontario). However, when World War I started, that heritage became the focus of considerable enmity from non-German residents within the city and throughout Waterloo County.
Berlin Thunder The Berlin Thunder is a franchise in NFL Europa, which is a springtime American football league serving primarily as a developmental league for the National Football League. Most of the players are young American professional players assigned by NFL teams to receive additional game experience and coaching.
Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival The Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival, which focuses on art and digital culture, is a forum promoting communication between artists, media workers and the public. Transmediale includes exhibitions, conferences, live performances, artist presentations and a variety of fringe events throughout Berlin, Germany.
Berlin U-Bahn The Berlin U-Bahn, together with the S-Bahn, is the backbone of the public transport system of Berlin, Germany. The U-Bahn runs mostly underground (as U-Bahn stands for Untergrundbahn, or Underground railway), while the S-Bahn is mostly above ground.
Berlin Victory Column The Victory Column (German: Siegessäule) is one of the more famous sights of Berlin. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian war, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873 Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871), giving the statue a new purpose.
Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall ( or Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) was a separation barrier between West Berlin and East Germany (the German Democratic Republic), which closed the border between East and West Berlin for 28 years. Construction on the wall began on August 13, 1961, and it was dismantled in the weeks following November 9, 1989.
Berlin Wine Tasting of 2004 In the Berlin Wine Tasting of 2004, a professional blind tasting was held with 36 experts drawn from European wine journalists and wine buyers. The tasters evaluated two vintages each of eight top wines from France, Italy and Chile.
Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station Berlin Zoologischer Garten (German for Berlin Zoological Garden, short form Berlin Zoo or colloquially Bahnhof Zoo) was the central transport facility in West Berlin during the division of the city, and thereafter for the western central area of Berlin until opening of the new central station on 28 May 2006. Situated on Hardenbergplatz, adjacent to the Berlin Zoo, it is also an interchange with the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, which uses the Berliner Stadtbahn, along with regional trains, known as RegionalExpress or RegionalBahn.
Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (Flughafen Berlin-Brandenburg International) is the tentative new name of Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport (Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld) in Schönefeld, Germany, near Berlin, scheduled for completion in 2011. After a 10-year administrative court battle, on 16 March, 2006 the federal administrative court in Leipzig gave the go-ahead for the project by ruling in favour of Berlin against challenges by residents and municipalities near the future airport.
Berlin-Copenhagen Cycle Route The Berlin-Copenhagen Cycle Route (German: Radfernweg Berlin-Kopenhagen) is a 630-km cycle route that connects the German and Danish capital cities. The German portion of the route, between Berlin and Rostock, is approximately 370 kilometers; the Danish portion, between Gedser and Copenhagen, is approximately 260 kilometers.
Berlin-WeiĂźensee WeiĂźensee is an area in the borough of Pankow in Berlin, Germany, named for a small lake within it. Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, WeiĂźensee was a borough in its own right, consisting of the localities of WeiĂźensee, Heinersdorf, Blankenburg, Karow, and Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow.
Berliner (pastry) A Berliner Pfannkuchen is a predominantly German doughnut made from sweet yeast dough fried in fat or oil, which has a marmalade or jam filling and usually icing, powdered sugar or conventional sugar on top. They are also sometimes available with a chocolate, champagne, mocha or advocaat filling or with no filling at all.
Berliner Ensemble The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by playwright, Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949. The group performed most of the plays by Brecht, but added some from other dramatists in the 1970s.
Berliner Stadtschloss The Berliner Stadtschloss (English: Berlin City Palace), was a royal palace in the centre of Berlin, capital of Germany. It was the principal residence of the Kings in and of Prussia from 1701 and of the German Emperors from 1871.
Berliner SV Berliner SV 92 is a German football club from the district of Wilmersdorf in Berlin. BSV is one of the country's oldest clubs and was a founding member of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in 1900.
Berliner Tageblatt The Berliner Tageblatt was a newspaper founded by publisher Rudolf Mosse in Berlin and first brought out on January 1, 1872. It first served as an advertising paper but then developed into an influential newspaper.
Berliner-Joyce XFJ The Berliner-Joyce XFJ was a prototype biplane fighter aircraft that first flew in May 1930. Designed by Berliner-Joyce Aircraft for the United States Navy, its lower wing, placed below the fuselage and just two feet above the ground, apparently gave it a tendency to ground loop when landing, and it was never ordered for production.
Berlinetta Berlinetta is a prestige name given to a few sport coupé automobiles, sometimes a model-name designation of a more luxuriant version of a base-model line. Notable examples are the various Ferrari Berlinettas, and the Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta.
BerliOS The BerliOS project was founded by FOKUS, a Fraunhofer society institute, to coordinate the different interest groups in the field of open source software (OSS) and to assume a neutral coordinator function. The target groups of BerliOS are developers and users of open source software on the one side and OSS-related companies on the other.
Berlitz Language Schools Berlitz Language Schools, now known as Berlitz International, Inc, derive from an institution founded by Maximilian Berlitz in 1878, in Providence, Rhode Island. It has now expanded into an international franchise with some 600 schools worldwide.
Berm (Western Sahara) The Berm of Western Sahara (Also known as the Moroccan Wall) is an approximately 2,700 km-long defensive structure, mostly a sand wall (or "berm"), running through Western Sahara and the southeastern portion of Morocco. It acts as a separation barrier between the Moroccan-controlled areas and the rump Polisario-controlled section of the territory that lies along its eastern and southern border.
Berman v. Parker Berman v. Parker, , landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which refined the clause "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Bermel Peninsula The Bermel Peninsula is a rugged, mountainous peninsula, approximately 15 mi (24 km) long and 7 mi (11km) wide, located at between Solberg Inlet and Mobiloil Inlet on the Bowman Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica. The feature rises to 1,670 m (5479 ft) in Bowditch Crests and includes Yule Peak, Mount Wilson, Campbell Crest, Vesconte Point, Wilson Pass, Rock Pile Peaks, Miyoda Cliff, and Rock Pile Point.
Bermellar Bermellar is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is 90 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 203 people.
Bermeo Bermeo is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. It has 17,049 inhabitants and it's the most important fishing port of the Basque Country.
Bermondsey by-election, 1983 A by-election was held in the Bermondsey constituency in South London, on February 24, 1983 after the resignation of Labour MP Robert Mellish, who had represented the constituency and its predecessors in the House of Commons since 1946. Mellish, who had been Chief Whip until 1976, was increasingly disenchanted with the left-wing moves of the Labour Party, and had announced his retirement from Parliament (effective at the next election) in 1981.
Bermondsey Market Officially called New Caledonian Market, Bermondsey Market is an antiques market located at Bermondsey Square on Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey, part of the London Borough of Southwark, in South London. Formerly the site of Bermondsey Abbey.
Bermuda Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1,100 miles (1770 km) northeast of Miami, Florida and 840 miles (1350 km) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Bermuda Admiralty Case The Bermuda Admiralty Case occurred in 1861 during the Union blockade of the Confederacy. Confederate agents in Liverpool, England were loading a British steamer, the Bermuda, with munitions for the Confederate Army when United States Minister Charles Francis Adams learned of it, and notified Foreign Secretary Lord Russell.
Bermuda Blob The Bermuda Blob was an unidentified mass (globster) that was found by Teddy Tucker, a fisherman and treasure hunter, in Mangrove Bay, Bermuda, in May 1988. Tucker described the blob as "2½ to 3 feet thick .
Bermuda Broadcasting The Bermuda Broadcasting Company is the largest broadcasting company in Bermuda. Although the BBC (not to be confused with the BBC in the UK) is government-owned, it's a purely commercial network, since there is no equivalent in Bermuda to PBS or the UK's BBC.
Bermuda Conference The Bermuda Conference was an international conference between the United Kingdom and the United States held on April 19, 1943 at Hamilton, Bermuda. Discussions included the question of Jewish refugees who had been liberated by Allied forces and those who still remained Nazi-occupied Europe.
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia Bermuda Hundred was the first incorporated town in the English settlement of Virginia. Founded in 1613, six years after Jamestown, it was the home of John Rolfe, who single-handedly founded Virginia's tobacco industry.
Bermuda land snail The Bermuda land snail is an endemic species of pulmonate land snail that scientists believe colonised the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda at least 300,000 years ago. It makes up 95% of Bermuda's terrestrial fossils.
Bermuda Militia 1813 With the start of the American War of 1812, an Act of 1813 re-organized the nine-Company Regiment of Foot into two Battalions. The total strength of the local militia was, by then, nominally 450 men, but, as always, this was, at any moment, effectively reduced by half due to the seafaring occupations of the better part of the Colony's men.
Bermuda Monetary Authority The Bermuda Monetary Authority is responsible for the licensing of banks, deposit companies and investment businesses, the issue and redemption of Bermuda notes and coins, supervision of Bermuda's financial institutions, providing advice to Government on banking and other financial and monetary matters and the vetting of individuals and entities wishing to set up corporate entities in Bermuda.
Bermuda Principles The Bermuda Principles (also known as the Bermuda Accords) are a set of agreements made by researchers involved in the sequencing of the human genome during a meeting on the Bermudas in 1996. The goal of the agreement was to provide a basis for a free sharing of pre-published data on gene sequences among scientists.
Bermuda Race The Bermuda Race, or Newport Bermuda Race, is a biennial yacht race from Newport, Rhode Island to the island of Bermuda, a distance of 635 nautical miles (1175 km) across open ocean. First held in 1906, “The Bermuda Race is the pre-eminent distance race on the East Coast,” according to Gary Jobson, the Honorary Chair of the event's centennial race.
Bermuda Regiment The Bermuda Regiment is the home defence unit of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is a single territorial infantry battalion that was formed by the amalgamation in 1965 of two originally-voluntary units, the all white Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) and the mostly black Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA).
Bermuda sloop The Bermuda sloop is a single masted type of sailing vessel developed on the island of Bermuda in the 17th century. Its original form had gaff rigging, but evolved to use what is now known as Bermuda rig, making it the basis of nearly all modern sailing yachts.
Bermuda Stock Exchange The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX), established in 1971, is now the world’s leading fully electronic offshore securities market, with a current market capitalization (excluding mutual funds) in excess of US$300 billion. Approximately 400 securities are listed on the BSX, of which almost 300 are offshore funds and alternative investment structures.
Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean which has been made infamous for the many people, aircraft, and surface vessels noted to have disappeared within its bounds. Many of these disappearances involve a level of mystery which are often popularly explained by a variety of theories beyond human error or acts of nature, often involving the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings.
Bermuda Village Bermuda Village is a suburb of Nuneaton, formerly a pit village built in 1893 to house workers for the Griff Colliery Company's new mine, "Griff Clara". The village initially consisted of ninety miner's houses, a working men's club, and a mission hall.
Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as a reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. Re-named the Bermuda Rifles in 1948, it was amalgamated into the Bermuda Regiment in 1965.
Bermuda Volunteer/Territorial Army Units 1895-1965 The Volunteer (later, Territorial) Army units raised in Bermuda were created as part of an Imperial military garrison that existed primarily to protect the Royal Naval base, centred about the HM Dockyard on Ireland Island.
Bermudian women's cricket team The Bermudian women's cricket team is the team that represents the British overseas territory of Bermuda in international women's cricket matches. They made their international debut in September 2006, playing a three match series of one-day games against Canada for the right to represent the Americas region in the Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier to be played in Ireland some time in 2007.
Bermudo II of León Bermudo II, called the Gouty (Spanish: el Gotoso) (956-999), king of Galicia (982-999) and León (984-999), was the son of Ordoño III of León. He was raised by the nobility against the king Ramiro III in Galicia in 982.
Bern Nix Bern Nix is a jazz guitarist. He has recorded and performed with Ornette Coleman, notably playing alongside fellow guitarist Charlie Ellerbee in Coleman's Prime Time group on their key recordings from Dancing in Your Head in the mid-1970 to In All Languages in 1987.
Bern Switzerland Temple The Bern Switzerland Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called the LDS Church). Located in Zollikofen, a small town near Bern in Switzerland, it was the first LDS temple to be built in Europe.
Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railway The Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon (BLS) railway, known since the merger of the "old" BLS with the Bern-Neuenburg-Bahn (BN), the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn (GBS) and the Simmentalbahn (SEZ) in 1997 as the BLS Lötschbergbahn, is the largest standard-gauge network on the Swiss Railway system apart from the Federal Railways, SBB-CFF-FFS. The railway had not been built at the time that the Federal government took control of all the other Swiss standard-gauge railways in 1905 to form the Federal Railways.
Bernabé Ferreyra Bernabé Ferreyra (February 12, 1909 – May 22, 1972) was an Argentine football forward, one of the first professional players in the Argentine Football Association to reach great popularity to the point that a movie was made about his life.
Bernabe Gonzalez Garcia Bernabe Gonzalez Garcia (born October 26, 1933, in Santa Rita, New Mexico) is senior pastor of Phoenix Tabernacle located in Phoenix, Arizona and president of The Voice of Restoration, a missionary organization. He has been influential in spreading the teachings of William M.
Bernadeth Bernadeth is a New God of Apokolips in the DC Comics universe. Leader of the Female Furies, Granny Goodness' personal warriors, Bernadeth is a treacherous hag, wielding her "fahren-knife" that burns her victims from the inside.
Bernadette (song) "Bernadette" is a 1967 hit song recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s.
Bernadette Baraquio Hamada Bernadette Baraquio Hamada is an American journalist and entertainer from the state of Hawaii. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was one of the only Filipino Americans on television featured on a regular basis in the state.
Bernadette Bourzai Bernadette Bourzai (born 28 May 1945 in Tulle) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.
Bernadette Cozart Bernadette Cozart is a professional gardener for the Department of Parks and Recreation of New York City and an ecofeminist who founded the Greening of Harlem Coalition in 1989 to help people to regenerate and take responsibility for their own neighbourhoods, transform rundown vacant lots in Harlem into flower gardens and to restore existing green spaces.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born April 23, 1947, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to a Catholic nationalist family), also known as Bernadette Devlin and Bernadette McAliskey, is a Northern Ireland republican political activist. She served as a Member of Parliament at Westminster from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency, and is a leading critic of the Good Friday Agreement.
Bernadette Farrell Bernadette Farrell (born 1957) is a British Catholic hymnwriter whose works have gained popularity among Christians of a variety of denominations. She has composed hymns alone and with her husband Owen Alstott.
Bernadette Ganilau Bernadette Lavenia Rounds Ganilau, born as Bernadette Lavenia Rounds, is a Fijian writer, broadcaster, and politician, who currently serves as Minister for Labour, Minister for Tourism, Industrial Relations, Productivity and Environment in the interim Cabinet of Commodore Frank Bainimarama, having been appointed on 9 January 2007. In previous political roles, she served in 2000 and 2001 in the Interim Government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as Assistant Minister for Social Welfare, and from June to December 2006, she was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives, until the military coup of 5 December.
Bernadette O'Brien Bernadette O'Brien was a seventeen year old Irish girl who died at a Smashing Pumpkins' concert. The concert was held in Dublin, and during an energetic version of 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' a surge from the crowd crushed her against the front barrier.
Bernadette Sembrano Bernadette Sembrano is a news reporter, television host, and correspondent of the ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs network. Sembrano is the host of the show "Nagmamahal, Kapamilya" aimed at documenting the lives of Filipinos working abroad and reuniting families that have long been apart.
Bernadette Vergnaud Bernadette Vergnaud (born 16 September 1950 in Montluçon, Auvergne) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Bernadotte af Wisborg Under the Swedish Act of Succession a prince or princess of Sweden marrying without the consent of the Sovereign forfeits the right of succession for themselves, their children and their descendants. They give up their titles and assume the family name of Bernadotte.
Bernadotte, Illinois Bernadotte is an unincorporated village located in Fulton County, Illinois. The village was likely named for Charles XIV John of Sweden who served as a Marshall for Napolean and later King of Sweden and Norway in 1818 (Illinois became 21st state on December 3, 1818).
Bernal Díaz del Castillo Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 or 1493 - 1581) was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortez. Born in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education.
Bernal Heights, San Francisco, California The Bernal Heights neighborhood, familiarly called Bernal (rhymes with kernel), lies to the south of San Francisco's Mission District. Its most prominent feature is the open parkland and microwave tower on its large rocky hill.
Bernam River Bernam River is located between the Malaysian states of Perak and Selangor, demarcating the border of the two states. Bernam River flows from Mount Liang Timur in the east on the Titiwangsa Mountains to the Straits of Malacca in the west.
Bernama BERNAMA (from Berita Nasional Malaysia) or Malaysian National News Agency is an authorised body set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and started work in May 1968. BERNAMA has branches in every state in Malaysia.
Bernard (vivaYork) Yonge and Bernard Terminal, or Bernard Terminal, is a small transit terminal in York Region, Ontario, Canada, located at 11000 Yonge Street. It is on the west side of a mall on the southeast corner of Bernard Avenue and Yonge Street in the town of Richmond Hill, Ontario, one city block north of Elgin Mills Road East.
Bernard A. Byrne Bernard Albert Byrne(19 October 1853 Newport Barracks, Kentucky -California 2 February 1910 was a United States Army Captain awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions during the Philippine-American war. He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Bernard A. Clarey Bernard Ambrose "Chick" Clarey (died June 15, 1996) was an admiral of the United States Navy. A submarine commander during World War II, he served during the late 1960s as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and in the early 1970s and Commander in Chief, U.
Bernard Amtmann Bernard Amtmann (1907–1979), antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer, publisher and founder of Montreal Book Auctions in 1967 and the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada in 1966, was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907.
Bernard Angus MacEachern The Right Reverend Bernard Angus MacEachern (February 8, 1759 - April 22, 1835) was a Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church who rose to become the first Bishop of the newly-formed Diocese of Charlottetown following its separation from the Archdiocese of Quebec on August 11, 1829.
Bernard Arshenovitz Bernard Arshenovitz, of Cleveland, Ohio, has worked for 40 years in Jewish communal service, specifically in foster care and with troubled youth. He is also a founder of The Alliance of Jewish Young Adults where he held the position of advisory board chairman.
Bernard Barrow Bernard Barrow (born December 30, 1927 in New York City; died August 4, 1993 in New York City) was an American actor, best known for his fourteen-year role as Johnny Ryan on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. On Ryan's Hope (1975-1989), Barrow played the patriarch of a large Irish American family.
Bernard Barton Bernard Barton (January 31, 1784 - February 19, 1849) was a poet, born of Quaker parentage, passed nearly all his life at Woodbridge, for the most part as a clerk in a bank. He became the friend of Southey, Lamb, and other men of letters.
Bernard Baruch Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870–June 20, 1965) was an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D.
Bernard Baruch Handicap The Bernard Baruch Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run in early to mid August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The race is for three year olds and up willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf and carries a purse of $200,000.
Bernard Belleau Dr. Bernard Belleau (March 15, 1925 – September 4, 1989) was a Canadian moloecular pharmacologist best known for his role in the discovery of Lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis B infection.
Bernard Berenson Bernard Berenson (born June 26, 1865 Butrimonys (now Vilna), Lithuania – October 6, 1959 Florence Italy) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters".
Bernard Berg Bernard 'Benny' Berg (born 14 September 1931 in Dudelange) is a Luxembourgian politician and trade unionist. In the 1970s, Berg was a leading member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, sitting in the Chamber of Deputies and the communal council of Dudelange.
Bernard Binlin Dadié Bernard Binlin Dadié (or sometimes Bernard Dadie) (born 1916 near Abidjan) is a prolific Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and ex-administrator. Among many other senior positions, starting in 1957, he held the post of Minister of Culture in the government of Côte d'Ivoire from 1977 to 1986.
Bernard Boursicot Bernard Boursicot (born 1944) is a French diplomat who was caught in a honeypot trap, by Shi Pei-Pu, a male Peking opera singer, who Bouriscot believed to be a woman. The affair lasted for twenty years with Shi even producing an alleged son.

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