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Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection (1968) (1974 paperback: ISBN 0-06-060775-0 ) is a semi-fictionalized account of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, by the Welsh author and playwright, Emlyn Williams.
Beyond Borders Beyond Borders was a 2003 movie about aid workers, starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen. Although well-intentioned, and reflecting Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful.
Beyond Bytes Beyond Bytes, Inc., was a reseller of new computer equipment and provider of services and technology for businesses, located at 17331 East US 40 Highway, Suite 106, owned by Lorinda Weeks Bytes also sold used computer equipment, under the business name "After Bytes", with an entrance in the back Beyond Bytes suite.
Beyond Citizen Kane Beyond Citizen Kane is an English language documentary made by Simon Hartog in 1993. The documentary details the dominance of the TV Globo media group in Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections.
Beyond Conviction Beyond Conviction (2006) is a feature documentary that tells the story of three crime victims on a journey toward healing and resolution, as they prepare to meet those that have committed these crimes. The film follows participants in a pioneering program run by the state of Pennsylvania in which victims of the most violent crimes meet face-to-face with their perpetrators.
Beyond Dark Castle Beyond Dark Castle is a computer game released for the Macintosh in 1987, by Silicon Beach Software. It is the sequel to Dark Castle, with more levels, monsters and items, as well as a larger game map and longer levels.
Beyond Dawn Beyond Dawn is a Norwegian avant garde band comprised of Espen Ingierd, Petter Haavik, Tore Gjedrem, and Einar Sjursø. They are described on their official website as "Norway's Best & Least Selling Act", which most likely insinuates Beyond Dawn's distinct artistic integrity being connected with their relative lack of commercial success.
Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 is a non-fiction book written by historian David Montgomery concerning organized labor during and after the United States Civil War until the Panic of 1873 and the relationships between labor unions and Radical Republicans. The book was Montgomery's first, written in 1967.
Beyond Fear (band) Beyond Fear is a heavy metal-band started in March, 2005 by Tim "Ripper" Owens as a side-project apart from his work with Iced Earth. A demo was recorded after a month, and the debut album was released about a year later.
Beyond Good and Evil (The Cult album) Beyond Good and Evil was a 2001 album by The Cult. The title of the record is a reference to Nietzsche's book of the same title, and the record briefly had the mock working title of Bring me the Head of Dave Grohl.
Beyond Humanity Expanded Edition Beyond Humanity is the third album from Interface. Although the group's sophomore effort, Angels In Disguise was a large success in the electronic music scene, financial trouble with their label Tinman Records forcefully began a period of dormancy for the band.
Beyond Jericho Beyond Jericho was a short-lived online extension of the CBS series Jericho. It was meant to take the form of a series of short "mini-episodes" that could be viewed on the official website, however only one episode was released on September 21, 2006, acting as a companion to the Pilot.
Beyond Oasis Beyond Oasis (US title; released as The Story of Thor in Europe and Japan) is an action-adventure video game released in 1994 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console. The player takes the role of Prince Ali, who has discovered a buried gold "armlet" which once belonged to a wizard who waged a long war against the evil wielder of a silver armlet.
Beyond Rangoon Beyond Rangoon is a 1995 film about Laura Bowman (played by Patricia Arquette), an American tourist who vacations in Burma (Myanmar) in 1988, the year in which the 8888 Uprising takes place. She joins, albeit initially unintentionally, political rallies with university students protesting for democracy, and travels with the student leader U Aung Ko throughout Burma (now known as Myanmar Naing-ngan.
Beyond the Beltway Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont is a long-running nationally-syndicated political talk show based in Chicago at the Museum of Broadcast Communications(It airs from 7-9PM (ET) every Sunday night on over 50 stations, including its flagship WLS-AM 890/Chicago and online at
Beyond the Bend Beyond The Bend is the third studio album of The Dawn, released in 1989. Salamat (Thank You), the first track in the album, is dedicated to the memory of Teddy Diaz, the band's guitarist, who was stabbed to death the year before.
Beyond the Beyond Beyond the Beyond is a role-playing video game that was developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1995. The music was composed by Motoi Sakuraba; it is one of his earlier, less notable works.
Beyond the Crystal Cave Beyond the Crystal Cave is a Dungeons & Dragons module set in the Greyhawk universe. It is unique among D&D modules in that it encourages a non-violent response (mainly parley and true role-play tactics) and not a violent approach to winning the campaign.
Beyond the Fringe Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. It played in Britain's West End and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s, and is widely regarded as seminal to the rise of satire in 1960s Britain.
Beyond the Glory Beyond the Glory is a 10-time Emmy-nominated series and Fox Sports Net's highest-rated weekly program. The critically-acclaimed documentary series profiles some of the most legendary and controversial athletes in recent history.
Beyond the Graves of Passion Beyond the Graves of Passion is the second album recorded by the Deathrock/Gothic Rock band Theatre of Ice. It was recorded in 1982 and 1983 in an actual haunted house, and released on Demented Mind Mill Records in 1983.
Beyond the Limits Beyond the Limits was a 1992 book continuing the modeling of the consequences of a rapidly growing global population that was started in Limits to Growth. Donella Meadows and Dennis Meadows were the lead authors and both were involved in the original Club of Rome study as well.
Beyond the Mat Beyond the Mat is a 1999 professional wrestling documentary, directed by Barry Blaustein. World Wrestling Federation chairman Vince McMahon tried to block its release after deciding that the film reflected badly on him and the WWF.
Beyond the Pleasure Principle Beyond the Pleasure Principle (first published in German in 1920 as Jenseits des Lustprinzips) is an essay by Sigmund Freud. It marked a turning point and a major modification of his previous theoretical approach.
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 sequel to The Poseidon Adventure. Continuing from the original movie's conclusion (with the Poseidon still afloat) with the six survivors of Reverend Frank Scott's team rescued, a tugboat captain, Mike Turner, discovers the behemoth wreck of the settling ocean liner.
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and its sequel, Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are television films which were presented in two parts, the first in 2000, and the second in 2002, which presented episodes from the later books in the Little House on the Prairie series (from The Long Winter to The First Four Years).
Beyond the Rocks Beyond the Rocks is a 1906 novel by Elinor Glyn and a 1922 silent film, based on that novel, in which Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino (credited as "Rodolph" Valentino here) starred together for the only time. The film was directed by Sam Wood and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Beyond the Standard Model As of 2006, in particle physics, the predictions coming from the Standard Model—a model discovered in the early 1970s—agree with all the experiments that have been conducted so far within current experimental bounds to a phenomenal accuracy despite decades of determined efforts by experimentalists to find all sorts of deviations from the Standard Model. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the high energy physicists feel that the Standard Model is not a complete model, but rather, an effective field theory, and has to be extended by some new physics at some higher energy scale.
Beyond the Sun (Bernice Summerfield) Beyond the Sun is a novel by Matt Jones featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield, his second for the Virgin New Adventures. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Beyond the Sunset: The Romantic Collection Beyond the sunset is a Blackmore's Night compilation album released in 2004 through Steamhammer. It is named for song "Beyond the Sunset" by Blackmore’s Night from their 1999 album Under a Violet Moon.
Beyond the Supernatural Beyond the Supernatural is a horror role-playing game published by Palladium Books. It is arguably the predecessor to Rifts, and considered by some users to be part of the past history of Rifts alongside the later game Chaos Earth.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Erica Gavin, Edy Williams, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, and Michael Blodgett. It was directed by Russ Meyer, and co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert.
Beyond the Veil (comic) Beyond The Veil is the title of the supernatural themed story created by writer and illustrator Rick Law. Originating in 1995 as a black and white comic series published in the American based skate and music magazine, This Prophecy, the series gained a cult following and subsequently continues to be republished in various forums worldwide.
Beyond Television Productions Beyond Television Productions is a subsidiary of the Australian company Beyond International. The company is involved in the creation and international exploitation of television, feature films and ancillary products.
Beyond The Wildwood Beyond The Wildwood - A Tribute To Syd Barrett is a tribute album consisting of music written by Pink Floyd's original guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter Syd Barrett. The musicians performing on the album are British and American indie rock artists.
Beyond Therapy Beyond Therapy is a comedic play by Christopher Durang that had a short run on Broadway in 1982, starring John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest. David Hyde Pierce earned his Equity Card and made his Broadway debut in the small but showey role of Andrew, the waiter.
Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice is the second full-length album by the American rock band Vaux. The band recently gained the rights to the album and will release it with their own Vx imprint and will be distributed by Outlook.
Beyond Visual Range missile A Beyond Visual Range missile usually refers to an air-to-air missile that is capable of engaging at ranges beyond 20 nautical miles (37 km). This range has been achieved using dual pulse rocket motors or booster rocket motor and ramjet sustainer motor.
Beyond Witch Mountain Beyond Witch Mountain was filmed in 1982, and was the second sequel to the 1975 Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain. It was originally intended to be the pilot for a TV series, but no networks thought that viewers would take the show seriously, and so a second episode was never made.
Beyond Zork Beyond Zork (full title: Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor) was an interactive fiction computer game written by Brian Moriarty and released by Infocom in 1987. It was one of the last games in Infocom's Zork series; or, rather, one of the last Zork games that many Infocom fans consider "official" (titles such as Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor were created after Activision had dissolved Infocom as a company and kept the "brand name").
Beyondblue [is an Australia]n [[non-profit organisation which aims to increase awareness and improve the treatment of depression, anxiety disorders, and related illnesses. Formed as an initiative of the Australian federal and state and territory governments after a period of public debate on the treatment of depression sufferers, beyondblue is a five-year program which was begun in October 2000.
Beyonder The Beyonder is a fictional Supreme Being type character in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by writer/editor Jim Shooter and artists Mike Zeck and John Beatty for the Secret Wars limited series (1984), although he was not given a physical form until Secret Wars II #1, which was written by Shooter and illustrated by penciller Al Milgrom and inker Steve Leialoha.
BeyondTV Swansea plays host to the BeyondTV International Film Festival. Organised by independent filmmakers Undercurrents, BeyondTV 2004 took place in the Patti Pavilion, BeyondTV 2005 in the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea Marina.
Beyster Institute The Beyster Institute was launched in 2002 at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego in order to advance the use of entrepreneurship and employee company ownership. The Beyster Institute began as the Foundation for Enterprise Development in 1986 by Dr.
Bezabish Woizero Bezabish Wolde was the wife of Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa, mother of King Haile Melekot of Shewa, and grandmother of Emperor Menelik II. She held the districts of Bulga and Yifat as her personal fiefs.
Bezalel In Exodus 31:1-6, Bezalel (Hebrew: בְּצַלְאֵל, also transcribed as Betzalel and most accurately as B'tzalel), is the chief architect of the Tabernacle. Elsewhere in the Bible the name occurs only in the genealogical lists of the Book of Chronicles, but according to cuneiform inscriptions a variant form of the same, "Ẓil-Bêl," was borne by a king of Gaza who was a contemporary of Hezekiah and Manasseh.
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national school of art. It is named after the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri (Hebrew: בְּצַלְאֵל בֶּן־אוּרִי), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30).
Bezalel Ashkenazi Bezalel Ashkenazi (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי), a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud, lived in the Land of Israel during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the Talmud.
Bezaliel Bezaliel, Busasejal, Basasael (Aramaic: ניאל (damaged), Greek: Θωνιήλ (damaged)) was the 13th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. This angel is probably one of the most controversial of the list of fallen angels in the Book of Enoch.
Bezant Bezants is a medieval name for gold coins. Gold coins were not minted in early medieval Western Europe with silver and bronze being the currency of choice, but they did circulate there in small numbers, originating from the Mediterranean region, in particular Islamic and Byzantine gold coins were highly prized.
Bezdany raid Bezdany raid was a train robbery carried out on the night of 26/27 September Note that some sources give April as the date of the raid. The September date seems to be more popular and better referenced (Zamoyski, Souvarine, Malinowski).
Bezdna Unrest Bezdna or Biznä Unrest was an unrest of former serfs after the Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia in April, 1861. The events took place in the Spassky Uyezd of Kazan Governorate and the center of unrest was a village Biznä (Tatar Cyrillic: Бизнә, Russian: Бездна).
Bezerk (album) Bezerk is the 1990 album from British Glam Metal band Tigertailz. It was released on the Music For Nations record label and although it failed to make major impact anywhere in the world it is still the band's most successful and well known album.
Bezier synthesis Bezier Synthesis is a new method of wave synthesis which can be used to create sound using bezier curves. There are two types of bezier synthesis, the first of which is static, where the control points remain constant.
Bezmiâlem Bezmiâlem (1807—1852) (Bezm-i Alem, Bazim-i Alam, meaning "Feast of the World") was the second wife of Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire. She was of Jewish origin from Russia originally called Suzi (hence referred to as Rus Yahudisi Suzi) Also, the name of her father, Leon, is mentioned.
Bezoar A bezoar or enterolith is a sort of calculus or concretion, a stone found in the intestines of mostly ruminant animals. There are several varieties of bezoar, some of which have inorganic constituents and others organic.
Bezold Effect The Bezold Effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), who discovered that a color may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors.
Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem The Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem (Polish for Non-partisan Block of Collaboration with the Government), abbreviated BBWR, was a non-political organization which existed from 1928 until 1935, closely affiliated with Piłsudski and his Sanacja movement.
BezpeÄŤnostnĂ­ informaÄŤnĂ­ sluĹľba BezpeÄŤnostnĂ­ informaÄŤnĂ­ sluĹľba (), is a Czech national intelligence agency. BIS performs duties associated with the analysis, protection and legitimate use of strategically-important intelligence regarding the fields of politics, economics and intelligence on the territory of the Czech Republic.
BE (concert DVD) BE (Original Stage Production) is Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation's first live DVD (and second live CD), documenting one of the performances of their 2004 album BE in its entirety in Eskilstuna, Sweden on September 12, 2003. In constrast to the studio album, The Orchestra of Eternity (a nine-piece orchestra accompanying the band) are given credit on the front cover of the album (though they weren't shown on the initial promo release).
BEA WebLogic Owned by BEA Systems, Inc, BEA Weblogic is a J2EE Platform product family that includes a J2EE application server- WebLogic Server, an Enterprise Portal - WebLogic Portal, an Enterprise Application Integration EAI platform, a Transaction Server and Infrastructure - WebLogic Tuxedo, a Telecommunication Platform - WebLogic Communication Platform and also an HTTP web server for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and more.
BEAM robotics The word "beam" in BEAM robotics is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics. This is a term that refers to a style of robotics that primarily uses simple analog circuits instead of a microprocessor in order to produce an unusually simple design (in comparison to traditional mobile robots) that trades flexibility for robustness and efficiency in performing the task for which it was designed.
BEAMnrc BEAMnrc is a Monte Carlo (see Monte Carlo Method) code system for simulating radiation therapy sources. It was developed as part of the OMEGA project, a collaboration between the NRC (National Research Council of Canada) and a research group at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (University of Wisconsin-Madison) .
BECK Tribute - Greatful Sound BECK Tribute - Greatful Sound was released as a promotional collectible before the Beck anime had been seriously considered, and thus features assorted semi-underground Japanese bands but no actual songs from the manga. The misspelled album title is infact how it was printed, though the reason is unknown.
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad BECK (ベック) is a manga, which was later made into an anime under the name BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad. It was created by mangaka Harold Sakuishi and was originally published by Kodansha in Weekly Shonen Magazine.
BECU BECU is a credit union originally established to serve employees of The Boeing Company. BECU was founded as Fellowship Credit Union in 1935 by 18 Boeing employees, and was named Boeing Employees' Credit Union for much of its history.
BEEP In computer networking, BEEP (Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol) is a framework for creating network application protocols. It is intended to abstract out the common features that have traditionally been duplicated in each protocol implementation.
BEGA League After the World Championship in the 3rd season in the anime series, Boris, the enemy and "bad guy" in the first season buys the whole BBA and renames it as BEGA. He tries to makes Tyson Granger and his friends think that he has changed but after the battle Tala had with the BEGA organization blader named Garland, he and his friends come to a conclusion that he is no good.
BELOMO BELOMO or Belarus Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie (Belarus Optical & Mechanical Enterprise) was founded in Minsk in 1957 in what was the Soviet Union, now Belarus. It was originally named the Minsk Mechanichesckiy Zavod S.
BEML Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) is an Indian Public Sector Undertaking, with headquarters in Bangalore. It manufactures a variety of heavy equipment, such as that used for earth moving, transportation and mining.
BEN Television BEN Television (Bright Entertainment Network) is a British television channel launched in 2003, aimed mainly at expatriate Africans living in Europe and north Africa. According to its official website "The BEN ethos is, 'safe family viewing and empowering communities'.
BERSA Thunder 9 The Thunder 9 is a semi-automatic handgun designed to fire 9mm parabellum ammunition, and is manufactured by the Argentinian firearms manufacturer BERSA. As one of the Thunder series, the Thunder 9 shares many similarities with other handguns in the same series, such as the BERSA Thunder 380.
BESK BESK (Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator, Swedish for "Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator") was Sweden's first computer. It was developed by Matematikmaskinnämnden and during a short time it was the fastest computer in the world.
BESM BESM (БЭСМ) is the name of a series of Russian mainframe computers. It stands for "Большая Электронно-Счётная Машина" (Bolshaya Elektronno-Schetnaya Mashina) in Russian, which can be translated as "Large Electronic Computing Machine", or simply "Large Computer".
BEST Robotics BEST, Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology, is a national 6-week robotics competition in the United States held each fall, designed to help interest high school students in possible engineering careers.
BEST ~first things~ BEST ~first things~ is the first Best Of album released by Japanese R&B singer Kumi Koda; it included her singles from her very debut in 2000 to 2005. The album was released in formats 2-CD and 2-CD with a DVD (which included all of the videos that were made for promote the singles).
BET Awards The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorites in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year.
BET Gospel BET Gospel is a cable television and satellite television network in the United States that presents gospel and inspirational programming. The network, a spin-off of BET (Black Entertainment Television), features a mix of new and classic shows as well as original gospel-oriented programming.
BET J BET J (previously known as BET on Jazz and later BET Jazz) is a spin-off cable television channel of BET (Black Entertainment Television), that presents enclusively jazz music-related programming, especially that of black jazz musicians.
BET Style BET Style was an entertainment show, much like syndicated Entertainment Tonight, that focuses on African Americans in the entertainment industry. It aired on Black Entertainment Television at 7:30e-p/6:30c on Thursdays.
BET theory BET theory is a well-known rule for the physical adsorption of gas molecules on a solid surface. In 1938, Stephen Brunauer, Paul Hugh Emmett, and Edward Teller published an article about the BET theory in a journal1 for the first time; “BET” consists of the first initials of their family names.
BETDAQ BETDAQ is the trading name of Global Betting Exchange, a betting exchange operator based in Ireland. It is the second biggest betting exchange operator in the market, and has always struggled to cope with the advantage held by Betfair of being the first starter.
B̤ē is an additional letter of the Arabic alphabet, derived from (ب) with an additional dot. It is not used in Arabic itself, but is used to represent a voiced bilabial implosive (IPA: ) when writing Hausa and Sindhi in the Arabic script.
BFC Fortuna 1894 Berlin Fortuna Berlin (Berliner Fussball Club Fortuna 1894 ) was a short-lived German football club established in 1894 in Berlin. It is notable only as one of the founding clubs of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in Leipzig in 1900.
BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Writer The Critics' Choice Award for Best Writer (previously known as Awards for Best Screenplay or Best Original and Adaptated Screenplay) is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
BFG10K The BFG10K or BFG10000 is an extremely powerful fictional weapon appearing in the first-person shooter computer games Quake II and Quake III Arena (though the Quake II and Quake III versions of the weapon are considerably different). The weapon is named in homage to the BFG9000, a weapon in Doom and Doom II, games which are considered precursors to the Quake series.
BFG9000 The BFG 9000 is a fictional futuristic weapon found in the computer game series Doom, in Doom, Doom 2, Ultimate Doom, Final Doom, Doom 3, and Doom RPG as well as its expansion: Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. The BFG 9000 appears as a huge, solid metal gun that fires balls of green plasma.
BFI Top 100 British films In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1000 people from the world of UK film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century. were asked to chose up to 100 films that were 'culturally British'.
Bgheno-Noravank Not to be confused with Noravank Monastery, Bgheno-Noravank Monastery is a complex much further south in Syunik Marz, Armenia which now consists of a small church of 1062 located on a little wooded promontory, which is ornately decorated with borders and biblical reliefs. The ruins of this church were rediscovered in the 1920s by Axel Bakunts, the famous prose writer, during one of his wanderings as agronomist.
BGM-109 Tomahawk The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings. Introduced by General Dynamics in the 1970s, it was designed as a medium- to long-range, low-altitude missile that could be launched from a submerged submarine.
BGN/PCGN romanization BGN/PCGN romanization refers to the systems for romanization (transliteration into the Latin alphabet) and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN).
Bhaadra Bhaadra (Hindi: भादों bhaado or भाद्रपद bhaadrapad) is a month of the Hindu calendar. In India's national civil calendar, Bhaadra is the sixth month of the year, beginning on 23 August and ending on 22 September.
Bhaalspawn In the fictional universe of Forgotten Realms, Bhaalspawn is a name given to all children of the fictitious Bhaal, Lord of Murder, who foresaw his own death during the Time of Troubles and fathered children who could one day be sacrificed for his own return.
Bhabha (crater) Bhabha is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon's far side. It is nearly attached to the southeast rim of the larger Bose crater, and the outer [of that crater has produced a slight inward bulge along the northwest face of Bhabha crater.
Bhadia Bhadia or Bhariya (Hindi: भड़िया, IAST: ) is gotra (clan) of Jats found in Churu and Sikar districts of Rajasthan, India. Bhadia Jats founded villages Thathawata in Churu district and Banthod, Rol villages in Sikar district.
Bhadrakali Bhadrakāli (भद्रकाली), also known as the gentle Kali, is generally an auspicious form of the goddess Kali, and the legend states that she came into being by Devi’s wrath, when Daksha insulted Shiva. It is believed that Bhadrakāli was a local deity, which was assimilated into the mainstream Hinduism, particularly into Shaiva mythology.
Bhadravathi Bhadravathi is a town in the Shimoga District of Karnataka state, India. It is situated at a distance of about 255 kilometres from the state capital Bangalore and at about 18 kilometres from the district headquarters, Shimoga.
Bhadravathi LaxmiNarasimha temple Lakshmi Narasimha Temple built by Hoysalas in the 13th century is located in Bhadravathi. This beautiful Hoysala Architecture temple is currently maintained by the Archaeological Department of the Karnataka state.
Bhagadatta Bhagadatta was King of the Hindu mythological city of Pragjyotisha in the epic of Mahabharata. In the battle of Kurukshetra, he lost his life from an arrow shot by Arjuna while defending the Kauravas atop an elephant.
Bhagalpur Division Bhagalpur division is an administrative geographical unit of Bihar state of India, with Bhagalpur as the administrative headquarters of the division. As of 2005, the division consists of Bhagalpur District, Banka District, and Navgachia District.
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