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Bicycle Safety Camp Bicycle Safety Camp was an educational video made in 1989 that used rap songs performed by "Sam Sprocket" to teach bicycle safety rules, stressing the importance of helmet use, turn signals, stoping at intersections, among other things. The video was aimed at children in grades 1-4 and was produced by The Injury Prevention Program, a subsidiary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Bicycle touring Bicycle touring is a type of travel or leisure activity which involves touring, exploration or sightseeing a region by bicycle. Though the Tour de France and other competitive events are sometimes called "tours", true bicycle touring is non-competitive; it is done for enjoyment and travel rather than sport and, as such, is a little bit like backpacking with the use of a bicycle.
Bicycle trailer A bicycle trailer is a motorless wheeled frame with a hitch system designed for transporting cargo by bicycle. A bicycle trailer expands the cargo-carrying capacity of a bicycle greatly, allowing point-to-point transport of objects up to 4 cubic yards (3 cubic meters) in volume and weighing as much as half a ton 1.
Bicycle Victoria Bicycle Victoria is a self-funded community organisation focussed on cycling, with offices located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1975, it is financially self-supporting and independent of the government.
Bicycle Wheel Bicycle Wheel is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a bicycle fork with front wheel mounted upside-down on a wooden stool. The original from 1913 was lost, and Duchamp recreated the sculpture in 1951.
Bicycling in Chicago Since the advent of the bicycle in the 1860s, Chicago has distinguished itself as one of the premier cycling locations in the United States, with such public cycling destinations as Grant Park and the Chicago Park District's Lakefront Path, and a strong government support for the sport, especially from the city's mayors. Chicago's reputation for bad traffic and non-existent parking also have helped bicycling to become one of the most common transportation methods in the city.
BiCMOS In integrated circuit design, BiCMOS, also called BiMOS, refers to the integration of bipolar junction transistors and CMOS technology into a single device. This technology has commercial application in amplifier and discrete component logic design.
BiCon (UK) The UK BiCon (more formally known as the UK National Bisexual Convention or UK National Bisexual Conference), is the largest and most consistent annual gathering of the UK's bisexual community. It is also the world's longest running bisexual community event.
Bid Euchre Bid Euchre is a version of the popular card game Euchre in which the trump suit is decided by which player can bid to take the most tricks. The game is also known in some variations as Pepper which comes from "Hasenpfeffer", a German dish of marinated and stewed trimmings of hare.
Bidayuh The Bidayuh (formerly known as Land D(a)yak) is one of the main indigenous ethnic groups now settled in areas of southwest Sarawak and the adjacent areas of west Kalimantan. In Sarawak, most of the Bidayuh population are found within 40 km of the geographical area known as Greater Kuching, within the Kuching and Samarahan division.
Biddeford Pool Biddeford Pool is a large tidal pool, as well as the name of the community around it, located off of Saco Bay in southern Maine. It is just south of downtown Biddeford, which it is connected to via State Route 208.
Bidder's organ Bidder's organ is a spherical, brownish reproductive organ in any male member of the family Bufonidae, or simply, toads. It is also found in very young frogs, however, before reaching adulthood, the organ regresses completely.
Bidding system A Bidding system is a collection of agreements and conventions describing the meanings of bids used in contract bridge. The purpose of bids is to both describe a bridge hand and propose a contract (Any bid becomes a contract if followed by three successive passes, therefore every bridge bid is a potential contract).
Biddlesden Abbey Biddlesden was a cistercian abbey founded in 1147 by Arnold de Bosco (de Bois), steward to the Earl of Leicester. An abbot was deposed for now unknown reasons in 1192 and in the 14th to 15th centuries there was a long running dispute with the parish of Wappenham concerning the collection of tithes.
Biddu Biddu or Biddu Appaiah is an Indian-British music producer, composer and song-writer who produced and composed a number of music hits in the early part of the British Disco scene in the mid-1970’s, lifting the careers of British Disco music stars Tina Charles, Carl Douglas, Jimmy James among others; he later found enormous success producing several hits in the Indian subcontinent, launching the career of Pakistani-British singer Nazia Hassan, and producing Indipop hits for a number of Indian acts, notably Alisha Chinai; from the mid-1970’s he has also been producing his own pop instrumental albums as Biddu Orchestra.
Biddulph Baronets The Baronetcy of Biddulph of Westcombe was created in the Baronetage of England for Theophilus Biddulph of Westcombe, Greenwich, Kent in November 1664 and remains extant. The three most recent Baronets have resided in Australia.
Biddulph Recordings Biddulph Recordings is a small record label based in Devon, England, specializing in classical music, especially by string instrument players. The label was founded in 1989 by Peter Biddulph, a violin dealer, and Eric Wen, a violinist and music writer.
Biddulph township Comprised of 40,000 acres within Middlesex County, the Township of Biddulph was surveyed by agents of the Canada Company in 1830. The township took its name from John Biddulph, one of the earliest directors of the Canada Company.
Biddy Baxter Biddy Baxter MBE was born in Leicester and educated at Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School, Leicester and St Mary's College, Durham University. She is best known as the editor of the long-running popular BBC One children’s magazine show Blue Peter, a position she held from 1965 to 1988.
Biddy Mason Bridget ("Biddy") Mason (born August 15, 1818 in Hancock County, Georgia - died January 15, 1891 in Los Angeles, California) was a former slave from Georgia who travelled with her master, a Mormon, to the Utah Territory, and then to California. In 1856, when her master was planning to move to Texas, she petitioned for and was granted her freedom as a resident of a free state.
Bidean nam Bian Bidean nam Bian, lying to the south of Glen Coe, Highland, Scotland, is the highest point in the historic county of Argyllshire. It is a complex mountain, with many ridges and subsidiary peaks, one of which, Stob Coire Sgreamhach, is classified as a separate Munro.
Bideford and Instow Railway The Bideford & Instow Railway Group in Devon are committed to the reopening of the Barnstaple to Bideford branch of the old London and South Western Railway. At present (2004) they are responsible for the management of Instow signal box and Bideford Railway Heritage Centre where short passenger rides are given.
Bideford A.F.C. Bideford Association Football Club (AFC) are an English non-league football club from Bideford, Devon that plays in the Western Football League. The other clubs in the same division come from the counties of Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire.
Bideford railway station The first Bideford railway station was opened on 2 November 1855 as the terminus of the Bideford Extension Railway from Barnstaple. This was taken over by the London and South Western Railway about ten years later.
Bideford witch trial The Bideford witch trial resulted in the last ever hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried in 1682 in the town of Bideford, England; much of the evidence against them was hearsay, although there was a confession by Lloyd, which she did not fully recant even with her execution imminent.
Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway The Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway (B, WH & A, R) was most unusual amongst British Railways in that although it was built as a standard gauge (4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)) line, it was not joined to the rest of the railway network, despite the London and South Western Railway having a station at Bideford East-the-Water, meaning on the other side of the river Torridge from the main town.
Bidhan Chandra Roy Bidhan Chandra Roy (July 1 1881 – July 1 1962) was the second Chief Minister] of [[West Bengal, India. He remained in his post for 14 years as a Congress Party candidate, from January 14 1948 until his death in 1962.
Bidiagonalization Bidiagonalization is one of unitary (orthogonal) matrix decompositions such that U* A V = B, where U and V are unitary (orthogonal) matrices; * denotes Hermitian transpose; and B is upper bidiagonal. A is allowed to be rectangular.
Biding My Time "Biding My Time" is a composition by Pink Floyd bassist and main songwriter Roger Waters. Prior to the Relics compilation album, Biding My Time was an unreleased recording, heard only by fans who attended concerts where the band performed their early concept piece, The Man and the Journey, where the song appears as "Afternoon".
Bidirected graph In the mathematical domain of graph theory, a bidirected graph is a graph in which each edge is given an independent orientation (or direction, or arrow) at each end. Thus, there are three kinds of bidirected edges: those where the arrows point outward, towards the vertices, at both ends; those where both arrows point inward, away from the vertices; and those in which one arrow points away from its vertex and towards the opposite end, while the other arrow points in the same direction as the first, away from the opposite end and towards its own vertex.
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a network protocol used to detect faults between two forwarding engines. It provides low-overhead detection of faults even on physical media that don't support failure detection of any kind, such as ethernet, virtual circuits, tunnels and MPLS LSPs.
Bidirectional reflectance distribution function The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF; {f_r(mathbf{Omega_e} , mathbf{Omega_i})}) describes the ratio of reflected radiance exiting from a surface in a particular direction (defined by the vector mathbf{Omega_e}) to the irradiance incident on the surface from direction mathbf{Omega_i} over a particular waveband. It was first defined by F.
Bidirectional search Bidirectional search is a graph search algorithm that runs two simultaneous searches: one forward from the initial state, and one backward from the goal, and stopping when the two meet in the middle. The reason for this approach is that each of the two searches has complexity O(b^{d/2}) (in Big O notation), and O(b^{d/2}+b^{d/2}) is much less than the running time of one search from the beginning to the goal, which would be O(b^{d}).
Bidirectional texture function Bidirectional texture function (BTF) is a 6-dimensional function depending on planar texture coordinates (x,y) as well as on view and illumination spherical angles. In practice this function is obtained as a set of several thousands images of material sample taken during different camera and light positions.
BidIndex BidIndex is a mathematical model developed by GamesBids that when applied to an Olympic Bid, produces a number that can be used to rate a bid relative to past successful bids - and possibly gauge its potential success.
BidPay BidPay is an online auction payment service web site, established in 1999 by Steve Chin and Marek Bradbury that originally allowed auction buyers to purchase money orders online using their credit card. BidPay was purchased by First Data Corporation/Western Union in 2001 for an undisclosed sum.
Bidston Bidston is an area of the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Located close to the M53 motorway, the village of Bidston is situated on a hill, with an elevation of approximately 60m above sea level.
Bidu SayĂŁo International Vocal Competition The Bidu SayĂŁo International Vocal Competition is a singing competition held at a diffent locale each year in Brazil named after that country's most famous opera singer, Bidu SayĂŁo. It is a competition for up-and-coming young singers and as such has an age restriction, currently open to singers of any nationality who were born on or after January 1 1968.
Bidun Bidun jinsiya (or bidoon jinsiya) is an Arabic term meaning "without nationality." Usually referred to simply as bidun (بِدون), the term refers to the stateless people of certain Bedouin tribes in Kuwait and Bahrain whose members were not granted citizenship, and so are seriously legally disadvantaged in comparison with the regular citizens of these countries.
Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park Bidwell Mansion, located at 525 Esplanade in Chico, California, was the home of General John Bidwell and Annie Bidwell from the late 1860's through 1899. John Bidwell began construction of the mansion on his 26,000 acre Rancho del Arroyo Chico in 1865, during his courtship of Annie Ellicott Kennedy.
Bidwell Park Bidwell Park is a municipal park located in Chico, California. The park was established July 20, 1905 through the donation by Annie Bidwell (widow of Chico's founder, John Bidwell) of approximately 2,500 acres of land to the City of Chico.
Biedermann und die Brandstifter Biedermann und die Brandstifter was written by Max Frisch in 1953 - first as a radio play and then adapted for television and stage. The English translation of the play is usually known as The Firebugs in the USA and The Fireraisers in the UK.
Biedermeier In Central Europe, Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 (Vienna Congress), the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions and contrasts with the Romantic era which preceded it.
Bielawa Bielawa (IPA: ; former ) is a town in south-western Poland with 32 652 inhabitants (2006). Situated in the Dzierżoniów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Wałbrzych Voivodeship (1975-1998).
Bielefeld Conspiracy The Bielefeld Conspiracy (in German, Bielefeld-Verschwörung) is a running gag among German Internet users, especially in the German Usenet. It is an obviously satirical story rather than a hoax or an urban legend.
Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (German: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the established universities.
Biellmann spin The Biellmann spin is a figure skating move in which the skater executes a one-foot spin while holding the other foot extended over their head and behind them, with both hands. It requires very great flexibility and spinning ability, and is almost always performed by women: the best-known male skater to perform the spin is Evgeny Plushenko.
Bielsko County Bielsko County () is a powiat (county) in Poland, in Silesian Voivodeship. The county seat is the city of Bielsko-Biała and the powiat includes the area around it, but not the city itself which forms its own separate urban powiat.
Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship Bielsko-Biala Voivodeship (Polish: województwo bielskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded by Silesian Voivodeship and Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Its capital city was Bielsko-Biała.
Biełarus «Biełarus» newspaper (Belarusian: ґазэ́та «Белару́с», gazéta «Biełarús», literally, The Belarusian) — Belarusian newspaper abroad, founded in United States in 1950 by representatives of Belarusian post-war emigration. The monthly periodical is published by Belarusian-American Association and the editorial office of located on Long Island, New York.
Bien Hoa Biên Hòa is a city in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of Ho Chi Minh City, to which Bien Hoa is linked by Vietnam Highway 1. In 1989 the estimated population was over 300,000.
Bien pensant "Bien pensant" is a French phrase literally translated as "good thinking" or "right thinking", commonly used as a mild pejorative to describe the acceptance of a fashionable idea after it has been established in the mainstream without a sufficient amount of critical thought.
Bience P. Gawanas Bience Philomina Gawanas (Born 1956 in Namibia) is Commissioner of Social Affairs on the African Commission. She was a Commissioner on the Public Service Commission in Namibia from 1991 to 1996, and an Ombudswoman in the Namibian Government from 1996 to 2003.
Biennale The name Biennale is Italian and means "every other year", describing an event that happens every 2 years. The most important Biennale is an art exhibition that takes place for three months in Venice — the Venice Biennale — but there are numerous others:
Biennial bearing Biennial bearing (or alternate) bearing is a term used in pomology to refer to trees that have an irregular crop load from year to year. In the "on" year too much fruit is set, leading to small fruit size.
Biennial flight review The flight review (previously the Federal Aviation Administration referred to this as a biennial flight review, usually abbreviated BFR) is a review required of every active holder of a US pilot certificate at least every two years. The flight review consists of at least 1 hour of ground instruction and 1 hour in-flight with a qualified instructor.
Biennial plant A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes between twelve and twenty-four months to complete its lifecycle. In the first year the plant grows leaves, stems and roots (vegetative structures) and then it enters a period of dormancy over the colder months.
Biennio rosso The Biennio rosso (English: "two red years") were two years, 1919 and 1920, of political agitation by many Italian workers. In Turin, workers councils were formed, and factories were taken over by their workers.
Bienvenido Lumbera Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines. An alumnus of the University of Santo Tomas and Indiana University, he taught Literature, Philippine Studies and Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, De La Salle University-Manila and Ateneo de Manila University.
Bier A bier is a flat frame, traditionally wooden but sometimes made of other materials, used to carry a corpse for burial in a funeral procession. In antiquity it was often simply a wooden board on which the dead was placed covered with a shroud.
Bier block Bier block anesthesia is an intravenous regional anesthesia technique in which an extremity (generally an arm) is made numb for surgery by injecting a local anesthetic solution into a vein after the blood has been squeezed out of the extremity and a tourniquet has been placed on it. The tourniquet prevents the local from leaving the extremity and blood from entering it, giving the patient a numb (anesthetic) extremity and the surgeon a bloodless field to work in.
Bierleichen "Bierleichen" is German for "beer corpses". During the Oktoberfest held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, there are many problems every year with young people, who overestimate their ability to handle large amounts of alcohol.
Biesbosch The Biesbosch or Biesbos (the latter the new spelling, but rarely used), meaning 'forest of sedges' is one of the largest national parks of the Netherlands and one of the last freshwater tide areas in Europe. The Biesbosch consists of a large network of rivers and smaller and larger creeks with islands.
Bieszczady County Powiat of Bieszczady (Polish powiat bieszczadzki ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Subcarpathian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Bietigheim Enz Valley Bridge The Bietigheim Enz Valley Bridge is a well-known German railway bridge over the Enz vallay at Bietigheim-Bissingen and one of the landmarks of the city. It was built from 1851-1853 as part of the railway line Bietigheim Bruchsal under the direction of Karl Etzel.
Bietigheim Horse Market The Bietigheim Horse Market is a supraregional well-known people beer festival in Bietigheim-Bissingen, which takes place directly under the Bietigheim Enz Valley Bridge attracts each year several hundredthousand of visitors. Despite this large crowd of visitors the festival kept however the charm of a celebration of the citizens of the city.
Bietigheim-Bissingen Bietigheim-Bissingen is the second biggest town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany with 42,145 inhabitants in 2005. It is situated on the river Enz, close to its confluence with the Neckar, about 22 km north of Stuttgart, and 20 km south of Heilbronn.
Biface In archaeology, a biface is a two-sided stone tool, manufactured through a process of lithic reduction, that displays flake scars on both sides. A profile view of the final product tends to exhibit a lenticular shape (i.
Bifenthrin Bifenthrin or (2-methyl-1,1-biphenyl-3-y1)-methyl-3-(2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro-1-propenyl)-2,2-dimethyl cyclopropanecarboxylate (CAS number 82657-04-3) is a pyrethroid insecticide that affects the nervous system of insects. Products containing bifenthrin include Talstar, Capture, and Bifenthrine.
Biff Byford Peter "Biff" Byford, (born on 5 January, 1951, in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England) is an British vocalist with heavy metal band Saxon, formed in Barnsley, England in 1976, with guitarists Graham Oliver and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson, and drummer Pete Gill.
Biff Henderson "Biff" Jackson Henderson Jr. (Born: October 3, 1946 in Durham, North Carolina, USA) is an American television personality who is best known for his work on The Late Show with David Letterman as a stage manager.
Biffa Bacon Biffa Bacon is a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz. Biffa and his family—Mutha and Fatha(real names Vermintrude and Basha) —hail from the Tyneside region of North East England and speak in the Geordie dialect.
Biffa plc Biffa plc is one of the UK's largest integrated waste management businesses, providing collection, landfill and special waste services to local authorities and industrial/commercial clients. Biffa was sold by Severn Trent plc with a flotation which was completed on 9th October 2006 giving Biffa an initial market capitalisation of ÂŁ932.
Biffins Biffins are a special kind of dried apple, flat in appearance and soft to the touch, prepared in large quantities in Norfolk, England. They are obtained by a very slow drying of the fruit and occasional pressing.
Biffo the Bear Biffo the Bear was a fictional character who had his own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. Biffo was an anthropomorphic bear who gained the front cover of the comic starting from issue 327, dated 24 January 1948, replacing Big Eggo.
Bifidobacterium Bifidobacterium is a genus of anaerobic bacteria and a form of probiotic that is thought to have health-promoting properties for humans. Bifidobacteria are one of the major strains of bacteria that make up the gut flora, the bacteria that reside in the colon and have health benefits for their hosts.
Bifidus Factor Bifidus Factor (methyl-N-acetyl D-glucosamine) is a specific factor that promotes the growth of Lactobacillus bifidus (now actually called Bifidobacterium). The bifidus factor is present in human milk but not cow's milk.
Biflation Biflation is the state of an economy where the processes of inflation and deflation occur simultaneously. During this period there is a rise in the purchasing prices of commodity items and a fall in the purchasing prices of non-commodity items.
Bifocals Bifocals are eyeglasses that have corrective lenses containing two different optical powers. They are most commonly prescribed for people with presbyopia, and who also require a distance correction for myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism.
Bifora The bifora or pifara was a Sicilian double reed instrument of the oboe family, related to the ancient shawm and particularly to the piffero of the northern Italian Apennines. Much larger than the piffero, and made in one piece, it was employed together with drums in ceremonial processions, particularly in the town of San Marco d'Alunzio in the province of Messina.
Bifröst In Norse mythology, Bifröst is the bridge leading from the realm of mortals, Midgard, to the realm of the gods, Asgard, which the gods travel daily to hold their councils and pass judgements at Urdarbrunn (Well of Urd) under the shade of the tree Yggdrasill. The bridge itself is the rainbow and its guardian is the god Heimdallr, whose hall of Himinbjorg is located at the upper end of the bridge.
Bifröst University Bifröst University is a university currently located in Bifröst, Borgarfjörður, Iceland. Founded in Reykjavík in 1918 with the name "Samvinnuskólinn" (Cooperative College), it was moved in its current location in 1955.
Bifrons (demon) In demonology, Bifrons was a demon, Earl of Hell, with six legions of demons (twenty-six for other authors) under his command. He teaches sciences and arts, the virtues of the gems and woods, herbs, and changes corpses from their original grave into other places, sometimes putting magic lights on the graves that seem candles.
Bifrose (trojan horse) Bifrost is a backdoor trojan horse family of more than 30 variants which can infect Windows 95 through XP. Bifrost uses the typical server, server editor, and client backdoor program configuration to allow a remote attacker, who uses client) to execute arbitrary code on the compromised machine (which runs the server whose behavior can be controlled by the server editor).
Bifurcated ligament The bifurcated ligament (internal calcaneocuboid, interosseous ligament, bifurcate ligament) is a strong band, attached behind to the deep hollow on the upper surface of the calcaneus and dividing in front in a Y-shaped manner into a calcaneocuboid and a calcaneonavicular part.
Bifurcation (law) In law, bifurcation is a judge's ability to divide a trial into two parts so as to render a judgment on a set of legal issues without looking at all aspects. Frequently, civil cases are bifurcated into separate liability and damages proceedings.
Bifurcation diagram In mathematics, particularly in dynamical systems, a bifurcation diagram shows the possible long-term values (equilibria or fixed points) of a system as a function of a bifurcation parameter in the system. It is usual to represent stable fixed points with a solid line and unstable fixed points with a dotted line.
Bifurcation locus In complex dynamics, the bifurcation locus of a family of holomorphic functions informally consists of those maps for which the dynamical behavior changes drastically under a small perturbation of the parameter. Thus the bifurcation locus can be thought of as an analog of the Julia set in parameter space.
Bifurcation theory In mathematics, specifically in the study of dynamical systems, a bifurcation occurs when a small smooth change made to the parameter values (the bifurcation parameters) of a system causes a sudden 'qualitative' or topological change in the system's long-term dynamical behaviour. Bifurcations occur in both continuous systems (described by ODEs, DDEs or PDEs), and discrete systems (described by maps).
BiFest A BiFest is a one-day festival celebrating bisexuality, with workshops and discussions during the day and social events in the evening, complementing the larger convention BiCon. As of 2006 there have been five BiFest's around the UK since 1999, with the busiest attracting around 130 people.
Big Big is a 1988 comedy film about a teenage boy who is aged to adulthood by a magical fortune-telling machine. It stars Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz and Mercedes Ruehl.
Big & Rich Big & Rich is an American country music duo comprising Big Kenny (Kenny Alphin, former solo artist, lead singer for luvjOi) and John Rich (former vocalist and bassist of Lonestar). They first performed together in 1998.
Big 12 Championship Game The Big 12 Championship Game is a college football game held by the Big 12 Conference each year. The championship game pits the Big 12 North Division champion against the South Division champion in a game held after the regular season has been completed.
Big 33 Football Classic The Big 33 Football Classic is an all-star American football game featuring the top high school football players in Pennsylvania. Played since 1957, the game is often described as the "Super Bowl of High School Football.
Big 8 (Usenet) The Big 7 (later the Big 8) are a group of newsgroup hierarchies established after the Great Renaming, a restructuring of Usenet that took place in 1987. These hierarchies are managed by the Big 8 Management Board.
Big and Ugly Rendering Project Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP), is a non-commercial distributed computing project using the BOINC framework. It is currently under development to work as a publicly distributed system for the rendering of 3D graphics.
Big Al (fossil) Big Al is the name given to a fossilized Allosaurus fragilis skeleton that was found near Howe Quarry (Bighorn County, Wyoming), a member of the Morrison Formation, in 1991. The skeleton was unusually well preserved — over 95 percent of the bones were found — and they were all in the same positions as when the animal had died.
Big Apple The "Big Apple" is a nickname or alternate toponym for New York City used by New Yorkers. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
Big Apple Anime Fest The Big Apple Anime Fest is an anime convention which was held annually between 2001 and 2003. The event was organized by Central Park Media, a company that licenses anime and manga and translates it for resale in the United States.
Big Apple Comix Big Apple Comix is an early independent comic book published by Flo Steinberg in 1975. An historically important link between underground comix and what would later be called alternative comics, this 36-page, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4" hybrid with glossy color covers and black-and-white interiors contains 11 sometimes sexually frank stories by such mainstream creators as Neal Adams, Archie Goodwin, Denny O'Neil, Herb Trimpe, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood.

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