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Big Wing The Big Wing, also known as a Balbo, was an air fighting tactic proposed during the Battle of Britain by 12 Group commander Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Acting Squadron Leader Douglas Bader. In essence the tactic involved meeting incoming Luftwaffe bombing raids in strength with a wing-sized formation of three to five squadrons.
Big Xtra The Big Xtra is a McDonald's fast food hamburger that was released in 1999, and became a regular menu item until replaced in 2001 by the smaller Big N' Tasty. It included a three-eighths pound beef patty, sesame seed bun, lettuce, tomato slice, mayonnaise dressing, ketchup, chopped onions, three pickle slices, optional American cheese and a special grill seasoning only used on the Big Xtra.
Big year A Big Year is an informal competition among North American birders to see who can see or hear the largest number of species of birds within a single calendar year and within a specific geographical area. A big year may done within a single US state, or Canadian province, within the lower 48 continental U.
Big Yellow Taxi "Big Yellow Taxi" is a song originally written and performed by Joni Mitchell but covered by many other artists such as Billie Joe Armstrong, Amy Grant, Counting Crows, Kaya, Pinhead Gunpowder, Paul Tillotson, Máire Brennan, Keb Mo, Chris Thomas King, the acappella quintet Toxic Audio, and Bob Dylan, who slightly rewrote the lyrics on the album Dylan, released in 1973. The song's title is referenced by Janet Jackson in her single " The Pleasure Principle," from Jackson's 1986 album Control.
Big Youth Manley Augustus Buchanan (born April 19, 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica), better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican DJ, mostly known for his work during the 1970s. Influenced by U-Roy, he started singing with Lord Tippertone's sound system in 1970.
Big-cone Pinyon Big-cone Pinyon (Pinus maximartinezii) is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to central Mexico. The range is highly localised, confined to a small area of the southern Sierra Madre Occidental in southern Zacatecas.
Big-eared Hopping Mouse The Big-eared Hopping Mouse (Notomys macrotis) is an extinct species of mouse, which lived in the Moore River area of south-western Australia. The Big-eared Hopping Mouse was a small, rat-sized animal resembling a tiny kangaroo.
Big-eyed cardinalfish The big-eyed cardinalfish, bigeye cardinalfish, or bigeye, Epigonus lenimen, is a deepwater cardinalfish of the genus Epigonus, found in southern temperate waters south of Australia, Madagascar, and New Zealand, at depths of between 500 and 800 m. Its length is between 10 and 18 cm.
Big-fish-little-pond effect Big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) is a term introduced by Herbert W. Marsh which hypothesises that the self-concept of students is negatively correlated with the ability of their peers in school: Thus, academic self-concepts depend not only on one's academic accomplishments but also the accomplishments of those in the school that a student attends.
Big-game fishing Big-game fishing, sometimes called offshore sport fishing or offshore game fishing, is a form of recreational fishing, targeting large bony fish such as tuna and marlin in the open sea, often some distance from land and, in some fishing grounds, out of sight of land. It is conducted recreationally, as well as in competitions; see sport fishing for details on fishing competitions.
Big-character poster Big-character posters (Traditional Chinese 大字報, Simplified Chinese 大字报, pinyin dàzìbào, literally "big-character journal") are handwritten, wall-mounted posters using large-sized Chinese characters, used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication. They have been used in China since imperial times, but became more common when literacy rates rose after the 1911 revolution.
Bigambul The Bigambul are an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the border region of Queensland and New South Wales. The name of this tribe is derived from the Bigambul word biga or pika which translates in English to yes.
Bigartspace Bigartspace is an online independent London art company that aims to provide low-cost exhibitions for artistic works. The company does not require submissions to pass a selection process, and so is open to anyone that wishes for their art to be exhibited publicly.
Bigature Bigature was Weta Workshop's nickname for the very large filming miniature models used in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, including some of the film's central pieces, including the fortress of The Hornburg, the elven harbour of the Grey Havens, the city of Minas Tirith and the grim towers of Orthanc, Minas Morgul, and Sauron's stronghold of Barad-dûr. The largest of them measured some 20 feet high.
Bigby (Greyhawk) In the Dungeons & Dragons World of Greyhawk campaign setting, Bigby is an archmage. The former apprentice of Mordenkainen, Bigby is part of the Circle of Eight, and is a former member of the Citadel of Eight.
Bigby Wolf Bigby Wolf is a major character in the comic book series Fables. He is the Big Bad Wolf of legend (now with the ability to take human form at will) and served as the sheriff of the exile community known as Fabletown for several hundred years.
BigBen Interactive BigBen Interactive is a UK-based videogame publishing and development company. They were responsible for the distribution of some of the later Sega Dreamcast games in Europe in fall 2001 and early 2002, including Headhunter, Shenmue II, Rez, Floigan Bros, Phantasy Star Online version 2 and Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles.
Bigcone Douglas-fir The Bigcone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa) is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California, occurring from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the southwest of the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south to Julian in San Diego County. It is notable for having the largest (by far) cones in its genus, hence the name.
Bigeye houndshark The bigeye houndshark, Iago omanensis, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found on deep continental shelves in the western Indian Ocean from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Oman to Pakistan and southwestern India, between latitudes 30° N and 10° N, at depths of between 110 and 2,200 m. Its length is up to 37 cm.
Bigeye sand tiger The bigeye sand tiger, Odontaspis noronhai, is a sand tiger of the family Odontaspididae, found on the continental and insular shelves of the eastern Atlantic and eastern Central Pacific oceans, at depths of between 600 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 3.
Bigeye scad The bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus) is an oceanic fish that is found around the globe in tropical regions. Other common names include chicharro, charrito ojĂłn, purse-eye scad, coulirou, and goggle-eyed scad.
Bigeye thresher The bigeye thresher, Alopias superciliosus, is a thresher shark of the genus Alopias, found in tropical oceans worldwide, at depths down to 500 m. Its length is up to 5 m (more typically 3 to 4 m), and weight up to 360 kg (more typically 160 kg).
Bigeyed sixgill shark The bigeyed sixgill shark, Hexanchus nakamurai, is found around the Strait of Florida, around Cuba and the Bahamas, East Africa and Madagascar, the Philippines, and Taiwan, at depths of between 90 to 600 m, usually on the bottom.
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines was a special animated TV mini-series that was aired on the animated half-hour TV series "Super Sunday" and Super Saturday" containing 9 segments that ran for 6 minutes each every weekend, along with Jem, Robotix, and Inhumanoids. The segments were combined and turned into a 53-minute feature-length film in 1985.
Bigfoot Bonkers Bigfoot Bonkers is an 2-player (only) maze arcade game released by Meadows Games in 1976. Players move their blocks across the screen to create walls to try and surround their opponents and force them to crash into the walls or any block or obstacle like a 'foot'.
Bigfoot Brailey Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey is an American drummer, best known for his work with P-Funk, which includes the bands Parliament, Funkadelic, and numerous related projects. Brailey performed in the early 1970s with R&B groups including The Five Stairsteps and the Chambers Brothers.
Bigfoot Communications Bigfoot Communications is a leading internet messaging service provider, based in New York, New York USA. They started out in 1995 during the dot-com era, as an e-mail forwarding service provider, and survived the dot-com bust to become a leading player in the internet messaging (e-mail, SMS, conferencing) arena.
Bigfoot trap What is believed to be the world's only Bigfoot trap is located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California border. It was designed to trap a bigfoot (or sasquatch), a legendary hominid that is said to live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Bigg Boss Bigg Boss is a reality television series aired on Indian television channel Sony Entertainment Television. The series started on 2006-11-03, and is based on the international Big Brother format developed by Endemol in the Netherlands.
Bigg's bigg's is a chain of hypermarkets that has thirteen stores in the Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. In 2006, the company closed its Clarksville, Indiana location, which was also the company's only Indiana location.
Biggar Museum Trust Biggar Museum Trust (BMT) consists of several museums based in and around the town of Biggar in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was largely started on the initiative of several individuals, notably Brian Lambie, some years ago, and is both non-profit and independent of local government; indeed, sometimes BMT has struggled to get state funding.
Biggenden Shire Council Biggenden Shire Council is a Local Government Area located in the Wide Bay Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. The shire includes the town of Biggenden, the administrative centre of the shire as well as the villages of Coulstoun Lakes, Dallarnil, Didcot and Degilbo.
Biggenden, Queensland Biggenden is a town situated on the Isis Highway in southern Queensland, Australia, 339 km north-west of the state capital Brisbane, and 84 km west of Maryborough. The town is the administrative centre of the Biggenden Shire Local Government Area, which has a population of about 1600.
Bigger & Blacker Bigger & Blacker is an album by Chris Rock, originally released on July 13 1999, on the Dreamworks label. The album features a mixture of live, stand-up comedy tracks (recorded at a Chris Rock show at the Apollo Theater in Harlem) and shorter, studio-recorded comic sketches, featuring (alongside Rock) ODB, Biz Markie, Gerald Levert, Ali LeRoi, Wanda Sykes, Kaz Silver, Horatio Sanz, Ice Cube, Kali Londono, Kate Wright and Nneka Kai Morton.
Bigger fool theory The bigger fool theory or greater fool theory (also called Survivor Investing.) is the belief held by one who makes a questionable investment, with the assumption that they will be able to sell it later to "a bigger fool"; in other words, buying something for no other reason than the belief that you will be able to sell it to some one else for a higher price.
Bigger Than My Body "Bigger Than My Body" is the first single released by John Mayer from his second album Heavier Things. As a B-Side, the single contained a cover of Radiohead's Kid A and a new original song that was not included in Heavier Things named Tracing.
Biggera Waters, Queensland Biggera Waters is a suburb located on the western side of The Broadwater and is north of the suburb of Labrador. Its namesake, Biggera Creek, flows through the suburb itself and past a point known locally as "Land’s End".
BiggerCity BiggerCity is a website that caters to the "chubby" subculture of gay men; that is, to overweight gay men and those gay men who are attracted to larger men, commonly referred to as "chubby chasers".
Biggie & Tupac Biggie & Tupac is a feature-length documentary film about Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, made by Nick Broomfield. It is an investigation of the deaths of the two (which occurred within six months of each other), which some people claim were orchestrated by Suge Knight, head of Death Row Records.
Biggie Kapeta Biggie Kapeta (1956-1999) was a Zimbabwean sculptor. He was the nephew of Sylvester Mubayi, with whom he studied, and later spent two years as an artist in residence at the Chapungu Sculpture Park, where some of his work may be seen on display.
Biggleswade Biggleswade is a small market town on the River Ivel in Bedfordshire, England. It is well served by transport routes, being close to the A1 road between London and the North, as well as the main rail link North from London (the East Coast Main Line).
Biggleswade Rural District Biggleswade was a rural district in Bedfordshire, England from 1894 to 1974. initially created the district entirely surrounded but did not include Biggleswade], which was an [[urban district in its own right.
Bigha Bigha (Nepali: बिघा) is a unit of measurement of area of a land, commonly used in Nepal, Bangladesh and in a few states of India like West Bengal, Assam,Gujarat etc. The precise size of a bigha appears to vary considerably.
Bighorn Basin The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains on the south.
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation. This dam, named after the famous Crow chairman Robert Yellowtail, harnessed the waters of the Bighorn River and turned this variable stream into a magnificent lake.
Bighorn Sheep Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) are one of two species of mountain sheep in North America; the other species being Ovis dalli, that includes Dall Sheep and Stone's Sheep. The taxononomy continues to be modified as new genetic and morphologic data becomes available but most scientists currently recognize the following subspecies of bighorn (see Wehausen and Ramey 2000, Wehausen et al.
Bight (knot) The term bight is used in knot tying to refer to the center part of a length of rope, string, or yarn as opposed to the ends. The precise meaning changes depending on whether the definite or indefinite article is used.
Biglietto per l'inferno (album) Biglietto per l'inferno is a progressive rock album released in 1974 by the Italian band Biglietto per l'inferno, considered one of the cornerstones of the genre. The lyrics by Claudio Canali deal with a murder and contain Italian social commentary.
Biglycan Biglycan is a small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycan (SLRP) which is found in a variety of extracellular matrix tissues, including bone, cartilage and tendon. It consists of a protein core containing leucine-rich repeat regions and two glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains consisting of either chondroitin sulfate (CS) or dermatan sulfate (DS), with DS being more abundant in most connective tissues.
BigLove bigLove is a 2001 short film, written and directed by Leif Tilden. It was first shown on January 19 2001 on the Sundance Film Festival and won the award for Best Short at the 2001 Flickapalooza Film Festival and both Best Director of an HD Film and Best High-Definition Short at the 2001 HDFest.
Bignall Hill, Staffordshire Bignall Hill, Staffordshire is a prominent local landmark, and forms part of an escarpment ridge four miles north-west of Newcastle-under-Lyme. There is a large stone monument on the summit which is dedicated to John Wedgwood (1760-1839), a former local employer and coal mine owner.
Bignasco Bignasco is a village in the district of Vallemaggia, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. On 22 October 2006 Bignasco lost its status as an independent municipality when together with the village of Cavergno it was incorporated into the municipality of Cevio.
Bignoniaceae The Bignoniaceae, or trumpet creeper family, is a family of flowering plants, comprising mainly of trees, shrubs, lianas, and a few herbaceous plants. The family is widespread in both Old World and New World, distributed mostly in the tropics and subtropics, but with a number of temperate species as well, mainly in North America and eastern Asia.
Bignose shark The bignose shark, Carcharhinus altimus, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found circumglobally between latitudes 40° N and 34° S, at depths of between 25 and 500 m. Its length is up to about 3 m.
Bigorre Bigorre (Gascon: Bigòrra) is a historically independent county, and later a province of France, located in the upper watershed of the Adour, in the Pyrenees, in southwest France. Today Bigorre makes up the central and western part of the département of Hautes-Pyrénées, with two small exclaves in the neighboring Pyrénées Atlantiques.
BigPond In Australia, BigPond is Telstra's brand name for consumer broadband ADSL, cable modem, dial up, satellite Internet services and Wireless Broadband (EV-DO and HSDPA) via the Telstra Internet national backbone. Frame Relay, SDH, ADSL/SDSL and permanent dialup services are sold to businesses by Telstra under the Telstra Internet Direct brand name.
Bigram Bigrams are groups of two written letters, two syllables, or two words, and are very commonly used as the basis for simple statistical analysis of text; one of the most successful language models for speech recognition (Collins, 1996). They are a special case of N-gram.
Bigtooth Maple Bigtooth Maple (Acer grandidentatum) is a species of maple native to interior western North America, occurring in scattered populations from western Montana in the United States south to Coahuila in northern Mexico. It is closely related to Sugar Maple (A.
BigTable BigTable is a compressed, high performance and proprietary database built on Google File System (GFS), Chubby Lock Service and a few other Google programs; it is currently not distributed or used outside of Google. It was begun in 2004 "First an overview.
Bigwin Island Bigwin Island is the largest island on Lake of Bays, in the Muskoka District of Ontario, Canada. In 2001 it became the site of a major resort development, in the form of a golf course and a planned community of cottages, condominiums, and a hotel.
Bigworld Technology BigWorld Technology is a middleware platform for the development of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (also known as MMOGs or MMORPGs). It was developed by the Australian game development and technology company, Microforte.
BiGG MiXX BiGG MiXX was a short-lived Kellogg's breakfast cereal introduced in 1990. The cereal was an assortment of other Kellogg brand cereals already in existence mixed together, commonly described as the result of cereals swept up off the floor of Kellogg's factory.
Bihagara This is an India musical raga (composition) that appears in the Sikh tradition from northern India and is part of the Sikh holy scripture called Sri Guru Granth Sahib or SGGS or short. Every raga has a strict set of rules which govern the number of notes and their interplay that has to be adhered to for the composition of a tune.
Bihar and Orissa Bihar and Orissa was a former province of British India which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Orissa. The territories were conquered by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and were part of the Bengal Presidency, the largest British province in India.
Bihar Buddhiwadi Samaj Bihar Buddhiwadi Samaj (Bihar Rationalist Society) is a rationalist group based in Patna, Bihar, India. It is an affiliate of Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations and an associate member of International Humanist and Ethical Union.
Bihar Movement Bihar Movement was a movement initiated by students in the Indian state of Bihar in 1974 and led by the veteran Gandhian Socialist Jayaprakash Narayan against misrule of and corruption in then government . By 1975 it had attracted a mass following amongst all sections of the population in Bihar and in some other states.
Bihar People's Party Bihar People's Party was a political party in the Indian state of Bihar, founded by Rajput strongman and former leader of the Samajwadi Krantikari Sena paramilitary faction Anand Mohan Singh. Singh had previously been a member of Janata Dal, Samata Party and All India Rashtriya Janata Party.
Bihar train disaster On June 6, 1981, a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, derailed while it was crossing a bridge that was spanning the Bagmati river and plunged into the river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 900 killed.
Biharamulo Biharamulo is one of the six districts of the Kagera Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by the Muleba District, to the south by the Shinyanga Region, to the east by Lake Victoria and the Mwanza Region, to the west by the Ngara District, and to the southwest by the Kigoma Region.
Bihari brothers The Bihari Brothers, Jules, Joe, Lester and Saul, were American music entrepreneurs and the founders of Modern Records in Los Angeles and its subsidiaries such as Meteor Records based in Memphis. They were of Hungarian Jewish descent.
Bihari Lal Bihari Lal, a name famous in Hindustani literature as the author of the Sat-sai, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished from narrative and simpler styles. The language is the form of Hindi called Braj-bhasha, spoken in the country about Mathura, where the poet lived.
Biharmonic BĂ©zier surface A Biharmonic BĂ©zier surface is a smooth polynomial surface which conforms to the biharmonic equation and has the same formulations as a BĂ©zier surface. This formulation for BĂ©zier surfaces was developed by Juan Monterde and Hassan Ugail.
Bihor Mountains Bihor Mountains (Romanian: MunĹŁii Bihorului) are located in Romania, in the Romanian Western Carpathians mountain range. The massif has a length of 25 km from the northwest to the southeast and a width of 14 km.
Bihu dance The Bihu dance is a folk dance from the Indian state of Assam related to the festival of Bihu. This joyous dance is performed by both young men and women, and is characterized by brisk dance steps, rapid hand movement, and a rhythmic swaying of the hips in order to represent youthful passion.
Bihwa Gaya Bihwa Gaya, also known as Bijabal, was one of the kingdoms of the Gaya confederacy during the Three Kingdoms Period. It was based near the modern city center of Changnyeong County in South Gyeongsang province, South Korea.
Bicheno, Tasmania Bicheno is a town on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, 185 km north-east of Hobart on the Tasman Highway, with a population of 771 (2001 census It is part of the municipality of Glamorgan/Spring Bay]. The town is primarily a [[fishing port and a beach resort.
Bichhoo Bichhoo (Hindi: बिछू, Urdu: بچو, literally "Scorpion") is an Indian Bollywood movie released on July 7, 2000, and directed by Guddu Dhanoa. It is a suspense film, and the lead roles are played by Bobby Deol and Rani Mukerji.
Bichir The bichirs are a family, Polypteridae, of archaic-looking ray-finned fishes, the sole family in the order Polypteriformes. They have thick bonelike scales and a series of dorsal finlets instead of a single fin.
Bichitra Natak Bichitra Natak (or Bachittar/Vichitra) ( Resplendent Drama) is the autobiography of Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Sikh Guru. It is a part of the Dasam Granth and is the name given to the third Bani in the second holy scriptures of the Sikhs.
Bicho de Sete Cabeças Bicho de Sete Cabeças (English title: Brainstorm) is a 2001 Brazilian film about a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs in his jacket pocket.
Bicholim Bicholim is a town in the territory of Goa, and the headquarters of the consuelho (district) of the same name; the Consuelho of Bicholim, located in the north-east quarter is one of the seven that make up the Novas Conquistas or New Conquests, territories added to Goa comparatively latter than the first three of the Velhas Conquistas. The town is located about 30 kilometres from the capital Ponnjhe.
Bichunmoo Bichunmoo (hanja 飛天舞; hangul 비천무; Revised Romanization Bicheonmu) is a South Korean martial arts film written and directed by Young-jun Kim featuring Kim Hee-sun and Shin Hyun-june. Originally released in 2000, it was at the time the most expensive film in Korean history (an honour it soon lost to Musa).
BiiN BiiN was a company created out of a joint research project by Intel and Siemens to develop fault tolerant high-performance multi-processor computers build on custom microprocessor designs. BiiN was an outgrowth of the Intel iAPX 432 multiprocessor project, ancestor of iPSC and nCUBE.
Bijambare The Bijambare area, famous for its caves, is located on the far north-eastern slopes of Sarajevo District and the Ilijaš, a small town near Sarajevo. It is accessible by the main road Sarajevo-Tuzla, from which an asphalt road branches out leading towards a mountain home and the especially known Bijambare cave.
Bijapur, Karnataka Bijapur (Kannada: ವಿಜಾಪುರ) is a district headquarters of the Bijapur District in the state of Karnataka. Bijapur city is well known for the great architectures of histrorical importance built during the Adil Shahi dynasty.
Bijawar Bijawar is a town in Chhatarpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bijawar Taluk, and was formerly the capital of a princely state of British India of the same name.
Bijection, injection and surjection In mathematics, injections, surjections and bijections are classes of functions distinguished by the manner in which arguments (input expressions from the domain) and images (output expressions from the codomain) are related or mapped to each other.
Bijective numeration Bijective numeration is any numeral system that establishes a bijection between the set of non-negative integers and the set of finite strings over a finite set of digits. In particular, bijective base-k numeration represents a non-negative integer by using a string of digits from the set {1, 2, ...
Bijinga Bijinga (美人画) is a generic term for beautiful women in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre, which predate photography. The term can also be used for modern mediums of art, provided they conform to a somewhat classic representation of a woman, usually depicted wearing a kimono.
Bijjala II Bijjala II 1130 - 1167 CE was the most famous of the southern Kalachuri kings and ruled initially as a feudatory of Chalukya Vikramaditya VI. He ruled as the Mahamandalesvara or chief and ruled over Karhada 4,000 and Tardavadi 1,000, designations given to
Bijlmerbajes The Bijlmerbajes is a prison in Amsterdam near the Amstel station. The official name is Penitentiaire Inrichting Over-Amstel, although it is also known as Penitentiaire Inrichting De Stadspoort or Penitentiaire Inrichtingen Amsterdam.
Bijlmermeer The Bijlmermeer (IPA: ) or colloquially Bijlmer () is one of the neighborhoods that form the Amsterdam Zuidoost ('Amsterdam South-East') borough (or "stadsdeel") of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. To many people, the Bijlmer designation is used to refer to Amsterdam Zuidoost as a pars pro toto.
Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl is the leader of the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra, a political party based in the Indian state of Tripura. Hrangkhawl began his political career as an organising secretary in the ethno-nationalist Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti.
Biju Menon Biju Menon is a Malayalam film actor who has appeared in such films as Meghamalhar, Madhuranombarakaatu, Shivam, and Mannar Mathai Speaking. In 1997, he won the Kerala State Award's Second Best Actor (equivalent to "Supporting Role" in the United States) for his role as Akhilachandran in Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu.
Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid The Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid (Special Assistance Unit, BBE) is a Dutch counterterrorism unit. It is part of Netherlands Marine Corps and was founded in the 1970s after the Munich massacre at the Olympics on 5 September, 1972, when eight Palestinian terrorists took hostage and then murdered nine Israeli athletes and two others in an incident that showed the west's woeful state of preparedness for terrorist acts.
Bikash Bhattacharya Bikash Bhattacharya or Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya (Bengali বিকাশ রন্জন ভট্টাচার্যা) is the present mayor of Kolkata (2005-2010 session), heading Kolkata municipal corporation, in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bike (song) "Bike" is a song by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). It also appears on two Floyd compilation albums: Relics (1971) and Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001).
Bike and Build Bike and Build is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which organizes cross-country cycling trips to benefit the affordable housing cause in the United States. Participants on Bike and Build trips are of ages 18-24, and may or may not have previous cycling or volunteer experience.
Bike derby Also known as "Foot Down" a bike derby is a contest, the goal of which is to be the last person still riding their bike. Modeled somewhere between a Demolition derby and a Roller derby, a bike derby adds the element of maintaining balance on a bicycle while causing other contentants' to lose their balance and step or fall to the ground.
Bike engined car A bike engined car is a small or light weight car using an engine from one of the larger capacity motorbikes. The advantage for the car builders in doing this is that small car engines in high states of tune are relatively rare whereas large motorbikes engines are frequently designed for high specific outputs.

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