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Bill Szymczyk Bill Szymczyk (pronounced ) (born February 13, 1943 in Muskegon, Michigan) became a musical producer and technical engineer of rock working with, among others, The Eagles in the 1970s. He produced The Who's 1981 album Face Dances, which included the hit single "You Better You Bet".
Bill the Cat Bill the Cat is a fictional cat appearing in the works of cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, beginning with the comic strip Bloom County in the 1980s and continuing in Outland and Opus in the following decades. Bill also appeared in some of Breathed's illustrated children's books, including A Wish for Wings That Work, which was also made into an animated Christmas television special, and also on greeting cards and other sundry merchandise.
Bill Terry William Harold Terry (October 30, 1898 - January 9, 1989) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. Nicknamed "Memphis Bill", he is most remembered for being the last National League player to hit .
Bill Thomas William Marshall Thomas (born December 6 1941), commonly known as Bill Thomas, American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979–2007, representing the 22nd District of California
Bill Thoms Bill Thoms (born March 5, 1910 in Newmarket, Ontario, died December 26, 1964 in Toronto) was a professional ice hockey player who played 548 games in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks and Boston Bruins. He shared the NHL goal-scoring lead with Charlie Conacher in 1935-36.
Bill Tilden William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), often called "Big Bill", was an American tennis player who was the World No. 1 player for 7 years, the last time when he was 38 years old.
Bill Tilghman William Matthew "Bill" Tilghman (1854–1924) was a lawman in the Old West period of the American frontier. Tilghman was a rarity among the peace officers of the times in that he seems to have been extraordinarily honest and incorruptible.
Bill Tilley Bill Tilley is the Liberal Party of Australia member for the seat of Benambra in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was elected at the 2006 Victorian state election, beating Labor candidate and Wodonga mayor Lisa Mahood and former Nationals Upper House member Bill Baxter.
Bill Tuttle William Robert Tuttle (July 4 1929 - July 27 1998) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three teams during his baseball career. He played for the Detroit Tigers from 1952 to 1957, the Kansas City Athletics from 1958 to 1961 and the Minnesota Twins from 1961 to 1963.
Bill Tynan William Tynan, known as Bill Tynan, (born 18 August 1940) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Party member of Parliament (MP) for Hamilton South from 1999 to 2005, when he won the Hamilton South by-election to replace the ennobled George Robertson.
Bill Tytla Vladimir Peter Tytla (October 25 1904 –December 30 1968) was one of the original Disney animators and is considered by many to be the best character animator working during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.
Bill Uruski Bill Uruski (born July 27, 1942 in Poplarfield, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party governments of Edward Schreyer and Howard Pawley.
Bill validator A bill validator, bill acceptor, or currency acceptor, is a component of electronic vending machines and other devices that accept paper currency. Such devices are found in places that have a need to accept paper currency without requiring the presence of a human attendant.
Bill Vander Zalm Wilhelmus Nicholaas Theodore Marie "Bill" Vander Zalm (born May 29, 1934 in Noordwijkerhout, South Holland)is a politician and entrepreneur in British Columbia], [[Canada. He was the 28th Premier of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991.
Bill Vankoughnet William John (Bill) Vankoughnet (born January 7, 1943 in Kingston, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1993, and a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999.
Bill Veitch William Andrew (Bill) Veitch (25 May 1870 - 1 January 1961) was a New Zealand politician. He began his career in the labour movement, but was a strong opponent of socialism, and rejected the militant views held by many of his colleagues.
Bill Vinovich Bill Vinovich is an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) since 2002 and is a college basketball official. Vinovich began his career in the NFL as a side judge on the officiating crew headed by referee Ed Hochuli before being promoted to referee for the start of the 2004 NFL season after former referee Ron Blum returned to his original position of line judge.
Bill Viola Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is one of the world's best known and critically important contemporary video artists. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international stage.
Bill Virdon William Charles Virdon (born June 9, 1931 in Hazel Park, Michigan) is a former outfielder, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. A premier defensive outfielder during his playing days (1955-65) as a center fielder for the St.
Bill Voce William Voce (8 August 1909, Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England - 6 June 1984, Lenton, Nottinghamshire) was an English cricket player. He played for the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the English cricket team, and was an instrumental part of England's infamous Bodyline tour of Australia in 1932-1933.
Bill Voiselle William Symmes (Bill) Voiselle (January 29, 1919 - January 31, 2005) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1942 through 1950, Voiselle played for the New York Giants (1942-47), Boston Braves (1947-49) and Chicago Cubs (1950).
Bill Vukovich Bill Vukovich (born December 13, 1918 in Fresno, California, died May 30, 1955), was an American racing driver, of Serbian descent. He was known variously as "Vuky" and "The Mad Russian" for his intense driving style, as well as the "Silent Serb" for his cool demeanor.
Bill W. Clayton Billy Wayne “Bill” Clayton (September 11, 1928 – January 6, 2007), was an American politician from West Texas who served as a state legislator for twenty years and was Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983, a tenure twice as long as that of any other presiding officer of the house elected before him. Clayton, a conservative Democrat from a rural area of the Panhandle, attained the speakership by successfully forging a broad-based House coalition.
Bill Waddington Bill Waddington (born June 10 1916 - September 92000 in Oldham, Lancashire) was a British music hall performer and comedian with late life stardom as the pompous ex serviceman, Percy Sugden, in Granada Television's long running soap opera, Coronation Street. He played the role from August 1983 until quitting the serial in October 1997.
Bill Walker (politician) William Charles Walker, known as Bill Walker, (born 20 February 1929, Dundee) is the deputy chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. He was a member of Parliament from 1979 to 1997 and one of the Maastricht Rebels against the embattled administration of John Major during the mid-1990s.
Bill Walsh (actor) William J Walsh (born September 25, 1957) is an American actor best known for his role in the TV series Third Watch, where he started as a firefighter consultant to the show's producers. No matter how famous he may have gotten, he never quit his day job as a member of FDNY.
Bill Walsh (author) Bill Walsh (born December 20, 1961) is perhaps the United States' best-known newspaper copy editor, largely based on the popularity of his two books about editing, Lapsing into a Comma (ISBN 0-8092-2535-2) and The Elephants of Style (ISBN 0-07-142268-4), and his Web site, The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors, one of the first online authorities on the craft of copy editing. Walsh is copy chief of the national desk at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1997.
Bill Walsh College Football Bill Walsh College Football is a Super NES, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and Sega [Mega-]CD American football game which was one of the first ones to deal with the sport at a college level. Except for Super Play Action Football, no game has ever dealt with football at a more simple level than college since that time.
Bill Walton William Theodore Walton III, better known as Bill Walton (born November 5 1952, in La Mesa, California), is an American former basketball player and current television sportscaster. He is the father of current Los Angeles Lakers player, Luke Walton.
Bill Wambsganss William Adolf Wambsganss (March 19, 1894 - December 8, 1985) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1914 through 1926, Wambsganss played for the Cleveland Indians (1914-23), Boston Red Sox (1924-25) and Philadelphia Athletics (1926).
Bill Water Bill water is a colloquialism for Soda Water in Brisbane, Australia derived from Coles' recent advertising campaign, which lists an unknown man identified only as "Bill", who is quoted as saying "Makes me feel refreshed and relaxed, ready for the weekend." The packaging beneath Bill's name informs the reader that Bill "Loves to entertain.
Bill Watrous William Russell Watrous III is a professional trombonist. He is perhaps best known by casual fans of jazz music for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love," which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name.
Bill Weasley Bill Weasley (born 29 November, 1970)is a fictional character in the Harry Potter] series, the oldest son of [[Molly Weasley|Molly and Arthur Weasley and the brother of Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny.
Bill Wennington William (Bill) Percey Wennington (born December 26 1963 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian former National Basketball Association center who won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls: the 1996, 1997 and 1998 teams. He was also a member of two Canadian Olympic Basketball Teams (1984 and 1992) and the 1983 World University Games team that won gold against the USA.
Bill Whelan Bill Whelan (born May 22 1950) is the Irish composer who was asked to compose a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The end result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music.
Bill White (baseball) William De Kova White (born January 28 1934 in Lakewood, Florida) is a former sportscaster and Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the New York and San Francisco Giants (1956, 1958), St. Louis Cardinals (1959-65, 1969) and Philadelphia Phillies (1966-68).
Bill Whittington Bill Whittington (born September 11, 1949) is a former American racing driver from Lubbock, Texas who won the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans together with his brother Don Whittington and Klaus Ludwig on a Porsche 935. The German professional Klaus Ludwig, multiple winner at Le Mans and elsewhere, did most of the driving in the heavy rain.
Bill Whittle Bill Whittle is a popular [national TV news] production [[editing|editor, and author of the book Silent America, which contains a collection of his essays. While he is generally considered a conservative - for instance, he supports the war in Iraq and opposes affirmative action - Whittle has more than once said that he does not believe in a Supreme Being, thus separating himself from Conservative Christians, who stereotypically comprise a large cross-section of the Republican Party.
Bill Wiggin Bill Wiggin (born 4 June, 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He has held the seat of Leominster since the 2001 election.
Bill Williams (game designer) Bill Williams (1960 - May 1998) was a game designer and programmer, the author of the acclaimed Atari games Salmon Run, Necromancer, and Alley Cat, the Amiga games Mind Walker, Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon, Pioneer Plague, and Knights of the Crystallion, Monopoly for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and Bart's Nightmare for Super NES.
Bill Williams River The Bill Williams River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 40 mi (64 km) long in western Arizona in the United States. It drains a rugged and remote area of the Sonoran Desert plateau east of the Colorado northwest of Phoenix, forming a green ribbon of an oasis as it crosses the desert.
Bill Willoughby William (Bill) Wesley Willoughby (born May 20 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA in 1975 as the fist pick in the second round (19th overall).
Bill Wilson (pastor) Bill Wilson (born 1947) is the president and founder of Metro Ministries International, America’s largest ministry to children with branches in various nations. He is a well-known speaker, author, pastor and friend of poor inner city children all over the world.
Bill Winter Bill Winter (born 1964) is an American lawyer who was the Democratic candidate in Colorado's 6th congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in 2006. He lost to incumbent Representative Tom Tancredo on November 7, 2006.
Bill Woodfull William Maldon "Bill" Woodfull OBE (22 August 1897, Maldon, Victoria, Australia - 11 August 1965, Tweed Heads South, New South Wales) was an Australian cricket player. He played for Victoria and the Australian cricket team, and captained both.
Bill Wrye William Munro Wrye (born December 25, 1944 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1981 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.
Bill Wyllie Bill Wyllie born (c. 1932 - died March 13, 2006) was a Western Australian businessman who was best known for his career as a "corporate doctor" in Hong Kong; and most notably for his role in setting up Hutchison Whampoa.
Bill Yates Floyd Buford ("Bill") Yates (July 5, 1921, Samson, Alabama-March 26, 2001, Norwalk, Connecticut) was a cartoonist who drew gag cartoons and comics strips before assuming the position of comic strip editor for King Features Syndicate in 1978.
Bill Young (New Zealand) William "Bill" Lambert Young (born 1913) is a former New Zealand politician, born in Kawakawa. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the New Zealand National Party from 1966 to 1981 representing the marginal Miramar electorate in Wellington.
Bill Young (rugby player) Bill Young (born 4 March, 1974 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition and has played for Australia over 40 times.
Bill Zuber William Henry Zuber (born March 26 1913 Middle Amana, IA - died November 2 1982 Cedar Rapids, IA) was a pitcher who had an 11 year career from 1936, 1938 to 1947. He pitched with the Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox all of the American League.
Bill's Casino Lake Tahoe Bill's Lake Tahoe, is a Lake Tahoe casino in Stateline, Nevada operated by and connected to next-door Harrah's Lake Tahoe. Bill's opened during the 50th Anniversary of Harrah's in 1987 and is named in honor of Bill Harrah.
Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster is a well-known sketch story by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. The sketch is one of many to include Jack Mitchell the swagman as the story's main character and narrator. <BR>The story concerns a rooster that Mitchell's family once owned, named Bill, who was unknowingly ventriloquistic and always yearning to fight other roosters.
Billa vera Historically, a grand inquest impaneled and swore before the Justices in Eyre, etc, endorsing a bill whereby any crime punishable in that court is presented to them, with the phrase billa vera (Latin: "the bill is true"). This phrase signnifies that the presenter has furnished probable evidence, and is worthy of further consideration, while the party presented is said to stand indicted of the crime, and must confess or follow through the indictment.
Billabong Billabong is an Australian English word used to refer to an oxbow lake, a stagnant pool of water cut off from a waterway. Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a stream or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end.
Billabong (clothing) ) | foundation = Gold Coast, Australia (1973)| industry = Retail |location = Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, Queensland |key_people = Derek O'Neill, CEO |num_employees = Over 1,000 |products = Apparel, sporting goods |revenue = $1.0 billion AUD (2006) |net_income = $145.
Billabong Pro Teahupoo 2006 Billabong Pro Teahupoo 2006 is a professional surfing competition of the ASP World Tour is being held in Taiarapu, Tahiti starting May 8th.. Originally the event was scheduled to start on May 4 but the waves were not at their expected peak.
Billanook College Billanook College is an independent co-ed school with years Prep to Year 12, located in Mooroolbark, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is a school of the Uniting Church in Australia, and a member of Round Square.
Billbergia nutans Billbergia nutans (Queen's-Tears) is a epiphytic bromeliad native from Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. This plant is often used as an ornamental plant, and it is probably one of the most common Bromeliads grown.
Billboard (advertising) A billboard is a large outdoor advertising structure, found in places with high traffic such as cities, roads, motorways and highways. Billboards show large advertisements aimed at passing pedestrians and drivers.
Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis.
Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists.
Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday.
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay The Hot 100 Airplay is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures radio airplay, and is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Singles Sales and the Hot Digital Songs charts, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Billboard charts On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade and on July 20, 1940 the first Music Popularity Chart was calculated. Since 1958 the Hot 100 has been published, combining single sales and radio airplay.
Billboard Latin Music Awards The Billboard Latin Music Awards grew out of the Billboard Music Awards program from Billboard Magazine, an industry publication charting the sales and radio airplay success of musical recordings. In addition to awards given on the basis of success on the Billboard charts, the ceremony includes the Spirit of Hope award for humanitarian achievements and the Lifetime Achievement award, as well as awards by the broadcasting partner.
Billboard Liberation Front The Billboard Liberation Front is a group of "culture jammers" devoted to "improving" billboards by changing key words to radically alter the message, often to an anti-corporate message. They published an instructional pamphlet titled "The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement.
Billboard Music Award The Billboard Music Awards, sponsored by Billboard magazine and held annually in December, is one of three major United States contemporary music awards shows presented each year (the others being the American Music Awards and the Grammy Awards).
Billboard Radio Monitor Billboard Radio Monitor was a weekly music trade publication that followed the radio industry and tracks the monitoring of current songs by format, station and audience cumes. The magazine was a spinoff of Billboard magazine and was mostly available through subscription to people who work in the radio industry and music chart enthusiasts.
Billboard Year-End Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Billboard's "chart year" runs from the first week of December to the final week in November.
Bille Woodruff Bille Woodruff is a film and music video director, noted for his films Honey, starring Jessica Alba, and Beauty Shop, starring Queen Latifah. He has worked with many R&B and Hip Hop artist and is known for making music videos for Joe, whom he has directed 9 music videos since 1994, and Toni Braxton, whom he has worked 6 times since 1996, directing videos for her biggest singles, including "Un-Break My Heart".
Billee Taylor Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens. First produced in London in 1880 and in New York later that year, was a strong success on both sides of the Atlantic and had many revivals both in Britain and in the United States.
Billennium Billennium is a neologism which is a combination either of "billion" and "millennium", that is a period of a billion years, or a combination of "bi-" and "millennium", that is a second millennium, such as that which ended in the year 2000.
Billericay Dickie Billericay Dickie is a song by Ian Dury from his seminal debut album New Boots and Panties!! it is arguably one of his most remembered and well known lyrics, in-fact one source even gave his place of birth as Billericay because of the song.
Billericay railway station Billericay railway station is a railway station in Billericay in the Basildon district of the county of Essex in the East of England. The station is in proximity to the town centre and industrial estate of the town, sunk into a valley in which the line is situated.
Billesley, Warwickshire Billesley is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, just off the A46 road, between Stratford and Alcester. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 46.
Billet A billet is the place to which a person, generally a soldier, is assigned to sleep. Soldiers are generally billetted in barracks when on duty, although in some armies soldiers with families are permitted to maintain a home off-post.
Billet (manufacturing) Billet is a term used in manufacturing to refer to a cast product. A cast product is defined as either as ingot or a billet, depending on whether the cross-sectional diameter is greater than, or less than approximately 200 mm, respectively.
Billet queen Billet queen is a slang term used for a Hot Rod owner or chopper owner who uses pre-made custom parts (those machined or produced from billet). In some aspects of kustom culture hand made or home made parts are revered over parts bought out of a catalog.
Billet reading Billet reading is a mentalism effect where a performer gives the impression that he is able to correctly identify, using supposed clairvoyant powers, messages that have been sealed inside envelopes. Although billet reading is accomplished by a simple secret, the effect can give the impression of mind reading.
Billfish The term billfish is applied to a number of different large, predatory fish characterised by their large size (swordfish can be over 4 metres long) and long, sword-like bill. Billfish span the sailfish and marlin, which make up the family Istiophoridae, and the swordfish, sole member of the family Xiphiidae.
Billhook The billhook is a traditional cutting tool used mainly in European agriculture, but also common through out most of the world where it was introduced by European settlers, e.g South America and parts of Asia, or developed independently e.
Billiard techniques In both carom billiards and pocket billiards games, specialized billiard techniques are immensely important part of the game and are used on each shot to exercise control over the final resting position of the cue ball and the object balls.
Billiard-Ball Computer A billiard ball computer is an idealized model of a computing machine based on Newtonian dynamics. Instead of using electronic signals like a conventional computer, it relies on the motion of spherical billiard balls in a friction-free environment made of buffers against which the balls bounce perfectly.
Billiards A cue sport (sometimes "cuesport") is any game or class of games of the family of cue sports (often generically called "billiards" in American English) — games played indoors with a cue stick which is used to strike balls, moving them around a cloth-covered table bounded by rubber banks (or "cushions").
Billiards at Half-past Nine Billiards at Half-past Nine was written in 1959 by Heinrich Böll. It reflects the opposition Böll, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, had to the period of Nazism as well as his aversion to war in general.
Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas Billie Thomas (originally William Thomas, Jr.) (March 12 1931–October 10 1980) was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short films from 1934 until the series' end in 1944.
Billie Burke Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1885 – May 14, 1970) was an Oscar-nominated American actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in the musical The Wizard of Oz.
Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later called Lady Day, was an American singer known equally for her difficult life and her emotive, poignant singing voice. Holiday is generally considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.
Billie Jean King Billie Jean Moffitt King (born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California) is a retired tennis player from the United States. During her career, she won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
Billie Lou Watt Billie Lou Watt (June 20, 1924 - September 7, 2001) was an actress in theater and television, including several voice acting roles for commercials and animated series. She is best known as the voice of the title characters of the anime series Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, and the character Elsie the Cow for Borden Cheese's TV commercials.
Billie Sol Estes Billie Sol Estes (born 1924) was a scandal-ridden Texas-based financier best known for his association with US President Lyndon B. Johnson and for accusing Johnson with a variety of crimes, including the assassination of John F.
Billie Whitelaw Billie Whitelaw, CBE (born June 6, 1932 in Coventry, Warwickshire) is a distinguished English actress for both stage and film and has worked alongside notables such as Laurence Olivier, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, and Samuel Beckett (with whom she collaborated closely on theatrical techniques for twenty-five years). Appearing frequently on television, often in costume dramas such as Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities, Whitelaw has won acclaim for her performances in dramas such as the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales and was awarded the CBE in 1991.
Billing (film) Billing is a film term denoting the amount and order in which film credits information is presented in advertising and on the film itself. Information given in billing usually consists of the actors appearing in the movie, the directors, producers, the companies producing and distributing the movie (by name and/or logo), and artistic and technical crew.
Billing Aquadrome Billing Aquadrome is a leisure park on the outskirts of Northampton, England. Facilities within the 235 acre (1 km²) park, which is based around various old gravel pits, include a caravan site, marina and funfair.
Billing Mediation Platform A billing mediation platform is a system used to convert datatypes of a certain type to other datatypes, usually for billing purposes. They are used mostly by telephone companies, who typically need to process UDRs (Usage Detail Records).
Billingham railway station Billingham railway station serves the town of Billingham, within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is located on the Durham Coast Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the station's passenger services.
Billingley Billingley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England, about seven miles east of Barnsley. According to the 2006 census it had a population of 178, up from 177 five years ago.
Billingr In Norse mythology, Billingr was the father of a maiden desired by Odin. According to the Hávamál (stanzas 96 - 102), Odin was told by the maiden (who is nameless in the poem) to meet her after nightfall when it would be safest and she would give herself to him, but when Odin returned he found the path blocked by flames and alert warriors.
Billings Bridge Station (OC Transpo) The Billings Bridge Transitway Station is a station on the OC Transpo Transitway, adjacent to the Billings Bridge Plaza. It is named for, not only the plaza, but after Billings Bridge itself which is both a nearby bridge and neighbourhood (named for the early settler of the area, Braddish Billings).

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