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Bjørn Skau Bjørn Skau (born 1929) was Norwegian Minister of Justice in 1981. Before this he had served as personal secretary (1959–1961) and state secretary (1961–1963 and 1963–1965) to the Minister of Social Affairs.
Bjørnar Andersen Bjørnar Andersen (born 1978), commonly Bjornar in English is a Norwegian refrigerator mechanic and dog musher who has won all the long-distance dog sled races in Norway, and placed fourth in the 2005 Iditarod across the U.S.
Bjørnar Håkensmoen frame|Bjoernar Haakensmoen. Picture from Olympic Team Norway - Media Guide, Torino 2006 Håkensmoen (or Bjoernar Haakensmoen, born [[July 18], [[1969) was the head coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing team at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Bjørnøya Bjørnøya (), meaning "Bear Island" in Norwegian, is an arctic island of Norway that forms the southernmost part of Svalbard. It is located in the western part of the Barents Sea at , approximately halfway between Spitsbergen and the North Cape.
Bjørnson Festival The Bjørnson Festival of international literature is held in Molde and Nesset, Norway, every August since 1992, and is named in honour of the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (who was raised in the area).
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (December 8, 1832–April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian writer and a 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is generally considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland.
Bjelkemander The Bjelkemander was the term given to a system of malapportionment in the Australian State of Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s. Under the system, electorates were allocated to zones such as rural or metropolitan and electoral boundaries drawn so that rural electorates had about half as many voters as metropolitan ones.
Bjelopavlići Bjelopavlići (also known as the Zeta River valley) is a strip of fertile lowland in Montenegro. It stretches along the Zeta river, being wider in river's lower end, down to the confluence with Morača river near Podgorica.
Bjelovar-Križevci Bjelovar-Križevci (in Croatian) or Belovár-Körös (in Hungarian) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the autonomous region Croatia-Slavonia within the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Croatia.
Bjergsted Bjergsted is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in West Zealand County on the west coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark. The municipality includes the islands of Sejrø and Nekselø, and covers an area of 138.
Bjerknes (lunar crater) Bjerknes is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the rugged far side of the Moon. The crater lies behind the southeastern limb, and beyond the region that is sometimes brought into sight through libration.
Bjerko Peninsula Bjerko Peninsula () is a broad ice-covered peninsula of Antarctica, forming the west shore of MacKenzie Bay. Norwegian whalers explored this area in January and February 1931, naming the cape at the end of this peninsula for gunner Reidar Bjerko of the whale catcher Bouvet II, from whose deck the coast was sketched on January 19.
Bjerringbro municipality Bjerringbro municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 207 km², and has a total population of 13,922 (2005).
Bjo Trimble Betty Jo Trimble, born as Betty McCarthy, universally known as Bjo (IPA /'biËʤo/Gerrold, David. The Trouble With Tribbles: the birth, sale, and final production of one episode, 1973), is one of the most significant figures in the history of science fiction fandom.
Bjorn "Speed" Strid Björn Ove "Speed" Strid (Born: September 10, 1978) is a vocalist with a resume that includes work in metal bands such as Disarmonia Mundi, Terror 2000, Coldseed, and most notably Soilwork. He also provided vocals for Darkane on their demo recording prior to Lawrence Mackrory joining the band for before their debut album.
BJ McKie Bjorn McKie, commonly known as BJ McKie, is an American basketball player. Born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, McKie graduated from Irmo High School and starred for the University of South Carolina men's basketball team.
BJ Shea BJ Shea was the host of The BJ Shea Experience, a highly rated midday talk show, on KQBZ FM (Seattle) before the station adopted a country format in December 2005. Despite having been dismissed (and subsequently reinstated) by Entercom, KISW's parent company in 2000, after the format change, BJ Shea was tapped to replace Howard Stern on KISW-FM (99.
Bk-MBDB bk-MBDB is a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug first synthesized by Koeppe, Ludwig and Zeile and mentioned in their 1967 paper. It remained an obscure product of academia until 2005 when it was synthesized by a chemical supply company.
Bk2lĂĄ bk2lĂĄ (bk2laa) is a Norwegian collective artist group and was founded by five architecture students in Trondheim, Norway in 1994. The group meets in the workshop and use quantity as an important tool towards quality; their main focus is painting, and actually sharing the same canvas obeying the rule that there are no rules.
BK Avarta Boldklubben Avarta is a Danish football club currently playing in the Denmark Series Pool 1 which ranks as the fourth best league in Denmark. The team was relegated from the Danish 2nd Division East following the 2005-2006 season.
BK Baguette line The BK Baguette line is a line of chicken sandwiches and hamburgers sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King. All variants are served on a fresh cooked baguette roll They are a product line of larger, adult oriented sandwiches made with higher quality ingredients than their "standard" menu items.
BK Crown Jewels BK Crown Jewels are a line of chicken sandwiches and hamburgers sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King in the New Zealand Market. They are larger, adult oriented products made with higher quality ingredients than their "standard" menu items.
BK channel BK channels, also called Maxi-K or slo1 channels, are large conductance Ca2+ and voltage-activated K+ channels, which allow K+ to leave the cytoplasm under physiological conditions when activated by membrane potential and/or intracellular Ca2+ . This results in hyperpolarization or a decrease in cell excitability.
BK Chicken Fries BK Chicken Fries are a fried chicken product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King. It is one of their larger, adult oriented products made with higher quality ingredients than their "standard" menu items.
BK Chicken Tenders BK Chicken Tenders are small, thin pieces of chicken, breaded and lightly peppered. While normally served in a crown shape, Burger King occasionally offers the pieces in more kid-friendly shapes resembling stars, lightning bolts, and dinosaurs.
BK XXL The BK XXL line of sandwiches is a family of larger, 1/2 pound double cheeseburgers sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King in the European market. It is one of their late teen to young adult male oriented products.
BK-space In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a BK-space or Banach coordinate space is a sequence space endowed with a suitable norm to turn it into a Banach space. All BK-spaces are normable FK-spaces.
BK02 BK02 is a group of developers from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, one of the most popular universities in Vietnam. The main aim of the group is to research and develop free open source softwares targeting computer end-users.
BKL singularity A BKL singularity is a non-symmetric, chaotic, vacuum solution to Einstein's field equations conjectured to represent the actual interior geometry of a "physical" black hole formed by gravitational collapse.
BKN BKN (the Bohbot Kids Network), formerly known as Amazin' Adventures, was a syndicated animation block starting from 1992. It was created and distributed by Bohbot Entertainment, an animation production company founded by Allen J.
BKTV BKTV (which is an acronym for: Braća Karić Televizija, in English: The Brothers Karich Television) is one of the youngest television stations in Serbia. It is a privately-owned, revenue generating media house with a "G" rating (general audiences or general interest station) and without editorial or content restrictions.
Bl(A)ck Tea Society The Bl(A)ck Tea Society is an ad hoc, nonviolent anti-authoritarian coalition whose purpose was to protest the Democratic National Convention in Boston, which was held on the last week of July 2004. They feel that the U.
Blaafarveværket Blaafarveværket in Modum, Norway, was in the mid 19th century the largest industrial company in Norway, employing more than 2,000 workers. The works mined and manufactured cobalt blue, and covered 80 percent of the world market.
BlaĂ Briugu BlaĂ Briugu (BlaĂ the Landholder or Hospitaller) is an Ulster warrior in the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology. He was wealthy and kept a hostel, and his geas required him to sleep with any woman who stayed there unaccompanied.
Black & White (computer game) Black & White is a computer game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive. It was a god game released in 2001, which included elements of artificial life, strategy, and beat 'em up games.
Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods Battle of the Gods is the first expansion pack for Lionhead's Black & White 2, in which the player is pitted against an enemy god for the first time. The expansion adds a number of additional miracles to the game, including the ability to resurrect dead citizens or transform corpses into undead soldiers.
Black (film) Black (Hindi: ब्लॅक, Urdu: بلاک) is a Hindi and Indian English film released in 2005 and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It is a story of a blind and deaf girl who graduates from a normal college.
Black (play) Black is a full-length play by Joyce Carol Oates first published in Twelve Plays (1991) and reprinted in The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995). Together with I Stand Before You Naked, Tone Clusters, Ontological Proof of My Existence and Bad Girls, Black is one of Oates's most frequently performed plays.
Black (video game) Black (originally titled "Shooty McShootsalot and his Billions of Bullet Buddies"Game Informer Magazine #158)is a first-person shooter for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, developed by Criterion Software and published by Electronic Arts. Black is essentially a run n' gun shooter with some minor 'stop & pop' tactics, with few mission objectives and a “kill 'em all” general strategy.
Black 47 Based in New York City, Black 47 is a Celtic rock band made up of Irish expatriates, formed in the Bronx by Larry Kirwan and Chris Byrne in 1989. Their name is derived from the worst year of the Irish Potato Famine, 1847.
Black abalone The black abalone, Haliotis cracherodii, used to be the most abundant aquatic mollusk on the Pacific Coast of North America. Now, through intense fishing and the Withering Syndrome, it has much declined in population.
Black anarchism Black anarchism opposes the existence of a state and subjugation and domination of people of color, and favors a non-hierarchical organization of society. Black anarchists seek to abolish white supremacy, capitalism, and the state.
Black and Blue Bowl The Black and Blue Bowl is an annual college football game between the University of Memphis Tigers and the University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles. The game gets its title from the colors of the two universities.
Black and red ware culture The black and red ware culture (BRW) is an early Iron Age archaeological culture of the northern Indian Subcontinent. It is dated to roughly the 12th – 9th centuries BC, and associated with the post-Rigvedic Vedic civilization.
Black and Tan Terrier The English Black and Tan Terrier is the non-Kennel Club vairety of dog that was drawn into The Kennel Club as the Welsh Terrier and that remains extent outside of the Kennel Club as a "Fell Terrier".
Black and white (colours) The two-colour combination 'black and white' occurs widely both in nature and in the human-created world. The abundance of black-and-white animals is probably due to the camouflage effects of the colour combination and also its implication that the animal is poisonous and therefore dangerous if attacked.
Black and white bungalow A black and white bungalow is a white-painted bungalow of a style once commonly used to house European expatriate or colonial families in tropical colonies, typically the Southeast Asian colonies of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.
Black and white cookie A black and white cookie is a dessert covered on one half with vanilla frosting, and on the other half by dark chocolate frosting. Widely known as the black and white cookie, in some areas (mainly Boston and Upstate New York) the cookie is known as a half moon.
Black and white snapper The black and white snapper, Macolor niger, is a snapper of the family Lutjanidae found across the Indo Pacific oceans. It is also commonly known as the black snapper, but should not be confused by other snappers with the same common name.
Black and White (1999 film) Black and White is a 1999 film directed by James Toback, starring a cast of young actors and celebrities including Elijah Wood, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Joe Pantoliano, Allan Houston and a number of rap musicians.
Black and White (Three Dog Night song) "Black and White" is a 1972 pop song by Three Dog Night, included on the album Seven Separate Fools. The song was written by David Arkin and Earl Robinson, whose 1991 deaths curiously were less than seven months apart.
Black and White Bandit The Black and White Bandit is a villain in Batman: Black & White and was created by Dave Gibbons. He is something of a parody of the "schtick" villains that would appear in the 1950's and 1960's in Batman (such as Two-Face, who, during that time, always committed crimes involving the number two).
Black and White: No Gray Area Black & White: No Gray Area is the title of the first collaboration album from rap artists 50 Cent and Eminem. The LP will once again be released under Aftermath Entertainment & Shady Records, with Dr.
Black and yellow mud dauber The black and yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium) is a type of wasp, and like most wasps is not particularly hostile (despite the common misconception, only social wasps - especially yellowjackets - tend towards aggressiveness). They are solitary insects that build small nests out of mud in or around homes, barns, and other structures.
Black armband view of history The 'black armband' view of history is a phrase coined by Australian historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey in his 1993 Sir John Latham Memorial Lecture to describe a view of history that focuses on the dispossession of the Aboriginal people. He contrasted this view with the Three Cheers view of history.
Black arowana The black arowana, Osteoglossum ferreirai, is a freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae, commonly kept in aquaria. The term "Osteoglossum" means "bone-tongued" and "bicirrhosum" means "two barbels" (from the Greek language).
Black Aces The Black Aces is an organization founded by Jim Mudcat Grant that consists of the African American pitchers who have won at least 20 Major League Baseball games in a single season. Some black pitchers from Latin America, notably Luis Tiant, have expressed disappointment that they are ineligible to become members.
Black Adam Black Adam is a fictional comic book character whose morally ambiguous nature has his character fall between the lines of heroism and villainy; as a result, he has associated himself with both superheroes and supervillains in the past.
Black Air Black Air is a fictional former Governmental Intelligence department founded and operating primarily within the United Kingdom in the Marvel Universe, initially as an adjunct to the Ministry of Defence. It was introduced along with Pete Wisdom in the Excalibur series when it was written by Warren Ellis.
Black Alien & Speed Black Alien & Speed was an independent Brazilian Hip hop duo active between 1993 and 2001. Made up of singer Black Alien and producer/musician/rapper Speed, they started out using the name "Speedfreaks" and around 1998 became "Black Alien & Speed".
Black Angels (Crumb) Black Angels, subtitled "Thirteen Images from the Dark Land" is an avant-garde work composed by George Crumb for electronic string quartet. It was composed over the course of a year and supposedly finished on "Friday the Thirteenth, March 1970 (in tempore belli)" as written on the score.
Black Antlers Black Antlers was originally released in CD-R format by Coil in 2004 in a limited edition. The album was later re-edited by Peter Christopherson and expanded to include a second CD of two new tracks, as well as a new track on the first disc.
Black Ark The Black Ark was the recording studio of legendary reggae and dub producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, located in the yard of his family's home in the Washington Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Although the studio itself was somewhat rudimentary in its set-up and particularly basic with regard to some of the dated equipment employed by Perry, it was nonetheless the breeding-ground for some of Jamaica's (and arguably the world's) most innovative sounds and recording techniques in the later half of the 1970s.
Black Arms In the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games by Sega, the Black Arms are a demonic alien race led by Black Doom. They appear in the game Shadow the Hedgehog, where they invaded Earth for search of the seven Chaos Emeralds, and are battled by the game's main character Shadow the Hedgehog, along with other characters.
Black Assize The Black Assize was a plague of Epidemic typhus that struck the town of Oxford in England on July 6, 1577. About 300 people including the chief baron and sheriff, are thought to have died as a result of the plague.
Black Athena Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization is a work by Martin Bernal. It expounds a controversial hypothesis that ancient Greece, and hence Western civilization, derived much of its cultural roots from Afroasiatic (Egyptian and Phoenician) cultures.
Black Autonomy Network Community Organization The Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) is a political and social justice coalition working in Benton Harbor, Michigan. It was founded to protest the June 16, 2003 death of a 28 year old African-American, Terrance Shurn, while being pursued by Benton Township police.
Black band disease Black band disease is characterized by complete coral tissue degradation due to a pathogenic microbial consortium that appears as a dark red or black migrating microbial mat. The mat is present between apparently healthy coral tissue and freshly exposed coral skeleton.
Black belt (martial arts) In many martial arts, each practitioner's level is marked by the color of the belt. The black belt is often the highest belt color one can attain (far less often, the second highest), and suggests a degree of competence.
Black beret The black beret is the headgear worn by the British Army's Royal Tank Regiment (RTR), The Australian Army's Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) and by all the Russian Naval Infantry (and formerly Soviet) and some Russian Spetsnaz units, and the United States Air Force(USAF) Tactical Air Control Party(TACP) members, among others.
Black bloc A black bloc is an affinity group that comes together during some sort of protest, demonstration, or other event involving class struggle, anti-capitalism, or anti-globalization. These groups mostly consist of militant autonomists and wear all black.
Black body In physics, a black body is an object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation that falls onto it. No radiation passes through it and none is reflected, yet in classical physics, it can theoretically radiate any possible wavelength of energy.
Black box Black box is technical jargon for a device or system or object when it is viewed primarily in terms of its input and output characteristics. Almost anything might occasionally be referred to as a black box: a transistor, an algorithm, the Internet.
Black box (phreaking) The black box (as distinguished from blue boxes and red boxes), sometimes called an Agnew (see Spiro (device) for the origin of the nickname), was a device built by phone phreaks during the 1960s and 1970s in order to defeat long distance phone call toll charges, and specifically to block the supervision signal sent by the receiving telephone handset when the call was answered at the receiving end of the call.
Black box theater The black box theater is a relatively recent innovation, consisting of a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor. Such spaces are easily built and maintained, and are usually home to plays or other performances with very basic technical arrangements, such as limited sets, simple lighting effects, and an intimate focus on the story, writing, and performances rather than technical elements.
Black box warning In the United States, a black box warning (also sometimes called a black label warning) is a type of warning that appears on prescription drugs that may cause serious adverse effects. It is so named for the black border that usually surrounds the text of the warning.
Black brane In general relativity, a black brane is a solution of the equations that generalizes a black hole solution but it is also extended - and translationally symmetric - in p additional spatial dimensions. Such a solution may therefore also be called a black p-brane.
Black budget A black budget is a budget that is secretly collected from the overall income of a country, a corporation, a society of any form, a national department, and so on. A black budget usually covers expenses related to military research.
Black bullets Black Bullets, properly called Jesmona Black Bullets, are a confectionery produced by Maxons of Sheffield and are popular throughout the north of England and most notably in Newcastle where it is said they gained a great deal of popularity with the local miners. The name Jesmona refers to an area of Newcastle, and is a registered trademark of Maxons ltd.
Black Bag Operations In Black Bag Operations, FBI agents illegally entered offices of targeted individuals and/or organizations, and photographed information found in their records. This practice was used by the FBI from 1942 until 1967.
Black Balloon Black Balloon is the the third single to be released from the Dizzy Up the Girl album by the Goo Goo Dolls. The album came out in September 1998, but the song was released as a single early on in the following year.
Black Band (landsknechts) The Black Band was a formation of 16th century mercenaries, largely pikemen, probably serving as Landsknechts. They fought in the French army for ten years, seeing service in several notable engagements, including the Battle of Marignano and the Battle of Pavia.
Black Bands The Black Bands (Italian: Bande Nere), sometimes referred to as the Black Bands of Giovanni, was a company of Italian mercenaries formed and commanded by Giovanni de' Medici during the Italian Wars; their name came from either their black mourning colors for the death of Pope Leo X. Composed primarily of arquebusiers—including Europe's first mounted arquebusiers—the company was, by the Italian War of 1521, considered to be the finest Italian troops available.
Black Bass (video game) Black Bass is a NES fishing sports game where the player has to catch as many black bass as he can from sunrise to sunset. This game often appeared in summer camps due to its easy gameplay and general theme towards summertime activities.
Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh The Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh [King Arthur's pronunciation: ] is a famous creature from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The beast dwells in the Cave of Caerbannog, the entrance of which is guarded by the vicious Rabbit of Caerbannog.
Black Belt (region of Alabama) Alabama's Black Belt is a region of the state, part of the larger Black Belt Region of the Southern United States, which stretches from Texas to Virginia. This region includes some of the poorest counties in the United States.
Black Belt (region of Chicago) The Black Belt of Chicago was a term in popular use during the middle part of the 20th century. It described an area of Chicago, where most African-Americans in Chicago lived, who had moved to Chicago from the Black Belt Region of America.
Black Belt (U.S. region) The Black Belt Region in the United States refers to the social and demographic crescent of 623 southern counties that contain a higher than average percentages of African American residents. These counties are highly contiguous and form a belt-like pattern across parts of 13 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia).
Black Betty "Black Betty" is a 20th century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material; in this case an 18th century marching cadence about a flint-lock rifle.
Black Black Black Black is a brand of caffeinated chewing gum produced in South Korea and Japan by Lotte. It is very popular in Japan, partially due to its well-known television commercials that star Jean Claude van Damme.
Black Bolt Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) is a fictional character that appears in the Marvel Universe and king of the offshoot of humanity known as the Inhumans. Black Bolt was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first makes a cameo appearance in Fantastic Four vol.
Black Book (film) Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 thriller war film by director Paul Verhoeven, starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, and Halina Reijn. The story is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands trying to survive at the end of World War II.
Black Book (gaming) "Black Book" is the nickname frequently used to refer to a list of persons who are unwelcome in casinos. The name comes from the fact that the persons listed in the "book" are essentially "blacklisted".
Black Book (World War II) The Black Book, also known by its Russian language name, Chornaya Kniga (Чёрная Книга) was a result of the collaborative effort by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and members of the American Jewish community to document the anti-Jewish crimes of the Holocaust and the participation of Jews in the fighting and the resistance movement against the Nazis during the World War II.
Black Books Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig, written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley and produced by Nira Park. The show has twice won the BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy (2001 & 2005) and won a Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or of Montreux in 2001.
Black Bottom, Detroit Black Bottom (also known as Paradise Valley) was a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan demolished for redevelopment in the 1960's. It was located on Detroit's East Side, was approximately 0.
Black Box (band) Black Box (later Blackbox) was an Italo-house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for their hit "Ride on Time". The members of the group included a trio made up of a club DJ (Daniele Davoli), a classically trained clarinet teacher (Valerio Semplici) and a keyboard and electronic music "whizz" (Mirko Limoni.
Black Box (transportation) The term Black Box is used casually, often by journalists, to refer to a collection of several different devices used in transportation. The flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder in aircraft, the event recorder in railway diesel locomotives, and other recording devices in various vehicles may be included.
Black Box Teater The Black Box Theatre in Oslo is one of Norway's most important scenes presenting independent artists and ensembles, Norwegian as well as International. Black Box Theatre collaborates very closely with artists, in the sense that the agenda of the theatre is set by operators in the fields of the scenic arts itself.
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