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Borden County Independent School District Borden County Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Gail, Texas (USA). The district serves all of Borden County with the exception of a small southwestern portion, which is served by the Sands Consolidated Independent School District.
Borden Island Borden Island is an uninhabited, low-lying island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of northern Canada. With an area of 2,795 km² (1,079 square miles) in size, it is the 172nd largest island in the world, and Canada's 30th largest island.
Borden Ladner Gervais Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG for short) is a full service Canadian corporate law firm based in Toronto. The firm has over 700 lawyers over offices in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, and the Waterloo region.
Bordentown Regional High School Bordentown Regional High School is a comprehensive regional public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from five communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Bordentown Regional School District. The high school serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough.
Bordentown Regional School District The Bordentown Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from five communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from Bordentown City (482 students), Bordentown Township (1,505 students) and Fieldsboro Borough (72 students).
Bordentown Secondary Conrail's Bordentown Secondary is a freight line in New Jersey, running from Pavonia Yard in Camden to Trenton. Today, a large portion of the line from Bordentown to Camden is used for New Jersey Transit's River Line light rail service; as a result, freight movement on the line is restricted to overnight hours.
Border (film) Border, a 1997 Bollywood war film based on the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. J P Dutta directed and produced this war epic which stars Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Pooja Bhatt, Sharbani Mukherjee and Tabu.
Border ballad The English/Scottish border has a long and bloody history of conquest and reconquest, raid and counter-raid (see Wars of Scottish Independence). It also has a stellar tradition of balladry, such that a whole group of songs exists that are often called "border ballads", because they were collected in that region.
Border blaster A border blaster, in contrast to an international broadcast station, is a licensed commercial radio station that transmits at very high power to the United States of America from various Mexican cities near the border. There are several such stations licensed by Mexico's Secretary of Communications and Transport (SCT) using transmitters with an output far in excess of licensed commercial stations located within the USA.
Border Battle Border Battle can refer to many different rivalries between two sports teams in neighboring states. This page highlights the rivalries between Minnesota and Wisconsin sports clubs, but border battle rivalries are intense throughout the country.
Border conflicts between Poland and Czechoslovakia Border conflicts between Poland and Czechoslovakia began in 1918 between the newly independent Poland (Second Polish Republic) and Czechoslovakia. They centered on the disputed areas of Cieszyn Silesia, Orava Territory and Spiš, and after World War II broadened to include Klodzkie Territory and Racibórz Territory.
Border Campaign (IRA) The Border Campaign (December 12 1956–February 26 1962) was a campaign of guerrilla warfare (codenamed Operation Harvest) carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) against targets in Northern Ireland, with the aim of overthrowing that state and creating a United Ireland. The campaign was a failure.
Border City Wrestling Border City Wrestling (BCW) is an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Windsor, Ontario. It is the base promotion for several Total Nonstop Action Wrestling superstars, including all of Team Canada, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley.
Border Gateway Multicast Protocol The Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP) is IETF on-going project in an attempt to design a true inter-domain multicast routing protocol. BGMP should be able to scale in order to operate in the global Internet.
Border Gezi Border Gezi (December 17, 1964 – April 28, 2001) was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within ZANU-PF and served as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment from 2000 having previously been a provincial governor.
Border Gezi Youth The Border Gezi Youth, commonly known as Green Bombers or youth brigades, are a youth militia trained by the government of Zimbabwe. They act as enforcers for the policies of the ZANU-PF party and are named after Border Gezi, who was a ZANU (PF) member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Bindura until his death in April 2001.
Border Guard (Poland) Border Guard (Polish StraĹĽ Graniczna, SG) is a Polish state security agency tasked with patrol of the Polish border. It existed in the Second Polish Republic from 1928 to 1939 and was recreated in Third Polish Republic in 1990.
Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association (sometimes referred to as the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Conference), an NCAA-affiliated college athletic conference founded in 1931, was disbanded following the 1961-1962 season. Centered in the southwestern United States, the conference formerly included nine member institutions located in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Border League The Border League, is the oldest established rugby union league in the World, having been formed in 1901. Currently known as The Southern ReporterLeague, teams from all over the Scottish Borders] compete every year from the competition.
Border Line Border Line is a 2002 drama film, and the feature film debut of Korean-Japanese film director Sang-il Lee. It observes the lives of three un-related characters, a son, a father and a mother, each of whom has a troubled family background.
Border Morris The term Border Morris refers to a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales-England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. They are part of the Morris dance tradition.
Border Observer Border Observer], a weekly English language news magazine based in El Paso, Texas. From El Diario El Paso, was founded in 2004 in order to provide residents with analysis of news and events throughout El Paso County, and as a means of reaching English-speaking readers.
Border Radio Border Radio is a 1987 independent film directed by Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss, in which three musicians who haven't been paid rob money from a club and flee to Mexico. The film features music from The Flesh Eaters, The Divine Horsemen, X, and The Blasters.
Border Ranges National Park Border Ranges National Park, 636 km north of Sydney, Australia, is a World Heritage listed property, part of the UNESCO CERRA World Heritage listing, which extends from New South Wales into Queensland and the adjacent Lamington National Park. Notable for extensive stands of the northern most occurrence of Nothofagus moorei (Antarctic Beech), the park offers a 64 kilometre gravel road circuit through sub tropical, cool and warm temperate rainforest types.
Border Reivers (game) Border Reivers is a light warfare/economic developement board game designed by Jackson Pope published in 2006 by Reiver Games in English. Players assume the roles of clans on the Scottish and English Borders during the middle ages, striving to achieve ascendancy via economic or military means.
Border Roads Organisation The Border Roads Organisation, also known by its acronym BRO, is a unique combination of officers from the corps of engineers of Indian army and Border Roads Engineering Service (BRES) officers from General Reserve Engineer Force ( GREF ) to maintain roads that serve the borders areas. The BRO contributes to the army's other duties and supplies units that are part of the defence forces.
Border Route Trail The Border Route Trail is a 65-mile long hiking trail that crosses the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in the far northeast corner of Minnesota (Arrowhead) and follows the international border between Minnesota and Ontario, Canada. It connects with the Superior Hiking Trail on its eastern terminus and with the Kekekabic Trail on its western end at the Gunflint Trail (Cook Cty.
Border Ruffian In the decade leading up to the American Civil War, pro-slavery activists infiltrated Kansas Territory from the neighboring slave state of Missouri. To abolitionists and other Free-Staters, who desired Kansas to be admitted to the Union as a free state, they were collectively known as Border Ruffians.
Border states In a European context, the term Border states policy, and Border states in a specific sense, refer to attempts during the interbellum to unite the countries that had won their independence from Imperial Russia due to the Russian Revolution, the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and ultimately the defeat of Imperial Germany in World War I. The policy aimed at a united defense against the threat of Communist expansionism and World Revolution.
Border states (Civil War) The term border states refers to the five slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and western Virginia that were on the border between the Northern Union states and the Southern slave states that formed the Confederate States of America. In some of these states, there were both pro-Confederate and pro-Union governments, factions and men (sometimes even from the same family) that fought as soldiers on opposite sides in the American Civil War.
Border Security Force The Border Security Force (BSF), established on December 1, 1965, is responsible for guarding India's land borders during peacetime and preventing trans-border crimes. It is a Central paramilitary force operating under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
Border Security: Australia's Front Line Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian television program that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of the Australian Customs Service, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs as they reinforce Australia's border integrity against illegal immigration, smuggling, agricultural hazards, among other threats.
Border Services Officer A Border Services Officer is a law enforcement agent employed by the Canada Border Services Agency. BSOs are designated peace officers in Canada, and primarily enforce customs and immigration-related legislation, in particular the Customs Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
Border Showdown The Border War (formerly known as the Border Showdown) is the name for athletic events between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the University of Missouri Tigers. The rivalry traces its roots to the 1850s, when skirmishes, widely known as "border wars", between the two states marked the beginning of the American Civil War.
Border Stars Border Stars, also known as Windsor Border Stars, are a Canadian soccer team, founded in 2004. The team is a member of the Canadian Soccer League, the highest professional soccer league in Canada, and play in the National Division.
Border Television Border Television (now legally known as ITV Border Ltd) is the ITV franchisee for the border region between England and Scotland (including the south of Scotland, much of Cumbria and, until December 2006, the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed), and also the Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man. It was announced by ITV in the summer of 2006 that Berwick-upon-Tweed would transfer to the ITV Tyne Tees area in the near future, and this duly happened towards the end of that year.
Border War The name applied to the College Football game played between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University. Since 1968, the winner of the game has been awarded a special trophy called the Bronze Boot.
Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration is a 2006 documentary film, written and directed by Kevin Knoblock. The film tells the stories of five people whose lives have been affected by illegal immigration along the U.
Border Watch Border Watch is an adventure module for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module bears the code WGM1 and was published by TSR, Inc.
Border Zone Border Zone is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released for most popular personal computers of the day, such as the IBM PC, Apple II, and Commodore 64.
Bordered White The Bordered White (Bupalus piniaria), also known as the Pine Looper, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is a common species of coniferous woodland throughout the Palearctic region, the Near East and North Africa.
Borderless country A borderless country may be defined as an island nation, an insular territory over which a nation-state maintains sovereignty under international law, that does not share the land territory of the island with other nation-states which are sovereign under international law. For example, the Republic of Ireland shares the island of Ireland with Northern Ireland and thus is not borderless.
Borderless Selling Borderless Selling is the process of selling services to clients outside the country of origin of services through modern methods which eliminate the actions specifically designed to hinder international trade. International trade through "Borderless Selling" is a new phenomenon born in the current "Globalization" era.
Borderline (Brooks & Dunn) Borderline (1996) is the fifth studio album by country music duo Brooks & Dunn. The album featured four hit singles, all of which made it into the US Hot Country top 20: I Am That Man (#2), Mama Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing (#13), My Maria (#1), A Man This Lonely (#1).
Borderline Comics Magazine Borderline was one of the most innovative comics magazines of its kind. Created by former Comics International [news and features editor, Phil Hall], Borderline was the world's first [[Portable Document Format|PDF comics magazine available to read on a computer or as a print out.
Borderline personality disorder Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is defined within psychiatry and related psychological fields as a disorder characterized primarily by emotional dysregulation, extreme "black and white" thinking, or "splitting" (believing that something is one of only two possible things, and ignoring any possible "in-betweens"), and turbulent relationships. It can also be described by mental health professionals as a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in mood, interpersonal relationships, self-image, identity, and behavior, and a disturbance in the individual's sense of self.
Borders & Boundaries Borders & Boundaries is an album by ska punk band Less Than Jake, featuring a map of the area around Gainesville, Florida on the cover. The album produced the anthem "Gainesville Rock City," the CD's lone single which happened to receive airtime on MTV2.
Borders of the Roman Empire The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were a combination of natural frontiers (most notably the Rhine and Danube rivers) and man-made fortifications (limes), which separated the lands of the empire from the "barbarian" lands beyond.
Bordersville, Texas Bordersville is a predominantly African American community on Farm to Market Road 1960 and State Highway 184 in Northeast Houston, Texas. The city is served by Aldine ISD, although many residents in Bordersville are over the age of 50.
Bordertown (2006 film) Bordertown is an 2006 American and United Kingdom motion picture based on true events that happened in Juárez, Mexico. The film is written and directed by Oscar nominated Gregory Nava and executive produced by David Bergstein, Cary Epstein, and Tracee Stanley-Newell.
Bordertown Café Bordertown Café is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 1992. The screenplay was written by Kelly Rebar based on her award-winning 1990 play of the same name, and the film was directed by Norma Bailey.
Bordertown, South Australia Bordertown () is a small (population 2660) South Australian town near the Victorian border. It is where the Dukes Highway and the railway line, the two main routes between Adelaide and Melbourne, cross Tatiara Creek.
Bordesholm-Land Bordesholm-Land is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated around the village Bordesholm, which is the seat of the Amt, but not part of it.
Bordesley railway station Bordesley railway station is a small railway station serving the area of Bordesley in Birmingham, England. It is served by Central Trains services between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon and is located between Birmingham Moor Street and Small Heath stations.
Bordj Bou Arréridj Province Bordj Bou Arréridj (Arabic: ولاية برج بوعريريج) is a province and in the east Algeria around 200 Km away from the capital Algiers. It is famous for its many electronic industries and for its kind and generous people.
Bordley Bordley is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, within the Yorkshire Dales National Park and 12 miles north of Skipton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 23.
Bordoisila Bordoisila is an Assamese word native to the state of Asom in India. It is a wild wind in Asom, that marks the incoming monsoon season, as it accompanied with heavy showers and strong wind causing widespread damage.
Bordon Bordon (also known as "Bordon and Whitehill" if the adjourning village to the south is included) is a small town in East Hampshire, about 10 miles north of Petersfield along the A325 (the Greatham-Farnham road), in south England. The busy A325 passes through the town.
Borduas (provincial electoral district) Borduas is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The municipalities of Beloeil, McMasterville, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Otterburn Park, Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil are situated in this district.
Bordurian Bordurian is the national language of Borduria, a fictional Balkan dictatorship created by Hergé for the Tintin series. Little is known about Bordurian, as it is not extensively presented in the Tintin stories.
Bore (wind instruments) The bore of a wind instrument is the interior chamber in which air is set into vibration to produce musical sounds. The term is used both for instruments made of wood and instruments made of metal, though of course only in the case of wood instruments is the bore typically produced by boring.
Bore evacuator A bore evacuator is a device on the gun barrel of an armoured fighting vehicle which helps prevent poisonous propellant gases from venting back into the vehicle's fighting compartment when the gun breech is opened to load another shell. Bore evacuators are most often used on the large-calibre guns of tanks and self-propelled guns.
Boreal (period) In paleoclimatology of the Holocene, the Boreal was the first of the Blytt-Sernander sequence of north European climatic phases that were originally based on the study of Danish peat bogs, named for Axel Blytt and Rutger Sernander who first established the sequence. In peat bog sediments, the Boreal is also recognized by its characteristic pollen zone.
Boreal Forest Conservation Framework The Boreal Forest Conservation Framework, was adopted December 1, 2003 to preserve the Canadian boreal forest. The vision set out in the Framework is "to sustain the ecological and cultural integrity of the Canadian boreal region, in perpetuity.
Boreal Chickadee The Boreal Chickadee, Poecile hudsonica, is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Often, it is still placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships (Gill et al.
Boreal Kingdom The Boreal Kingdom is a Floristic kingdom identified by botanist Ronald Good, which includes the temperate-to-arctic portions of North America and Eurasia. Good noted that the plant species of temperate North America and Eurasia were very closely related, despite their separation by the Atlantic Ocean and the Bering Strait.
Borean languages Borean is a highly controversial proposed language family, suggested by Sergei Starostin, that would include most languages of Eurasia, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and some or all of the Americas. It is named after the Northern Hemisphere (Boreal).
Boreas Nunatak Boreas Nunatak () is a nunatak (220 m) nearly 1 miles southwest of Passat Nunatak at the mouth of Schytt Glacier in Queen Maud Land. It was discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition under Ritscher, 1938-39, and named after Boreas, one of the Dornier flying boats of the expedition.
Bored cylindrical lock A bored cylindrical lock is one in which two holes are bored, perpendicular to one another, into the door. A large hole is bored into the door face and a smaller crossbore hole is bored into the door edge, as opposed to a mortise lock prep cut into the edge of the door.
Bored of Education Bored of Education is a one-reel comedy short film; part of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) series. It was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Gordon Douglas, and originally released to theatres on August 20 1936 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Bored Suburban Youth Bored Suburban Youth (also known as BSY) was one of the few hardcore punk bands that rose up in the Southeastern United States in the "second wave" of the 1980s. Along with bands such as Bedlam Hour, Mass Appeal and The Sex Mutants, BSY contributed to the nascent punk scene in the decidedly un-punk environs of the politically and socially conservative New South.
Boreda Abaya Boreda Abaya is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Omo Zone, Boreda Abaya is bordered on the south by Arba Minch Zuria, on the southwest by Chencha, on the west by Kucha, on the north by Humbo, and on the east by Lake Abaya which separates it from the Oromia Region.
Boredatvanpelt Boredatvanpelt is a webpage where students of the University of Pennsylvania can post anonymous messages. The site is named after the primary library at UPenn, the Vanpelt Dietrich Library Center, commonly called “Vanpelt”.
Boredom Boredom is a state of mind in which one interprets one's environment as dull, tedious, and lacking stimuli. There is an inherent anxiety in boredom; people will expend considerable effort to prevent or remedy it, yet in many circumstances it is accepted as an inevitable suffering to be endured.
Boree Creek, New South Wales Boree Creek is a town in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located 539 kilometres south west of the state capital, Sydney and 82 kilometres west of the regional centre, Wagga Wagga.
Borehamwood Borehamwood (also referred to as Boreham Wood by a growing section of the population) is a town in southern Hertfordshire, just outside London, and part of the London commuter belt. It is part of the borough of Hertsmere.
Borehole A borehole is a deep and narrow shaft in the ground used for extraction of fluid or gas reserves below the earth's surface. If the fluid reserve is under pressure, such as oil or gas, then extra machinery may be required.
Borehole mining Borehole Mining (BHM) is a remote operated method of extracting (mining) of mineral resources through boreholes by means of high pressure water jets. This process can be carried-out from land surface, open pit floor, underground mine or floating platform or vessel through pre-drilled boreholes.
Borei class submarine The Borei class (or Borey; Russian: Борей, named after Boreas) is a nuclear-powered ballistic missile-carrying submarine (SSBN) currently in development by Russia. It is intended to replace the Delta III & Typhoon class in the Russian Navy.
Borel algebra In mathematics, the Borel algebra (or Borel σ-algebra) on a topological space X is a σ-algebra of subsets of X associated to the topology of X. In the mathematics literature, there are at least two inequivalent definitions of this σ-algebra:
Borel functional calculus In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Borel functional calculus is a functional calculus (that is, an assignment of operators to functions defined on the real line), which has particularly broad scope. Thus for instance if T is an operator, applying the squaring function s → s2 to T yields the operator T2.
Borel hierarchy In mathematical logic, the Borel hierarchy is a stratification of the Borel algebra generated by the open subsets of a Polish space; elements of this algebra are called Borel sets. Each Borel set is assigned a unique countable ordinal number called the rank of the Borel set.
Borel summation In mathematics, a Borel summation is a generalisation of the usual notion of summation of a series. In particular it gives a definition of a quantity that in many ways behaves formally like the sum, even if the series is in fact divergent.
Borel's paradox Borel's paradox (sometimes known as the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox) is a paradox of probability theory relating to conditional probability density functions. The paradox lies in fact that, contrary to intuition, conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations.
Borel–Bott–Weil theorem In mathematics, the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem is a basic result in the representation theory of Lie groups, showing how a family of representations can be obtained from holomorphic sections of certain complex vector bundles, and, more generally, from higher sheaf cohomology groups associated to such bundles. It built on an earlier theorem of Armand Borel and Andre Weil, dealing just with the section case, the extension being provided by Raoul Bott.
Boreoeutheria Boreoeutheria (synonymous with Boreotheria) is a clade that is composed of the sister taxa Laurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires (Supraprimates). It is now well supported by DNA sequence analyses as well as Retrotransposon presence/absence data.
Boreopterus Boreopterus is known from an almost-complete skeleton, including a well-preserved skull, from Liaoning Province in China. Its teeth, especially the anterior teeth, are quite large for an ornithocheirid, forming a mesh of sharp teeth at the front of the mouth.
Boreotropical flora Boreotropical flora were plants that may have formed a belt of vegetation around the Northern Hemisphere during the Eocene epoch. These would have included extensive high-latitude forests composed of large, fast-growing trees such as Dawn Redwood as far north as 80°N.
Borescope A borescope is an optical device consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an eyepiece on one end, an objective lens on the other linked together by a relay optical system in between. The optical system is usually surrounded by optical fibers used for illumination of the remote object and a rigid or flexible protective outer sheath.
Borg (Star Trek) The Borg are a fictional race of cyborgs in the Star Trek universe. They are characterized by relentless pursuit of targets for assimilation, rapid adaptability to almost any defense, and the ability to continue functioning properly despite seemingly devastating blows.
Borg El Arab Stadium Borg El Arab Stadium is a brand new stadium commissioned in 2006 in the Mediterranean Sea resort of Borg el Arab; 50 KM west of Alexandria, Egypt. It is the largest stadium in Egypt with a capacity of 80,000 and is an all-seater.
Borg-Warner T-56 The T-56 six speed manual transmission has been used in a wide range of vehicles from General Motors, Dodge, and Ford Motor Company. The transmission was originally designed and built by Borg-Warner, but as of 1998, is built by Tremec.
Borgarfjörður Borgarfjörður is a fjord in the west of Iceland near the town of Borgarnes. The waters of Borgarfjörður appear to be calm, however the fjord is on the contrary a rather dangerous part of the sea because of its undercurrents and shallows.
Borgarvirki Borgarvirki lies between VesturhĂłp and VĂ­Ă°idalur, and at 177 m over sea level it dominates the surrounding region. It is a volcanic plug (gosstapi) and the sagas explain that in earlier centuries it was used for military purposes.
Borgeby Borgeby Castle (Borgeby slott) lies in Scania, Lomma Municipality, south Sweden, aside the Kävlingeån, the largest river in Scania. The castle is built on the site of an 11th-century castle or fortress, that some consider to be similar to the Trelleborg type.
Borgen Borgen is a suburb located in the mulicipality of Asker, Norway. Located some 40 kilometres west of Oslo, Borgen has many different styles of residential areas, ranging from the apartment complexes and semi-detached houses in the southern area of Borgen, to the villas of Borgen Skog.
Borgenhaugen Borgenhaugen is a borough in the city of Sarpsborg, Norway, located east of the city centre. Before 1992 Borgenhaugen was a part of Skjeberg municipality, and the old Skjeberg council hall (rĂĄdhus) is located here.
Borghese Borghese is the surname of a family of Italian noble and papal background, originating in Siena where they came to prominence in the 13th century holding official offices under the commune. The head of the family, Marcantonio moved to Rome in the 16th century and there, following the election (1605) of his son Camillo Borghese as Pope Paul V who was an unabashed nepotist, they rose in power and wealth.
Borghese collection The Borghese Collection was a collection of Roman sculptures, old masters and modern art collected by the Borghese family. It includes major collections of Caravaggio, Raphael, and Titian, and of ancient Roman art.
Borghese Vase The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century BC as a garden ornament for the Roman market;Two further versions of the vase were found among other marbles in the wreck of a ship bound from Athens in the time of Sulla (Haskell and Penny 1981:315). it is now in the Louvre Museum.

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