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Baltit Fort Baltit Fort or Balti Fort is an ancient fort in the Hunza valley in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. In former times survival of the feudal regimes of Hunza was ensured by the impressive Baltit fort, that sit on top of Karimabad.
Baltix Baltix GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution aimed to be a complete, user-friendly operating system for Lithuanian and Latvian people, based on Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux distributions. Supported languages are Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, English, Norwegian and others near and around the Baltic region.
Baltiysk Baltiysk (), prior to 1945 known by its German name Pillau (; ), is today a Russian sea port in the strait between Vistula Bay] and [[Gdańsk Bay, called Strait of Baltiysk, in the Kaliningrad Oblast enclave. Located at , Baltiysk is the westernmost town of Russia.
Balto Balto (1922 – March 14, 1933) was a sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease. The run is commemorated by the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Balto (film) Balto is an animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1995. Balto is very loosely based on a true story about the dog, Balto, who helped save children from the diphtheria epidemic in the 1925 serum run to Nome.
Baltoro Glacier The Baltoro Glacier, at 57 kilometers long, is one of the longest glaciers outside of the polar regionsThe Fedchenko Glacier in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan is 77 km long, the Siachen Glacier which lies southeast of the Baltoro is 70 km long, and the Biafo Glacier to the northwest of the Baltoro is 63 km long. Exact lengths are relatively easy to determine with modern maps and imagery so as to include recent glacial retreat.
Baltra Island Baltra Island or Isla Baltra is a small island of the Galápagos Islands. Isla Baltra is often the first island visitors to the Galapagos Archipelago put their foot on as it is home to main the main airport, Seymour Airport.
Baltringen Baltringen is a once autonomous village in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg in the region of Upper Swabia, situated approximately 17km north of Biberach. Administratively, Baltringen is part of the municipality of Mietingen.
Balts The Balts or Baltic peoples (Latvian: balti, Lithuanian: baltai Latgalian: bolti), defined as speakers of one of the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, are descended from a group of Indo-European tribes who settled the area between lower Vistula and upper Daugava and Dnieper rivers on the southeast shore of the Baltic Sea.
Baltzar von Platen (inventor) Baltzar von Platen (1898-1984) together with Carl Munters was the inventor of the gas absorption refrigerator in 1922 while they were both Swedish engineering students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The technique produced "cold" from a heat source such as propane, electricity, or kerosene.
Baltzar von Platen (statesman) Count Baltzar Bogislaus von Platen (1766-1829), a Swedish naval officer and statesman, born May 29, 1766 on the island of RĂĽgen to Filip Julius Bernhard von Platen, Field Marshal and the Swedish Governor General of Pomerania, and Regina Juliana von Ysedom. At age 13 Baltzar entered the Royal Swedish Navy where he served with distinction until quitting in 1800, having attained the rank of Captain.
Baluchistan Agency Baluchistan Agency was one of the agencies of British India. Agency Territories, with an area of 44,345 squre miles, composed of tracts which have, from time to time, been acquired by lease or otherwise brought under control and been placed directly under British officers.
Baluchistan States Union The Baluchistan States Union existed between 3rd October 1952 and 14th October 1955 in southwest Pakistan. It was formed by the states of Kalat, Kharan, Las Bela and Makran with the capital at the town of Kalat.
Balungan The balungan (Javanese: skeleton, frame) is sometimes called the "core melody" of a gamelan composition. This corresponds to the view that gamelan music is heterophonic: the balungan is then the melody which is being elaborated.
Balut A balut (or Hột vịt lộn in Vietnamese) is a fertilized duck egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. They are considered delicacies of Asia and especially the Philippines, China, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Balvaird Castle Balvaird Castle is a traditional Scottish tower house built around the year 1500 for Sir Andrew Murray, a younger son of the family of Murray of Tullibardine. He acquired the lands of Balvaird in Perthshire through marriage to the heiress Margaret Barclay, a member of a wealthy family.
Balvano train disaster In the Balvano train disaster of March 3, 1944, over 500 people who stole a ride on a steam-hauled freight train died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled in a tunnel. The accident occurred in southern Italy, near Balvano (Basilicata).
Balvanyos Cetăţile Păgânilor (Pagan Citadels , Balvanyos) is a spa in Covasna County, in the east of Transylvania, central Romania. it lies at an altitude of almost 800 metres on the southern slopes of the Bodoc Mountains, some 67 kilometres from Sfântu Gheorghe.
Balvi Balvi is a small town in the Latgale region of eastern Latvia. It is the administrative seat of the region (Latvian: rajons) of the same name since 1949; prior to the occupation of Latvia it was part of the Abrene district.
Balwearie High School Balwearie High School is situated at the west end of Kirkcaldy in Scotland. Balwearie is a non-denominational comprehensive secondary school which caters for around 1700 pupils aged from 12 to 18, and includes a Department of Special Education for children with Special Educational Needs.
Balwyn High School Balwyn High School is a state-run high school (years 7-12) in the suburb of Balwyn North, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, It was established in 1954. As of 2006 it has some 1,880 students and over 160 staff.
Balyan family The Balyan family is a dynasty of famous Ottoman imperial architects of Armenian ethnicity, who designed and constructed numerous magnificent buildings like sultan palaces, kiosks, mosques, churches and various public buildings mostly in Ä°stanbul for five generations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The nine reputed members of the family, who served six sultans in the course of almost a century, were responsible for the westernization of then capital city's architecture.
Balykchy Balykchy is a town with a population about 40,000 people located at the western end of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, at and an elevation of about 1900 meters. A major industrial and transport center (wool and crop processing, lake shipping, rail terminal, and road junction) during the Soviet era, it lost most of its economic base after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the closure of virtually all of its industrial facilities.
Balys Sruoga Balys Sruoga (February 2, 1896, BirĹľai district, Lithuania - October 16, 1947, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literature theorist. He contributed writings to cultural journals from his early school days.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English in 2001. Its original French title is Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (film) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Mandarin title: Xiao Cai Feng; French title: Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) is a Chinese/French film that was released in 2002. The film was featured at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002, and also at the first annual Traverse City Film Festival in 2005.
Balzam Balzam, Riga Balzam, RÄ«gas Melnais Balzams or Riga Black Balsam is a traditional Latvian herbal liqueur made with many different natural ingredients mixed in pure vodka, giving a 45% abv (90 proof) drink. It can be had as it is, on the rocks or mixed with schnapps, akvavit, or vodka, or warm, in tea, or mixed with soda water or a soft drink - in other words, it can be mixed in a variety of cocktails.
Balzan Prize The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organisations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man.
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, founded by Lithuanian-American businessman Stanley Balzekas, Jr., is the only museum in the US devoted to the subjects of Lithuania, the Lithuanian language, history, culture and politics, and to the Lithuanian-American experience.
Baťa Canal Baťa Canal (in Czech Baťův kanál or Průplav Otrokovice-Rohatec) is a navigable canal on Morava river in the Czech Republic. The water canal was built during 1934-38 and today it serves mainly for recreational cruises.
BaĹźkale BaĹźkale (known in Kurdish as Elbak and alternatively rendered as Bashkala or Pashgala) is a large town in south-eastern Turkey in the vilayet (province) of Van. The town has figured prominently in earlier centuries as the capital of the Ottoman vilayet of Kurdistan, (in Hakkari sanjak), before the final dissolution of the empire in 1923.
Bałach Bałach or Bałak is a distinct dialect of the Polish language spoken in the city of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine). Spoken commonly by various classes of the local society, it became almost extinct after 1945, when almost the entire population of the city became forcibly expelled, while their place was taken by immigrants from various parts of the Soviet Union.
Baška Baška is a small town located on the island of Krk, in the Kvarner Bay, in the Adriatic Seacoast of Croatia. The population of the municipality is 1,554 (2001), with 901 residents of Baška itself and the rest in three other villages.
Bam Margera Bam Margera (born Brandon Cole Margera on September 28, 1979) is a professional skateboarder and television personality. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew.
Bam Thwok "Bam Thwok" is a download-only single by the American alternative rock band Pixies, written and sung by Pixies bassist Kim Deal. "Bam Thwok" was released exclusively on the iTunes Music Store, reaching #2 in the overall iTunes download chart.
Bama Rowell Carvel William Rowell (January 13, 1916 - August 16, 1993) born in Citronelle, Alabama was a Second Baseman and Outfielder for the Boston Bees/Boston Braves (1939-41 and 1946-47) and Philadelphia Phillies (1948).
Bamako Bamako, population 1,690,471 (2006), is the capital of Mali, and is the biggest city in the country. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper and Middle Niger Valleys, in the southwestern part of the country.
Bamako Convention The Bamako Convention (in full: Bamako Convention on the ban on the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa) is a treaty of African nations prohibiting the import of any hazardous (including radioactive) waste. The Convention was negotiated by twelve nations of the Organization of African Unity at Bamako, Mali in January, 1991.
Bamako Initiative The Bamako Initiative was a formal statement adopted by African health ministers in 1987 in Bamako, Mali, to implement strategies designed to increase the availability of essential drugs and other healthcare services for Sub-Saharan Africans.
Bamar The Bamar (; , also called Burman), are the dominant ethnic group of Myanmar, constituting approximately 68% (30,000,000) of the population. However, there is some speculation that the government has slightly inflated this figure.
Bamasaba The Bamasaaba are a Bantu people inhabiting the Eastern Ugandan districts of Sironko, Manafwa, Manjiya and Mbale. Closely related to the Bukusu of Western Kenya, they are a mainly agricultural people, farming millet, bananas and sorghum on small-holder plots.
Bambaiya Hindi Bambaiyya Hindi, Mumbaiyya, or Bombay Hindi (Hindi: बंबय्या हिंदी) is a vernacular form of Hindi spoken primarily in Mumbai (Bombay, formerly). On the streets of Mumbai, people from every part of India co-exist (See Mumbaikar).
Bambalapitiya Situated between Colombo 3 and Colombo 6, Colombo 4 spans about one and a half kilometers of the Galle Road in Colombo. The west of the city is ringed by the Indian Ocean while to the east Havelock town borders it.
Bambara The Bambara (Bamana in their own language, or sometimes Banmana) are a Mande people living in west Africa, primarily in Mali but also in Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal. They considered to be a large Mande racial tribe.
Bambara language Bambara, also known as Bamanankan in the language itself, is a language spoken in Mali by as many as six million people (including second language users). The differences between Bambara and Dioula are minimal.
Bambasi (woreda) Bambasi is one of the 21 woredas in the Benishangul-Gumaz Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Asosa Zone, Bambasi is bordered by Asosa in the northwest, by Menge in the north, by Oda Godere in the northeast, by Oromia Region in the south, and by Sudan in the west.
Bambeanos Bambeanos were a snack developed by Colgate-Palmolive which consisted of roasted and flavored whole soybeans. The product was introduced in 1975 and was discontinued by May 1976, having rapidly gained a reputation for causing excessive flatulence.
Bamber Bridge railway station Bamber Bridge railway station serves the village of Bamber Bridge 6 km (4 miles) to the south of Preston on the A6 and M6 roads. Its railway station, in common with Lostock Hall, was once much larger and used by many more trains than today.
Bamberg Horseman The Bamberg Horseman () is a stone equestrian statue by an anonymous medieval sculptor from the cathedral of Bamberg. It dates probably from the time before the consecration of the cathedral new building in 1237, but after 1225.
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (German: Bamberger Symphoniker) is a prestigious orchestra based in the city of Bamberg, Bavaria. It was formed in 1946 mainly from German musicians expelled from Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decrees, who had previously been members of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague
Bamberg, Ontario Bamberg is a small crossraods community of approximately 200 people located around the intersection of Weimar Line and Moser-Young Road in the south-west corner of Wellesley Township in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario. It's earliest settlers were Lutherans who came mostly from southern Germany in the early nineteenth century that offered some primary services to the surrounding agricultural society such as a post office, a general store, a hotel, a shoemaker, a pump maker, and a blacksmith, and also constructed St.
Bambi Bambi is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942. The fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten.
Bambi bucket The collapsible Bambi Bucket is an aerial firefighting tool, which is suspended below a helicopter, most often used in combating wildfires but can also be used for tasks such as decontamination. It is able to scoop up water quickly from sources such as ponds, streams, lakes, and many other local bodies of water as shallow as 30 cm (1 ft).
Bambi Effect The Bambi Effect is an informal name used primarily by hunters and trappers for the emotional impact of the killing of animals which the public considers adorable, regardless of what the opponents consider are environmental and economic realities. The name comes from the film Bambi, where an emotional highpoint is the death of the lead character's mother at the hands of human hunters.
Bambi II Bambi II is a Disney animated feature that premiered on January 26, 2006 in Argentina. Although it was eventually released in theatres in 25 countries, in the USA and some other countries it was a direct-to-video release (released on February 7, 2006).
Bambi Woods Bambi Woods (believed to have been born c. 1959 in Pierre, South Dakota) is one of the most famous pornographic actresses in the adult film industry, due to her appearance as the title character in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas.
Bambi, A Life in the Woods Bambi, ein Leben im Walde (Bambi, A Life in the Woods) is a book by Felix Salten, first printed in 1923. Bambi is the name of the main character, a male roe deer beginning life as a fawn, then an adolescent spike, and finally a buck.
Bambino (Dalida song) Bambino, released in single in 1956, and on the album Son Nom Est Dalida, in 1957, was Dalida's first major hit. The song went on top of the France singles charts for weeks, scoring 45 weeks at the Top 10, being the best #1 song there (http://www.
Bambiraptor Bambiraptor is a 75 million year old bird-like dinosaur discovered by scientists at the University of Kansas, Yale University, and the University of New Orleans. When living, Bambiraptor would have stood no more than 0.
Bamboccianti The Bamboccianti were a group of Dutch genre painters active in Rome from 1625 - 1700, during the high and late Baroque. The themes of their canvases were typically small cabinet paintings or etchings of everyday life, including peasants in picaresque activities or other scenes of daily life.
Bamboo Bamboos are a group of woody perennial evergreen plants in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Some of its members are giants, forming by far the largest members of the grass family.
Bamboo (software) Bamboo is a content management system written with PHP for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets using a file-based SQLite database backend. It combines the benefits of Wiki style system with a file/folder structure, is very lightweight and easy to use.
Bamboo Among the Oaks Bamboo Among the Oaks is the first Hmong American anthology of creative writing, published in 2002 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Many of the pieces contained in Bamboo Among The Oaks first appeared in the Paj Ntaub Voice Hmoob literary journal.
Bamboo blossom Bamboo blossom is a natural phenomenon that bamboos of a place will blossom and hung with bamboo seeds. In China and India, "bamboo blossom" was traditionally seen as a curse or an indication of a starvation coming.
Bamboo cannon Meriam buluh or bamboo cannon is a type of home-made firecrackers which is popular during Hari Raya festive season in Malaysia. It is popular during festive seasons due to its loud bang antics which can be heard from a far distance.
Bamboo Curtain The Bamboo Curtain was the east Asian version of the Iron Curtain. It marked the border between the communist states of East Asia, especially the People's Republic of China during the Cold War, but excluding the eastern Soviet Union.
Bamboo fly rods Bamboo fly rods or a split cane rod is a fly fishing rod that is made from bamboo also referred to as cane. With over 1,000 different bamboo species and nearly a hundred different kinds, Tonkin Cane (Arundinaria amabilis or Pseudosasa amabilis) is most often used for fishing rods; Calcutta cane has also been used extensively.
Bamboo charcoal Bamboo Charcoal is made up from pieces of bamboo, which are taken from plants five years or older, and burned inside an oven at temperatures over 800 degrees Celsius. It not only provides a new way to utilize bamboo, but also benefits to environment protection by reducing the residues pollution.
Bamboo Mañalac Francisco Mañalac, popularly known as Bamboo, is the former vocalist of the Filipino rock band Rivermaya. After leaving Rimermaya and the Philippines to stay in Los Angeles, USA for 5 years, he returned to the Philippines and formed his own band, Bamboo.
Bamboo stove The original bamboo stove was made in China in the late 14th century. A monk named Xing Hai in the Ting Song temple on Mount Hui in Wuxi asked a travelling bamboo artisan to make him a stove on which he could boil water for tea.
Bamboo-copter Bamboo-copter (竹蜻蜓 "bamboo dragonfly") is a Chinese children's toy invented around 400 BC. This toy eventually made its way to Europe via trade and has been depicted in a 1463 European painting.
Bambouk Bambouk (sometimes Bambuk) is a traditional name for the territory in eastern Senegal and western Mali, encompassing the Bambouk Mountains on its eastern edge, the valley of the Faleme River and the hilly country to the east of the river valley. It was a formally described district in French Sudan, but in 1895, the border between Sudan and Senegal was moved to the Faleme River, placing the western portion of the district within Senegal.
Bambrzy Bambrzy (Poznańskie Bambry, German: Posener Bamberger) are the Poles of German origin, descendants of settlers, from area of the city of Bamberg, who settled in villages surrounding Poznań (now, except for Luboń, in Poznań). The villages were destroyed during the Great Northern War and subsequent epidemic of cholera.
Bamff Bamff House is the home of the Ramsay of Bamff, and is located in within a 1300 acre estate in Perthshire, Scotland. Bamff House began as a fortified tower in the late 16th Century and was added to and altered in almost every century since then.
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is a marine research station established in 1972, located in Bamfield, British Columbia and run by the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. The Centre hosts numerous public education programs in marine related science.
Bamford-Stevens reaction The Bamford-Stevens reaction is a chemical reaction whereby treatment of tosylhydrazones with strong base gives alkenes. }} }} The usage of aprotic solvents gives predominantly Z-alkenes, while protic solvent gives a mixture of E- and Z-alkenes.
Bamidbar (parsha) Bamidbar, Bemidbar, BeMidbar, or B'midbar (במדבר – Hebrew for "in the wilderness,” the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 34th weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the book of Numbers. It constitutes Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in May or early June.
Bamie Roosevelt Anna Roosevelt Cowles (January 18, 1855 – August 25, 1931) was the older sister of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. Her childhood nickname was Bamie, a derivative of bambina, but as an adult, her family began calling her "Bye" because of her tremendous on-the-go energy - (Hi Bamie, bye Bamie).
Bamileke The Bamileke (French Bamiléké) are a collection of Semi-Bantu (or Grassfields Bantu) ethnic groups most highly concentrated in the western highlands of Cameroon's West Province, west of the Noun River and southeast of the Bamboutos Mountains and in the Mungo region of the Littoral, Southwest, and Centre Provinces. The Bamileke divide themselves into over 100 individual groups, each under the rule of a chief or fon.
Bamm-Bamm Rubble Bamm-Bamm Rubble is a fictional character, the adopted son of Barney and Betty Rubble. He is most famous in his infant form on the long-running animated TV show The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spinoff The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in two made-for-television movies.
Bampton Lectures The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford were founded by a bequest of John Bampton,Bampton bequeathed funds for the annual preaching of eight divinity lecture sermons on the leading articles of the Christian faith, of which 30 copies are to be printed for distribution among the heads of houses. [http://www.
Bamrong Boonprom Bamrong Boonprom (born 22 April 1980) is a Thai football (soccer) player who was awarded the Asian Young Footballer of the Year by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 1996. He played at 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship.
Bamse Bamse – Världens starkaste och snällaste björn ("The world's strongest and kindest bear") is a Swedish fictional cartoon character created by Rune Andréasson. The highly popular children's cartoon first emerged as a series of television short films as well as a weekly half page "sunday strip" in 1966, before being published periodically in its own comic magazine since 1973.
Ban Dainagon Ekotoba Ban Dainagon Ekotoba (伴大納言絵詞), or The Tale of Great Minister Ban, is an emakimono (handscroll painting) depicting the events of the Ōtemmon Conspiracy, an event of Japan's early Heian period. The painting, attributed to Tokiwa Mitsunaga of the Tosa school, is over 20m long and about 31.
Ban Chao Ban Chao (Chinese: 班超; Wade-Giles:Pan Ch'ao, 32-102), born in Xianyang, Shaanxi, was a Chinese general and cavalry commander in charge of the administration of the "Western Regions" (Central Asia) during the Eastern Han dynasty. He repelled the Xiongnu and secured Chinese control on the Tarim Basin region, and led a military expedition to the doorstep of Europe, as far as Parthia and the Caspian Sea.
Ban Khor Sign Language Ban Khor Sign Language (BKSL) is a sign language used by about 1,000 people of a rice-farming community in remote areas of Isan (northeastern Thailand). It developed about 60-80 years ago due to a high number of deaf people.
Ban Kulin Ban Kulin (1163-1204) was a powerful Bosnian Ban who ruled from 1180 to 1204 first as a vassal of the Byzantine Empire and then of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was brought to the power by Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus.
Ban mian Ban mian () is a Hokkien-style egg noodle soup common in parts of Fujian province in the China, and also in other parts of the world such as Singapore and Malaysia, although the dish itself may vary significantly. Some forms of Ban mian, for instance, comprises hand-kneaded pieces of dough, while others use regular strips of noodles.
Ban Mido Ban Mido (美堂蛮 Midō Ban) is a fictional character in the manga / anime series GetBackers. Known variously as "The Man with the Jagan" (邪眼の男) and "The Genius of Battles" he is the "B" in the Get Backers In the original Japanese version, he is voiced by Nobutoshi Canna while his childhood voice is provided by Naomi Shindou.
Ban Naoyuki (1567-May 26,1615), also known as was one of the Japanese samurais of the late Sengoku and early Edo periods. First served as a retainer of Kato Yoshiakira, one of the "Seven Spears of Shizugatake", who went on to become lord of the Aizu domain, in Mutsu.
Ban Non Wat Ban Non Wat is a village in central Thailand, in the Non Sung district, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, located near the small city of Phimai. It has been the subject of recent (2002-present) excavation of what are thought to be late neolithic and early bronze age burials.
Ban Nong Pradu Ban Nong Pradu is a city in the Chai Nat province in central Thailand. It is a relatively small city and is mainly noteworthy due to it being the setting of the popular Thai martial arts film Ong-Bak starting Tony Jaa.
Bana Singh Naib Subedar Bana Singh was born on 6th January 1949 into a Punjabi Sikh family, at Kadyal in Jammu and Kashmir. He enrolled in the Indian Army on 6 January 1969 into the Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry (JAK LI).
Banaadir Benadir or Banaadir (Somali: Banaadir; ; from Bandari, a port or a harbour; derived from Banaderi, referring to the northern ports of Barawa and Mogadishu) is a region (gobolka) in southern Somalia. The regional capital is Mogadishu, though the region itself is coextensive with the city and is much smaller than the historical region of Benadir.
Banacek Banacek (one of the rotating NBC Mystery Movie series) was a short lived light hearted detective TV series on NBC from 1972 to 1974. George Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a Boston-based freelance investigator who worked mostly for finder's fees offered by insurance companies by solving seemingly impossible theft cases.
Banagher Banagher (Beannchar in Irish) is a town in the Republic of Ireland, located on the western edge of County Offaly in the midlands of Ireland. The name comes from an Irish word meaning "horn-cast", the same root as Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Banach algebra In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a Banach algebra, named after Stefan Banach, is an associative algebra A over the real or complex numbers which at the same time is also a Banach space. The algebra multiplication and the Banach space norm are required to be related by the following inequality:
Banach fixed point theorem The Banach fixed point theorem (also known as the contraction mapping theorem or contraction mapping principle) is an important tool in the theory of metric spaces; it guarantees the existence and uniqueness of fixed points of certain self maps of metric spaces, and provides a constructive method to find those fixed points. The theorem is named after Stefan Banach (1892-1945), and was first stated by Banach in 1922.
Banach limit In mathematical analysis, a Banach limit is a continuous linear functional phi: ell_infty to mathbb{R} defined on the Banach space ell_infty of all bounded real-valued sequences such that for any real-valued sequences x=(x_n) and y=(y_n), the following conditions are satisfied:
Banach measure In mathematics, Banach measure in measure theory may mean a real-valued function on the algebra of all sets (for example, in the plane), by means of which a rigid, finitely additive area can be defined for every set, even when a set does not have a true geometric area. That is, this is a theoretical definition getting round the phenomenon of non-measurable sets.

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