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Bancroft Treaties The Bancroft treaties, also called the Bancroft conventions, were a series of agreements between the United States and other countries that 1) recognized the right of each party's nationals to become naturalized citizens of the other; and 2) defined circumstances in which naturalized persons were legally presumed to have abandoned their new citizenship and resumed their old one. Named for historian and diplomat George Bancroft (1800-1891), who negotiated the first of these agreements with Prussia, then known officially as the North German Confederation, the Bancroft treaties were mainly intended to prevent individuals from using naturalization as a way to avoid military service and other legal obligations in their native countries.
Bancroft's School Bancroft's School is a co-educational independent school in Woodford Green, London, with about 900 pupils aged between 7 and 19. It was founded in 1737, following the death of its founder Francis Bancroftwho left a sizeable sum of money to the Drapers' Company], which continues to act as trustee for the school.
Bancroft, Minneapolis Bancroft is a neighborhood within the Powderhorn community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are East 38th Street to the north, Chicago Avenue to the west, East 42nd Street to the south and Cedar Avenue to the east.
Band (algebra) In mathematics a band is a semigroup in which every element is idempotent (in other words equal to its own square). The lattice of varieties of bands was described independently by Birjukov, Fennemore and Gerhard.
Band andazi The history of cosmetics in Iran shows that Iranians used to remove unwanted facial body hair centuries ago. The method is called band andazi and is still popular not only among traditional families but is also practised by some beauty salons in Iran.
Band Aid (band) Band Aid was a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market.
Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole is the first single by Los Angeles, California rock band Scarling. It was released in the USA on 7" vinyl on March 19, 2003 on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label, and on compact disc on December 16.
Band bending Band bending refers to the local change in energy of electrons at a semiconductor junction due to space charge effects. Because the common way to visualize the electron energy states and Fermi level in a material is to draw bands on an Energy vs.
Band brake A band brake is an measuring device for loading a rotating shaft and measuring the torque applied to it and is mainly used to determine brake horsepower. In its simplest form an engine is connected to a rotating drum by means of an output shaft.
Band clamp A band clamp (also known as a web clamp) is a type of clamp which allows the clamping of items where the surfaces to be clamped are not parallel to each other; where there are multiple surfaces involved; or where clamping pressure is required from multiple directions at once.
Band gap In solid state physics and related applied fields, the band gap (or energy gap) is the energy difference between the top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band in insulators and semiconductors. It is often spelled "bandgap".
Band geek The term "band geek" refers to a division of high school and college subculture, primarily in the United States, which involves the students who are heavily involved in marching bands and concert band.
Band in a Bubble The Band in a Bubble was a round-the-clock live broadcast in 2004 from Federation Square in Melbourne, which saw Australian band Regurgitator placed inside an enormous glass bubble (hexagon) and watched by audiences around Australia. Over three weeks, the band composed and recorded the album Mish Mash.
Band mapping Band mapping, in the realm of condensed matter physics, refers to the process which allows for detection (and measurement) of photoelectrons emitted from an observed surface at different emission angles. This process is employed in a spectroscopy technique formally known as ARPS — Angle Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy — which is used to investigate the electronic structure of solids, solid surfaces and interfaces.
Band of 111 Pegasus Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron The 111 Pegasus Band is an integral part of the 111 Pegasus Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, in Vancouver. In 1998 the band won first place in the British Columbia Lower Mainland Tri-Service Cadet Band Competition, Category B.
Band of Horses Band of Horses, known early in its life as simply Horses, is an American indie rock band formed in Seattle consisting of Ben Bridwell, Mat Brooke, Creighton Barrett and Rob Hampton. In February 2006 Joe Arnone joined the band.
Band of the 10th of December The Band of the 10th of December was a secret Bonapartist society organized mainly from among lumpen proletariat, opportunists, military leaders, etc. The society helped progress Napoleon III's election as president of the Republic of France on December 10, 1848.
Band on the Run (song) "Band on the Run" is the title song from Paul McCartney and Wings' acclaimed Band on the Run album, one of McCartney's most ambitious and best-loved songs. It is comprised of a three part structure that revolves around the themes of escape and liberation.
Band on the Wall Band on the Wall is a live music venue in the Northern Quarter area of Manchester City Centre. The Building dates back to around 1862 when a local brewery, the McKenna Brothers, built it as the flagship pub of their operation.
Band Sergeant Major Band Sergeant Major (BSM) is the appointment held by the senior playing musician in a British Army band, who holds the rank of Warrant Officer Class 2. The BSM also functions as the band's senior non-commissioned officer, has various administrative duties, and is trained in conducting.
Band-Aid Band-Aid is a registered trademark of Johnson & Johnson for their adhesive bandages used to cover small wounds. However, much of the consuming public in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Australia uses the term band-aid generically, to refer to any such adhesive bandages (see genericized trademark).
Band-Aid Bandit Band-Aid Bandit (previously known as the Beer Belly Bandit) was the name given to a man who was responsible for 39 bank robberies, completed over the course of five and a half years in or around the Tampa, Florida area from 2000 to 2006. The Band-Aid moniker was granted to him because of a small bandage that was present on the subject's left cheek - it would later be discovered that the bandage's purpose was to hide an identifiable facial mole.
Band-e Amir Band-e Amir (Persian: بند امیر, meaning "Dam of the Amir") refers to five lakes high in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Central Afghanistan near the famous Buddhas of Bamyan. They were created by the carbon dioxide rich water oozing out of the faults and fractures to deposit calcium carbonate precipitate in the form of travertine walls that today store the water of these lakes.
Band-in-a-Box Band-in-a-Box is a MIDI music arranger software packwage for Windows and Mac OS produced by PG Music. Given the chords, the program automatically generates accompaniment and complex instrumental solos and melodies, resembling styles of famous musicians.
Band-pass filter A band-pass filter is a device that passes frequencies within a certain range and rejects (attenuates) frequencies outside that range. An example of an analogue electronic band-pass filter is an RLC circuit (a resistor-inductor-capacitor circuit).
Band-stop filter In signal processing, a band-stop filter or band-rejection filter is a filter that passes most frequencies unaltered, but attenuates those in a specific range to very low levels. It is the opposite of a band-pass filter.
Banda Bahadur Baba Banda Singh Bahadur (pronounce like this: Banda- "Bun-tha", Bahadur- "Bah-Ha-'th'ur" {'th' pronounced as 'th' in 'the'}) is revered as one of Sikhism's greatest warriors as well as one of its most hallowed martyrs. His confronation with the Mughal administration in Northern India, though brief, was strong enough to shake its foundations.
Banda Cittá Ruvo Di Puglia Banda Cittá Ruvo Di Puglia is an Italian folk group focused on the brass band traditions of Apulia. The banda tradition originated during the 19th century as a way to bring operatic and classical music to the rural poor and evolved into a form of music played primarily during Holy Week and funeral marches.
Banda della Magliana The Banda della Magliana was an Italian criminal organization based in Roma, particularly active through-out the late 1970s until the early 1990s. Given by the media, the name refers to the original neighborhood, the Magliana, of most of its members.
Banda el Recodo Banda Sinaloense el Recodo de Don Cruz Lizárraga, often referred to as Banda el Recodo or simply La Banda Sinaloense (Spanish: "the Sinaloan Band") is one of the best-known Mexican banda groups. Since its founding in 1938, it has been under the direction of the Lizárraga family.
Banda Islands The Banda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Banda) are a group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 140km south of Seram island and about 2000km east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku. The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name.
Banda Jerez Banda Jerez de Zacatecas, La Numero Uno Banda Jerez, and mostly simply know as Banda Jerez is one of the most popular Mexican bandas. Banda Jerez's hits include "Billete Verde" and "Una Mujer Casada".
Banda people Banda is an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, some of whom also live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon and possibly in Sudan. The Banda speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family that is related to that of their Gbaya and Ngbandi neighbours.
Banda Sea The Banda Sea is the sea of the South Moluccas in Indonesia, technically part of the Pacific Ocean but separated from it by hundreds of islands, as well as the Halmahera and Ceram Seas. It is about 1000 km (600 mi) east to west, and about 500 km (300 mi) north to south.
Bandage A bandage is a piece of material used to support a medical device such as a dressing or splint. Other than an adhesive bandage, tape in its many varieties is probably the most commonly used bandage, but bandages can and often are improvised as needed.
Bandalag íslenskra skáta Bandalag íslenskra skáta (BIS, Icelandic Boy and Girl Scout Association) is the national Scouting and Guiding organization of Iceland. Scouting was founded in Iceland in 1912 and was among the earlier members of WOSM in 1924.
Bandaloo Doctors Bandaloo Doctors was a Los Angeles “super group”, playing their own "revolutionary hard-rockin' blues" - From 1988 until 1996 they became darlings of the media and a number of Hollywood celebrities.
Bandalungwa Bandalungwa is a neighborhood in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its northern portion is occupied by the military barracks of Kokolo, whose buildings prominently display traditional Flemish architecture.
Bandama River The Bandama River is the longest river in Côte d'Ivoire with a length of some 800 kilometers. The south-flowing river is fed by the Marahoué, Solomougou, Kan and Nzi rivers and empties into the Tagba Lagoon and the Gulf of Guinea.
Bandanaira Bandanaira is the only settlement of significant size on any of the Banda Islands, located in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The town is located on the central island of the Bandas group, Banda Neira, the only one of the islands with enough flat space to allow a small town.
Bandanna, the opera Bandanna is an English language opera in a prologue and two acts by Daron Hagen, first performed by the The University of Texas at Austin opera theater in Austin, February 25, 1999. The libretto is by Irish poet Paul Muldoon.
Bandar Bandar (in Persian بندر) is a Persian word meaning "port" and "haven". Etymologically it combines Persian بند Band (enclosed) and در dar (gate, door) meaning "an enclosed area" (i.
Bandar Abbas Bandar Abbas or Bandar-e 'Abbas (in Persian: بندر عباس) is a port city and capital of Hormozgan province on the southern coast of Iran (Persia), on the Persian Gulf. The city occupies a strategic position on the narrow Straits of Hormuz.
Bandar bin Abdul Aziz Bandar bin Abdul Aziz (1923-) is, after Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, the oldest living son of the late King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Religious piety, lack of government service and a reputation of being recluse may indicate his having stepped aside as a candidate for the throne.
Bandar bin Sultan Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (, born March 2, 1949) is a highly influential Saudi politician and was Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He was appointed Secretary-General of the National Security Council by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on October 16, 2005.
Bandar Baru UDA Bandar Baru UDA is a major township in the city of Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.It mainly consist of four phases where this townships has developed well and strategically located in the middle of Johor Bahru Town and transportation.
Bandar Beyla The district of Bandar Beyla is located in the southeastern portion of Bari Region, Somalia. Bandar Beyla, the town, has a population consisting of the Mohamud Ali itself a subclan of Leelkase and some Osman Mahamud a subclan of Majeerteen.
Bandar Bukit Puchong 2 Bandar Bukit Puchong is located at the 14th mile Jalan Puchong which intersects the southern tip of the Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP). This township enjoys two (2) access points from the LDP; one (1) directly from the LDP and the other from the Puchong-Dengkil-Cyberjaya trunk road via a dedicated exit from the Bandar Bukit Puchong diamond interchange off the LDP.
Bandar Imam Bandar Imam Khomeini (Persian بندرامام خمینی) is a port city on the Persian Gulf in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran. Before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, it was known as Bandar Shahpur.
Bandar Seri Begawan Bandar Seri Begawan, (, Jawi: بندر سري بگاوان ) estimated population 46,229 (1991), is the capital and the royal town of the Sultanate of Brunei. The city is the home of producers of furniture, textiles, handicrafts, and timber.
Bandar Tasik Selatan station Bandar Tasik Selatan station is an important public transport interchange in Bandar Tasik Selatan in the Klang Valley, which is in the south of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The station is located at .
Bandar Tun Razak LRT station Bandar Tun Razak LRT station is an LRT station operated by Rapid KL in Bandar Tun Razak, a township in the south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This station is served by the Sri Petaling line and was opened in 1996, along with 17 other LRT stations.
Bandar Utama Bandar Utama is a township located within the Damansara subdivision of the Petaling district in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. It is primarily a residential suburb, but is also home to the 1 Utama Shopping Centre.
Bandar-e Anzali Bandar-e Anzali (in Persian: بندر انزلی), known as Bandar-e Pahlavi (بندر پهلوی) before the Iranian Revolution, is a harbour town on the Caspian Sea, in the Iranian province of Gilan, close to Rasht.
Bandaranaike Airport attack The Bandaranaike Airport attack was an assault by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Bandaranaike International Airport, on July 24, 2001. The attack was one of the boldest the LTTE has mounted during its war with the Sri Lankan government, and had a profound impact on the country's military, economy, and airline industry.
Bandarban District Bandarban (Bengali:বান্দরবান) is a district in South-Eastern Bangladesh, and a part of the Chittagong Division and Chittagong Hill Tracts. Bandarban (meaning the dam of monkeys) is also known as Arvumi or the Bohmong Circle (of the rest of the three hill districts Rangamati is the Chakma Circle and Khagrachari is the Mong Circle).
Bandargate scandal The Bandargate scandal refers to an alleged political conspiracy by the certain government officials in Bahrain to foment sectarian strife and marginalize the majority Shia community in the country. The conspiracy was allegedly lead and financed by Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa, Minister of Cabiner Affairs and head of the Civil Informatics Organization and member of the Al Khalifa royal family.
Bandari music Bandari music which stems from Iran's south, around the Persian Gulf region and was used by sailors and harbour-workers for centuries. It is a rhythmic type of dance music played fast and slow using quarter tone that can be vocalized and played.
Bandbox Plot The Bandbox Plot of 1712 was an attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, the then British Lord Treasurer, which was foiled by the perspicacity of Jonathan Swift, who happened to be visiting the Earl of Oxford.
Banded bellowsfish The banded bellowsfish, banded snipefish, or bluebanded bellowsfish, Centriscops humerosus, is a snipefish of the family Centriscidae, found in southern temperate circumglobal waters south of Australia, South Africa, South America, and New Zealand, at depths of between 35 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 25 cm.
Banded corydoras The banded corydoras or bearded catfish, Scleromystax barbatus, is a subtropical freshwater fish belonging to the Callichthyinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in coastal drainages in South America from Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Banded Hare-wallaby The Banded Hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) is a marsupial that is currently found on the Islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. It is the only species in the genus Lagostrophus and in the subfamily Sthenurinae.
Banded iron formation Banded iron formations (also known as banded ironstone formations, or BIFs) are a distinctive type of rock often found in old sedimentary rocks. The structures consist of repeated thin layers of iron oxides, either magnetite or hematite, alternating with bands of iron-poor shale and chert.
Banded rock lizard The Banded rock lizard (Petrosaurus mearnsi) is an extremely flat bodied lizard with an olive, brown or grey dorsum and white or bluish spots on dorsum. It has a single black collar, a banded tail, and granular scales on its body with keeled tail and limb scales.
Banded sand catshark The banded sand catshark, Atelomycterus fasciatus, is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean endemic to northern Australia between latitudes 10° S and 21° S, at depths of between 27 and 120 m. Its length is up to 45 cm.
Banded-fin flounder The banded-fin flounder or spotted flounder, Azygopus pinnifasciatus, is a righteye flounder, the only species in the genus Azygopus, found around the Indo-West Pacific Oceans, including southern Australia and New Zealand, on the continental slope at depths of between 120 and 900 m. Their length is up to 20 cm.
Bandeirantes Bandeirantes were participants in the Bandeiras, expeditions organized by the inhabitants of the then poor village of SĂŁo Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga together with allied Indians to enslave other Indians, recapture runaway slaves, and mainly to find precious metals and stones.
Bandeja paisa Bandeja paisa, also known as bandeja de arriero or bandeja montañera, is a typical dish of the Antioquian kitchen. It could be said that a fundamental characteristic of this dish is its enormous abundance in amount and variety of foods, in such a way that it is only possible to serve it in trays of significant size.
Banderas Banderas was a female duo of the early 1990s that was signed to London Records. The group was an offshoot of Jimmy Sommerville's band The Communards and featured one of his female backing musicians Sally Herbert along with shaven headed singer Caroline Buckley.
Banderas monumentales The banderas monumentales (Spanish for "monumental flags") are a set of monuments located throughout Mexico. The main feature of these monuments is a giant Mexican flag flying off a 50 meter-high flagpole.
Banderlog In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Banderlog is a Magical Beast. The Banderlog resembles a fat Baboon with green skin, brown fur (this creates an almost violet look) and a large mouth and lips.
Bandh Bandh, originally a Hindi word meaning 'closed', is a form of protest used by political activists in some countries in South Asia like India and Nepal. During a Bandh, a large chunk of a community declares a general strike, usually lasting one day.
Bandhavgarh Fort The Bandhavgarh Fort is situated in Bandhavgarh in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located on the Bandhavgarh hill, rising 811 meters above sea level at the centre of the Bandhavgarh National Park.
Bandhavgarh National Park Bandhavgarh National Park (Devanagari: बांधवगढ राष्‍ट्रीय उद्दान) is located in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh state in India. Bandhavgarh was declared a national park in 1968 with an area of 105 km².
Bandhu Bandhu, Sanskrit for relation or binding, are the connections that, according to the Vedas link the outer and the inner worlds. The Vedic texts speak, for example, of the 360 bones of the foetus that fuse into the 206 bones of the adult (after the 360 days of the year)
Bandhua Mukti Morcha Bandhua Mukti Morcha (BMM) or Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF) is a non-governmental organisation in India working to end bonded labour. Based in New Delhi, it was founded in 1981 by Swami Agnivesh who continues as its chairman.
Bandicoot A bandicoot is any of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia. The word bandicoot is an anglicised form of the Telugu word pandi-kokku, (loosely, pig-rat) which originally referred to the unrelated Indian Bandicoot Rat.
Bandidas Bandidas, a 2006 movie starring Spanish-speakers Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek, tells the tale of two very different women in turn-of-the-century Mexico who become a bank robbing duo in an effort to combat a ruthless enforcer terrorising their town. This is the first movie that Cruz and Hayek (who are really good friends) have starred in together.
Bandiera Brothers The Bandiera Brothers (in Italian Fratelli Bandiera) were the Italian patriots Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, (1811-1844) and (1819-1844). The two brothers, sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, were themselves members of that service, but at an early age they were won over to the ideas of Italian freedom and unity, and corresponded with Giuseppe Mazzini and other members of the La Giovine Italia, a patriotic and revolutionary secret society.
Bandiera Rossa Association (Italy) The Bandiera Rossa Association (Associazione Bandiera Rossa) is an association of members of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in Italy. Politically it is Trotskyist and is the Italian affiliate of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI).
Bandit Kingdoms In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Bandit Kingdoms is a political state of the Flanaess. It was formerly known as the Combination of Free Lords, and sometimes called the Bandit Lands.
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution The Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, or BOTAR, is a musical collective of a varying and undefinable genre which includes influences from ska, punk, classical and eastern-European style music. It is composed of former Catch 22 members Tomas Kalnoky and Jamie Egan, in addition to Nick Afflitto, Marcy Ciuffreda, Rachel Goldstein, Layton Hayes, John Paul Jones, Achilles Kalnoky, Paul Lowndes, Chris Paszik, Mark Rendeiro, Dan Ross, Pete Sibilia, Shane Thomson, and Natalia Ushak.
Bandkanon 1 Bandkanon 1 (bkan 1) was a Swedish self-propelled gun in use with the Swedish Army from 1967 to 2003. It was developed by Bofors under the designation artillerikanonvagn 151 (akv 151) and the chassis was based on the never adopted tank KRV.
Bandlimited A bandlimited signal is a deterministic or stochastic signal whose Fourier transform or power spectral density is zero above a certain finite frequency. In other words, if the Fourier transform or power spectral density has finite support then the signal is said to be bandlimited.
Bandō Mitsugorō VIII Bandō Mitsugorō VIIIBandō's name, being a stage name, is rendered in traditional order, not Western name order.(八代目 坂東 三津五郎)(19 October 1906 - 16 January 1975) was one of Japan's most revered Kabuki actors from the 1930s until his death.
Bandō Shūka I Bandō Shūka I (初代坂東しゅうか)(1813-6 March 1855), also known as Bandō Tamasaburō I (初代坂東玉三郎), was a Japanese Kabuki actor, and the first in the lineage to hold each of the stage-names Shūka and Tamasaburō.
Bandog Bandog (also known as Bandogge) is a name derived from early English and refers to a ferocious large type of dog that was bound by a chain until it was released at night in order to guard property. The fact that the modern day Bandog is also large, can be ferocious, and is composed of some Mastiff and some Bulldog, as was the original Bandog, is all that the Bandog of old and the modern Bandog have in common.
Bandolier (journal) Bandolier is an independent online electronic journal about evidence-based healthcare, written by Oxford University scientists. It was started in 1994 and the National Health Service paid for its distribution to all doctors in the UK until 2002.
Bandon Bay Bandon Bay () is a bay in the Gulf of Thailand in the Surat Thani Province, extending from the Sui capein Chaiya district in the northwest to the Kanchanadit district to the east. The total coastline is about 100 km.
Bandon, Oregon Bandon (IPA: ) is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, on the south side of the mouth of the Coquille River. It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled nearby in 1873 and named the town after Bandon, Ireland, his native home.
Bandplan A bandplan or band plan is a plan for utilizing a particular band of radio frequencies, that are a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum . Each bandplan defines the frequency range to be included, how channels are to be defined, and what will be carried on those channels.
Bandra Bandra (Marathi : वांद्रे ) is a suburb of Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), popularly nick-named "Queen Of The Suburbs". It is home to a railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway, Western line.
Bandra Municipal Committee The Bandra Municipal Committee was the governing body of the township of Bandra in suburban Mumbai (Bombay) between the 1930s and 1950. Initially concerned with the civic funtions of Bandra, it expanded to include the suburb of Khar and Santra Cruz by 1933.
Bandra-Kurla complex The Bandra-Kurla complex is a planned commercial complex in the suburbs of the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay). According to MMRDA, the complex is the first of a series of "growth centres" created to "arrest further concentration" of offices and commercial activities in South Mumbai.
Bandra-Worli Sea Link The Bandra Worli Sea Link is a 8-lane, twin carriageway cable-stayed bridge with pre-stressed concrete viaduct approaches, which will link Bandra and the western suburbs of Mumbai with Worli and downtown Mumbai, and is the first phase of the proposed West Island Freeway system. The Rs 130,060,000,000 project of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC)is being executed by Hindustan Construction Company and is likely to be completed by April 2008.
Bands of America Bands of America (BOA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes high school music education in the United States. Specifically, BOA organizes many marching band competitions for high school students, including regional and national events.
Bands Reunited Bands Reunited was a television program produced by VH1 in 2004. Hosted by Aamer Haleem, the show documented the attempted reuniting of a formerly-popular musical ensemble for a special concert in either London or Los Angeles.
Bandshell A bandshell is a large, outdoor performing venue typically used by bands and orchestras. The roof and the back half of the shell protect musicians from the elements and reflect sound through the the open side and out towards the audience.
Bandstand A bandstand is a circular or semicircular structure set in a park, garden, or pier, designed to accommodate musical bands performing outdoor concerts. A simple construction which not only creates an ornamental focal point it also serves acoustic requirements whilst providing shelter for the changeable weather.
Bandstand Promenade The Bandstand Promenade is a kilometer long walkway along the sea on the west side of Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, India. Less than a decade old, it is simultaneously a popular hang out spot, a jogging track and a park.

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