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Brno chair The Brno chair (model number MR50) is a modernist cantilever chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929-1930 for the bedroom of the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia. The design was based on similar chairs created by Mies van der Rohe working with Lilly Reich, such as the MR20 chair with wicker seat from 1927; all building on earlier designs of Mart Stam.
Brno University of Technology Brno University of Technology (abbreviated: BUT; in Czech: Vysoké učení technické v Brně) is an university located in Brno, Czech Republic. Being founded in 1899 and initially offering a course in civil engineering, it grew to become a major Czech university with over 15,000 students and 8 faculties.
Bro'Sis Bro'Sis were a multicultural R&B group from Germany, formed in 2001 in the second installment of the television talent show Popstars. Originally a sextet, the group eventually became a quintet, selling more than 2,2 million albums and singles worldwide.
Broad arrow Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines a broad arrow as, 1: an arrow with a flat barbed head 2 heraldry: a pheon that is not engrailed on the inner edge 3: Brit: an identification mark put on government property including convicts clothing.
Broad bottom government In 18th century politics, the broad bottom government (or 'broad bottom administration') is a government with cross-party appeal, according (among others) to John Stuart Shaw, "The Political History of Eighteenth-century Scotland", 1999, when he describes the time of the Seven Years' War.
Broad Band X-ray Telescope The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) was flown on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-35) on 1990 December 2-December 11, as part of the ASTRO-1 payload. The flight of BBXRT marked the first opportunity for performing X-ray observations over a broad energy range (0.
Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is a form of Black Economic Empowerment initiated by the South African government in response to criticism against Narrow Based Empowerment instituted in the country during 2003/2004. While Narrow Based Black Economic Empowerment led to the enrichment of a few black (Black African, Coloured or Indian) individuals, the goal of Broad Based Empowerment is to distribute wealth across as broad a spectrum of South African society as possible.
Broad Bay Broad Bay is a 464-acre lake located in Carroll County in eastern New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Freedom and Ossipee. Broad Bay is part of a chain of four lakes with identical water levels, due to a dam located downstream in Effingham Falls, New Hampshire.
Broad construction The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy defines broad construction as "a theory of interpretation of the Constitution that holds the spirit of the times or the values of the justices and the needs of the nation. Broad construction may legitimately influence the decisions of a court, particularly the Supreme Court".
Broad Creek, Maryland Broad Creek was a town on western Kent Island, Maryland that existed from the 17th century to the 19th century. The town once served as the eastern terminus of a trans-Chesapeake Bay ferry line that was part of an early route between Annapolis and Philadelphia.
Broad Dyke Broad Dyke is an original dyke in the United States built by the Dutch in 1655 in New Castle, Delaware. It is the center of the twelve mile circle that forms the arc that marks the northern state line (between Delaware and Pennsylvania).
Broad Economic Categories The Broad Economic Categories (BEC) is a three-digit classification, which groups commodities according their main end use. The system was introduced by the United Nations in 1970, and is suitable for the general economic analysis of international merchandise trade data.
Broad Fourteens [Broad Fourteens is an area of the southern North Sea] that is fairly consistently fourteen [[fathoms (26 meters) deep (thus, on a nautical chart with depths given in fathoms, a broad area with many "14" notations). It is located off the coast of the Netherlands and south of the Dogger Bank, roughly between longitude 3°E and 4°30′E and latitude 52°30′N and 53°30′N.
Broad Green railway station Broad Green railway station is situated in the Broadgreen district of Liverpool, England, close to the border with Knowsley. It is located very close to junction 4 of the M62 motorway but is not a "parkway" or "interchange" station.
Broad Haven Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales is a village in the South East corner of St Bride's Bay. It is a holiday resort with a large west-facing Blue Flag beach offering safe bathing for families and good surfing, windsurfing and sailing opportunities.
Broad church Broad Church is a term referring to Latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England, in particular, and Anglicanism, in general. From this, the term is often used to refer to secular political organisations, meaning that they encompass a broad range of opinion.
Broad Iron K line In astronomy, the broad iron K line is a spectral line that is an accurate measure of a black hole's immense gravitational force. The name refers to the shape, on a spectrogram, of light emitted by iron atoms near the black hole center.
Broad left Broad Left is a coalition of left members, usually involving independents, members of the Labour Party, Communist Party of Britain and other left wing organisations in a trade union. Several groups are described by the term.
Broad Law Broad Law is the second highest hill in the wide expanse of hill country in Southern Scotland, the Southern Uplands, and the highest for 30 miles in all directions. It is only ten feet lower than its parent, Merrick.
Broad Left The Broad Left was a political faction within the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS) during the 1970s. It consisted of a working relationship between the Labour Party, the Liberal Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), in order to work as a single voting bloc against the Conservative and some Trotskyist student groups.
Broad Left Front Broad Left Front (in Spanish: Frente Amplio de Izquierda), often just referred to as Frente Amplio, is a coalition of leftist parties and movements in Peru. Initially the organization was known as National Coordination of Leftwing and Progressive Parties (Coordinadora Nacional de Izquierda y Partidos Progresistas).
Broad spectrum revolution The Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) hypothesis, proposed by Kent Flannery in 1969 in "The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals", suggested that the emergence of the Neolithic in western Asia was prefaced by increases in dietary breadth in Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic foraging societies just before this period.
Broad Sound Broad Sound is a large bay on the east coast of Australia, located in the state of Queensland 675 km north-north-west of the state capital, Brisbane. The Torilla Peninsula forms the eastern side of the bay; Shoalwater Bay is on the other side of the peninsula.
Broad Street (Richmond, Virginia) Broad Street (also known as Broad Street Road) is a 15-mile long road located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia and adjacent Henrico County. Broad Street is significant to Richmond due to the many commercial establishments that have been built along it throughout Richmond's history.
Broad Street Historic District The Broad Street Historic District consists of properties that line Broad Street just west of the Downtown. Located on the eastern border of the Middletown Downtown Village District the Broad Street Historic District is a 19th Century residential neighborhood.
Broad Street Independent Chapel, Reading Waterstone's, Broad Street, Reading is a branch of the Waterstone's chain of bookshops, located in the principal shopping street of Reading in England. The store is a sympathetic reuse of the former Broad Street Independent Chapel.
Broad Street Line The Broad Street Line (BSL) (also known as the Broad Street Subway (BSS) or Orange Line) is a rapid transit line operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority that runs from Fern Rock Transportation Center in northern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia, adjacent to several stadiums. It is named for Broad Street, the street under which it runs for almost its entire length.
Broad Street Mall, Reading Broad Street Mall is a large indoor shopping mall located in central Reading in England. The mall was originally known as the Butts Centre, and was named after the archery butts which occupied the site in the mediaeval period.
Broad Street Market The Broad Street Market, founded in 1860, is located in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the United States. Originally established on Broad Street by the Verbeke family, it is today one of the oldest continuously operating farmers markets in the country.
Broad Street Station (Newark) Newark Broad Street Station is a historic New Jersey Transit commuter rail station at 25 University Avenue in Newark, New Jersey. Built in 1906 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad to serve its line from Hoboken to Denville, the station's historic architecture includes an elegant clock tower and a brick and stone façade on the station's main building.
Broad Street Station (Philadelphia) Broad Street Station was built in 1881 and served as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's primary rail hub until the Pennsylvania Railroad completed 30th Street Station in 1933. Originally designed by the Wilson Brothers, it was dramatically expanded according to a design by Frank Furness in 1891.
Broad Street Station (Richmond) Broad Street Station (also known as Union Station) was a Union railroad station in Richmond, Virginia across Broad Street from the Fan district. It was built by the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) in 1917 in the neoclassical style by the architect John Russell Pope.
Broad-billed Parrot The Broad-billed Parrot (Lophopsittacus mauritianus) was a parrot endemic to the island of Mauritius that became extinct. It was a large, heavy-set parrot, with strong males similar in size to the Palm Cockatoo.
Broad-billed Prion The Broad-billed Prion, Pachyptila vittata, is a small seabird with grey upperparts plumage, a dark cap,a black "W" on the wings, a black tail tip, and white underparts. This is a large prion, 61 cm long and weighing 200 grams, with a massive bill.
Broad-billed Roller The Broad-billed Roller, Eurystomus glaucurus, is a member of the roller family of birds which breeds across tropical Africa and Madagascar in all but the driest regions. It is a wet season breeder, which migrates from the northern and southern areas of its range towards the moister equatorial belt in the dry season.
Broad-billed Sandpiper The Broad-billed Sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus, is a small wader. It is the only member of the genus Limicola; some have proposed that it should be placed in the genus Erolia with the "stint" sandpipers, but more recent research (Thomas et al.
Broad-billed Sapayoa The Broad-billed Sapayoa (or simply Sapayoa) Sapayoa aenigma is a suboscine passerine found in lowland rainforests in Panama and northwest South America. It is a rare to uncommon species of the forest understory, favouring ravines and small streams.
Broad-breasted White The Broad-breasted White is commercially the most widely-used breed of domesticated turkey. These birds have shorter breast bones and legs than "standard" turkeys, they produce more breast meat and their pin feathers are less visible when the carcass is dressed.
Broad-spectrum antibiotic The term broad-spectrum antibiotic refers to an antibiotic with activity against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria. This is in contrast to a narrow-spectrum antibiotic which is effective against only specific families of bacteria.
Broad-tailed parrot A broad-tailed parrot is any of about 35-40 species belonging to the tribe Platycercini, sometimes considered a subfamily (Platycercinae). The members of the subfamily are small to medium in size, and all are native to Australasia, Australia in particular, but also New Zealand, New Caledonia, and nearby islands.
Broadband Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. Broadband is always a relative term, understood according to its context.
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network In the 1980s the telecommunications industry conceived that digital services would follow much the same pattern as voice services, and conceived a grandiose vision of end-to-end circuit switched services, known as the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN). This was conceived in the 1990s as a logical extension of the end-to-end circuit switched data service, ISDN.
Broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to "broadband Internet" or just "broadband", is a high data-transmission rate internet connection. DSL and cable modem, both popular consumer broadband technologies, are typically capable of transmitting faster than dial-up modem (56 kbit/s (kilobits per second)).
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Broadband Networks Future telecommunication networks should have the following characteristics: broadband, multi-media, multi-point, multi-rate and economical implementation for a diversity of services (multi-services) [1][2]. The Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN) provides these characteristics to a network.
Broadband open access Broadband open access is an issue of policy debate in telecommunications, regarding whether or not companies which own broadband telecommunication infrastructure (such as cable operators) should be required to provide access to their facilities for competing businesses which do not own physical infrastructure. The issue came to the fore in the U.
Broadbanded lanternshark The broadbanded lanternshark, Etmopterus gracilispinis, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the western Atlantic from Virginia and Florida, Uruguay and Argentina, and reported off Suriname, between latitudes 40° N and 45° S, at depths of between 70 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 35 cm.
Broadcast address In computer networking, a broadcast address is an IP address that allows information to be sent to all machines on a given subnet rather than a specific machine. The exact notation can vary by operating system, but the standard is laid out in RFC 919.
Broadcast automation In broadcast engineering, broadcast automation is the use of technology to automate broadcasting operations. Used either at a station or a network, it is used to run a facility in the absence of a human operator.
Broadcast auxiliary service A broadcast auxiliary service or BAS is any radio frequency system used by a radio station or TV station, which is not part of its direct broadcast to listeners or viewers. These are essentially internal-use channels not intended for actual reception by the public, but required to get those signals to such a transmitter.
Broadcast Advertising Standards Board Of Finance The Broadcast Advertising Standards Board Of Finance (BASBOF) is an organization in the United Kingdom that funds the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). It collents a voluntary levy on advertising costs, typically the levy is 0.
Broadcast calendar The broadcast calendar is a standardized calendar used primarily for the planning and purchase of radio and television programs and advertising. Every week in the broadcast calendar starts on a Monday and ends on a Sunday, and every month has either four or five such weeks.
Broadcast designer A broadcast designer is a person who designs the graphics and media incorporated in television productions. A broadcast designer may have a degree in Digital Media (or a similar degree), or is self-taught in the software needed to create such content.
Broadcast domain A broadcast domain is a logical network segment in which any computer connected to the network can directly transmit to any other in the domain without having to go through a routing device, provided that they share the same subnet and gateway address and are in the same VLAN, default or installed.
Broadcast Drive Broadcast Drive (廣播道) is a road in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. The road is notable as having played host to five broadcasting outlets in Hong Kong at one point in the 1970s, and the hill on which the road is located was known as Ng Toi Shan (五台山, lit.
Broadcast Driver Architecture The Broadcast Driver Architecture (or BDA) is a Microsoft standard for digital video capture on their Windows operating systems. It encompasses the ATSC and DVB standards and gives developers a standardized method of accessing TV/tuner devices (usually PCI or USB).
Broadcast engineering Broadcast engineering is the field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent computer engineering, which deals with radio and television broadcasting. Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential parts of broadcast engineering, being their own subsets of electrical engineering.
Broadcast flag A broadcast flag is a set of status bits (or "flags") sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not it can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content. Possible restrictions include inability to save an unencrypted digital program to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage, inability to make secondary copies of recorded content (in order to share or archive), forceful reduction of quality when recording (such as reducing high-definition video to the resolution of standard TVs), and inability to skip over commercials.
Broadcast law Broadcast law is the field of law which pertains to broadcasting. These laws and regulations pertain to radio stations and TV stations, and are also considered to include closely-related services like cable TV and cable radio, as well as satellite TV and satellite radio.
Broadcast license The United States government requires users of radio spectrum to obtain a broadcast license to use the airwaves, except for low-powered transmitters like CB's and Walkie Talkies. Licenses are limited to the available spectrum in the given geographical area.
Broadcast Markup Language Broadcast Markup Language, or BML, is an XML-based standard developed by Japanese ARIB association as a data broadcasting specification for digital HDTV broadcasting. It was finalized in 1999, becoming ARIB STD B24 "Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting".
Broadcast Music Incorporated Broadcast Music, Incorporated (BMI) is a performance rights organisation. It collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
Broadcast network A broadcast network is an organization, such as a corporation or other association, that provides live or recorded content, such as movies, newscasts, sports, and public affairs programs for broadcast over a group of radio or television stations. They are generally primarily either a television network or a radio network, although some organizations run both types of networks.
Broadcast News (film) Broadcast News is a 1987 romantic comedy about a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks), his charming but admittedly far less seasoned rival (William Hurt), and their virtuoso producer (Holly Hunter), who has daily emotional breakdowns. It also stars Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles and Joan Cusack, with an uncredited cameo by Jack Nicholson.
Broadcast Operations Group Owned by Bill Caralis, Broadcast Operations Group (BOG) operates a number of radio stations in northern New South Wales & southern Queensland, Australia. These are collectively known as the "2SM Supernetwork".
Broadcast programming Broadcast programming, or scheduling, is the practice of organizing television or radio programs in a daily, weekly, or season-long schedule. Modern broadcasters regularly change the scheduling of their programs to build an audience for a new show, retain that audience, or compete with other broadcasters' programs.
Broadcast Protection Discussion Group The Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG) is a working group comprised of content providers, television broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, information technology companies, interested individuals and consumer activists. The group was formed specifically for the purpose of evaluating the suitability of the broadcast flag for preventing unauthorized redistribution (including unauthorized redistribution over the Internet of unencrypted digital terrestrial broadcast television (DTV)) and to determine whether there was substantial support for the broadcast flag.
Broadcast seeding In agriculture and gardening, broadcast seeding is a method of seeding that involves scattering seed, by hand or mechanically, over a relatively large area. This is in contrast to precision seeding, where seed is placed at a precise spacing and depth.
Broadcast signal intrusion Broadcast signal intrusion is a term given to the act of hijacking broadcast signals of radio and television stations. Hijacking incidents have involved local TV and radio stations as well as cable and national networks.
Broadcast television systems There are several broadcast television systems in use in the world today. An analogue television system includes several components: a set of technical parameters for the broadcast signal, a system for encoding color, and possibly a system for encoding multi-channel audio.
Broadcast to the World Broadcast to the World is the third release from Zebrahead on Sony Music Entertainment, and the successor to Zebrahead's critically acclaimed third release, MFZB in 2003. It features the vocal / guitar debut of Matty Lewis, who replaced long time Zebrahead vocalist / guitarist Justin Mauriello.
Broadcast traffic Broadcast traffic, in computer networking, is traffic that is simultaneously addressed to all computers connected to the network, as opposed to unicast or multicast traffic. This is in contrast to the model SLP offers.
Broadcast translator In broadcasting, a translator is an FM radio station or a TV station which acts as a full-duplex repeater. Just as a verbal translator (person) listens in one language and speaks in another, a broadcast translator receives a signal from one channel and transmits it again, usually on another channel or other frequency assignment, extending the range of the original signals into areas that cannot receive them otherwise.
Broadcaster's Audience Research Board BARB, the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, is the organisation that compiles television ratings in the UK. It was created to replace a previous system, where the BBC and ITV companies compiled their own ratings.
Broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs) to a number of recipients ("listeners" or "viewers") that belong to a large group. This group may be the public in general, or a relatively large audience within the public.
Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance The Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance (BETA) was a short-lived British entertainment trade union. It was founded in 1984 with the merger of the Association of Broadcasting Staff and the National Association of Theatrical Television and Kine Employees.
Broadcasting Commission of Ireland The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) (Irish: Colmisiún Craolacháin na hÉireann) is the regulator of the commercial broadcasting sector in Ireland. It is responsible for arranging the provision of television and radio services in additional to those provided by Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE).
Broadcasting Corporation of China The Broadcasting Corporation of China (中國廣播公司), BCC, is a broadcasting company of the Republic of China. It was founded as the Central Broadcasting System in Nanjing in 1928 and was changed to its current name in 1947.
Broadcasting Data Services Broadcasting Dataservices (BDS) is a television and radio listings provider for a number of broadcasters and STB platforms, they supply EPG data within the UK to Sky, NTL, Telewest and HomeChoice, they also supply data for over twenty countries for Microsoft Windows Media Centres EPG.
Broadcasting in Singapore Broadcasting in Singapore began in 1936 when Radio Singapura was established as the first local mass market radio service. Subsequently in February 1963, before the retreat of the British Armed Forces, and after the merger with Malaya, Singapore launched her first television service, under the Radio & Television of Singapore (RTS).
Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. It has around 25,000 members who work in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure and interactive media.
Broaden Your Mind Broaden Your Mind was a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. The programme was a precursor to the television comedy series The Goodies.
Broadfin sawtail catshark The broadfin sawtail, Galeus nipponensis, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific from Japan and the Kyūshū-Palau Ridge between latitudes 34° N and 7° N. Its length is up to 70 cm.
Broadfin shark The broadfin shark, Lamiopsis temminckii, the only member of the genus Lamiopsis, is a shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific oceans between latitudes 24° N and 4° S, from the surface to 50 m. Its length is up to about 1.
Broadford GAA Broadford is a GAA club in Kildare, winners of two senior hurling and 16 senior camogie titles. It enlists players from a radius of twenty miles form the Boyne bridge in Edenderry, Leinster bridge in Clonard, Blackwater bridge in Enfield and Barney Bridge in Allenwood.
Broadgate Broadgate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
Broadgill catshark The broadgill catshark, Apristurus riveri, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western central Atlantic from Cuba, the northern Gulf of Mexico, and Panama, between latitudes 30° N and 9° N, at depths of between 700 and 1,500 m. Its length is up to 46 cm.
Broadhalfpenny Down Broadhalfpenny Down was the home venue of the Hambledon Club during its halycon days of the mid- to late 18th Century. It is situated on a hilltop about a mile outside Hambledon village and was used for various sports besides cricket.
Broadhead's Bridge Station Broadhead's Bridge Station, located in Broadhead's Bridge, New York was once a popular vacationing stop for tourists coming north from New York City. It was destroyed during the making of the Ashokan Reservoir.
Broadhempston Broadhempston is a small village within the Teignbridge District Council Area in the County of Devon in the South West of England ("The West Country"). It comprises some 200 houses with a population (total Parish) of about 620.
Broadleaf arrowhead The broadleaf arrowhead (also known as duck potato, Indian potato, or wapato) is a plant found in wetlands. This plant produces edible tubers that were heavily collected by the Native Americans as a food source.
Broadleaf plantain The Broadleaf Plantain or Greater Plantago (Plantago major) is a member of the plantago family, Plantaginaceae. In North America, this plant is primarily a weed, though it is edible and is used in herbal medicine.
Broadmarsh Shopping Centre The Broadmarsh Shopping Centre is the southern end shopping centre in Nottingham, England, owned by the Australian company The Westfield Group. The centre has 86 stores and a total retail floor space of 45,000m² (484,379ft²)
Broadmeadows, Victoria Broadmeadows is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km from Melbourne's central business district. It is a regional centre within the northern suburbs of Melbourne, and is often used as a reference for the suburbs around it, although this may be due to its former status as a municipality.
Broadmoor Hospital Broadmoor Hospital is a maximum security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne in Berkshire (coordinates ). It is the best known of the three high-security psychiatric hospitals in England, the other two being Ashworth and Rampton.
Broadmoor Hotel The Broadmoor Hotel is a 5-star / 5-diamond luxury hotel and resort located in southwestern Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the United States. Built in the early 20th century as the "Grand Dame of the Rockies", it was one of the finest resort destinations along the Rocky Mountains during the age of railroads.
Broadmoor Skating Club The Broadmoor Skating Club is a figure skating club based in Colorado Springs, Colorado that has long been a major training center for the sport of figure skating. Founded in 1939, it was originally known as the Pikes Peak Skating Club, and was based in the Broadmoor World Arena on the grounds of the Broadmoor Hotel.
Broadmoor World Arena The Broadmoor World Arena was a pioneering skating rink and hockey arena located at the Broadmoor Resort & Spa in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Originally an outdoor riding academy, the building was enclosed and converted to an ice arena which opened in January of 1938.
Broadmoor, Seattle, Washington Broadmoor is a gated residential community of 85 acres (340,000 m²) and golf course of 115 acres (465,000 m²) in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is bounded on the west by the Washington Park Arboretum, on the south by E.
Broadmouth cat shark The broadmouth catshark, Apristurus macrostomus, is a rare cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, the holotype and only specimen of which was taken from off Zhujiang in the South China Sea at a depth of 913 m. Its length is 38 cm.
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