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Bromelia Bromelia is a genus of tropical American plants characterized by flowers with a deeply cleft calyx, of the family Bromeliaceae, named after the Swedish botanist Olaf Bromelius (died 1705). It includes the following species:
Bromeliaceae Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) is a large family of flowering plants native to the tropical and warm temperate New World. The family includes both epiphytes, such as Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides, and ground plants, such as the Pineapple Ananas comosus.
Bromethalin Bromethalin is a rodenticide which poisons the central nervous system by uncoupling mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, which causes a decrease in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis. Decreased ATP ultimately results in increased intracranial pressure, which damages neuronal axons.
Bromheads Jacket Bromheads Jacket are a three-piece band from Sheffield, England. They have a similar style musically and lyrically to local contemporaries such as Arctic Monkeys and Milburn and once credited their style of lyrics to be influenced by Jon McClure also known as The Reverend from another Sheffield band, Reverend and The Makers.
Bromide (photography) Bromide, in photography, refers to a type of photographic printing paper coated in an emulsion of silver bromide, or a photograph made thereof. Images are imprinted on the bromide paper via the gelatin-silver process.
Brominated vegetable oil Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) is vegetable oil that has had atoms of the element bromine bonded to it. Brominated vegetable oil is used as an emulsifier in citrus-flavored soft drinks such as Mountain Dew and Gatorade and Sun Drop to help natural citrus flavors stay suspended in the drink and to produce a cloudy appearance.
Bromine Bromine (IPA: OR , , meaning "stench (of he-goats)" Gemoll W, Vretska K: Griechisch-Deutsches Schul- und Handwörterbuch ("Greek-German dictionary"), 9th ed., published by öbvhpt, ISBN 3-209-00108-1), is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Br and atomic number 35.
Bromine monochloride Bromine monochloride, also called bromine(I) chloride, bromochloride, and bromine chloride, is an interhalogen inorganic compound with chemical formula BrCl. It is an unstable red-brown gas with boiling point 5°C and melting point -66 °C.
Bromley and Chislehurst (UK Parliament constituency) Bromley and Chislehurst is a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, represented by Bob Neill for the Conservative Party. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Bromley and Chislehurst by-election, 2006 A by-election was held in the UK parliament constituency of Bromley and Chislehurst in London, following the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Eric Forth on 17 May 2006. The writ for the electing of a new member was issued on 6 June for a polling day of 29 June 2006, the same day as the Blaenau Gwent by-elections.
Bromley Common Bromley Common () is the area centered at the road of the same name stretching between Masons Hill at the south end of Bromley and Hastings Road, Locksbottom. The area borders on other suburbs of the London Borough of Bromley such as Petts Wood and Orpington.
Bromley Council election 2002 The Bromley Council election of 2002 took place on 2nd May, coinciding with 174 other council elections across Britain. The election saw the Conservatives make sweeping gains after the council almost went to NOC in 1998.
Bromley Council election 2006 Elections to Bromley Council were held on 4 May, 2006. The whole council was up for election and the council was held by the Conservatives, with their net gains putting them in their best state for over twenty years.
Bromley Cross railway station The Bolton commuter town of Bromley Cross has a railway station served by the Northern Rail 'Ribble Valley' line from Bolton to Blackburn and Clitheroe, just south of the point where the two lines merge into one. The single line continues through Entwistle station and splits again at Darwen.
Bromley Halt railway station Bromley Halt was a small railway stop on the South Staffordshire Line Wombourne Branch. It suffered from very poor patronage and, along with the rest of the line's passenger stations, was closed just seven years after it's introduction by the Great Western Railway in 1925.
Bromley North Line The Bromley North line is a short (less than 2 miles long) branch line in South East London that connects at Grove Park with the main line from Charing Cross to Hastings (Hastings Line) via Tunbridge Wells operated by Southeastern.
Bromley parks and open spaces The London Borough of Bromley in London, England has over one hundred parks and open spaces within its boundaries: some large, like Crystal Palace Park, and some small, such as recreation grounds. Some of the open spaces form part of the South East London Green Chain.
Bromme culture The Bromme culture is a late Upper Paleolithic culture dated to the Allerød Oscillation, ca 9700 BC-9000 BC, a warmer spell between the Elder Dryas and the Younger Dryas, the last cold periods of the late Weichsel Glaciation.
Bromo-DragonFLY Bromo-DragonFLY, also known as ABDF, is a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug somewhat related to the phenethylamine family. Bromo-DragonFLY is considered an extremely potent hallucinogen, only slightly less potent than LSD with a normal dose in the region of 200ÎĽg to 800ÎĽg, and it has an extremely long duration of action.
Bromo-Seltzer Bromo-Seltzer (acetaminophen, sodium bicarbonate, and citric acid), is an antacid used to relieve pain occurring together with heartburn, upset stomach, or acid indigestion. Originally produced by the Emerson Drug Company, Bromo-Seltzer is sold in the United States in the form of effervescent granules which must be mixed with water before ingestion.
Bromobenzene Bromobenzenes are a group of halobenzenes formed in a substitution reaction between bromine and benzene with a hydrogen bromide biproduct. The name strictly refers to monobromobenzene, a benzene with a single bromine; however it can be used to refer to a benzene containing any number of bromine molecules.
Bromocresol green Bromocresol green (3,3',5,5'-tetrabromo-m-cresolsulfonphthalein) is a dye of the triphenylmethane family (triarylmethane dyes), which is used as a pH indicator and as a tracking dye for DNA agarose gel electrophoresis. It can be used in its free acid form (light brown solid), or as a sodium salt (dark green solid).
Bromoderma Bromoderma, also known as bromoderma tuberosum, is a dermatological condition characterized by an eruption of papules and pustules on the skin. It is caused by hypersensitivity to bromides, such as those found in certain drugs.
Bromodomain A bromodomain is a protein domain that recognizes acetylated lysine residues on the N-terminal tails of histones. This recognition is often a prerequisite for protein-histone association and chromatin remodeling.
Bromoil Process The Bromoil Process was an early photographic process that was very popular with the Pictorialists during the first half of the twentieth century. The soft, paint-like qualities of the prints are very typical for this genre, and have recently led to some art photographers using the process again.
Bromothymol blue Bromthymol blue (alt: dibromothymolsulfonephthalein, bromthymol blue, BTB) is a chemical indicator for weak acids and bases. The chemical is also used for observing photosynthetic activities or respiratory indicators (turns yellow as CO2 is added)
Brompheniramine Brompheniramine (also known as Bromfed®, Bromfenex®, and Dimetane®) is an antihistamine drug of the propylamine class. It is commonly available over the counter and is indicated for the treatment of the symptoms of the common cold and allergic rhinitis, such as runny nose, itchy eyes, watery eyes, and sneezing.
Brompton cocktail Brompton cocktail is an elixir made from morphine or heroin, cocaine, highly-pure ethyl alcohol, and sometimes chlorpromazine (Thorazine) given to terminally-ill individuals, especially cancer patients, to relieve pain and promote sociability near death. Typical dosing woud include 10 mg each of the morphine and cocaine elements.
Brompton Regis Brompton Regis is a village and civil parish in the West Somerset district of Somerset, England. It is situated in the Exmoor National Park, close to Wimbleball Lake, and about five miles north-east of Dulverton.
Brompton-on-Swale Brompton-on-Swale is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, three miles east of Richmond. As the name suggests, the River Swale passes nearby, as does the A1(M) motorway.
Brompton, Scarborough Brompton is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England, about 8 miles west of Scarborough itself, close to the North York Moors and on the A170 road. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 516.
Bromsgrove and Redditch (UK Parliament constituency) Bromsgrove and Redditch was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Bromsgrove and Redditch in the West Midlands. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Bromsgrove International School Thailand (BIST) Bromsgrove International School Thailand established in 2002, Bromsgrove International School started as Windsor International School, later partnering with Bromsgrove School UK, located in Worcestershire, a leading independent School.
Bromsgrove railway works Bromsgrove railway works was established in 1841 at Aston Fields, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England as a maintenance facility for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. However, it was one of the first to actually build locomotives rather than simply maintaining those provided by other manufacturers.
Bromsgrove School Bromsgrove School was founded in 1553 and is located in the small Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, UK. First known as a chantry school in the Middle Ages, it was re-established as a Tudor Grammar School between 1548 and 1553.
Bromwell High Bromwell High is an animated series about a British high school in South London. It airs on Teletoon in Canada, Channel 4 in the UK, ABC TV in Australia, and was a co-production between Hat Trick Productions in the UK and Decode Entertainment in Canada.
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" is a song on English rock band Led Zeppelin's third album, Led Zeppelin III, released in 1970. The song is a re-write of an earlier song, "Jennings Farm Blues", an electric instrumental.
Bron-Yr-Aur (song) "Bron-Yr-Aur" is a two-minute acoustic guitar instrumental song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, and is the shortest studio recording by the band. The song was initially written and recorded in 1970 by Jimmy Page during the sessions for the album, Led Zeppelin III, but was eventually released in 1975 on Physical Graffiti.
Bronc riding Bronc riding, either as saddle bronc or bareback bronc is a rodeo sport that involves a rider getting on an untamed horse or bronco, weighing between 800 and 1,500 pounds, which is held in a small pipe enclosure called a bucking chute. The rider tightly grips a handle which is strapped to the horse.
Bronco A bronco, or bronc is a term used in the United States and Canada to refer to an untrained horse. It may refer to a feral horse that has lived in the wild its entire life, but is also used to refer to domestic horses not yet fully trained to saddle, and hence prone to unpredictable behavior, particularly bucking.
Bronco (TV series) Bronco was a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such famous people as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Belle Starr and Cole Younger.
Broncos de Reynosa The Reynosa Broncos (los Broncos de Reynosa) were a Mexican minor league baseball team that played in the Adolfo Lopez Mateos stadium in the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas in the Zona Norte of the Mexican League.fo
Brondesbury railway station Brondesbury is a railway station on the North London Line, on a viaduct crossing Kilburn High Road in the Brondesbury area of Kilburn in north-west London. It opened in 1860 as Edgeware [sic] Road station on the Hampstead Junction Railway and was renamed Brondesbury (Edgware Road) in 1872, Brondesbury in 1873.
Bronfman family The Bronfman family, one of the most influential Jewish families in the world, was made famous by Samuel Bronfman (1891-1971), who made a fortune in the distilled alcoholic beverages business during the 20th century through the family's Seagram Company. The family is of Canadian heritage and most members of the family are Canadian citizens, based primarily in Montreal and New York City.
Bronchoalveolar lavage Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a medical procedure in which a bronchoscope is passed through the mouth or nose into the lungs and fluid is squirted into a small part of the lung and then recollected for examination. BAL is typically performed to diagnose lung disease.
Bronchocela cristatella An agamid lizard found in parts of Malaysia (Pulau Tioman, Johor: Pulau Sibu, Borneo), S Myanmar (= Burma) (Tenasserim), Thailand, W Malaysia, Singapore, India (Nicobar Island), Philippines (Palawan, Calamian Islands, Panay, Luzon) and Indonesia.
Bronchocela jubata Bronchocela jubata, or more commonly known as the Green Crested Lizard, is an agamid lizard found in Indonesia on the islands of Singkep, Java, Bali, Sulawesi, Karakelang, Salibabu; Nias Island, Singkap Island, Borneo (Kalimantan) and the Philippines. Although in the past it was thought the species may be found in India, either on the mainland or in the Nicobars, this is not the case according to herpetologist Indraneil Das.
Bronchoconstriction Bronchoconstriction is the constriction of the airways in the lungs due to the tighting of surrounding smooth muscle, with consequent coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Bronchoconstriction can also be due to an accumulation of thick mucus.
Bronchospasm Bronchospasm is a difficulty in breathing caused by a sudden constriction of the muscles in the walls of the bronchioles. It is caused by the release (degranulation) of substances from mast cells or basophils under the influence of anaphylatoxins.
Bronchotomy Bronchotomy is a medical term used to describe a surgical incision into the throat; now largely superseded by the terms laryngotomy, thyrotomy and tracheotomy, which indicate more accurately the place of incision.
Bronislaw Kaminski Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski (Russian: Бронислав Каминский) (16 June 1899 - 1944) was the commander of the RONA (Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armiya) unit, a Russian armed force that fought against the Soviet forces in alliance with Nazi Germany and was later incorporated into the Waffen SS.
Bronisław Bohatyrewicz Bronisław Bohatyrewicz of Ostoja Coat of Arms (1870-1940) was a Polish military commander and a general of the Polish Army. Murdered during the Katyn massacre, Bohatyrewicz was one of the two Generals whose bodies were identified during the 1943 exhumation.
Bronisław Dutka Bronisław Dutka (born August 15, 1957 in Pisarzowa) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5469 votes in 14 Nowy Sącz district, candidating from Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe list.
Bronisław Geremek Professor Bronisław Geremek (born March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish (son of a rabbi) social historian and politician. He was a member of the totalitarian Polish Communist Party from 1950 until 1968, but later became an advisor to Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa.
Bronisław Malinowski Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, the study of reciprocity, and his detailed contribution to the study of Melanesia.
Bronisław Malinowski (athlete) Bronisław Malinowski (June 4, 1951 – September 27, 1981) was a Polish athlete who is best known for winning a gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase race during the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union. A year later, Malinowski was killed in a car accident at the age of 30.
Bronisław Piłsudski Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski (November 2, 1866 – May 17, 1918), brother of Józef Piłsudski, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who conducted outstanding research on the Ainu ethnic group, which at the time inhabited Sakhalin Island, but now live mostly on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō with only a small minority left on Sakhalin.
Bronko Nagurski Trophy The Bronko Nagurski Trophy has been awarded annually since 1993 to the collegiate American football player adjudged by the membership of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) to be the best defensively in the United States; the award is presented by the Charlotte Touchdown Club and the FWAA. The award is named for Bronko Nagurski, who played football for the University of Minnesota and the Chicago Bears.
Bronner's Christmas Wonderland Bronner's Christmas Wonderland is a retail store in Frankenmuth, Michigan that bills itself as the "World's Largest Christmas Store." Designed with an Alpine architecture and operating year-round, the building covers 7.
Bronson Arroyo Bronson Anthony Arroyo [ah-ROY-yoh] (born February 24, 1977 in Key West, Florida,) is a popular Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and a rock musician. He has previously played for the Boston Red Sox from 2003 to 2005, and the Pittsburgh Pirates between 2000 and 2002.
Bronson Avenue (Ottawa) Bronson Avenue (Ottawa Road #79) is a major north-south arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from downtown at Albert and Sparks Street in the north through Centretown, past the Glebe and Carleton University and turns into the Airport Parkway, which is a major expressway to the Macdonald-Cartier International Airport.
Bronson Canyon Bronson Canyon is a location in Griffith Park, California that has become famous as the setting for an astounding number of movies and TV shows filmed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Its picturesque setting and remote (but easily accessible) location has made it a prime choice for filmmakers who want to place their stories in a "wilderness" setting.
Bronson Harrison Bronson Harrison (born October 10, 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby league player for the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice is at lock though he can also play in the second row and at centre.
Bronson Methodist Hospital Bronson Methodist Hospital, located at 601 John Street in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, is the flagship of the Bronson Healthcare Group, a not-for-profit healthcare system serving all of southwest Michigan and northern Indiana. With 343 licensed beds and all private rooms, Bronson Methodist Hospital provides care in virtually every specialty—cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, emergency medicine, neurology, oncology—with advanced capabilities in critical care as the only Level I Trauma Center in Southwest Michigan; in neurological care as a JCAHO certified Primary Stroke Center; in cardiac care as the region’s only accredited Chest Pain Center; in obstetrics as the leading BirthPlace and only high-risk pregnancy center in southwest Michigan, and in pediatrics as one of only four children's hospitals in the state.
Bronstein class frigate The Bronstein class frigates were United States Navy warships, originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), but were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975 in the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification and their hull designation changed from DE to FF.
Brontë The Brontë sisters—Charlotte (born April 21, 1816), Emily (born July 30, 1818), and Anne (born January 17, 1820), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature.
Brontë Country The Brontë Country is a name given to an area of Pennine hills west of Leeds/Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The name comes from the Brontë sisters, who wrote such literary classics as Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) and Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) while living in the area.
Brontë Parsonage Museum The Brontë Parsonage Museum is maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the famed Brontë sisters — Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë — and is located in Haworth, Yorkshire, an area of England covered in much open, expansive moorland. It is popular with those seeking to find the source of the sisters' inspiration, and is of particular interest as the Brontës spent most of their lives here and wrote their famous novels in these surroundings.
Bronte Creek Bronte Creek is a waterway in the Lake Ontario watershed of Ontario Canada. It runs through Hamilton and Halton Region, with its source in the Niagara Escarpment, passing Bronte Creek Provincial Park, on its way to Lake Ontario at Bronte Harbour in Oakville, where the creek is also known as Twelve Mile Creek.
Bronte International University Bronte International University (formerly known as Trinity College & University) is an unaccredited post-secondary institution formally in South Dakota. It is widely considered to be a diploma mill, a scam operation offering meritless degrees for a fee.
Bronte, New South Wales Bronte is a beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 8km east of the Sydney central business district, in the Waverley Council local government area of the Eastern Suburbs.
Brontoraptor "Brontoraptor" (meaning "thunder thief") is the informal name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Jurassic (Kimmeridgean stage, around 150 million years ago). It was a tetanurid theropod which lived in what is present-day Wyoming.
Brontosaurus Brontosaurus (pronounced ), meaning "thunder lizard" (from the Greek brontē/βροντη meaning 'thunder' and sauros/σαυρος meaning 'lizard'), is a deprecated genus of sauropod dinosaurs. The species Brontosaurus excelsus was named by its discoverer Othniel Charles Marsh, in 1879 and the designation persisted as an official term in the general public's literature until at least 1974, though it was recognized as a species of a previously-named genus, Apatosaurus, in 1903.
Brontotheriidae Brontotheriidae, also called Titanotheriidae, is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Perissodactyla, the order that includes horses, rhinos, and tapirs. Although brontotheres are probably most closely related to horses, superficially they looked rather like rhinoceroses, although they were not true rhinos.
Bronwyn Bishop Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop (born 19 October 1942), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since February 1994, representing the Division of Mackellar, New South Wales. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was a solicitor and company director before entering politics.
Bronwyn Drainie Bronwyn Drainie is a Canadian arts journalist. Currently editor of the Literary Review of Canada, she has also been a columnist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail, and was formerly a host of programming on CBC Radio including the flagship program Sunday Morning.
Bronx Community Board 1 Bronx Community Board 1 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris in the borough of the Bronx. It is delimited by the East River, East 149th Street, and Prospect Avenue on the east, East 161st Street (from Prospect Avenue to Third Avenue), East 159th Street (from Third Avenue to Park Avenue), and East 149th Street (from Park Avenue to the Harlem River) on the north, and the Harlem River and Bronx Kill on the west and south.
Bronx Community Board 10 Bronx Community Board 10 is a local government unit of the New York City borough of the Bronx, encompassing the neighborhoods of City Island, Co-op City, Pelham Bay, Throg's Neck and Westchester Square. It is delimited by the Hutchinson River and Pelham Bay Park to the east, New England Thruway, Hutchinson River Parkway, and Westchester Creek to the west, the Bronx/Westchester County Line to the north and the East River to the south.
Bronx Community Board 12 Bronx Community Board 12 is a local government unit of the New York City borough of the Bronx, encompassing the neighborhoods of Edenwald, Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Woodlawn, Fish Bay, Eastchester, Olinville and Baychester.
Bronx Community Board 2 Bronx Community Board 2 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Hunts Point and Longwood in the borough of the Bronx. It is delimited by the Bronx River on the east, Westchester Avenue, East 167th Street, and East 169th Street on the north, Prospect Avenue and East 149th Street to the west, and the East River on the south.
Bronx Community Board 3 Bronx Community Board 3 is a local government unit in the New York City borough, of the Bronx, encompassing the neighborhoods of Crotona Park East, Claremont, Concourse Village, Melrose, and Morrisania. It is delimited by the Sheridan Expressway to the east, the Cross Bronx Expressway and Crotona Park North to the north, Park Avenue and Webster Avenue to the west, and East 159th Street and East 161st Street to the south.
Bronx Community Board 4 Bronx Community Board 4 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Highbridge and Concourse. It is delimited by Webster Avenue and Park Avenue to the east, Washington Bridge and the Cross Bronx Expressway to the north, the Harlem River to the west, and East 149th Street to the south.
Bronx Community Board 5 Bronx Community Board 5 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Fordham, Morris Heights, Mount Hope, and University Heights. It is delimited by Webster Avenue to the east, Hall of Fame Terrace, West 183rd Street, and Fordham Road to the north, the Harlem River to the west, and Washington Bridge and the Cross Bronx Expressway to the south.
Bronx Community Board 6 Bronx Community Board 6 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Bathgate, Belmont, East Tremont, and West Farms. It is delimited by Bronx Park to the east and north, Webster Avenue to the west, and Crotona Park North and the Cross Bronx Expressway to the south.
Bronx Community Board 7 Bronx Community Board 7 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge Heights, and University Heights. It is delimited by the New York-New Haven Railroad, Webster Avenue, East Fordham Road, Jerome Avenue, and West 183rd Street to the east, Jerome Avenue, West Gun Hill Road, Goulden Avenue, Kingsbridge Road, West 225th Street, and the Harlem River to the west, West Gun Hill Road, Jerome Avenue, Bainbridge Avenue, and East 211th Street to the north and Hall of Fame Terrace to the south.
Bronx Community Board 8 Bronx Community Board 8 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights, Marble Hill, and Riverdale. It is delimited by Goulden Avenue to the east, the Hudson River to the west, the Bronx/Westchester County Line, Broadway, and Van Cortlandt Park South to the north and the Harlem River, West 225th Street, and West Kingsbridge Road to the south.
Bronx Community Board 9 Bronx Community Board 9 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Castle Hill, Parkchester, Soundview, and Union Park. It is delimited by Westchester Creek to the east, the Sheridan Expressway to the west, the Cross Bronx Expressway and East Tremont Avenue to the north and the Bronx River and the East River to the south.
Bronx High School of Science The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, or just Science, is a specialized New York City public high school located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, with no tuition charges and admission by exam. Since its founding in 1938 with a traditional focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science has developed a worldwide reputation as one of the best high schools in the United States, public or private.
Bronx Park East (IRT White Plains Road Line) Bronx Park East is a station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located in the Bronx on White Plains Road at Bronx Park East, it is served by the train (all times), and by the train (rush hours in the peak direction).
Bronx Preparatory Charter School Bronx Preparatory Charter School is a public school in the South Bronx consisting of a middle school and high school. Currently comprised of students in grades 5-12, in the 2006-2007 school year Bronx Prep will graduate its first class of seniors in 2007.
Bronx River Parkway The Bronx River Parkway is a state highway in New York named for the nearby Bronx River, which it parallels. Construction began in Westchester County in 1907, making it the earliest limited-access automobile highway to start construction.
Bronz Bronz were the first band to be launched on the US market by the UK-based Bronze Records. The band came from Bath, England, and consisted of ex-Nightwing vocalist Max Bacon, keyboards boris Gotstone and guitar Shaun Kirkpatrick, bass player Paul Webb and drummer Carl Matthews.
Bronze Age The Bronze Age was a period in the civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use) consisted of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those metals in order to cast bronze. The Bronze Age forms part of the three-age system for prehistoric societies.
Bronze Age collapse The Bronze Age collapse is the name of the period of history of the Ancient Middle East extending between the collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and Syria and the Egyptian Empire in Syria and Palestine between 1206 and 1150 BC, down to the rise of settled Aramaean kingdoms of the mid 10th century BC, and the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. In the first phase of this period, almost every city between Troy and Gaza was destroyed, and often left unoccupied thereafter (eg Troy, Hattusas, Mycenae, Ugarit etc).
Bronze Age Europe The Bronze Age in Europe succeeds the Neolithic in the late 3rd millennium BC (late Beaker culture), and spans the entire 2nd millennium BC (Unetice culture, Urnfield culture, Tumulus culture, Terramare culture, Lusatian culture) in Northern Europe lasting until ca. 600 BC.
Bronze Age of Comic Books The Bronze Age of Comic Books is an informal name for a period in the history of mainstream American comic books usually said to run from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. It followed the Silver Age of Comic Books.
Bronze birch borer The bronze birch borer Agrilus anxius is a wood-boring Buprestid beetle native to North America, more numerous in warmer parts of the continent and rare in the north. It is a serious pest on birch trees (Betula), frequently killing them.
Bronze Bauhinia Star The Bronze Bauhinia Star (, BBS) is the highest rank in Order of the Bauhinia Star in Hong Kong. It is awarded to persons who have given outstanding service over a long period of time, but in a more limited field or way than that required for the Silver Bauhinia Star.
Bronze Boot The Bronze Boot is awarded to each season's winner of the College football game between the Colorado State University and the University of Wyoming. The annual Wyoming-Colorado State football game has evolved into one of the most bitterly contested rivalries in college football.
Bronze corydoras The bronze corydoras (Corydoras aeneus), bronze catfish, lightspot corydoras or wavy catfish is a tropical freshwater fish in the "armored catfish" (Callichthyidae) family. It was first discovered in clear streams in Trinidad, but mostly originates in the tributaries of the Amazon River in RĂ­o de la Plata, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catharina.

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