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Bryan Wagner Bryan James Wagner (born 1943) is a New Orleans insurance agent who was the first Republican since Reconstruction to be elected to the city council of the Crescent City. He was elected in 1980 to fill a vacancy of an unexpired term in District A.
Bryan Ward-Perkins Bryan Ward-Perkins is an archaeologist and historian of the later Roman Empire and early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the transitional period between those two eras, an historical sub-field also known as Late Antiquity. His published work has focused primarily on the urban and economic history of the Mediterranean and western Europe during Late Antiquity.
Bryan Young (filmmaker) Bryan Young began working in the film industry in 1999, assitant directing and working as a crew member on various independent films and corporate video projects. He gained a small measure of local fame in Utah, being the first person to get in line for Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.
Bryan Young (Kentucky politician) Bryan Rust Young (born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, January 14, 1800; died in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, May 14, 1882) was a United States Representative from Kentucky, representing that state's 5th Congressional District for one term in the Twenty-ninth United States Congress, from 1845 to 1847. Young later served several terms in the Kentucky State House of Representatives between 1858 and 1864.
Bryan-Chamorro Treaty The Bryan-Chamorro Treaty was signed on August 5, 1914 and ratified in 1916 during the United States occupation of Nicaragua. From 1912 to 1925, the United States controlled Nicaraguan affairs through puppet conservative party presidents Adolfo Diaz, Emiliano Chamorro, and Diego Manuel Chamorro.
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" is a 1919 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It chronicles William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign as seen through the eyes of an idealistic sixteen-year-old.
Bryanston Pictures Bryanston Pictures was an independent motion picture production company in the 1970s. Among the titles they produced were The Devil's Rain, starring William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino and Eddie Albert.
Bryanston, Gauteng Bryanston is an upper class residential suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was in established 1969 as a suburb of Sandton, but after municpal boundaries were revised following the end of Apartheid, it was merged with Johannesburg to form part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
Bryanston, Ontario Bryanston is a hamlet in Middlesex Centre, Ontario, Canada, located at the intersection of Highbury Avenue (Middlesex County Road 23) and 12 Mile Road. It is located approximately ten kilometres north of London.
Bryant and Stratton Bryant and Stratton is a private college with branches in New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. Founded in 1854, the college offers two-year programs at all campuses and four-year programs at select campuses.
Bryant H. McGill Bryant Harrison McGill was born in (Mobile, Alabama on November 7, 1969) writing poetry from an early age, he had the opportunity to study briefly under Michael Newman, a self-described poetic protégé and friend of W.H.
Bryant Haliday Bryant Haliday (April 7, 1928 – July 28, 1996) was an American actor, as well as producer, of film and stage who was instrumental in providing a showcase for international film titles in the United States by co-founding Janus Films. Halliday also purchased the historic Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and transformed it into the American version of England's 'Old Vic', producing, and acting in many of the productions there.
Bryant Reeves Bryant Reeves (born June 8, 1973 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an American former professional basketball player for the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies. He was nicknamed Big Country for his size and the fact that he grew up in the very small Oklahoma town of Gans.
Bryant's Minstrels Bryant's Minstrels was a blackface minstrel troupe that performed in the mid-19th century, primarily in New York City. The troupe was led by the O'Neill brothers, who had performed for a time with different troupes.
Bryce (software) Bryce is a texture-based rendering and ray tracing program ideal for creating 3D landscapes, space scenes, buildings and other objects. The name is taken from Bryce Canyon - a rugged region with many of the same landscapes that were first simulated with the software.
Bryce Canyon Natural History Association Bryce Canyon Natural History Association (BCNHA) is a non-profit organization created to aid the interpretive, educational and scientific activities of the National Park Service, at Bryce Canyon National Park and the USDA Forest Service on the Dixie National Forest. A portion of the profits from all bookstore sales are donated to these public land units.
Bryce Courtenay Bryce Courtenay (born 14 August, 1933) is an Australian novelist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He spent most of his early years in a small village in the Lebombo Mountains in South Africa's Limpopo province.
Bryce DeWitt Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8,1923—September 23, 2004) was a theoretical physicist best known for formulating canonical quantum gravity, one of the first approaches to quantizing general relativity; for formulating the Wheeler-deWitt equation for the wavefunction of the universe with John Archibald Wheeler; and for advancing the formulation of the Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.
Bryce Drew Bryce Homer Drew (born September 21, 1974 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is the associate coach, and former member, of the Valparaiso University Crusader men's basketball team. His father, Homer Drew, currently serves as the head coach of the men's basketball team, and his brother Scott Drew is the head coach of Baylor University's men's basketball team after having served 9 years as assistant coach at Valparaiso and one year as head coach.
Bryce Hallett Bryce Hallett (born in 1976) is a Canadian independent animator living and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A graduate of Sheridan College's classical animation program and Canadore College's graphic communications program, Bryce has been creating numerous cartoons and animations since 1999 working under his business "Frog Feet Productions".
Bryce Harland William (Bryce) Harland QSO, (1931-2006), distinguished New Zealand diplomat and academic, who served as New Zealand's first Ambassador to China, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, and High Commissioner to London.
Bryce Harrington Bryce Harrington is a computer programmer currently employed at Open Source Development Labs, where he works on automated testing of the Linux kernel, NFS, and Cairo. At OSDL he also develops the Crucible test harness.
Bryce Lampman Bryce Lampman (born August 31, 1982) in Rochester, Minnesota is an American ice hockey player who currently plays for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Lampman was drafted 113th overall by the Rangers in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.
Bryce Paup Bryce Eric Paup (born February 29, 1968 in Jefferson, Iowa) is a former American Football defensive end/linebacker who played for the Green Bay Packers (1990-1994), Buffalo Bills (1995-1997), Jacksonville Jaguars (1998-1999), Minnesota Vikings 2000 and 2002. Paup was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press in 1995.
Bryce Soderberg Bryce Dane Soderberg (born April 10, 1980 in Victoria, British Columbia) is the bassist for Los Angeles rock band Lifehouse. Soderberg is also the bassist/vocalist for independent LA band Tomorrow And Everyday After,( on hiatus) and a former member of the band AM Radio
Bryce State Mental Hospital Bryce State Mental Hospital opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, and is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility. The hospital currently houses 464 beds for acute care, treatment and rehabilitation of full-time (committed) patients.
Bryceomys Bryceomys is an extinct mammal that lived during the late Cretaceous period (between 100 and 65 million years ago) and thus shared the world with dinosaurs. It was a member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata.
Bryco Arms/Jennings Firearms/Jimenez Arms Bryco Arms was a firearm manufacturing company based at various times in Carson City, Nevada, Irvine, California, and Costa Mesa, California. The company's most famous product was the Bryco Arms Model 38 semi-automatic pistol, available in both 32 ACP and 380 ACP calibers (also known as the P-38).
Bryennios manuscript Bryennios manuscript, also known as Codex Hierosolymitanus, is an early Christian Bible manuscript, discovered in 1873. It includes a list of the 27 canonical book New Testament, in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew, similar to Epiphanius' canon.
Bryges Bryges or Brigi was said by Herodotus to be the name by which the Phrygians were known before they crossed the Hellespont into Anatolia, possibly associated with the collapse of the late Bronze Age. The Brigi were supposed to have inhabited Macedonia, and may have originally been a Thracianised tribe of Illyrians, similar to their Macedonian neighbours.
Bryggen Bryggen (Norwegian, "The Wharf"), also known as Tyskebryggen ("the German Wharf") is a series of Hanseatic commercial buildings lining the eastern side of the fjord coming into Bergen, Norway. Bryggen is on the UNESCO list for World Cultural Heritage sites.
Bryggen inscriptions The Bryggen inscriptions are a find of some 670 runic inscriptions on wood (mostly pine) and bone found from 1955 and forth at Bryggen (and its surroundings) in Bergen, Norway. It has been called the most important runic find in the twentieth century.
Bryggenet Bryggenet is a community network in the Islands Brygge quarter of Copenhagen, Denmark. Bryggenet serves an area of about 4000 residences with fast Internet access, cable TV and radio, and telephone services at cost prices.
Brygos Painter The name Brygos appears on several vases and cups of the late 6th century BCE and early 5th century BCE. It is not known whether the signature refers to the potter or painter or indeed whether the two roles were separate, by convention they are referred to as two distinct individuals.
Brychon Brychon (Ancient Greek Βρύχων 'the roaring one'; Modern Greek Βρύχωνας, Vrichona) is or was the name of two different small rivers in Greece. One of them flows from from Mount Pelion in Magnesia, Thessaly into the Pagasetic Gulf.
BrykerWoods Bryker Woods is an older Austin, Texas central city neighborhood developed in the 1930's. It is predominantly a mix of young and old families and zoned as a single family neighborhood composed of mostly small homes in good condition most of which are over 50 years old.
Brymon European Airways Brymon European Airways was an airline formed in November 1992 by the merger of Birmingham European Airways and Brymon Airways. The latter were the original operators of the Dash 7 aircraft in the UK and conducted the trials of the type at the embryonic London City Airport.
Brympton d'Evercy Brympton d'Evercy is a manor house near Yeovil in the county of Somerset, England. It has been described as the most beautiful house in England, in a country of beautiful country houses; whatever the truth of that statement, in 1927 the British magazine Country Life published a set of three articles on the house, in which Christopher Hussey, near the start of his 50-year career as a notable architectural authority and documentor of British country houses, described Brympton d'Evercy as "The most incomparable house in Britain, the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so exquisitely English country life qualities".
Bryn Bryn is a small settlement, in the Wigan Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester, in the historic county of Lancashire. It is often considered to be part of the larger town of Ashton-in-Makerfield though it is totally separate and forms a separate local council ward.
Bryn Athyn (SEPTA station) Bryn Athyn is an abandoned train station located on Fetters Mill Road in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, not far from the Pennypack Creek. The station, built in 1902, was a stop on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line.
Bryn Athyn Cathedral Bryn Athyn Cathedral is the episcopal seat of The General Church of the New Jerusalem, more commonly known as "The New Church." It is also the site of the General Church affiliated Academy of the New Church, which publishes Swedenborgian literature, and is the parent organization of a high school, a four-year college (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church), a divinity school, and the Emanuel Swedenborg Library.
Bryn Celli Ddu Bryn Celli Ddu is a prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey located near the town of Menai Bridge. Its name is difficult to translate directly but means either 'the mound in the dark grove' or possibly 'the mound in the grove of the deity'.
Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel The Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel is a building of the Bryn Mawr Historic District in far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois. Located on North Kenmore Avenue, it is across the road from the Belle Shore Apartment Hotel.
Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College (pronounced ) is a women's liberal-arts college located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, ten miles northwest of Philadelphia. Bryn Mawr is located on the Pennsylvania Main Line and is connected to downtown Philadelphia by the SEPTA R5 commuter rail system.
Bryn Mawr School The Bryn Mawr School (BMS) is an independent, nonsectarian, college-preparatory school for girls from preschool through grade twelve. Founded in 1885, BMS is located in the Roland Park community of Baltimore, Maryland.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Bryn Mawr is a census-designated place on the border of Montgomery County and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, along Lancaster Avenue (US-30), and the home of Bryn Mawr College. Parts of Bryn Mawr are governed by the townships of Lower Merion, Radnor, and Haverford.
Bryn McAuley Bryn McAuley is a voice actress whose roles have included Caillou on Caillou, Sam on Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, Harriet on Franklin and Oyster on Toad Patrol, she also starred in ForBetter or For Worse. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Bryn Terfel The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel, CBE (; born November 9, 1965) is one of the best-known contemporary opera and concert singers. The bass-baritone is much admired for both the quality of his singing as his charismatic stage presence.
Brynamman Brynamman (also spelt Brynaman) is a village sitting on the south facing side of the Black Mountain, part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The village is split in two into Upper Brynamman and Lower Brynamman by the river Amman which also acts as the boundary between the counties of Carmarthen and Neath Port Talbot (the old county of Glamorganshire).
Brynithel RFC Brynithel RFC is a rugby union club representing the village of Brynithel, South Wales, playing in the Asda Division 3 East league. The club was formed on 1st Dec 1974 after a meeting at the Mount Pleasant Inn, Brynithel after a meeting of local men who were at the time playing for teams from the Mount Pleasant Inn and T9 face at Six Bells colliery.
Brynjólfur Sveinsson [Brynjólfur Sveinsson]Brynjólfur Sveinsson (1605–1675) served as the Lutheran Bishop of the village Skálholt in the south of Iceland. His main influence has been on modern knowledge of Old Norse literature.
Brynmawr Brynmawr (sometimes hyphenated to Bryn-mawr in Welsh — meaning "big hill") is a market town in south Wales. The town, nestled at the head of the South Wales Valleys, grew during the arrival of the mining and iron industries in the early 1800s .
Brynmawr Experiment Brynmawr, in South Wales suffered greatly from the 1920s through the Great Depression and World War II, when much of its traditional heavy industry disappeared. The distress began in 1921 with the closure of several collieries in the area.
Brynn Thayer Brynn Laurel Thayer (born October 4, 1949 in North, Dallas, Texas) is an American actress who has had numerous roles in numerous television series, most notably in Matlock portraying Matlock's daughter, Leanne MacIntyre. She is the daughter of William Paul Thayer, a Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve, and Margery Schwartz Thayer.
Bryon Russell Bryon Demetrise Russell (sometimes incorrectly called "Byron Russell"; born December 31, 1970 in San Bernardino, California), is a basketball player in the NBA for the Seattle Supersonics. In the 2004 NBA season, B-RU$$ (as he is known to friends) played for the Denver Nuggets; before that he played for the Los Angeles Lakers, the Washington Wizards and the Utah Jazz, with whom he played for nine seasons after being taken in the second round by the Jazz in the 1993 NBA Draft from Long Beach State.
Bryony Bryony or briony is the common name for species in the genus Bryonia of perennial, tendril-climbing, dioecious herbs with palmately lobed leaves and flowers in axillary clusters. The fruit is a smooth, globular berry.
Bryophyllum Bryophyllum (from the Greek bryo/bryein = sprout, phyllon = leaf) is a genus of plants belonging to the family Crassulaceae. There are about twenty to thirty species in the genus, native originally of South Africa, Madagascar and Asia, although now probably established in many parts of the warm world, either cultivated or as a garden escapee; it is also common in parts of Australia.
Bryophyte The bryophytes are those embryophyte plants ('land plants') that are non-vascular: they have tissues and enclosed reproductive systems, but they lack vascular tissue that circulates liquids. They neither flower nor produce seeds, reproducing via spores.
Bryostatin Bryostatins are a group of macrocyclic lactones first discovered in the late 1960s in a species of bryozoan, Bugula neritina. Believed to be produced by symbiont bacteria to protect the bryozoan larva from predation, they have cytotoxic properties and are under investigation as anti-cancer agents.
Bryson Graham Bryson Graham is a drummer who once played for the band Girl. He appears on Live At The Exposition Hall, Osaka, Japan and there are reports that he played at least part of the drumming on Wasted Youth, though Pete Barnacle is in that album's band photo.
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (ISBN 0-7679-1043-5) is a book by Bill Bryson, first released 1984, that catalogs some of the English language's most commonly misused words and phrases in order to demonstrate correct usage.
Brython Brython and Brythonic are terms which refer to indigenous, pre-Roman, Celtic speaking inhabitants of most of the island of Great Britain, and their cultures and languages, the Brythonic languages. These ethnic groups are also referred to as the British tribes, the ancient Britons, ethnic Britons, or simply Britons.
Bryton Bryton Eric McClure (credited simply as Bryton) (born August 17, 1986 in Lakewood, California) is an American actor and singer. From 1990-1997 he appeared as Richie Crawford on the sitcom Family Matters and also appeared on the Young and the Restless.
Brzava The Brzava (Serbian: Brzava or Брзава, Romanian: Bârzava) is a river in Romania and Serbia. The Brzava is 166 km long, has a drainage area of 1,190 km² (part of the Black Sea drainage basin) and flows into the Tamiš river.
BrzĂłza KrĂłlewska BrzĂłza KrĂłlewska (literally "Royal Birch"') is a village in the southeastern part of Poland (Podkarpacie Voivodship, during the period 1975-1998 - Rzeszowskie voivodship), 9 kilometers west to LeĹĽajsk. Its population is over 3,000.
Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship (Polish: województwo brzesko-kujawskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795. Part of Kuyavia region and the Greater Poland province.
Brześć Litewski Voivodeship Brześć Litewski Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Brzesko-Litewskie , Lithuanian: Lietuvos Brastos vaivadija, Belarusian: Берасьцейскае ваяводзтва) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 15th century till the partitions of Poland in 1795.
Brzesko County Brzesko County (Polish powiat brzeski ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Brzeziński Brzeziński is a Polish surname derived from the root word "brzoza" ("brzez-" in some compound words), meaning "birch". The adjective suffix "ski" means "being like" or "belonging to", so Brzeziński refers to a person from one of the localities named for a concentration of birch trees, such as Brzezina, (a small village in Western Pomerania).
BrzozĂłw Commune BrzozĂłw is a town in southeastern Poland founded in 1359, 30 miles south of the city of RzeszĂłw. BrzozĂłw took on the name of an earlier, adjacent settlement of the 14th century, which gradually over time came to be known as Stara WieĹ› (Old Village).
BrzozĂłw County BrzozĂłw County (Polish powiat brzozowski ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Subcarpathian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
BR standard class 3 tank The British Railways Standard Class 3 2-6-2T was a class of steam locomotive. It was essentially a new engine, based on LMS practice, and having a boiler approximating in size to a GWR "NÂş2" boiler, design work being done at ex-GWR works at Swindon.
BR standard class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell 70013 Oliver Cromwell is a British Railways standard class 7 (also known as Britannia class) preserved steam locomotive. She was one of the last steam locomotives in operation on British Railways (BR) in 1968.
BRA Transportes AĂ©reos BRA Transportes AĂ©reos (Brasil Rodo AĂ©reo) is a Brazilian low fare domestic airline based in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil owned by Folegatti Group (Humberto and Walter). BRA is the third largest airline in Brazil with 4.
BRAC (NGO) BRAC (), Building Resources Across Communities (formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), is one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations based in Bangladesh. {{PBS: Rx for Survival Established by Fazle Hasan Abed] in 1972, BRAC today is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh, over 65,000 villages and has 4.
BRAMS BRAMS - Self-propelled Anti-aircraft System is a highly automated anti-aircraft system designated for destroying low flying targets using its twin barrel 30 mm gun with high rate of fire and 4 Self-guided Anti-aircraft Missiles.
BRB Internacional BRB Internacional is a Spanish animation studio which is best known for producing 1980s cartoon hits such as Around the World with Willy Fog, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and The World of David the Gnome.
BRCA2 BRCA2 is a human gene that is involved in the repair of chromosomal damage and belongs to a class of genes known as tumor suppressor genes. Tumor suppressor genes regulate the cycle of cell division by keeping cells from growing and dividing too rapidly or in an uncontrolled way.
BRD BRD is an unofficial abbreviation for Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the German name of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was used as the derogatory name for the "class enemy" by the German Democratic Republic since 1968.
BRD - Groupe Société Générale BRD - Groupe Société Générale is a Romanian bank owned by the French Société Générale financial group. It was rebranded after the SG bought Banca Română pentru Dezvoltare (Romanian Development Bank) from the Romanian State in 1999.
BRD Trilogy The BRD Trilogy consists of three films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Veronika Voss (1982), and Lola (1981). The films are connected in a thematic rather than in a narrative sense.
BRDC International Trophy The International Trophy is a prize awarded annually by the British Racing Drivers' Club to the winner of a motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit, England. For many years it formed the premier non-championship Formula One event in Britain, alongside the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch.
BRDM-1 The BRDM-1 (Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dozornaya Mashina, Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, literally "Combat Reconnaissance/Patrol Vehicle" †) was an armored scout car used by Russia and the former Soviet Union. The BRDM (also known as the BTR-40P) first appeared in 1959, and was in production until 1966.
BRDM-2 The BRDM-2 (Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dozornaya Mashina, Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, literally "Combat Reconnaissance/Patrol Vehicle" †) is an armoured scout car used by Russia and the former Soviet Union. This vehicle, like many other Soviet designs, has been exported extensively and is in use in at least 45 countries.
BRender BRender (abbreviation of Blazing Renderer) is a development toolkit and a real-time 3D graphics engine for computer games, simulators and graphic tools. It was developed and licenced by now defunct Argonaut Software.
BRIT School The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology is an independent, state funded arts and technology school located in The Crescent, Selhurst, London Borough of Croydon. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious stage schools in Europe.
BRIXMIS The British Commanders'-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany (BRIXMIS) was set up on 16 September 1946 under the Robertson-Malinin Agreement between the chiefs of staff of the British and Soviet forces in occupied Germany.
BRL-CAD BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry (CSG) solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) system. It includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for graphics rendering and geometric analysis, computer network distributed framebuffer support, image-processing and signal-processing tools.
BRLESC The BRLESC I (Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer) was a first-generation electronic computer built by the United States Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground with assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NBS), and was designed to take over the computational workload of EDVAC and ORDVAC, which themselves were successors of ENIAC. It began operation in 1962.
BRMC (album) BRMC is the self-titled debut album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, released on Virgin Records on April 3, 2001. This first release made an immediate impact through music world, turning them into a part of the 'garage revolution' that The Strokes spawned in the early 2000's.
BROACH warhead The BROACH warhead is an advanced multi-stage warhead developed by Team BROACH; BAE Systems Land Systems Munitions & Ordnance, Thales Missile Electronics and QinetiQ. BROACH stands for Bomb Royal Ordnance Augmented CHarge.
BROG BROG is the acronym for the (We)blog Research on Genre project based in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. The BROG project is an informal research collaboration dedicated to the conduct of empirical, social science research on weblogs.
BRST algorithm Boender-Rinnooy-Stougie-Timmer algorithm (BRST) is an optimization algorithm suitable for finding global optimum of black box functions. In their paper Boender et al }} describe their method as a stochastic method involving a combination of sampling, clustering and local search, terminating with a range of confidence intervals on the value of the global minimum.
BRST Quantization In theoretical physics, BRST Quantization is a relatively rigorous mathematical approach to quantizing a field theory with a gauge symmetry. Quantization rules in earlier QFT frameworks resembled "prescriptions" or "heuristics" more than proofs, especially in non-abelian QFT, where the use of "ghost" fields with superficially bizarre properties is almost unavoidable for technical reasons related to renormalization and anomaly cancellation.
Bs 7988 BS 7988 is a standard originally published by the British Standards Institute (BSI) in 2002. It is a code of practice for the use of information technology (IT) in the delivery of assessments, and gives guidance and good practice in using computers to deliver assessments.
BS 1088 In materials, the BS 1088 specification is a marine plywood specification that applies to plywood produced with untreated tropical hardwood veneers that have a set level of resistance to fungal attack. The plies are bonded with WBP glue.
BS 1363 British Standard BS 1363 specifies the type of domestic AC power plugs and sockets most commonly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and many former British colonies. In these countries, the system is colloquially also known as the 13 amp plug/socket.
BS 2000 BS 2000 is the name of a musical side project of Beastie Boys Adam "Adrock" Horovitz and Amery "AWOL" Smith also with tracks featuring Janay North. In 1997, BS 2000 released their vinyl-only self-titled debut.
BS 5930 BS 5930:1999, "the code of practice for site investigations", is a UK code of practice published in October 1999 by the British Standards Institute. It supersedes BS 5930:1981 which itself supersedes CP2001: 1957 "Site investigations".
BS 7671 BS 7671 is a publication from the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) in agreement with the BSI British Standards Institute (UK). The BSI publish numerous titles concerning acceptable standards of design/safety/quality etc.

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