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Buzz cut A buzz cut (sometimes known as a wiffle or crew cut) is the American name for a type of haircut named after the sound of the electric razor which is used to shear the hair very closely to the scalp. In the United Kingdom, the haircut is referred to as a skinhead (although the skinhead hairstyle was originally called a skiffle).
Buzz Calkins Bradley "Buzz" Calkins (born May 2, 1971 in Denver, Colorado) is a former Indy Racing League driver. He won the series' inaugural race, the Indy 200 at the Walt Disney World Speedway, in 1996 and was that year's league co-champion with Scott Sharp.
Buzz Capra Lee William "Buzz" Capra (born October 1, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1971 to 1977 for the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves. His best season was 1974, when he was 16-8 with a league-leading 2.
Buzz droid In the fictional Star Wars universe, a Buzz droid is a sinister weapon that was unleashed by the CIS on Republic craft in the later stages of The Clone Wars. Launched from missiles, the Buzz Droids are initially gold spheres.
Buzz Hargrove Basil "Buzz" Eldon Hargrove (born March 8, 1944, Bath, New Brunswick, Canada) is the current National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union. He succeeded Bob White as president of the CAW in 1992.
Buzz Lightyear Buzz Lightyear is a fictional character appearing in the CGI animated films Toy Story and its sequels Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, as well as the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command movie and TV Show. His catchphrase, which he shouts repeatedly, is "To Infinity...
Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters is a popular attraction based on the Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2 at Walt Disney Parks around the world. Although each ride may have a different name (as seen on the infobox to the right), all share the same plot and major characters.
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins is a 2000 Disney animated direct-to-video film that acts as a sort of pilot episode to the television series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. It is a spin off and a prequal to Toy Story and Toy Story 2.
Buzz Out Loud Buzz Out Loud is a daily podcast about tech related subjects, produced by CNET. Affectionately abbreviated "BOL" by fans, and known by their tagline as "CNET's podcast of indeterminate length" (or "CNET.
Buzz pollination Sonication or buzz pollination is a technique used by some bees to release pollen which is more or less firmly held by the anthers, which makes pollination more efficient. The anther of buzz pollinated species of plants is typically tubular, with only an opening at one end, and the pollen is inside - smooth-grained and firmly attached.
Buzzacott Buzzacott is a mid-sized London based Accountancy firm. Buzzacott Lillywhite began trading in the City of London in 1919, by the late 1960’s the firm was working for a number of religious and charitable clients.
Buzzards Bay (Massachusetts) Buzzards Bay is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the state of Massachusetts. It is approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) long by 12 kilometers (8 miles) wide and is a popular destination for fishing, boating, and tourism.
BuzzBox The BuzzBox is a machine that recharges mobile devices such as phones, iPods and PDAs in public spaces. An innovation of location-based advertising and mobile technology, the BuzzBox offers a unique service to mobile users in the UK.
Buzzer beater In basketball, a buzzer beater is a shot taken just before the game clock of a period expires, when the buzzer sounds and the backboard lights up. The term is normally reserved for baskets that win or tie the game at the last moment.
Buzzie Bavasi Emil Joseph "Buzzie" Bavasi [pronounced buh-VAY-zee] (born December 12 1914 in New York City) is a former executive in Major League Baseball who played a major role in the operation of three franchises. He also was a key figure in the integration of minor league baseball.
Buzzkill Buzzkill was a hidden camera reality show created in 1995 for the MTV network. The show derived its name from the slang term "Buzzkill", meaning a sudden undesired event that causes one's "high" or "buzz" to become of a lesser experience or depleted.
Buzzword A buzzword (also known as a fashion word or vogue word) is an idiom, often a neologism, commonly used in managerial, technical, administrative, and sometimes political environments. Though apparently ubiquitous in these environments, the words often have unclear meanings.
Buzzy Feiten Buzzy Feiten grew up in Centerport, New York and graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, in 1966. Buzzy played guitar with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the end of the 1960s, and with many other bands since.
Buzzy Wilkinson Richard Warren "Buzzy" Wilkinson, whose grandmother nicknamed him after a comic-strip characterPLAYER OF THE DECADE: VIRGINIA; BUZZY WILKINSON, 6-3, G, 1954-55.(SPECIAL SECTION), The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC), 20-FEB-03 is an American former basketball player who was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 3rd round (30th overall) of the 1955 NBA Draft but never joined the team electing to stay in Charlottesville to attend law school.
BU Tonight BU Tonight is a late-night talk show that airs on butv10, Boston University's student-run television network. It is currently hosted by Christian Lynch, who succeeded Rob O'Reilly after the pilot season, and first aired on the network on February 22, 2006.
BU-LAD BU-LAD, also known as 6-butyl-6-nor-lysergic acid diethylamide, is an analogue of LSD first made by Alexander Shulgin and reported in the book TIHKAL. BU-LAD is a hallucinogenic drug similar to LSD, but is significantly less potent than LSD with a dose of 500 micrograms producing only mild effects.
BUBL The BUBL Information Service is an Internet link collection for the library and higher education communities, run by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde. Its name was originally short for 'Bulletin Board for Libraries'.
BUL M-5 The BUL M-5 is a M1911 clone pistol made by Israeli firearms manufacturer BUL Transmark. M-5s are made in "carry" models for personal defence and "competition" models for sporting use (particularly IPSC competitions).
BUMPH In UK aviation, BUMPH is a mnemonic for the pre-landing checks carried out by pilots of light aircraft when approaching an airport with intention to land. In aviation practice elsewhere, the GUMPS check is more commonly used.
BUN-to-creatinine ratio In medicine, the BUN-to-creatinine ratio, also BUN-creatinine ratio and BUN/creatinine ratio, is a ratio of two laboratory test values, the blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine. It is used in the United States; elsewhere (Canada, Europe) urea is used instead of BUN, so it is the urea-to-creatinine ratio, also urea-creatinine ratio and urea/creatinine ratio.
BUNCH The group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s became known as the BUNCH: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the marketshare of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together.
BUPERS BUPERS is an acronym for the United States Navy's Bureau of Naval Personnel. Similar to the mission of Human Resources in a corporation, the BUPERS organization serves to provide administrative leadership, policy planning, and general oversight of the Command.
BURS BURS (bottom-up rewrite system) theory tackles the problem of taking a complex expression tree or intermediate language term and finding a good translation to machine code for a particular architecture. Implementations of BURS often employ dynamic programming to solve this problem.
BURST BURST (Bristol University Radio Station) is a student-run radio station, based in the University of Bristol, and a member of the Student Radio Association. It is broadcast online from the university's student union building, and occasionally via FM with a Restricted Service Licence.
BVN BVN-TV or short BVN (het Beste van Vlaanderen en Nederland; the best of the Netherlands and Flanders - also called: het Beeld van Vlaanderen en Nederland; The image of the Netherlands and Flanders) is a public television channel for Dutch and Flemish viewers all over the world. It is a cooperation between the Dutch and Flemish public television networks this means the channel only broadcasts in Dutch.
BVN-TV BVN-TV, often abbreviated to BVN (Het Beste van Vlaanderen en Nederland; meaning the Best from the Netherlands and Flanders - sometimes also called: het Beeld van Vlaanderen en Nederland; meaning Image of the Netherlands and Flanders) is a public television channel for Dutch and Flemish viewers all over the world. The channel broadcasts only in Dutch, sourcing its programmes from various Dutch and Belgian broadcasting associations.
Bwana club Bwana club is a collective of artists, philosophers, dj's, and designers who work in different ways to produce critical culture conscious of the colonialistic structures of the postcolonial world. Among other things Bwana club organizes Clandestino festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, every June.
Bwindi Gorilla The Bwindi gorilla, a population of the Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), is found in the rain forests of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and comprises about half the world's endangered population of about 600 Mountain Gorillas. The nearby Virunga Volcanoes Conservation Area, inhabited by the remaining 300 Mountain Gorillas but where no chimpanzees live, makes Bwindi the only forest in Africa in which these two great apes occur together.
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, largely contained within Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), comprises a large primeval forest in East Africa at altitudes spanning from 1,160 to 2,607 meters. The Impenetrable Forest, also known as 'Place of Darkness', is located in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the western Rift Valley, only a few kilometers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo border and about 25 kilometers north of the Virunga Volcanoes.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is located in southwestern Uganda in East Africa. The park is part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and is situated along the Democratic Republic of Congo border next to the Virunga National Park and on the edge of the western Rift Valley.
Bwiti Bwiti is a West Central African religion practiced by the forest-dwelling Babongo and Mitsogo people of Gabon (where it is one of the three official religions) and the Fang people of Gabon and Cameroon. Modern Bwiti is syncretistic, incorporating animism, ancestor worship and Christianity into its belief system.
Bwlch Bwlch is a small village near Brecon in southern Wales. It is a considerably depressed and run down village, with the local economy being dependent on the three pubs and Brennig Francis's Ice Cream Parlour to generate wealth.
Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen or the 'Gap of Two Stones' is a mountain pass in North Wales, traversable only on foot or horseback, following the former Roman road from Caerhun (Canovium) to Caernarfon (Segontium). The route may be followed by road to Rowen) or to Llanbedr-y-Cennin and from either, the way, through a mountain gate, is a clearly marked green path to Abergwyngregyn.
Bwlchgwyn Bwlchgwyn () ia a village is located in north-east Wales on the A525 road, 5 miles west of the town of Wrexham and 10 miles south-east from the town of Ruthin. Bwlchgwyn is part of the community of Brymbo in the county borough of Wrexham.
BWG BWG are a major Irish retail franchise owner, owning the rights to a number of major retail brands in Ireland, including SPAR, Mace and the ValueCentre cash and carry. They own 115 of Ireland's SPAR stores outright, and have nearly 300 operated under franchise.
BWI Rail Station The BWI Airport Rail Station is a train station in Linthicum, Maryland, located just over a mile from Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI). It was dedicated on October 23, 1980, and was the first intercity rail station in the U.
BWIA West Indies Airways BWIA West Indies Airways, called "B-wee" by locals, is the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago. BWIA, was at the end of its operations, the largest airline operating out of the Caribbean, operating direct services to the USA, Canada, and the UK.
BWV The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Bach Works Catalogue") is the numbering system used to identify musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach, grouped thematically, not chronologically. The BWV numbers were assigned by Wolfgang Schmieder in 1950, indicating the placement in the catalogue of Bach's works entitled Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach.
BXP The BXP submachine gun was developed in the mid-1980s by the South African company Mechem as an improved version of the American-made Ingram Mac-10 submachine gun, and brought into production in 1988. The weapon was intended for use by military and police forces in South Africa, where international sanctions had caused a weapons shortage.
By administrative means By administrative means (В административном порядке, "V administrativnom poryadke") was an expression in use in the Soviet Union applied to the cases when some actions that normally required a collegial decision were left to the decision of certain officials, i.e.
By Design In common usage, by design is an idiom that means something was done deliberately, with intention, or on purpose.The expression is also used by computer technology professionals to refer to features that are intentionally designed into computer software or hardware.
By inspection By inspection is a mathematical term pertaining to the difficulty of a computation. If an expression can be evaluated by straightforward application of simple techniques (which techniques these are depends on the context) and without recourse to extended calculation or general theory, then it can be evaluated by inspection.
By Inferno's Light "By Inferno's Light" is a fifth-season episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The second half of a two-part episode, it is most notable as the point where the Dominion began its invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.
By the Court decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have the option of releasing reasons for a unanimous decision anonymously by simply attributing the judgment to "The Court". The practice began around 1979 by Chief Justice Laskin, borrowing from the US Supreme Court practice of anonymizing certain unanimous decisions.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (album) "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" is a Doris Day album (released March 13, 1953) featuring songs from the movie of the same name. It was issued by Columbia Records as a 10" long-playing record, catalog number CL-6248.
By the numbers To do something by the numbers means to do it exactly, precisely. The origin of this phrase goes back to the American Revolutionary War where a book containing numbered positions for rifle and bayonette practice was used to train soldiers.
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996) is a satirical novel by Tama Janowitz about the Slivenowiczes, a trailer park trash family who are forced to leave their home in a polluted swamp area near Lake Superior (called "Gitchee Gumee" in The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow) and who beg, steal and borrow their way across the North American continent until they all end up in Hollywood.
By the Way (song) "By The Way" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their eighth studio album, By the Way. It was released as the album's foremost single and, eventually, a climactic music video was made as an accompaniment.
By The End Of Tonight By The End Of Tonight are a four piece instrumental/hard rock band from Alvin, Texas. Formed in 2003 by Stefan Mach (Guitar), Josh Smith (Guitar), Keyboards), James Templeton (Bass, Percussion), Jeff Wilson (Drums, Xylophone).
By Time Alone By Time Alone is Orphanage's second album, released in October 1996 by DSFA Records. The CD features 12 tracks that have been recorded at Studio Moskou in Utrecht and was mixed and mastered at Studio RS29 in Waalwijk
By-catch In fisheries science, by-catch refers to species caught in a fishery intended to target another species, as well as reproductively-immature juveniles of the target species. OECD (1997) defines bycatch as Total fishing mortality excluding that accounted directly by the retained catch of target species.
By-election A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between general elections. Usually this occurs when the incumbent has died or resigned, but it may also occur when the incumbent becomes ineligible to continue in office, for example because of a recall or a sufficiently serious criminal conviction.
By-product A by-product is a secondary or incidental product deriving from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction, and is not the primary product or service being produced. A by-product can be useful and marketable, or it can have severe ecological consequences.
ByakkĹŤtai The ByakkĹŤtai ("White Tiger Company") was a group of young, predominantly teenage, samurai who committed seppuku (a form of ritual suicide) on a hillside overlooking the castle after seeing its defenses breached, during the Battle of Aizu, in the 1868-1869 Boshin war. However the ByakkĹŤtai were sadly mistaken in their assessment of defeat, as the castle defenses had not actually been breached.
Byakuya Byakuya (白夜, meaning "midnight sun", "white (arctic) night" or "short night") is a character from the popular manga series 'InuYasha'. He is Naraku's latest (ninth) offspring, meant to replace Kagura.
Byambasuren Davaa Byambasuren Davaa (born 1971 in Ulaanbaatar) is a Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany. Her films illustrate the life of an older Mongolia and the adaptability of her people using local nomads as actors.
Byatis Byatis (the Serpent-Bearded) is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos. The Great Old One was first mentioned in Robert Bloch's short story "The Shambler From the Stars", originally published in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales.
ByĂĄsen I.L. ByĂĄsen Idrettslag is a multi-sport club from Trondheim, Norway, founded in 1921. The club has around 2000 members divided into 9 departments: Children's allsports, football, athletics, handball, orienteering, skiing, cycling, exercise and theater.
Byberry Creek Byberry Creek is a creek that meanders through northeastern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before joining Poquessing Creek about a mile before that stream's confluence with the Delaware River. The stream has two branches that flow through Northeast Philadelphia, Wilsons Run and Waltons Run.
Byblis (plant) Byblis is a small genus of carnivorous plants, sometimes termed the rainbow plants for the attractive appearance of their mucilage-covered leaves in bright sunshine. Native to western Australia, it is the only genus in the family Byblidaceae.
Byblis aquatica Byblis aquatica is an insectivorous plant belonging to the genus Byblis, commonly known as the rainbow plants. It was described by Allen Lowrie and John Godfrey Conran in 1998, assigned to a group of annual north Australian species known as the "Byblis liniflora complex".
Byblos Byblos (βύβλος) is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal (earlier Gubla). It is a Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of present-day Lebanon under the current Arabic name of Jbeil (جبيل ).
Byblos syllabary The Byblos syllabary, also known as the Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos. The inscriptions are engraved on bronze plates and spatulas, and carved in stone.
Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz (; until 1331 Old Polish:Bydgozcya, until 1946 ; Latin variation: Bydgostia) is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers, with a population of 369,151 (2004). It has been the capital of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship (1947-1998) and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1945-1947).
Bydgoszcz County Bydgoszcz County () is a powiat (county) in Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The county seat is the town of Bydgoszcz and the powiat includes the area around it, but not the city itself which forms its own separate urban powiat.
Bydgoszcz District Bydgoszcz District (Polish: Rejencja Bydgoska, German Regirugnsbezirk Bromberg) was the more northern of two administrative districts of the Grand Duchy of Poznań (1815-1918) (later also called the Province of Poznań (1849-1918)).
Bydgoszcz events Bydgoszcz events () refers to a turning point in the early history of the Solidarity movement. Following the registration of the Solidarity by the communist authorities of Poland in 1980, the farmers were also pushing for creation of a separate trade union, independent from the official system of power.
Bydgoszcz-Toruń Bydgoszcz-Toruń (Polish: aglomeracja bydgosko-toruńska) is the name of the bi-polar agglomeration in the middle of the Vistula river created by 2 cities: Bydgoszcz and Toruń. The distance between the built-up areas of the cities is about 30 km.
Bye (sports) A bye is when a player or team is allowed to advance to the next round of a playoff tournament without playing. This most commonly occurs if the number of entrants into the competition is not a power of two (i.
Bye Bye Baby (song) Bye Bye Baby was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, performed in Finnish (despite the English of the title) by CatCat, a duo formed by two sisters, Virpi and Katja Kätkä, whose family name is phonetically similar to "cat cat" in English. The song is sung from the perspective of a woman ending a relationship because of her lover's infidelity.
Bye Bye Birdie Bye Bye Birdie is a Broadway musical satire on American society written by Michael Stewart (book), Lee Adams (lyrics), and Charles Strouse (music). It was first performed in New York City's Martin Beck Theatre on April 14, 1960, directed by Gower Champion.
Bye Bye Blemish Bye Bye Blemish is a brand of an over-the-counter topical acne medication sold in the United States and United Kingdom at drugstores such as CVS/pharmacy, Walgreens and Boots. The active ingredients of Bye Bye Blemish are sulfur (10%) and salicylic acid (2%).
Bye Bye Bye "Bye Bye Bye" is the first single released from *NSYNC's second album, No Strings Attached. Released in early 2000, it is a reference to the group's break from their manager Lou Pearlman and their record label, RCA.
Bye Bye Monkey Bye Bye Monkey (It:Ciao maschio, Fr: RĂŞve de singe) is a 1978 film, directed by Marco Ferreri and starring GĂ©rard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It is about a man who brings King Kong's orphaned son to the city to raise it.
Bye Plot The Bye Plot was a conspiracy by English Catholics to kidnap King James I of England and force him to repeal anti-Catholic legislation. The plot was revealed by English Jesuits in 1603, such as Father Henry Garnet, who informed the government because they were afraid of retribution against Catholics if the plan failed.
Bye-Bye Liberty Crisis Bye-Bye Liberty Crisis (also known as Bye-Bye Lady Liberty or Goodbye Lady Liberty) is the first in a series of feature-length television specials based on the Lupin III animated series. The Lupin III TV specials have since become an annual event on Japan's NTV network, with a new special made and broadcast each yearmovie opens in Paris], where wanted criminal Arsène Lupin III breaks into the police headquarters to steal the computer records of his criminal activity by disguising himself as his arch-enemy, [[ICPO officer Inspector Zenigata.
Byelorussian SSR The Byelorussian SSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; ; ; abbreviated БССР, BSSR) was one of the four original founding members of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, together with the Ukrainian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR. It was also known by the name of White Russia.
Byemoor, Alberta Byemoor is a small hamlet on Alberta Secondary Highway 589, located about 70 kilometres south-east of Stettler, Alberta, and about eighty kilometres north-east of Drumheller, Alberta. Byemoor is home to a small grocery store and post office, gas station, hotel, arena, community hall, curling rink, and an elementary/junior high school, all of which service the small farming community, as well as some minor oil field offices.
Byeong-in yang-yo Literally, “the foreign disturbance of the byeong-in year (1866)”, the byeong-in yang-yo 丙寅洋擾 refers to the French occupation of Ganghwa Island in Korea in retaliation for the earlier execution by Korea of French Jesuit priests prosletyzing illicitly in that country. The encounter, which lasted nearly six weeks, was the first armed encounter between Korea and a western power.
Byeonhan confederacy Byeonhan, also known as Byeonjin, was a loose confederacy of chiefdoms that existed from around the beginning of the Common Era to the 4th century in the southern Korean peninsula. Byeonhan was one of the Samhan (or "Three Hans"), along with Mahan and Jinhan.
Byerly Turk The Byerly Turk was one of three horses which were the founders of the modern thoroughbred horse racing broodstock. The story goes that it was captured by a Captain Byerly at the Battle of Buda and saw further military service in the Battle of the Boyne before being brought back to England in 1689.
Byers Canyon Byers Canyon is a short gorge on the upper Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado in the United States. The canyon is approximately 8 miles (13 km) long and is located in the headwaters region of the Colorado between Hot Sulphur Springs and Kremmling.
Byfield, Massachusetts Byfield, Massachusetts, USA is a community located about 30 miles north-northeast of Boston on Interstate 95, about 10 miles south of the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border. It is part of the town of Newbury, in Essex County.
Byfleet and New Haw railway station Byfleet and New Haw railway station is served by the Waterloo via Weybridge railway service, operated by South West Trains. The station is near the northern side of Byfleet and the village of New Haw, near Woking in Surrey, England.
Byford, Western Australia Byford, a suburb on the south eastern edge of Perth, was first gazetted as the townsite of Beenup in 1906. This was previously the name of the railway siding there and was a corruption of the Aboriginal name of nearby Beenyup Brook.
Bygdøfergene Bygdøfergene Skibs AS operates the summer passenger ferry route between Aker Brygge and Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. The ferries are integrated into the Oslo public transport system with free transfers to buses and other intra-city transport.
Bygdøy Royal Estate Bygdøy Royal Estate Bygdøy kongsgård is located on Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway and is the official summer residence of the King of Norway. The estate originally belonged to the Cistercian monastery on Hovedøya.
Bygdeå Court District Bygdeå Court District, or Bygdeå tingslag, was a district of Västerbotten in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Bygdedans Bygdedans, or village dance, is the term most commonly used for a variety of regional, traditional dances of Norway. These dances, and the accompanying music, is normally seen as the oldest living musical traditions in the country.
Bygland Bygland is a municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. It is bordered on the north by Valle, in the east by Fyresdal (Telemark) and Ă…mli (Vest-Agder), in the south by Froland and Evje og Hornnes, and in the west by Ă…seral (Vest-Agder), Kvinesdal (Vest-Agder) and Sirdal (Vest-Agder).
Bychaw Bychaw or Bychov (; ; Łacinka: Bychaŭ) is a town in the western Belarusian voblast of Mahilyow. It is located 44 km south of Mahilyow (Mogilev) on the Dnieper River (Dniapro), and is the administrative center of the Bychaw Raion.
Bychowiec Chronicle The Bychowiec Chronicle (also spelled Bykhovets, Bykovets or Bychovec) is an anonymous 16th century chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Although one of the least reliable sources of the epoch , the anonymous work is also considered one of the most complete Ruthenian-Lithuanian chronicles of the time.
Byker Wall The Byker Wall is the name given to a long unbroken block of 620 maisonettes in the Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The block was designed by the notable architect Ralph Erskine and was built at the close of the 1970s.
Bykivnia Bykivnia (, , ) is a small village on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine. During the Stalinism in the USSR, it was one of the sites where the NKVD had buried thousands of executed, real or alleged enemies of the Soviet power.
Bylakuppe Bylakuppe (or Bailakuppe) is the location of "Lugsum Samdupling" (established in 1961) and "Dickyi Larsoe" (established in 1969), two adjacent Tibetan refugee settlements, in the west of Mysore district. The nearest town is Kushalnagar in Kodagu.

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