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Barbara Lott Barbara Lott (15 May 1920 – 19 December 2002) was a British actress probably best remembered as Ronnie Corbett's character's mother in the comedy series Sorry!. She also appeared in Coronation Street, Survivors, Z Cars, and 2 point 4 children amongst others.
Barbara Luddy Barbara Luddy (25 May 1908 — 1 April 1979) was an American actress from Great Falls, Montana. Her film career began with silent pictures in the 1920s, during which time she was also a prolific radio performer.
Barbara Mandrell Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948 in Houston, Texas) is a Country Music singer, who became one of the most successful Pop-oriented Country music singers of the 1970s and 80s. She was given the nickname the Princess of Steel, for her skill at the steel guitar.
Barbara Manning Barbara Manning (born in San Diego, California) is an American indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. In addition to her solo career, Manning has been active in a number of bands, including 28th Day (with Cole Marquis), World of Pooh, S.
Barbara March Barbara March is an actress best known for her portrayal of the Star Trek character Lursa, one of the Duras sisters. She has appeared as Lursa in Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: The Next Generation (Firstborn and Redemption) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Past Prologue).
Barbara Marianowska Barbara Marianowska (born May 29, 1947 in Diddington) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 12498 votes in 15 Tarnów district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Barbara Marois Barbara ("Barb") Marois (born March 1, 1963 in Auburn, Massachusetts) is a former field hockey player from the United States, who was a member of the US women's team that finished fifth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. A tenacious defender and hard-hitting corner specialist, Marois competed for Team USA from 1986 until 1997.
Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock (June 16 1902 – September 2 1992) was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics.
Barbara McIntire Barbara Joy McIntire (born January 12 1935 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American golfer. Living in Florida, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship by eliminating six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare in the opening round.
Barbara Metcalf Barbara Daly Metcalf is the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is a specialist in the history of South Asia, especially the colonial period, and the history of the Muslim population of India and Pakistan.
Barbara Mikulski Barbara Ann 'Babs' Mikulski (born July 20, 1936), a member of the Democratic Party, is the current Class III United States Senator representing the State of Maryland. She has served as senator since 1987, and is currently the most senior female U.
Barbara Milano Keenan Barbara Milano Keenan received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University and her law degree from George Washington University. From 1974 to 1976 she was an assistant commonwealth's attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia before entering private practice.
Barbara Montgomery Barbara Montgomery is currently off and on again resident of the fictional town of Pine Valley on the American TV soap opera, All My Children. She is portrayed by Susan Pratt from 1987 to 1991 (intermittently recurring in the 1990s).
Barbara Moore (Playmate) Barbara Moore, also known as Barbara Ann Moore (born August 21, 1968) is an American glamour model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in December 1992 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos.
Barbara Morgan Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is the first NASA Educator Astronaut or "teacher in space", scheduled to fly on STS-118. Morgan trained to fly on the ill-fated STS-51-L mission of Space Shuttle Challenger as backup to Christa McAuliffe and has remained involved in the space program since then.
Barbara New Barbara New is an English character actress, well known for playing Mabel the scullery maid in the David Croft sitcom You Rang M'Lord?. Following this role, she appeared as Vera Plumtree in Oh, Doctor Beeching!.
Barbara Nichols Barbara Nichols (December 30, 1929 - October 5, 1976) was an actress who was something of a cross between a sex symbol and a character actress, a voluptous and attractive woman who usually played brassy secondary comic roles in a number of major films in the 1950s and 1960s.
Barbara of Austria Barbara of Austria (30 April 1539 – 19 September 1572) was born in Wien to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. From 1547, in Innsbruck with her sisters Magdalena, Margareta, Helena and Johanna, she received a deeply religious upbringing.
Barbara O'Brien Barbara O'Brien is a popular blogging advocate and left-wing [who writes the blog Mahablog. O'Brien's book Blogging America Political Discourse in a Digital Nation (ISBN 1-59028-040-7) discusses the changes blogging has made in America's political culture, and the left-right debate.
Barbara Partee Barbara Hall Partee (born June 23, 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey) is a Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy Emerita at UMass-Amherst. Partee is the primary creator of modern formal semantics.
Barbara Paul Barbara Paul is an American writer of detective stories and science fiction. She was born in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1931 and was educated, inter alia, at Bowling Green State University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Barbara Pearse Barbara Pearse (born March 24, 1948 in Wraysbury, England) is a British biological scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. She works at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Barbara Pennington Barbara Pennington is a Hi-NRG and Soul music artist who nearly did not get her chance at a music career until legendary Hi-NRG and Soul record producer Ian Levine came to the United States scouting for new talent for his record label.
Barbara Perry Barbara Perry is a NSW Australian Labor Party politician representing the State electoral district of Auburn. Mrs Perry was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in a by-election on the 8th of September 2001 following the resignation of Labor Member Peter Nagle.
Barbara Petzold Barbara Petzold (born August 8 1955) is a former East German Cross-country skier who competed during the 1970's and early 1980's. She won two gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid in the 10 km and the 4 x 5 km, and a bronze in the 4 x 5 km at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
Barbara Potter Barbara Potter (born October 22, 1961 in Woodbury, Connecticut) is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, winning six singles titles and eight doubles titles.
Barbara Radecki Barbara Radecki is a Canadian actress who is most popular for her role as the voice of Sailor Neptune in the English version of Sailor Moon S; she had appeared in several earlier episodes as Serena's mother as well. She currently lives in the Toronto area with her husband, Philippe Ayoub.
Barbara Romack Barbara Romack (born November 16, 1932 at Sacramento, California) is a American golf champion. She won the prestigious North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship at Pinehurst in 1952 then in 1954 she defeated Mickey Wright in the finals to win the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship.
Barbara Roy Barbara Roy was born in Kinston, North Carolina and is a dance music singer. She scored several big hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during the seventies as the lead vocalist for Ecstasy, Passion and Pain, then went on to have more success as a solo artist.
Barbara Ruick Barbara Ruick (born: December 23, 1930 died: March 3, 1974) was an American actress. She was the daughter of actors Lurene Tuttle and Mel Ruick, and wife (1956-1974) of film composer John Williams, with whom she had three children.
Barbara Ryan Barbara Ryan is a fictional character in an American soap opera, a resident of Oakdale in As the World Turns. In the early 1970s, Barbara was played by a succession of short-lived actresses, but the actress most associated with the role is Colleen Zenk Pinter, who has played her since September 1978.
Barbara Seaman Seaman is a women’s health activist who, through persistent investigative journalism, reporting, and social organizing, has brought about significant changes in the relationship between the medical and pharmaceutical establishments and women in America. As an activist, she introduced the concepts of informed consent, full disclosure, and sexism in healthcare, provoked a US Senate hearing, established the [National Women's Health Network](a network which advocates for women's health advancement and does not accept funding from pharmaceutical companies), and authored a number of critical books and articles – some of which caused her to be fired, blacklisted, or censored.
Barbara Schwarz Barbara Schwarz was the president of the Church of Scientology of Germany from August 3, 1983, until July 10, 1984.Auszug aus dem Vereinsregister: Scientology Kirche Deutschland, Hubbard Organisation MĂĽnchen e.
Barbara Simons Barbara Simons is a prominent computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She has held various technical, administrative, and public policy positions with the ACM since the early 1990s she is founder and former Chair of USACM], the ACM U.
Barbara Simpson Barbara Simpson is an American radio talk show host. She is most notable as the host of Coast-to-Coast AM on Saturday nights from about 2000 until about 2003, alternating with George Noory, but has also been a long-time host of her own show on KSFO (AM).
Barbara Smith Barbara Smith (born December 16, 1946) is an African-American, lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s she has been active as an innovative critic, teacher, lecturer, author, independent scholar, and publisher of Black feminist thought.
Barbara Smoker Barbara Smoker (born 1923) is a British Humanist activist and freethought advocate. She is also former President of the National Secular Society (1971-1996), former Chair of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society (now known as Dignity in Dying) (1981-1985) and current Honorary Vice President of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association in the United Kingdom.
Barbara the Bat Barbara the Bat is the main character in the game Daigasso! Band Brothers for the Nintendo DS; she is an anthropomorphic bat and is the owner of GB Music—"GB" stands for "Great Barbara", but it is also a nod to the original name of the game: "Game Boy Music".
Barbara Thiering Barbara Thiering (born 1930) is an Australian scholar with an international reputation. Her academic books and journal articles have contradicted Christian orthodoxy, proposing alternative answer to its supernatural beliefs.
Barbara Tilden Barbara Diane Tilden (born November 26, 1955 in Balclutha, New Zealand) is a retired field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Barbara Tucker Barbara Tucker is an African American House music/Rhythm and Blues/Soul music singer/songwriter/choreographer born in Brooklyn on 19 March, the year is unknown. She is an popular New York based performer and promoter whose impact on the mainstream music scene is felt more in Europe than in her home country.
Barbara Underhill Barbara "Barb" Underhill (born on June 24, 1963 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pairs figure skater. With partner Paul Martini, she was a five-time Canadian national champion (1979-1983) and won Gold at the 1984 World Figure Skating Championships.
Barbara Vernon Barbara Vernon is an Australian birth activist who lobbies government for improved provision of maternity services, particularly the expert use of midwives, and is currently the Executive Officer of the Australian College of Midwives.
Barbara Ward Barbara Mary Ward, in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, (1914–1981) was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share their prosperity with the rest of the world and in the 1960s turned her attention to environmental questions as well.
Barbara Warner Barbara Warner is a Canadian lawyer and politician. She is the daughter of former Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario David William Warner.
Barbara Weathers Barbara Weathers (born December 7, 1963) is an American R&B/soul singer, and former lead singer of R&B vocal group, Atlantic Starr. Weathers replaced Sharon Bryant, who left the group for a solo career, in 1984.
Barbara Willard Barbara Willard, a British historical/children's author, was born in Brighton, Sussex in 1909, daughter of a Shakespearean actor. Her literary career spawned a great number of books for adults before she turned to children's literature.
Barbara Woodhouse Barbara Kathleen Vera Woodhouse (née Blackburn, 9 May 1910 - 9 July 1988) was a well known dog trainer and television personality. Her 1980 television series Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way made her into a household name in the UK.
Barbara Wright (Doctor Who) Barbara Wright is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. She was one of the programme's very first regulars and appeared in the bulk of its first two seasons from 1963-65, played by Jacqueline Hill.
Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone Barbara Scott Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone (born 8 April 1948) is a Labour member of the House of Lords. She was created a life peer in 1997 as Baroness Young of Old Scone, of Old Scone in Perth and Kinross.
Barbaraville Barbaraville is a small settlement on the North Shore of the Cromarty Firth in Rossshire, Scotland UK. Housing dates from 1820 onwards when local people were allowed to build on packets of land from local estates at Balnagowan, Tarbet and Polnicol.
Barbarea Barbarea (Winter cress or Yellow rocket) is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in southern Europe and southwest Asia.
Barbarea verna Land cress (Barbarea verna), also known as Belle Isle cress, Early yellowrocket and American cress, is a biennial herb in the family Brassicaceae. It is native to Southwestern Europe, but is also cultivated in Florida.
Barbarella (comic book) Barbarella was originally a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest, who originated the character for serialisation in the French magazine V-Magazine in 1962. It was subsequently published as a stand-alone book by Eric Losfeld.
Barbarella (musical) Barbarella is a musical based on the film Barbarella, which in turn was based on a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. The story is about Barbarella, a young woman who has numerous adventures, often involving sex, while journeying around the galaxy.
Barbarian "Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized, uncultured person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the purportedly civilized society of the speaker. While the latter sense is always pejorative, the former one has not invariably been so, as described below.
Barbarian (Dungeons & Dragons) The Barbarian is a core class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game and is one of the base character classes presented in the Player's Handbook. The barbarian is seen as the archetypal warrior who uses brute strength and raw fury to excel in combat, instead of the honed skills of the Fighter.
Barbarian Chronicles The Barbarian Chronicles is a planned animated television program by Brendon Small, creator of the program Home Movies. It is slated for "'10-'12" and has been described as a "cross between Lord of the Rings and Curb Your Enthusiasm".
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (ISBN 0-06-016172-8) is a book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco. It is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for The Wall Street Journal.
Barbariga, Croatia Barbariga is a tourist village on the south-western coast of Istria, Croatia, on the Barbariga peninsula or Punta Cissana (named after the lost ancient settlement of Cissa). It is located 22 km northwest of Pula, northwest of FaĹľana and Vodnjan and southwest of Bale.
Barbaro Garbey Barbaro Garbey Garbey (born December 4, 1956, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) was a Major League Baseball first baseman, third baseman, designated hitter, and outfielder. Currently, he is the hitting coach for the Tennessee Smokies.
Barbarossa (board game) Barbarossa is a plasticine-shaping German-style board game for 3 to 6 players, designed by Klaus Teuber in and published in 1988 by Kosmos in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. Barbarossa won the 1988 Spiel des Jahres award.
Barbarossa (Ottoman admiral) Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha (Turkish: Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa or Hızır Hayreddin Paşa; also Hızır Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan-ı Derya (Fleet Admiral) of the Ottoman Navy) (c. 1478-1546) was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral who dominated the Mediterranean for decades.
Barbary Coast The Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by Europeans until the 19th century to refer to the coastal regions of what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The name is derived from the Berber people of north Africa.
Barbary Coast (TV series) Barbary Coast was a TV movie and short-lived (13-episode) series on the American network ABC that featured the adventures of 19th century government agent Jeff Cable (played by William Shatner), and his pal, conman and gambler Cash Conover (Doug McClure). The movie first aired on May 4, 1975.
Barbary Leopard The Barbary Leopard, Panthera pardus panthera, which inhabits the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa, closely resembles the familiar East African leopard. It is a stockier creature than the typical Panthera pardus, with a thicker coat owing to its snowy home.
Barbary Macaque The Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a tail-less macaque. Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco with a small, possibly introduced, population in Gibraltar, the Barbary Macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.
Barbary pirate Though at least a portion of them are better described as privateers, the Barbary pirates, or corsairs, were pirates that operated out of Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salé and ports in Morocco, preying on shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Crusades as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century. Their stronghold was along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast (a medieval term for the Maghreb after its Berber inhabitants), although their predation was said to extend throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard, and into the North Atlantic, purportedly as far north as Iceland.
Barbary treaties The Barbary Treaties refer to several treaties between the United States of America and the semi-autonomous North African city-states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, known collectively as the Barbary States.
Barbary Wars The Barbary Wars (or Tripolitan Wars) were two wars between the United States of America and piratical city-states in North Africa. At issue was the pirates' demand of tribute from American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.
Barbastro Barbastro (Latin Barbastrum or Civitas Barbastrensis) is suffragan diocese of the Spanish province of Huesca in the Comunidad Autonoma de Aragon. The city (originally, perhaps, Bergidum or Bergiduna) is at the junction of the rivers Cinca and Vero.
Barbatos In demonology, Barbatos is an Earl and Duke of Hell, ruling thirty legions of demons and has four kings as his companions to command his legions. He gives the understanding of the voices of the animals, says past and future, conciliates friends and rulers, and he can lead men to hidden treasures that have been hid by the enchantment of magicians.
Barbecue Barbecue (also barbeque, abbreviated BBQ or Bar-B-Que or diminuted chiefly in Australia to barbie) is a method and apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of charcoal and may include application of a vinegar or tomato-based sauce to the meat. The term as a noun can refer to foods cooked by this method, to the cooker itself, or to a party that includes such food.
Barbecue sauce Barbecue sauce (also spelled barbeque sauce, or abbreviated BBQ sauce) is a liquid flavoring sauce or condiment ranging from watery to quite thick. As the name implies, it was created as an accompaniment to barbecued foods.
Barbed wire Barbed wire, also known as barb wire Glidden Steel called its product "Barb Wire". (and frequently in dialect form spelled bob "In my book a pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.
Barbed Wire Sandwich Barbed Wire Sandwich is a progressive heavy blues rock album released by Black Cat Bones in November 1969. The original vinyl version of the album is now highly sought after by collectors of rock and heavy blues music of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Barbel class submarine The Barbel class of submarines, the last diesel-electric propelled submarines built by the United States Navy, incorporated numerous, radical engineering improvements over previous classes. They were the first production warships built with the teardrop-shape hull first tested on Albacore (SS-569), and the first to use an "attack center" within the hull rather than a conning tower in the sail.
Barbeled houndshark The barbeled houndshark, Leptocharias smithii, the only member of the genus Leptocharias, which is in turn the only member of the family Leptochariidae, is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Mauritania to Namibia at depths of between 10 and 75 m. It reaches a length of 77 cm (male) and 82 cm (female).
Barbelo The Gnostic term Barbēlo refers to the first emanation of God in the various Sethian gnostic cosmogonies. This figure is also variously referred to as 'Mother-Father' (hinting at her apparent androgyny), 'First Human Being', 'The Triple Androgynous Name', or 'Eternal Aeon'.
Barbelo's blood Barbelo’s Blood: ‘De La Sangre de Barbelo, Los Reinos De Los Siete Mundos y Otros Hechos Extraordinarios’, (‘Of the Blood of Barbelo, the Realms of the Seven Worlds and other Extraordinary Events’). Heretical (Sethian) medieval text, attributed to the infamous troubadour and duellist Bran the Balladeer.
Barbelthroat carpetshark The barbelthroat carpetshark, Cirrhoscyllium expolitum, is a carpetshark of the family Parascylliidae found in the China Sea between Luzon in the Philippines and China, between latitudes 23° N and 10° N, at depths of between 180 and 190 m. Its length is up to 34 cm, but this measurement is only from two female specimens.
Barbeques Galore Barbeques Galore is an Australian chain of retail stores specializing in barbecue grills that also has a large presence in the United States. There are 84 stores in covering all of Australia, and 75+ stores in 10 American states.
Barber A barber (from the Latin barba, "beard") is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, give shaves, and trim beards. A barber differs from a hairdresser whose business is generally restricted to cutting and styling hair.
Barber Dodge Pro Series The Barber Dodge Pro Series was an entry-level open-wheel auto racing series from 1986 to 2003. The series race primarily on road and street courses in North America, although the schedule did sometimes include a few ovals.
Barber Motorsports Park The Barber Motorsports Park is a large multi-purpose racing facility on a 740 acre (300 hectare) site in Birmingham, Alabama. The site, which is located on the eastern fringes of the city, near Leeds, features a 2.
Barberêche Barberêche is a municipality in the District du Lac (Seebezirk in German) in the Swiss canton of Fribourg (Freiburg). It lies on the "language boundary" between the French- and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, and so also bears a German name: Bärfischen.
Barberini The Barberini are a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII.
Barberini Gospels The Barberini Gospels is an illuminated Hiberno-Saxon manuscript (Rome, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Barberini Lat. 570, also known as the Wigbald Gospels), assumed to be of a late eighth century origin.
Barberini Venus Barberini Venus, Jenkins Venus First coined by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in a letter, mentioned by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Tate and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-19001981, p. 326, note.
Barberpole illusion The barberpole illusion is a visual illusion that reveals biases in the processing of visual motion in the human brain. When a diagonally-striped pole is rotated around its vertical axis so that the stripes are moving in the direction of the pole's horizontal axis, nonetheless it appears the stripes are moving in the direction of its vertical axis.
Barbershop (film) Barbershop is a motion picture directed by Tim Story, produced by State Street Pictures, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 13, 2002. Starring Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, and Anthony Anderson, the movie revolves about social life in a south Chicago barbershop that has become a neighborhood institution.
Barbershop 2: Back in Business Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 comedy film sequel to 2002 movie Barbershop, from the writing/producing team Robert Teitel and George Tillman, Jr. It is directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan and written by Mark Brown (characters) and Don D.
Barbershop arranging Barbershop arranging is the art of creating arrangements of barbershop music. The Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) has prescribed rules that dictate what is an acceptable arrangement, particularly with regard to singing in competition.
Barbershop Harmony Society The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Incorporated (SPEBSQSA), was the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form. Founded by O.
Barbershop chorus A Barbershop Chorus is a men's chorus that sings acapella music in the Barbershop style. Most Barbershop choruses belong to an international association of barbershop music enthusiasts named the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Barbershop music Barbershop harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1940s-present), is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. Each of the four parts has its own role: generally, the lead sings the melody, the tenor harmonizes above the melody, the bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completes the chord.
Barbershop paradox The Barbershop Paradox was proposed by Lewis Carroll in a three-page essay entitled "A Logical Paradox," which appeared in the July 1894 issue of Mind. The name comes from the "ornamental" short story that Carroll uses to illustrate the paradox (although it had appeared several times in more abstract terms in his writing and correspondence before the story was published).
Barbershop quartet A barbershop quartet is a group of four men that sings acapella music in the barbershop style. Most barbershop quartets belong to an international association of barbershop music enthusiasts named the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Barbershop: The Series Barbershop: The Series is an American sitcom for the Showtime cable network, which made its debut in the fall of 2005. Based upon the Mark Brown-created characters in the popular movies Barbershop (2002) and Barbershop 2: Back in Business, the series stars Omar Gooding as Calvin Palmer, Jr.
Barberton Chicken Barberton chicken is a style of fried chicken native to the city of Barberton in Summit County, Ohio. It is a distinctive style served in several restaurants in Barberton and nearby Norton and increasingly in other surrounding communities.

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