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Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder (born August 26, 1941 in Teheran to a Swiss diplomat father) is a movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Schroeder's production company "Les Films du Losange", founded by him at age 23, produced some of the best-known films of the Nouvelle vague.
Barbican A barbican (from mediæval Latin barbecana) is a fortified outpost or gateway, such as an outer defence to a city or castle, or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defensive purposes. Usually barbicans were situated outside the main line of defences and connected to the city walls with a walled road called the neck.
Barbican of Kraków The Barbican of Kraków () is a fortified outpost or gateway – a barbican – one of the few remaining relics of the complex network of fortifications and defensive barriers encircling the city of Kraków, Poland. It currently serves as a tourist attraction and a location of many multidisciplinary exhibits.
Barbican of Warsaw The Barbican of Warsaw () is a barbican (semicircular fortified outpost) in Warsaw, Poland, and one of few remaining relics of the complex network of historic fortifications and defensive barriers encircling the city of Warsaw. It currently serves as a tourist attraction, and is located between the Old and the New Town.
Barbican station Barbican is a London Underground and mainline rail station serving the Barbican Centre in the City of London. It is on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines between Farringdon and Moorgate.
Barbican, Plymouth The Barbican is Plymouth's old harbour area and one of the few parts of the original city to escape the bombs of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. The Barbican manages to retain much of the architecture and charm of an old fishing town and port.
Barbie and the Kens Barbie and the Kens was a 1980s new wave pop band with one minor college radio hit, "Just a Gigolo". The song appears on 1980s compilations and is still in rotation on retro internet stations such as Radio Nigel.
Barbie and the Rockers Barbie and the Rockers (or Barbie and the Rock Stars in Europe) was a doll line made in the late 1980's by Mattel to compete with Hasbro's Jem doll. They were on the market for roughly 3 years and there was a cartoon made which consisted of two 25 minute episodes to go with the line.
Barbie Blank Barbara "Barbie" Blank (born January 15, 1987In the December 2006 issue of WWE Magazine, page 89, it is stated that Kelly Kelly's birth date is December 1, however, on her MySpace blog, she stated that it is a printing error, and the actual day is January 15. An excerpt: "...
Barbie Girl "Barbie Girl" is a song by the group Aqua, who released it in 1997 as a single and included it on the album Aquarium. The song was written by Claus Norreen and Søren Nystrøm Rasted after the group saw an exhibit on kitsch culture.
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue is a video game available for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The Xbox version has recently come under ridicule for being forwards compatible with the Xbox 360 whilst some of its catalogue remains unplayable on the console.
Barbie Mini Kingdom Barbie Mini Kingdom is a new line of miniature Barbie dolls manufactured by Mattel that are about 6" in height (about the size of the Dawn doll and Pippa Doll), featuring the main female characters from most of the Barbie movies. The line was started in 2006 with a special set of Clara from Barbie in the Nutcracker, Rapunzel from Barbie as Rapunzel, Odette from Barbie of Swan Lake, and Anneliese and Erika from Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper.
Barbie syndrome Barbie syndrome is a term used to loosely describe the desire to have a physical appearance and lifestyle representative of the famous Barbie doll. It is most often associated with pre-teen and adolescent females but is applicable to any age group.
Barbie's Cradle Barbie's Cradle was a popular Filipino band, formed by Barbie Almalbis (guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter) and Franklin Benitez (drummer) from their previous band Hungry Young Poets. Rommel dela Cruz joined the group as bassist, and by 1999, drummer Wendell Garcia replaced Franklin.
Barbier (crater) Barbier is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It forms a matched pair with Cyrano crater to the north-northwest, and it lies to the southeast of the huge Garagin walled-plain.
Barbier reaction The Barbier reaction is an organic reaction between an alkyl halide and a carbonyl group as an electrophilic substrate in the presence of aluminium, zinc, indium, tin or its salts. The reaction product is a secondary or tertiary alcohol.
Barbilla National Park Barbilla National Park is a National Park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca. It protects forests as well as Laguna Ayil and Cerro Tigre and the Dantas River watershed, covering parts of both Cartago and LimĂłn Provinces.
Barbiturate Barbiturates are drugs that act as central nervous system (CNS) depressants, and by virtue of this they produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to anesthesia. Some are also used as anticonvulsants.
Barbon Hillclimb Barbon Hillclimb is a hillclimb held in Cumbria, north-west England. The course is 890 yards (814 metres) in length, making it the shortest of the British Hill Climb Championship tracks outside the Channel Islands.
Barboncito Barboncit[o (1820-1871) was a famous Navajo political and spiritual leader. He also was known as Hastin Dagha, Hastin Daagi("Full-bearded Man"), Bislahalani ("the Orator"), and Hozhooji Naata ("Beautyway Chanter").
Barbotine Barbotine is a technique of pottery decoration involving the application of a slip to the pot, not in an even layer but in the form of thick incrustations in patches or trails. In certain types of pottery the barbotine decoration may form a picture or a pattern.
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments is the name of two things: Streisand's fifth (and last) network television special, featuring Ray Charles and Martin Erlichman, and an album containing music from the special.
Barbro Holmberg Barbro Holmberg (born April 7, 1952, Stensele, Lappland, Sweden) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. On October 10, 2003 she was appointed Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy in the Swedish Government.
Barbro Martinsson Barbo Martinsson (born August 16, 1935) is a former Swedish cross country skier who competed during the 1960s. She won two silver medals in the 3 x 5 km at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Barbrodria miersii Barbrodria miersii is a species of orchid and the sole species of the genus Barbrodria. Previously classified in the genus Barbosella, it was split out because of the morphology of the lip and column of this species.
Barbu (game) Barbu or Le Barbu, also known as Tafferan, is a trick-taking card game similar to hearts where four players take turns leading seven different sub-games (known as contracts) over the course of 28 deals. Barbu originated in France in the early 20th Century where it was especially popular with university students.
Barbu Bellu Barbu Bellu (1825-1900) was a Romanian baron, minister of culture, and minister of justice. Bellu, the most famous cemetery in Romania, sits on a plot of land donated by Barbu Bellu to the local administration.
Barbu Ştirbey Prince Barbu Ştirbey (1873-1946) was briefly Prime Minister of Romania in 1927. He was the son of Prince Alexandru Ştirbey and his wife Maria Ghika-Comăneşti, and grandson of another Barbu Ştirbey (born Bibescu, adopted Ştirbey), who was Prince of Wallachia and died in 1869.
Barbuda Council The Barbuda Council is a local authority that manages day-to-day internal affairs on the island of Barbuda. The council administers and regulates agriculture, forestry, public health, public utilities, and roads.
Barbudans for a Better Barbuda Barbudans for a Better Barbuda is a political party in Barbuda, part of Antigua and Barbuda. The party was founded on 27 February 2004 by former general secretary of the Barbuda People's Movement for Change, Ordrick Samuel.
Barbus grypus Barbus grypus is a species of barb called in English and Arabic by the common names shabut and variations shabboot or shabbout, and in local languages by several other common names. It is a large freshwater carp found in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin.
BarBri BarBri is a company in the United States that offers the most widely used bar exam preparation course in the country. A substantial majority of American recipients of a Juris Doctor degree attend a six-week course provided by this company, which features lectures by law professors on the six major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination - torts, contracts, real property, evidence, criminal law, and constitutional law — along with additional lectures on the specific law of the state.
Barca Barca or Barce was an ancient Greek colony and later Roman, Byzantine, city in North Africa, occupying the coastal area of what is modern day Libya. As a Greek city it was part of the Cyrenaican Pentapolis along with the city of Cyrene itself.
Barca-longa The barca longa was a two or three-masted lugger found on the coasts of Spain and Portugal as well as more widely in the Mediterranean Sea. They were used in Spain and Portugal for fishing but were employed by the Royal Navy in Mediterranean waters, for shore raids or as dispatch boats.
Barcaldine, Queensland Barcaldine is a small town and Local Government Area located in Western Queensland, Australia, approximately 520 kilometres by road west of the city of Rockhampton. The town is the administrative centre of the Barcaldine Shire, which covers an area of 8430 square kilometres.
Barcarolle A barcarolle (from French; also Italian barcarola, barcarole) is a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a piece of music composed in that style. In classical music, the two most famous barcarolles are those by Jacques Offenbach, from his opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and Frédéric Chopin's barcarolle for solo piano, in F-sharp major, opus 60.
Barcelona (band) Barcelona is an indie/new wave/pop band consisting of Jason Korzen, Jennifer Carr, Ivan Ramiscal, and Christian Scanniello. The band addresses geeky themes in many of their songs, such as The Downside of Computer Camp, I Have The Password To Your Shell Account, and Paging System Operator, about a young boy who contacts someone in Sweden who he believes to be an experienced cracker, using a BBS, only to find he was also a thirteen-year-old.
Barcelona (Tarrafal) Barcelona (also in Portuguese for Barcelona, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Barselona also in the SĂŁo Vicente Crioulo) is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League North Zone in Cape Verde. The team is based in the town of Tarrafal in the northern part of the island of Santiago.
Barcelona Conference The Barcelona Conference or Common Strategy on the Mediterranean Region occurred on November 27-November 28 1995. It was attended by the then 15 European Union (EU) members and 12 countries of the Mediterranean Basin.
Barcelona Dragons The Barcelona Dragons were a team originally in the World League of American Football and later in the resurected NFL Europe. Their home field in Barcelona was the Estadi OlĂ­mpic de Montjuic, the 1992 Olympic Stadium, and later the Mini Estadi.
Barcelona Free Port The Barcelona Free Port or Zona franca de Barcelona is a tariff-free industrial park that has developed within the Port of Barcelona, across the flat land of the Llobregat delta between the city of Barcelona and Barcelona International Airport to the south.
Barcelona May Days Barcelona May Days is a term covering the events between May 3 and May 8 1937, when factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged each other in violent street battles in the city of Barcelona (Catalonia).
Barcelona Metro The Barcelona Metro, part of the mass transit public transport system of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain is an extensive network of electrified railways that run underground in central Barcelona and above ground into the city's suburbs.
Barcelona Pavilion The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. It was an important building in the history of modern architecture, known for its simple form and extravagant materials, such as marble and travertine.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) or Centro Nacional de SupercomputaciĂłn (CNS) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, Europe's most powerful (and the world's fifth most powerful) supercomputer as of November 2006.
Barcelona Traction Barcelona Traction was a corporation that controlled light and power utilities in Spain and was incorporated in Canada in 1915 by Frederick Stark Pearson. It was operated in Spain, but was owned mostly by Belgians.
Barceloneta, Puerto Rico Barceloneta is a municipality in Puerto Rico and is located in the north region, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of Florida, east of Arecibo and west of Manati. Barceloneta is spread over 3 wards and Barceloneta Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Barceo Barceo is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 74 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and has a population of 58 people.
Barcid The Barcid family was a notable family in the ancient city of Carthage; many of its members were fierce enemies of the Roman Republic. The word "Barcid" as a family name was apparently invented by scholars to designate this family; its original surname was Barca or Barcas, which means lightning: see Baraq, in Canaanite, برق, Barq, in Arabic, and similar words in other semitic languages.
Barclay College Barclay College is a small, private Religious Society of Friends (or Quaker) affiliated college in Haviland, Kansas. It is an interdenominational school where there is a focus on "preparing students in a Bible-centered environment for effective Christian life, service and leadership.
Barclay Church Barclay Church (not to be confused with Dalmuir Barclay Church) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Presbytery of Edinburgh. Located at the border between the Bruntsfield and Tollcross areas of the city at the junction of Barclay Place and Wright's Houses, it was built by Thomas Pilkington – starting in 1862 and completed in 1864 – from a bequest left by Mary Barclay for the building of a church for the Free Church of Scotland.
Barclay Martin Barclay Martin was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 6th congressional district. He was born in Edgefield District, South Carolina on December 17, 1802.
Barclay Records Barclay Records is a French record label, which was founded round 1954 by Eddie Barclay (who founded the Riviera label round 1950/51) alias Edouard Ruault. Among the artist in their catalog are Dalida, Charles Aznavour, Les Chaussettes Noires, Eddy Mitchell, Hugues Aufray, Henri Salvador, Jacques Brel, and Fela Kuti.
Barclay Shaw Barclay Shaw is an American professional artist best known for his fantasy and science fiction artwork. He has been nominated five times for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, and has earned a top 10 ranking six times in the annual Locus Poll Award for Best Artist.
Barclay Tagg Barclay Tagg is a trainer of race horses, most famous for conditioning Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Funny Cide...and now for the up-and-coming Showing Up, as well as No Biz Like Shobiz (by Albert the Great, out of Nightstorm by Storm Cat).
Barclays Bank Mauritius An ancestor of Barclays Bank, National Bank of South Africa, first entered Mauritius in 1919. Since then, Barclays Bank Mauritius has grown to be the third largest bank in Mauritius, after Mauritius Commercial Bank and State Bank of Mauritius, with 20 branches and a market share of about 10-12%.
Barclays Center The Barclays Center is a proposed sports arena to be built partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Atlantic Yards at Atlantic Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is part of a proposed US$3.
Barclayville Barclayville, the capital and most populous settlement in Grand Kru County is located in southeastern Liberia about 10 miles inland from Picinicess. The Barclayville township of several thousand people straddles the banks of the Na River.
Barclodiad y Gawres Barclodiad y Gawres (Welsh for apronful of the giantess) is a Neolithic burial chamber two miles north-west of Aberffraw on the island of Anglesey in North Wales, and on the Anglesey Coastal Path. It is an example of a cruciform passage grave, a notable feature being its decorated stones.
Barco ColorTone Barco ColorTone was a stripped down version of the Barco Creator image manipulation program. It was originally developed for IRIX, and only featured the base "CT-Brix", brush and colour correction modules.
Barco Creator Barco Creator was an image manipulation program targeted at the repro and print shop markets. It was developed by the Creative Systems] (later [[Barco Graphics|Graphics) division of the Barco Group from 1988 to the late 1990s, and ran on several generations of Silicon Graphics computers.
Barco Strike! Barco Strike was a vector-based drawing program targeted at the repro and print shop markets. It was developed by the Graphics division of the Barco Group from 1993 to the late 1990s on both Barco's own proprietary workstations and SGI computers.
Barcode A barcode (also bar code) is a machine-readable representation of information in a visual format on a surface. Originally barcodes stored data in the widths and spacings of printed parallel lines, but today they also come in patterns of dots, concentric circles, and hidden within images.
Barcode printer A barcode printer (or bar code printer) is a computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags that can be attached to physical objects. Barcode printers are commonly used to label cartons before shipment, or to label retail items with UPCs or EANs.
Barcode tagger Used in the bulk mailing industry, the Whittier Mailing Products Barcode Tagger is a stand alone system that will create your barcoded tray and sack labels, per US Postal Service specifications, on demand. It can create any class, sortation level, or ZIP code you require.
Barcode World Barcode World is a Famicom game based on the classic Barcode Battlers which entertained young preadolescent males in Japan and North America for years. The object is to acquire the best barcodes so that they player(s) can create the perfect battle monster.
Barcoo River The Barcoo River in western Queensland, Australia rises on the northern slopes of the Warrego Range and unites with the Thomson River to form Cooper's Creek. The first European to see the river was Thomas Mitchell in 1846, who named it Victoria Stream.
BarCamp BarCamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols. The name is a playful allusion to its origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off and response to Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only unconference hosted by open source publishing luminary, Tim O'Reilly.
Bard (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, bard is one of the base character classes. A bard is a versatile class, capable of combat and of magic (Divine magic in earlier editions, arcane magic in later editions).
Bard College Bard College, founded in 1860, is a small, four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York's Hudson Valley region. It is consistently ranked among the nation's top liberal arts colleges: 2007 U.
Bard College at Simon's Rock Bard College at Simon's Rock, also known as Simon's Rock College of Bard, Simon's Rock College, and Simon's Rock or, simply, The Rock (see below), is a small liberal arts college located in the small town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the United States. The foremost of the many unusual things about Simon's Rock is that it is designed for students to enroll after completing the tenth or eleventh grade of high school, rather than after graduating.
Bard College Clemente Program Officially referred to as the Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, the program is a community-based academics outreach to economically disadvantaged individuals with low expectation of attaining post-secondary (i.e.
Bard College Conservatory of Music The Bard College Conservatory of Music is a program of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Founded in 2005, the program is unique among music conservatories in that all students are required to participate in a five-year dual-degree program, in which both a B.
Bard High School Early College Bard High School Early College (BHSEC), is an alternative public secondary school in New York City that allows five to six hundred highly motivated and scholastically strong students (approximately 65% of whom are female) to begin their college studies two years early. Upon entering, these students embark on a writing intensive journey and engage in far more critical thinking than the typical high school student does.
Bard on the Beach Bard on the Beach is Western Canada's largest professional Shakespeare festival, which is held every year in open-ended tents on the waterfront in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival’s 18th season runs May 31 to September 23, 2007.
Bard's blessing The bard’s blessing (Scottish Gaelic: beannachadh-bàird) or poet’s congratulation, was the custom of old in the Scottish Highlands of old, to meet the bride coming forth from her chamber with her maidens on the morning after her marriage and to salute her with a poetical blessing called beannachadh-bàird.
Bard's Burial Bard's Burial by Eternal Tears of Sorrow was the band's second demo tape (as EToS) and their first studio demo. Compared to the previous two demos by the band, this demo is less doom metallish, less basic death metallish and more melodic.
Bard's Tale (1985) The Bard's Tale (Tales of the Unknown: Volume I) is a computer fantasy role-playing game created by Interplay Productions in 1985 and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford.
Bard's Tale Construction Set The Bard's Tale Construction Set is computer software that allows the user to create simple dungeon crawl video games using The Bard's Tale game engine. It was created by Interplay Productions in 1991 and distributed by Electronic Arts.
Barda, Azerbaijan Barda (Azerbaijani: Bərdə) is the capital town of Barda District, Azerbaijan. For a long period Barda was the seat of both the Albanian kings and the Albanian Christian Chruch as well as an important trading and cultural centre, but it declined after the Arab invasions.
Bardak Siah Palace Bardak Siah Palace was the name of ancient Persian king's palace situated near township of Dashtestan in the northern part of Bushehr Province of Iran. In 2005, archaeologists discovered a fragmentary sculpture featuring the head of Darius the Great (r.
Bardarski Geran Bardarski Geran (Бърдарски геран) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Byala Slatina municipality, Vratsa Province. It is among the several villages founded by Banat Bulgarians returning from the Banat after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878, and is thus predominantly Roman Catholic.
Bardel Entertainment Animation for the Viva Piñata television series is being done at Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver, Canada. They are an entertainment company involved in the acquisition, development, production and distribution of animated programming for children and families.
Bardera Bardera City (Somali Baardheere) is an important agricultural and academic city in the Gedo region of Somalia. Sayed Muhammad Abdulle Hassan, "The Mad Mullah of Somaliland", is said to have studied the Arabic grammar and syntax in Bardera in the early 1870s.
Bardez Bardez is the name of a region in North Goa. The name is credited to the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin immigrants who migrated to the Konkan via Magadha in Gangetic India from Aryavarta, in the north-western part of the Indian sub-continent.
Bardfest Bardfest is an annual 30-day poetry festival begun in 1999 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA to celebrate National Poetry Month by having a poetry reading every day of the month of April. Created by stevenallenmay from the organization, BerksBards, BardFest has featured local and national poets including Billy Collins, Sonia Sanchez, Lamont Steptoe and Charles Bernstein.
Bardhaman Raj Bardhaman Raj (also known as Burdwan Raj) flourished from 1657 to 1955 – for almost 300 years, first under the Mughals and then under the British. Eminent historians brush them aside as revenue collectors and petty zemindars.
Bardic poetry Bardic Poetry refers to the writings of poets trained in the Bardic Schools of Ireland and the Gaelic parts of Scotland, as they existed down to about the middle of the 17th century, or, in Scotland, the early 18th century. Most of the texts preserved are in Middle Irish or in early Modern Irish.
Bardiya District Bardiya district, a part of Bheri zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Gularia as its district headquarters, covers an area of 2,025 sq km and has a population (2001) of 382,649.
Bardney Bardney is a village 16 km (10 miles) east of Lincoln, sitting on the north side of the River Witham in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, notable only for the huge British Sugar factory, which ceased processing on 9th February 2001. There is a mediaeval abbey, ruined in Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, a church and a small primary school.
Bardo (band) Bardo was a male/female pop music duo (Sally-Ann Triplett and Stephen Fischer) formed to represent the United Kingdom in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "One Step Further". Triplett, a children's TV presenter (Crackerjack), was previously a member of the UK's 1980 Eurovision act Prima Donna.
Bardo Pond Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991. The current members are Michael Gibbons (guitar), John Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (flute and vocals), Clint Takeda (bass guitar), Jason Kourkounis (drums), and Aaron Igler (synth/electronics).
Bardo Thodol The Bardo Thodol (Tibetan: བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ), Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State, traditionally but inaccurately called the Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a funerary text that describes the experiences of the consciousness after death during the interval known as bardo between death and rebirth.
Bardock: The Father of Goku A Lonesome, Final Battle: The Father of the Z-Warrior Son Goku, who Challenged Freeza (Japanese: たったひとりの最終決戦　〜フリーザに挑んだZ戦士孫悟空の父〜, romaji: Tatta Hitori no Saishū Kessen ~Furīza ni Idonda Z Senshi Son Gokū no Chichi~) is the 1st Dragon Ball Z TV Special, which is an addition to the popular manga and anime series. It first aired on October 17, 1990, between Dragon Ball Z episodes 63 and 64 (during the fight against the Ginyu Force).
Bardoli Satyagraha The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1925, in the state of Gujarat, India during the period of the British Raj, was a major episode of civil disobedience and revolt in the Indian Independence Movement. Its success gave rise to Vallabhbhai Patel as one of the greatest leaders of the independence struggle.
Bardsea Bardsea is a village in the Low Furness area of Cumbria in northwest England. It is two miles to the south-west of Ulverston on the northern coast of Morecambe Bay, and lies within the historic borders of Lancashire.
Bardufoss concentration camp During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, the Nazi authorities established a concentration camp in the town of Bardufoss in Northern Norway, as an annex to Grini. It opened in March of 1944 to alleviate overflowing in other camps, particularly Grini and Falstad concentration camp.
Bardwell Valley, New South Wales Bardwell Valley is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bardwell Valley is located 12km south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Rockdale and is part of the St George area.
Bare (woreda) Bare is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Afder Zone, Bare is bordered on the south by Somalia, on the southwest by Dolobay, on the northwest by Afder, on the north by Mierab Emi, and on the east by Shebelle River which separates it from the Gode Zone.
Bare Bones Software Bare Bones Software is a Bedford, Massachusetts, USA software company developing software tools for the Apple Macintosh platform. The company is best known for its BBEdit text editor, marketed under the registered trademark "It doesn't suck.

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