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Backyard Wildlife Habitat Backyard Wildlife Habitat is a program of the National Wildlife Federation that encourages homeowners in the United States to manage their yards with the goal of maintaining healthy and diverse animal ecosystems. The program began in 1973, by 1998 was known to have impacted more than 21,000 yards, and and as of 2006 has certified over 60,000 backyards.
Baclaran LRT Station Baclaran LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). The station is located on the last stretches of Taft Avenue, in the Pasay City portion of Baclaran, and, like all other stations on the LRT-1, Baclaran station is above-ground on viaduct.
Baclofen Baclofen (brand names Kemstro® and Lioresal®) is a derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid, and is an agonist specific to mammalian but not fruit fly (Drosophila) GABAB receptorsIt is used for the treatment of spastic] movement, especially in instances of [[spinal cord injury, spastic diplegia and multiple sclerosis. Its beneficial effects result from actions at spinal and supraspinal sites.
Baco (crater) Baco is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged southern highlands on the near side of the Moon. The rim and inner wall has been eroded and worn by countless minor impacts since the original formation of the crater.
Baco noir Baco noir (pronounced BA-koh NWAHR; Baco noir is also called Baco 1) is a hybrid red wine grape variety produced from a cross of Vitis vinifera var. (Folle Blanche, a French wine grape) and an unknown variety of Vitis riparia (an indigenous North American grape species).
Bacolod City Bacolod City (the City of Smiles), is the capital and largest highly urbanized city of the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines, well known for its MassKara Festival held during the month of October. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 429,076 people in 87,441 households.
Bacolod Christian Center The Bacolod Christian Center (BCC) was the first Baptist pre-school established in the city of Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines. It was founded on February 23, 1954 as a community center and pioneer Baptist pre-school in the city.
Bacon Bacon is any of certain cuts of meat taken from the sides, back or belly of a pig, cured and possibly smoked. There also exist imitations of bacon made of other meats: "turkey bacon", "beef bacon", etc.
Bacon and eggs Bacon and eggs is a common breakfast in many countries. It forms an important component of the full English breakfast, the Irish breakfast, and the Ulster fry, for example, and was popularised in the United States by Edward Bernays in the 1920s and 1930s.
Bacon number The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation (see Six degrees of separation) they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The higher the Bacon number, the farther away from Kevin Bacon the actor is.
Bacon's cipher Bacon's cipher or the Baconian cipher is a method of steganography (a method of hiding a secret message as opposed to a true cipher) devised by Francis Bacon. A message is concealed in the presentation of text, rather than its content.
Bacon's Castle Bacon's Castle is located in Surry County, Virginia, USA. Soon after Surry County was formed in the Royal Colony of Virginia in 1652, Arthur Allen built a Jacobean brick house in 1665 near the James River, where he and his wife Alice (née Tucker) Allen lived.
Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion or the Virginia Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later in the same year.
Baconao Baconao Park is a large park region, located about 20 kilometers away from the city of Santiago de Cuba, with a total surface are of 92,360 hectares. In 1987, it was declared a World Heritage Biosphere Reserve by the UNESCO.
Bacopa monnieri Bacopa monnieri is a perennial, creeping herb whose habitat includes wetlands and muddy shores. Common names include Water Hyssop and brahmi (note: brahmi is also the Ayurvedic name given to Centella asiatica and other herbs).
Bacteria (malware) Bacteria (also known as rabbit programs) are a type of malware that create many instances of themselves, or run many times simultaneously, in order to consume large amounts of system resources. This creates a denial of service effect as legitimate programs may no longer me able to run, or at least may not run properly.
Bacteria and human health Bacteria are vital for the maintenance of human health, but they also pose and a significant health threat by causing disease. There are 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells in the human body, with large numbers of bacteria on the skin and in the digestive tract.
Bacteria in the human body The human body contains a large number of bacteria, most of them performing tasks that are useful or even essential to human survival. Those that are expected to be present, and that under normal circumstances do not cause disease, are termed normal flora.
Bacterial cell structure Bacteria, despite their apparent simplicity contain a well developed cell structure which is responsible for many of their unique biological properties. Many structural features are unique to bacteria and are not found among archaea or eukaryotes.
Bacterial conjugation Bacterial conjugation is the transfer of genetic material between bacteria through cell-to-cell contact. It is a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer, as are transformation and transduction, although these mechanisms do not involve cell contact.
Bacterial display Bacterial Display (or bacteria display or bacterial surface display) is a protein engineering technique used for in vitro protein evolution. Libraries of polypeptides displayed on the surface of bacteria can be screened using flow cytometry.
Bacterial lawn Bacterial lawn is a term used by microbiologists to describe the appearance of bacterial colonies when all the individual colonies on a petri-dish agar plate merge together to form a field or mat of bacteria. Bacterial lawns find use in screens for antibiotic resistance.
Bacterial oxidation Bacterial oxidation is a bio-hydrometallurgical process developed for pre-cyanidation treatment of refractory gold ores or concentrates. The bacterial culture is a mixed culture of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, Thiobacillus thiooxidans and Leptospirillum ferrooxidans.
Bacterial water analysis Bacterial water analysis is a routine check to make sure that the concentration of potentially pathogenic bacteria in drinking water is sufficiently low to say it is safe for human consumption at a reasonable level of confidence.
Bacteriocin Bacteriocins are proteinaceous toxins produced by bacteria to inhibit the growth of similar or closely related bacterial strain(s). They are phenomenologically analogous to yeast and paramecium killing factors, and are structurally, functionally, and ecologically diverse.
Bacteriocyte A bacteriocyte (Greek: "bacteria cell"), also called a mycetocyte, is a specialized adipocyte found in some insect groups such as aphids, german cockroaches, and many others. Mycetocyte symbionts specially include three insect groups: Cockroaches, Homoptera such as aphid, and Coleoptera such as weevils.
Bacterioplankton Bacterioplankton refers to the bacterial component of the plankton that drifts in the water column. The name comes from the Greek word πλανκτος ("planktos"), meaning "wanderer" or "drifter" (Thurman, 1997), and bacterium, a word coined in the 19th century by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.
Bacterivore Bacterivores are free-living, generally heterotrophic organisms, exclusively microscopic, which obtain energy and nutrients primarily or entirely from the consumption of bacteria. Many species of amoeba are bacterivores, as well as other types of protozoans.
Bactine Bactine is the trademarked name of a range of topical first aid treatments produced by Bayer. It includes a first aid liquid with active ingredients Benzalkonium chloride, an antiseptic, and lidocaine, a local anaesthetic Bactine Liquid is a topical anesthetic, (a type of local anesthetic) which means that it is used to numb the surface of a body part.
Bactria Bactria (Bactriana, Bākhtar in Persian, also Bhalika in Arabic and Indian languages, and Ta-Hsia in Chinese) was the ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (Oxus); its capital, Bactra or Balhika or Bokhdi (now Balkh), was located in what is now Afghanistan.
Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (or BMAC, also known as the Oxus civilization) the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age culture of Central Asia, dated to ca. 2200–1700 BC, located in present day Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, centered on the upper Amu Darya (Oxus).
Bactrian Camel The Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of eastern Asia. The Bactrian camel has two humps on its back, in contrast to the Dromedary, also known as the Arabian Camel, which has one.
Bactrian Gold The Bactrian Treasure (also known as the Bactrian Gold) is a treasure cache that lay dormant under the "Hill of Gold" (or "Golden Hill"), or Tillia tepe, for 2,000 years until Soviet archeologists exposed it shortly before the 1979 invasion. The hoard then went missing during subsequent wars in Afghanistan, when it was "rediscovered" and first brought to public attention again in 2003.
Bactrian language The Bactrian language is an extinct Middle Iranian language which was spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria, also called Tocharistan, in northern Afghanistan. Linguistically, it is classified as belonging to the Northeastern Iranian branch.
Bactris gasipaes Bactris gasipaes is a species of palm native to the tropical forests of the South and Central America. It is a palm which can typically grow to 20 m or taller, with pinnate leaves 3 m long on a 1 m long petiole.
Bactritida Bactritida are a small and poorly studied order of more or less straight-shelled ("orthocone") nautiloids which first appeared during the Emsian Stage of the Devonian Period (390 million years ago) and persisted until the Carnian Stage of the Triassic Period (235 million years ago). They are considered ancestors of the ammonites as well as of the coleoids (octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and the extinct belemnites).
Bactrocera correcta Bactrocera correcta is a species of tephritid fruit flies that is widely distributed in Southeast Asia. It is a serious pest species with a broad host range and has caused major infestations in Vietnam and Thailand.
Bactrocera dorsalis Bactrocera dorsalis is a species of tephritid fruit flies that is endemic to Southeast Asia, but has also been introduced to Hawai'i, the Mariana Islands and Tahiti. It is one of the major pest species in the genus Bactrocera with a broad host range of cultivated and wild fruits, second in damage only to B.
Bactrosaurus Bactrosaurus (IPA: ) meaning "staff lizard" because it was the staff, or beginning, of a new line of dinosaurs (Greek baktron = staff + sauros = lizard) was a herbivorous dinosaur that lived in east Asia in the late Cretaceous, 97 - 85 mya, making it one of the earliest known hadrosaurs.
Baculite Baculites ("walking stick rock") is a genus of extinct marine animals in the phylum Mollusca and class Cephalopoda. They are a nearly straight-shelled type of heteromorph ammonite that lived worldwide throughout the Late Cretaceous period.
Baculometry Bacculometry is the art of measuring accessible or inaccessible distances, or lines, by the help of one or more baculi, staves, or rods. Daniel Schwenter has explained this art in his Geometria Practica (1627); and the rules of it are delivered by Wolfius, in his Elements.
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (BRGS) is a selective co-educational foundation school in Waterfoot, Rossendale, England. Founded in the 18th century as Newchurch Grammar School, it opened its doors in 1701 on land bequeathed by a certain John Kershaw.
Baczewski Baczewski is a name of a Polish szlachta family and a brand of one of the most popular European fine spirits producer. The factory was based in LwĂłw and until 1939 was one of two most popular Polish export goods.
Bad a' Chreamha Bad a' Chreamha is a small hill in Scotland, occupying the broad peninsula between Loch Carron and Loch Kishorn. It consists of a long low ridge: the northwestern side is marked by a series of broken crags, whilst to the south the hill slopes down to the shores of Loch Carron.
Bad and Wrong Bad and Wrong is the description of something that is both badly designed and wrongly executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by contrast with, three less common terms — Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right.
Bad Acid Trip Bad Acid Trip is a metal band that is currently signed with System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian's record company, Serjical Strike. They released an album, Lynch the Weirdo, produced by Daron Malakian (also from System of a Down), in 2004.
Bad Ass Strippa "Bad Ass Strippa" is Jentina's debut single released in Italy and England. It received an average success in Italy but not a good one in the UK despite a heavy advertising campaign including adverts on prime time television.
Bad Astronaut Bad Astronaut is an indie/punk rock band founded in 2000 by Joey Cape, singer from Lagwagon. In Bad Astronaut, Joey Cape explores a new style of pop, with lyrics often about deep and intricate personal matters.
Bad Astronomy Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" is a non-fiction book by the American astronomer Phil Plait, also known as the Bad Astronomer. The book was released in 2002 and deals with various misconceptions like the fact that there is no sound in space, as the sound has no medium to propagate in.
Bad Attitude Bad Attitude is the second official release from Chicago-based hard rock band Simply Slang. Released on June 23, 2006, this album contains material of a heavier nature than featured on their previous effort, Simply Slang.
Bad beat In poker, "bad beat" is a subjective term for a hand in which a player who had what appeared to be strong cards nevertheless loses. There is no consensus among poker players as to what exactly constitutes a bad beat, and often players will disagree about whether a particular hand was a bad beat.
Bad blood Bad Blood is a phrase meaning that ill or bad feelings exist between people or groups of people. These bad feelings are often rooted in injustice sometimes caused by the exploitation of one group of people for the benefit of the other.
Bad Bergzabern Bad Bergzabern is a town and a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated near the border with France, on the south-eastern edge of the Pfälzer Wald, approx.
Bad Blood (1981 film) Bad Blood (1981) is a film set in the small West Coast town of Koiterangi, during World War II, and is based on the factual manhunt for mass-murderer Stanley Graham. Directed by English director Mike Newell, much of the film was shot at the original locations.
Bad Blood (film) Bad Blood is a British made film, directed by Hettie Macdonald, and based on the memoir of the late Lorna Sage, a story of love, ambition and failure. The film features Academy Award nominee Miranda Richardson and Academy Award nominee John Hurt.
Bad Blood (Film) Bad Blood is a 2003 independent British film based in northern England which tells the story of the fictional rock band Black Widow. It is directed by newcommer Kenny Richards and Lightning Bear (most famous for his work on Star Wars).
Bad Blood (Neil Sedaka song) "Bad Blood" is a popular song written by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody. Sedaka's single, on which Elton John sang the backing vocal, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, remaining in the top position for three weeks.
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border was originally published by Irish novelist Colm TĂłibĂ­n in 1987 with the title Walking Along the Border; it included photographs by Tony O'Shea. The book is an account of the people and the landscape between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and the past that haunted them at the end of the 1980s.
Bad Boy Heavy Muscle Truck The Bad Boy Heavy Muscle Truck is a commercialized military vehicle twice the weight of a Hummer. Produced by Homeland Defense Vehicles, a Texas-based company, the truck is part of the SUV-craze combined with playing on people's fears of a terrorist attack.
Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom is rock’n’roll musical extravaganza is about an altar boy who becomes the worlds first pop Pope. It premiered in Melbourne in 1989 and featured a young Russell Crowe in the title role.
Bad Boys (1983 film) Bad Boys is a 1983 juvenile delinquent melodrama set primarily in a tough reform school for boys. The general plot outline could have been taken from any number of generic late 1950s-era juvenile delinquent exploitation films - even the self-descriptive title, with its dual emphasis on dangerousness ("bad") and youth ("boys," not "men") is reminiscent of films such as Young and Wild (1958), The Rebel Breed (1960), and Untamed Youth.
Bad Boys (Inner Circle song) "Bad Boys" is the name of a song by the reggae band Inner Circle, made popular by the television program COPS, where it is played during the opening title sequence. An instrumental version is also played during the end credits.
Bad Boys Blue Bad Boys Blue are a multinational pop group that was formed in Cologne, Germany. The group performed many international hits including You're a Woman, Pretty Young Girl, I Wanna Hear Your Heartbeat and Come Back and Stay.
Bad Boys of Computer Science Bad Boys of Computer Science is a webcomic written and illustrated by Nicholas Yu. Publication lasted from February 2000 until July 2002, comprising about 300 separate items, but not all of those were traditional comic strips.
Bad Boys Of SNL The Bad Boys Of SNL, occasionally referred to as the Slap Pack or Happy Gilmore Gang, is a group of actors who have performed together on Saturday Night Live. This group has continued to appear together is movies, with the exception of the now deceased Chris Farley.
Bad Bramstedt-Land Bad Bramstedt-Land is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated around Bad Bramstedt, which is the seat of the Amt, but not part of it.
Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve is a 2,639-acre nature preserve in Letcher County, Kentucky. Originally dedicated on September 26, 1985, the preserve was 435 acres and included Bad Branch Gorge, a forested gorge with a sixty foot waterfall tumbling over sandstone cliffs on the south face of Pine Mountain.
Bad command or file name "Bad command or file name" was an infamous error message in early versions of Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, which is based on a command line interface (in contrast with, for example, Windows, which is GUI-based).
Bad Company (comics) Bad Company is a story created for 2000 AD by Alan Grant and John Wagner but their initial story remained unpublished for over 16 years. Peter Milligan, along with regular collaborators Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, reworked the concept into the form that was finally seen in the magazine in the mid-eighties.
Bad Copy Bad Copy are a popular hip-hop group from Belgrade known for their humorous lyrics and catchy slang. The members are Ajs Nigrutin (born Vladan Aksentijević), Timjah (born Rašid Kurtanović) and Wikluh Sky (born Đorđe Miljenović).
Bad Day (Daniel Powter song) "Bad Day" is a pop song written by Canadian singer Daniel Powter. It was released as the first single from his debut album Daniel Powter (2005) and reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart; it was also successful in the United Kingdom, where it reached number two on the UK Singles Chart.
Bad Day (Internet meme) Bad Day (also known as Computer rage or Office rage) is the name of a 30-second viral video clip that has circulated the Internet since 1997, making it one of the earliest video clips that became an Internet meme. The video contains footage of a man in his office cubicle, getting gradually irritated with the lack of response from his computer.
Bad Day at Black Rock Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 film which tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny, isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man. It stars Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.
Bad Day on the Midway Bad Day on the Midway is a CD-ROM game designed and scored by The Residents and a number of other graphic artists. The game allowed the player to switch from character to character in order to solve a number of puzzles: what put the park's owner in a coma?
Bad Days The Bad Days EP is the last single to be taken from Space's critically acclaimed 1998 album Tin Planet. It reached #20 in the UK charts and includes a cover of "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" by The Animals, as well as the songs "Bad Days" and "The Unluckiest Man in the World".
Bad DĂĽben Bad DĂĽben is a town in the district of Delitzsch in the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated at the southern end of the national park DĂĽbener Heide (Heath of DĂĽben), between the rivers Elbe and Mulde, which runs through the city center.
Bad DĂĽrkheim (district) Bad DĂĽrkheim is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Kaiserslautern, Donnersbergkreis and Alzey-Worms, the city of Worms, the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, the city of Neustadt/WeinstraĂźe, the districts of SĂĽdliche WeinstraĂźe, the city of Landau (the Taubensuhl/Fassendeich forest part of the city), the district SĂĽdwestpfalz, and the city of Kaiserslautern.
Bad DĂĽrkheim aerial tramway The Bad DĂĽrkheim aerial tramway was an aerial tramway located in Bad DĂĽrkheim (in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate). From 1973 on, it linked the Wurstmarkt in the city centre with the Teufelsstein in the Haardt mountains, situated to the northwest of the lower station.
Bad Dürrheim transmitter Bad Dürrheim transmitter was a facility for medium wave and short wave broadcasting at 48°00'12" N and 8°31'28" E at Bad Dürrheim-Ankenbuck. It was built by the Südwestfunk in 1951 and used for mediumwave and shortwave broadcasting.
Bad Doberan (district) Bad Doberan is a district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the Baltic Sea, the city of Rostock and the districts of Nordvorpommern, GĂĽstrow and Nordwestmecklenburg.
Bad ending A bad ending occurs when the player finishes a video game but is not completely successful for some reason. For example, in the arcade version of Street Fighter Alpha 3, failure to defeat the game's end boss M.
Bad Eggs Bad Eggs is a 2003 Australian comedy movie, written and directed by Tony Martin. It stars Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin and Judith Lucy, with Alan Brough, Bill Hunter, Marshall Napier, Nicholas Bell, Steven Vidler, Shaun Micallef, Robyn Nevin, Brett Swain and Pete Smith having supporting roles.
Bad Eisenkappel Bad Eisenkappel (aka Eisenkappel, slovenian Železna Kapla) is a community in the Vellach Valley in the Karawanken mountain range with nearby peaks: Obir, Peca, and Olševa. It is the population center of the market township of Eisenkappel-Vellach (population 3,038) of the Völkermarkt district in the State of Carinthia, Austria near the border of Slovenia.
Bad faith Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is a legal concept in which a malicious motive on the part of a party in a lawsuit undermines their case. It has an effect on the ability to maintain causes of action and obtain legal remedies.
Bad faith (existentialism) Bad faith (from French, mauvaise foi) is a philosophical concept first coined by existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to describe the phenomenon wherein one denies one's total freedom, instead choosing to behave as an inert object. It is closely related to the concept of self-deception.
Bad for Business Bad for Business is a mystery novel by Rex Stout starring his detective Tecumseh Fox, first published in 1940. Unlike the better known detective Nero Wolfe from the same author, Fox walks around, and does not rely on a proxy (like Archie Goodwin) to do his footwork.
Bad for Good Bad For Good is the debut (and currently only) album by American composer and singer Jim Steinman, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). It is entirely written and composed by Jim Steinman, and most songs are sung by him, but some feature Rory Dodd on the lead vocals.
Bad Fallingbostel Bad Fallingbostel is a municipality in Soltau-Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony, Germany. Originally named Fallingbostel, it was changed to Bad Fallingbostel after a discovery of a spring, as 'Bad' actually means 'on water'.
Bad girl movies "Bad girl movies" are a subcategory of film noir labeled by latter-day movie buffs to describe the dark films of the 1940s and 1950s starring beautiful women who were usually on the wrong side of the law. The movie posters to these films usually featured sexy artwork of the lady in question, posed seductively, and these images today in original posters and reproductions are as collected today, as are the films themselves are on VHS and DVD.
Bad grammar As grammar is the rules defining good use of a language, Bad grammar is the term used when someone breaks one or more of those rules. An example would be using the word aint in the english language (aint, aint a word)
Bad Girl (La Toya Jackson song) "Bad Girl" is a single by American singer La Toya Jackson, from her 1989 album of the same name. Extra care went into the making of the single, as it would be the lead single from the Bad Girl album, which Jackson felt was her "control album".
Bad Girls (novel) Bad Girls is a young-adult novel by Cynthia Voigt, published in 1997. It follows two fifth-graders, Mickey Elsinger and Margalo Epps, exploring issues of friendship, courage, and ethics using the lens of these two girls who are ambitious, combative, intelligent, and independent in ways that break from the norm.
Bad Girls (song) "Bad Girls" is a 1979 single released by American singer Donna Summer. Co-written by Summer, the inspiration for her to write the song came after one of her assistants was offended by a police officer who thought she was a street prostitute.
Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel is a united spa town in the district Sächsische Schweiz in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. The municipality is neighbored with the Czech Republic in the south, the villages include Oelsen in the southeast, Markersbach and Hellendorf in the southeast, Hartmannsbach, Breitenau, Börnersdorf and Hennersbach in the southwest, Bad Gottleuba and Berggießhübel in the central part and Zwiesel, Bahra and Langenhennersdorf in the north.
Bad Guy (film) Bad Guy (2001) is a South Korean film by director Kim Ki-duk about a man who traps a woman into prostitution, then becomes protective of her. The film was controversial for its frank portrayal of gangsters, prostitution, and sexual slavery, but also was a minor box office hit as its release coincided with a burgeoning audience interest in its male lead and director.
Bad Haggis Bad Haggis is a Celtic band with roots based in Irish folk music group from America led by piper Eric Rigler, who has played on dozens of movie soundtracks. A tune by Bad Haggis was used in the first season of Crossing Jordan, and pipe and whistles played by Eric Rigler are still heard regularly on the show.
Bad Hair Day: The Videos Bad Hair Day: The Videos is a VHS release of four of "Weird Al" Yankovic's music videos: "Amish Paradise," "Gump," Headline News," and "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies."
Bad Horsey Bad Horsey is a Scottish artist and a founding member of the art collective Estudio Caballito Malo. In a similar manner to Bristol graffiti artist Banksy, his actual identity remains a secret, despite collaborations with artists like Peter Blake and Nicola Gregory.
Bad Influence (Robert Cray album) Bad Influence is a 1983 blues album by the blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Robert Cray. Released with Hightone Records, this was the album thought to have put Cray on the map, prior to his explosion into the mainstream with Strong Persuader in 1986.
Bad Königshofen Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld is a small spa town in the Rhön-Grabfeld district, in the north east of Lower Franconia, Bavaria on the Franconian Saale a few kilometers from the border with Thuringia. The population was 7,008 (from the 31 December 2003 census) and the land area is 69.

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