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Battlefleet Gothic Battlefleet Gothic is a tabletop miniatures game based in Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. Battlefleet Gothic is a starship combat game, and focuses around the incursion of the "Gothic Sector" by fleets under the command of Abaddon the Despoiler, and the subsequent campaign by the Imperium to restore order.
Battleford (electoral district) Battleford was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1925. This riding was created in 1907 following the admission of Saskatchewan into the Canadian Confederation in 1905 from parts of the Northwest Territories ridings of Assiniboia West, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatchewan and Strathcona ridings.
Battleford, Saskatchewan Battleford is a town located just across the river from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. The town was founded in 1875 as a fur trading post and NWMP (Northwest Mounted Police, now Royal Canadian Mounted Police).
BattleForce BattleForce is a FASA wargame set in the BattleTech universe, designed to allow the simulation of larger-scale actions. Units typically represent lances, but there are provisions for allowing the counters to represent larger units.
Battleground (1949 film) Battleground is a 1949 war film that tells the story of a platoon of the 101st Airborne Division trying to cope during the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne, Belgium. It stars Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland, Don Taylor, Bruce Cowling, James Whitmore, Douglas Fowley, Leon Ames, and James Arness.
Battleground 2: Gettysburg Battleground 2: Gettysburg is a real-time tactics computer game developed by TalonSoft in 1995. It simulated combat at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, using both a video version of miniature wargaming and board gaming.
Battleground 4: Shiloh Battleground 4: Shiloh is a real-time tactics computer game developed by TalonSoft in 1996, the fourth issue in the Battleground series. It simulated combat at the 1862 Battle of Shiloh, using both a video version of miniature wargaming and board gaming.
Battleground 5: Antietam Battleground 5: Antietam is a real-time tactics computer game developed by TalonSoft in 1996, the seventh issue in the popular Battleground series. It simulated combat at the 1862 Battle of Antietam and the earlier Battle of South Mountain during the American Civil War's Maryland Campaign, using both a video version of miniature wargaming and board gaming.
Battleground 7: Bull Run Battleground 7: Bull Run is a real-time tactics computer game developed by TalonSoft in 1997, the seventh issue in the popular Battleground series. It simulated combat at the 1861 First Battle of Bull Run and the 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run, using both a video version of miniature wargaming and board gaming.
Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine (ISBN 0-929093-13-5) is a history book about the Arab-Israeli conflict by Israeli writer Shmuel Katz. Originally published in 1973, the book has since been updated several times in subsequent editions.
BattleGoat Studios BattleGoat Studios is a Canadian software developer committed to developing leading edge “Intelligent Strategy Games” for the PC computer platform. Although Supreme Ruler 2010 is the first PC title they have developed, their game design history dates back to 1982, with the development of the original Supreme Ruler game for the Radio Shack TRS-80.
Battleline Publications Battleline Publications was a board wargame company founded by Steven Peek in 1973. Output was relatively low at first, with each game being funded by sales of the one before, but their games were generally well-respected.
Battlelords Battlelords is a collectible card game based on the Optimus Design Systems (ODS) licensed paper and pencil role-playing game titled Battlelords of the 23rd Century. The card game was released in 1995 - only one series was produced.
BattleLore (board game) BattleLore is a strategy board wargame for two players, created by Richard Borg and published by Days of Wonder. The game is based on the same mechanics as Battle Cry, Memoir '44 and Commands & Colors: Ancients, but has a fantasy theme.
BattleMechs A BattleMech ('Mech), in the science fiction universe of BattleTech, is a bipedal war machine between 7 and 17 meters tall (23 to 56 feet), and massing typically 20 to 100 tonnes (22 to 110 imperial tons), although recent developments in the fiction mention a Colossus class mech weighing more than 100 tons. Some BattleMechs are capable of speeds well over 100 kph (60 mph).
Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue The related naval battles of Barfleur and La Hogue took place between 27 May and 3 June, 1692 (17-23 May in the Julian calendar then in use in England) at Saint-Vaast-la-Hogue near Barfleur in the Cotentin peninsula, Normandy, France. It was the decisive naval battle of the War of the Grand Alliance.
Battles of El Teb The Battles of El Teb (February 4, 1884) and (February 29, 1884) took place during the British Sudan Campaign where a force of Sudanese under Osman Digna won a victory over an 3500 strong Egyptian force under the command of General Valentine Baker which was marching to relieve Tokar on the 4th. A second British force under Sir Gerald Graham arrived on the 29th, engaging and defeating Osman Digna with few casualties.
Battles of Kawanakajima The were fought in the Sengoku Period of Japan between Takeda Shingen of Kai province and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo province in the plain of Kawanakajima, in the north of Shinano Province, located in the southern part of the city of Nagano.
Battles of Kizugawaguchi The two battles of Kizugawaguchi (literally mouth of the Kizu River) were fought during Oda Nobunaga's attempted sieges of the Ishiyama Hongan-ji in Osaka. The Hongan-ji was the primary fortress of the IkkĹŤ-ikki, mobs of warrior monks, priests, and farmers who opposed Oda's rule.
Battles of Narvik The Battles of Narvik were fought from April 9 until June 8 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War.
Battles of New Ulm The Battles of New Ulm were two battles in the Sioux Uprising in August of 1862. The settlement of New Ulm, Minnesota had 900 settlers around the time and was the largest settlement near the Sioux reservation.
Battles of Prince of Persia Battles of Prince of Persia is a turn-based strategy video game for the Nintendo DS handheld console in which the player takes the role of different characters of the Prince of Persia world, including the titular Prince and his father King Sharaman.
Battles of Rzhev Rzhev Battles (Ржевская битва) is a general term for a series of World War II offensives launched during January 8, 1942—March 22, 1943 by Soviet forces in the general directions of Rzhev, Sychevka and Vyazma against a German salient in the vicinity of Moscow, known as the "Rzhev meat grinder" ("Ржевская мясорубка") for its huge losses.
Battles of the American Civil War The Battles of the American Civil War can be organized in a variety of ways, including chronologically, alphabetically by state, by winner, by casualty statistics, etc. Of the estimated 10,000 occasions in which hostilities occurred, this list (and related articles) includes the 391 battles considered by the United States National Park Service to be the most significant.
Battles of the War of 1812 This is a list of battles of the War of 1812 (between the United Kingdom and the USA), organized in chronological order within each state or region. The original list was generated by the National Park Service, with the following information:
Battleship Battleship is the name applied to very large, heavily-armoured warships with a main battery consisting of the largest caliber of guns, specifically those ships built from the late 1800s through to the mid-20th Century. The word battleship was coined about 1794 and is a shortened form of line-of-battle ship (otherwise known as ship-of-the-line), which referred to those vessels considered to be large enough to form part of the battle line during the Age of Sail.
Battleship (game) The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. Although popularized in the United States as a commercial board game, first published by the Milton Bradley Company in 1931, it is known throughout the world as a pencil and paper game and predates the First World War in this form.
Battleship (horse) Battleship (1927-1958) is an American Thoroughbred Racehorse who is the only horse in history to win both the American Grand National and the English Grand National steeplechase races. He was bred by owner Walter J.
Battleship (puzzle) The Battleship puzzle (sometimes called Solitaire Battleships or Battleship Solitaire) is a logic puzzle based on the Battleship guessing game. It and its many variants often appear in puzzle contests, such as the WPC, and puzzle magazines, such as Games Magazine.
Battleship battle group A battleship battle group was a formation used by the United States Navy, after the recommissioning of the Iowa class battleships. The BBBG was similar to a carrier battle group, except for the fact that a battleship, rather than an aircraft carrier, was the center of the naval formation.
Battleship Cove Located in Fall River, Massachusetts, Battleship Cove is a nonprofit maritime museum and war memorial that traces its origins to the wartime crew of the World War II battleship USS Massachusetts. This dedicated veterans group was responsible for the donation of the decommissioned vessel from the Navy and its subsequent public display in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya The Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya (Императрица Екатерина Великая) was a Dreadnought Battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, She was a ship of the Imperatritsa Mariya class battleships.
Battleship secondary armament The secondary armament of a capital ship are smaller, faster-firing weapons that are typically effective at a shorter range than the main (heavy) weapons. The nature, disposition, size and purpose of secondary weapons changed dramatically as the threat changed.
Battleship Tsesarevich The Russian Battleship Tsesarevitch (Цесаревич) was built in France by " Compagnie des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée à la Seine" for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was named after the Tsesarevich, the eldest son of the Tsar and heir to the Russian throne.
Battleships (Wing Commander) In the Wing Commander universe, the battlefleets of the Terran Confederation and Empire of Kilrah maintain a number of powerful battleships, most of which are destroyed at the Battle of McAuliffe. None of these ships are given classes.
Battlespace Battlespace is a unified strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations, including air, information, land, sea and space. It includes the environment, factors and conditions that must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission.
Battlestar Battlestars are capital ships from the science fiction universe of Battlestar Galactica, depicted in the original Battlestar Galactica movie and series, the Galactica 1980 spinoff, and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series.
Battlestar (comics) Battlestar (Lemar Hoskins), who was also the fourth Bucky, is a fictional character, who is a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary in Captain America #323 (November 1986).
Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of American science fiction films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978. There are also a series of book adaptations, original novels, comic books and video games that have been based on the concept.
Battlestar Galactica (comic book) Battlestar Galactica has been adapted to the comic book format since its inception, with no less than six publishers to date taking on the project of relating the story of the Colonial Fleet and their adversaries, the Cylons at different points.
Battlestar Galactica (film) Battlestar Galactica is the pilot for the American science fiction television series which was produced in 1978 by Glen Larson starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. The film was released theatrically in Canada, Australia and some countries in Europe and Latin America before the television series aired in the U.
Battlestar Galactica Collectable Card Game The Battlestar Galactica Collectible Card Game is a collectible trading card game based on the Battlestar Galactica science fiction media franchise. The game, published by WizKids, saw first release in May 2006.
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance is a series of 10 short "webisodes" released on the world wide web through the Sci Fi Channel's website. The series takes place between the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3 of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series.
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming was a project to create a movie trailer for a proposed new Battlestar Galactica television series that would pick up from where the original 1978 series left off. All continuity related to Galactica 1980 would have been completely ignored.
Battlestars (game show) Battlestars was an American game show that aired on two separate runs on NBC during the early 1980s. The show's first run aired from October 26, 1981, to April 23, 1982; while an updated version - called The New Battlestars - ran for 13 weeks, from April 4 to July 1, 1983.
Battlestars: Return of Convoy Battlestars (subtitled 'Return of Convoy') is the penultimate part of the Japanese Transformers continuity, and features the rebirth of Convoy (Optimus Prime outside of Japan) as Star Convoy. Alongside his Cybertron allies, Star Convoy battles the evil Super Megatron and the mysterious Dark Nova.
Battlesystem Battlesystem is a tabletop miniature wargame designed as a supplement for use with the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It was first published in 1985 and was usable with both Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and the Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons (see editions of Dungeons & Dragons).
Battletech: The Frontier Lands Battletech: The Frontier Lands is a real-time science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) game developed and run by the community that plays it. Players take to the front lines of an inter-stellar battle over planets on the outer rim of human settlement.
Battletoads & Double Dragon Battletoads & Double Dragon is a 2D beat 'em up released for the NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis and SNES. It was developed by Rare, which has produced such other hits as the first-person shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark.
BattleTanx: Global Assault BattleTanx: Global Assault is a multi-player video game for the Nintendo 64 (N64) in which players control futuristic tanks. It is a sequel to the popular N64 game BattleTanx, which utilized the same method of game play.
BattleTech CCG The BattleTech Collectable Card Game is a collectible card game set in the BattleTech universe developed by Wizards of the Coast for FASA using the same style of gameplay and card distribution as WotC's Magic: The Gathering. It's production ran from 1996 through 2001.
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception was a turn-based adventure/RPG game released in 1989 by Westwood Studios and based on the BattleTech franchise. It was one of the first commercial ports of the licence, and featured some of the franchise's worlds, institutions, political figures, and weapons, particularly the three-story tall Battlemechs.
Battleworld Battleworld was an artificial planet created by the extradimensional Beyonder for his contest of good and evil in the Marvel Comics Secret Wars crossover. Merged together from dozens of fragments taken from as many planets (including a suberb of Denver, Colorado from Earth), Battleworld was designed to provide an unfamiliar environment which nevertheless allowed all contestants to use their powers to the fullest.
Battlezone (arcade game) Battlezone is an arcade game from Atari released in 1980. It displays a wireframe view (using vector graphics rather than raster graphics) on a horizontal black and white CRT (with green and red sectioned color overlay).
Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs is a tank based strategy game released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64. Despite the name, it bears little resemblance to the 1980 arcade game Battlezone, But is instead based off of
Battling Battalino Battling Battalino (February 18, 1908–July 25, 1977) was the former world featherweight boxing champion. Battalino engaged in 87 bouts during his career, of which he won 57 (23 KOS), lost 26, drew 3 and he fought 1 No Contest.
Battling companion Battling companion is an unofficial name for a genre of anime and manga where the main character, usually a young boy, uses monsters to fight the forces of evil or battle among other characters with monsters of their own. Often (but not always), a character is linked to just one particular monster, which has the role of a sidekick fighting on its owner's behalf or bestowing its powers upon that person.
Battling Siki Battling Siki (September 16, 1897 – December 15, 1925), aka Louis Mbarick Fall, was a Senegalese light heavyweight boxer who fought from 1912-1925. Siki was one of the more colorful figures in boxing history.
Battlizer In the Power Rangers series of television shows, the Battlizer is a special armored enhancement given to some of the Power Rangers. Battlizers have been made exclusively for the Red Rangers of the series, although within the Power Rangers continuity a different kind of armor has been made for other Rangers.
BattĹŤjutsu is a Japanese term meaning techniques for drawing a sword. It is often used interchangeably with the terms iaijutsu, battĹŤdĹŤ, or iaidĹŤ, although each term does have nuances in the Japanese language and different schools of Japanese martial arts may use them to differentiate between techniques (e.
Battrick Battrick is a free Internet browser-based cricket management game inspired by the football management game Hattrick. From its humble beginnings during a throw away conversation on a message board, Battrick - largely under the hand of its creator Allan Fairlie-Clarke (Battrick username BT-allanfc) - has now grown to be the largest free cricket management game on the Internet.
Battus (butterfly) Battus is a genus of butterflies that are usually found around pipevine (genus Aristolochia) plants. The caterpillars feed off the poisonous pipevines, making the insects poisonous themselves; they taste very badly to warn off predators (Pinheiro 1996).
Batty boy Batty boy, battyman, chi chi man and chiefe are sexual slurs used in Jamaica, Belize, Guyana and the rest of the Anglophone Caribbean to describe gay men. The term is a Jamaican abbreviation of the word bottom into batty; "batty boy" is a cognate of the American English "butt boy".
Batty Langley Batty Langley (Twickenham, Middlesex, baptised 14 September, 1696 – London 1751) was an English garden designer and prolific writer, who produced a number of engraved designs for "Gothick" structures, summerhouses and garden seats in the years before the mid-18th century.
Batu (city) Batu is a city located in East Java, Indonesia. Formerly, It was a part of Malang regency; but in 2001, Batu became an independent city legalized by Act of 11, 2001, when it became a municipal town with its own city mayor and council.
Batu Caves Batu Caves is a limestone hill in the Gombak district about 13 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which has a series of caves and cave temples. It takes its name from the Sungai Batu or Batu River, which flows past the hill.
Batu Islands The Batu Islands are an archipelago of Indonesia located in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra, between Nias and Siberut. The three primary islands, of approximately equal size, are Pini, Tanahmasa, and Tanahbala.
Batu Pahat Batu Pahat (also known as Bandar Penggaram) is a town and a district located on the west coast of the state of Johor, Malaysia. It lies south-east of Muar, south-west of Kluang, north-west of Pontian and south of Segamat.
Batu Talam by-election, 2007 The Batu Talam by-election will be held on January 28 2007. The seat of Batu Talam in the state assembly of Pahang, Malaysia, fell vacant after the death of the incumbent, Tengku Paris Tengku Razlan of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the leading party of the ruling Barisan Nasional.
Batua Euskara batua (English "Unified Basque language") is a standardised dialect of the Basque language and its now the most widely and commonly spoken throughout the Basque Country. Heavily based on Gipuzkoan on account of its rich literary heritage, it is the version of the language found on the offitial TV, in newspapers and in common parlance.
Batugedara Batugedara is a city in the Sabaragamuwa Province of southwestern Sri Lanka, located just to the east of the province's capital of Ratnapura. It is most notable as a source for gemstones, and as a destination for tourism.
Batul The Great Batul, Bantul or Batul the Great (Bengali: বাঁটুল দি গ্রেট), is a popular Bengali comic strip character created by Narayan Debnath. It first appeared and still appears in a children's magazine called Shuktara and is widely read, not only by children but by adults as well.
Baturyn Baturyn (; also referred to as Baturin), is a historic town in the Chernihiv Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. It is located in the Bakhmatskyi Raion (district) of the oblast, on the banks of the Seym River.
Batusanschi Batusanschi is a surname that originates from an old region in Romania, where nowadays is Moldova. There are several variations, such as: Batusanski, which had spread through certain parts in the world because of the Jewish persecutions.
Batutut The Batutut or Ujit is a proposed hominid Cryptid thought to inhabit the Vu Quang nature reserve and other wilderness areas of Vietnam and Laos. The Vu Quang has been the source of a number of newly discovered mammals by Dr.
Batzarro Batzarro is a fictional comic book character, a twisted doppelgänger of Batman. While a bizarro version of Batman had first appeared in pre-Crisis continuity in World's Finest #156 (March 1966), his first appearance in post-Crisis continuity occurred in Superman/Batman #20 (June 2005), which was written by Jeph Loeb.
Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets is an 1986 double LP by Merzbow issued on RRRecords. The 1993 CD reissue which is retitled Batztoutai with Material Gadgets also on RRRecords adds a second disc of material recorded at the same time.
BaTelCo (Bahamas) Bahamas Telecommunications Company, BTC Bahamas - (BaTelCo) is the government-owned, full telecommunications service provider for the islands of the Bahamas. The services provided by BaTelCo include telephone, internet and wireless services.
Bau, Sarawak Bau is a mining town"Preston buying into Sarawak goldmine" Sydney Morning Herald 16 July 2002; in the Kuching Division of Sarawak, Malaysia. Smuggling with Kalimantan is also important to the local economy.
Bauakademie Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Bauakademie was built between 1832 and 1836 near the Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) to house institutions such as the Oberbaudeputation, the Higher Council of Architecture, and the Königliche Technische Hochschule, the technical royal faculty, which will give birth in 1879 to the Technische Universität.
Bauan, Batangas The Municipality of Bauan (Filipino: Bayan ng Bauan) is a first class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 72,604 people in 15,353 households.
Baucis and Philemon In Ovid's moralizing fable (Metamorphoses VIII), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, who were the only ones in their town to welcome the disguised gods, Zeus and Hermes, thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality.
Baud In telecommunications and electronics, baud (pronounced , unit symbol "Bd"), is a measure of the symbol rate; that is, the number of distinct symbolic changes (signalling event) made to the transmission medium per second in a digitally modulated signal. The term baud rate is also commonly used to refer to the symbol rate.
BaudĂł Mountains The BaudĂł Mountains (SerranĂ­a de BaudĂł) are a coastal mountain range on the Pacific coast of Colombia. They are separated from the Cordillera Occidental by the Atrato valley where the Atrato River flows and QuibdĂł is located.
Baudette River The Baudette River is a short tributary of the Rainy River in northern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Rainy River, Lake of the Woods, the Winnipeg River, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, it is part of the Hudson Bay watershed.
Baudin expedition of 1800 to 1802 Nicolas Baudin was selected to lead an expedition to map the coast of Australia in October 1800. He had two ships, Le GĂ©ographe and Le Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour.
Baudissin Baudissin is the name of a German noble family, first mentioned in 1326 in Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz in German) which is part of Saxony. At the time Bautzen, the district capital, was called “Budissin” (in Sorbian Budyšin) whence the name originated.
Baudline The baudline time-frequency browser is a signals analysis tool designed for scientific visualization. It runs on several popular Unix operating systems that utilize the X Window System for high speed local and remote display.
Baudoin de Trevalion In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, Prince Baudoin de Trevalion is a member of the royal family, the son of Lyonette de Trevalion, sister to King Ganelon and Marc de Trevalion, the reigning Duc of Azzalle. He is a slender, fair-skinned man with raven hair and sea-grey eyes.
Bauer-Fike theorem In mathematics, the Bauer-Fike theorem is a standard result in the perturbation theory of the eigenvalue of a complex-valued diagonalizable matrix. In its substance, it states an absolute upper bound for the deviation of one perturbed matrix eigenvalue from a properly chosen eigenvalue of the exact matrix.
Bauernroulette Bauernroulette is a game (apparently invented in Germany, where several companies sell it -- the name means "Farmer Roulette") in which a spinning top is spun in the middle of a wooden circular playing surface that contains 6 wooden balls. The balls bounce off the top in random directions, and sometimes land within one of several hollow indentations within the surface, or pass through a small hole into chambers that are located outside the spinning surface area.
Bauhaus Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and circus training school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933 and briefly in the United States from 1937 to 1938 and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. The most natural meaning for its name (related to the German verb for "build") is Architecture House.
Bauhinia Bauhinia is a genus of more than 200 species of flowering plants in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers, Swiss-French botanists.
Bauhinia blakeana Bauhinia blakeana () is an evergreen tree, in the genus Bauhinia, with large thick leaves and striking purplish red flowers. The fragrant, orchid-like flowers are usually 10-15 cm across, and bloom from early November to the end of March.
Bauhinia Bowl The Bank of China (Hong Kong) Bauhinia Bowl Award (中銀香港紫荊盃) is the annual award to member secondary schools of the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Secondary Schools Regional Committee, Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation who qualify under the rules set out below. The establishment of the Award is to encourage participation in interschool sports competitions orgainised by the Regional Committee.
Bauhinia School Bauhinia School opened in January 2002 with six classes: two in each of years 1 to 3 to meet the demands for places prior to the opening of 2 new Private Independent Schools. Each class has a maximum of thirty children.
Bauk The balk, back, bauk Lowland Scots, leum-iochd or bailc/bac Scottish Gaelic was a strip of a corn field left fallow. The fear of being left with the last sheaf of the harvest called the cailleach (kulyach etc) or gobhar bhacach (the goat of the balk) always led to an exciting competition among the reapers in the last field.
Baul Bauls (Bengali: বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal, which comprises of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Bauls constitute both a syncretic religious sect and a musical tradition used as a vehicle to express Baul thought.
Baula The peculiar looking mountain Baula, with its reddish or orange colour caused by its rhyolite rock composition, is situated in the west of Iceland next to Route 1 (the Ring Road). Bifröst University and the picturesque craters of Grábrók are located nearby.
Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills High School is a public (government) selective high school in Baulkham Hills, a suburb in the north west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of Sydney's highest achieving schools, ranking 2nd in the number of students in honours list of the 2006 New South Wales Higher School Certificate.

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