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Bad Kissingen Bad Kissingen is located in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and is the capital of the district Bad Kissingen. Situated to the south of the Rhön Mountains on the Franconian Saale river, it is Bavaria's spa town and a world-famous health resort.
Bad Kissingen (district) Bad Kissingen is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the district Main-Kinzig and Fulda in Hesse, and the districts of Rhön-Grabfeld, Schweinfurt and Main-Spessart.
Bad Kreuznach (district) Bad Kreuznach is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Rhein-HunsrĂĽck, Mainz-Bingen, Alzey-Worms, Donnersbergkreis, Kusel and Birkenfeld.
Bad Kreuznach-Land The German Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Kreuznach-Land includes the villages of Volxheim, Hackenheim, Tiefenthal, Pleitersheim, Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, Biebelsheim, Neu-Bamberg, Frei-Laubersheim and FĂĽrfeld. These villages lie south of the town of Bad Kreuznach.
Bad Lieutenant Bad Lieutenant (1992) is the title of a film crime drama directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel as the titular "bad lieutenant". The screenplay was written by actress-model Zoë Tamerlis under the name "Zoë Lund.
Bad Lobenstein Bad Lobenstein is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany with a population of circa 7,000 inhabitants. The town, grouped round a rock, upon which stand the ruins of an old castle, is exceedingly picturesque.
Bad Love (Randy Newman album) Bad Love is the tenth studio album by American] [[singer-songwriter Randy Newman released 1999. It was Newman's first solo album since 1988s Land of Dreams and followed an 11 year hiatus during which Newman had focused on film soundtracks, receiving his first Oscar nomination for "You've Got a Friend" - from the film Toy Story - in 1996.
Bad MĂĽnstereifel Bad MĂĽnstereifel is a historical spa town in the district of Euskirchen Germany with about 19,000 inhabitants, situated in the far south of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The little town is one of only few historical towns in the very south of North Rhine-Westphalia, and because of this is often overcrowded by tourists throughout Spring and Summer.
Bad Medicine Lake Bad Medicine Lake is a spring-fed lake located in Becker County in Minnesota. It got its name from the fact that early Native Americans in the area thought that a lake with neither inlet nor outlet was a place of bad omen ("bad medicine") and would not hunt or fish near the lake.
Bad Meets Evil Bad Meets Evil was a 2-piece rap collaboration consisting of Detroit emcees Royce Da 5'9" ("bad") and Eminem ("evil.") Bad Meets Evil preleased a small number of tracks such as "Scary Movies", "Nuttin' to Do" and "Bad Meets Evil", with the lattermost track featuring on Eminem's album The Slim Shady LP.
Bad Mojo Bad Mojo is a computer game by Pulse Entertainment, released in 1996. The player is cast as Roger Samms, an Redneck planning to embezzle money from a research grant to escape his sordid life above an abandoned bar.
Bad Motor Scooter "'Bad Motor Scooter" was the second track off of the album Montrose. It, along with "Rock Candy" was arguably the best known song by the band, Montrose, with lyrics penned by frontman Sammy Hagar - surpassed however by the blistering "Space Station # 5".
Bad Muskau Bad Muskau (Sorbian: MuĹľakow), formerly Muskau, is a small county town in Upper Lusatia, Germany, being the site of the famous Park von Muskau. It is part of the district Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis, in Saxony.
Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre The Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre was a British Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre in the town of Bad Nenndorf, Germany, which operated from June 1945 to July 1947. Allegations of mistreatment of detainees by British troops resulted in a police investigation, a public controversy in both Britain and Germany and the camp's eventual closure.
Bad News Bad News are a spoof rock band, created for the Channel 4 television series The Comic Strip Presents.... Its members are Vim Fuego (aka Alan Metcalfe), vocals and lead guitar (played by Adrian Edmondson); Den Dennis, rhythm guitar (Nigel Planer); Colin Grigson, bass (Rik Mayall); and Spider Webb, drums (Peter Richardson).
Bad Oeynhausen Bad Oeynhausen is a spa town in the Minden-LĂĽbbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of just over 50,000. The city is located on the banks of the Weser River, which runs along the eastern edges of the city.
Bad Oldesloe-Land Bad Oldesloe-Land is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated around Bad Oldesloe, which is the seat of the Amt, but not part of it.
Bad Planet Bad Planet is a 12-issue comic book limited series by Thomas Jane and Steve Niles about an ancient meteorite containing destructive alien organisms crashing down on modern Earth. Another alien, a single warrior, appears on Earth to help prevent its destruction at the hands of the malevolent invaders.
Bad Pyrmont Bad Pyrmont is a city in the county of Hamelin-Pyrmont, in Lower Saxony, Germany, with a population of 22,000 (2003). It is located on the River Emmer, about 10 km west of the Weser, and a popular spa resort that gained its reputation as a fashionable place for princely vacations in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open The Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open is the Swiss stop on men's professional golf's European Seniors Tour. It was founded in 1997 as the Credit Suisse Private Banking Seniors Open and assumed its present name two years later.
Bad Reichenhall Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps (including Mount Staufen (1771 m) and Mount Zwiesel (1781 m)).
Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse At approximately 15:00 UTC on Monday 2 January 2006, the roof of a 1970s-built ice rink collapsed, possibly under the weight of heavy snowfall in the town of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border, trapping 50 underneath the rubble.
Bad Religion Bad Religion is an influential punk rock band that was originally formed in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley (bass), Greg Graffin (vocals), Brett Gurewitz (guitars) and Jay Ziskrout (drums). This band is often credited for leading the revival of punk rock during the late 1980s, as well as influencing a large number of other punk and rock musicians throughout their career.
Bad River Train Blockade The Bad River train blockade was a 1996 protest on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Ashland County, Wisconsin USA. Ojibwe activists blocked the railroad tracks that would have brought sulfuric acid to a mine in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan bringing national scrutiny on the EPA and demonstrating the power of Indigenous rights in environmentalism.
Bad sector A bad sector is a sector on a computer's disk drive that cannot be used due to permanent damage, such as physical damage to the disk particles. It is usually detected by a disk utility software such as CHKDSK or SCANDISK.
Bad Santa Bad Santa is a 2003 film directed by Terry Zwigoff, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Billy Bob Thornton as the title character and Tony Cox (best known for Friday and Me, Myself and Irene) as his partner-in-crime. Bernie Mac, John Ritter, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, Ethan Phillips, Brett Kelly and Cloris Leachman are also featured.
Bad Säckingen Bad Säckingen is a rural town in the administrative district of Waldshut in the state of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is famous as the "Trumpeteer's City" because of the book "The Trumpeteer of Säckingen", a famous 19th century novel by German author Joseph Victor von Scheffel.
Bad Sector Bad Sector is ambient/noise project formed in 1992 in Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Magrini. Genre of Bad Sector could be discussed, though this project is well recognised as industrial and Magrini himself name it as "deeply emotional dark ambient noise" Sector music has been also presented live in several european countries.
Bad Schmiedeberg Bad Schmiedeberg is a small town in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany], and the seat of the [[Amt (subnational entity)|administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Kurregion Elbe-Heideland ("Spa Region of Elbe Heathland").
Bad Spark Bad Spark is a second season episode of the TV series Beast Wars. It is significant for establishing the forbidden romance between the Predacon femme fatale Blackarachnia and the Maximal fuzor Silverbolt and also for introducing the character Rampage.
Bad Staffelstein Bad Staffelstein is a small town in the Bavarian Administrative Region of Upper Franconia. It is known for the beautiful landscape that surrounds it, which has been given the name "Gottesgarten am Obermain" (Eden on the Upper Main).
Bad Subjects Bad Subjects is a collective that publishes an online zine of cultural and political criticism, and provides access to it via a public-access website. Originally founded at UC Berkeley in September 1992 as a Gopher site, Bad Subjects may be the longest continuously-running publication on the internet (NYU 1997).
Bad tendency (legal) Bad Tendency a legal term, refers to the restriction of Freedom of Speech by the government if it is believed that it had a sole tendency to incite or cause illegal activity. The "Bad Tendency" principle only stood for twelve years until it was overturned by the landmark case Schenck v.
Bad Taste Bad Taste is a low-budget 1987 cult film, one of the first directed by Peter Jackson, in which aliens invade the fictional New Zealand village of Kaihoro (population 78) in order to harvest human beings for their intergalactic fast food franchise but are repelled by a four-man paramilitary force.
Bad Taste (record label) Bad Taste (known as Smekkleysa in Icelandic, which literally means very bad or tasteless) is one of Iceland’s most important record labels; located in Reykjavík and known worldwide for being home to The Sugarcubes, it also publishes poetry books, greeting cards and Icelandic gifts. Bad Taste should not be confused with Bad Taste Records, a record label based in Sweden.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) Austria and the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Weilheim-Schongau, Starnberg, Munich and Miesbach.
Bad Thing A Bad Thing, written with capital letters for added emphasis (and with the words similarly emphasised when spoken) is something which has negative consequences for the subject under discussion. The opposite of a Bad Thing is a Good Thing.
Bad Times (computer virus hoax) Bad Times is a computer virus hoax sent out by e-mail. This "virus" does not actually exist, and the "warning" is meant to parody the alarmist message that spread the hoax of the Goodtimes virus.
Bad Traffic Bad Traffic is a 2003 film directed by John Bacon, written by John Bacon, Matthew Graham, and Kevin Stevens and starring John Bacon as Beaumont Livingston, Matthew Graham as Sho Wang, and Ryan Beter as Bryce Gibson III. The film is a satire of racial stereotypes predominant in movies, particularly buddy cop films.
Bada Bing Music This is a list of some music that has been played within the walls of The Bada Bing establishment during Seasons 1-6 of The Sopranos. The Official Soprano's Episode Guide clearly lists these for Season 6, but not for Seasons 1-5.
Badaganadu Badaganadu's are a Brahmin community that mainly reside in Karnataka, and now due to the advent of globalization they are spread throughout the world. Badaganadu Community is one of the three main streams of adherents to the Advaita Vedanta propounded by Sri Shankaracharya and are followers of the Smarta tradition (known as Smartism).
Badagas The Badagas are an indigenous people inhabiting the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, southern India. They form the largest indigenous community in the Nilgiri region, with a population of approximately 150,000 encompassing some 370-odd villages and smaller settlements1999 estimate by anthropologist Paul Hockings, see UCLA study.
Badachu The Badachu (Simplified Chinese: 八大处; Traditional Chinese: 八大處; pinyin: Bā Dàchǔ), meaning Eight Great Sites, refers to the eight Buddhist temples and monasteries scattered across Cuiwei, Pingpo, and Lushi hills at the foot of Beijing's Western Hills Scenic Area. Located along the outskirts of Beijing, it was restored during the 1980's and has since become a famous tourist destination.
Badajoz Badajoz (IPA , formerly written Badajos in English), the capital of the Spanish province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, is situated close to the Portuguese frontier, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid-Lisbon railway. The population in 1990 was 126,781; in 2002 it was 136,851.
Badajoz UFO Incident At the dawn of November 12 of 1976, at the Base Aérea de Talavera la Real (Talavera la Real Air Base), located at the province of Badajoz, Spain, the soldiers José María Trejo and Juan Carrizosa Luján allege to have seen and shot a being of unknown origin.
Badal Roy Badal Roy (Bangla: বাদল রায়) (born Amarendra Roy Choudhury in Comilla, eastern Bengal, British India (now Bangladesh), 1945) is a tabla player and percussionist known for his work in jazz, cross-cultural music, and experimental music.
Badaling Badaling (; ; ) is the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China, approximately 50 miles northwest of Beijing city within the Beijing municipality. The portion of the wall running through the site was built during the Ming Dynasty, along with a military outpost reflecting the location's strategic importance.
Badaling Expressway The Badaling Expressway (Simplified Chinese: 八达岭高速公路, Traditional Chinese: 八達嶺高速公路, Hanyu Pinyin: Bādálíng Gāosù Gōnglù) is an expressway in China which links Beijing to the Badaling stretch of the Great Wall of China. It continues toward Yanqing and leaves Beijing, becoming the Jingzhang Expressway.
Badami Cave temple Badami Cave temple, an example of Indian rock cut architecture, is at Badami in the Bagalkot District in the north part of Karnataka, India. Badami, the capital of the Chalukya dynasty that ruled between the 6th and the 12th centuries, lies at the mouth of a ravine with rocky hills on either side.
Badan Intelijen Nasional Badan Intelijen Nasional, (State Intelligence Agency), commonly referred to as BIN, is Indonesia's primary intelligence agency. Prior to 2001, it was known as Bakin; its name was changed as part of a general restructuring of the agency.
Badar Ali Khan Born in 1968 (Pakistan), Badar Ali Khan has already released 22 albums in his native Pakistan. His genre is more famous for his popular late cousin Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan though Badar Ali Khan himself has mastered this art too.
Badar Uugan Enkhbat Badar Uugan Enkhbat (born June 03, 1985) is an amateur boxer from Mongolia who competed in the Bantamweight (-54 kg) division at the 2006 Asian Games winning the bronze medal in a lost bout against Korea's Han Soon Chui 19-29-.Bantamweight semifinals results
Badarikasram Badari or Badarikasram (बद्रीकाश्रम) is a place sacred to Vishnu, near the Ganges in the Himalayas, particularly in Vishnu's dual form of Nara-Narayana. Thus, in the Mahabharata, Siva, addressing Arjuna, says, " Thou wast Nara in a former body, and, with Narayana for thy companion, didst perform dreadful austerity at Badari for many myriads of years.
Badarpur Railway Town Badarpur Railway Town is a census town in Karimganj district in the state of Assam, India. Together with adjacent Badarpur Town, it forms the Badarpur Urban Area, one of two notified urban areas in the district.
Badawacho Badawacho is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. A triangle-shaped exclave of the Hadiya Zone, Badawacho is bordered on the south by the Semien Omo Zone, on the west and north by the Kembata Alaba and Tembaro Zone, and on the east by the Bilate River which separates it from the Oromia Region.
Badí‘ Badí‘ ()‎(1852 - 1869), was the title of Mírzá Áqá Buzurg-i-Nishapuri, also known by his title the Pride of Martyrs, was the son of `Abdu'l-Majid-i-Nishapuri, a highly praised follower of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.
Badb In Irish mythology, the Badb ( "crow" in Old Irish; modern Irish Badhbh means "vulture" or "carrion-crow") was a goddess of war who took the form of a crow, and was thus sometimes known as Badb Catha (battle crow). She often caused confusion among soldiers to move the tide of battle to her favored side.
Badbury Rings Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort in east Dorset, England, dating from 800 BCE and in use until the Roman occupation of 43 CE. The 330 ft (100 m) high, 7 hectare fort is encircled by three 40 ft (15 m) ramparts and four Bronze Age round barrows indicating an earlier occupation.
BadBlue BadBlue is one of the smallest web servers to support "standard" application serving and collaboration technologies: PHP, Perl, etc. It is primarily used in Win32 environments where a small-footprint web server is required.
Baddesley Clinton The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton (), just north of the historic town of Warwick in the English county of Warwickshire, was probably established sometime in the 13th century. When large areas of the Forest of Arden were cleared and eventually converted to farmland, this large fortified manor house was probably also built.
Baddesley Ensor Baddesley Ensor is a village and civil parish in the district of North Warwickshire in Warwickshire, England, about three miles west of Atherstone. It runs into to the village of Grendon, which forms a parish itself.
Baddi Baddi is an industrial town and a nagar panchayat in the Southwestern Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, a hill state of northern India. The town lies on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana states in the Shivalik Hills, around 35 kilometres west of Solan.
Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned (2000-2003, 2005-) is a free-form talk show hosted by British comedians/personalities David Baddiel and Frank Skinner and produced by Avalon Television. Its concept was developed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and had a run in the West End at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 2001.
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (literally translating to "Big Brother, Small Brother" in English) was a popular Bollywood film starring Govinda in a double role, Amitabh Bachchan in a double role, Anupam Kher, Ramya Krishna, and Raveena Tandon. Directed by David Dhawan, it was released in 1998 and was the first of Amitabh's films that had success at the box office since his comeback after a few years of hiatus from the Bollywood industry.
Badea Cârţan Badea Cârţan (roughly: Brother Cârţan – the common nickname of Gheorghe Cârţan; 24 January 1849, Cârţişoara, present-day Sibiu County – 7 August 1911) was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania (then under Hungarian rule inside Austria-Hungary), distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages. In all he smuggled some 200,000 books for pupils, priests, teachers and peasants; he used several routes to pass through the Făgăraş Mountains.
Badeken Badeken, or Bedekung, is the ceremony of veiling of the bride by the groom in a traditional Jewish wedding. Just prior the actual wedding ceremony, which takes place under the Chuppah, the bridegroom, accompanied by his parents, the Rabbi and other dignitaries, and amidst joyous singing of his friends, covers the brides face with a veil.
Baden Powell (mathematician) Baden Powell, MA, FRS, FRGS (1796-08-22 – 1860-06-11) was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. After his death his family changed their surname to Baden-Powell in his memory.
Baden-Powell (book) Baden-Powell is a 1989 biography of Robert Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal. Tim Jeal's work, researched over five years, was first published by Hutchinson in the UK and Yale University Press and others in other countries.
Baden-Powell Guild (Australia) The Baden-Powell Guild of Australia is an Organisation of adults, who have previously been Youth Members or Leaders in the Scout or Guide Movements, and believe they never want to abandon the ideals and principles, that they grew up learning and perfecting. Every State of Australia has a "Branch" and within each State the variously named groups are officially called "Sub-Branches".
Baden-Powell House Baden-Powell House, colloquially known as B-P House, is a Scouting hostel and conference centre in South Kensington, London, which was built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. The house, owned by The Scout Association, hosts a collection of Baden-Powell memorabilia, including the original Baden-Powell painting by David Jagger, Baden-Powell's [message to scouts|Last Message to Scouts], and a granite statue by Don Potter.
Baden-Powell International House The BP International, more formally known as Baden-Powell International House, is a large, 25-story three start hotel and conference centre in the touristically attractive Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. The formal address is 8 Austin Road.
Baden-Powell Scouts The Baden-Powell Scouts Association (BPSA) is a youth organisation found in various countries. Baden-Powell Scouting was the catalyst for the Traditional Scouting movement and their founders are amongst the founders of the Traditional Scouting Movement.
Badenheim 1939 Badenheim 1939 is the first novel by Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld. First published in Hebrew in 1978 as באדנהיים עיר נופש (Badenhaim `ir nofesh), it was soon translated in to many other languages.
Badenoch Badenoch is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorms and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampians, and on the west by Lochaber.
Badenweiler Badenweiler, a health resort and spa of the Grand Duchy of Baden, a portion of the Markgräflerland, Germany. It is 28 kilometers by road and rail from Basel and 10 kilometers from the French border and 20 kilometes away from Mulhouse.
Bader almutawa Bader Almutawa (born in 1985) is a Kuwaiti footballer registered in AL-Qadsya football club. He is suppose to be the striker number one in Kuwait due to the power behind him; ie: the Kuwait football federation and Qadsya president sheikh Talal AL-Ahmad, however, he is the worest forward ever seen in Kuwait.
Badeschiff Badeschiff was first opened in the summer of 2004 as an art project organized by the Stadtkunstprojekte (City Art Project Society) of Berlin. It was created by local artist, Susanne Lorenz, to enliven city life along the river neglected Spree river.
Badfinger Badfinger were a rock/pop (or 'power pop') band formed in Swansea, Wales in 1965. During the early 1970s the band was touted as the heir apparent to The Beatles in part because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four'.
Badge A badge is a device, patch, or accoutrement which is presented or displayed to annotate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, as a symbol of authority (ex: police), a sign of that they are legitmate employees or students, or as a simple means of identification. They are also used in advertising and publicity.
Badge (song) The 1969 song "Badge", by Cream, was penned by Eric Clapton and George Harrison during a collaborative effort between Clapton, Harrison and Ringo Starr. Although it was paired with one of Cream's less notable songs, "What a Bringdown", Badge was nonetheless a major hit when it was released as a single in April of 1969, following release of the album Goodbye in January.
Badge engineering Badge engineering is a term that describes the rebadging of one model of car as another. Due to the high cost of designing and engineering a totally new model, or establishing a new brand (which may take many years for it to gain acceptance), it is often more cost effective to rebadge a single product multiple times.
Badge man Badge Man is the name given to a photographic image that some President John F. Kennedy assassination researchers claim is a grassy knoll assassin seen within a Polaroid photograph that close witness Mary Moorman captured on November 22, 1963 within Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas.
Badge of Military Merit The Badge of Military Merit is considered to be the first official military combat badge of the United States Armed Forces. It is the second oldest United States military award in existence, the oldest being the Fidelity Medallion.
Badger Badger is the common name for any animal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: the same mammal family as the ferrets, the weasels, the otters, and several other types of carnivore. There are 8 species of badger, in three subfamilies: Melinae (the Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae, (the Ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (the American badger).
Badger (comics) The Badger was a comic book series created by writer Mike Baron in 1982. The series ran until the 1990s, when it was cancelled along with the other comics titles under the First comics imprint, such as Grimjack, Nexus, Whisper, and Dreadstar.
Badger (person) A Badger was, in English, a term of uncertain derivation (possibly derived from bagger, a bag or person carrying one) for a dealer in food or victuals which he had purchased in one place and carried for sale in another place. OED gives the earliest entry as being from Bristol in 1500, but there were bager(s)gates at York in 1243 and in Lincoln in by 1252.
Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger (aka Badgers) is a Flash cartoon by Jonti Picking, the creator of Weebl and Bob, consisting mainly of images of Eurasian badgers doing calisthenics, a fly agaric in front of a tree, and a snake in the desert. The cartoon indefinitely loops until the user stops it.
Badger game The Badger game is an extortion scheme, often perpetrated on married men, in which the victim or "mark" is deliberately coerced into a compromising position then threatened with public exposure of his acts unless blackmail money is paid.
Badger Mountain Centennial Preserve The Badger Mountain Centennial Preserve, located on the edge of Richland in Washington, provides a spectacular view of the Tri-Cities as well as the Columbia and Yakima rivers. A non-profit group, Friends of Badger Mountain, worked to procure this shrub-steppe area that has most native vegetation intact and then built a trail to the summit so others can enjoy it.
Badger Pass Ski Area Badger Pass Ski Area ( also known as Badger Pass) is a resort in Yosemite National Park. It is situated five miles south-southeast of the Chinquapin intersection of Wawona Road ( HWY 41 continuation) with Glacier Point Road in the southern area of Yosemite National Park.
Badger State Games The Badger State Games is an Olympic-style competition for Wisconsin's amateur athletes of all ages and abilities. The Games is a member of the National Congress of State Games and of the United States Olympic Committee.
Badgers Rock Badgers Rock is a small barren rock within the Merrimack River, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, USA. The rock is just south of the light campground area of the Salisbury Beach State Reservation and north of Plum Island Point on Plum Island in Newburyport.
Badges of the United States Air Force Badges of the United States Air Force are military awards authorized by the United States Air Force that signify USAF aeronautical ratings or qualification in several career fields, and also serve as identification devices for personnel occupying certain assignments. All Air Force badges (with the exception of identification badges) are issued in three degrees or skill levels.
Badges of the United States Coast Guard Badges of the United States Coast Guard are military decorations issued by the Department of Homeland Security to members of the United States Coast Guard to denote certain qualifications, achievements, and postings to certain assignments. Prior to 2002, the issuance of such badges was under the authority of the United States Department of Transportation.
Badges of the United States Navy Badges of the United States Navy are military badges issued by the United States Department of the Navy to Naval service members who achieve certain qualifications and accomplishments while serving on both active and reserve duty in the United States Navy. Most Navy aviation badges are also permitted for wear on uniforms of the United States Marine Corps.
Badghis Province Badghis (Persian: بادغیس) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located on the northwest of Afghanistan, between the Murghab and Hari Rud rivers, extending as far northward as the edge of the desert of Sarakhs.
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (967 - 1007) was a tenth century master of Arabic prose. His main work was the maqamat, a collection of 52 episodic stories of a rogue, Abu al-Fath al-Iskandari, as recounted by a narrator, 'Isa b.
Badia Fiorentina The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church of the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. It is famous for being the parish church of Beatrice Portinari, the love of Dante's life, and the place where he watched her at Mass, for Dante grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante (though in reality unlikely to be his real home).
Badimo Badimo, literally "Gods" in Tswana, is a name for the indigenous African Traditional Religion of Botswana. Although the CIA Factbook states that six percent of Batswana are practitioners, in reality a great majority of Batswana follow at least some of the traditions deemed Badimo even if they are strong followers of another religion as well.
Badinan Emirate Badinan or Bahdinan,(1376-1843) was one of the more powerful and enduring Kurdish principalities. It was founded by Baha-al-Din originally from Şemzînan area in Hakkari in sometime between 13th or 14th century CE.

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