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Baulkham Hills Shire Baulkham Hills Shire is a local government area in the north western region of Sydney, Australia. Known as "The Garden Shire", it is an area of rolling hills, bushland, market gardens and urban sprawl and is one of the most rapidly growing local government areas in Australia.
Baum test The Baum test also known as the "Tree test" is a projective drawing technique developed by Karl Koch. Person is asked to draw a broad-leaved tree, a psychologist or a psychiatrist then evaluates the different aspects of the tree drawn to find more about the personality of the person under evaluation.
Baum-Welch algorithm In computer science and statistical computing, the Baum-Welch algorithm is used to find the unknown parameters of a hidden Markov model (HMM). It makes use of the forward-backward algorithm and is named for Leonard E.
Baumberg Baumberg (also Monheim-Baumberg) is part of the city of Monheim am Rhein in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) at the southern border of Düsseldorf, placed on the eastern bank of the river Rhine. Baumberg consists of an area of about 6 km², with about 13000 residents (2005).
Baumgardener's Covered Bridge Baumgardener's Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Pequea Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the Pequea #10 Bridge.
Baumgarten, Vienna Baumgarten was an independent town until the late 19th century and is an area of Vienna's fourteenth district, Penzing, today. It can be subdivided in Oberbaumgarten (in the west, close to HĂĽtteldorf), and Unterbaumgarten.
Baumkuchen Known as the "King of Cakes" the Baumkuchen is a kind of layered cake, known in many countries throughout Europe. When cut, the cake reveals the characteristic golden rings that give it its name, Baumkuchen or translated literally, "Tree Cake".
Baunatal Baunatal is a town in Hesse, close to Kassel. It is most commonly known for the Volkswagen factory, which is the second largest of the brand with 14,500 employees and suffered from damage by a magnesium fire on May 14, 2006.
Baungon, Bukidnon Baungon is a 4th class municipality in the northern part of the province of Bukidnon, Philippines. It is about 132 kilometers north of Malaybalay City passing through Cagayan de Oro, which is about 30 kilometers from Imbatug, the towns poblacion.
Bauplan Bauplan (German for building plan, blueprint; plural: baupläne or bauplaene) is a term in Biology referring to the common new and original (homologous) properties of the members of a systematic group (taxon). It is not necessary that a bauplan precisely describes any one particular species of that group.
Bausch & Lomb Championships The Bausch & Lomb Championships is a tennis tournament held in Amelia Island, Florida, United States. Held since 1980, this WTA Tour event is a Tier II-tournament and is played on outdoor green claycourts.
Bauschinger effect The Bauschinger effect refers to a property of materials where the material's stress-strain characteristics change as a result of the microscopic stress distribution of the material. For example, an increase in compressive yield strength at the expense of tensile yield strength.
Baussenque Wars The Baussenque Wars (Guerres Baussenques, meanings "wars of Baux") were a series of armed conflicts (1144 – 1162) between the House of Barcelona, then ruling in Provence, and the House of Baux. They are held up in Provence as the idealistic resistance of one of her native families against the Catalan "occupation.
Bautista Saavedra Bautista Saavedra Mallea (1870-1939) was President of Bolivia, first as part of a governing junta between 1920-21, and then as constitutionally-elected President of the Republic between 1921 and 1925. As leader of the insurgent Republican Party, he instigated and led the coup d'etat of 1920 against the long-ruling Liberal party of President José Gutiérrez Guerra.
Bautzen (district) Bautzen is a district in the Free State of Saxony in Germany including the former district of Bischofswerda. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the Czech Republic and the districts of Sächsische Schweiz, Kamenz, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis and Löbau-Zittau.
Bauxite Bauxite is an aluminium ore which consists largely of the Al minerals gibbsite Al(OH)3, boehmite and diaspore AlOOH, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2. It was named after the village Les Baux-de-Provence in southern France, where it was first discovered in 1821 by geologist Henri Rouvère.
Bauzi The Bauzi tribe consists of a group of 1500 people living in the north-central part of the Indonesian province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya). The Bauzi area consists of much of the lower Mamberamo area in northern Papua.
Bava Kamma Bava Kamma (Aramaic: בבא קמא, "The First Gate"; often transliterated Baḇa Ḳamma) is the first of a series of three Talmudic tractates in the order Nezikin ("Damages") that deal with civil matters such as damages and torts. Bava Kamma discusses various forms of damage and the compensation owed for them.
Bava Metzia Bava Metzia (Aramaic: בבא מציעא, "The Middle Gate"; often transliterated Baḇa Meẓi'a) is the second of a series of three Talmudic tractates in the order Nezikin ("Damages"). These tractates deal with civil matters such as damages and torts.
Bavanište monastery The Bavanište Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Баваниште or Manastir Bavanište) is a Serb Orthodox monastery located in the Banat region, in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. The monastery is situated in the Kovin municipality.
Bavaria Party The Bavaria Party (German: Bayernpartei) is a political party in the state of Bavaria in southern Germany. It was founded in 1946 and describes itself as patriotic Bavarian, advocating Bavarian independence within the European Union.
Bavaria statue The Bavaria statue (German just 'Bavaria') is a bronze-cast statue of a female figure representing Bavaria's "secular patron saint", the Tellus (Mater) Bavarica ("goddess of the land of Bavaria"), located at the border of the Theresienwiese in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, where the Oktoberfest takes place each September.
Bavaria Yachtbau The Bavaria Yachtbau GmbH is a German major yacht builder, with its headquarters in Giebelstadt, Bavaria, Germany. The model range consists of both sailing and motor yachts, of which especially the sailing yachts are very common.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledge within their subject.
Bavarian Crown Jewels In 1806, as part of his wholescale re-ordering of the map of Europe, Napoleon I of France upgraded the independent German duchy of Bavaria to full kingdom status. The former Duke of Bavaria, now King of Bavaria, Maximilian I, commemorated the fact by commissioning a set of crown jewels for use by Bavarian monarchs.
Bavarian Dynasty The Bavarian Dynasty is the name given to those kings of the Lombards who were descended from Garibald I, duke of Bavaria. There were really two branches to the dynasty: the branch descended in the female line through Garibald's eldest child and daughter, Theodelinda, and the branch descended from Garibald's eldest son Gundoald.
Bavarian Jura The Bavarian Jura (or Oberpfalz Jura) (German: Bayerischer Jura, Oberpfälzer Jura) is the part of the Franconian Jurawhich lies in the Oberpfalz. Its extension are the districts of Amberg-Sulzbach, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (district), Regensburg (district), and parts of Kelheim (district).
Bavarian National Museum The Bavarian National Museum in Munich is one of the most important cultural history museums in Europe. The building, erected in the style of historianism, is one of the most original and significant museum buildings of its time.
Bavarian porn Bavarian porn is a campy subgenre of softcore porn comedy. The apogee of the genre was the late 1960s and early 1970s, corresponding roughly to the chancellorship of Willy Brandt, but these films continued to be produced up to about 1980.
Bavarian People's Party The Bavarian People's Party (German: Bayerische Volkspartei) was the Bavarian branch of the Centre Party, which broke off from the rest of the party in 1919 to pursue a more conservative, more Catholic, more Bavarian particularist course. There was a period of near separatism in the early 20s, culminating in the government of Gustav von Kahr's unwillingness to abide by rulings from Berlin during the inflation crisis of 1923.
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks) is an "internationally renowned orchestra" based in Munich, Germany.Notebook: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Program 1 & 2, Performance Media, November 2006, pp.
Bavarian S 2/6 The Royal Bavarian State Railways' sole class S 2/6 steam locomotive was built in 1906 by the firm of Maffei in Munich, Germany. It was of 4-4-4 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 2'B2' h4v in the UIC classification scheme, and was a 4-cylinder von Borries balanced compound locomotive.
Bavarian Schuhplattlers of Edmonton The Bavarian Schuhplattlers of Edmonton preserve the German and Austrian tradition of folk-dancing and also provide an atmosphere of fun and GemĂĽtlichkeit for their members. They have existed since 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Bavarian Soviet Republic The Bavarian Soviet Republic, also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (German: Bayerische Räterepublik or Münchner Räterepublik) was a short-lived revolutionary government in the German state of Bavaria in 1919 that sought to replace the fledgling Weimar Republic in its early days. Its capital was Munich.
Bavarian State Opera The Bayerische Staatsoper or Bavarian State Opera is an opera company in Munich and is one of the leading opera companies in Germany and the world and has existed since 1653. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra.
Bavarian State Police The Bavarian State Police has approximately 32,000 officers and roughly 5,600 civilian employees and is therefore one of the biggest police forces in Germany. By adopting a coordinated and aggressive approach to crime, Bavaria aims to guarantee public safety and order so it can proudly boast it is number one in the "Security in Germany" rankings.
Bavarii The Bavarii were a large and powerful tribe which emerged late in Teutonic tribal times, in what is now the Czech Republic (Bohemia). They replaced, or perhaps are simply another phase of, the previous inhabitants - the Rugians.
Bavayia Bavayia is a genus of Gecko from the remote New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. These 12 species are moderately small to medium sized diplodactylid geckos and are distinguished from other geckos by their tail length and the shape of the digits.
Bavius Bavius and Maevius were two notoriously malevolent critics in the age of Augustus Caesar who belittled and attacked the talents of superior writers, according to Lempriere. In particular, they attacked the work of Virgil and Horace, both of whom mocked Maevius.
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen was a revered Sufi saint from the island of Sri Lanka who shared his knowledge and experience with people of every race and religion and from all parts of the world. He belonged to the Qadri order of sufism.
Bawang Putih Bawang Merah Bawang Putih Bawang Merah is one of the more famous of old Malay folktales, passed down orally through the generations. Like most Malay folktales, the story is laden with lessons regarding familial values, patience in the face of adversity, and that ultimately good will be rewarded and the evil will be punished.
Bawarao Bawarao is an acronym for "Black and White and Read All Over". It is a community of university and college students across North America that receive free sms/text message deals and information from categories they preselect directly onto their mobile phones.
Bawdsey Bawdsey is a village in Suffolk, England near Felixstowe. Bawdsey Manor is notable as the place where radar research took place early in World War II, before moving to Worth Matravers, which is four miles to the west of Swanage, in May 1940, and from there to Malvern, Worcestershire in 1942.
Bawley Point, New South Wales Bawley Point is a small coastal hamlet in New South Wales, Australia, in Shoalhaven Shire. It is located 30 minutes south of Ulladulla, New South Wales, and 30 minutes north of Batemans Bay on the South Coast of NSW.
Bawlf School Bawlf School, located in the village of Bawlf, Alberta, is a K-12 school that serves a population of approximately 350 students. Students in high school come from Bawlf as well as neighbouring communities, including Round Hill and Rosalind.
Bawls Bawls Guarana is a soft drink containing a relatively large amount of caffeine (approximately 80 mg per 12 oz and 67 mg per 10 oz bottle). It contains caffeine and natural guarana flavor among other ingredients.
Bawm The Bawm-Zo are a tribal group living in the Bandarban district and a small fraction in the Rangamati district of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh as well as parts of Mizoram. Of Chin origin and speaking a Tibeto-Burman dialect, their tribal population stands at 6,000.
Bawnboy Bawnboy (An Bábhún Buí in Irish) is a small village in a valley at the foot of Slieve Rushen, between Ballyconnell and Swanlinbar, in County Cavan in the (Republic of Ireland). The current population is about 250.
Bawtry Bawtry is a small market town which lies at the point where the Great North Road crosses the River Idle. It is located in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with Nottinghamshire, and is situated between Bircotes and Misson, on the conjunction of the A514, A631 and A638 roads.
Baxter Althane disaster In autumn 2001 a series of 53 sudden deaths occurred in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Colombia and the USA (mainly Nebraska and Texas), affecting renal failure patients. All of them had received hospital treatment with Althane hemodialysis equipment, a product range manufactured by Baxter International, USA.
Baxter Creek Baxter Creek is a three-branch creek in Richmond and El Cerrito, California, United States forming the Baxter Creek watershed. The creek has three sources and flows from the East Bay hills to Stege Marsh and the San Francisco Bay.
Baxter Humby Baxter Humby also known as "The One Arm Bandit" is the current IMTC (International Muay Thai Council) World Super Welterweight Champion. He holds a number of different title belts including IMTC World Middleweight Champion, IKKC USA Kickboxing Champion and IKBA international Kickboxing Champion.
Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre or commonly just Baxter Detention Centre, is an Australian immigration detention facility near the town of Port Augusta in South Australia. It is the focus of much of the controversy concerning the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in Australia.
Baxter Lake Baxter Lake is a 295-acre water body located in Strafford County in eastern New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Farmington and the city of Rochester. It is part of the Cocheco River watershed, a tributary of the Piscataqua River.
Baxter Springs, Kansas Baxter Springs is a city situated along the Spring River in the extreme southeastern part of Cherokee County, located in southeast Kansas, in the central United States. The population was estimated to be 4,246 in the year 2005.
Baxter Theatre Centre The Baxter Theatre Centre is a performing arts complex in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. The Baxter, as it is often known, is part of the University of Cape Town; it is also the second largest performing arts complex in Cape Town, after the Artscape Theatre Centre.
Baxter Ward Baxter Ward (1919—February 4, 2002) was a television news anchor who served two terms on the powerful Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Prior to his election on the board, he ran third in an unsuccessful bid to unseat Sam Yorty for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1969.
Baxter's Bus Lines Baxter's Bus Lines is the trading name of Holroyd Bus Lines Pty Ltd, a company who operated bus services in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Metropolitan bus region 3). On 26th July 2006, Baxters sold its metropolitan bus contract and assets to the owners of Westbus, took over service on 31st August 2006 .
Baxter, Ontario Baxter is a small rural community approximately 90 kilometres northwest of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The first people to settle in the area called it Cob Coy, which was an erroneous pronunciation of cabreeho, (a French term that describes an open building used for drying hay).
Baxterwood Priory Baxterwood Priory is a monastery, originally founded at Haswell, Durham, England by Henry Pudsey, a son of Bishop Pudsey, in the latter part of the 12th century. Two vills, Wingate and Haswell, were conferred, probably on the canons of Gisburn.
Bay 50th Street (BMT West End Line) Bay 50th Street is a station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Bay 50th Street and Stillwell Avenue in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn, it is served by the train at all times.
Bay Area Air Quality Management District The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) is a public agency that regulates the stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties of California's San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma. The BAAQMD is governed by a Board of Directors composed of 22 elected officials from each of the nine Bay Area counties, and the board has the duty of adopting air pollution regulations for the district.
Bay Area Biosystematists The Bay Area Biosystematists is a group of biologists, geneticists, paleontologists, and systematists that are also interested in evolution. The group has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1936, and is notable as a connection between many of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century, including Theodosius Dobzhansky and G.
Bay Area Environmental Safety Group The Bay Area Environmental Safety Group is an association of environmental and safety professionals communicating current environmental health and safety issues to industry practitioners in the San Francisco "Bay Area" in California. The BAESG website is at http://www.
Bay Area Figurative Movement The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s.
Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative The BALCO affair was a doping scandal uncovered in 2003 by the journalists Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada. BALCO which is the brief form of Burlingame Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative was an American company led by founder and owner Victor Conte.
Bay Area Medical Center Bay Area Medical Center is a 99-bed general acute care hospital located in Marinette, Wisconsin. Official website BAMC was just recently ranked among the top five percent of hospitals in the United States for clinical excellence by HealthGrades.
Bay Area Metallibangers Bay Area Metallibangers are Metallica fans from the Bay Area, California. The term was originated by the band, and the Bay Area Metallibangers were thanked in the liner notes in the albums Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, and Master of Puppets.
Bay Area Open Space Council The Bay Area Open Space Council is a collaborative program of public and non-profit agencies and organizations, providing regional leadership and expertise for the preservation and professional management of important open spaces in and around the cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. A primary objective of the Council is to enhance the region's quality of life, by articulating the region's vision of which lands should be protected as open space through public ownership or conservation easements, and by developing financial and organizational resources to implement this vision.
Bay Area Rapid Transit The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a heavy rail public rapid-transit system serving of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Daly City, Richmond, Fremont, Hayward, Walnut Creek, and Concord, San Francisco International Airport and connecting service to Oakland International Airport using AirBART buses. The acronym BART is pronounced as a word, not as individual letters.
Bay Area Ridge Trail The Bay Area Ridge Trail is a proposed 500-mile (800 km) long, multi-use trail encircling the San Francisco Bay Area. Begun in 1989, over 300 miles have been completed as of June 2006, about half of which is fully multi-use (open to hikers, bicyclists, equestrians).
Bay Area SEG The Bay Area Segway Enthusiasts Group (Bay Area SEG) held its first meeting on September 20th, 2003 at the California FIRST Robotics Competition. The group was formed to increase knowledge and public acceptance of the Segway Human Transporter and to provide a resource to local owners and enthusiasts for information and group events.
Bay Area thrash metal Bay Area thrash metal, or "Bay Area Thrash", referred to a steady following of heavy metal bands in the 1980s who formed and gained international status in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Many have attributed this scene as the starting point of thrash metal and early-stage death metal.
Bay Area Toll Authority The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) was created by the California Legislature in 1997 to administer the base $1 auto toll on the San Francisco Bay Area's seven state-owned toll bridges. On January 1, 1998, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) — the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county region — began operations as BATA.
Bay Beach Amusement Park The Bay Beach Amusement Park (Bay Beach) is a small amusement park near the mouth of the Fox River as it flows into the Bay of Green Bay in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It features a few rides, but no roller coasters.
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye (Sphagneticola trilobata, or often Wedelia trilobata) is a plant in the Heliantheae tribe of the Asteraceae (sunflower) family. It is native to the tropics of Central America, and is widespread as an invasive species in the Pacific.
Bay Bridge Series The Bay Bridge Series is the name of a series of baseball games played between—and the rivalry of—Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics of the American League and San Francisco Giants of the National League. The series takes its name from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge which links the cities of Oakland and San Francisco.
Bay class landing ship dock (auxiliary) The Bay class are a class of landing ship dock (LSD) operated by the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Together with the Albion class they provide the Royal Navy with a significantly enhanced amphibious capability.
Bay Coast Railroad The Bay Coast Railroad operates the former Eastern Shore Railroad line from Pocomoke City, Maryland, to Norfolk, Virginia. The Bay Coast Railroad uses a rail ferry service to span the 26 mile water route across the Chesapeake Bay between Cape Charles, Virginia and Norfolk.
Bay Colony Railroad Bay Colony Railroad Corporation is a short line freight railroad principally serving southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Millis - Milford - Needham Corridor. In addition to moving freight for its customers, Bay Colony also performs AAR railcar repair work, bids out track construction projects and provides facilities for passenger service on Cape Cod.
Bay Colony Stadium Bay Colony Stadium is a proposed Plymouth, Massachusetts, facility in which the Plymouth River Eels minor-league baseball team will play home games. Bay Colony Baseball and Athletics, LLC - the parent company of the River Eels - is targeting May of 2007 for the team's on-field launch.
Bay Conference The Bay Conference is an high school athletic conference with nine members from around the Green Bay, Wisconsin area. Its nine member high schools are Ashwaubenon Jaguars, Bay Port Pirates, De Pere High School Redbirds, Marinette Marines, New London Bulldogs, Pulaski Red Raiders, Shawano Hawks, Seymour Thunder and the West De Pere High School Phantoms.
Bay Counties League - East The Bay Counties League - East is a school athletic conference located in the East Bay Area. The league is a member of the North Coast Section, one of ten sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Federation.
Bay d'Espoir Hydro Electric Development The Baie D'Espoir Hydro Electric Development, built by the Newfoundland and Labrador Power Commission is located on the South Coast of the Island of Newfoundland near the rural community of Baie d'Espoir. It was the first major hydroelectric project undertaken in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Bay Duiker The Bay Duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis also known as the Black-Backed Duiker) is a forest dwelling Duiker found in Gabon, southern Cameroon and northern Congo as well as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the southern parts of CĂ´te d'Ivoire, Ghana and Benin. It is believed by some to be a subspecies of Ogilby's Duiker.
Bay Express The Bay Express was a passenger train between Wellington and Napier in New Zealand's North Island, operating from Monday, 11 December 1989 until Sunday, 7 October 2001. It was operated by New Zealand Railways, later Tranz Scenic.
Bay Farm Island Bay Farm Island is an area of the United States city of Alameda, California, near Oakland. It is divided from the main island of Alameda by an estuary and connected by separate drawbridges for both cars and bicycles.
Bay Glen, Houston, Texas Bay Glen is a neighborhood located within the master-planned community of Clear Lake City in Houston, Texas. The neighborhood was developed in the mid 1980's and borders the neighborhoods of Bay Knoll, Bay Pointe, Bay Oaks, and Oak Brook West.
Bay Islands (department) Islas de la BahĂ­a ("Bay Islands") is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. The islands boast splendid beaches and unspoilt coral reefs, making them a haven for scuba divers and vacationers.
Bay Knoll, Houston, Texas Bay Knoll is a neighborhood located within the master-planned community of Clear Lake City in Houston, Texas, USA. The neighborhood was developed in the mid-1980 and borders the neighborhoods of Bay Glen, Bay Pointe, Bay Oaks, Meadowgreen, and Oak Brook West.
Bay Lake Bay Lake is a body of water about one mile (1500 m) across and a depth of 12 feet (3.7 m), located in Orange County, Florida in the north end of the Walt Disney World property, in the Disney-controlled city of Bay Lake, Florida and immediately to the east of the Magic Kingdom.
Bay Laurel The Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis, Lauraceae), also known as True Laurel, Sweet Bay, Grecian Laurel, Laurel, or Bay Tree, is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub reaching 10–18 m tall, native to the Mediterranean region.
Bay Line Railroad The Bay Line Railroad, LLC is one of several short line railroad companies owned by the Genesee and Wyoming. It operates between Panama City, Florida, and Abbeville, Alabama, with trackage rights on CSX's Dothan Subdivision between Dothan and Grimes, Alabama.
Bay mud Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles. Example locations are Cape Cod Bay, Chongming Dongtan Reserve in Shanghai, China, Banc d'Arguinpreserve in Mauritania, Bristol Bay in the United Kingdom, Mandø Island in the Wadden Sea in Denmark, Florida Bay, San Francisco Bay, Bay of Fundy, Casco Bay and Morro Bay.
Bay Meadows Derby The Bay Meadows Derby is a Thoroughbred race for three-year-old horses of either gender on the Longden Turf Course at Bay Meadows Racecourse. Bay Meadows is in San Mateo, California where it opened in 1934 and is home to the longest-running stakes event in California: the Bay Meadows Handicap begun the same year as the track itself.
Bay Mills Community College Bay Mills Community College is a two-year tribal college chartered by the Bay Mills Indian Community of Michigan. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies the school in the "very small university" category, giving its enrollment for the 2003-2004 school year as 401 students.
Bay Networks Bay Networks was formed through the merger of Santa Clara, California based SynOptics Communications and Billerica, Massachusetts based Wellfleet Communications on July 6, 1994. SynOptics was an important early innovator of ethernet products including a pre-standard twisted pair fast ethernet product.
Bay of Bangkok The Bay of Bangkok is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Thailand, roughly extending from Hua Hin to the west and Sattahip to the east. Three of the major rivers of central Thailand empty into the bay - the Chao Phraya and its distributary Tha Chin, the Mae Klong and the Bang Pa Kong River.
Bay of Biscay The Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Golfo de Vizcaya; French: Golfe de Gascogne; Basque: Bizkaiko Golkoa) is a gulf of the North Atlantic Ocean. It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain, and is named for the Spanish province of Biscay.
Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy () is a bay located on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S.

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