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Bayou La Batre, Alabama Bayou La Batre (IPA pronunciation: ; pronounced Bah-you luh BAT-ree) or by locals as (by luh BAT-ree) is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area.
Bayou Lafourche Bayou Lafourche is a bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The first settlements of Acadians in southern Louisiana were near Bayou Lafourche and Bayou des Ecores which led to a close association of the bayou with Cajun culture.
Bayou Teche The Bayou Teche is a 125-mile long waterway of great cultural significance in south central Louisiana. Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about, 2,800 to 4,500 years ago.
Bayport Fire Department The Bayport Fire Department is a volunteer fire department, located in Bayport, NY on Long Island in Suffolk County. The BFD is part of the Suffolk County Fire Rescue and Emergency Services system with call numbers 3-14-0.
Bayrak Bayrak Radio and Television Corporation (In Turkish: Bayrak Radyo Televizyon Kurumu), is the quasi-official radio and television broadcasting corporation of the de facto state Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Bayrami A Turkish Sufi order founded by Hajji Bayram whose resting place is in Ankara the capital of Turkey. The order spread to the then Ottoman capital Istanbul where there were several Tekkes and into the Balkans (especially Bosnia, Macedonia and Greece.
Bayreuth Circle The Bayreuth Circle is a name applied by some writers to devotees of Wagner's music who attended and supported the annual Bayreuth Festival in the later 19th and early twentieth centuries. As certain of these devotees espoused nationalistic German politics, and certain of them were supporters of Adolf Hitler from the 1920s onwards, this group of people has been associated by some writers with the rise of Nazism.
Bayreuth Festival The annual Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Germany is devoted principally (but not exclusively) to performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner himself conceived of and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal.
Bayreuth Festspielhaus The Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre) is an opera house built to the north of the town of Bayreuth in Germany, dedicated principally to the performance of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner. It is the exclusive venue for the annual Bayreuth Festival, for which it was specifically conceived and built.
Bayshore Regional Strategic Plan The Bayshore Regional Strategic Plan is an effort by nine municipalities in northern Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, to reinvigorate the area's economy by emphasizing the traditional downtowns, dense residential neighborhoods, maritime history, and the natural beauty of the Raritan Bay coastline, especially along the Route 36 corridor along Sandy Hook Bay.
Bayshore Town Center Bayshore Town Center (formerly called Bayshore Mall) is a shopping mall/mixed use retail complex in Glendale, Wisconsin anchored by Sears, Boston Store, and Kohl's. Originally an outdoor strip mall built in 1954, it was converted into an enclosed mall in 1974.
Bayside (album) Bayside's second album from Victory Records is a little different from the 2004 Victory debut, Sirens and Condolences, with a much brighter outlook on life in their lyrics. Having replaced half the band (Bassist Nick Ghanbarian and drummer John "Beatz" Holohan were new to Bayside), this change is due mostly to different band members and a new mindset about life.
Bayside (LIRR station) Bayside is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Bayside section of Queens in New York City. The station is located at 213th Street and 41st Avenue, off Bell Boulevard and just north of Northern Boulevard, and is 12.
Bayside Acres, San Rafael Bayside Acres, located in an unincorporated area of the County, is one of San Rafael’s less dense neighborhoods with large single-family homes on hillside lots. Homes located west of Point San Pedro and along the Bay are developed on smaller lots and is not expected to change.
Bayside Bridge (Pinellas County, Florida) The Bayside Bridge crosses over the northwesternmost end of Tampa Bay, connecting Clearwater, Florida and Largo, Florida. Construction began in the early 1990s and was completed in Summer of 1993, officially opening for traffic on June 2nd of that year.
Bayside Shakedown was a cult Japanese Police Drama/Comedy series originally broadcast by the Fuji Television group in 1997. The series was so popular that four movies were made following the end of the TV series, the first in 1998, the second in 2003, and the third and fourth in 2005.
Bayside Shakedown 2 Bayside Shakedown 2 (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE２ レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ！) is the second movie based on the popular Bayside Shakedown TV series, known for its unique and humorous depiction of the Japanese police force while avoiding the conventions that define most police dramas.
Bayside Shakedown: The Movie Bayside Shakedown: The Movie (Japanese:踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE) was a Japanese police drama / comedy movie released in October 1998. The movie was based off the hit TV series Bayside Shakedown which had just finished airing roughly a year and a half before.
Bayside, Nova Scotia Bayside is a small coastal community of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia, Canada, about 19 km from Halifax. It is situated on the shore of Blind Bay (Atlantic Ocean) on the Prospect Road (Highway 333) on the Chebucto Peninsula .
Bayswater Point State Park Bayswater Point State Park is a state park located on Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York. Jamaica Bay is an attractive area for migratory birds; Bayswater Point State Park was established in order to preserve their habitat.
Bayswater Power Station, New South Wales Bayswater Power Station is located on the Hunter River near Muswellbrook, in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. It is coal powered with four steam driven turbo generators with a combined capacity of 2,640MW of electricity.
BayStar Capital BayStar Capital is a hedge fund limited partnership located in San Francisco, California. Formed in February, 1999, BayStar was hard hit by the dot-com collapse of 2000 and reformed as North Bay Opportunities.
Bayt Naqquba Bayt Naqquba (, , also known as Bait Naqquba and Beit Nekofa) was an Arab town in the British Mandate of Palestine . The town was located outside Jerusalem, close to Abu Ghosh, by the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.
Bayton (Hambledon cricketer) Bayton was an English cricketer in the 18th century who played for the famous Hambledon Club as a batsman. Unfortunately, his career was virtually over by the time detailed records began to be kept in the 1772 English cricket season and so little is known about his personal history.
Baytown Refinery ExxonMobil's Baytown Refinery in Baytown, Texas is the largest oil refinery in the United States, with an input capacity of 557,000 barrels (88,600 mÂł) per day as of January 1, 2005 The site first opened in 1919] and was originally operated by the Humble Oil Company. Today, it is the largest employer in the city.
BayTSP BayTSP is a Los Gatos, California based internet company run by Mark T. Ishikawa whose stated speciality is tracking infringing content on the internet and getting the ISPs of any part of the internet found infringing to shut that content down.
Bayview (Need for Speed) Bayview is a fictional city in Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004), a racing computer and video game by EA Games. Bayview's design is a departure from previous Need for Speed installments, as it is portrayed as a large city that could be freely explored in the manner similar to cities in the Grand Theft Auto series, compared to closed, circuit like tracks in both Underground (2003) and earlier titles.
Bayview (VIVA) Bayview, or Bayview Avenue, is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. It opened on September 4, 2005, on the intersection of Bayview Avenue and Highway 7 in Markham/Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Bayview Cemetery, Jersey City Bayview Cemetery which used to be called Greenville Cemetery is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. It has been combined with New York Bay Cemetery and now has the combined name of Bayview - New York Bay Cemetery.
Bayview Correctional Facility Bayview Correctional Facility is a medium-security women's prison located at the corner of West 20th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan, directly across the street from the Chelsea Piers sports complex. As it is highly unusual to find a state penitentiary in the middle of a major city, Bayview consists only of one large building without a fenced perimeter.
Bayview Elementary School (Vancouver) Bayview Elementary School is located in the Kitsilano neighbourhood on the west side of Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. It is referred to as a "community school", in the school song's lyrics, one of the uniquenesses of the school.
Bayview Heights (Duluth) Bayview Heights is a primarily residential neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota. Although it is grouped by the city with the West Duluth communities in neighborhood district #2, it often functions more as a part of the city of Proctor than of Duluth, due primarily to its hilltop location (1200 ft or roughly 400 m above sea level) rather than the 600 ft or roughly 200 m above sea level typical of West Duluth neighborhoods.
Bayview Village Bayview Village is an upper-middle class neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Although, like any neighbourhood, its boundaries are subject to dispute, the area bounded by Sheppard Avenue, Bayview Avenue, and the East Don River is generally accepted.
Bayview Woods-Steeles Bayview Woods-Steeles is a neighbourhood located in the northern tip of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The neighbourhood is bordered by Steeles to the north, Leslie to the east, Bayview to the west and Finch to the south.
Baywood-Los Osos, California Baywood-Los Osos (or Los Osos-Baywood Park by locals) is a census-designated place and an unincorporated census area located in western San Luis Obispo County, California near the city of San Luis Obispo. The population was 14,351 at the 2000 census.
Baz Bamigboye Baz Bamigboye is a British gossip columnist and arts reviewer, mainly writing for the Daily Mail group of newspapers. His reviews are often quoted in well-regarded secondary reviews (eg The Guardian Mentions of Bamigboye's reviews in The Guardian include [http://media.
Bazaar A bazaar (, ) is a marketplace, often covered, typically found in areas of Persian, Indian, and some Islamic culture. The word derives from the Persian word bāzār, whose etymology goes back to the Pahlavi word baha-char (بهاچار) meaning "the place of prices".
Bazaar of Borujerd Great Bazaar of Borujerd is located in the centre of the city and consists of many Rasteh Bazaars and Caravanserais. A Rasteh Bazaar is a lane with covered roof usually with shops and workshops of a particular profession.
Bazagra A meaningless magical curse word frequently employed on Roman "defixiones", or curse tablets of the sort which were thrown in sacred spring waters like those found in Aquae Sulis, the Roman site of Bath, England. This word, along with other similar curse words such as "Bescu" and "Berebescu", are seemingly of Etruscan origin, and supposedly lent a magical power to the curse.
Bazartete Bazartete (also known as Bazar Tete) is a village in East Timor, comprising a subdistrict of Liquiçá district, located on a mountain top deep in the rain forest, just to the southeast of Liquiçá township. The area and its surrounding villages was the sight of numerous cases of intimidation, rape and murder committed by members of the Besi Merah Putih militia group following and during the autonomy vote of 1999.
Bazaruto Island Bazaruto (Portuguese: Ilha do Bazaruto) is a sandy island located approximately 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of the mouth of the Save River, Mozambique (). The warm, southward-flowing Mozambique Current seems to contribute to the increasing buildup of the sandy coastline.
Bazedoxifene Bazedoxifene is a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), developed by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, undergoing clinical evaluation for the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. It is currently in the early phases of review by the United States' Food and Drug Administration.
Bazid Khan Bazid Khan (born March 25, 1981 in Lahore) is a Pakistani cricketer. He comes from a famous cricketing family, with his grandfather Jahangir Khan having represented India before the partition of India and his father Majid (both of whom were Cambridge Blues), and uncles Imran Khan and Javed Burki having all captained Pakistan.
Bazil Broketail Bazil Broketail is a 1992 fantasy novel by author Christopher Rowley, the name of its main character, and the name of the further series of books featuring him. Bazil is a leatherback dragon serving in the Marneri legions of the Argonath empire on the world of Ryetelth.
Bazil Broketail (novel) Bazil Broketail (1992) is a fantasy novel written by Christopher Rowley. The book is the first in the Dragons of the Argonath series that follows the adventures of a human boy, Relkin, and his dragon, Bazil Broketail as they fight in the Argonath Legion’s 109th Marneri Dragons.
Bazil Gordon Bazil Gordon emigrated from Scotland to America, settling in Falmouth, Virginia in 1786 where he opened a small store. Gordon grew his business, exporting large amounts of tobacco from plantations along the Rappahannock River to England.
Bazilio Olara-Okello Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929 – January 9 1990) was a Ugandan Brigadier and a Commander of the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) that together with the Tanzanian army overthrew Idi Amin in 1979. In 1985 he was briefly de facto President of Uganda, and later Lieutenant General and chief of the armed forces.
Bazooka The bazooka was a man-portable anti-tank rocket launcher made famous during World War II where it was one of the United States Armed Forces's primary infantry anti-tank weapons. It was one of the first weapons based on the High Explosive Anti-tank (HEAT) shell to enter service.
Bazooka (instrument) The bazooka is a rare, novelty brasswind musical instrument which is several feet in length and incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. Often, bazookas are very simply constructed with scavenged materials like pipes and funnels.
Bazrangids The Bazrangids (also known as Bazrangi or Badhrangids) were an ancient mountain-dwelling Iranian tribe that established a maritime empire outside the Iranian plateau. Their first major overseas possession entailed Mazun (present-day Oman) and the port of Suhar became the region's capital.
Ba`al Shamîm Ba‘al Shamîm 'Lord of Heaven' is a northwest Semitic god or a title applied to different gods at different places or times found in various ancient Middle-eastern inscriptions. The title is sometimes applied to Hadad who is also often titled just Ba‘al but often refers to a deity differentiated from him.
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BA-20 The BA-20 () was an armored car developed in the Soviet Union in 1936 and used in the early stages of World War II. It was derived from the civilian GAZ-M1 car, which was itself a modified version of a Ford design, produced by the Nizhny Novgorod-based vehicle manufacturer GAZ.
BA-27 The BA-27 armoured car was a Soviet heavy armoured car, produced from 1928 to 1931, and used for scouting and infantry support duties early in the Second World War. The BA-27 had a similar turret to the T-18 tank, and both forward and reverse driver's controls.
BA-I armoured car The development of the armoured cars with 3 axes began in Soviet Union in the Thirties. In this case the designers in essence relied on chassis of American truck Ford-Timken, which began to enter the Soviet Union in 1931.
BAA plc BAA Limited is the owner and operator of seven major United Kingdom airports and operator of several airports worldwide, making the company one of the largest transport companies in the world. It is owned by a consortium led by Grupo Ferrovial, a Spanish firm that specializes in infrastructure.
BAC One-Eleven The BAC One-Eleven was a British short-range jet airliner of the 1960s and 1970s. Conceived by Hunting, it was developed and produced by the British Aircraft Corporation when Hunting merged into it along with other British aircraft makers in 1960.
BAC Strikemaster The BAC 167 Strikemaster was a jet-powered training and light attack aircraft. It was a development of the Hunting Jet Provost trainer, itself a jet engined version of the Percival Provost, which originally flew in 1950 with a radial piston engine.
BACE2 BACE2 (beta-site APP-cleaving enzyme 2) is a close homolog of BACE1, a protease known to be an important enzyme involved in the cellular pathways that some believe lead to Alzheimer's disease. The physiological function and role of BACE2 in Alzheimer's disease is unknown.
BACEngine In 2005 the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and the General Services Administration strongly requested a full-text indexing and search of content through XML standards comforming to the Global JXDM and the National Information Exchange Model, (NIEM). The evolution of search technologies, XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as an open standard, and the world wide web have created a combination of standards that enables a dynamic construction of web content through light-weight queries and results.
BACS BACS (originally an acronym for Bankers Automated Clearing Services) is a United Kingdom scheme for the electronic processing of financial transactions. Direct Debits and Direct Credits are made using the BACS system.
BAe 146 The BAe 146 is a medium-sized commercial aircraft which was manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace (which later became part of BAE Systems). Production ran from 1983 until 2002, switching to an improved version known as the Avro RJ in 1992.
BAe ATP The BAe ATP was an airliner designed as an evolution of the Avro 748. The fuel crisis and increasing worries about aircraft noise led business planners at British Aerospace to believe that there was a market for a short-range, low-noise, fuel-efficient turboprop aircraft.
BAe Jetstream 41 The Jetstream 41 is a turboprop-powered feederliner and regional airliner, designed by British Aerospace as a "stretched" version of the popular Handley Page Jetstream. Intended to compete directly with 30-seat aircraft like the Embraer Brasilia, Dornier 328 and Saab 340, the new design eventually accommodated 29 passengers in a two by one arrangement like the Jetstream 31.
BAE Harrier II The BAE Systems/Boeing Harrier II (GR5, GR7, and GR9 series) is a second generation vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) jet aircraft used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and, since 2006, the Royal Navy. It was developed from the earlier Hawker-Siddeley Harrier and is very closely related to the US built AV-8B Harrier II.
BAE Hawk The BAE Systems (BAE) Hawk is an advanced jet trainer which first flew in 1974 as the Hawker-Siddeley Hawk. It is used by the Royal Air Force, and other air forces, as either a trainer or a low-cost combat aircraft.
BAE HALO The HALO (High Altitude Low Observability) was believed to be a military aircraft with stealth capabilities, under development by BAE Systems for the Royal Air Force, as part of its now cancelled Future Offensive Air System.
BAE Sea Harrier The BAE Systems Sea Harrier is a naval VTOL/STOVL jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, a development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. It first entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980 as the Sea Harrier FSR.
BAE Skylynx II The BAE Systems Skylynx II is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed to support US Marine Corps Tier II regiment-level reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition missions. The aircraft flew its maiden flight on August 9, 2006 at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Yuma, Arizona.
BAE Systems Air Systems BAE Systems Air Systems is a business unit of BAE Systems responsible for the design, development and production of BAE's major military aircraft programmes. In 2004 Janes Defence Weekly described BAE Systems Air Systems as the last such company in the UK.
BAE Systems Australia BAE Systems Australia is an Australian defence contractor formed by the merger of British Aerospace Australia and GEC-Marconi Systems, respectively the Australian subsidiaries of British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems. This was the result of the merger of these parents on 1999-11-30 to create BAE Systems plc.
BAE Systems Land and Armaments BAE Systems Land & Armaments was created on June 24 2005, following the completition of BAE Systems' acquisition of United Defense and its merger with BAE Systems Land Systems. The L&A group is a subsidiary of BAE Systems Inc.
BAE Systems Land Systems South Africa BAE Systems Land Systems South Africa is a South African defence company and a subsidiary of BAE Systems Land Systems, itself part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments. BAE owns 75% of the company, DGD Technologies owns the remaining 25%.
BAE Systems Ship Repair BAE Systems Ship Repair is a major non-nuclear ship repair business in the United States, formerly known as United States Marine Repair. In June 2005 BAE Systems completed its acquisition of United Defense, USMR's parent company.
BAE Systems Submarine Solutions BAE Systems Submarine Solutions, until 2003 a unit within BAE Systems Marine, is responsible for the development and production of the Astute class submarine. At the same time BAE Systems Naval Ships was formed to operate the shipbuilding capabilities of BAE Systems.
BAEF The Belgian American Educational Foundation or BAEF is an independent philanthropy which supports the exchange of university students, scientists and scholars between the United States and Belgium. The foundation is engaged in fostering the higher education of deserving Belgians and Americans through its exchange fellowship program.
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role has been presented to its winners since 1952 and actresses of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.
BAFTA Award for Best Film This page lists the BAFTA award winners for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media.
BAFTA Cymru BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA Wales) is the national organisation for Wales of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Formed in 1991, they hold an annual awards ceremony to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Welsh-made films and television programmes.
BAFTA Interactive Awards The BAFTA Interactive Awards and BAFTA Games Awards were created in 2003 by splitting the original BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards into two separate ceremonies.Multimedia's best in Bafta battle - BBC News announces BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award split; 1st December 2003.
BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) annually hosted the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment AwardsBafta plugs into interactive awards (BBC News, October 7, 1998)UK Interactive industry comes of age (BBC News, October 30, 1998) for multimedia entertainment between 1998 and 2003.
BACH motif In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. Bach's use of this cruciform melody in reference to himself extended to its inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion, and all transpositions thereof.
BAI (file format) BAI (or the BAI file format) is a colloquial term used to describe a file format for using EDI to perform cash management balance reporting. The BAI format was developed and is maintained by the Banking Administration Institute (BAI).
BAI (organization) BAI (Banking Administration Institute) is the leading professional organization for the financial services industry, especially in the United States. BAI publishes a trade journal called Banking Strategies and disseminates information through seminars, graduate schools, and conferences (e.
BAIF Development Research Foundation The BAIF Development Research Foundation is an award-winning charitable organisation based in Maharashtra, India that pioneers agricultural development. It was founded in 1967 by Manibhai Desai as the Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation.
BAKSAL The Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League was the political amalgmation of the Awami League with the Krishak Sramik Party that supported President Mujibur Rahman in governing Bangladesh. All other political parties were outlawed at the time, and the period from 1973 to 1975 in which BAKSAL existed, was seen as a one-party dictatorship.
BALANCE Act The Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2003 is a bill that would amend Title 17 of the United States Code, "to safeguard the rights and expectations of consumers who lawfully obtain digital entertainment." The bill was proposed in the 108th Congress as H.
BAM (magazine) BAM (Bay Area Music), was a free music magazine produced in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in the mid 1970s and continuing on for 23 years until 1999. Its founder and publisher was Dennis William Mustafa Caroganis ("Denny") Erokan.
BANANA BANANA (an acronym of Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything or possibly Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) is a term most often used to criticize the ongoing opposition of certain interest groups to land development.
BANTU The sound of Fufu! that is how the Afropean musician Adé Bantu pointedly describes his mix of pumping beats, funky instrumentals and lyrics with a political message that can rock any party without sounding forced or admonishing.
BANZSL BANZSL, or British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language, is the language of which British Sign Language (BSL), Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) may be considered dialects. These three languages may technically be considered dialects of a single language (BANZSL) due to their use of the same grammar, manual alphabet, and the high degree of lexical sharing (overlap of signs).
BAP Capitán Quiñones (CL-83) BAP Capitán Quiñones (CL-83) was a Crown Colony class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. It was completed for the Royal Navy in 1942 as HMS Newfoundland and, after being withdrawn from service, commissioned by the Marina de Guerra del Perú on December 30 1959.
BAP Carvajal (FM-51) BAP Carvajal (FM-51) is the first out of four Modified Lupo class frigates ordered by the Peruvian Navy in 1973. It was built by the italian shipbuilder Cantieri Navali Riuniti at its shipyard in Riva Trigoso, Genoa.
BAP Coronel Bolognesi (CL-82) BAP Coronel Bolognesi (CL-82) was a Crown Colony class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. It was completed for the Royal Navy in 1943 as HMS Ceylon and, after being withdrawn from service, commissioned by the Marina de Guerra del PerĂş on February 9 1960.
BAP Mariátegui (FM-54) BAP Mariátegui (FM-54) is the last out of four Modified Lupo class frigates ordered by the Peruvian Navy in 1973. It was built by SIMA (Servicio Industrial de la Marina, Navy Industrial Service) at Callao under license from the italian shipbuilder Cantieri Navali Riuniti.
BAP Montero (FM-53) BAP Montero (FM-53) is the third out of four Modified Lupo class frigates ordered by the Peruvian Navy in 1973. It was built by SIMA (Servicio Industrial de la Marina, Navy Industrial Service) at Callao under license from the italian shipbuilder Cantieri Navali Riuniti.
BAP Pacocha (SS-48) BAP Pacocha (SS-48) was a submarine of the Marina de Guerra Peruana (Peruvian Navy) named for the 1877 Battle of Pacocha, in which the Peruvian ironclad Huascar humiliated the Royal Navy. Formerly USS Atule (SS-403), a Balao-class submarine with a GUPPY IA upgrade, she had been sold to Peru and commissioned on 28 May 1974.
BAP System The BAP System is a variation to the existing point system in the game of chess. The first known use of the existing point system where a win gets a full point, a draw gets a half point and a loss gets zero points is thought to have been in Germany around 1867.
BAP Villavisencio (FM-52) BAP Villavisencio (FM-52) is the second out of four Modified Lupo class frigates ordered by the Peruvian Navy in 1973. It was built by the italian shipbuilder Cantieri Navali Riuniti at its shipyard in Riva Trigoso, Genoa.
BAPA BAPA was the first Amateur Press Association in Britain. Its foundation was first proposed by Phil Greenaway in the letter pages of the comics fanzine BEM and the first mailing (under the name PAPA) was circulated in January 1978.

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