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BAPCo consortium BAPCo, the Business Application Performance Corporation, is an industry consortium including Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NVIDIA, ATI, and Apple Computer, and is a group dedicated to developing benchmarks for Windows personal computers. Some BAPCo benchmarks have been developed by Finnish software company Futuremark.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Chicago is a Hindu temple in the Chicago suburb of Bartlett, Illinois, USA. It is the largest traditional Hindu Mandir of stone and marble to be constructed in the United States and was built by BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Nairobi BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Nairobi is a Hindu temple in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the first traditional Hindu temple to be constructed on the African continent and was built by BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, an international Hindu organisation belonging to the Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism.
BAR 002 The BAR 002 was the car with which the British American Racing Formula One team competed in the 2000 Formula One season. It was driven by the 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, and Brazilian Ricardo Zonta, both drivers in their second year with the team.
BAR 003 The BAR 003 was the car with which the British American Racing team competed in the Formula One season. It was driven by Jacques Villeneuve, who was in his third year with the team, and Olivier Panis, who joined from a year out of racing as McLaren's test driver.
BAR 01 The BAR 01 was the car with which the British American Racing Formula One team used to compete in the 1999 Formula One season, its inaugural year in the series after purchasing Tyrrell. It was driven by Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 Champion who had left Williams in order to work with Team Principal Craig Pollock, his manager and good friend.
BAR domain BAR (Bin–Amphiphysin–Rvs) domains are highly conserved protein dimerisation domains that occur in many proteins involved in membrane dynamics in a cell. The BAR domain is banana shaped and binds to membrane via its concave face.
BASDAI The BASDAI is important because it is a validated diagnostic test which allows a physician (usually a rheumatologist) to determine the effectiveness of a current drug therapy, or the need to institute a new drug therapy for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis. The BASDAI consists of a one through 10 scale (one being no problem and 10 being the worst problem) in response to 6 questions pertaining to the 5 major symptoms of AS:
BASIC In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code The acronym is tied to the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz and is not a backronym, as is sometimes suggested.) refers to a family of high-level programming languages.
BASIC 8 BASIC 8 (or BASIC 8.0) — "The Enhanced Graphics System For The C128" — developed by Walrusoft of Gainesville, Florida and published in 1986 by Patech Software of Somerset, New Jersey, USA, was an extension of Commodore's BASIC 7.
BASIC extension BASIC toolkits (aka BASIC extensions)—not to be confused with widget toolkits—were a common type of program for 1980s 8-bit home computers. Generally third-party extensions, they added additional features to a computer's built-in BASIC interpreter.
BASIC Programming BASIC Programming was released for the Atari 2600 console in 1979. One of only a few non-gaming cartridges, this program allowed consumers to create some simple programs using its own unique programming language.
BASIC-11 BASIC-11 was a dialect of the basic language for PDP-11 operating systems such as RSX-11 and RT-11. It was a classic BASIC in that it used line numbers, supported line number editing, and classic function syntax.
BASIC-PLUS BASIC-PLUS was an extended dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use on its RSTS/E time-sharing operating system for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers in the early 1970s through the 1980s.
BASIC09 BASIC09 is a structured BASIC programming language dialect developed by Microware for the then-new Motorola 6809 CPU. Somewhat in the fashion of UCSD Pascal it was implemented via 'compilation' into an intermediate representation.
BASICODE BASICODE was a computer project intended to create a unified standard for the BASIC programming language. BASIC was available on many popular home computers, but there were countless variants that were mostly incompatible with each other.
BASToF Lemon BASToF Lemon (hangul:바스토프레몬), (also known as BASToF Syndrome) is a Korean animated television series, which ran for 26 episodes. Six volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD in North America by ADV Films, the largest producer-distributor of anime.
BATBYGOBSTOPL [3 line version of the BATBYGOBSTOPL acronym]BATBYGOBSTOPL is a 13 letter acronym used in Metlink advertising in Melbourne, Australia. It stands for "Buying A Ticket Before You Get On Board Saves Time Or Problems Later".
BATS Improv BATS Improv (formerly known as "Bay Area Theatresports") is a non-profit improvisational theatre company. Founded in 1986, their unique style of acting-based improvisational theatre is well-known in improv circles around the world.
BAX Global Burlington Air Express (now called BAX Global) is an international shipping company that is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has other major offices in Australia, Singapore, London, The Netherlands, and Toledo, Ohio.
BAYAN Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Filipino: New Patriotic Alliance) or BAYAN is a leftist political coalition in the Philippines, started in May 1985 during the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. It brought together more than a thousand grassroots and progressive organizations, representing over a million people.
Bắt đầu từ nay "Bắt đầu từ nay" is a phrase that means "effective forthwith" in Vietnamese. It was also the first phrase in a famous radio Vietnamese-language announcement that was frequently broadcast on Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) in Hong Kong during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
BĂ­lina River BĂ­lina rises at the slopes of Ore Mountains in the Czech Republic, close to Chomutov. The river flows through between Czech Central Mountains and Ore Mountains to the north-east, and runs into Elbe in ĂšstĂ­ nad Labem.
Bío-Bío River The Bío-Bío River (alternate spellings Biobío or Bio Bio) is the second largest river in Chile. It originates from Icalma and Galletué lakes in the Andes and flows 380 km to the Gulf of Arauco on the Pacific Ocean.
Bítið Fast í Vítið Bítið Fast í Vítið, which in Icelandic could be translated as Take a Firm Bite of Hell or Put Your Teeth Firmly into Hell, was an EP released in 1982 by Tappi Tíkarrass, an Icelandic punk/pop group led by vocalists Björk and Eyþór Arnalds.
Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu is a province of Vietnam. It is located on the coast of the country's southern region. It also includes the Côn Đảo islands, located some distance off Vietnam's southeastern coast. From 1954 to 1975, this province belonged to the Republic of Vietnam.
Bàng-uâ-cê (Chinese characters: 平話字) is a romanized writing system for the Fuzhou dialect invented in the middle of 19th century by Western missionaries. Though was exclusively invented for the Fuzhou dialect, the name (Chinese Characters: 平話) is, however, used by the native speakers of both the Fuzhou and Ningde dialects, which are closely related.
BĂĄrd Borgersen BĂĄrd Borgersen (born May 20, 1972) is a Norwegian former football (soccer) player, who won the Kniksen award as Norwegian defender of the year in 2005. He scored 2 goals in his debut for the Norwegian national team.
Bård Jørgen Elden Bård Jørgen Elden (born June 17 1968) is a former Norwegian nordic combined skier who competed from 1987 to 1997. At the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, he won a gold medal in the 3 x 10 km team event.
BĂĄrd Lahn BĂĄrd LappegĂĄrd Lahn (born May 26 1983 in Stange, Norway) is a Norwegian enviromentalist and since 2006 leader of Natur og Ungdom. Prior to his leadership he had been deputy leader since 2003 and an active member og Natur og Ungdom since the mid 1990s.
BĂĽck dich "BĂĽck dich" ("Bend down", "Bend over") is a song by the German Tanz-Metall band Rammstein that first appeared on their second full-length album, Sehnsucht. The lyrics refer to sodomy.
BĂĽhl (Baden) The city of BĂĽhl is part of Rastatt county in the south-western state of Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany. It has a population of about 29000, and is situated in the region between the Rhine Valley and the Black Forest.
BĂĽhl bei Aarberg BĂĽhl bei Aarberg (or simply BĂĽhl) is a municipality in the Nidau administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its neighboring municipalities in a clockwise direction from the north are Hermrigen, Kappelen, Walperswil and Epsach.
BĂĽhlmann tables BĂĽhlmann tables are decompression tables developed by Dr. Albert BĂĽhlmann, who did research into decompression theory at the Laboratory of Hyperbaric Physiology at the University Hospital in ZĂĽrich, Switzerland.
BĂĽchi automaton A BĂĽchi automaton is the extension of a finite state automaton to infinite inputs. It accepts an infinite input sequence, iff there exists a run of the automaton (in case of a deterministic automaton, there is exactly one possible run) which has infinitely many states in the set of final states.
BĂĽchner flask A BĂĽchner flask, also known as a vacuum flaskThe use of the term vacuum flask sometimes causes confusion with the Thermos flask, filter flask or Kitasato flask, is a thick-walled erlenmeyer flask with a short glass tube and [barb|hose barb] protruding about an inch from its neck. The short tube and hose barb effectively acts as an adapter over which the end of a thick-walled flexible hose (tubing) can be fitted to form a connection to the flask.
BĂĽlach (district) The BĂĽlach district (Bezirk BĂĽlach) is one of 12 districts of the Canton of ZĂĽrich in Switzerland, with some 117,000 inhabitants the third largest in the canton. Its administrative capital is BĂĽlach, the largest municipality is Kloten.
BĂĽlach fibula An Alamannic fibula found in BĂĽlach in the Canton of ZĂĽrich, a silver disc-brooch with almandine inlay, discovered in 1927 in a woman's grave in a row-gravefield, bears an Elder Futhark inscription interpreted as a love charm, or a dedication from a lover, the only Elder Futhark inscription found in Switzerland. It is dated to the 6th century.
BĂĽlend Ulusu BĂĽlend Ulusu, born in 1923 in Ä°stanbul, Turkey, was a Turkish admiral, who was tasked with being Prime Minister of Turkey from the time of the September 12 1980 military coup to the time that elections were allowed in 1983.
BĂĽlent Evcil BĂĽlent Evcil (born 1968) is a Turkish solo flutist and is the winner of the Royal Belgium Encouragement Medal of Art. He received the second place award in the Best Overall Performer Award at the 4th James Galway International Flute Seminar in Dublin.
BĂĽlent Korkmaz BĂĽlent Korkmaz (born 24 November 1968) is a retired Turkish football player. He is one of the most successful players in Turkish football, with more than 20 trophies including one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, and 9 League championships.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Civil Rights Movement Solidarity ("Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität"; BüSo for short) is a German political party founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, wife of controversial United States politician Lyndon LaRouche. It is the German affiliate of the international LaRouche Movement.
Bürglen, Uri Bürglen is a village of the Canton of Uri, Switzerland, (, about 4000 inhabitants) at the entrance of the Schächental valley. The village is at the start of the road over the pass Klausenpass, which connects Uri and Glarus.
BĂĽsching (crater) BĂĽsching is a lunar impact crater that is located in the crater-covered southern highlands of the Moon. The similar-sized Buch crater is located adjacent to its southwestern rim, and further to the southwest lies Maurolycus crater.
BĂĽssing BĂĽssing was a German bus and truck manufacturer established by Heinrich BĂĽssing (1843-1929) at Braunschweig in 1903. BĂĽssing's first truck was a 2 ton payload machine powered by a 2-cylinder gasoline engine and featuring worm drive.
BĂĽsumer Deichhausen BĂĽsumer Deichhausen (formerly "Dykhusen") is a municipality belonging to the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde ("collective municipality") BĂĽsum in the district Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
BĂĽyĂĽkamiral BĂĽyĂĽkamiral is the rank of Fleet Admiral in the Turkish Navy. The sleeve insignia is identical to that of a British Admiral of the Fleet, upon which the rank was based, however the shoulder board of a Turkish Fleet Admiral displays an extensively elaborate design.
BĂłbr BĂłbr (-Polish, Czech: Bobr, German: Bober) is a river in the northern Czech Republic and southwestern Poland, a tributary of the Oder River, with a length of 272 kilometres (2 in Czech Republic, 270 in Poland, 10th longest Polish river) and the basin area of 5,876 sq. km (46 in Czech Republic and 5,830 in Poland).
BĂłsa saga ok HerrauĂ°s BĂłsa saga ok Herrauds (Old Norse BĂłsa saga ok HerrauĂ°s) 'Saga of BĂłsi and Herraud' is a legendary saga written around 1300 preserved in three 15th century manuscripts relating the fantastic adventures of the two companions Herraud (Old Norse HerrauĂ°r) and BĂłsi.
BĂłveda del RĂ­o Almar BĂłveda del RĂ­o Almar is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is 45 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 299 people.
BĂşnker The term bĂşnker refers to a far-right faction during the Spanish transition to democracy. The group of hardline francoists opposed political and social reform; the group's steadfast refusal to compromise led to the name of "bunker.
Bâkî Bâḳî (باقى) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: ﻡﺨﻠﺺ mahlas) of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî (محمود عبد الباقى) (1526–1600). Considered one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature, Bâkî came to be known as Sultânüş-şuarâ (سلطانوششعرا), or "Sultan of poets".
Bâlc of Moldavia Bâlc (or Balc) was a Voivode ruling over the lands of what was to become Moldavia in 1359, succeeding his father, Sas, the son of the first ruler of the country. He managed to rule the country for only one year before being disposed by another Voivode from Maramureş, Bogdan.
Bâlea Lac The Bâlea Lac (meaning Lake Bâlea) is a glacier lake situated at 2034 m of altitude in the Făgăraş Mountains, in central Romania, in Sibiu County. There are two chalets opened all the year round, a meteorological station and a mountain rescue (Salvamont) station.
Bâtiments du Roi The Bâtiments du Roi (French: Buildings of the King) was a a division of Department of the household of the Kings of France (the "Maison du Roi") in France under the Ancien Régime. It was responsible for building works at the King's residences in and around Paris.
Bâton français The Bâton français, French for 'French staff', also known as French stick fighting, is a European historical fencing discipline which uses a staff about 4 feet long. The techniques have much in common with longsword and quarterstaff.
Báb Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad () (October 20, 1819 – July 9, 1850) was the founder and prophet of Bábism. He was a merchant from Shíráz, who at the age of twenty-five claimed to be the promised Qá'im (or Mihdí).
Bábism The Bábís ( ) are members of a religious movement that flourished in Persia from 1844 to 1852, then lingered on in exile in the Ottoman Empire (especially Cyprus) as well as underground. Its founder was Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad of Shiraz, who took the title Báb – meaning "Gate" – from a well-known Shi'a theological term.
Bács-Bodrog Bács-Bodrog (Hungarian: Bács-Bodrog, Serbian: Bačka-Bodrog or Бачка-Бодрог) is the name of administrative county (comitatus) of the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in southern Hungary and northern Serbia (western Vojvodina).
Báiki Báiki (long name: Báiki: the North American Sami Journal) is an English-language publication that covers Sami culture, history, and current affairs. The coverage also includes the community affairs of the Sami in North America, estimated at some 30.
Bálint Bakfark Bálint Bakfark (his name is variously spelled as Bachfarrt, Backvart, Bekwark, and occasionally his first name is rendered as Valentin); 1507 – August 15 or August 22, 1576) was a Hungarian composer and lutenist of the Renaissance. He was enormously influential as a lutenist in his time, and renowned as a virtuoso on the instrument.
Bánh bao Banh bao (bánh bao in Vietnamese) is a brioche ball with pork meat, onions, eggs, mushrooms and vegetables inside. The steamed bun often has ground pork, Chinese sausage and a portion of a hard boiled egg inside.
Bánh mì Bánh mì (pronounced in English and in Vietnamese), sometimes also referred to as a "Vietnamese hoagie", is a Vietnamese submarine sandwich, made with a French-inspired baguette. It is made up of thinly sliced, pickled carrots, daikon, onions, cilantro, choice of barbecued pork, paté, chicken and other meats; there also exist vegetarian versions of this item with tofu taking the place of meat.
Bánh Xèo Bánh Xèo are Vietnamese crepe-type pancakes made out of rice flour and coconut milk(optional), and are pan-fried and stuffed with slivers of fatty pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts. Served wrapped with lettuce leaves and stuffed with mint (optional) and other herbs, and dipped in Nước mấm.
Bárány chair The Bárány chair, named for the Austrian phyiologist Robert Bárány, is a device used for aerospace physiology training, particularly for student pilots. The subject is placed in the chair, blindfolded, then spun rapidly about the vertical axis while keeping his head upright or tilted forward or to the side.
Bárbara Dührkop Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop (b. July 27, 1945, Hanover) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), a Vice-Chairwoman of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Bárbara Palacios Teyde Barbara Pérez Hernández (born December 9, 1963), better known simply as Barbara Palacios Teyde , is the third contestant from Venezuela to win the Miss Universe pageant. She did so in Panama on July 26, 1986.
Bûche de Noël Bûche de Noël ("Yule Log") is a traditional French dessert served during the Christmas holidays. As the name indicates, the cake is generally prepared, presented, and garnished so as to look like a log ready for the fire.
BĂ© Chuille BĂ© Chuille, also known as Becuille and BĂ© Chuma, is one of the Tuatha DĂ© Danann in Irish mythology. In a tale from the Metrical Dindshenchas, she is a good sorceress who joins three other of the Tuatha DĂ© to defeat the evil Greek witch Carman.
Béal na mBláth Béal na mBláth, mouth of flowers in English, (often incorrectly called 'Béal na Bláth') is a tiny village in West Cork which is best known for being the location of the assassination of Michael Collins on 22 August 1922 during the Irish Civil War.
Béarn Béarn (Gascon: Bearn or Biarn) is a former province of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three Basque provinces of Soule, Lower Navarre, and Labourd, as well as small parts of Gascony, it forms the current département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64).
BĂ©atrice Ephrussi de Rothschild Charlotte BĂ©atrice de Rothschild (September 14, 1864 - April 7, 1934) was a French socialite, art collector, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family. Known as BĂ©atrice, she was born in Paris, France, the daughter of the extremely wealthy banker Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827-1905) and Leonora de Rothschild (1837-1911).
BĂ©atrice Patrie BĂ©atrice Patrie (born May 12, 1957 in Lorient) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Béatrice Romand Béatrice Romand (born 1952 in Birkadem (French Algeria) is a French actress best known for her work with director Éric Rohmer in such films as Claire's Knee, Chloe in the Afternoon, A Good Marriage, Le Rayon vert and Autumn Tale.
Bécancour, Quebec Bécancour is a town in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada; it is the seat of the Regional County Municipality Bécancour. It is located at the confluence of the Bécancour River and the Saint Lawrence River, opposite Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
BĂ©guinage A BĂ©guinage is a collection of small buildings used by Beguines, which were several lay sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in the 13th century in the Low Countries, of religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world.
Béchamel sauce Béchamel sauce (pronounced ), also known as white sauce, is a basic sauce that is used as the base for other sauces, such as Mornay sauce, which is Béchamel and cheese. This basic sauce, one of the mother sauces of French cuisine, is usually made today by whisking scalded milk gradually into a white flour-butter roux, though it can also be made by whisking a kneaded flour-butter beurre manié into scalded milk.
Béjaïa Béjaïa or Bougie (Kabyle Bgayet or Tifinagh ⴱⴳⴰⵢⴻⵜ, pronouced /; Arabic بجاية [] / [], also transliterated Bijāyah) is a Mediterranean port on the Gulf of Béjaïa, capital of Béjaïa Province, northern Algeria. Under French rule, it was formerly known under various European names, such as Budschaja in German, Bugia in Italian, and Bougie // (both pf which are words for 'candle').
Békásmegyer An urban area of Budapest's District III consisting of mostly concrete high rise housing, it has a part called Ófalu (Old Village) which is a suburban area with older more traditional houses. Békásmegyer is divided into two by the Suburban Railway line.
Békés County Békés County (Hungarian: Békés megye; Romanian: judeţul Bichiş; Slovak: Békešská župa) is an administrative division (county or megye) in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Hajdú-Bihar.
Béla Bollobás Béla Bollobás (born August 3, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary) is a leading Hungarian mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics and graph theory. His first doctorate was for work in discrete geometry in 1967, after which he spent a year in Moscow with Gelfand.
BĂ©la Fleck BĂ©la Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York City, New York) is an American virtuoso banjo player. He is most well known for his work with the band BĂ©la Fleck and the Flecktones, which he has described as "a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.
BĂ©la Fleck and the Flecktones BĂ©la Fleck and the Flecktones is a primarily instrumental group from the USA, that draws equally on bluegrass, fusion and jazz, sometimes dubbed "blu-bop." The band formed in 1988, initially to perform once on the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials.
BĂ©la Fleck and the Flecktones (album) BĂ©la Fleck and the Flecktones was the first album by the band of the same name, released in 1990. A live version of "The Sinister Minister", a track from this album, won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1997.
Béla Gerster Béla Gerster or Vojtech Gerster (* October 20, 1850 in Kassa (today Slovakia (Košice) - † August 3, 1923 in Budapest) was a notable engineer and canal architect. He took part in an early expedition to investigate a route for the Panama Canal, and was the chief engineer of the Corinth Canal.
Béla H. Bánáthy Béla H. Bánáthy (December 1, 1919-2003) was a co-founder of the White Stag Program for Scouts, Professor emeritus at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center and President of the International Systems Institute (ISI) in Carmel, California.
Béla Károlyi Béla Károlyi (born September 13, 1942 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania), is a world-renowned gymnastics coach. Together with his wife, Marta, (sometimes called Martha), Károlyi has coached both the United States and Romanian Olympic teams to medal success.
Béla Koplárovics Béla Koplárovics (born 7 June 1981) is a former football player of the Hungarian club Zalaegerszegi TE. He became famous in Hungary after scoring against Manchester United in the 92nd minute of a UEFA Champions League qualifier, winning the match for his team.
Béla Markó Béla Markó (born September 8 1951) is a Romanian politician and writer of Hungarian ethnicity. The leader of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he is also the Vice Premier in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu government (which came to power on December 28, 2004), in charge of culture, education and research and European integration.
Béla Szabados Béla Szabados (born February 18, 1974 in Békéscsaba) is a former freestyle swimmer from Hungary, who competed in two consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. He studied at the University of Southern California.
Bélé A Bélé is a folk song and dance from Dominica, performed most commonly during full moon evenings, or sometimes during funeral wakes (Antillean Creole: lavèyé). It may be the oldest Creole dance from Dominica, and strongly reflects influences from African fertility dances.
BĂ©nard cells BĂ©nard cells are convection cells that appear spontaneously in a liquid layer when heat is applied from below. They can be obtained using a simple experiment first conducted by Henri BĂ©nard, a French physicist, in 1900.
Bénilde Romançon Saint (Brother) Bénilde Romançon FSC (1805-1862) was a Christian Brother who was born as Pierre Romançon on June 13, 1805 in the town of Thuret in France to a farmer family. In 1818, Pierre, aged 13 first saw the Christian Brothers in a market at Clermont-Ferrand.
BĂ©ny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery The BĂ©ny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is a cemetery containing predominantly Canadian soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. The Cemetery is located in and named after BĂ©ny-sur-Mer in the Calvados commune, near Caen in lower Normandy.
Bérenger Saunière François Bérenger Saunière (1852-1917) was a priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, from 1885 to 1909. He would be unknown today if not for the fact that he is a central figure in many of the conspiracy theories surrounding Rennes-le-Château.
Béroalde de Verville François Béroalde de Verville (Paris, April 27, 1556 - October 19-26, 1626) was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. He was the son of Matthieu Brouard (or Brouart), called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa d'Aubigné and Pierre de l'Estoile and a Huguenot; his mother, Marie Bletz, was the niece of the humanist and Hebrew scholar François Watebled (called "Vatable").
BĂ©roul BĂ©roul was a Norman poet of the 12th century. He wrote Tristan, a Norman language version of the legend of Tristan and Iseult of which a certain number of fragments (approximately 3000 verses) have been preserved; it is the earliest representation of the so-called "vulgar" version of the legend (the "courtly" version being represented by fragments from Thomas of Britain's poem).
Bérurier Noir Bérurier noir is a French punk band formed in Paris in 1983 by Loran (guitar), François (vocals) and Dédé (drum machine). They called themselves "noir" (black) for the color of mourning (because their first concert was planned to be also their last) and for anarchy and "Bérurier" after the character from the novels of Frédéric Dard.
BĂ©same Tonto Besame Tonto ("Kiss Me, Fool") is a 2003 Spanish language television soap opera that was produced jointly by Peruvian and Venezuelan producers and that became a somewhat unexpected major international hit, occupying the first place in ratings among television programs in many other Latin American countries as well as in countries like Russia, Germany, the Philippines and others. The show was expected to become a hit in Peru and Venezuela; however, the relative inexperience as major telenovela main stars by the leading couple, Gianella Neyra and Segundo Cernadas of Argentina, led many to believe that it would only become a hit regionally.
Béthune Béthune is a city and commune of northern France, sous-préfecture of the Pas-de-Calais département. It is the administrative center of the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois, which gathers 58 communes, and has a total population of approximately 200,000.

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