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Beaked gecko Rhynchoedura ornata, commonly known as the beaked gecko, is a gecko native to and can be found throughout the non-coastal regions of Australia. Its range covers New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and West Australia.
Beaked salmon The beaked salmon (also beaked sandfish) are a type of long thin gonorynchiform ray-finned fish that live on sandy bottoms near shorelines. The approximately five known species are all in the single genus Gonorynchus (sometimes spelled Gonorhynchus) of the family Gonorynchidae (sometimes spelled Gonorhynchidae).
Beaked whale A beaked whale is any of at least 20 species of small whale in the family Ziphiidae. They are one of the least-known families of large mammals: several species have only been described in the last two decades, and it is entirely possible that more remain as yet undiscovered.
Beaker (archaeology) A beaker is a small ceramic or metal drinking vessel shaped to be held in the hands. Archaeologists identify several different types including the butt beaker, the claw beaker and the rough-cast beaker, however when used alone the term usually refers to the pottery cups associated with the European Beaker culture of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
Beaker culture The Bell-Beaker culture (sometimes shortened to Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk, German Glockenbecherkultur), ca. 2800 – 1900 BC, is the term for a widely but spottily scattered archaeological culture of prehistoric western Europe starting in the late Neolithic (stone age) running into the early Bronze Age.
Beal Bank Beal Bank is a Texas-based bank that was founded in 1988 by Texas banker and entrepreneur Andy Beal. With headquarters in Plano, Texas (just north of Dallas), Beal Bank has a total of six deposit branches spread throughout Texas (Dallas, Houston) and California (Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Francisco).
Bealadangan BĂ©al an Daingin (Bealadangan in English) is a small village in the heart of Connemara (Conamara), a rocky windswept area on the Atlantic coast, in County Galway, Ireland. The primary language is Irish, and all but a few of the elderly population also speak English.
Bealach na Ba The Bealach na Ba (Gaelic: Pass of the Cattle, see Cattle droving) is a famous, twisting, single-track mountain road, rising to 626 metres (2053 feet) in the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. It is one of very few roads in the Scottish Highlands which is engineered in a similar fashion to the great mountain passes in the Alps, with very tight hairpin bends which switch back and forth up the hillside, with gradients approaching 20%.
Beale ciphers The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold and silver estimated to be worth over 30 million US dollars in today's money. The other two ciphertexts allegedly describe the content of the treasure, and list the names of the treasure's owners' next of kin, respectively.
Beale Park Beale Wildlife Park and Gardens is situated by the River Thames, near the village of Pangbourne in Berkshire, England. It has three main areas of attraction: the collections of small exotic animals, farm animals and birds; the landscaped gardens and woodlands; and the children's play areas.
Beale Street Beale Street is a street in Memphis, Tennessee and a significant location in African-American history and the history of the blues. Today, the blues clubs and restaurants that line Beale Street are major tourist attractions in Memphis.
Beals (crater) Beals is a lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon, and lies across the southwestern rim of Riemann crater. From the Earth the crater is viewed nearly from on edge, and is best seen during favorable librations.
Beam (music) A beam in musical notation is constructed as one or more lines used to connect multiple consecutive eighth notes (quavers), sixteenth notes (semiquavers), or smaller note values. Beams usually connect notes of the same duration, but may connect any combination of notes otherwise written with flags.
Beam (nautical) The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. Generally speaking, the wider a ship (or boat)'s beam, the more initial stability she will have, at the expense of reserve stability in the event of a capsize, where more energy is required to right the vessel from its inverted position.
Beam axle A beam axle is a suspension system, also called a solid axle, in which one set of wheels is connected laterally by a single beam or shaft. A live axle is a type of beam axle in which the shaft (or shafts, since live axles, while connected to move as a single unit, are seldom one piece) also transmits power to the wheels; a beam axle that does not also transmit power is sometimes called a dead axle.
Beam crossing A beam crossing in a particle collider occurs when two packets of particles, going in opposite directions, reach the same point in space. Most of the particles in each packet cross each other, but a few may collide, producing other particles that may be observed in a particle detector.
Beam diameter The beam diameter of an electromagnetic beam is the diameter along any specified line that is perpendicular to the beam axis and intersects it. For this purpose, the diameter is often defined as the distance between the two diametrically opposite points at which the irradiance is a specified fraction of the beam's peak irradiance.
Beam emittance The beam emittance of a particle accelerator is the extent occupied by the particles of the beam in space and momentum phase space as it travels. A low emittance particle beam is a beam where the particles are confined to a small distance and have nearly the same momentum.
Beam parameter product In laser science, the beam parameter product (BPP) is the product of a laser beam's divergence angle (half-angle) and the radius of the beam at its narrowest point (the beam waist). The BPP quantifies the quality of a laser beam, and how well it can be focused to a small spot.
Beam propagation method The beam propagation method (BPM) is an approximation technique for simulating the propagation of light in slowly varying optical waveguides. It is essentially the same as the so-called Parabolic Equation (PE) method in underwater acoustics.
Beam steering Beam steering: Changing the direction of the main lobe of a radiation pattern. In radio systems, beam steering may be accomplished by switching antenna elements or by changing the relative phases of the rf signals driving the elements.
Beam tetrode The problem of secondary emission in the tetrode tube (valve) was solved by Philips/Mullard with the introduction of a suppressor grid to produce the pentode construction. Since Philips held a patent on this design, other manufacturers were keen to produce pentode type tubes without infringing the patent.
Beam's eye view Beam's Eye View (or BEV) is an imaging technique used in Radiation therapy for the quality assurance and planning of External Beam Radiation Therapy treatments. These are primarily used to ensure that the relative orientation of the patient and the treatment machine are correct.
Beaman Oak The Beaman Oak was the largest white oak tree in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, standing in the front yard of a colonial era three-story house in the town of Lancaster. It was so named because Gamaliel Beaman had originally settled the spot in 1659.
Beamer (cricket) In the terminology of the game of cricket, a beamer (less commonly beam ball) is a type of delivery in which the ball, without bouncing, passes above the batsman's waist height. Such a ball is dangerously close to the batsman's head, due to the lack of control a bowler has over high full tosses.
Beamforming Beamforming is a signal processing technique used with arrays of transmitting or receiving transducers that control the directionality of, or sensitivity to, a radiation pattern. When receiving a signal, beamforming can increase the receiver sensitivity in the direction of wanted signals and decrease the sensitivity in the direction of interference and noise.
Beamish and Crawford The Beamish and Crawford brewery was founded in Cork, Ireland in 1792 by William Beamish and William Crawford. They purchased an existing brewery on a site that had been used for brewing since at least 1650 (and possibly as early as 1500).
Beamish, County Durham Beamish is a village in County Durham, England situated to the north east of Stanley in the District of Chester-le Street and is contained within hell hole wood. It is home to Beamish Museum, an open air museum seeking to replicate a northern town of the early 20th century.
Beamline In particle physics, a beamline is the line in a linear accelerator along which a beam of particles travels. It may also refer to the line of travel within a bending section such as a storage ring or cyclotron.
Beamrider Beamrider is a scrolling shooter designed for the Intellivision by Activision programmer David Rolfe. The game was then ported to the Atari 2600 (with a slightly reduced feature set), Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum as well as the MSX platform.
Beams Beams is a Japanese clothing brand, established in 1976 whose chief executive officer (CEO) is Yo Shitara. Besides stores in many places in Japan, they have branch offices in New York, Milano, London and Paris.
Beamsley Beamsley is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is just within the boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and about six miles east of Skipton and six miles north-west of Ilkley.
Beamsville, Ontario The community of Beamsville is located in the province of Ontario, in Canada, along the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Containing century-old brick buildings, an old-fashioned downtown area with barbershops, women's dress shops, a bakery, a print shop, restaurants, banks, etc.
Beamter The German word Beamter (female: Beamtin, plural: Beamte) means civil servant, and is pronounced be-AHM-tuhr with a glottal stop between the E and A. This English translation may be ambiguous, as German law puts public employees into two classes, namely ordinary employees (Angestellte) and Beamter.
BeamWars BeamWars was a popular Macintosh shareware arcade-style game in the early 1990's, created by Steve Crutchfield while he was attending the Illinois Math and Science Academy. Its pioneering use of digitized sound, music and voice effects (including the trademark "Welcome to BeamWars" opening sequence), and arrival as one of the first well-known full-color games for the Macintosh, won it a number of accolades, including recognition as one of the three best Macintosh shareware games of all time in MacUser magazine's 1993 book, "MacUser's Guide to Shareware".
Bean (character) Bean is a major character in Orson Scott Card's science fiction novels revolving around Ender Wiggin. He is an important supporting character in Ender's Game and the main character of the eponymous Bean Quartet (or Shadow Saga as it is officially known), consisting of Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant.
Bean Pole International Bean Pole International is the name of a South Korean fashion brand and an affiliate company of Samsung. In 2006, Bean Pole fashions have been brought to international prominence as American actress Gwyneth Paltrow became part of its advertising campaign in South Korea and abroad.
Bean queen Bean queen is a term used in the English-speaking gay community to refer to a person, usually a white male, who exclusively dates Hispanics, particularly darker skinned men from Central and South America. Oftentimes, the term applies to older white men who date younger Hispanic men, much like the term "rice queen" applies to older white men who date younger Asian men.
Bean salad Bean salad is mainly composed of cooked pole beans (green beans and/or yellow wax beans), cooked garbonzo beans, cooked kidney beans and sliced or diced fresh onion. The beans are marinaded in an oil/vinegar vinaigrette, sometimes sweetened with sugar.
Bean Scripting Framework The Bean Scripting Framework is a method of allowing the use of scripting in Java code. It provides a set of Java classes which provides support within Java applications for scripting languages, and also allows access to Java objects and methods.
Bean Settlement, West Virginia Bean Settlement is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Bean Settlement community has also been known as Asbury, Asbury Church, Bean's, and Fabius.
Bean weevil The bean weevils or seed beetles are a subfamily (Bruchinae) of beetles, now placed in the family Chrysomelidae, though they have historically been treated as a separate family. They are granivores, and typically infest various kinds of seeds or beans, living for most of their lives inside a single seed.
Bean's Grant, New Hampshire Bean's Grant is a township located in southern Coos County, New Hampshire, USA, north of Crawford Notch State Park. In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire Bean's Purchase is a township in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
Beanbag music 'Beanbag' refers to a musical movement centred on the southern part of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The style emerged some time in 2002 as a reaction to the state of the local cultural and economic conditions.
Beanball "Beanball" is a colloquial sports term for a ball thrown at an opposing player with the intention of striking him such as to cause harm, often connoting a throw at the player's head (or "bean" in old-fashioned slang). The term may be applied to any sport in which a player on one team regularly attempts to throw a ball toward the general vicinity of a player of the opposite team, but is typically expected not to hit that player with the ball.
Beaner Beaner is a derogatory term for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, though it is also sometimes directed (perhaps erroneously) at Hispanics in general. The term is likely derived from the use of beans as a staple of the Mexican diet.
Beaner's Gourmet Coffee Beaner's Gourmet Coffee is a coffee franchise based in the Midwestern United States. Founded in March, 1995 by Robert Fish and Mary Roszel, the first Beaner's opened its doors in East Lansing, Michigan near the campus of Michigan State University on March 15, 1995.
Beanland Beanland is a roots rock jam band, based in Oxford, Mississippi, which performed and recorded primarily from 1986 to 1993. Beanland is a legend and favorite among alumni of Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi).
Beanpot The Beanpot refers primarily to a college men's ice hockey tournament between four major college hockey schools of the Boston, Massachusetts area, held first in 1952 and yearly since 1954. The tournament gives the winner bragging rights over its cross-town rivals, and the quest for this highly-sought after trophy is contested in front of frantic crowds from all four schools in annual sellouts.
Beans (rapper) Beans (aka Mr Ballbeam), hailing from White Plains, a suburb of New York City, was one of the founding members of New York's legendary Antipop Consortium, which disbanded in 2002. With his distinctive fast-flowing poetic style, Beans manages to amalgamate witty, thoughtful lyrics with his own productions of "Chunky psychedelic electro-hop".
Beans (song) Beans is a song from the American rock band Nirvana, written by Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain. The song was recorded in Summer 1988 as part of Cobain's "Mellow 4-track Shit" demo tape, which included early acoustic versions of songs such as "Sappy", "Polly", and "About a Girl".
Beans and Tolerance Beans and Tolerance was a self-released LP by rock band Young Fresh Fellows. Commonly referred to as "The Bootleg," it was released following the departure of founding member Chuck Carroll, it is a collection of odds and ends recorded during his tenure.
Beans Reardon John Edward "Beans" Reardon (November 23, 1897 - July 31, 1984) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1926 to 1949. One of the best-liked and most respected umpires in the league, he was known for his colorful arguments with players and managers.
Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" is a children's song about the capacity for beans to contribute to flatulence. The song is also variously known as "Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit" and "Beans, Beans, the Wonderful Fruit".
Beap Beap, short for bi-parental heap (data structure), introduced by Ian Munro and Hendra Suwanda. In this data structure a node usually has two parents (unless it is the first or last on a level) and two children (unless it is on the last level).
Bear (Boy Scouts of America) Bear is a rank attainable by a Scout in the Cub Scout division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and ranks above Wolf and below Webelos. After earning the Bobcat badge, third-grade aged Cub Scouts work toward the Bear badge and then earn Arrow Points.
Bear (comic book) Bear is a popular black and white alternative comic book created by British writer/artist Jamie Smart and published in the United States by Slave Labor Graphics. It follows the adventures of a small stuffed bear named Bear and his roommate/antagonist, a psychotic housecat named Looshkin.
Bear 100 Mile Endurance Run Inaugurated in 1999, The Bear 100 Mile Endurance Run is an ultramarathon that traverses the Wasatch/Bear River Range west of Bear Lake in southeastern Idaho. With 18000 ft of climb and an average elevation of 7700 ft, it is one of the more difficult ultramarathons.
Bear bag A bear bag is a device used when camping in areas that bears frequent to keep food and perishable items out of reach of the bear by raising it into the air by some means. The idea is if the bears cannot reach the food, they will not be tempted to venture too close to the camp and thus will not be a danger to humans or themselves.
Bear Bryant Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football coach. Best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, he won the national championship six times and set the record as the all-time (up to that time) most successful coach in NCAA Division I college football, with a record of 323-85-17.
Bear Butte Bear Butte is a geological feature located in western South Dakota that was established as a State Park in 1961. An important landmark and religious site for the Plains Indians tribes long before Europeans reached South Dakota, Bear Butte is called Mato Paha, or Bear Mountain, by the Lakota, or Sioux.
Bear call spread The bear call spread is a limited profit, limited risk options trading strategy that can be used when the options trader is moderately bearish on the underlying security. It is entered by buying call options of a certain strike price and selling the same number of call options of lower strike price on the same underlying with the same expiration month.
Bear claw A bear claw is a sweet breakfast food, popular chiefly on the West Coast of the United States. It is an almond-flavored, yeast-raised pastry shaped in a large, irregular semicircle with slices around the outside, evoking the shape of a bear's claw.
Bear Canyon Bear Canyon offers views of Tucson, Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains to the north. Accessible from the Sabino Canyon visitors' center, Bear Canyon contains natural spectacles such as Seven Falls and Thimble Peak.
Bear Creek (Oregon) Bear Creek is a tributary of the Rogue River in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. The main population centers in the Rogue Valley in Jackson County (Medford and Ashland) are actually located in the Bear Creek branch of the valley.
Bear Creek Township, Pennsylvania Bear Creek Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township was the site of a mysterious plane crash on February 19, 2000 when an airplane, in its attempt to land at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in nearby Avoca, crashed in what was described by BBC as a "wooded area" of the township near the intersection of Bear Creek Boulevard (PA-Route 115) and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, killing the pilot as well as all 19 passengers.
Bear Creek, North Carolina Bear Creek is an unincorporated community in southwestern Chatham County, NC named for a nearby creek that eventually flows into the Rocky River. The community lies along Old US Highway 421 and is situated between Siler City and Goldston.
Bear Cross Bear Cross is a roundabout and small area on the border of Poole and Bournemouth in the ceremonial county of Dorset. The roundabout is the junction of the Ringwood Road (A348) and the Wimborne/ Magna Road (A341) routes, and is known locally as an accident black spot because of the combination of bad visibility and the high speeds at which it can be approached.
Bear Family Records Bear Family Records is a Germany-based independent record label that specializes in reissues of archival material ranging from country music to 1950s rock and roll. The label has been in existence since 1978, founded by collector Richard Weize, and has become known for its extravagant (and expensive) box sets.
Bear Grylls Bear Grylls (born Edward Michael Bear Grylls in 1974) is a best-selling author, mountaineer, TV presenter, adventurer, and international motivational speaker. A former British Special Air Service (special forces) soldier, Grylls made his name when, at the age of 23, he became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest and return alive.
Bear Gulch Limestone The Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana is a fossiliferous lagerstätte, a limestone layer laid down in the Mississippian epoch of the Carboniferous period, about 318 mya.According to the 2004 Stratigraphic Congress on the Carboniferous.
Bear hug The bear hug (also known as a bodylock) is a grappling term for a clinch hold and stand-up grappling position where the arms are wrapped around the opponent, either around the opponents chest, midsection, or thighs; sometimes with one or both of the opponents arms pinned to the opponents body. The hands are locked around the opponent and the opponent is held tightly to the chest.
Bear Hunter Bear Hunter (died January 27, 1863) was a Shoshone chief of the Great Basin who strongly resisted white colonization of the area in the 1860s. He and his war parties attacked Mormon colonists, telegraph workers, and wagon trains heading west while federal troops were preoccupied with the American Civil War.
Bear in the woods "There is a bear in the woods" was the opening line of an effective political campaign television commercial formally titled "Bear" (or "If There is a Bear"). The ad was part of the 1984 U.
Bear Inn The Bear Inn is a popular name for English public houses, sometimes including a colour, such as the Black Bear Inn. It may often refer to the ancient 'sport' of bear-baiting or the coat of arms of a prominent local family.
Bear Island (Connecticut) Bear Island is one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It is home to a former granite quarry, which exported high-quality pink granite to such constructions as the Lincoln Memorial, Grant's Tomb and the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Bear Island (Maryland) Bear Island is an island located in Montgomery County, Maryland between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near the Great Falls. It is managed by the National Park Service as part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
Bear JJ1 Bear JJ1 (2004 – 26 June 2006) was a brown bear whose travels and exploits in Austria and Germany in the first half of 2006 drew international attention. JJ1, also known as Bruno in the German press (some newspapers also gave the bear different names, such as Beppo or Petzi), is believed to have been the first brown bear on German soil in 170 years.
Bear Lake sculpin The Bear Lake sculpin, Cottus extensus, occasionally referred to incorrectly as a "bullhead", is a species of freshwater sculpin endemic to Bear Lake on the Utah-Idaho border. It is one of only four sculpins native to Utah, and the only extant lake-dwelling sculpin in Utah (see Utah Lake sculpin).
Bear Lake whitefish The Bear Lake whitefish Prosopium abyssicola is a salmonid fish endemic to Bear Lake on the Utah-Idaho border. It is one of three species of Prosopium endemic to Bear Lake, the other two being the Bonneville whitefish and the Bonneville cisco.
Bear Mountain (New York) According to the USGS GNIS, the state of New York in the United States has 11 peaks named Bear Mountain. The most widely known is the one in Orange County, just north of the New York metropolitan area and of which the name for Bear Mountain State Park is derived.
Bear Mountain State Park Bear Mountain State Park is located on the west side of the Hudson River in Rockland County, New York. The 5067 acre (21 km²) park offers hiking, boating, picnicking, swimming, cross-country skiing, sledding and ice-skating as well as a zoo, trailside museums, a hotel, a carousel and a dining facility.
Bear pit A bear pit was historically used to display bears, typically for entertainment and especially bear baiting. The pit area was normally surrounded by a high fence, above which the spectators would look down on the bears.
Bear Peninsula Bear Peninsula () is a peninsula about 80 km (50 mi) long and 40 km (25 mi) wide which is ice covered except for several isolated rock bluffs and outcrops along its margins, lying 48 km 30 mi) east of Martin Peninsula on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land.
Bear Put Spread The bear put spread is a limited profit, limited risk options trading strategy that can be used when the options trader is moderately bearish on the underlying security. It is entered by buying higher striking in-the-money put options and selling the same number of lower striking out-of-the-money put options on the same underlying security and the same expiration month.
Bear River (Utah) The Bear River is a river, approximately 350 mi (563 km) long in southwestern Wyoming, southeastern Idaho, and northern Utah in the United States. The largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, it drains a mountainous area and farming valleys east of the lake and southwest of the Snake River Plain.
Bear River Massacre The Bear River Massacre, also called the Battle of Bear River and the Massacre at Boa Ogoi, took place on January 29, 1863, between the United States Army and the Shoshone Indians at the confluence of the Bear River and Beaver Creek (now Battle Creek) near Preston in present day Franklin County, Idaho. The detachment of the U.
Bear River Mountains The Bear River Mountains are a branch of the Wasatch Range located in northeastern Utah and southeastern Idaho. It is a popular area for both winter and summer activities, especially camping, hiking, rock-climbing, snowmobiling, and skiing.
Bear Rocks Nature Preserve Bear Rocks Preserve is a widely recognized symbol of West Virginia wilderness that is among the most frequently photographed places in West Virginia. It is a well-known landmark on the eastern edge of the plateau that includes the Dolly Sods Wilderness.
Bear Run (Youghiogheny River) The Bear Run is a stream in eastern Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Appalachian Mountains. The Fallingwater house, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is located on this stream at the locality known as Mill Run.
Bear Swamp Generating Station Bear Swamp Generating Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric underground power station that straddles the Deerfield River in Rowe and Florida, Massachusetts. It is one of many hydroelectric facilities along the river, giving that waterway the nickname of "the hardest working river in the county".
Bear trap In the field of stock market investing, a bear trap is a short-term reversal of an upward trend. Investors who are misled by the temporary change in direction will liquidate their long positions and may even sell short, causing them to lose money when the market resumes its upward direction.
Bear worship The bear is a powerful symbol. Archaeologists have claimed that the bear is the oldest deity, based on the niches found in caves across Europe which hold the bones and skulls of bears, arranged with evident care.
Bear's Son Tales Bear's Son Tales are a group of tales found from Europe and North America. Similar characteristics include a monster to be defeated by a hero who is descended from a bear, or has attributes of a bear, usually after others fail in the attempt.
Bear, hunter, ninja Bear, Hunter, Ninja is a game that is very similar to and undoubtedly evolved from the popular Rock, Paper, Scissors. This game has two major advantages over Rock, Paper, Scissors though: It uses full body actions and it has a much higher volume level then its brother, usually resulting in very strange looks from people walking to their cars in the parking lot or pumping gas.
Beara Peninsula The Beara Peninsula / BĂ©ara in Ireland is the southernmost of the main peninsulas on the south-west coast. The northern part of the peninsula, except near the tip of it, is in County Kerry, while the rest lies in County Cork.
Bearberry Bearberries are three species of dwarf shrubs in the genus Arctostaphylos. Unlike the other species of Arctostaphylos (see Manzanita), they are adapted to arctic and sub-arctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northern North America, Asia and Europe, one with a small highly disjunct population in Central America.
Beard A beard is the hair that grows on a man's chin, cheeks, neck, and the area above the upper lip (the opposite is a clean-shaven face). When differentiating between upper and lower facial hair, a beard specifically refers to the facial hair on the lower part of a man's chin (excluding the moustache, which refers to hair above the upper lip and around it).
Beard (female companion) In gay slang, a beard is a female companion used to hide a gay man's sexuality by appearing in public as if she and the gay man were a heterosexual couple. It is generally considered poor form for a gay man not to reveal his homosexuality to the woman.

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