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List of beaches in Barbados The island of Barbados has more than 70 miles of beaches of both pink and white sands, which are made of coral reefs that have been ground into a very fine powder by the waves of the ocean. Beaches on Barbados can be categorized by region: north and east coast beaches, south coast beaches, and west coast beaches.
List of best-selling albums in the United States This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Albums marked with a "≈" are double albums, and therefore are counted twice for each sale (see below):
List of best-selling albums worldwide The world's best-selling album cannot be listed officially, since there is no international body to count global record sales. Historical data before the 1980s and from developing countries are also incomplete.
List of best-selling music artists The world's best-selling music artists cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales in the manner that the RIAA does in the United States. This page lists those artists who have made claims to be among the top sellers.
List of best-selling singles in Japan Japan is the country have second largest music markets in the world. Album sales and market value in the world in the 1990s–2000s From 1968 (Japanese official record charts Original Confidence was established in that year) through 2006, 241 singles have sold over million copies in JapanList of million-selling singles in Japan.
List of best-selling singles in the United States This is a list of best selling singles in the United States that have been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America. All of these singles have sold over 2 million copies, meaning they are all multi-platinum singles.
List of bestselling vehicle nameplates This article contains a list of some of the bestselling passenger cars in automotive history since the introduction of the Benz Patent Motorwagen in 1886. Wherever possible, references to verify the claims have been included, however even figures given by manufacturers may have a degree of inaccuracy.
List of biggest opening weekends This is the list of the 200 films that had made the most by the end of their first weekend on release in the United States of America and Canada. This list includes movies in other weekends that had a limited opening.
List of billionaires (2004) What follows is the list of billionaires (in US dollars) worldwide, for 2004 by Forbes, not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position. See the link to the list ranking heads of government and state at the bottom of this article.
List of billionaires (2005) What follows is the list of billionaires, in US dollars, worldwide for 2005 by Forbes, not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth).
List of billionaires (2006) The following is a list of billionaires, in United States dollars, worldwide for 2006 compiled by Forbes, not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth). In 2006, there were 793 billionaires from 49 countries, with more than half being in the United States and Germany.
List of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands This List of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands includes only those species known to have established self-sustaining breeding populations as a direct or indirect result of human intervention. A complete list of all non-native species ever imported to the islands, including those that never became established, would be much longer.
List of birds This page lists living orders and families of birds, class Aves (for extinct birds, please see Extinct birds and Prehistoric birds). The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species.
List of birds in Brazil Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world, with more 1700 species of birds, about 57% of the bird species recorded for all of South America. These numbers are still increasing, almost every year, due to new occurrences or new species being described.
List of birds of Trinidad and Tobago 468 species of birds have been recorded on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. There are few places in the world where so many bird species can be seen in such a small area, many of them unique, very rare, or of particular interest.
List of birds, Yuma, Arizona (low deserts, river, elevations) This listing: List of birds, Yuma, Arizona (low deserts, river, elevations) is set up in a check-list format, but its style is not meant for a checklist. Its purpose will be to make notations referencing the seasonal traits of specific species.
List of bishops of Chester List of bishops of Chester after the foundation of the modern diocese of Chester in 1546. Earlier the midland diocese had for a time had its see at Chester, for which see List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield and its precursor offices.
List of bishops of the modern diocese of Coventry List of the Bishops of the modern Diocese of Coventry. For earlier Bishops of Coventry, of Coventry and Lichfield or of Lichfield and Coventry see List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield and its precursor offices.
List of bones of the human skeleton A typical adult human skeleton consists of the following 206 bones, though a small portion of the human population have an extra bone, occurring in the form of an extra rib. (Numbers in bold refer to the diagram at right.
List of books on diaries and journals This article is intended to be a chronological list of books on diaries and journals, including how-to, self-help and discussions of the diary or journal as a genre of literature. For a list of fictional diaries, please see the list of fictional diaries.
List of botanical gardens A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only.
List of botanists by author abbreviation This is a list of botanists by their author abbreviation, designed for citation in the botanical names they have published. For this purpose a standardised index is available, published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1992.
List of branches of alternative medicine Branches of alternative medicine provides a master list of the articles included in this alternative medicine (CAM) series of articles. These articles are either about fully developed systems of alternative medicine or they are about generic alternative methods of treatment.
List of breakdance moves Breakdancing incorporates a wide variety of funky and impressive moves that can vary as widely as a breaker's imagination and athleticism will allow. Breakers may prefer to do all their moves spinning either clockwise or counter-clockwise but being able to do everything both ways gives more variety.
List of breakfast cereals This is a list of breakfast cereals. Many cereals are trademarked brands of large companies such as Kellogg's, General Mills, Nestlé, The Quaker Oats Company, and Post Cereals, but similar equivalent products are often sold by other manufacturers and as store own brands.
List of bridges in Moscow This is a partial list of bridges of Moscow, Russia, including all existing rail, road and foot bridges over Moskva River, Moskva Canal, Vodootvodny Canal within the MKAD beltway limits and the bridges over Yauza downstream from Rostokino.
List of brightest stars Bright stars are bright because they have high luminosities and/or they are nearby. Below are the 90 brightest individual stars as seen from Earth in visible wavelengths (apparent magnitude less than or equal to +2.
List of broadcast stations owned by Clear Channel The following is a list of radio and television stations currently owned by Clear Channel Communications. Of these stations, 448 of the stations which are outside the Top 100 DMA markets, plus another 91 stations which may or may not be in the top 100 DMAs, and all 42 television stations have been put up for sale by the new owners of Clear Channel, Thomas H.
List of broadsides of major World War II ships The list of broadsides of major World War II ships is a comparative listing ranking the main armament broadside weight of major vessels in service during World War II. Listed are the broadside in pounds and kilograms (for a single salvo), as well as the range to which it can be fired in yards and kilometres and the average rate of fire in salvos per minute.
List of buildings at The Catholic University of America The following is a list of buildings at The Catholic University of America. As with most college campuses, classes of many different fields are taught in most of the buildings; the list of buildings below is not meant to be exhaustive, but is the primary building for those courses.
List of bus routes in Brooklyn The Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates a number of bus routes in Brooklyn, New York, United States; one minor route is privately-operated under a city franchise. Many of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines in Brooklyn); the ones that started out as bus routes were almost all operated by the Brooklyn Bus Corporation, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, until the New York City Board of Transportation took over on June 5, 1940.
List of bus routes in Bucharest This is a list of the 116 bus routes running in Bucharest, Romania, operated by the city's public transport company, RATB as of October 2006. For more information about Bucharest's bus network, see Buses in Bucharest.
List of bus routes in Manhattan The Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates a number of bus routes in Manhattan, New York, United States. Many of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines in Manhattan).
List of bus routes in Nassau County, New York The Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority (MTA Long Island Bus) operates a number of bus routes in Nassau County, New York, United States. Some of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines on Long Island).
List of bus routes in Staten Island The Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates a number of bus routes in Staten Island, New York, United States. Some of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines in Staten Island).
List of bus routes in Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County Transit operates a number of bus routes in Suffolk County, New York, United States; a few in the town of Huntington are operated by Huntington Area Rapid Transit. Some of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines on Long Island).
List of bus routes in the Bronx The Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates a number of bus routes in the Bronx, New York, United States. Many of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines in the Bronx).
List of B-17 Flying Fortress serial numbers Note: this list is not complete yet as some United States Army Air Forces serial numbers will not match this list. The tail number on a B-17 bomber will omit the first digit, hence 42-97550 is the Army Air Forces serial number and 297550 is the tail number of the airplane.
List of Bad Girls episodes This follow list contains episode information and plot summaries for the ITV1 Drama television series Bad Girls. As this show is aimed at late teens and upwards, expect strong language and words in the Episode Guide.
List of Bach cantatas by liturgical function This is a list of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in order of their intended use in the Lutheran liturgical calendar. The name of each cantata is followed by its BWV number and the date of its first performance, insofar as it can be determined.
List of Baja California Peninsula hurricanes The list of Baja California hurricanes includes all of the tropical cyclones that impacted the Baja California Peninsula, which includes the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. Due to the location and geography of the peninsula, Baja California is the region in Mexico that receives the most landfalls by tropical cyclones of tropical storm intensity or stronger.
List of Bakekang episodes Bakekang is currently airing in the Philippines on the GMA Network network, and is the highest rating television program. The first episode aired on September 11, 2006 and is scheduled for 18 weeks, but it was extended to a total of 20 weeks.
List of Baldur's Gate characters Baldur's Gate NPCs are non-player characters (NPCs) who will help the player form a group to take on the Baldur's Gate series of computer games. The NPCs recruited become playable characters directly controlled by the player.
List of Balliol College people The following is a list of notable people educated at Balliol College, Oxford. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parenthesis, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
List of Bangladesh tropical cyclones Bangladesh, due to its unique geographic location, suffers from devastating tropical cyclones frequently. The funnel-shaped northern portion of the Bay of Bengal causes tidal bores when cyclones make landfall, and thousands of people living in the coastal areas are affected.
List of Bangladesh-related topics This page lists articles on Wikipedia that are related to Bangladesh, Bengal and Bangladesh/Bengali culture. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes in the sidebar.
List of Bangladeshi ODI cricketers This is a list of Bangladeshi One-day International cricketers. A One-day International, or an ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
List of Bangladeshi Twenty20 International cricketers This is a list of Bangladeshi Twenty20 International cricketers. A Twenty20 International is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
List of Bangladeshis This article lists the notable people, with articles in Wikipedia, who are either citizens of Bangladesh, born in the region of what is now Bangladesh, or of Bangladeshi origin living abroad (such as British Bangladeshis or Bangladeshi Americans). For brevity, people who fall into more than one category are listed in only one of them; further information may be available under the links in the article Bengali people.
List of Baptists The following list of Baptists is a catalogue of those who were members of Baptist churches or who were raised in Baptist churches. It is not intended to imply that all those who appear on the list were practicing Baptists or that they remained Baptists their entire lives.
List of Barons in the Peerages of the British Isles This is a list of Barons ("Lords of Parliament" in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it does not include those still-extant baronies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerage dignities and are today only seen as subsidiary titles.
List of Basque Presidents The President of the Basque Country is referred to as Lehendakari (literally, "firstlier") in Basque, or Eusko Jaurlaritzako Lehendakari ("President of the Basque Government"), The Spanish title is Presidente del Gobierno Vasco.
List of Batman pastiches Batman is one of the most iconic heroes in the superhero genre and as such numerous other heroes have been created in direct reference to this character. While some would argue that Batman is an antecendant of many superheroes in the modern convention, this list includes any characters with clear and intentional similarities to the Dark Knight, be they humorous, satirical, incidental or a more serious comment on superhumans.
List of Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined series) episodes The re-imagined Battlestar Galactica was initially unveiled as a science fiction miniseries which was first broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel on December 8, 2003. It spawned a regular television series which premiered on Sky One in the UK & Ireland on October 18, 2004 and on Sci Fi Channel in the U.
List of Bay Street law firms The large, multi-service law firms in Toronto's financial district are often referred to as Bay Street law firms. Their transactional work involves large Canadian business firms as well as cross-border and international businesses.
List of BASIC dialects This article gives an alphabetical list of BASIC dialects—a flat list of interpreted as well as compiled variants on the BASIC programming language. The dialects' platform(s) (that is, the computer models and operating systems) are given in parentheses along with any other significant information.
List of BB companies in Singapore Each BB company in Singapore is identified by a unique number to represent that company (except for companies catered for Primers Programme). In general, the smaller the number is, the earlier the company was founded.
List of BBC London presenters and reporters BBC London is the BBC's brand for regional news in the Central and Greater London area of the United Kingdom. The television news service, BBC London News is broadcast on BBC One after the main weekday BBC News bulletins on the channel and also at weekends.
List of BBC related topics The subject of the BBC as the broadcasting service of the United Kingdom, is associated with many inter-related articles in this encyclopedia. This alphabetical Index is intended to allow readers quick access to any or all of these subjects by providing a link to the article with the first few lines reproduced from the top of that article by way of its description.
List of BBC Radio programmes adapted for television Many BBC Radio comedy programmes have been successful enough for the writers and performers to adapt them into television programmes. Unless otherwise stated these programmes were originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and then broadcast on one of the BBC's TV channels.
List of Beavis and Butt-head episodes The following is an episode list for the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. The series has its roots in 1992 when Mike Judge created two animated shorts - "Frog Baseball" and Peace, Love & Understanding" - which were later aired on Liquid Television.
List of Belarusian Coats of Arms The following list is the various emblems and coat of arms used by the country of Belarus. The list will also include time periods where Belarus was a member of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Soviet Union.
List of Belgian football players with dual nationality The following is a list of Belgian football players with dual nationality. It includes both players who can trace their origins to a foreign country and those who have attained foreign nationality during their career, as well as players who hail from semi-autonomous regions within countries.
List of Belgian Senators This is a list of current members of the Belgian Senate arranged alphabetically by type, along with a list of the President of the Senate, the Vice-Presidents, the Quaestors and the floor leaders of the fractions in the Senate.
List of Bemani musicians In the Bemani series of rhythm video games by Konami, it appears that seemingly hundreds of different musicians and groups perform the songs. However, in reality there exists only a core group of a few dozen Konami artists, performing under pseudonyms and forming new groups.
List of Bermuda Triangle incidents This is a listing of some incidents that are claimed to have occurred within the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle, which was blamed for many unexplained disappearances that occurred in her waters. To date, over 1700 ships and planes have been alleged as having disappeared without trace or lost their crews in that particular area of the Atlantic Ocean.
List of Bermudian ODI cricketers This is a list of Bermudian One-day International cricketers. A One-day International, or an ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
List of Bernice Summerfield characters This is a list of recurring characters from the Bernice Summerfield stories, both the original Virgin New Adventures featuring Bernice and the subsequent and ongoing series of audio dramas and novels by Big Finish Productions. Bernice Summerfield was a companion of the Doctor in the New Adventures, a series of books based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, but which latterly became based around the character of Bernice.
List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films) The main article for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor presents the nominees and winners by year. This is a list of movies with a cast member nominated for the award sorted by movie title (with the year the movie was released in parens following the movie title).
List of Best Supporting Actress nominees (films) The main article for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress presents the nominees and winners by year. This is a list of movies with a cast member nominated for the award sorted by movie title (with the year the movie was released in parens following the movie title).
List of Bionicle media Aside from the toys in Lego Bionicle franchise, Lego has also marketed an ongoing book series, several video games (mostly for the Game Boy Advance), and three computer-animated movies. A Bionicle comic book is also published by DC Comics and available free to members of the Lego Club.
List of Birmingham board schools This is a list of the Birmingham board schools, built between the Elementary Education Act 1870 which established board schools, and the Education Act 1902, which replaced school boards with Local Education Authorities. Most of the board schools were designed by the firm Martin & Chamberlain (M&C).
List of Birmingham neighborhoods For purposes of community development and citizen participation, the City of Birmingham, Alabama's nine Council districts are divided into a total of 23 communities, and again into a total of 99 individual neighborhoods with their own neighborhood associations. Communities don't necessarily follow Council District boundaries.
List of Bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original Dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States, officially organised in 1784, five years before the Episcopal Church itself, its first bishop was consecrated in 1797.
List of Bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of New York To date there have been 15 Bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of New York:Samuel Provoost] ([[1787 - 1815); resigned 1801*Benjamin Moore, Assistant (1801 - 1815); Served in the place of Provoost*John Henry Hobart, Assistant 1811; Served in the place of Moore when disabled that year.
List of Bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts The Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts was officially recognized at the organizing convention of November 10, 1901. At a special meeting on January 22, 1902, the appropriate committees for the organization and governing of the new diocese elected as its 1st Bishop, the Rev.
List of Black Jews There are a number of traditional black African communities that practice Judaism, the most prominent of which is the Beta Israel of Ethiopia. In addition, the often overlapping histories of Blacks and Jews in the 20th century (e.
List of Blood creatures This list of Blood creatures describes all the relevant creatures appearing in the Monolith Productions' computer game Blood. The game features a large number of creatures throughout its levels and most of them are absolutely hostile to Caleb (the player controlled character), being either human members of the Cabal or creatures fighting for the dark god Tchernobog: these include regular enemies, as well as the end-level "bosses".
List of BMG Music Club's top selling albums in the United States Launched in the mid-1950s, BMG was part of RCA until it was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987. BMG's Music Club is one of the biggest direct-to-customer distributors of music and has a large number of members across its various genre-based music clubs.
List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo episodes This is an episode guide for the absurd anime series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. This will list every single episode, starting with the original Japanese title as they aired on TV Asahi, followed by the title used in the English dubbed version airing in the United States on Cartoon Network.
List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo manga chapters This is a list of the chapters and volumes of the manga series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, created by Yoshio Sawai for the manga anthology book Weekly Jump. The covers for each volume, as well as the names of each chapter and other information, will be covered in this page.
List of Bohol flora and fauna The Philippines supports a rich and varied flora with close botanical connections to Indonesia and mainland Southeast Asia. Forests cover almost one-half of the land area and are typically tropical, with the dominant family, Dipterocarpaceae, representing 75% of the stands.
List of Bolivian Drinks The following is a list of alcoholic mixed, and non-alcoholic beverages that are popular among the people of Bolivia. Singani (being the Bolivian national drink) is the main liquor used to produce some of these mixed drinks, however Pisco is also another liquor that is easily found in Bolivia and is the main comoponent of another branch of beverages also listed here.
List of Bollywood film clans People who have succeeded in India's Bollywood film industry have the connections, and the will, to give their children and siblings a boost in the ferociously competitive film world. This has led to the emergence of "film clans" -- families, even entire dynasties, of stars, producers, directors, and other film industry crew.
List of Bollywood films A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai ordered by year of release. For a more summarized list of the highest-grossing or most critically acclaimed Bollwood films see List of top Bollywood films
List of Bologna metro stations The following is a list of stations on the Bologna Metro, a subway in Bologna. The project of the subway has stalled after a dispute between "Regione Emilia Romagna", "Comune di Bologna" and "Governo Italiano":
List of Boogiepop media This is a current listing of the media in the Boogiepop series. This metaseries is currently made of 14 light novels, six collections of short stories, a live-action movie, a TV anime series, two manga serials, two audio CDs, and other books.
List of Boston Legal characters The following is a list of characters from the ABC legal drama Boston Legal. Five of the show's characters (Alan Shore, Denny Crane, Tara Wilson, Sally Heep, and Catherine Piper) first appeared in The Practice.
List of Boston Red Sox people This is a list of people who have been associated with the Boston Red Sox team in Major League Baseball. The sections for principal operating owners and managers are complete; all other sections include only those individuals with an existing article.
List of Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia This is a list of the locations of the original boundary markers of the District of Columbia. The markers are entered on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia Multiple Property Submission (or MPS).
List of Bountyheads in Cowboy Bebop In the anime and manga series Cowboy Bebop, most of the main characters are bounty hunters, and like the bounty hunters of today, the crew of the Bebop spends most of its time chasing dangerous criminals for rewards.
List of Brazilian area codes This page contains a list of area codes in Brazil for telephone dialing. The phone numbers all have mandatory eight digits since 2005, and more than eight digits dialing the area or the country codes throughout Brazil.
List of Brazilian Jews Jewish immigration to Latin America began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus's crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America has risen to more than 500,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina, with large communities also present in Brazil and Mexico.
List of Brazilian monarchs The Brazilian monarchs were the rulers of Brazil from the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500 until 1889. There are three main stages in the dynastical history of Brazil: Brazil as part of the Kingdom of Portugal (1500–1815), the Kingdom of Brazil (1815–1822) united with Portugal, and the independent Empire of Brazil (1822–1889).
List of Breton people This is a list of some Breton people of note and of some notable individuals born in Brittany, alphabetically within categories. Brittany (Breizh in Breton) is a Celtic nation and has contributed famous names to all walks of life.
List of Brisbane Broncos honours The Brisbane Broncos have been the most successful club in the National Rugby League, having won 3 premierships and the only team to have won more than once. This is complemented by two NSWRL premierships and a Super League trophy2006 Official Rugby League Annual.
List of British Army regiments (1962) This is a list of British Army regiments after the Army restructuring caused by the 1957 Defence White Paper: many regiments were amalgamated between 1958-60. Further cuts and amalgamations took place in the 1960s and early 1970s.
List of British Asian people This is a list of British Asian people, namely people in the United Kingdom whose ethnic origin lies in South Asia (for the purposes of the list including Burma). Those with an East Asian ("Oriental") background are not listed; in British English, "Asian" tends to refer to the South (Indian subcontinent) rather than the East of the continent.
List of British birds: introduced or feral species The list of British birds comprises all those bird species which have occurred in a wild state in Great Britain. Since the Victorian era many bird species have been introduce to Britain, wheather for sport, ornament or general experimenting, and some have established themselves whilst others have not.
List of British birds: passerines The list of British birds comprises all those bird species which have occurred in a wild state in Great Britain. In general the avifauna of Britain is, of course, similar to that of Europe, although with fewer breeding species.

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