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The Artemis Complex The Artemis Complex is the debut album for Interface, released in January 1999. Originally self-pressed and intended to be sold independently, it wasn't long before Tinman Records signed Interface to a distribution deal.
The Arthur Askey Show The Arthur Askey Show was also the name of a six part ITV stand-up and sketch show featuring Arthur Askey than ran sporadically from 28 February 1959 to 3 September 1960. Three episodes lasted 55 minutes, and three lasted 60 minutes.
The Arthur Ransome Society The Arthur Ransome Society, also known by its acronym TARS, is a society whose goals are to "celebrate the life, promote the works, and diffuse the ideas of Arthur Ransome". It is based in the Abbot Hall Museum of Lakeland Life and History in Kendal, England.
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations are a group of charitable foundations established by American industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, onetime Alcoa president and Florida land developer. The original Arthur Vining Davis Foundation was created in 1952 by Davis during his lifetime; the second and third foundations were established by Davis' will in 1965.
The Artillery(band) The Artillery is a electronic/pop/post hardcore band out of Round Rock, Tx they have been together since 2000 and have been playing around Texas since 2002. They combine driving guitar leads with catchy vocals and have made a name for themselfs in their Round Rock, Tx
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques is a reference book by Ralph Mayer. Intended by the author for use by professional artists, it deals mostly with the chemical and physical properties of traditional painterly materials such as oil, tempera, and solvents.
The Artist's Studio The Artist's Studio (L‘Atelier du Peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life is an 1855 oil painting on canvas by Gustave Courbet. It is located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
The Arts and Humanities Focus Program The Arts and Humanities Focus Program is a special focus high school in Lincoln, Nebraska dedicated to nurturing the passions and work of local ninth to twelfth grade students interested in pursuing an education in the arts. It is located at 643 South 25th Street and holds class from 10:00 a.
The Arts Educational School, Tring Park The Arts Educational School, Tring Park, provides a secondary level academic curriculum alongside vocational performance courses in Dance, Drama and Music. The school is mainly boarding and is housed in Tring Park, a former Rothschild family mansion in Tring, Hertfordshire, England.
The Arts Educational Schools The Arts Educational Schools, known colloquially as ArtsEd, comprise the School of Acting and the School of Musical Theatre, both based in Chiswick, London. The establishment is one of the UK's leading drama schools.
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth The Arts Institute at Bournemouth is a small specialist arts college located in Bournemouth, next to Bournemouth University. It has formally existed since 1883, running for a time as the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design.
The Arts Trust - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art The Institute of Contemporary Indian Art - ICIA based in Bombay is the largest gallery for contemporary art in India, opened by Vickram Sethi of The Arts Trust. It is located in the heart of Bombay's art district - Kalaghoda and has an exhibiting space of 7000 Sq ft.
The Artwoods The Artwoods were formed in 1963, and over the next two years became an extremely popular live attraction, rivaling groups such as the Animals, although, despite releasing a clutch of singles and an album, their record sales never reflected this popularity. Singer Arthur Wood, from whom the band took their name, was the elder brother of The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood.
The Aryan Brotherhood in Oz The Aryan Brotherhood in the TV series Oz is a gang of white supremacist inmates led by Vernon Schillinger. As white prisoners, they are a minority of the prison population and commit several atrocities so that they are not to be touched by the majority black population.
The Aryan Path The Aryan Path was an Anglo-Indian theosophical journal published in Bombay, India from 1930. Its purpose was to form "a nucleus of universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color; to study ancient and modern religions, philosophies, and sciences, and to demonstrate the importance of such study".
The Ascension Capitol recording artist OTEP has the announced the release of the highly anticipated new album, "The_ Ascension", which is slated for unveiling on March 20. Produced by Grammy-winning producer Dave Fortman (EVANESCENCE, MUDVAYNE) and recorded throughout 2006 in New Orleans, the album is the band's fourth label release, following 2004's celebrated "House of Secrets".
The Ash Live in Chicago The Ash Live in Chicago is a live album from legendary rock band Wishbone Ash. It features a number of songs from founding member Ted Turner, including several tracks from the recent Here to Hear and Strange Affair albums.
The Ashcroft Group, LLC The Ashcroft Group, LLC is a strategic consulting firm started by former United States Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2005. Members of the group include former Dick Cheney Press Secretary Juleanna Glover Weiss, former Chief of Staff at the Department of Justice David Ayres, and former Chief of Staff for Management at the Department of Homeland Security Susan Richmond.
The Ashley Book of Knots The Ashley Book of Knots is an encyclopedia of knots first published in 1944 by Clifford Ashley. The culmination of over 11 years of work, it contains some 7000 illustrations and more than 3854 entries covering over 2000 different knots.
The Asian Saga The Asian Saga is a series of six novels written by James Clavell between 1962 and 1993. The novels all center around Europeans in Asia, and together they explore the impact on East and West of the meeting of these two distinct civilzations.
The Aspern Papers The Aspern Papers is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James' best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on an anecdote that James heard about a Shelley devotee who tried to obtain some valuable letters written by the poet.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is an upcoming drama film directed by Australian director Andrew Dominik. It was filmed in the cities of Calgary, Winnipeg and Edmonton, in western Canada, and will be released in 2007.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a 2004 drama film, directed by Niels Mueller. It stars Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts, and is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974.
The Assault The Assault (original title in Dutch: De Aanslag) is a 1982 novel by Harry Mulisch about the Second World War. It deals with the consequences for a family, when a Nazi collaborator is found killed outside their home.
The Assistant (novel) The Assistant (1957, ISBN 0-374-50484-9) is Bernard Malamud's second novel. Set in a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, it explores the situation of first- and second-generation Americans in the early 1950s, as experienced by three main characters and the relationships between them: an aging Jewish refugee from Tsarist Russia who owns and operates a failing "Mom and Pop" grocery store, a young Italian American drifter trying to overcome a bad start in life by becoming the grocer's assistant, and the grocer's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with her father's assistant despite parental objections and misgivings of her own.
The Associate The Associate is the title of a 1996 film starring Whoopi Goldberg (Laurel Ayres), Dianne Wiest (Sally Dugan), Eli Wallach (Donald Fallon), Timothy Daly (Frank), Bebe Neuwirth (Camille), Austin Pendleton (Aesop), Lainie Kazan (Cindy Mason), George Martin (Manchester), Kenny Kerr (Charlie), Lee Wilkof (Bissel), Helen Hanft, (Mrs. Cupchick), George Morfogen (Plaza manager), Zeljko Ivanek (SEC Agent Thompkins), Miles Chapin (Harry), and Jean De Baer as the Loan officer.
The Associated Humans The Associated Humans (Les Humains Associés in French) is a non-profit association devoted to the awakening of individual awareness and to the promotion of humanist and ecological values through creative and hands-on consciousness-raising.
The Association for Biblical Higher Education The Association for Biblical Higher Education or ABHE (formerly the The Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges or AABC) is a nationally recognized accrediting agency in the United States. It is recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
The Association of Belarusian Guides The Association of Belarusian Guides (ABG, Ассоциация белорусских гайдов) is the Belarusian member organization of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), with a membership of 1,274 Girl Guides (as of 2003).
The Association of Business Executives The Association of Business Executives (ABE) is a British membership body, based in London, that offers internationally recognised qualifications in business and management. It has students and members in over 70 countries around the world.
The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) is an organization that works to advance international understanding, prosperity, peace and security through professional education in international affairs.
The Association of Teachers of Japanese The Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) is "an international, non-profit, non-political organization of scholars, teachers, and students of Japanese language, literature, and linguistics dedicated to teaching and scholarship and to the exchange of information among teachers and other professionals to help broaden and deepen knowledge and appreciation of Japan and its culture." It is based out of the University of Colorado in the United States.
The Assyrian The Assyrian is a 1987 novel by Nicholas Guild. Together with its companion sequel, The Blood Star, the two volumes tell the history of Tiglath Ashur, the fictional half-brother of Esarhaddon, a historical king of Assyria.
The Asteroids of Shimballil The Asteroids of Shimballil is the title of a pilot for a proposed animated adaptation of the French comic book science fiction series Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. The pilot was never made, however, the concept art and storyline have been published.
The Astonishing Hypothesis The Astonishing Hypothesis is Francis Crick's 1994 book about consciousness. The book is mostly concerned with establishing a basis for scientific study of consciousness; however, Crick places the study of consciousness within a larger social context.
The Astonishing Tribe The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) is a Swedish company founded in February 2002 by Mikael Persson, Ludvig Linge, Paul Blomdahl, Karl-Anders Johansson, Per Gustafsson, and Hampus Jakobsson. TAT started out as a hobby project and the first year the company worked with TV-commercials, post production for film (eg.
The Astor Theatre The Astor Theatre in Melbourne, Australia is a cinema built in the 1930s which still retains the art-deco charm of that period. It is located in Chapel Street, St Kilda, at the intersection of Dandenong Road and Chapel Street.
The Astronaut The Astronaut is a 1972 science fiction film starring Jackie Cooper and directed by Robert Michael Lewis. This made for television film follows a man who has been hired to impersonate an astronaut who died during the first manned mission to Mars.
The Astronomer (Wild Cards) The Astronomer is a character from the Wild Cards series of books. He first appeared in the short story "Pennis from Hell" by Lewis Shiner in Wild Cards II: Aces High, though his presence was earlier implied in "The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato" in the first volume of the series.
The Astronomical Code of the Rigveda The Astronomical Code of the Rigveda is a book by Subhash Kak (New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1994; revised and enlarged edition, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000) that presents alleged regularities in the organization of the Rigveda, connecting the structure to certain numbers in the astronomy-based ritual of the five-layered brick altars of the Vedic times. Kak's historical chronology and his astronomical calculations have been criticized by some IndologistsMichael Witzel, "Autochthonous Aryans?
The Atheism Tapes The Atheism Tapes is a 2005 BBC TV documentary series by Jonathan Miller. The material that makes up the series was originally filmed for another, more general series, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, but was too in-depth for inclusion.
The Atheist The Atheist is a horror comic book originally released in April 2005 and is published by Image Comics. Phil Hester, of "The Wretch" and "Green Arrow," writes "The Atheist," while British John McCrea of "Hitman" does the black and white artwork.
The Athenian Murders The Athenian Murders is a novel written by Spanish author José Carlos Somoza. Originally published in Spain under the title La caverna de las ideas (The Cave of Ideas) in 2000, it was translated into English in 2002 by Sonia Soto.
The Atlantis Interceptors The Atlantis Interceptors (aka Predatori di Atlantide, I) is a 1983 Italian science fiction film starring Christopher Connelly and directed by Ruggero Deodato. When the lost city of Atlantis resurfaces off the coast of Miami Florida in 1994 Mike and Washington are two scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine to an ocean platform.
The Atlas of Australian Birds The Atlas of Australian Birds is a major ongoing project initiated and managed by the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), a not-for-profit bird research and conservation organisation also known as Birds Australia, to map the distribution of Australian birds.
The Atlas Society The Atlas Society — of which The Objectivist Center (TOC) (originally the Institute for Objectivist Studies or IOS) is a part — is a research and advocacy organization promoting "a culture that affirms the core Objectivist values of reason, individualism, freedom, and achievement." It is part of the Objectivist movement that split off from the more orthodox Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) in 1989 due to disagreements over whether the philosophy of Objectivism was a "closed system" or an "open system.
The Atomiks The Atomiks are an indie rock band from Sun Valley, Nevada who perform "high-energy dance numbers that have a “roots of rock” post-modern quasi-rockabilly sensibility with a pre-apocalyptic edge." (THE ATOMIKS CUT AND PASTED RANT press release, 2004).
The Atrocity Archives The Atrocity Archives (2004, ISBN 1-930846-25-8) is a collection of two stories by British author Charles Stross, consisting of the short novel The Atrocity Archive (originally serialized in Spectrum SF) and The Concrete Jungle, which won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls is a comedy collectively written by Martha Ross, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Jennifer Brewin, Alisa Palmer and Leah Cherniak, about three adult sisters who revisit their childhoods in the attic of their late parents' house. The play dimly recalls some of the themes of MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees which she had recently completed before this play was staged at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 1995.
The Attractive Young Rabbi The Attractive Young Rabbi was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series of three series from 1999 to 2002, written by Barry Grossman. Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman, David de Keyser and Doreen Mantle, the series was about Jewish Rabbis.
The Atwater Kent Hour The Atwater Kent Hour was a top-rated radio concert music program heard on NBC and CBS from 1926 to 1934. It often presented stars of the Metropolitan Opera and classical music provided by a large symphony orchestra under the direction of Josef Pasternack.
The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth, first published in 1973, by Roy Andries De Groot, in which he writes about the time he spent at a French inn by that name (L'Auberge de l'Atre Fleuri in St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, Savoy) and the good meals he ate there. It addresses the logic of constructing a meal of several dishes so that they harmonize with one another, to the use of primarily local and seasonal ingredients to contribute to this harmony, and also an internal harmony within individual dishes.
The Auburn Knights Orchestra The Auburn Knights Orchestra is a big band based out of Auburn, Alabama, home to Auburn University, and is thought to be one of the oldest college-aged big band organizations in the world. Formed in 1930 at API (Alabama Polytechnic Institute), the band organized to play for dances and other musical events throughout the school year.
The Auburn Plainsman The Auburn Plainsman is the student-run newspaper for Auburn University, Alabama. It has notably received awards for excellence from the Associated Collegiate Press and is the second-most decorated student publication in the history of the National Pacemaker competition.
The Audrey Hepburn Story The Audrey Hepburn Story was a 2000 television movie biography of actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who also produced the film, starred as the actress although her casting drew criticism from Hepburn's fans and the media.
The Audreys The Audreys are an Australian blues/roots band who formed in 2004. The band members are Taasha Coates (voice, melodica, harmonica, ukelele), Tristan Goodall (reso-phonic, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo), Mikey G (violin, lap steel guitar, harmonies), Lyndon Gray (double bass, harmonies) and Toby Lang (drums, harmonies).
The Augusta Chronicle The Augusta Chronicle is the major daily newspaper of Augusta, Georgia and is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States. The paper is known for its coverage of The Masters Tournament, which is played in Augusta.
The Auld Triangle The Auld Triangle is a song written by Brendan Behan's, which is featured in his play The Quare Fellow. It is used to introduce the play, a story about the occurrences in a prison (in real life Mountjoy Prison where Behan had once been lodged) the day a convict is set to be executed.
The Aunty Jack Show The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie-award winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day.
The Australia Institute The Australia Institute is an Australian think tank conducting public policy research, funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research. The Institute begun in 1994 to construct and commission research and policy analysis on public debates and political and social issues and trends.
The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine (1984-87) was edited by Barry Radburn and Stephen Studach. It was Australia's first semi-professional magazine in the genre, publishing many local writers such as Rick Kennett and Leigh Blackmore who would go on to achieve lasting reputations, as well stories by American writers.
The Australian Race The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the Routes by Which It Spread Itself over That Continent is an 1886 book by Edward Micklethwaite Curr dealing with the Indigenous Australian peoples.
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently $20,000 (AUD), is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia.
The Auteurs The Auteurs were a vehicle for the songwriting talents of Luke Haines (guitar, piano and vocals). Formerly of the band "The Servants" (who had featured on the seminal compilation C86), Haines later created the Auteurs with his then girlfriend Alice Steadman (bass) and James Banbury (cello).
The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq is a remix EP from British intelligent dance music producer µ-ziq. It was released on Oct, 1994, on Hut Records in the UK then released as µ-Ziq Vs The Auteurs on Astralwerks in the US on Feb, 1995.
The Author of Beltraffio The Author of Beltraffio is a short story by Henry James, first published in the English Illustrated Magazine in 1884. This macabre account of desperate family infighting eventually leads to a tragic conclusion.
The Authority The Authority is a superhero comic book published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm imprint. It was created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, and follows the adventures of The Authority, a superhero team mainly comprised of Ellis-created characters taken from Stormwatch - a title Ellis had previously written.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional telling of the story of a young biracial man, refered to only as the “Ex-Colored Man", living in post reconstruction era America in the late ninteenth and early twentieth century. The Ex-Colored Man was forced to choose between embracing his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime, or by “passing” and living obscurely as a mediocre middle-class white man.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of autobiography ever written.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X (ISBN 0-345-35068-5) was written by Alex Haley between 1964 and 1965, based on interviews conducted shortly before Malcolm X's death (and with an epilogue for after it), and was published in 1965. The book was named by Time magazine as one of the ten most important nonfiction books of the 20th century.
The Autocrats The Autocrats (Itse valtiaat) is a Finnish political satire TV series, which takes the viewer behind the scenes of the politics of Finland. The series is produced by Filmiteollisuus and is made using 3D computer animation.
The Autumn Monkey's Body The Autumn Monkey's Body a philosophical method employed by the legendary Miyamoto Musashi withn the Gorin no sho during the Edo period (17th century) of Japan. Within this method, you are to start off by expressing a posture within combat in which you are not to use your hands.
The Autumn of the Middle Ages The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or The Waning of the Middle Ages, (published in 1919 as Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen and translated into English in 1924) is the best-known work by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga. In it, he presents the idea that the exaggerated formality and romanticism of late medieval court society was a defense mechanism against the constantly increasing violence and brutality of general society.
The Autumns The Autumns are an American dream pop band based in Los Angeles, California, comprising Matthew Kelly (vocals, guitar), Frankie Koroshec (guitar), Ken Tighe (guitar), Dustin Morgan (bass) and Steve Elkins (drums).
The Avalanches The Avalanches are an electronic music collective from Melbourne, Australia. They are well known for their energetic live shows and use of eclectic sampling, creating their debut album Since I Left You out of about 900 samples, from records both obscure and massively popular.
The Avalon Table The Avalon Table is a Hollywood think tank founded and hosted by Mike Le, the American movie executive, and screenwriter of Tokyo Suckerpunch. Its members, who are comprised of Hollywood writers, producers, directors, artists, agents, managers, lawyers, and executives, meet in closed sessions once a month at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, California to discuss and shape current cultural trends in the entertainment business.
The Avatar Returns "The Avatar Returns" is the second half of the two-part series premiere of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which first aired on February 21, 2005 on Nickelodeon. In it, Prince Zuko attacks the Southern Water Tribe seeking to capture the Avatar, Aang.
The Avenger The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared from 1939 to 1942 in The Avenger magazine, published by Street and Smith Publications. Five additional short stories were published in Clues Detective magazine from 1942 to 1943, and a sixth novelette in The Shadow magazine in 1943.
The Avengers (band) The Avengers were a San Francisco based punk band in the first wave of American punk. Penelope Houston, who later turned to folk music, was the singer for the band, and part of what made the band unique and memorable.
The Aventis Prizes for Science Books The Aventis Prizes for Science Books is an annual award for the previous year's best general science writing and best science writing for children, sponsored by the Aventis Foundation. The nominees and winners are decided by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science.
The Aviary The Aviary is a 2005 independent film about the ups and downs in the personal life of a flight attendant, coping with a transfer to a new city, finding a new love, and everything in between. It was written and produced by Abe Levy and Silver Tree, who was a flight attendant herself for many years.
The Avons The Avons was British pop music vocal group composed of Valerie Murtagh, born in 1936 at Willesden, London, England and Elaine Murtagh, who was born in 1940 at County Cork, Eire and these sisters-in-law were originally known on stage as The Avon Sisters. They then added Raymond S Adams who came from Jersey, Channel Islands and changed their name to The Avons.
The Awakening (novel) The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, published in 1899. The novel examines the smothering effects of late 19th-century social structures upon a woman whose simple desire is to fulfill her own potential and live her own life.
The Awakening of Flora The Awakening of Flora (AKA Flora's Awakening, or Le Réveil de Floré; occasionally referred to incorrectly under such titles as The Flower's Reawakening or The Reawakening of the Flowers) - Anacreontic ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. Libretto by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
The Awesome Snakes The Awesome Snakes are a two-person punk band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded as a side project by Annie Holoien and Danny Henry of The Soviettes. Their first and, as of yet, only album, Venom was released on July 17, 2006.
The Awful Green Things From Outer Space The Awful Green Things from Outer Space (AGTFOS) is a two-player board game developed and illustrated by Tom Wham. It originally appeared as an insert in Dragon Magazine #28 (1979), and subsequently as a boxed game published by TSR and Steve Jackson Games.
The Awful Truth The Awful Truth is a 1937 romantic comedy (also screwball comedy) film. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades.
The Awkward Age The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family's social set by a young girl coming of age, the novel expanded into a general treatment of decadence and corruption in English fin de siècle life.
The Ax Fight The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch, his wife Patsy Asch, and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a Yanomamo village called Mishimishimabowei-teri in southern Venezuela. It is best known as an iconic and idiosyncratic ethnographic film about the Yanomamo and is frequently shown in classroom settings.
The bad observer The Bad Observer is a website, published in a blog format, that focuses on current news and politics, technology, and the media/entertainment world. They occasionally publish original news items and feature articles.
The battle of Bobbili The battle of Bobbili and the attack on fort of Bobbili on January 23 1757, is a significant historical event in southern India, particularly in state of Andhra Pradesh. The battle also has significant cultural impact due to the bravery, valor and courage of people involved and it has since became a subject of folklore which is prevalent even today.
The bell and the hammer The second album by suburban New York quintet This Day and Age comes across as post-rock's answer to Coldplay and Keane. This is not the insult it might appear to be at first blush, because The Bell and the Hammer does something surprisingly few albums in this style are able to achieve: these songs fuse atmosphere and style with substantial pop song hooks in a way that diminishes neither side.
The bell game The bell game is a longstanding rivalry football game that has been played between the high school teams Brookfield Bulldogs and the Marceline Tigers since 1922 in North Central Missouri. The winner of the game receives a brass fire bell, donated in 1937 by the Brookfield Fire Department.
The betrayal of Anne Frank The betrayal of Anne Frank to the occupying Nazi forces by an informant in August 1944 resulted in her imprisonment, deportation, and her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945. In spite of repeated investigations the identity of her betrayer has never been established and remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Second World War.
The big medicine trail The big medicine trail is a series of trails made by the act of migrating animal herds for thousands of years. Bison, elk, horses, and deer lead early people out of the harsh full regions of the Ice Age and centuries later, the made the way for most of influential explores during the exploration of the west.
The birds and the bees "The birds and the bees" (sometimes expanded to "the birds, the bees and the butterflies" or "the birds, the bees, the flowers, and the trees") is a commonly used phrase (which has become somewhat of a cliché) which refers to clumsy or inept attempts at sex education for children or adolescents, such as the use of euphemisms or symbols to describe sexual behaviour or body parts. A discussion about "the birds and the bees" may therefore involve references to nature (ie.
The birth of Buddha (Lalitavistara) Lalitavistara is a biography of Buddha. On Borobudur's reliefs, the story starts from the glorious descent of the Lord Buddha from the Tushita heaven, and ends with his first sermon in the Deer Park near Benares.
The blessan samuel classic The Blessan Samuel Classic is a basketball tournament held every summer in memory of the late Blessan Samuel who passed away in 2003 at the age of 24. The tournament is located in Gaithersburg, MD and is a two day event.
The bloody code The Bloody Code was a system of laws and punishments in England from between the 1700s to mid 1800s. Although it wasn't called the Bloody Code in its own time, the name was given later because a great deal of crimes, including stealing anything worth 5 shillings (25p) or more, and even impersonating a Chelsea pensioner, was punishable by execution.
The blue things The Blue Things are serious contenders for the title of the Great Lost Mid-'60s American Band. The Kansas group was extremely popular in the Midwest and Texas, but remained relatively unknown on a national level, despite a deal with RCA.

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