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- one of the nomad peoples of Iran; its chiefs have been among the greatest tribal leaders in Iran and have long been influential in Persian politics. The Bakhtyari population of approximately 880,000 occupies roughly 25,000 square miles (65,000 square km) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bakhuis Gebergte
- range of hills, west central Suriname, running north-south, about 70 miles (110 km) in length and separating the basins of the Kabalebo and Nickerie rivers (west) from that of the Coppename River (east). The range is relatively low-lying, comprising a ...
- Baki
- one of the greatest lyric poets of the classical period of Ottoman Turkish literature. [2 Related Articles]
- baking
- process of cooking by dry heat, especially in some kind of oven. It is probably the oldest cooking method. Bakery products, which include bread, rolls, cookies, pies, pastries, and muffins, are usually prepared from flour or meal derived from some ... [2 Related Articles]
- baking chocolate
- (from the article "cocoa") Baking (bitter) chocolate, popular for household baking, is pure chocolate liquor made from finely ground nibs, the broken pieces of roasted, shelled cocoa beans. This chocolate, bitter because it contains no sugar, can be either the natural or alkalized type.
- baking powder
- (from the article "baking powder") leavening agent (q.v.) used in making baked goods.TABLEfood processing additives and their usesBakiyev, Kurmanbek
- On Aug. 14, 2005, Kurmanbek Bakiyev-who had been serving as interim head of state in Kyrgyzstan since March 25, when his predecessor, Askar Akayev, fled the country amid widespread demonstrations protesting government corruption-was sworn in as the country's second president ... [4 Related Articles]
- Bakke decision
- ruling in which, on June 28, 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas. The medical school at the University of California, Davis, as part of the university's affirmative action program, had ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bakke, Allan
- (from the article "Bakke decision") ...quotas. The medical school at the University of California, Davis, as part of the university's affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent of its admission places for minority applicants. Allan Bakke, a white California man who had twice unsuccessfully applied ...
- Bakker, Jim
- (from the article "Falwell, Jerry") ...until his death. In the late 1980s he unsuccessfully sought to revive the PTL (Praise the Lord) Club, the conservative Christian organization and television network of the disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker. Falwell advocated a conservative Christian faith and condemned what ...
- baklava
- rich Turkish, Greek, and Middle Eastern pastry of phyllo (filo) dough and nuts. Phyllo is a simple flour-and-water dough that is stretched to paper thinness and cut into sheets, a process so exacting that it is frequently left to commercial ...
- Bakocz Chapel
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...and in 1467 invited to Hungary briefly the Bolognese architect and engineer Aristotele Fioravanti. The buildings designed for Matthias, such as his hunting lodge of Nyek, have been destroyed. The Bakocz Chapel (1507) erected by Cardinal Tamas Bakocz as his ...
- Bakocz, Tamas
- archbishop who led a Crusade against the Ottoman Turks in 1514. [1 Related Articles]
- Bakolori Dam
- (from the article "Sokoto") ...and the riverine floodplains produce cash crops of peanuts (groundnuts), cotton, and rice. The upland areas are planted with sorghum, millet, cowpeas, and cassava. The 3-mile- (5-kilometre-) long Bakolori Dam (1975), one of the world's longest, on the Sokoto River ...
- Bakong
- (from the article "Indravarman I") ...in a relatively limited area. The system eventually made it possible to feed the immense labour force that was necessary for the construction of the temples at Angkor. At Roluos, Indravarman built Bakong, which was the first Cambodian temple built ...
- Bakony Mountains
- mountain range in western Hungary, covering about 1,500 square miles (4,000 square km) between Lake Balaton and the Little Alfold and running southwest-northeast for 70 miles (110 km) from the Zala River. The range forms the major component of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Bakoye River
- river in western Africa, rising in the Fouta Djallon massif of Guinea and flowing generally northeast through the sandstone Mandingues Hills to the Mali border. It then flows north-northwest through less elevated terrain to be fed by the Baoule River. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bakoyiannis, Theodora
- (from the article "Greece") On Feb. 14, 2006, Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos (Kostas) Karamanlis comprehensively reshuffled his government. Key changes included the appointment of Athens Mayor Theodora (Dora) Bakoyiannis as foreign minister and of New Democracy (ND) Secretary Evangelos (Vangelis) Meimarakis as defense minister. ...
- Bakr, Ahmad Hassan al-
- president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979. [3 Related Articles]
- Baksar, Battle of
- (Oct. 22, 1764), conflict between the East India Company's forces, commanded by Major Hector Munro, and those of the Mughal emperor, Shah 'Alam; the Mughal governor of Oudh, Shuja' ud-Dawlah; and the dispossessed governor of Bengal, Mir Qasim. This decisive ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bakst, Leon
- Russian artist who revolutionized theatrical design both in scenery and in costume. [1 Related Articles]
- bakteria
- (from the article "crosier") Bishops of the Eastern churches carry the bakteria (dikanikion), a pastoral staff with either a tau cross or two serpents facing each other on top.
- Baku
- city, capital of Azerbaijan. It lies on the western shore of the Caspian Sea and the southern side of the Abseron Peninsula, around the wide, curving sweep of the Bay of Baku. The bay, sheltered by the islands of the ... [7 Related Articles]
- Baku rug
- handwoven floor covering made in the vicinity of Baku, Azerbaijan, a major port on the Caspian Sea. Rugs have been woven in this area since at least the 18th century and probably long before, although it is difficult to determine ...
- Baku Stage
- (from the article "Caspian Sea") Since Late Pliocene times glaciers have advanced and retreated across the Russian Plain, and the Caspian Sea itself-in successive phases known as Baku, Khazar, and Khvalyn-alternately shrank and expanded. This process left a legacy in the form of peripheral terraces ...
- Baku, Bay of
- (from the article "Baku") city, capital of Azerbaijan. It lies on the western shore of the Caspian Sea and the southern side of the Abseron Peninsula, around the wide, curving sweep of the Bay of Baku. The bay, sheltered by the islands of the ...
- Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
- (from the article "Azerbaijan") Azerbaijan registered a 34.5% increase in GDP during 2006. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan export pipeline for Azerbaijan's Caspian oil was formally inaugurated on July 13 and the South Caucasus Gas Pipeline in late December.Kazakhstan
- bakuhan
- (from the article "Japan") The bakuhan system
JapanThe last years of the bakuhanThe last years of the
- Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
- chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths. [12 Related Articles]
- Bal'ami
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...too, loved to illustrate the most unlikely tales and pieces of information given in such works. Historical writing proper had been begun by the Persians as early as the late 10th century, when Bal'ami's abridged translation of at-Tabari's (died 923) ...
- Bala
- (from the article "sexual behaviour, human") ...In one Polynesian group, the usual frequency of marital coitus among individuals in their late 20s was 10 to 12 per week, and in their late 40s the frequency had fallen to three to four. The African Bala, according to ...
- Bala
- market town, Gwynedd county, historic county of Merioneth (Meirionnydd), Wales, in Snowdonia National Park at the northern end of mountain-girt Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales. The town was founded under a charter of 1324. In ...
- bala
- (from the article "totemism") ..."flesh," is transmitted from the mother. In contrast to this, individual totems belong only to the medicine men and are passed on patrilineally. Such an individual totem is named bala, "spirit companion," or jarawaijewa, "the meat (totem) that is within ...
- Bala Calvinistic Methodist College
- (from the article "Edwards, Lewis") After ordination in 1837, Edwards married the granddaughter of Thomas Charles of Bala, a Methodist clergyman and Welsh Bible editor. With his brother-in-law David Charles, he opened the Bala Calvinistic Methodist College to prepare men for the ministry; in 1867 ...
- Bala Hissar
- (from the article "Peshawar") Peshawar's historic buildings include Bala Hissar, a fort built by the Sikhs on the ruins of the state residence of the Durranis, which was destroyed by them after the battle of Nowshera; Gor Khatri, once a Buddhist monastery and later ...
- bala system
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...by him to other provinces. Each of these provinces was obliged to pay a yearly tribute, the amount of which was negotiated by emissaries. Of special significance in this was a system called bala, "cycle" or "rotation," in which the ...
- Balaam
- a non-Israelite prophet described in the Old Testament (Num. 22-24) as a diviner who is importuned by Balak, the king of Moab, to place a malediction on the people of Israel, who are camped ominously on the plains of Moab. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Balabac
- island, extreme southwestern Philippines. It is located about 19 miles (30 km) southwest of the southern tip of Palawan island, and hardly twice that north of Borneo. Balabac rises to an elevation of about 1,890 feet (576 metres) and has ...
- Baladhuri, al-
- Arabic historian best known for his history of the formation of the Arab Muslim empire.
- baladiyyun
- (from the article "Spain") ...the Christian fold. Thus, in the first half of the 8th century, a new society developed in Muslim Spain. The Arabs were the ruling element; a distinction was made between baladiyyun (i.e., Arabs who had entered Spain ...
- Balaenicipitidae
- (from the article "shoebill") large African wading bird, a single species that constitutes the family Balaenicipitidae (order Ciconiiformes). The species is named for its clog-shaped bill, which is an adaptation for catching and holding the large, slippery lungfish, its favourite food. This big bird ...
- balafon
- (from the article "Central African Republic") ...the expansion of crafts, however, and most of them disappeared. Today woven mats and baskets, simple wooden utensils, carved stools, pottery, and musical instruments, including the balafon (much like a xylophone but constructed of animal horns, skins, and wood), are ...
- Balafrej, Ahmad
- (from the article "Morocco") ...1944 the party submitted to the sultan and the Allied (including the French) authorities a memorandum asking for independence under a constitutional regime. The nationalist leaders, including Ahmad Balafrej, secretary general of the Istiqlal, were unjustly accused and arrested for ...
- balag di
- (from the article "percussion instrument") ...were played by men, but the smaller frame drums appearing in Sumer about 2000 BC are depicted in the hands of women; a king's granddaughter was appointed player of the balag di in the Temple of the ...
- balaghah
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...joined his predecessors in collecting, indeed increasing, the list of poetic devices, his primary aim was to compile a manual that would explain the basic elements of balaghah ("correct style"), including such topics as grammatical accuracy and ...
- Balaghat
- town, south-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. The town lies just east of the Wainganga River and is about 95 miles (155 km) south of Jabalpur. A major road and rail junction, Balaghat is an agricultural trade and manganese-mining centre. ...
- Balaghat Range
- series of hills in western Maharashtra state, western India. Originating in the Western Ghats at the Harishchandra Range, the range extends southeastward for about 200 miles (320 km) to the border of Maharashtra and Karnataka states. Its width varies from ...
- Balagtas, Francisco
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...flavour. An outstanding work in the early years of the 19th century was an epic romance called Florante at Laura by the first native writer to achieve prominence-Francisco Balagtas-who wrote in Tagalog. In the latter half of the 19th century, ...
- Balaguer, Joaquin
- lawyer, writer, and diplomat who was vice president of the Dominican Republic (1957-60) during the regime of President Hector Trujillo and was president from 1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, and from 1986 to 1996. [5 Related Articles]
- Balaguer, Mark
- (from the article "mathematics, philosophy of") According to Balaguer and Zalta, on the other hand, the only versions of Platonism that are tenable are those that maintain not just the existence of abstract objects but the existence of as many abstract objects as there can possibly ...
- Balaguer, Victor
- Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian.
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