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Bartolini, Lorenzo (from the article "Western sculpture") In Milan, Camillo Pacetti directed the sculptural decoration of the Arco della Pace. The work ... Bartolommeo, Fra painter who was a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style. [1 Related Articles] Bartolozzi, Francesco Florentine engraver in the service of George III of England. Bartolus of Saxoferrato lawyer, law teacher at Perugia, and chief among the postglossators, or commentators, a group of ... [2 Related Articles] Barton Aqueduct (from the article "Brindley, James") ...to the textile-manufacturing centre at Manchester. Brindley's solution to the problem included a subterranean channel, ... Barton Beds (from the article "Bartonian Stage") ...Bartonian Age (40.4 million to 37.2 million years ago) of the Paleogene Period (65.5 million ... Barton reaction (from the article "Barton, Sir Derek H.R.") In 1958 Barton collaborated on aldosterone with the Schering Corporation at its Research Institute for ... Barton, Blanche (from the article "Church of Satan") ...to these schisms, LaVey disbanded the grottoes, but the church continued as a loose affiliation ... Barton, Clara founder of the American Red Cross. [1 Related Articles] Barton, Derek H. R. (from the article "hydrocarbon") ...important in the area of hydrocarbons but also is essential to an understanding of the ... Barton, Elizabeth English ecstatic whose outspoken prophecies aroused public opinion over the matrimonial policy of King Henry ... [1 Related Articles] Barton, Otis (from the article "Beebe, William") ...New York Zoological Gardens from 1899 and director of the department of tropical research of ... Barton, Richard N. American creator of the do-it-yourself Web sites Expedia.com and Zillow.com. 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Bartosch, Berthold (from the article "motion picture") The symbolic political fable L'Idee (1934), by the Austro-Hungarian animator Berthold Bartosch, ... Bartow city, seat (1861) of Polk county, central Florida, U.S. It lies near the Peace River ... Bartram, John naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany." [2 Related Articles] Bartter syndrome (from the article "endocrine system, human") Another cause of hyperaldosteronism is Bartter syndrome (potassium wasting syndrome), named after American endocrinologist Frederic ... baru (from the article "astrology") ...a part of a vast array of ominous events-it was believed that their unpleasant forebodings ... Baru (from the article "Panama") ...the southwestern has the largest number of settlements; however, the environs of the canal account ... Baruch (from the article "Jeremiah") ...and the remnant of the Assyrians, Jeremiah delivered an oracle against Egypt. Realizing that this ... Baruch Plan (from the article "international relations") ...conducted for peaceful purposes only. Once controls were in place, the United States would relinquish ... Baruch, Apocalypse of a pseudepigraphal work (not in any canon of scripture), whose primary theme is whether or ... [1 Related Articles] Baruch, Bernard American financier who was an adviser to U.S. presidents. [4 Related Articles] Baruch, Book of ancient text purportedly written by Baruch, secretary and friend of Jeremiah, the Old Testament prophet. ... [2 Related Articles] Baruni town, north-central Bihar state, northeastern India. It lies north of the Ganges River and is ... Baruta city, northwestern Miranda estado (state), northern Venezuela, in the central highlands. Formerly a commercial centre ... Baruwa, Hemchandra (from the article "South Asian arts") Assamese literature began with Hemchandra Baruwa, a satirist and playwright, author of the play Bahiri-Rang-Chang ... Barwa-Sagar (from the article "South Asian arts") ...temples was built, including the Mala-de at Dyaraspur, the Siva temples at Mahka and Indore, ... Barwalde, Treaty of (from the article "France") ...the Thirty Years' War. To undermine the power of the Habsburgs, he prolonged this conflict, ... Barwani city, southwestern Madhya Pradesh state, west-central India. It is situated just south of the Narmada ... Barwick, Sir Garfield Edward John Australian barrister who was highly regarded for his service to the Australian government as attorney ... Bary, Heinrich Anton de German botanist whose researches into the roles of fungi and other agents in causing plant ... barycentre (from the article "Moon") Although the Moon is commonly described as orbiting Earth, it is more accurate to say ... Barycentric Dynamical Time (from the article "dynamical time") Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) is a dynamical timescale whose use the IAU permits where necessary ... Barye, Antoine-Louis prolific French sculptor, painter, and printmaker, whose subject was primarily animals. He is known as ... [1 Related Articles] Baryka, Piotr (from the article "Polish literature") ...komedia rybaltowska ("ribald comedies"). These were generally popular satiric comedies and broad farces written mainly ... Barylambda extinct genus of unusual and aberrant mammals found as fossils in deposits in North America ... baryon any member of one of two classes of hadrons (particles built from quarks and thus ... [8 Related Articles] baryon conservation, law of (from the article "subatomic particle") The empirical law of baryon conservation states that in any reaction the total number of ... baryon number (from the article "baryon") Baryons are characterized by a baryon number, B, of 1. Their antiparticles, called antibaryons, have ... Baryshnikov, Mikhail Soviet-born American ballet dancer who was the preeminent male classical dancer of the 1970s and ... 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Tingy (from the article "Moore, Alfred") Moore's only opinion, Bas v. Tingy (1800), in which the court held that a "limited, ... Bas, Hernan (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...artists soared above their high estimates to establish new personal auction records in 2006. Dionysus ... Basa (from the article "Liberia") ...use Arabic and English; the Kpelle, the largest Mande group, who are also found in ... basal cell carcinoma (from the article "epithelioma") ...structures of the body. Epitheliomas can be benign or malignant (that is, cancerous), and there ... basal ganglion (from the article "nervous system, human") Deep within the cerebral hemispheres, large gray masses of nerve cells, called nuclei, form components ... basal layer (from the article "epidermis") in zoology, protective outermost portion of the skin. There are two layers of epidermis, the ... basal metabolic rate index of the general level of activity of an individual's body metabolism, determined by measuring ... [6 Related Articles] basal placentation (from the article "placenta") ...along the inner ovary walls; axile, with carpels folded inward and the ovules along the ... basal sliding (from the article "glacial landform") ...of the basal ice is an important influence upon a glacier's ability to erode its ... basal till (from the article "glacial landform") ...as ablation till. In many cases, the material located between a moving glacier and its ... Basaldella, Mirko (from the article "Western sculpture") After World War II there was a flood of public memorial sculpture, and in Europe ... basalt extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock that is low in silica content, dark in colour, and comparatively ... [27 Related Articles] basaltes ware hard black vitreous stoneware, named after the volcanic rock basalt and manufactured by Josiah Wedgwood ... [4 Related Articles] basaltic lava (from the article "lava") Mafic (ferromagnesian, dark-coloured) lavas such as basalt characteristically form flows known by the Hawaiian names ... basaltic magma (from the article "igneous rock") Basaltic magmas that form the oceanic crust of the Earth are generated in the asthenosphere ... Basanavicius, Jonas physician, folklorist, and a leader of the Lithuanian national movement. basanite extrusive igneous rock that contains calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar (usually labradorite or bytownite), feldspathoid (usually nepheline ... Basarab I (from the article "Walachia") ...who crossed the Transylvanian Alps and settled at Campulung. The new principality was initially dominated ... Basarab, Matthew enlightened prince of Walachia (in present Romania) whose reign (1632-54) was marked by cultural development ... 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The ... base (from the article "order") ...is the stylobate; this is a continuous flat pavement on which a row of columns ... base (from the article "nucleic acid") ...of a nitrogen-containing aromatic base attached to a pentose (five-carbon) sugar, which is in turn ... base (from the article "semiconductor device") ...4B, can be considered as a section of the device along the dashed lines in ... base in mathematics, an arbitrarily chosen whole number greater than 1 in terms of which any ... [1 Related Articles] base (from the article "baseball") ...to take the pitcher's turn at bat) 10 players each. The field of play is ... base in chemistry, any substance that in water solution is slippery to the touch, tastes bitter, ... [6 Related Articles] base community (from the article "liberation theology") ...America was fundamentally different from the church in Europe-i.e., that the church in Latin America ... base course (from the article "roads and highways") ...the wearing course directly supports the vehicle, provides a surface of sufficient smoothness and traction, ... base flow (from the article "runoff") ...the main groundwater level) and eventually empties into the channel. Runoff also includes groundwater that ... base metal (from the article "automotive ceramics") Catalysts are either platinum-group metals or base metals such as chromium, nickel, and copper. In ... base on balls (from the article "Henderson, Rickey") The 2001 season was a landmark for Henderson. On April 25, while a member of ... base peak (from the article "chemical compound") The mass spectrum of the ketone 2-butanone serves as an example. The strongest peak in ... Base Ring ware (from the article "painting, Western") The Cypriot pottery of the Late Bronze Age is of three main kinds: (1) a ... base-pair substitution (from the article "mutation") Mutations are of several types. Changes within genes are called point mutations. The simplest kinds ... Baseball [8 Related Articles] baseball (from the article "World Series") The ball has a cork-and-rubber core, around which yarn is tightly wrapped; the cover consists ... baseball pocket-billiards game, named for the similarity in its scoring system to the American game played ... baseball game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players ... [64 Related Articles] baseball bat (from the article "baseball") ...the cover consists of two snugly fitted pieces of white leather sewn together. The circumference ... Baseball Hall of Fame museum and honorary society, Cooperstown, New York, U.S. The origins of the hall can be ... 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