A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Bocher, Maxime ... bog Bocher, Maxime American mathematician and educator whose teachings and writings influenced many mathematical researchers. Bochner, Salomon Galician-born American mathematician who made profound contributions to harmonic analysis, probability theory, differential geometry, and ... Bocholt city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany, on the Aa, a stream near the Dutch ... Bochum city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies in the heart ... bock beer (from the article "beer") ...with dark, strong, slightly sweet beers with less hop character. The dark colour comes from ... Bock, Fedor von German army officer and field marshal (from 1940), who participated in the German occupation of ... [4 Related Articles] Bock, Hieronymus German priest, physician, and botanist who helped lead the transition from the philological scholasticism of ... [1 Related Articles] Bock, the (from the article "Luxembourg") ...city is situated on a sandstone plateau into which the Alzette River and its tributary, ... Bock, Walter (from the article "elastomer") ...more than 50,000 tons per year. In Germany, meanwhile, the first synthetic elastomer that could ... Bocklin, Arnold painter whose moody landscapes and sinister allegories greatly influenced late 19th-century German artists and presaged ... [1 Related Articles] Bockmann, Wilhelm (from the article "arts, East Asian") The German architects Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Bockmann were active in Japan from the late ... Bocskay, Istvan prince of Transylvania, who defended Hungarian interests when Hungary was divided into Ottoman and Habsburg ... [3 Related Articles] Bocuse, Paul French chef and restaurateur known for introducing and championing a lighter style of cooking. [1 Related Articles] Bod, Peter Hungarian Protestant clergyman, historian, and author who wrote the first work of literary history in ... Bodanis, David (from the article "Literature") ...noted, "This stuff is so accessible it is sometimes hard to put down, and the ... Bodawpaya king of Myanmar, sixth monarch of the Alaungpaya, or Konbaung, dynasty, in whose reign (1782-1819) ... [4 Related Articles] Bode Museum (from the article "Libraries and Museums") ...display of American art. Work also continued apace on British architect Sir Norman Foster's internal ... Bode's law empirical rule giving the approximate distances of planets from the Sun. It was first announced ... [7 Related Articles] Bode, Boyd H. American educational philosopher noted for his pragmatic approach. Bode, Johann Elert German astronomer best known for his popularization of Bode's law, or the Titius-Bode rule, an ... [4 Related Articles] Bode, Wilhelm von art critic and museum director who helped bring Berlin's museums to a position of worldwide ... bodegon (from the article "painting, Western") ...but, unlike Zurbaran, who spent almost all his life in the company of monks in ... Bodeguita del Medio (from the article "Havana") Many of the city's finest restaurants are in Old Havana. The most popular is Bodeguita ... Bodel, Jehan jongleur, epic poet, author of fabliaux, and dramatist, whose Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas ("Play ... [2 Related Articles] Bodenheim, Maxwell poet who contributed to the development of the Modernist movement in American poetry but is ... Bodenstedt, Friedrich Martin von German writer, translator, and critic whose poetry had great popularity during his lifetime. bodger (from the article "furniture industry") These bodgers, as they were called, made only the turned parts and delivered them to ... Bodh Gaya village in central Bihar state, northeastern India. It is situated west of the Phalgu River, ... [3 Related Articles] Bodhayana (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...on the Vedanta-sutras survives from the period before Sankara, though both Sankara and Ramanuja referred ... Bodhi (from the article "India") ...were the successors in the Nashik area. The Iksvakus succeeded in the Krishna-Guntur region. The ... bodhi (Sanskrit and Pali: "awakening," "enlightenment"), in Buddhism, the final Enlightenment, which puts an end to ... bodhicittot-pada (from the article "Mahayana") ...to the Buddha before his awakening (bodhi), or enlightenment, Mahayana teaches that ... Bodhidharma legendary Indian monk who, according to tradition, is credited with the establishment of the Ch'an ... [3 Related Articles] bodhisattva in Buddhism, one who seeks awakening (bodhi)-hence, an individual on the path ... [27 Related Articles] bodhisattvayana (from the article "Buddhism") ...appropriate for becoming an arhat; pratyeka-buddhayana, the way of those who aim ... Bodhnath (from the article "Kathmandu") ...of which is the Singha Palace, once the official residence of the hereditary prime ministers ... Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith English leader in the movement for the education and political rights of women who was ... Bodie Island (from the article "Cape Hatteras National Seashore") scenic coastal area situated on Bodie, Hatteras, and Ocracoke islands along the Outer Banks, eastern ... Bodin, Jean French political philosopher whose exposition of the principles of stable government was widely influential in ... [12 Related Articles] Bodine, Tod (from the article "Automobile Racing") Toyota entries, led by former Winston Cup driver Tod Bodine, posed a serious challenge in ... Bodish languages (from the article "Sino-Tibetan languages") ...are enumerated below together with their most likely affiliation. Some scholars believe the Tibetic and ... Bodish-Himalayish languages (from the article "Table 42: Tibetic Languages*") The Tibetic (also called the Bodic, from Bod, the Tibetan name for Tibet) division comprises ... Bodleian Library library of the University of Oxford and one of the oldest and most important nonlending ... [2 Related Articles] Bodleian Library Homer (from the article "calligraphy") ...is not common among papyrus finds, perhaps because they are mainly provincial work. But the ... Bodley, George F. (from the article "Western architecture") ...was more restrained; he built two small, neat town halls in the Gothic style, one ... Bodley, Sir Thomas (from the article "Bodleian Library") ...library declined in importance; and in 1550, Edward VI's commissioners withdrew what books were left. ... Bodmer Papyri (from the article "biblical literature") ...in a library in Florence. It contains Acts 23:11-17, 23-29 and illustrates a Greek form ... Bodmer, Johann Georg Swiss mechanic and prolific inventor of machine tools and textile-making machinery. Bodmer, Johann Jakob Swiss historian, professor, and critical writer who contributed to the development of an original German ... Bodmer, Karl (from the article "Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian, Prinz zu") ...state of Neuwied and served in the Prussian army. He undertook explorations in Brazil in ... Bodmer, Martin (from the article "biblical literature") ...the original text. Its text, like that of p45, is mixed, but it has elements ... Bodmin town ("parish"), North Cornwall district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. The town lies ... Bodmin Moor (from the article "Bodmin") town ("parish"), North Cornwall district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. The town lies ... Bodnath (from the article "Central Asian arts") ...shrine, or stupa (also called caitya): the large stupa and the small, monolithic stupa. Characteristic ... Bodo group of peoples speaking Tibeto-Burman languages in the northeastern Indian states of Assam and Meghalaya ... Bodo site of paleoanthropological excavation in the Awash River valley of Ethiopia known for the 1976 ... Bodo town and port, north-central Norway. It is located at the end of a peninsula projecting ... Bodo (from the article "protomonad") ...feces and also may be found in human and animal intestines. The choanoflagellates, which sometimes ... Bodo Affair (1818-21), a diplomatic scandal involving Sweden-Norway (then a dual monarchy) and Great Britain. The affair ... Bodo cranium (from the article "Bodo") The Bodo cranium resembles specimens attributed to H. erectus in having prominent browridges, a massive ... Bodo language (from the article "Table 44: Baric Languages") ...include the Dimasa (or Hill Kachari), Galong (or Gallong), Hojai, Lalung, Tippera, and Moran. The ... Bodo-Garo languages (from the article "Table 44: Baric Languages") The Baric, or Bodo-Garo, division consists of a number of languages spoken in Assam and ... Bodoni (from the article "Bodoni, Giambattista") ...theories of a French printer, Pierre Didot, however, and by 1787 was printing pages almost ... Bodoni, Giambattista Italian printer who designed several modern typefaces, one of which bears his name and is ... [2 Related Articles] Bodrogkoz (from the article "Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen") The Bodrogkoz region, a flatland in the east, is the county's most arable area, and ... Bodrum town, southwestern Turkey. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Kerme (ancient ... [1 Related Articles] body (from the article "automobile") Automotive body designs are frequently categorized according to the number of doors, the arrangement of ... body cavity (from the article "human body") ...on each side of the embryo, extending all the way from the back to the ... body decoration (from the article "dress") Facial and body hair was often plucked out with tweezers, and both face and hair ... body dysmorphic disorder (from the article "mental disorder") Misperceptions of one's appearance can also be manifested as body dysmorphic disorder, in which an ... body heat thermal energy that is a by-product of metabolism in higher animals, especially noticeable in birds ... [14 Related Articles] body louse (from the article "human louse") ...typhus and other louse-borne human diseases such as trench fever and relapsing fever. 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Many companies ... body temperature (from the article "dinosaur") Beyond eating, digestion, assimilation, reproduction, and nesting, many other processes and activities went into making ... body tube (from the article "microscope") The microscope body tube separates the objective and the eyepiece and assures continuous alignment of ... body wave (from the article "seismic wave") ...generated by an earthquake, explosion, or similar energetic source and propagated within the Earth or ... body weight (from the article "anorexia nervosa") eating disorder characterized by the refusal of an emaciated individual to maintain a normal body ... Body, Gabor Hungarian film and video director. His often controversial ideas and methods of filmmaking met with ... body-centred cubic structure (from the article "Earth Sciences") ...team of geophysicists led by Leonid Dubrovinsky of Bayerisches Geoinstitute, University of Bayreuth, Ger., reported ... body-popping (from the article "dance") An interesting parallel with tribal dances may be found in the break-dancing and "body-popping" craze ... bodybuilding a regimen of exercises designed to enhance the human body's muscular development and promote general ... [2 Related Articles] bodyline bowling (from the article "cricket") The visit of the English side to Australia in 1932-33 severely strained relations between the ... Boe town located on the Corubal River in southeastern Guinea-Bissau. It was the site of the ... Boece, Hector historian and humanist, author of an important Latin history of Scotland. Boeckh, August (from the article "classical scholarship") The school of Hermann with its strong emphasis on linguistic study came occasionally into conflict ... Boegoebergdam concrete irrigation dam, on the middle Orange River, Northern Cape province, South Africa. The Orange ... [1 Related Articles] Boehm system (from the article "clarinet") ...with a complex accretion of auxiliary keywork but with conservative features in bore, mouthpiece, and ... Boehm, Edward Marshall (from the article "pottery") The designs of Dorothy Doughty for the Worcester Royal Porcelain Company, in England, and those ... Boehm, Theobald German flutist, composer for the flute, and flute maker whose key mechanism and fingering system ... [5 Related Articles] Boehmeria nivea (from the article "ramie") any of several fibre-yielding plants of the genus Boehmeria, belonging to the nettle family (Urticaceae), ... boehmite white and relatively soft basic aluminum oxide [AlO(OH)] that is a common mineral in bauxite, ... [1 Related Articles] Boeing 247 (from the article "aerospace engineering") ...coupled with a monocoque design, enabled aircraft to fly farther and faster. Hugo Junkers, a ... Boeing 707 (from the article "Boeing Company") ...propeller-driven airliners from rival firms), but buttressed by sales to the U.S. Air Force in ... Boeing 727 (from the article "Boeing Company") ...American transatlantic route. The aircraft quickly won over passengers with its shorter flight time and ... Boeing 737 (from the article "airplane") ...jets for nearly the full range of commercial flying. The Boeing 727 became an intermediate-range ... Boeing 747 (from the article "Boeing Company") ...respectively. The 737 was developed into a modern family of planes, and by the end ... Boeing 757 (from the article "Boeing Company") ...transit systems, energy production, and agriculture but later refocused on aerospace. In 1981 the company ... Boeing 767 (from the article "Boeing Company") ...into areas such as marine craft (hydrofoils), transit systems, energy production, and agriculture but later ... Boeing 777 (from the article "Boeing Company") ...thus reducing cost and increasing productivity for carriers. This concept of commonality also applied to ... Boeing Company American aerospace company-the world's largest-that is the foremost manufacturer of commercial jet transports. It is ... [15 Related Articles] Boeing Compass Cope (from the article "military aircraft") ...Firebee penetrated heavily defended areas at low altitudes with impunity by virtue of its small ... Boeing, William E. (from the article "Boeing Company") Boeing's origin dates to 1916 when the American timber merchant William E. Boeing founded Aero ... Boeotia district of ancient Greece with a distinctive military, artistic, and political history. It corresponds somewhat ... [3 Related Articles] Boeotian League league that first developed as an alliance of sovereign states in Boeotia, a district in ... [5 Related Articles] Boer (Dutch: "husbandman," or "farmer"), a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one ... [34 Related Articles] Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging (from the article "Afrikaner Bond") (Afrikaans: "Afrikaner League"), the first political party of Cape Colony, southern Africa, founded by S.J. ... Boerhaave Museum in Leiden, Neth., museum of the history of natural sciences and one of the foremost ... Boerhaave syndrome (from the article "digestive system disease") Boerhaave syndrome is a rare spontaneous rupture to the esophagus. It can occur in patients ... 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