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Barbeau Peak
Barbeau Peak, 2,616 m, on Ellesmere Island in Quttinirpaaq National Park, Nunavut; highest mountain in Nunavut and the Canadian Arctic, in the British Empire Range, first climbed in 1967.
Barbecue
Barbecue is cooking meat low and slow over indirect heat from wood or charcoal, a tradition central to the American South, from Caribbean barabicu and Spanish barbacoa.
Barbecue in the United States
Barbecue in the United States, or American barbecue, is slow-cooking meat over coals with wood smoke at 225–250°F, distinct from grilling, with four canonical regional styles: Carolina, Memphis, Kansas City, and Texas.
Barbecue sauce
Barbecue sauce (BBQ sauce) is a seasoned American condiment for smoked and grilled meat, with tomato-based Kansas City, vinegar-based North Carolina, mustard-based South Carolina, Memphis, and Texas regional styles.
Barbecue Showdown
Barbecue Showdown (originally The American Barbecue Showdown) is a Netflix reality competition series, premiered September 18, 2020, in which American pitmasters compete for the American Barbecue Champion title and a $50,000 prize, judged by Kevin Bludso and Melissa Cookston across three seasons.
Barbed wire
Barbed wire, also called bobbed wire, is fencing made of two twisted steel strands carrying sharp barbs, patented by Joseph F. Glidden in DeKalb, Illinois, in 1874.
Barbegal
Barbegal: second-century CE Roman watermill complex near Arles, France, with 16 overshot waterwheels in two rows of eight, the largest known industrial hydropower complex of antiquity, producing an estimated 4.5 to 25 tons of flour per day until the mid-third century.
Bärbel Bas
Bärbel Bas is a German SPD politician who served as President of the Bundestag from 2021 to 2025 and is now Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.
Barbel Eckert Wockel
Bärbel Eckert-Wöckel (Barbel Eckert Wockel), born 1955 in Leipzig, East German sprinter; four Olympic golds in the 200 m and 4×100 m relay at Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980, plus European titles.
Bärbel Kofler
Bärbel Kofler is a German politician of the SPD who has served as a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development since 2021.
Barbell
Barbell: long metal bar with weighted plates secured at each end, the standard free-weight implement in weightlifting and powerlifting; IWF men's bar 20 kg, IPF bar 29 mm shaft, 1320 mm long; strength gains are modality-specific versus machines.
Barbelo
Barbelo, also called Barbeloth, is the first thought and image of the Invisible Spirit in Sethian Gnosticism, a Mother-Father figure some Gnostic schools worshipped as Barbeliotae.
Barbenheimer
Barbenheimer: portmanteau for the July 21, 2023 same-day release of Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and its viral meme phenomenon; $235.5M combined domestic opening, nearly $2.5B worldwide, Japan controversy, and imitators like Glicked.
Barbeque Nation
Barbeque Nation is an Indian fixed-price restaurant chain where diners grill appetizers at a live charcoal grill embedded in each table, followed by an unlimited buffet.
Barber
A barber is a licensed personal-appearance worker who cuts and styles hair, shaves, and trims beards, mostly for male clients; the striped barber pole recalls the trade's bloodletting past.
Barber Motorsports Park
Barber Motorsports Park, also called Barber raceway, is an 880-acre Alabama racing facility opened in 2003 with a 2.38-mile, 16-turn clockwise road course, the Guinness-record Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, and the annual IndyCar Grand Prix of Alabama.
Barber paradox
The barber paradox is a logic puzzle asking whether a barber who shaves all and only men who do not shave themselves shaves himself, since no such barber can exist.
Barber surgeon
Barber surgeon: a medieval and early modern European practitioner combining barbering with surgery (bloodletting, tooth pulling, amputation). United in London's 1540 Company of Barber-Surgeons; split by the 1745 Act, leading to the Royal College of Surgeons.
Barber-Say syndrome
Barber-Say syndrome (BSS), also called hypertrichosis-atrophic skin-ectropion-macrostomia, is an extremely rare congenital TWIST2-related ectodermal dysplasia with hypertrichosis, redundant skin, ectropion, and macrostomia; about 20 cases reported.
Barber's pole
Barber's pole: striped cylindrical trade sign outside barbershops, red and white or red, white, and blue, rooted in barber-surgeon bloodletting and namesake of the barber pole motion illusion.
Barbera
Barbera is a dark-skinned red wine grape from Piedmont, Italy, distinct from Nebbiolo and Dolcetto; known for bright acidity, low tannins, deep color, appellations Barbera d'Asti, d'Alba, and Nizza DOCG, and plantings in California.
Barberini Faun
The Barberini Faun, also known as the Drunk Satyr, is a Hellenistic marble statue of a sleeping satyr found in Rome in the 1620s and now in Munich's Glyptothek.
Barberini Ivory
The Barberini Ivory, also called the Barberini Diptych, is a Byzantine ivory relief of a triumphant emperor, carved in Constantinople around 525–550 and held in the Louvre.
Barbershop (film)
Barbershop is a 2002 American comedy-drama directed by Tim Story, following Ice Cube's Calvin Palmer over one day as he tries to buy back his South Side Chicago barbershop.
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, the sequel to Barbershop, in which Ice Cube's Calvin Palmer defends his South Side Chicago barbershop.
Barbershop music
Barbershop music, also known as barbershop harmony, is a uniquely American style of unaccompanied four-part close-harmony singing, revived in 1938 with the founding of the Barbershop Harmony Society in Tulsa.
Barbershop quartet
Barbershop quartet: an a cappella, four-voice ensemble (tenor, lead, baritone, bass) singing unaccompanied four-part close harmony, an African-American-rooted American style organized by the 1938-founded Barbershop Harmony Society (SPEBSQSA).
Barbershop: The Next Cut
Barbershop: The Next Cut is a 2016 American comedy-drama, the third in the Barbershop series, directed by Malcolm D. Lee and starring Ice Cube and Regina Hall.
Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains, also called the Barberton Greenstone Belt property, is a 2018 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mpumalanga, South Africa, preserving 3.6–3.25-billion-year-old volcanic and sedimentary rocks, komatiites, and early-life evidence.
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder (born 1941, Tehran) is a French-Swiss director and producer, co-founder of Les Films du Losange with Eric Rohmer, director of More, General Idi Amin Dada, Barfly, and the Oscar-nominated Reversal of Fortune.