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Barchan
A barchan is a crescent-shaped sand dune with horns pointing downwind that forms where sand is limited, winds blow from one direction, and the ground is bare.
Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers is an 1857 novel by Anthony Trollope, the second of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, satirizing clerical conflict in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester.
Barcid conquest of Iberia
The Barcid conquest of Iberia, also known as the Carthaginian conquest of Spain, was Carthage's conquest of southern and eastern Iberia between 237 and 219 BC, led by Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal.
Barcid dynasty
The Barcids, also known as the Barcid family, were the Carthaginian family of Hamilcar Barca and his son Hannibal, who ruled Carthaginian Spain and fought Rome from 237 to 202 BC.
Barclay Bay
Barclay Bay, also recorded as Barclay's Bay (variant not adopted), is a bay between Cape Shirreff and Start Point on the north side of Livingston Island, Antarctica, at 62°33′S 060°58′W.
Barclay James Harvest
Barclay James Harvest, English progressive rock band formed in Oldham in 1966 by John Lees, Les Holroyd, Woolly Wolstenholme, and Mel Pritchard; known for orchestral prog, the Harvest label, 1980 and 1987 Berlin concerts, and the 1998 split into two successor bands.
Barclay Records
Barclay Records is a French record label founded in the early 1950s by Eddie and Nicole Barclay, whose roster spans Jacques Brel, Dalida, Charles Aznavour, and Noir Désir.
Barclays
Barclays, also known as Barclays Plc, is a British bank operating a ring-fenced UK retail bank alongside a non-ring-fenced international bank, with total assets of £1.5 trillion.
Barclays Bank DCO
Barclays Bank DCO was the international and colonial banking subsidiary of Barclays, established in 1925. It combined three institutions and served regions across Africa and the Caribbean.
Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd
Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd [1980] QB 677, also cited as Barclays v Simms, is an English restitution case in which Robert Goff J let a bank recover a cheque paid despite a stop instruction, establishing the causative mistake test.
Barclays Center
Barclays Center, Brooklyn's multi-purpose arena at 620 Atlantic Avenue opened September 28, 2012, home of the NBA Brooklyn Nets and WNBA New York Liberty, 17,553 basketball seats, SHoP Architects weathered-steel design, LEED Silver, undergoing a $150 million renovation.
Barco (manufacturer)
Barco NV is a Belgian technology company headquartered in Kortrijk, founded in 1934, that makes cinema laser projectors, video walls, control room systems, and medical diagnostic displays.
Barcode
A barcode, also called bar coding, is a machine-readable symbol encoding product data that scanners capture electronically, central to supply chains since the first retail scan in 1974.
Barcode reader
A barcode reader, or barcode scanner, is an input device that shines light on a barcode, decodes the reflected signal, and transmits the data to a host computer.
Barcode verification
Barcode verification measures a printed barcode symbol's conformance with its specification, using a verifier that assigns a quality grade from 0.0 to 4.0 under ISO/IEC standards such as 15416.
Barcoded nanoparticles
Barcoded nanoparticles are drug delivery particles tagged with unique DNA markers, so dozens to hundreds of nanoparticle formulations can be tested in a single animal via sequencing.
Barcombe Hill Roman Quarry
Barcombe Hill Roman Quarry: Roman sandstone quarries near Vindolanda, Northumberland, on Hadrian's Wall. Largest is Barcombe 3, with phallus carving, XIII quarry mark, and an 1837 find of 63 Hadrianic coins.
Barcombe Hill Roman Signal Station
Barcombe Hill Roman Signal Station: late 1st-century AD Roman turf-and-timber signalling tower on Barcombe Hill, Northumberland, inside an Iron Age hillfort near Vindolanda, part of the Stanegate frontier; also the Barcombe B tower at Birkshaw.
Bard
Bard: a Celtic professional poet (Welsh bardd, Irish bard) employed by patrons to praise them in verse; distinct from minstrel and skald, later any serious or epic poet, and in modern Wales an Eisteddfod-recognized poet.
Bard (chatbot)
Bard was a conversational AI chatbot developed by Google as an experimental service powered by LaMDA, announced in 2023 and renamed Gemini on February 8, 2024.
Bard (Dungeons & Dragons)
Bard (Dungeons & Dragons): a versatile performer-spellcaster class first printed in Dragon #17 (1978) and the 1978 AD&D Players Handbook. In 5e it is a Charisma full caster with Bardic Inspiration and Magical Secrets; the 2024 revision adds the College of Dance.
Bard College
Bard College, originally St. Stephen's College, is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, founded in 1860 on a 1,200-acre Hudson River campus.
Bard song
Bard song, in Russian avtorskaya pesnya (авторская песня), is a genre in which the author performs his or her own songs with guitar, arising in the USSR in the 1950s.
Bard the Bowman
Bard the Bowman (Bard of Esgaroth) is the Man of Lake-town and heir of Girion, Lord of Dale, in Tolkien's The Hobbit who slays Smaug with the Black Arrow in T.A. 2941, then becomes first King of restored Dale (2944-2977), succeeded by Bain; played by Luke Evans in Jackson's films.
Bard-i Nishande
Bard-i Nishande (Bard-e Nesanda, برد نشانده), "erected stone," is an ancient Elymaian sanctuary complex in Khuzestan, Iran, 18 km northwest of Masjed-e Solayman, with a double terrace, tetrastyle temple, castle, and town, excavated by Ghirshman 1964-1966.
BARD1
BARD1 (BRCA1 associated RING domain 1), gene ID 580 at 2q35, encodes the BRCA1 partner protein forming a ubiquitin ligase heterodimer in DNA repair; a low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility gene on multigene panels.
Bardaisan of Edessa
Bardaisan of Edessa (ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ), also rendered Bardesanes, was a Syriac philosopher and poet, 154 to 222, at the court of the Abgarid kings of Edessa.
Bardarbunga
Bardarbunga is a subglacial basaltic stratovolcano beneath the Vatnajökull ice cap in central Iceland, best known for the 2014–2015 Holuhraun eruption, Iceland's largest since the 1783 Laki event.
Bardas Phokas the Younger
Bardas Phokas the Younger (Βάρδας Φωκᾶς) was a Byzantine general who crushed Bardas Skleros's revolt in 979 and died rebelling against Basil II in 989.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve (UNESCO dossier 973) protects the fortified medieval historic core of Bardejov, Slovakia, and its Jewish suburb; inscribed 2000 under criteria (iii) and (iv), 23.6 ha, reserve declared 1950.