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Barkly Tableland
Barkly Tableland: flat grassland plateau of about 100,000 sq km in Australia's Northern Territory extending into Queensland; Mitchell grass plains on cracking clays, endorheic lakes such as Tarrabool, and very large cattle stations.
Barkol Shan
Barkol Shan, also written Balikun Shan or 巴里坤山, is a mountain range at the eastern end of the Tian Shan in Xinjiang, China, rising to about 4,300 m.
Barksdale Air Force Base
Barksdale Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in Bossier City, Louisiana, headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command and home to B-52 bombers.
Barksdale Organization
Barksdale Organization: fictional West Baltimore drug trafficking organization in HBO's The Wire, led by Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, based in the Franklin Terrace towers, dissolved in 2004.
Barkskins (TV series)
Barkskins is a 2020 National Geographic eight-part limited series created by Elwood Reid from Annie Proulx's novel, set in 1690s New France around a settler massacre, starring David Thewlis and Marcia Gay Harden, cancelled after one season.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar, is a medieval Christian legend retelling the Buddha's life as an Indian prince converted to Christianity by the hermit Barlaam.
Barlee
Lake Barlee is a large intermittent salt lake in the Mid West of Western Australia; at about 1,980 square kilometers it is the state's second largest lake and fills roughly once a decade.
Barles
Barles, a commune in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, in the Bès valley; site of ancient lead-silver and copper mines (Pleiades 167666, Barrington Atlas 17 G5) worked from the 16th century, within the Réserve Géologique de Haute-Provence.
Barletta
Barletta, Adriatic city in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Puglia, Italy, between Foggia and Bari; known for the Colossus bronze statue, Castello Svevo, Santa Maria Maggiore cathedral, and the 1503 Disfida.
Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a cool-season cereal domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago; fourth-largest world grain, used mainly for livestock feed and malting for beer.
Barley and rice protein hydrolysate
Barley and rice protein hydrolysate (Barley Rice Protein, BRPH) is an EverGrain powdered protein ingredient made from beer-brewing spent grain by enzymatic hydrolysis; GRAS as GRN 1031 (FDA no questions, 2022) and EFSA-assessed as safe except for barley and rice allergenicity.
Barley as food
Barley as food is the use of barley grain in cooking, in hulled, pot, pearl, flaked, and flour forms, in dishes from soups and stews to flatbreads.
Barley stripe mosaic virus
Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV, Hordeivirus hordei) is a tripartite positive-strand RNA virus of barley and wheat, spread by contact, pollen, and seed with no vector; a 750-year-old genome from Egypt showed it arose about 2000 years ago.
Barley water
Barley water, also called lemon barley water, is a drink of barley simmered in water and strained, often flavored with citrus. Known for the 1834 Robinsons-Wimbledon link, an 1788 recipe, and Japanese mugicha barley tea.
Barley wine
Barley wine (Barley Wine, UK spelling) is a very strong top-fermented ale, 8-12% ABV, named for wine-like strength; English and American variants, first named for Bass No. 1, aged like wine.
Barley yellow dwarf
Barley yellow dwarf is an aphid-transmitted viral disease of wheat, barley, oats, and grasses that yellows and stunts plants and can cut wheat yields by up to 84%.
Barlow (Martian crater)
Barlow is an 87-km-diameter impact crater in northern Sinai Planum, Mars (11.65°S, 270.09°E), named by the IAU on September 27, 2024 for planetary scientist Nadine G. Barlow (1958–2020), creator of the first global Martian crater catalog.
Barlow Island
Barlow Island is a small ice-free island off the north coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, named after the fictitious Cape Barlow charted in 1829.
Barlow lens
The Barlow lens is a concave, diverging lens inserted ahead of a telescope's eyepiece to increase magnification, invented by Peter Barlow and George Dollond in the 1830s.
Barm-i Dilak
Barm-i Dilak (برم دلک, Barm-e Delak), Sasanian rock-relief site with a spring about 10 km southeast of Shiraz, Iran; two reliefs of Bahram II's reign: a man presenting an iris flower to a woman, and the king with a dignitary, with no fire altar.
Barma (Mercurian crater)
Barma is an IAU-approved 128-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 41.3S, 162.8W, named in 1982 after Yakovlev, a 16th-century Russian architect, per the USGS planetary nomenclature gazetteer.
Barmah Forest
Barmah Forest is a 28,515-hectare river red gum forest and floodplain marsh on the Murray River in northern Victoria, designated a Ramsar wetland in 1982.
Barmer Boys
Barmer Boys are a Rajasthani Manganiyar folk trio from Barmer, Rajasthan, formed in 2011 around singer Mangey Khan and known for Sufi kalaams, Kabir bhajans, and beatboxing.
Barmouth Bridge
Barmouth Bridge, also called Barmouth Viaduct or Pont Abermaw, is a largely wooden single-track railway viaduct crossing the Mawddach estuary in Gwynedd, Wales, opened in 1867.
Barn
A barn, also known as a cowhouse, is an agricultural building used to store crops, fodder, and machinery and to house livestock, varying in form by region.
Barn (unit)
The barn is a non-SI unit of area equal to 10⁻²⁸ m², used to express cross sections in nuclear reactions; it was coined during the Manhattan Project in 1942.
Barn owl
Barn owl: pale, heart-faced nocturnal owl (Tytonidae), split in 2024 into American (Tyto furcata), Western (Tyto alba), and Eastern (Tyto javanica) species; hunts rodents by sound with silent flight.
Barn swallow
Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica), the world's most widespread swallow: steely blue above, cinnamon below, deeply forked tail; mud nests on human structures; declining in North America, Special Concern in Canada.
Barnaba Classic
Barnaba Classic is the stage name of Elias Barnabas Inyasi, a Tanzanian bongo flava singer and producer known for romantic Swahili songwriting and the award-winning album Love Sounds Different.
Barnabas
Barnabas, originally named Joseph, was a Levite from Cyprus and early church leader surnamed 'son of encouragement' who vouched for Paul, co-led the first missionary journey, and championed Gentile converts.