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Barbra Streisand on screen and stage
Barbra Streisand, born 1942, is an American singer, actor, director, and songwriter whose career began on Broadway in the early 1960s before her Oscar-winning film debut in Funny Girl (1968).
Barbu Catargiu
Barbu Catargiu was a Romanian conservative politician who became the first prime minister of the united Principalities in 1862, serving until his assassination that June.
Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei
Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, born Barbu Bibescu, was a Wallachian statesman who ruled as prince of Wallachia in two periods between 1849 and 1856, enacting reforms and abolishing slavery in 1856.
Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea
Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, born Barbu Ștefan, was a Romanian novelist, dramatist, journalist, lawyer, and politician, best known for the historical trilogy Apus de soare, Viforul, and Luceafărul.
Barbuda
Barbuda: flat Caribbean island 25 miles north of Antigua, part of Antigua and Barbuda; 62 square miles, about 1,300 people. Codrington lease 1684–1870, communal land tenure, 2017 Hurricane Irma evacuation, Codrington Lagoon frigatebird sanctuary.
Barbula
Barbula Hedw. (1801) is a conserved moss genus in Pottiaceae, type species B. unguiculata, with about 200 species on calcareous soil and rock; molecular work shows it polyphyletic. Distinct from Barbula Lour., a flowering-plant synonym of Caryopteris.
Barburgh Mill Roman fortlet
Barburgh Mill Roman fortlet: Antonine-period (c. 142-58) fortlet in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, discovered by aerial photography in 1945 and fully excavated in 1971; 29.50 by 28.50 m, housing an infantry century, guarding a Roman road.
Barbury Castle
Barbury Castle is an Iron Age multivallate hillfort with a bowl barrow on the Marlborough Downs near Swindon, Wiltshire, on the Ridgeway. Two rampart rings enclose c.4.5 ha; finds include an Iron Age blacksmith's hoard; occupied by the US Army in WWII.
Barbus barbus
Barbus barbus, the barbel, a rheophilic European cyprinid fish described by Linnaeus in 1758 as Cyprinus barbus; type species of Barbus, ranging from England and France to the Black Sea basin, IUCN Least Concern.
Barcelona
Barcelona (Barcino), capital of Catalonia and Spain's second city: Roman-founded Mediterranean port, Cerdà's 1859 Eixample grid, industrial hub, and origin of the superblock pedestrianization model.
Barcelona (district)
Barcelona (district), the province of Barcelona (província de Barcelona), is one of four provinces of Catalonia, Spain, capital Barcelona city, NUTS 3, 7,719 km², about 5.98 million people, 311 municipalities in 13 comarques.
Barcelona (Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé album)
Barcelona (1988) is a collaborative album by Freddie Mercury and Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé, recorded 1987-1988, produced with Mike Moran and David Richards; UK album peak No. 15, title single No. 8, tied to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Barcelona (Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé song)
"Barcelona" is a 1987 rock-opera duet by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, written with Mike Moran; UK No. 8 in 1987, No. 2 on 1992 re-release, anthem of the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, distinct from songs of the same name by Ed Sheeran or Alan Walker.
Barcelona Cathedral
Barcelona Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Eulalia, is the Gothic cathedral of Barcelona and the seat of its archdiocese, built mainly from 1298 to the mid-15th century.
Barcelona City Hall
Barcelona City Hall (Casa de la Ciutat) is the seat of the Barcelona city council on the Plaça de Sant Jaume, in the city's Gothic Quarter.
Barcelona family
Barcelona family, asteroid family around (945) Barcelona in the highly inclined central main belt; Sq-type, 306 known members, age about 265 Myr, one of eight leptokurtic ejection-velocity families.
Barcelona LNG Terminal
The Barcelona LNG Terminal is an Enagás-operated liquefied natural gas plant at the Port of Barcelona, Spain, the first regasification plant in Spain, opened in 1970.
Barcelona Pavilion
The Barcelona Pavilion, the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Exposition, is a small landmark building on Montjuïc designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.
Barcelona S.C.
Barcelona Sporting Club (Barcelona SC), Ecuadorian football club founded 1 May 1925 in Guayaquil's Astillero barrio by Catalans around Eutimio Pérez; record 16 Serie A titles, Estadio Monumental, Ecuador's most popular club.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) is a Spanish public research consortium founded in 2005 in Barcelona, known for the MareNostrum supercomputers and directed by Mateo Valero.
Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix
Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix (Gran Premio de Barcelona-Catalunya), F1 race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló; Spanish GP venue 1991-2026, renamed 2026, rotating with Spa 2028-2032.
Barcelona: A Love Untold
Barcelona: A Love Untold is a 2016 Philippine romantic drama directed by Olivia M. Lamasan, starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla as Mia and Ely, Filipinos in Spain. Star Cinema release that earned over Php 300 million and won FAMAS Best Picture 2017.
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.