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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.
Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins is the vampire protagonist of the American daytime serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), played by Jonathan Frid, who transformed the failing show into a cultural phenomenon.
Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones (神威勇探), CBS private-eye series 1973–1980 starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether; a Quinn Martin 'old Columbo' with a milk-drinking elderly detective, 178 episodes, Cannon crossovers.
Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Joyce (born 1967, Tamworth) is an Australian MP for New England, three-time deputy prime minister and former Nationals leader who resigned from the Nationals in November 2025 and now sits as One Nation's Treasury spokesperson.
Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty is Charles Dickens's 1841 historical novel, his first, set during London's anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, featuring the simple-minded Barnaby, his raven Grip, and an unsolved double murder.
Barnacle
Barnacles (Cirripedia, Thecostraca) are marine crustaceans related to crabs that cement themselves permanently underwater using multi-protein glue; about 2,116 species, major biofouling organisms studied for bioinspired adhesives.
Barnacle (parking)
The Barnacle is a parking enforcement device that suction-cups across a windshield until fines are paid, developed by Kevin Dougherty and first trialed in 2016.
Barnacle goose
Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis), small black-and-white Arctic goose named for a medieval myth of hatching from barnacles. Four populations (Greenland, Svalbard, Russia, Baltic) winter in western Europe; Svalbard birds recovered from ~300 in 1948 to ~41,700.
Barnaparichay
Barnaparichay (বর্ণপরিচয়, "Introduction to Letters") is a Bengali alphabet primer by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, published in 1855 and still the customary first book for Bengali children.