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Barton Cylinder
The Barton Cylinder is a clay cylinder from Nippur, Iraq, inscribed with a unique Sumerian cosmogonic narrative, dated to about 2500 to 2340 BC and held in the Penn Museum.
Barton decarboxylation
The Barton decarboxylation, also called Barton's radical decarboxylation, is a radical reaction reported in 1983 that removes a carboxyl group, converting a carboxylic acid into the corresponding alkane.
Barton F. Haynes
Barton F. Haynes is an American immunologist and virologist at Duke University who founded the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in 1990 and led the RV144 HIV vaccine trial analysis.
Barton Farm
Barton Farm, a Roman winged-corridor villa near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, findspot of the Orpheus Mosaic now in the Corinium Museum; distinct from Barton in Fabis villa and Barton Farm Winchester.
Barton Fink
Barton Fink (1991) is the Coen brothers' black comedy about a 1941 New York playwright, played by John Turturro, who suffers writer's block writing wrestling pictures in Hollywood. It won the Palme d'Or, Best Director, and Best Actor at Cannes, the festival's first triple-award film.
Barton Fitzpatrick
Barton Fitzpatrick, also Barton Fitzpatrick of The Chi, is an American actor, producer, and singer born 1995 in Chicago; known for Reg Taylor on Showtime's The Chi and Blaxton in Power Book IV: Force, a role written for him.
Barton Jahncke
Barton Jahncke, full name Barton Williams Benedict Jahncke, was an American sailor from New Orleans who won a Dragon class gold medal at the 1968 Olympics.
Barton reaction
The Barton reaction is a photochemical organic reaction, introduced by Derek H. R. Barton, in which photolysis of a nitrite ester converts a remote carbon–hydrogen bond into a functionalized group.
Barton Springs salamander
The Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) is a small, fully aquatic, neotenic salamander found at Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and federally listed as endangered in 1997.
Barton Swing Aqueduct
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a movable navigable aqueduct in Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester, carrying the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894.
Barton-in-Fabis
Barton-in-Fabis is a small Rushcliffe village in Nottinghamshire on the River Trent, six miles from Nottingham; Latin name means "in the beans"; features Grade I St George's church, a scheduled Roman villa, and a contested 2024 quarry application.
Barton–McCombie deoxygenation
The Barton–McCombie deoxygenation, also known as the Barton–McCombie reaction, converts an alcohol into a hydrocarbon via a free-radical chain reaction; Barton and McCombie reported it in 1975.
Barton's Bush
Barton's Bush, Trentham Memorial Park, Upper Hutt, New Zealand: the largest remaining lowland podocarp/broadleaf forest remnant on the Hutt Valley floor, named after settler Richard Barton, bought as a public reserve in 1950, tawa-dominated with threatened mistletoes.
Bartonella
Bartonella: genus of fastidious Gram-negative hemotropic bacteria (B. henselae, B. quintana, B. bacilliformis) transmitted by fleas, body lice, and sand flies, causing cat scratch disease, trench fever, Carrion's disease, and culture-negative endocarditis.
Bartonella bacilliformis infection
Bartonella bacilliformis infection, or Carrion's disease / South American bartonellosis, is a sand fly-transmitted biphasic illness in the Andes: acute Oroya fever with severe anemia (untreated fatality over 80% in outbreaks) and chronic verruga peruana, treated with antibiotics.
Bartonian
The Bartonian is a geologic stage and age of the middle Eocene epoch, spanning 41.03 to 37.71 million years ago and named after Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, England.
Bartosz A. Grzybowski
Bartosz A. Grzybowski (born 1972, Gdynia, Poland) is a Polish chemist and Distinguished Professor at UNIST in South Korea, known for the Chematica synthesis planner, commercialized as Synthia.
Bartosz Zmarzlik
Bartosz Zmarzlik (born 1995, Szczecin) is a Polish speedway rider with six FIM Speedway Grand Prix world titles (2019, 2020, 2022-2025), the only rider with four consecutive crowns, equal to Mauger and Rickardsson.
Bartow Elmore
Bartow J. Elmore is an American environmental historian at Ohio State University, known for Citizen Coke (2015) and Seed Money (2021) and winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize.
Bartramia
Bartramia names two valid genera: a monotypic bird genus (Lesson, 1831) holding the Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda, and a moss genus (Hedw.) of about thirty Bartramiaceae species; the two are parahomonyms across kingdoms.
Bartsocas-Papas syndrome
Bartsocas-Papas syndrome, also known as lethal popliteal pterygium syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder marked by severe knee webbing, fused eyelids, facial clefts, and genital anomalies, often lethal prenatally or in infancy.
Bartter syndrome
Bartter syndrome, a rare inherited salt-losing kidney tubulopathy of the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop, causing hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis, hyperreninemic hyperaldosteronism, polyuria, and growth retardation; types 1-5 from SLC12A1, KCNJ1, CLCNKB, BSND/CLCNKA-CLCNKB, and MAGED2 mutations; treated with indomethacin and electrolyte supplements.
Barttin
Barttin (BSND, Q8WZ55) is a 320-aa two-transmembrane-helix accessory beta subunit of ClC-Ka/ClC-Kb chloride channels in kidney and inner ear; BSND mutations cause Bartter syndrome type 4A with sensorineural deafness, while hypomorphic alleles cause nonsyndromic deafness DFNB73.
Bartz v. Anthropic
Bartz v. Anthropic is a copyright class action in which authors including Andrea Bartz accused Anthropic of training Claude on millions of pirated books, settled for $1.5 billion.
Bārû
The bārû was a Mesopotamian diviner-priest who ascertained the will of the gods by extispicy, reading the entrails, above all the liver, of a sacrificed sheep.
Baru Chandidas
Baru Chandidas (বড়ু চণ্ডীদাস) is the medieval Bengali poet who composed Srikrishnakirtan, a narrative poem of about 8,500 lines on the love of Krishna and Radha.
Barúa Oil Field
Barúa Oil Field is an oil field on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo in Zulia state, Venezuela, discovered in 1928 and operated under the Petroquiriquire joint venture.
Baruch (son of Neriah)
Baruch ben Neriah was the scribe and disciple of the prophet Jeremiah, writing his oracles at dictation and reading them publicly in the Temple around 605 BC.
Baruch College
Baruch College, also known as Bernard M. Baruch College, is a public senior college of the City University of New York in Manhattan focused on business and public affairs.
Baruch Goldstein (ברוך גולדשטיין)
Baruch Goldstein (ברוך גולדשטיין), American-born Israeli physician and Kach activist, shot dead 29 Muslim worshippers and wounded 125 at Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque on 25 February 1994; the Shamgar Commission found he acted alone.