recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Bahrain

**Bahrain** (/bɑːˈreɪn/ ⓘ *bah-RAYN*, /bæxˈreɪn/; Arabic: البحرين, romanized: *al-Baḥrayn*, locally [æl baħˈreːn] ⓘ), officially the **Kingdom of Bahrain**, is an island country in West Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island which makes up around 83 per cent of the country's landmass. Bahrain is situated between Qatar and the northeastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the King Fahd Causeway. The current population of Bahrain is 1,870,817 as of May 14, 2023, based on elaborations of the latest United Nations data, of whom 712,362 are Bahraini nationals. Bahrain spans some 760 square kilometres (290 sq mi), and is the third-smallest nation in Asia after the Maldives and Singapore. The capital and largest city is Manama.

Bahrain is the site of the ancient Dilmun civilization. It has been famed since antiquity for its pearl fisheries, which were considered the best in the world into the 19th century. Bahrain was one of the earliest areas to be influenced by Islam, during the lifetime of Muhammad in 628 AD. Following a period of Arab rule, Bahrain was ruled by the Portuguese Empire from 1521 until 1602, when they were expelled by Shah Abbas the Great of the Safavid Iran. In 1783, the Bani Utbah clan captured Bahrain from Nasr Al-Madhkur and it has since been ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family, with Ahmed al Fateh as Bahrain's first *hakim*.

In the late 1800s, following successive treaties with the British, Bahrain became a protectorate of the United Kingdom. In 1971, it declared independence. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared an Islamic constitutional monarchy in 2002. In 2011, the country experienced protests inspired by the regional Arab Spring. Bahrain's ruling Sunni Muslim Al Khalifa royal family has been criticised for violating the human rights of groups including dissidents, political opposition figures, and its majority Shia Muslim population.

Bahrain developed the first post-oil economy in the Persian Gulf, the result of decades of investing in the banking and tourism sectors; many of the world's largest financial institutions have a presence in the country's capital. It is recognised by the World Bank as a high-income economy. Bahrain is a member of the United Nations, Non-Aligned Movement, Arab League, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Gulf Cooperation Council. Bahrain is a Dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Avenir

**Avenir** is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1987 and released in 1988 by Linotype GmbH.

The word *avenir* is French for "future". As the name suggests, the family takes inspiration from the geometric style of sans-serif typeface developed in the 1920s that took the circle as a basis, such as Erbar and Futura. Frutiger intended Avenir to be a more organic interpretation of the geometric style, more even in colour and suitable for extended text, with details recalling more traditional typefaces such as the two-storey 'a' and 't' with a curl at the bottom, and letters such as the 'o' that are not exact, perfect circles but optically corrected.

Frutiger described Avenir as his finest work: "The quality of the draftsmanship – rather than the intellectual idea behind it – is my masterpiece. (...) It was the hardest typeface I have worked on in my life. Working on it, I always had human nature in mind. And what's crucial is that I developed the typeface alone, in peace and quiet – no drafting assistants, no-one was there. My personality is stamped upon it. I'm proud that I was able to create Avenir."
Bleach (TV series)

***Bleach*** (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo's original manga series of the same name. It was produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe. The series aired on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2012, spanning 366 episodes. The story follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper—a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His newfound powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife. In addition to adapting the manga series it is based on, the anime periodically includes original self-contained storylines and characters not found in the source material.

Viz Media obtained foreign television and home video distribution rights to the *Bleach* anime in March 2006. *Bleach* was broadcast in the United States on Adult Swim from September 2006 to November 2014.

*Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War*, a sequel series covering the manga's final story arc, also animated by Pierrot and directed by Tomohisa Taguchi, aired its first 13-episode cour on TV Tokyo from October to December 2022. The second cour premiered in July 2023.
Barbareño language

**Barbareño** is one of the Chumashan languages, a group of Native American languages spoken almost exclusively in the area of Santa Barbara, California. The closely related **Ineseño** may have been a dialect of the same language. A dialect of the Barbareño language was also "spoken at San Emigdio near Buena Vista Lake" in the southern Central Valley. This dialect, called Emigdiano, "was heavily influenced by Buena Vista Yokuts." Barbareño lost its last known native speaker in 1965 with the death of Mary Yee. Both Barbareño and Ineseño are currently undergoing processes of language revitalization.
Bexgol

The **bexgol** is equal to \(\{10,10,100,10\}\) in BEAF. The term was coined by Chris Bird.

## Etymology

The name of the number is based on the Latin prefix "**bi-**" and the number "gexgol".

## Approximations

 Notation Array Notation
 Slow-growing hierarchy | \(g\_{\varphi(9,99,0)}(100)\)

## References

1. ↑ Bowers, Jonathan. Infinity Scrapers. Retrieved on January 1, 2013.
Belle and Sebastian

* Belle and Sebastian (2017 TV series)
* Belle and Sebastian (Japanese TV series)

Disambiguation page for Belle and SebastianThe following is a list of links to pages that might share the same title.Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Big O Tires

**Big O Tires, LLC.** is one of North America's largest retail tire franchisors, with more than 450 independently owned and operated locations extending through 23 states primarily in the Western and Midwestern United States. It is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and is a wholly owned subsidiary of TBC Corporation.

Big O private brand tires and other leading brands are available at all 450+ locations. In addition to selling and servicing tires, wheels, and alignments, Big O Tires provides routine maintenance and replacement services including, but not limited to: oil and filter changes, batteries, brakes, suspension and steering services.
Big-Headed Kid and Small-Headed Father

***Big-Headed Kid and Small-Headed Father*** (simplified Chinese: 大头儿子和小头爸爸; traditional Chinese: 大頭兒子和小頭爸爸; pinyin: Dàtóu erzi hé xiǎotóu bàba) is a 1995 Chinese animated cartoon television series jointly produced by CCTV and Shanghai Oriental TV. It was starring a family in Shanghai. Small-Headed father caters to the needs of his wife and child. Charles Liu of The Beijinger stated that unlike Homer Simpson, Small-Headed Father lacks selfishness, but otherwise it "firmly has The Simpsons in mind when it comes to dopey dads."
BMP

The **BMP file format** or **bitmap**, is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such as a graphics adapter), especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.

The BMP file format is capable of storing two-dimensional digital images in various color depths, and optionally with data compression, alpha channels, and color profiles. The Windows Metafile (WMF) specification covers the BMP file format.
Belle and Sebastian (2017 TV series)

***Belle and Sebastian*** (French: *Belle et Sébastien*) is an animated children's television series, an adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Cécile Aubry. A Canada-France international co-production, the series was produced by the Montreal-based Groupe PVP and France's Gaumont Animation.
Baby powder

**Baby powder** is an astringent powder used for preventing diaper rash and for cosmetic uses. It may be composed of talc (in which case it is also called talcum powder) or corn starch. It may also contain additional ingredients like fragrances. Baby powder can also be used as a dry shampoo, cleaning agent (to remove grease stains), and freshener.
Big 5 Sporting Goods

**Big 5 Sporting Goods** is a sporting goods retailer headquartered in El Segundo, California with 434 stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Steven G. Miller is the chairman, president, and CEO.

The name Big 5 is derived from the first five stores that were opened in California. Sportswest and Sportsland were acquired in May 1988 from Pay 'n Save subsequently. A list of major competitors can be found on this list of sporting goods retailers of the United States.
Baggol

**Baggol** is equal to \(\{10,10,100,3\}\) in BEAF. The term was coined by Chris Bird.

Username5243 calls this number **Trukiloogol** (formerly **Trumegoogol**), and it's equal to 10[0,3]100 in Username5243's Array Notation.

## Etymology

The name of the number is based on the Latin prefix "**bi-**" and the number "gaggol".

## Approximations

 Slow-growing hierarchy | \(g\_{\varphi(2,99,0)}(100)\)

## References

1. ↑ Bowers, Jonathan. Infinity Scrapers. Retrieved on January 1, 2013.
2. ↑ Username5243. shortened list - My Large Numbers. Retrieved on April 22, 2017.
Bathtub

A **bathtub**, also known simply as a **bath** or **tub**, is a container for holding water in which a person or animal may bathe. Most modern bathtubs are made of thermoformed acrylic, porcelain-enameled steel or cast iron, or fiberglass-reinforced polyester. A bathtub is placed in a bathroom, either as a stand-alone fixture or in conjunction with a shower.
Babbol

The **babbol** is equal to \(\{10,10,100,3 (1) 2\}\) in BEAF. The term was coined by Jonathan Bowers.

## Etymology

The name of this number is based on suffix "**bi-**" and the number "gabbol".

## Approximations and exact values in other notations

 Cascading-E notation
 Hyperfactorial array notation
 Slow-growing hierarchy | \(g\_{\vartheta(\Omega^\Omega+\Omega2+99)}(10)\)

## References

1. ↑ Bowers, Jonathan. Infinity Scrapers. Retrieved on January 1, 2013.
Bell Gothic

**Bell Gothic** is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or grotesque style designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1938 while heading the typographic development program at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The typeface was commissioned by AT&T as a proprietary typeface for use in telephone directories and has since been made available for general licensing. Bell Gothic is designed for maximum legibility in the adverse conditions of small print on poor-quality newsprint paper, into which ink tends to absorb and spread out. It is therefore a popular font in printing at small sizes.

Bell Gothic was replaced by AT&T with Matthew Carter's typeface Bell Centennial in 1978, the one centennial anniversary of AT&T's founding.

Bell Gothic was derived from Monotype Grotesque Std Black typeface.
Balanced ternary

**Balanced ternary** is a ternary numeral system (i.e. base 3 with three digits) that uses a balanced signed-digit representation of the integers in which the digits have the values −1, 0, and 1. This stands in contrast to the standard (unbalanced) ternary system, in which digits have values 0, 1 and 2. The balanced ternary system can represent all integers without using a separate minus sign; the value of the leading non-zero digit of a number has the sign of the number itself. The balanced ternary system is an example of a non-standard positional numeral system. It was used in some early computers and also in some solutions of balance puzzles.

Different sources use different glyphs used to represent the three digits in balanced ternary. In this article, T (which resembles a ligature of the minus sign and 1) represents −1, while 0 and 1 represent themselves. Other conventions include using '−' and '+' to represent −1 and 1 respectively, or using Greek letter theta (Θ), which resembles a minus sign in a circle, to represent −1. In publications about the Setun computer, −1 is represented as overturned 1: "1".

Balanced ternary makes an early appearance in Michael Stifel's book *Arithmetica Integra* (1544). It also occurs in the works of Johannes Kepler and Léon Lalanne. Related signed-digit schemes in other bases have been discussed by John Colson, John Leslie, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and possibly even the ancient Indian Vedas.
Arby's

**Arby's** is an American fast food sandwich restaurant chain with more than 3,300 restaurants system wide and third in terms of revenue. In October 2017, *Food & Wine* called Arby's "America's second largest sandwich chain (after Subway)".

Arby's is the flagship property of Inspire Brands, the renamed Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. (ARG). ARG was renamed as the company took over ownership of Buffalo Wild Wings on February 5, 2018.

Roark Capital Group acquired 81.5% of Arby's Restaurant Group in July 2011 and is now a majority-owner of Inspire Brands. The Wendy's Company held a minority stake of 18.5% in Arby's after the acquisition by Roark Capital; that share was reduced to 12.3% upon the purchase of Buffalo Wild Wings, and was sold back to Inspire Brands on August 16, 2018, for $450 million, a 38 percent premium.

In addition to its classic Roast Beef and Beef 'n Cheddar sandwiches, Arby's products also include a deli-style Market Fresh line of sandwiches, Greek gyros, Curly Fries and Jamocha Shakes. Its headquarters are in Sandy Springs, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta which uses Atlanta mailing addresses. In 2019, there were 3,472 restaurants. There are locations in six countries outside the United States: Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and South Korea.
Bijective numeration

**Bijective numeration** is any numeral system in which every non-negative integer can be represented in exactly one way using a finite string of digits. The name refers to the bijection (i.e. one-to-one correspondence) that exists in this case between the set of non-negative integers and the set of finite strings using a finite set of symbols (the "digits").

Most ordinary numeral systems, such as the common decimal system, are not bijective because more than one string of digits can represent the same positive integer. In particular, adding leading zeroes does not change the value represented, so "1", "01" and "001" all represent the number one. Even though only the first is usual, the fact that the others are possible means that the decimal system is not bijective. However, the unary numeral system, with only one digit, *is* bijective.

A **bijective base-*k* numeration** is a bijective positional notation. It uses a string of digits from the set {1, 2, ..., *k*} (where *k* ≥ 1) to encode each positive integer; a digit's position in the string defines its value as a multiple of a power of *k*. Smullyan (1961) calls this notation *k*-adic, but it should not be confused with the *p*-adic numbers: bijective numerals are a system for representing ordinary integers by finite strings of nonzero digits, whereas the *p*-adic numbers are a system of mathematical values that contain the integers as a subset and may need infinite sequences of digits in any numerical representation.
Balanced prime

In number theory, a **balanced prime** is a prime number with equal-sized prime gaps above and below it, so that it is equal to the arithmetic mean of the nearest primes above and below. Or to put it algebraically, given a prime number , where n is its index in the ordered set of prime numbers,

p
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{\displaystyle p\_n = {{p\_{n - 1} + p\_{n + 1}} \over 2}.}

For example, 53 is the sixteenth prime; the fifteenth and seventeenth primes, 47 and 59, add up to 106, and half of that is 53; thus 53 is a balanced prime.

## Examples

The first few balanced primes are

5, 53, 157, 173, 211, 257, 263, 373, 563, 593, 607, 653, 733, 947, 977, 1103, 1123, 1187, 1223, 1367, 1511, 1747, 1753, 1907, 2287, 2417, 2677, 2903 (sequence A006562 in the OEIS).
Beja language

**Beja** (*Bidhaawyeet* or *Tubdhaawi*) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers inhabit parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea. In 2017 there were 2,220,000 Beja speakers in Sudan according to Ethnologue. In 1993 there were 77,000 speakers of Beja in Egypt, current number of speakers today in Egypt is unknown. As of 2020 there are an estimated 201,000 Beja speakers in Eritrea. The total number of speakers in all three countries is 2,498,000.
Bengali numerals

**Bengali numerals** (Bengali: সংখ্যা, romanized: *sôṅkhya*, Assamese: সংখ্যা, romanized: *xoiŋkha*, Meitei: মশীং; ꯃꯁꯤꯡ, romanized: *mashing*) are the units of the numeral system, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used officially in Bengali, Assamese and Manipuri, 3 of the 22 official languages of the Indian Republic, as well as traditionally in Bishnupriya, Chakma and Hajong languages. They are used by more than 350 million people around the world and are a variety of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.

## Fractions

The Bengali script has a separate set of digits for base-16 fractions:

This system was the norm for pricing before decimalization of the currency: ২৲ (₹2), ২৷৷৹ (₹2-8, or 2 rupees 8 annas).
Blazing Team: Masters of Yo Kwon Do

***Blazing Team: Masters of Yo Kwon Do*** (Chinese: 火力少年王悠拳英雄; pinyin: *Huǒlì Shàonián Wáng Yōu Quán Yīngxióng*; lit. 'Blazing Teens: Yo-Kwon-Do Heroes') is an animated series produced by Guangdong Alpha Animation & Culture and Hasbro Studios. The show is a re-imagining of Alpha's *Blazing Teens* yo-yo property aimed at western audiences.

The series aired over two seasons and was originally commissioned for 52 episodes. The 26-episode first season debuted in the United States on November 13, 2015, on Discovery Family. With an episode count reduced by 10, the 16-episode second season premiered on July 22, 2017. In China, the series debuted on iQiyi and other streaming platforms in August 2017.
Berber

* Berber calendar
* Berber languages

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The Gate

Concept image of the Gate

The Gate is a superstructure located in South East Oripan, or South East Tropa. It requires a huge amount of energy to be activated. The Gate is unmoveable, due to its scale and unknown consequences of doing so. The Gate is made out of an unknown alloy and is extremely strong.

## History

The gate appeared during the 1-35 Union Civil War when the Sarieg Empire was winning the war. At the time, Sarieg forces were transporting the Experimental Hadron Collider to the Gate in order to activate it. It was marked as "Artifacts" by the Imperium of Sophont because they were worried of foreign interventions in hijacking the devices.
Beany and Cecil

***Beany and Cecil*** is an American animated television series created by Bob Clampett for the American Broadcasting Company. The cartoon was based on the television puppet show *Time for Beany*, which Clampett produced for Paramount Pictures company and its Paramount Television Network beginning 1949. The series was broadcast first as part of the series *Matty's Funnies* during 1962, later renamed *Beany and Cecil*. A short-lived revival, *The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil*, was produced in 1988.

Although a children's show, it incorporated satirical references to current events and personalities that adults found entertaining, and the show also attracted adult viewers. Some of the plots and remarks were recognizable as lampoons of current political issues.

Along with *The Jetsons* and *The Flintstones*, it was one of the first three color television series by the ABC television network (the initial season, though, was originally shown in black and white, as ABC was unable to broadcast color programs until September 1962).
Block (periodic table)

A **block** of the periodic table is a set of elements unified by the atomic orbitals their valence electrons or vacancies lie in. The term seems to have been first used by Charles Janet. Each block is named after its characteristic orbital: s-block, p-block, d-block, f-block and g-block.

The block names (s, p, d, and f) are derived from the spectroscopic notation for the value of an electron's azimuthal quantum number: sharp (0), principal (1), diffuse (2), or fundamental (3). Succeeding notations proceed in alphabetical order, as g, h, etc., though elements that would belong in such blocks have not yet been found.
Bengali calendars

The **Bengali Calendar** or **Bangla Calendar** (Bengali: বঙ্গাব্দ, lit. 'Baṅgābda'), colloquially (Bengali: বাংলা সন, romanized: *Baṅgla Śon*), is a solar calendar used in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. A revised version of the calendar is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh and an earlier version of the calendar is followed in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam. The New Year in the Bengali calendar is known as *Pôhela Boishakh*. The calender was introduced by Emperor Shashanka of Gauda. The rise of Shashanka from a Samanta Raja to the sovereign ruler of Bengal coincides with that of the beginning of the Bangabda.

The Bengali era is called *Bengali Sambat* (BS) or the *Bengali year* (বাংলা সন *Bangla Sôn*, বাংলা সাল *Bangla sal*, or *Bangabda*) has a zero year that starts in 593/594 CE. It is 594 less than the AD or CE year in the Gregorian calendar if it is before *Pôyla Bôishakh*, or 593 less if after *Pôyla Bôishakh*.

The revised version of the Bengali calendar was officially adopted in Bangladesh in 1987. Among the Bengali community in India, the traditional Indian Hindu calendar continues to be in use, and it sets the Hindu festivals.
Bingulus

The **bingulus** is equal to {10,100 (0,0,2) 2} in BEAF. Its structural array has 1001002\*2 entries total. The term was coined by Jonathan Bowers.

## Etymology

The name of this number is based on Latin prefix **"bi-"** and the number "gingulus".

## Approximations

 Aarex's array notation
 Slow-growing hierarchy | \(g\_{\vartheta(\Omega^{\Omega^{\Omega^2+\Omega\omega}})}(100)\)

## References

1. ↑ Bowers, Jonathan. Infinity Scrapers. Retrieved on January 1, 2013.
Bill the Minder

***Bill the Minder*** is a book and television series that tells of the adventures of a 15-year-old boy and his cousins Boadicea and Chad. In the process of their adventures they meet many strange people and help solve their unique problems with the use of fantastic machines which Bill is capable of crafting in a short time.
Bahá'í calendar

The **Badíʻ calendar** used in the Baháʼí Faith is a solar calendar consisting of nineteen months and four or five intercalary days, with new year at the moment of Northern spring equinox. Each month is named after a virtue (*e.g.*, Perfection, Mercy), as are the days of the week. The first year is dated from 1844 CE, the year in which the Báb began teaching.

Years on the calendar are annotated with the date notation of BE (Baháʼí Era). The Baháʼí year 181 BE will start on 20 March 2024.
Balinese script

The **Balinese script**, natively known as *Aksara Bali* and *Hanacaraka*, is an abugida used in the island of Bali, Indonesia, commonly for writing the Austronesian Balinese language, Old Javanese, and the liturgical language Sanskrit. With some modifications, the script is also used to write the Sasak language, used in the neighboring island of Lombok. The script is a descendant of the Brahmi script, and so has many similarities with the modern scripts of South and Southeast Asia. The Balinese script, along with the Javanese script, is considered the most elaborate and ornate among Brahmic scripts of Southeast Asia.

Though everyday use of the script has largely been supplanted by the Latin alphabet, the Balinese script has a significant prevalence in many of the island's traditional ceremonies and is strongly associated with the Hindu religion. The script is mainly used today for copying *lontar* or palm leaf manuscripts containing religious texts.
Bambi

***Bambi*** is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fifth Disney animated feature film, it is based on the 1923 novel *Bambi, a Life in the Woods* by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten. The film was produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand and a team of sequence directors.

The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer; his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother); his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit); and Flower (a skunk); and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. In the original book, Bambi was a roe deer, a species native to Europe; but Disney decided to base the character on a mule deer from Arrowhead, California. Illustrator Maurice "Jake" Day convinced Disney that the mule deer had large "mule-like" ears and were more common to western North America; but that the white-tail deer was more recognized throughout America.

The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound (Sam Slyfield), Best Song (for "Love Is a Song" sung by Donald Novis) and Original Music Score.

In June 2008, the American Film Institute presented a list of its "10 Top 10"—the best ten films in each of ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. *Bambi* placed third in animation. In December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".

In January 2020, it was announced that a photorealistic computer-animated remake was in development.
Barbecue

**Barbecue** or **barbeque** (often shortened to **BBQ** in the UK, US, and Canada; **barbie** or **barby** in Australia; and **braai** in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that employ live fire and smoke to cook the food. The term is also generally applied to the devices associated with those methods, the broader cuisines that these methods produce, and the meals or gatherings at which this style of food is cooked and served. The cooking methods associated with barbecuing vary significantly but most involve outdoor cooking.
Bassett Furniture

**Bassett Furniture Industries** is a furniture manufacturer and retailer, headquartered in Bassett, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1902 by John D. Bassett, Charles C. Bassett, Samuel H. Bassett, and Reed L. Stone. Bassett Furniture is one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in Virginia. Bassett operates approximately 60 retail locations in the United States and Puerto Rico and licenses its retail brand to about 40 additional locations.
Blender

A **blender** (sometimes called a **mixer** or **liquidiser** in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix, crush, purée or emulsify food and other substances. A stationary blender consists of a blender container with a rotating metal or plastic blade at the bottom, powered by an electric motor that is in the base. Some powerful models can also crush ice and other frozen foods. The newer immersion blender configuration has a motor on top connected by a shaft to a rotating blade at the bottom, which can be used with any container.
Babar

***Babar*** is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC in Canada, and on HBO in the United States. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original *Babar* books, and was Nelvana's first international co-production. The show has been dubbed in 30 languages in over 150 countries.

The show was the first to be based on the *Babar* books; previously, two *Babar* specials narrated by Peter Ustinov were produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez for NBC: *The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant* on October 21, 1968, and *Babar Comes to America* on September 7, 1971.

In 2010, a computer-animated sequel series spin-off of *Babar* titled *Babar and the Adventures of Badou* premiered on Disney Junior in the United States. The new series takes place several years after the original and focuses on a majority of new characters including Badou, Babar's grandson and Pom's son, but only one human character appears on the show.
Baybayin

***Baybayin*** is a Philippine script. The script is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Geographically, it was widely used in Luzon and other parts of the Philippines prior to and during the 16th and 17th centuries before being replaced by the Latin alphabet during the period of Spanish colonization. It was used in the Tagalog language and, to a lesser extent, Kapampangan-speaking areas; its use spread to the Ilocanos in the early 17th century. In the 19th and 20th centuries, *baybayin* survived and evolved into multiple forms—the Tagbanwa script of Palawan, and the Hanuno'o and Buhid scripts of Mindoro—and was used to create the constructed modern Kulitan script of the Kapampangan and the Ibalnan script of the Palawan people. Under the Unicode Standard and ISO 15924, the script is encoded as the Tagalog block.

The Archives of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, one of the largest archives in the Philippines, currently possesses the world's biggest collection of ancient writings in *baybayin*. The chambers which house the writings are part of a tentative nomination to UNESCO World Heritage List that is still being deliberated on, along with the entire campus of the University of Santo Tomas.

Despite being primarily a historic script, the *baybayin* script has seen some revival in the modern Philippines. It is often used in the insignia of government agencies and books are frequently published either partially or fully, in *baybayin*. Bills to require its use in certain cases and instruction in schools have been repeatedly considered by the Congress of the Philippines.

For modern computers and typing, characters are in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) and were first proposed for encoding in 1998 by Michael Everson together with three other known indigenous scripts of the Philippines.
Awareness

**Awareness** in philosophy and psychology is a concept about knowing, perceiving and being cognizant of events. Another definition describes it as a state wherein a subject is aware of some information when that information is directly available to bring to bear in the direction of a wide range of behavioral actions. The concept is often synonymous to consciousness and is also understood as being consciousness itself.
The states of awareness are also associated with the states of experience so that the structure represented in awareness is mirrored in the structure of experience.
Badger

**Badgers** are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, wolverines, martens, minks, polecats, weasels, and ferrets). Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity. All belong to the caniform suborder of carnivoran mammals.

The fifteen species of mustelid badgers are grouped in four subfamilies: four species of Melinae (genera *Meles* and *Arctonyx*) including the European badger, five species of Helictidinae (genus *Melogale*) or ferret-badger, the honey badger or ratel Mellivorinae (genus *Mellivora*), and the American badger Taxideinae (genus *Taxidea*). Badgers include the most basal mustelids; the American badger is the most basal of all, followed successively by the ratel and the Melinae; the estimated split dates are about 17.8, 15.5 and 14.8 million years ago, respectively.

The two species of Asiatic stink badgers of the genus *Mydaus* were formerly included within Melinae (and thus Mustelidae), but more recent genetic evidence indicates these are actually members of the skunk family (Mephitidae).

Badger mandibular condyles connect to long cavities in their skulls, which gives resistance to jaw dislocation and increases their bite grip strength. This in turn limits jaw movement to hinging open and shut, or sliding from side to side, but it does not hamper the twisting movement possible for the jaws of most mammals.

Badgers have rather short, wide bodies, with short legs for digging. They have elongated, weasel-like heads with small ears. Their tails vary in length depending on species; the stink badger has a very short tail, while the ferret-badger's tail can be 46–51 cm (18–20 in) long, depending on age. They have black faces with distinctive white markings, grey bodies with a light-coloured stripe from head to tail, and dark legs with light-coloured underbellies. They grow to around 90 cm (35 in) in length, including tail.

The European badger is one of the largest; the American badger, the hog badger, and the honey badger are generally a little smaller and lighter. Stink badgers are smaller still, and ferret-badgers are the smallest of all. They weigh around 9–11 kg (20–24 lb), while some Eurasian badgers weigh around 18 kg (40 lb).
Beaux Arts Village, Washington

**Beaux Arts** (/ˈboʊz ˈɑːrts/) is a town located in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States. It is the smallest municipality in the county, with a population of 299 as of the 2010 census and a land area of 0.1 sq mi.

The town, a suburb of Seattle and Bellevue, is one of the most affluent areas in the metropolitan area. Based on per capita income, Beaux Arts Village ranks 7th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.
Berta language

**Berta** proper, a.k.a. *Gebeto*, is spoken by the Berta (also *Bertha, Barta, Burta*) in Sudan and Ethiopia. As of 2006 Berta had approximately 180,000 speakers in Sudan.

The three Berta languages, Gebeto, Fadashi and Undu, are often considered dialects of a single language. Berta proper includes the dialects Bake, Dabuso, Gebeto, Mayu, and Shuru; the dialect name *Gebeto* may be extended to all of Berta proper.

## Phonology

### Consonants

* Voiced plosives /b, d, ɡ/ may be heard as voiceless [p, t, k] in free variation, word-initially or word-finally.
* A glottal stop [ʔ] mainly occurs between vowels, and may also be heard before word-initial vowel sounds.
* Nasal-stop sequences may occur morpheme-initially as [mb, nd, ŋɡ, ŋkʼ].
* /ŋ/ is heard as [ɲ] when preceding a front vowel /i/ or /e/.
* /kʼ/ is heard as a palatal [cʼ] when before front vowels.
* /ɡ/ can be heard as voiced palatal [ɟ] or as a voiceless palatal [c] when before front vowels.
* /h/ in word-final position can be heard as a fricative [x].
* /s, θ/ may sometimes occur as slightly voiced [z, ð] in vocalic or nasal environments.

### Vowels

 Mid | ɛ ɛː
 Open |  | a aː

* If a non-closed vowel sound, /ɛ/ or /ɔ/, are adjacent to a closed vowel sound like /i/ or /u/ within vowel harmony, they are then heard as more closed [e, o].

 /a/
 /u/
Beavis and Butt-Head

***Beavis and Butt-Head*** is an American adult animated television series created by Mike Judge for MTV (seasons 1–8) and later Paramount+ (season 9–present, as ***Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head***). The series follows Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, lack of intelligence, lowbrow humor, and love for hard rock and heavy metal.

The characters originated in Judge's 1992 short film *Frog Baseball* with the second film being called Peace, Love and Understanding, which was broadcast by MTV's animation showcase *Liquid Television*. After MTV commissioned a full series, *Beavis and Butt-Head* ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1997. It was revived with an eighth season aired on MTV in 2011. A second revival, consisting of an initial two-season order, premiered on Paramount+ in 2022.

During its initial run, *Beavis and Butt-Head* received critical acclaim for its satirical, scathing commentary on society, as well as criticism for its alleged influence on adolescents. It produced various other media, including the theatrical film *Beavis and Butt-Head Do America* in 1996. A second film, *Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe*, was released in 2022 on Paramount+.
Bacon

**Bacon** is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically the belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central ingredient (e.g., the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich (BLT)), or as a flavouring or accent (as in bacon bits in a salad).

Bacon is also used for barding and larding roasts, especially game, including venison and pheasant, and may also be used to insulate or flavour roast joints by being layered onto the meat. The word is derived from the Proto-Germanic *\*bakkon*, meaning "back meat".
Bell

A **bell** is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be made by an internal "clapper" or "uvula", an external hammer, or—in small bells—by a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell (jingle bell).

Bells are usually cast from bell metal (a type of bronze) for its resonant properties, but can also be made from other hard materials. This depends on the function. Some small bells such as ornamental bells or cowbells can be made from cast or pressed metal, glass or ceramic, but large bells such as a church, clock and tower bells are normally cast from bell metal.

Bells intended to be heard over a wide area can range from a single bell hung in a turret or bell-gable, to a musical ensemble such as an English ring of bells, a carillon or a Russian zvon which are tuned to a common scale and installed in a bell tower. Many public or institutional buildings house bells, most commonly as clock bells to sound the hours and quarters.

Historically, bells have been associated with religious rites, and are still used to call communities together for religious services. Later, bells were made to commemorate important events or people and have been associated with the concepts of peace and freedom. The study of bells is called campanology.
Birmingham, Alabama

**Birmingham** is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2022 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 196,910, down 2% from the 2020 census, making it Alabama's fourth-most populous city after Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery. The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian regions of the nation.
Bicycle

A **bicycle**, also called a **pedal cycle**, **bike**, **push-bike** or **cycle**, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist.

Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. By the early 21st century there were more than 1 billion. These numbers far exceed the number of cars, both in total and ranked by the number of individual models produced. They are the principal means of transportation in many regions. They also provide a popular form of recreation, and have been adapted for use as children's toys, general fitness, military and police applications, courier services, bicycle racing, and bicycle stunts.

The basic shape and configuration of a typical upright or "safety bicycle", has changed little since the first chain-driven model was developed around 1885. However, many details have been improved, especially since the advent of modern materials and computer-aided design. These have allowed for a proliferation of specialized designs for many types of cycling. In the 21st century electric bicycles have become popular.

The bicycle's invention has had an enormous effect on society, both in terms of culture and of advancing modern industrial methods. Several components that played a key role in the development of the automobile were initially invented for use in the bicycle, including ball bearings, pneumatic tires, chain-driven sprockets and tension-spoked wheels.
Batak Karo language

**Karo**, referred to in Indonesia as **Bahasa Karo** (Karo language), is an Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia. It is used by around 600,000 people in North Sumatra. It is mainly spoken in Karo Regency, southern parts of Deli Serdang Regency and northern parts of Dairi Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It was historically written using the Batak alphabet which is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava and Old Kawi scripts, but nowadays only a tiny number of Karo can write or understand the script, and instead the Latin script is used.

## Phonology

Karo has 17 consonant phonemes and 10 vowel phonemes.
Belizean Creole

**Belizean Creole** (Belizean Creole: *Belize Kriol*, *Kriol*) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Belizean Creole people. It is closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole, San Andrés-Providencia Creole, and Jamaican Patois.

Belizean Creole is a contact language that developed and grew between 1650 and 1930, as a result of the slave trade. Belizean Creole, like many Creole languages, first started as a pidgin. It was a way for people of other backgrounds and languages, in this case slaves and English colonisers within the logging industry, to communicate with each other. Over generations the language developed into a creole, being a language used as some people’s mother tongue language.

Belizean Creoles are people of Afro-European origin. While it is difficult to estimate the exact number of Belizean Creole speakers, it is estimated that there are more than 70,000 in Belize who speak the language. The 2010 Belize Census recorded that 25.9% of the people within Belize claimed Creole ethnicity and 44.6% claimed to speak Belizean Creole and put the number of speakers at over 130,000. It is estimated that there are as many as 85,000 Creoles that have migrated to the United States and may or may not still speak the language.

Belizean Creole is the lingua franca of Belize and is the first language of some Garifunas, Mestizos, Maya, and other ethnic groups. It is a second language for most others in the country. When the National Kriol Council began standardizing the orthography of the language, it decided to promote the spelling *Kriol*, though they continue to use the spelling *Creole* to refer to the people themselves.

## Orthography

Unlike most creoles, Kriol has a standardized orthography.

Consonants: b, ch, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, sh, t, v, w, y, z, zh

The symbol choices for lengthened vowels come from ways those vowels are spelled in English, not the International Phonetic Alphabet.
There is a dictionary for Kriol with over 5000 entries, including sample sentences for each word.

## References

1. ↑ Decker, Ken. The Song of Kriol: A Grammar of the Kriol Language of Belize.
Beetroot

The **beetroot** is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as **beets** while the vegetable is referred to as **beetroot** in British English, and also known as the **table beet**, **garden beet**, **red beet**, **dinner beet** or **golden beet**.

It is one of several cultivated varieties of *Beta vulgaris* grown for their edible taproots and leaves (called **beet greens**); they have been classified as *B. vulgaris* subsp. *vulgaris* Conditiva Group.

Other cultivars of the same species include the sugar beet, the leaf vegetable known as chard or spinach beet, and mangelwurzel, which is a fodder crop. Three subspecies are typically recognized.
Bantu languages

The **Bantu languages** (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: \*bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.

The total number of Bantu languages is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect". Many Bantu languages borrow words from each other, and some are mutually intelligible.

The total number of Bantu speakers is estimated to be around 350 million in 2015 (roughly 30% of the population of Africa or 5% of the world population). Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, and throughout Central, Southern, Eastern, and Southeast Africa. About one-sixth of Bantu speakers, and one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The most widely spoken Bantu language by number of speakers is Swahili, with 16 million native speakers and 80 million L2 speakers (2015). Most native speakers of Swahili live in Tanzania, where it is a national language, while as a second language it is taught as a mandatory subject in many schools in East Africa, and is a lingua franca of the East African Community.

Other major Bantu languages include Lingala with more than 20 million speakers (Congo, DRC), Zulu with 12 million speakers (South Africa), Xhosa with 8.2 million speakers (South Africa and Zimbabwe), and Shona with less than 10 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included), while Sotho-Tswana languages (Sotho, Tswana and Pedi) have more than 15 million speakers (across Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Zambia). Zimbabwe has Kalanga, Matebele, Nambiya, and Xhosa speakers. *Ethnologue* separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which together have 20 million speakers.
Blazing Dragons

***Blazing Dragons*** is an animated television series created by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott, and produced by Nelvana and Ellipse Animation. A coinciding graphic adventure video game was released for the original PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996 by Crystal Dynamics. The video game features the voice talents of several celebrities.

The series' protagonists are anthropomorphic dragons who are beset by evil humans, reversing a common story convention. The series parodies that of the King Arthur Tales as well as the periods of the Middle Ages.

From 1996 to 1998, *Blazing Dragons* was produced by Nelvana in Canada and Ellipse Programme in France. In the series, King Allfire and his Knights of the Square Table fight against the evil Count Geoffrey and his inept minions. It ran for two seasons consisting of 26 episodes in total.

The cartoon episodes that ran in the United States, namely Toon Disney, were bowdlerised. Parts of episodes considered too overt, such as the implied homosexuality of an effeminate character named Sir Blaze, and minor swearing, were cut for the American release, as such matters were deemed taboo to American children's programming at the time.

Although the voice actors are of Canadian and American nationality in real life, they voiced some of the characters with British accents (mainly the dragons were given that aforementioned accent), while some characters, such as Count Geoffrey, had Canadian accents, and Merle the Wizard has an American accent.