barthold george niebuhr

German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831) ;

bartholdi

French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor ;

bartholin

Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629) ;

bartholin's gland

either of the two posterior vestibular glands that secrete a lubricating mucus; homologous to Cowper's gland in the male ;

bartholomeu dias

Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500) ;

bartholomeu diaz

Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500) ;

bartholomew roberts

a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722) ;

bartle frere

a living fossil or so-called `green dinosaur'; genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially named ;

bartlesville

a town in northeastern Oklahoma ;

bartlett

juicy yellow pear ; United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905) ; United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946) ;

bartlett pear

juicy yellow pear ;

bartok

Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945) ;

bartolome esteban murillo

Spanish painter (1617-1682) ;

bartolomeo alberto capillari

Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the United States (1765-1846) ;

bartolomeo prignano

Italian pope from 1378 to 1389 whose contested election began the Great Schism; he alienated his political allies by his ruthless treatment of his opponents (1318-1389) ;

bartolomeo vanzetti

United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Nicola Sacco was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1888-1927) ;

bartolommeo eustachio

Italian anatomist who was one of the fathers of modern anatomy; noted for descriptions of the ear and the heart (1520-1574) ;

bartonia

annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers ;

bartram juneberry

open-growing shrub of eastern North America having pure white flowers and small waxy almost black fruits ;

bartramia

a genus of Scolopacidae ;

bartramia longicauda

large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands ;

bartramian sandpiper

large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands ;

baruch

an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch ; a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah ; economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965) ;

baruch de spinoza

Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677) ;

barunduki

terrestrial Siberian squirrel ;

barycenter

(astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve ;

barye

the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter ;

baryon

any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1 ;

baryon number

a number equal to the difference between the number of baryons and the number of antibaryons in any subatomic structure; it is conserved in all types of particle interactions ;

baryshnikov

Russian dancer and choreographer who migrated to the United States (born in 1948) ;

baryta

any of several compounds of barium ;

barytes

a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium ;

barytone

a male singer ;

bas bleu

a woman having literary or intellectual interests ;

bas mitzvah

(Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 12th birthday of a Jewish girl and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility ;

bas relief

a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut ;

basal body temperature

body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything ;

basal body temperature method

natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation ;

basal body temperature method of family planning

natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation ;

basal ganglion

any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement ;