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B

Definition: B

B

Noun

1. The blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen.

2. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations.

3. Originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins.

4. A trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder.

5. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.

6. (atomic or nuclear physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter.

7. The 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "B" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: B

DomainDefinition

Computing

B 1. byte. 2. A systems language written by Ken Thompson in 1970 mostly for his own use under Unix on the PDP-11. B was later improved by Kerninghan(?) and Ritchie to produce C. B was used as the systems language on Honeywell's GCOS-3. B was, according to Ken, greatly influenced by BCPL, but the name B had nothing to do with BCPL. B was in fact a revision of an earlier language, bon, named after Ken Thompson's wife, Bonnie. ["The Programming Language B", S.C. Johnson & B.W. Kernighan, CS TR 8, Bell Labs (Jan 1973)]. [Features? Differences from C?] (1997-02-02) 3. A simple interactive programming language by Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton. B was the predecessor of ABC. (ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/languages/B.tar.Z) ["Draft Proposal for the B Language", Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam, 1981]. 4. A specification language by Jean-Raymond Abrial of B Core UK, Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA. B is related to Z and supports development of C code from specifications. B has been used in major safety-critical system specifications in Europe, and is currently attracting increasing interest in industry. It has robust, commercially available tool support for specification, design, proof and code generation. E-mail: . (1995-04-24) b bit or maybe byte (B). (1996-11-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Literature

B This letter is the outline of a house. It is called in Hebrew beth (a house). In Egyptian hierology this letter is a sheep.
B stands for 300. Scit B. trecentum sibi cognatum retinère. And, again, Et B. trecentum per se retinere videtur. But with a line above, it denotes 3,000.
For Becarre and Bemol (French for B sharp and B flat), see Becarre.
Marked with a B (French), i.e. a poor thing. In the French language almost all personal defects begin with the letter B; e.g. bigle (squint-eyed), borgne (one-eyed), bossu (humpty), boiteux (lame), etc.
Not to know B from a battledoor. To be quite illiterate, not to know even his letters. Miege tells us that hornbooks used to be called battledoors. The phrase might therefore originally mean not to know the B of, from, or out of, your hornbook. But its more general meaning is "not able to distinguish one letter from another."
"He knoweth not a B from a battledoore." - Howell; English Proverbs.
"Distinguish a B from a battledore." - Dekker: Guls Hornebook.
I know B from a Bull's foot. Similar to the proverb, "I know a hawk from a hernshaw." (See Hawk.) The bull's parted hoof somewhat resembles a B.
"There were members who scarcely knew B from a bull's foot." - Brackenbridge: Modern Chivalry. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Aozora Bunko: B

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B

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B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

The letter B was not used in the Etruscan alphabet, because this idiom only had no voiced plosives. Nevertheless, the Etruscans knew the letter that was derived by early Etruscans from Greek &betaετα (Beta). Its Latin sound value was probably due to Greek influence. The Semitic letter bet was also pronounced /b/, and the original meaning of the symbol was 'house'.

B corresponds to the second symbol in the Phoenician alphabet, and appears in the same position in all the European alphabets, except those derived, like the Cyrillic, from medieval Greek alphabet, in which the pronunciation of this symbol had changed from b to v. A new form had therefore to be invented for the genuine b in Slavonic, to which there was, at the period when the alphabet was adopted, no corresponding sound in Greek.

The new symbol, Be, which occupies the second position, was made by removing the upper loop of B, thus producing a symbol somewhat resembling an ordinary lowercase b: Б. The old B retained the numerical value of the Greek 13 as 2, and no numerical value was given to the new symbol. In the Phoenician alphabet the earliest forms are ~ 9 or more rounded 9. The rounded form appears also in the earliest Aramaic.

Like some other alphabetic symbols it was not borrowed by Greek in its original form. In the very early rock inscriptions of Thera (700006 BC), written from right to left; it appears in a form resembling the ordinary Greek X; this form apparently arose from writing the Semitic symbol upside down. Its form in inscriptions of Melos, Selinus, Syracuse and elsewhere in the 6th and 5th centuries suggests the influence of Aramaic forms in which the head of the letter is opened, U. The Corinthian flJ, Lfl and 7~ (also at Corcyra) and the r ~ of Byzantine coins are other adaptations of the same symbol. The form C which it takes in the alphabets of Naxos, Delos, and other Ionic islands at the same period is difficult to explain. Otherwise its only variation is between pointed and rounded loops (~ and B).

The sound which the symbol represents is the voiced stop made by closing the lips and vibrating the vocal chords (see phonetics). It differs from p by the presence of vibration of the vocal chords and from in because the nasal passage as well as the lips is closed. When an audible emission of breath attends its production the aspirate bh is formed. This sound was frequent in the pro-ethnic period of the Indo-European languages and survived into the Indo-Aryan languages.

According to the system of phonetic changes generally known as "Grimm's law", an original b appears in English as p, an original b/t as b. An original medial p preceding the chief accent of the word also appears as b in English and the other members of the same group. It is not certain that any English word is descended from an original word beginning with b, though it has been suggested that peg is of the same origin as the Latin baculum and the Greek (3iLKTPOV.

When the lips are not tightly closed the sound produced is not a stop, but a spirant like the English w. In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century AD; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused. When this consonantal u (English w as seen in words borrowed very early from Latin like wall and wine) passed into the sound of English v (labio-dental) is not certain, but Germanic words borrowed into Latin in the 5th century AD have in their Latin representation gu- for Germanic w-, guisa. corresponding to English wise and reborrowed indirectly as guise.

The earliest form of the name of the symbol which we can reach is the Hebrew beth, to which the Phoenician must have been closely akin, as is shown by the Greek /3ijra, which is borrowed from it with a vowel affixed.

Bravo represents the letter B in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

B is also:

Two-letter combinations starting with B: This article originally contained content based on material from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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B programming language

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The best-known programming language named B is now obsolete, and is principally significant because it was a transitional phase between BCPL and C. It was mostly the work of Ken Thompson, and first appeared in 1969 or thereabouts.

It was essentially BCPL stripped of anything Thompson felt he could do without, in order to fit it on very small computers, and with some changes to suit Thomson's tastes (mostly along the lines of reducing the number of non-whitespace characters in a typical program).

Like BCPL and FORTH, B had only one datatype, the computer word. Most operators treated this as an integer (ie, +, -, *, /) but others treated it as a memory address to be dereferenced. In most other ways it looked a lot like an early version of C. A few library functions existed, including some that vaguely resemble functions from the standard IO library in C.

Early implementations were for the DEC PDP-7 and PDP-11 minicomputers running early Unix, and Honeywell 36 bit mainframes running GCOS. The earliest PDP-7 implementations compiled to threaded code, then Ritchie wrote a compiler which produced machine code. In 1970 a PDP-11 was acquired and threaded code was used for the port. The first version of yacc was produced with this PDP-11 configuration. Ritchie took over maintenance during this period.

The typeless nature of B made sense on the Honeywell, PDP-7 and many older computers, but was a problem on the PDP-11 because it was difficult to elegantly access the character data type that the PDP-11 and most modern computers fully support. Starting in 1971 Ritchie made changes to the language while converting its compiler to produce machine code, most notably adding data typing for variables. During 1971 and 1972 B evolved into "New B" and then C, with the preprocessor being added in 1972 and early 1973 at the urging of Alan Snyder. The effort was sufficiently complete that during the summer of 1973 the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 was rewritten in C. During the 1972-73 period there was a need to port to Honeywell 635 and IBM 360/370 machines, so Lesk wrote the "portable I/O package" which would become the C "standard I/O" routines.

B continued to see use as late as the 1990s on Honeywell mainframes, and on certain embedded systems for a variety of reasons, including limited hardware in the small systems; extensive libraries, tools, licensing cost issues; and simply being good enough for the job on others. The highly influential AberMUD was written in B.

According to Ken, B was greatly influenced by BCPL, but the name B had nothing to do with BCPL. B was in fact a revision of an earlier language, bon, named after Ken Thompson's wife, Bonnie.

See also

2. Another language, also called B, was a simple interactive programming language by Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton. This B was the predecessor of ABC.

ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/languages/B.tar.Z

["Draft Proposal for the B Language", Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam, 1981].

3. See also the B specification language

Part of this article was originally based on material from FOLDOC, used with permission. Update as needed.

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Billion

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In most English-speaking countries today, one billion equals 1,000,000,000, or 109, or one thousand millions. This is also the convention adopted by Wikipedia.

In most other countries, a word similar to "billion" indicates 1,000,000,000,000, or 1012, or one million millions. For example: French, Norwegian and German billion, Spanish billón, Italian bilione and Swedish billion or biljon. The value 109 is called something similar to the English word "milliard" in these countries. For example, French and Norwegian milliard, German Milliarde, Spanish millardo, Italian miliardo and Swedish miljard or milliard. (Spanish commonly uses "thousand million": mil millones.) See also False friends.

Origin late 17th century: From French, prefix bi- (twice) and -illion (from million). In imitation of one million million. Trillion: one million million million and so on.

Britain and Australia traditionally employed the international usage of 1012, but have recently largely switched to the U.S. version of 109.

Some non-English speaking countries are exceptions to the above rule and match the U.S. usage. A Brazillian Portuguese dictionary indicates 1012 = trilhão, 109 = bilhão. Similarly, transliterating from Greek, 1012 = trisekatommurio, 109 = disekatommurio.

History

In 1484 the French mathematician Nicolas Chuquet wrote in his article "Triparty en la science de nombres":
Au lieu de dire mille milliers, on dira million, au lieu de dire mille millions, on dira byllion, etc..., et tryllion, quadrilion...octylion, nonyllion, et ainsi des autres si plus oultre on voulait procéder (translation: Instead of saying thousand thousands, one will say million, instead of saying thousand million, one will say billion, etc..., and trillion, quadrillion, ..., octillion, nonillion, and similar as far as you want to proceed)

Around 1550 it seems that a Mr Pelletier introduced a second system, the term "milliard". This new system was used in England and Germany and part of the rest of Europe, but USA and France itself did not change to the new word.

Then it became really complicated:

But there seems still to be uncertainty about this:

On one side, Graham Dane, a native English speaker, writes in the forum of the Online-vocabolary LEO.org:

The term milliard is very rare in British English. Billion has meant thousand million in financial writings for many years now, and is almost universal in other fields. Anyone using billion to mean million million is likely to be misunderstood.

On the other side, in the FAQs of alt.usage.english (the part by Ken Moore) states:
Despite this, the U.S. meaning is still rare outside journalism and finance, its introduction having served merely to create confusion. Throughout the U.K., a common response to the question "What do you understand by 'a billion'?" would be: "Well, I mean a million million, but I often don't know what other people mean." Few schoolchildren are confident of the meaning, though, again, 1012 seems to be preferred.

One alternative approach is to use SI prefixes, that is, "Giga" for 109 and "Tera" for 1012. However, this alternative is often only used with specific units that commonly have such magnitudes. An additional problem is that if the unit is a computing term, the term may be interpreted as being a power of 2 instead of a power of 10 (see Binary prefix for more information on one approach to avoiding this).

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BLAST

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This article is about the computer program. For the Vorticist journal, see BLAST (journal).

Stands for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, developed by Stephen Altschul at the NCBI. BLAST is both

One uses BLAST to answer questions like

Algorithm

BLAST is designed to take a query sequence (called the target sequence) and pairwise comparing it to all the sequences in a large (multi-gigabyte) library, finding the most similar sequences. Because it is comparing the target sequence to so many other sequences, the BLAST algorthm must be extremely fast. The algorithm works by searching for small regions that are exactly the same in the two sequences and then attempting to extend the alignment to either side until the comparison score reaches a certain threshold.

Program

The BLAST web server, hosted by the NCBI, allows anyone with a web browser to perform similarity searches against constantly updated databases of proteins and DNA that include most of the newly sequenced organisms. The server includes many programs, but the most important are the following ones:

Nucleotide-nucleotide BLAST (blastn)

This program, given a DNA query, returns the most similar DNA sequences from the DNA database that the user specifies.

Protein-protein BLAST (blastp)

This program, given a protein query, returns the most similar DNA sequences from the protein database that the user specifies.

PSI-BLAST

One of the more recent BLAST programs, this program is used for finding distant relatives of a protein. First, a list of all closely related proteins is created. Then these proteins are combined into a "profile" that is a sort of average sequence. A query against the protein database is then run using this profile, and a larger group of proteins found. This larger group is used to construct another profile, and the process is repeated.

By including related proteins in the search, PSI-BLAST is much more sensitive in picking up distant evolutionary relationships than the standard protein-protein BLAST.

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BLT sandwich

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A Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato sandwich, usually served on white bread or toasted white bread, it has 3 or so strips of bacon, a hunk of lettuce and a few slices of tomatoes. Usually preferred by people who are allergic to red meat.

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B-movie

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The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the "lower half" of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys or gangsters.

The term now generally refers to a low-budget movie with lesser-known (and generally considered lesser-talented) actors. Usually the films are very campy, with cheesy special effects and gratuitous nudity, sexuality and/or violence. The horror movie genre is especially popular. Often B-movies are not even released in theaters, instead going direct-to-video. They spawned a type of late night television show commonly called "Midnight Madness," where they are often shown back-to-back until the early hours of the morning.

Currently, certain production companies such as Troma specialise in producing large quantities of low quality B movies. One of the classic producers of these films was the US company American International Pictures (AIP), founded in 1954 by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff. Its films include works by Roger Corman, Vincent Price and the early efforts of lesser figures such as Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson.

See also: cult film, Hammer horror, Mystery Science Theater 3000

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Boron

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Beryllium - Boron - Carbon
 
B
Al  
 
 

Full table
General
Name, Symbol, NumberBoron, B, 5
Series Metalloids
Group, Period, Block13 (IIIA), 2 , p
Density, Hardness 2460 kg/m3, 9.3
Appearance Black
Atomic Properties
Atomic weight 10.811 amu
Atomic radius (calc.) 85 (87)pm
Covalent radius 82 pm
van der Waals radius no data
Electron configuration [He]2s2s22p1
e- 's per energy level2, 3
Oxidation states (Oxide) 3 (mildly acidic)
Crystal structure Rhombohedral
Physical Properties
State of matter Solid (nonmagnetic)
Melting point 2349 K (3769 °F)
Boiling point 4200 K (7101 °F)
Molar volume 4.39 ×1010-3 m3/mol
Heat of vaporization 489.7 kJ/mol
Heat of fusion 50.2 kJ/mol
Vapor pressure 0.348 Pa at 2573 K
Speed of sound 16200 m/s at 293.15 K
Miscellaneous
Electronegativity 2.04 (Pauling scale)
Specific heat capacity 1026 J/(kg*K)
Electrical conductivity 1.0 10-4/m ohm
Thermal conductivity 27.4 W/(m*K)
1st ionization potential 800.6 kJ/mol
2nd ionization potential 2427.1 kJ/mol
3rd ionization potential 3659.7 kJ/mol
4th ionization potential 25025.8 kJ/mol
5th ionization potential 32826.7 kJ/mol
Most Stable Isotopes
isoNAhalf-life DMDE MeVDP
10B19.9%B is stable with 5 neutrons
11B80.1%B is stable with 6 neutrons
SI units & STP are used except where noted.
Boron is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol B and atomic number 5. A trivalent metalloid element, boron occurs abundantly in the ore borax. There are two allotropes of boron; amorphous boron is a brown powder, but metallic boron is black. The metallic form is hard (9.3 on Mohs' scale) and a bad conductor in room temperatures. It is never found free in nature.

Notable Characteristics

Boron is electron deficient, possessing a vacant p-orbital. Compounds of boron often behave as Lewis acids, readily bonding with electron rich species in an attempt to quench boron's insatiable hunger for electrons.

Optical characteristics of this element include the transmittance of infrared light. At standard temperatures boron is a poor electrical conductor but is a good conductor at high temperatures.

Boron has the highest tensile strength of any known element.

Boron nitride can be used to make materials that are as hard as diamond. The nitride also acts as an electrical insulator but conducts heat similar to a metal. This element also has lubricating qualities that are similar to graphite. Boron is also similar to carbon with its capability to form stable covalently bonded molecular networks.

Applications

The most economically important compound of boron is sodium tetraborate Na2B4O7 5H2O, or borax, which is used in large amounts in making insulating fiberglass and sodium perborate bleach. Other uses;

Boron compounds are being investigated for use in a broad range of applications, including as components in sugar-permeable membranes, carbohydrate sensors and bioconjugates. Medicinal applications being investigated include boron neutron capture therapy and drug delivery. Other boron compounds show promise in treating arthritis.

Hydrides of boron are oxidized easily and liberate a considerable amount of energy. They have therefore been studied for use as possible rocket fuels.

History

Compounds of boron (Arabic Buraq, Persian Burah) have been known of for thousands of years. In early Egypt, mummification depended upon an ore known as natron, which contained borates as well as some other common salts. Borax glazes were used in China from AD 300, and boron compounds were used in glassmaking in ancient Rome.

The element was not isolated until 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy, Gay-Lussac and L. J. Thenard, to about 50% purity. These men did not recognize the substance as an element. It was Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1824 who identified boron as an element. The first pure boron was produced by the American chemist W. Weintraub in 1909.

Occurrence

The United States and Turkey are the world's largest producers of boron. Boron does not appear in nature in elemental form but is found combined in borax, boric acid, colemantite, kernite, ulexite and borates. Boric acid is sometimes found in volcanic spring waters. Ulexite is a borate mineral that naturally has properties of fiber optics.

Economically important sources are from the ore rasorite (kernite) and tincal (borax ore) which are both found in the Mojave Desert of California (with borax being the most important source there). Turkey is another place where extensive borax deposits are found.

Pure elemental boron is not easy to prepare. The earliest methods used involve reduction of boric oxide with metals such as magnesium or aluminium. However the product is almost always contaminated with metal borides. (The reaction is quite spectacular though.) Pure boron can be prepared reducing volatile boron halogenides with hydrogen at high temperatures.

In 1997 crystalline boron (99% pure) cost about United States Dollar 5 g and amorphous boron cost about $2 per g.

Isotopes

Boron has two naturally-occurring stable isotopes, B-11 (80.1%) and B-10 (19.9%). The mass difference results in a wide range of δB-11 values in natural waters, ranging from -16 to +59. Isotopic fractionation of boron is controlled by the exchange reactions of the boron species B(OH)3 and B(OH)4. Boron isotopes are also fractionated during mineral crystallization, during H2O phase changes in hydrothermal systems, and during hydrothermal alteration of rock. The latter effect (species preferential removal of the 10B(OH)4 ion onto clays results in solutions enriched in 11B(OH)3 may be responsible for the large 11B enrichment in seawater relative to both oceanic crust and continental crust.

Precautions

Elemental boron and borates are not toxic and therefore do not require special precautions while handling. Some of the more exotic boron hydrogen compounds, however, are toxic and do require special handling care.

See also: Boron deficiency

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Casualties of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: B

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Casualties

Planes - World Trade Center - Pentagon A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Todd Beamer
Daniel Brandhorst

See also : September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack

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Cobalamin

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Cobalamin or vitamin B12 is a chemical compound. It is needed for nerve cells and red blood cells, and to make DNA.

It is an organometallic compound with a trivalent cobalt ion bound inside a corrin ring. Its chemical structure was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.

Vitamin B12 is mostly absorbed in the terminal ileum. The production of intrinsic factor is vital to absorption of this vitamin.

In nature, it is solely produced by bacteria found in animals, and is thus often lacking in those leading a vegetarian diet. However, specialty B12 enriched foodstuffs, usually soya based, are now available.

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Linear B

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Linear B was a syllabary used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of the Greek language.

It occurred primarily on tablets dated from the 14th and 13th centuries BC. The script was derived from an earlier script (Linear A) used for writing a Minoan language and thus does not accurately represent the sounds of the language.

Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B in 1951-1953.

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List of airports: B

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List of airports: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

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List of Biblical names starting with B

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List of Biblical names
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - Y - Z

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List of books by title: B

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List of books in alphabetical order by title:

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

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List of cities in Germany starting with B

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List of cities in Germany: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

TownPopulationDistrictBundesland
Backnang34,465Rems-MurrBaden-Württemberg
Bad Berleburg21,200Siegen-WittgensteinNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bad Doberan12,300Bad DoberanMecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Bad Driburg19,500HöxterNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Baden-Baden52,700--Baden-Württemberg
Bad Honnef25,000Rhein-SiegNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bad Laasphe15,500Siegen-WittgensteinNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bad Münstereifel18,500EuskirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler27,100AhrweilerRhineland-Palatinate
Bad Oldesloe22,700StormarnSchleswig-Holstein
Bad Segeberg16,000SegebergSchleswig-Holstein
Bad Sulza8,400Weimarer LandThuringia
Baesweiler27,400AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Balve12,137Märkischer KreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bamberg69,400--Bavaria
Barth9,700NordvorpommernMecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Bayreuth75,000--Bavaria
Bedburg24,200ErftkreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Belzig8,000Potsdam-MittelmarkBrandenburg
Bergen17,000RügenMecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Bergheim63,500ErftkreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bergisch Gladbach105,700Rheinisch-Bergischer KreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bergkamen52,900UnnaNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Berglen5,999Rems-MurrBaden-Württemberg
Bergneustadt20,800Oberbergischer KreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Berlin3,450,000--Berlin
Beverungen15,600HöxterNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bielefeld325,000--North Rhine-Westphalia
Billerbeck11,300CoesfeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Blaubeuren12,000Alb-DonauBaden-Württemberg
Bocholt72,100BorkenNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bochum394,400--North Rhine-Westphalia
Bonn291,400--North Rhine-Westphalia
Bonndorf im Schwarzwald7,000WaldshutBaden-Württemberg
Bopfingen12,591OstalbkreisBaden-Württemberg
Borgentreich9,900HöxterNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Borgholzhausen8,700GüterslohNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Borken40,900BorkenNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bornheim45,400Rhein-SiegNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bothel8,207Rotenburg (district)Lower Saxony
Bottrop121,600--North Rhine-Westphalia
Brake16,700WesermarschLower Saxony
Brakel17,900HöxterNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Brandenburg82,500--Brandenburg
Breckerfeld9,100Ennepe-RuhrNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Bremen547,000--Bremen
Bremerhaven126,900--Bremen
Brilon27,368HochsauerlandNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Brühl43,800ErftkreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Brunswick (Braunschweig)239,900--Lower Saxony
Bückeburg20,800SchaumburgLower Saxony
Bünde44,600HerfordNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Burghausen18,100AltöttingBavaria
Burscheid19,100Rheinisch-Bergischer KreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia

A "--" in the district column means, that the town is a district-free town, i.e. it is by itself a district.

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List of colleges and universities starting with B

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A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
  1. BMS College of Engineering
  2. Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj
  3. Babson College
  4. Baker University
  5. Baldwin-Wallace College
  6. Ball State University
  7. Bangor, University of Wales
  8. Bangkok University
  9. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  10. Bank Street College
  11. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
  12. Bard College
  13. Barnard College
  14. Barrington University
  15. Barry University
  16. Barton Institute of Technical and Further Education (TAFE)
  17. Baruch College School of Business
  18. Bastyr University
  19. Bates College
  20. Baylor College of Dentistry
  21. Baylor College of Medicine
  22. Baylor University
  23. Beaver College
  24. Bedford Business College
  25. Beijing Agricultural University
  26. Beijing Agriculture University
  27. Beijing Institute of Technology
  28. Beijing Polytechnic University
  29. Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  30. Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  31. Beijing University of Chemical Technology
  32. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  33. Bell College Of Technology
  34. Bellevue Community College
  35. Belmont Abbey College
  36. Belmont University
  37. Beloit College
  38. Bemidji State University
  39. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  40. Benedict College
  41. Benedictine College
  42. Bengal Engineering College
  43. Bentley College
  44. Berea College
  45. Bergen College
  46. Bergen University
  47. Berklee College of Music
  48. Bermuda College
  49. Berufsakademie Ravensburg
  50. Bessenyei Gyorgy Teachers Training College
  51. Bethany College, California
  52. Bethany College, West Virginia
  53. Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul Minnesota
  54. Bethel College, Newton, Kansas
  55. Biel School of Engineering
  56. Big Bend Community College
  57. Bilkent University
  58. Biola University
  59. Birkbeck College
  60. Birla Institute of Technology
  61. Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)
  62. Birmingham College of Food
  63. Birmingham College of Speech and Drama
  64. Birmingham-Southern College
  65. Birzeit University
  66. Bishop's University
  67. Black Hills State University
  68. Blackburn College
  69. Blekinge Institute of Technology
  70. Bloomsburg University
  71. Blue Mountain Community College
  72. Blue Ridge Community College
  73. Bluffton College
  74. Bob Jones University
  75. Bogazici University
  76. Boise State University
  77. Bond University
  78. Borough of Manhattan Community College
  79. Boston Architectual Center
  80. Boston College
  81. Boston Theological Institute
  82. Boston University
  83. Boston University Brussels
  84. Bournemouth University
  85. Bowdoin College
  86. Bowie State University
  87. Bowling Green State University
  88. University of Bradford
  89. Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts
  90. Bradley University
  91. Brandeis University
  92. Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus
  93. Brandon University
  94. Brenau University
  95. Brevard Community College
  96. Briar Cliff College
  97. Briarcliffe College
  98. Bridgewater College
  99. Bridgewater State College
  100. Brigham Young University
  101. Brigham Young University-Hawaii
  102. Brigham Young University-Idaho
  103. Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
  104. Bristol University
  105. British Columbia Institute of Technology
  106. Brock University
  107. Bromley College, Bromley
  108. Brookdale Community College
  109. Brooklands College
  110. Brooklyn College
  111. Brooks Institute of Photography
  112. Broome Community College
  113. Broward Community College
  114. Brown University
  115. Brunel University
  116. Bryant College
  117. Bryn Mawr College
  118. Buckinghamshire College
  119. Bucknell University
  120. Budapest University of Economic Sciences
  121. Buena Vista University
  122. Business Management Training College of Southern Africa
  123. Butler University
  124. Butte Community College

See also : Colleges and universities

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List of Japanese authors:B

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List of Japanese authors

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List of people by name: B

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List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Ba-Bd - Be - Bf-Bh - Bi - Bj - Bk - Bl - Bm - Bn - Bo - Bp - Bq - Br - Bs - Bt - Bu - Bv - Bw - Bx - By - Bz

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List of people by name: Ba-Bd

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List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Ba-Bd - Be - Bf - Bg - Bh - Bi - Bj - Bk - Bl - Bm - Bn - Bo - Bp - Bq - Br - Bs - Bt - Bu - Bv - Bw - Bx - By - Bz

Ba

Baa

Bab

Bac

Bad

Bae

Baf

Bag

Bah

Bai

Baj

Bak

Bal

Bam

Ban

Bao

Bap

Baq

Bar

Bara

Barb

Barc

Bard

Bare

Barg

Barh

Bari

Bark

Barl

Barn

Baro

Barr

Bart

Baru

Barw

Bary

Barz

Bas

Bat

Bau