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Bab Ben Gashier
Bab or BAB can refer to: *Bab (toponymy), a component of Arabic toponyms literally meaning "gate" * Set (mythology) (also known as Bab, Baba, or Seth) ancient Egyptian God * Bab (Shia Islam), a term designating deputies of the Imams in Shia Islam * Báb (Sayyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází, 1819–1850), founder of Bábism and a central figure in the Bahá'í Faith * Bab-ı Âli, the gate to the palace of the Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire * Báb, Nitra District, a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia * Bab Ballads, cartoons published by W. S. Gilbert under the childhood nickname, ''Bab'' * Back-arc basin, a geologic feature: a submarine basin associated with island arcs and subduction zones * "Base Attack Bonus", a term used in d20 System RPG games * Beale Air Force Base (IATA airport code: BAB), in California * ''Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry'', an academic journal * Boris Berezovsky (businessman) (1946–2013), Boris Abramov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bab (toponymy)
R U W See also *Oikonyms in Western and South Asia *Place names of Palestine References Sources * * * * External linksThe intro to a 1950s gazeteer for 35,000 placenames of Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters and islands contains a glossary of generic toponymic features {{Glossaries of science and engineering Toponymy Geography-related lists Geography terminology, Arabic toponyms Glossaries of science, Arabic toponyms Place name element etymologies, * Arabic language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Build America Bonds
Build America Bonds are taxable municipal bonds that carry special tax credits and federal subsidies for either the bond issuer or the bondholder. Build America Bonds were created under Section 1531 of Title I of Division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009. Internal Revenue Service. IRS Issues Guidance on New Build America Bonds Retrieved on December 12, 2016. The program expired December 31, 2010. Purpose of and eligibility for Build America Bonds The purpose of Build America Bonds, commonly refer ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babe (other)
Babe or babes may refer to: * Babe, a term of endearment * A newborn baby * An attractive (especially female) person People Nickname * Babe Adams (1882–1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Babe Barna (1917–1972), American Major League Baseball left fielder * Woolf Barnato (1895–1948), British financier and racing driver * Babe Borton (1888–1954), Major League Baseball first baseman * John H. Brown Jr. (1891–1963), American football player and United States Navy vice admiral * Babe Clark (1889–1974), American football player * Babe Dahlgren (1912–1996), American Major League Baseball infielder who replaced Lou Gehrig * Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911–1956), American multi-sport female athlete, most noted as a golfer * Babe Dye (1898–1962), Canadian professional ice hockey forward * Babe Ellison (1895–1955), Major League Baseball player * Babe Frump (1901–1979), American offensive guard in the National Football League * Babe Herman (1903–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babb
Babb is surname of mostly English origin which has been documented as far back as 1322 in Devon County, England. While the name appears to have originated in the Devon area, Y-DNA Genetic testing has revealed a number of distinct lineages throughout various parts of England. The surname also appears in the Bavaria state of Germany. Y-DNA Genetic testing has confirmed that this Bavarian line does not relate to the Babbs of England. Notable people with the surname include * Alfred Babb (1858-1933), American politician * Charlie Babb (born 1950), American football player * Charlie Babb (baseball) (1873-1954), American baseball player * Chris Babb (born 1990), American basketball player *Faith Babb ( fl. 1980–2019), Belizean politician * Gene Babb (born 1934), American football player * Glenn Babb (born 1943), South African politician and diplomat * John H. Babb (1860-1938), American politician *Keedie Babb (born 1982), British singer * Kroger Babb (1906-1980), American film and tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babs (other)
Babs or BABS may refer to: People * Nickname of Barbara Windsor (1937-2020), British actress * Babs McMillan, Australian actress * Babs Olusanmokun, American actor * Babs Reingold, American artist * Babs Fafunwa (1923-2010), Nigerian educationist, scholar and Minister for Education, full name Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa * Nickname of Barbra Streisand (born 1942), American singer and actress * Nickname of Michael Keating (hurler) (born 1944), Irish retired hurling manager and player * Babs Gonzales (1919-1980), American jazz singer, born Lee Brown * Alice Babs (1924-2014), Swedish singer and actress, born Hildur Alice Nilson In entertainment * ''Babs'' (1920 film), a silent film starring Corinne Griffith * ''Babs'' (2000 film), a 2000 Dutch film * ''Babs'' (2017 film), a 2017 British film biopic of Dame Barbara Windsor * Babs, a character in the animated film ''Chicken Run'' * Babs, a character in the book "Just One Day" by Gayle Forman * Babs Bunny from '' Tiny Toon Adventures' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balcombe Railway Station
Balcombe railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England, serving the village of Balcombe, West Sussex, Balcombe, West Sussex. It is down the line from via and is situated between and . It is managed by Southern (train operating company), Southern. Trains calling at Balcombe are operated by Thameslink and Great Northern, Thameslink. History The original station was opened in July 1841 by the London and Brighton Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. The station was resited to its present position in 1848 or 1849. The station became part of the Southern Railway (Great Britain), Southern Railway during the Railways Act 1921, grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When British Rail brand names, sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways. Services All services at Balco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babcock International
Babcock International Group plc is a British aerospace, defence and nuclear engineering services company based in London, England. It specialises in managing complex assets and infrastructure. Although the company has civil contracts, its main business is with public bodies, particularly the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and Network Rail. The company has four operating sectors, with overseas operations based in Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia. Babcock is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1891 to 1979 Babcock International traces its history back to the 19th century and the American heavy industrial manufacturers Babcock & Wilcox Company which had been founded in 1867 by partners Stephen Wilcox and George Babcock to manufacture and market Wilcox's patented water-tube boiler. During the 1870s and 1880s, the company, having decided to expand internationally, developed an initial footprint in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aikido
Aikido ( , , , ) is a modern Japanese martial art that is split into many different styles, including Iwama Ryu, Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Aikikai and Ki Aikido. Aikido is now practiced in around 140 countries. It was originally developed by Morihei Ueshiba, as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy and religious beliefs. Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attackers from injury. Aikido is often translated as "the way of unifying (with) life energy" or as "the way of harmonious spirit". According to the founder's philosophy, the primary goal in the practice of aikido is to overcome oneself instead of cultivating violence or aggressiveness. Morihei Ueshiba used the phrase to refer to this principle. Aikido's fundamental principles include: (entering), , (breathing control), (triangular principle) and (turning) movements that redirect the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Aikido Board
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Autobahns
The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. German are widely known for having no federally mandated general speed limit for some classes of vehicles. However, limits are posted and enforced in areas that are urbanised, substandard, accident-prone, or under construction. On speed-unrestricted stretches, an advisory speed limit () of applies. While driving faster is not illegal as such in the absence of a speed limit, it can cause an increased liability in the case of a collision (which mandatory auto insurance has to cover); courts have ruled that an "ideal driver" who is exempt from absolute liability for "inevitable" tort under the law would not exceed . A 2017 report by the Federal Road Research Institute reported that in 2015, 70.4% of the Autobahn network had only the advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunty Aur Babli
''Bunty Aur Babli'' () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language crime comedy film directed by Shaad Ali and written by Jaideep Sahni, based on a story by Aditya Chopra, who serves as producer under the Yash Raj Films banner. The film stars Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukerji as the titular leads, along with Amitabh Bachchan, marking the first motion picture starring the Bachchan father-son duo together. The younger Bachchan and Mukerji play con-artist partners-in-crime, Bunty and Babli, while the elder Bachchan plays DCP Dashrath Singh, whose focus is solely to catch them. The soundtrack of ''Bunty Aur Babli'' was composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, with lyrics written by Gulzar and Blaaze together, and was released under the banner YRF Music. ''Bunty Aur Babli'' released worldwide on 27 May 2005, and proved to be a commercial success at the box-office, grossing ₹63.74 crore worldwide, thus becoming the third highest-grossing Indian film of 2005. It received positive reviews fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Berezovsky (businessman)
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (russian: link=no, Борис Абрамович Березовский; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Berezovsky made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s, when the country implemented privatization of state property. He profited from gaining control over assets, including the country's main television channel, Channel One. In 1997, ''Forbes'' estimated Berezovsky's wealth at US$3 billion. Berezovsky helped fund Unity, the political party that would form Vladimir Putin's first parliamentary base, and was elected to the Duma on Putin's slate in the 1999 Russian legislative election. However, following the Russian presidential election in March 2000, Berezovsky went into opposition and resigned from the Duma. Berezovsky would remain a vocal critic of Putin for the rest of his life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
