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B. B. King (born 1925) is one of the most successful artists in the history of the blues. Today his ability as a blues guitarist is remains unparalleled. "B. B. King is widely recognized as the greatest living blues guitarist," Dimitri Ehr...
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If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say tha...
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assu...
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B lymphocytes, also known as B cells, are one of the five types of white blood cells, or leukocytes, that circulate throughout the blood. They and T lymphocytes are the most abundant types of white blood cells. B lymphocytes are a vital pa...
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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything....
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Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad....
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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris. Show me the business man or insti...
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The American experimental psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990) became the chief exponent of that form of behaviorism known as operationism, or operant behaviorism. Born in Susquehanna, Ohio, B. F. Skinner attended Hamilton Col...
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Quotes "Without the B-17, we might have lost the war." General Carl Spaatz , Commander, US Strategic Air Forces in Europe, 1944 "She was a Stradivarius of an airplane..." Colonel Robert Morgan , pilot of the Memphis Belle "The plane can be...
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Hail! Thou as victor crowned....
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to e...
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In the Old Testament, we find the idea that God enters into the sufferings of His people. "In all their afflictions, He was afflicted." The relation of God to the woes of the world is not that of a mere spectator. The New Testament goes fu...
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Bartlett Joshua (B.J.) Palmer ( September 10 , 1881 - May 21 , 1961 ) was a pioneer of Chiropractic medicine . Unsourced EDUCATED MEN have been studying male and female, functionally and physiologically, for 5,000 years. What kind of a mal...
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There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it....
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No one knows as yet who B. Traven really was. Without revealing his identity, he became a best-selling author in the German-speaking countries of Europe with his first novel, Das Totenschiff (The Death Ship) in 1926. Although he always cla...
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The American politician Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826-1885) served Missouri as senator and governor and gained national prominence in 1872 as the vice-presidential nominee on the Liberal Republican ticket. On May 28, 1826, B. Gratz Brown was ...
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was an Indian social reformer and politician who devoted himself to improving the life of untouchables, particularly of his own caste, the Mahars. Bhimrao Ambedkar was born at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. He att...
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B. S. Johnson's suicide in 1973 seems in many ways the fulfillment of his life as a novelist: there are few writers for whom life and art are so inextricably bound. This is not to suggest that one should look to Johnson's novels for the fa...
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Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria (born 1915), a Roman Catholic publicist and organizer in Australia, founded the Catholic Social Movement. Bartholomew Santamaria was born in Brunswick, Victoria, on Aug. 14, 1915, the son of Italian immigra...
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Balthazar Johannes Vorster (1915-1983) was a South African political leader who emerged as a major figure in Afrikaner nationalism. Noted as a right-wing figure, he was passionately hostile to liberalism and communism. Balthazar Vorster wa...
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Pa Chin (Ba Jin) was the pen name of the Chinese author Li Fei-kan (born 1904). An idealist of humanitarian passion and revolutionary fervor, he was one of China's most prolific and beloved novelists of the 1930s and 1940s. Born into a lar...
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Ba Maw (1893-1977) was the first premier of independent Burma (now Myanmar) and the leader of the wartime government that ruled in cooperation with the occupying Japanese from 1942 to 1945. Ba Maw was born in Maubin on February 8, 1893. Hi...
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BAAL, JAN VAN. Jan van Baal (1909–1992), a Dutch anthropologist of religion, studied Indonesian culture, law, and languages at Leiden University and was influenced by J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong's structural ethnology. Van B...
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The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gil...
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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. -Baba Dioum....
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Makhan Shah Labana , also written as Lobana (b. July 7 , 1619 ) was a devout Sikh and a rich trader from Tanda district Jhelum (now in Pakistan). He is called "The discoverer of the ninth Nanak" for his famous act of finding the ninth Sikh...
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(1850–1888), Japanese statesman and political thinker. Baba Tatsui was born in Tosa Province (now Kochi Prefecture) in the area of Kaneko Bridge, Nakanoshima Town, near Kochi Castle. He initially studied at Fukuzawa Yukichi's...
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BABA YAGA, known in Russian folklore as a witch and an ogress, is the ancient goddess of death and regeneration of Slavic mythology, with roots in the pre-Indo-European matrilinear pantheon. In Slavic folk tales (mainly Russian), Baba Yaga...
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Perhaps the best known elephant in the world, Babar was born in France in 1931. He was first seen in a children's book titled Histoire de Babar, written and illustrated by painter and first-time author Jean de Brunhoff. It told the ...
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George Babbitt needs strong personality-altering drugs. Lots of them. Once a successful businessman, George is quickly taken over by an onslaught of pressures and conflicts, culminating in Babbitt, a witty and ironic account of the Roarin...
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In the business-centered city of Zenith, George F. Babbitt is, "to the eye, the perfect office-going executive": he is a successful and wealthy realtor, has a nice suburban house, and owns everything that is modern and expensive. Yet, he i...
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"Daily life is really very dull," author Natalie Babbitt told Amy Meeker in a Publishers Weekly interview. "I don't care whether you're rich or poor--you do the same things over and over again, and you need something to speculate about, so...
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The younger daughter of Ralph Zane and Genevieve Converse Moore, Natalie Zane Moore Babbitt was born on 28 July 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, and spent the first eighteen years of her life in various towns and communities in ...
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The late 1800s and early 1900s saw many advances in the dairying industry. One such development was the butterfat test invented by American Stephen M. Babcock (1843-1931) in 1890 and marketed in 1891. Before Babcock invented the test, dair...
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Babe is a 1995 Australian film about a pig who wants to be a sheepdog . Directed by Chris Noonan . Based on the book The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith . Written by George Miller and Chris Noonan. A little pig goes a long way Contents 1 Narr...
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Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised....
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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived....
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George Herman Ruth, Jr. (1895-1948), American baseball player, was the sport's greatest celebrity and most enduring legend. George Herman Ruth was born on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, one of eight children of a saloonkeeper. Judged as i...
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Called "the athlete phenomenon of our time, man or woman," Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (1913-1956) participated in almost every sport. She excelled as an Olympic athlete and as a golfer. Mildred Didrikson, known throughout her life a...
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SOURCE: “The Languages of Science Fiction: Samuel Delany's Babel-17,” in Extrapolation, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 5-17. In the following essay, Malmgren examines the function of language in Babel-17, which he views as the novel'...
About 20 pages (6,085 words) in 2 products

My topic is Babesia and it is a diseases that animals get, mostly dogs, when a tick bites a animal and then it infects its red blood cells. This disease affects some humans also, but is mostly spread to racing greyhounds and pit bulls. Th...
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Honey Out of the Rock is far too self-conscious in expression to contain much of the rich warm emotional essence its title would suggest. The predominating feature of the book is its coldness. And not in the sense that many people mis-apply...
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Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes gæstebud) is an Academy Award winning 1987 Danish movie. It was produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, and Benni Korzen. Its screenplay was written by Gabriel Axel, who was also the director. It is based...
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SOURCE: "A Concert Stage Too Small for Morality and Art," in Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1996, p. 1. In the following review, Swed assesses the viability of composer Shostakovich's symphonic rendition of Babi Yar, focusing on the musical...
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A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." A loud n...
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The babirusa (pig deer, Babyrousa babyrussa), a pig-like animal, is distantly related to the hippo and restricted to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Babirusa stand 65–80 centimeters high, are often nearly hairless, and range in c...
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A leading Afghan Marxist, Babrak Karmal (1929-1996) became Russian puppet ruler of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan after the Russian invasion in December 1979 until his resignation "because of ill health" on May 4, 1986. Babrak Karm...
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The Fables of Babrius, written in choliambic verse, constitutes the earliest extant collection of Aesopic fables in Greek and is the only extant Greek collection from antiquity whose author attempts to present his fables in a more sophisti...
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