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Bez
Bez and maracas, freaky dancin' at T in the Park. Mark Berry, commonly known as Bez (born April 18 1964, the son of a police Detective Inspector), was the dancer, percussionist, and mascot of Manchester band Happy Mondays. He is chiefly remembered for his bizarre style of dancing, and use of th..
Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes from Back in the Day
This article describes a Madchester compilation album, called Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes From Back In The Day!. Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes From Back In The Day! was released in 2006 and compiled by Bez. Contents 1 Track listing1.1 Disc 11.2 Disc 22 S..
Bezabish
Woizero BezabishWolde, wife of King Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa, mother of King Haile Melekot of Shewa, and grandmother of Emperor Menelik II. She held as personal fiefs, the districts of Bulga and Yifat. Bezabish would become infamous for betraying her son Haile Melekot by submitting to his op..
Bezafibrate
Bezafibrate (Bezalip® and various other brand names) is a fibrate drug used for the treatment of hyperlipidaemia. It helps to lower LDL cholesterol and triglyceride in the blood, and increase HDL. Contents 1 History2 Mode of action3 Uses4 Side-effects5 Other uses6&nb..
Bezalel
In Exodus 31:1-6, Bezalel, also transcribed as Betzalel, is the chief architect of the Tabernacle. Elsewhere in the Bible the name occurs only in the genealogical lists of the Book of Chronicles, but according to cuneiform inscriptions a variant form of the same, "Ẓil-BêI," was borne by a king of..
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Emblem of Bezalel Academy Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national school of art. It is named after the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri, who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30). It is located on Mount Scopus in Jeru..
Bezalel Ashkenazi
Bezalel Ashkenazi, a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud, lived in Israel during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the Talmud. He is very straightforward in his writings and occasionally offers textual amendments to the Talmud. His most important dis..
Bezalel Stern
Bezalel Stern is a writer, poet, and critic who lives in New York City. He has written poetry and fiction for numerous magazines, and has written numerous articles and book reviews for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Jerusalem Post. There have been recently validated rumors tha..
Bezaliel
Bezaliel was the 13th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. The name means "shadow of God" but he's also called Busasejal and Basasael in the Ethiopian text; he is usually missing from the list that's given in Enoch chapter..
Bezant
Bezants is a medieval name for gold coins. Gold coins were not minted in early medieval Europe with silver and bronze being the currency of choice, but they did circulate there in small numbers, originating from the Mediterranean region, in particular Islamic and Byzantine gold coins were highly pr..
Bezantée
Bezantee, Bezantie or Bezanty is an heraldic term, for a form of decoration, resembling circular discs, to a division or field contained in a coat of arms. The word is believed to derive from bezant or byzant a gold or silver coin from the Byzantine Empire, which was in common European use until ..
Bezau
Bezau in Vorarlberg, Austria Bezau is a town in the Bregenzerwald, Vorarlberg, Austria, part of the district Bregenz. As of 2002 it has a population of 1,926. Education in Bezau: There is one "Polytechnischen Schule," one "Volksschule" (grades 1-4), one "Hauptschule" (grades 5-8) and one up..
Bezbednosno Informativna Agencija
Bezbednosno Informativna Agencija (BIA, Security Information Agency) is the Serbian intelligence agency. Since 2002 it has been fighting against organized crime. Some of its members carry big weapons. Contents 1 External Links2 History3 Spehere of activity4 See also Externa..
Bezdan
Bezdan (Serbian: Bezdan or Бездан, Hungarian: Bezdán, German: Besdan) is a village located in Bačka, Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, West Bačka District. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 5,263 people (2002 census). External lin..
Bezdany raid
Bezdany raid was a train robbery carried out on the night of 26/27 SeptemberNote that some sources give April as the date of the raid. The September date seems to be more popular and better referenced (Zamoyski, Souvarine, Malinowski). The April date probably refers to some other train robbery by Bo..
Bezděkov
Bezděkov is name of several places in the Czech Republic: village Bezděkov in Pardubice Region (Pardubice District)village Bezděkov in Vysočina Region (Havlíčkův Brod District) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an ..
Bezděkov (Pardubice District)
See other places named Bezděkov. Bezděkov is a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has cca 250 inhabitants. External link [Short official information about the village (in Czech)] ..
Bezdekov nad Metuji
Bezdekov nad Metuji is a village in Náchod District, Czech Republic. There are about 500 people living there. The village is situated on a hill about 480 metres over sea; the location provides nice panoramas around the village. In Bezděkov there is a nice baroque church designed by architect Kili..
Bezdna Unrest
Bezdna or Biznä Unrest was an unrest of former serfs after the Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia in April, 1861. The events took place in the Spassky Uyezd of Kazan Governorate and the center of unrest was a village Biznä (Tatar Cyrillic: Бизнә, Russian: Бездна). The leader of the ..
Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
Fresco painted in a Bezeklik cave. The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves are seventy caves dating from the 5th to the 9th centuries between the cities of Turpan and Shanshan (Loulan) at the north-east of the Taklamakan desert in China. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: &..
Bezeq
See main article Communications in Israel. Bezeq logo Bezeq (Hebrew: ) is Israel's national telecommunications provider, and had a monopoly on wire-based telephony. Though still the most dominant provider of telephone services, it has competition with the sole cable provider in the country, c..
Bezerrão
Estádio Walmir Campelo Bezerra, usually known as Bezerrão is a multi-use stadium in Gama, Distrito Federal, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 people. Bezerrão is owned by the Government of the Distrito Federal and it is the stadium w..
Bezerros
Bezerros in Pernambuco. Bezerros (pron. IPA /bizeʁus/) is a municipality in northeastern Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco, near the city of Gravatá. Its coodinates are [8°14′S 35°47′W] and its area is 545,76 km². It was a center of coffee production, an activity which is n..
Bezhetsk
Bezhetsk (Russian: ) is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Mologa River at its confluence with the Ostrechina River. Population: 28,643 (2002 Census); 29,000 (1967). Bezhetsk was first mentioned in the 12th century, when it was owned by Novgorod. In the early 15th century, the town was a..
Bezhta language
The Bezhta language (also known as Kapucha) belongs to the Tsezic group of the North Caucasian language family. It is a language spoken by about 3000 people in southern Dagestan, Russia. Bezhta can be further divided into three dialects — Bezhta, Tljadali and Hochar-Hota — which are spoken i..
Bezique
Bezique is a trick-taking card game for two players. The game was developed in France in the seventeenth century, from an even older game, piquet. However, it gained its greatest popularity in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. Probably the most famous exponent of the game was Winston Church..
Bezmer Point
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Bezmer Point (Nos Bezmer \'nos bez-'mer\) is on the ..
Bezmiâlem
Bezmiâlem (1807—1852) (Bezm-i Alem, Bazim-i Alam, meaning "Feast of the World") was the second wife of Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire. She was of of Jewish origin from Russia originally called Suzi (hence referred to as Rus Yahudisi Suzi) Also, the name of her father, Leon, is mention..
Bezoar
A bezoar or enterolith is a sort of calculus or concretion, a stone found in the intestines of mostly ruminant animals. There are several varieties of bezoar, some of which have inorganic constituents and others organic. Bezoars were formerly sought after because they were believed to have the p..
Bezoardicum
Bezoardicum (bezoar of) is a term applied to multiple substances used in alchemy and other practices. Bezaordicum joviale, or bezoar of Jupiter, is a regulus made by melting three ounces of regulus of antimony and two of block tin. This is then powdered and mixed with six ounces of corrosive sublim..
Bezold's abscess
Bezold's Abscess is an abscess in the sternocleidomastoid muscle. It is complicated by the rupture of the tympanic membrane and the escape of pus into the sternocleidomastoid. Named after: Friedrich Bezold (German otologist, 1842-1908). Symptoms Severe pain in perimastoid region, difficulty of sw..
Bezold-Brücke shift
The Bezold-Brücke shift is a change in hue perception as intensity changes. As intensity increases, spectral colors shift more towards blue (if below 500nm) or yellow (if above 500nm). At lower intensities, the red/green axis dominates. See especially Opponent process. This effect is a problem for..
Bezold Effect
Demonstration of the Bezold Effect. The red seems lighter combined with the white, and darker combined with the black. The Bezold Effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), who discovered that a colour may appear different depen..
Bezons
Bezons Country France Région Île-de-France Départment Val-d'Oise Arrondissement Argenteuil Canton Bezons INSEE 95063 Postal Code 95870 MayorCurrent Term Dominique Lesparre Intercommunality Communautéd'agglomérationArgenteuil..
Bezonvaux
Bezonvaux is a commune of the Meuse département, in northeastern France. Since the end of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, it has had a population of 0 along with Beaumont-en-Verdunois, Haumont-près-Samogneux, Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre, Cumières-le-Mort-Homme and Fleury-devant-Douaumont. After the..
Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem
The Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem (Polish for Non-Party Block of Collaboration with the Government), abbreviated BBWR, was a non-political organization which existed from 1928 until 1935, closely affiliated with Piłsudski and his Sanacja movement. ..
Bezpečnostní informační služba
Bezpečnostní informační služba (Czech: ), is a Czech national intelligence agency. BIS performs duties associated with the analysis, protection and legitimate use of strategically-important intelligence regarding the fields of politics, economics and intelligence on the territory of the Czec..
Bezprym
Bezprym (986/987-1032), the firstborn son of King of Poland, Bolesław I Chrobry and Judith, his second Hungarian wife. He was deprived of the throne of Poland due to giving it to his brother Mieszko II. In 1031, in alliance with Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor and Ruthenian prince Yaroslav I the Wise..
Bezu Fache
Bezu Fache is a fictional character in the popular 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on it. In the film, he was portrayed by Jean Reno. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Story Fache is a captain in the Direction Centrale de la Polic..
Bezy's night lizard
Bezy's night lizard is a small, smooth-skinned gray-brown to yellow-brown night lizard found in central Arizona. It has a flattened head and dark splotches on its back. Its habitat is desert highlands and pine woodlands. It is named after noted herpetologist Robert L. Bezy. ..
Bezymianny
Bezymianny is an active stratovolcano in Kamchatka, Russia. The volcano's name means "nameless". Bezymianny is located on the southeast slope of the extinct volcano Kamen. Its greatest eruption happened in 1955-1956 which lowered the top of the mountain by about 200 m (600 ft). The surrounding..
Bełz Voivodship
Bełz Voivodship (Polish: Województwo Bełskie, Latin: Palatinatus Belzensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795. Together with the Ruthenian Voivodship it was part of Red Ruthenia province. Contents 1&n..
Březnice
Březnice is name of several locations in the Czech Republic: Březnice, a town in Central Bohemian Region (Příbram District) This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an re..
Březnice (Příbram District)
See other places named Březnice. Březnice is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 3,700 inhabitants. Villages Bor, Dobrá Voda, Martinice, Přední Poříčí and Zadní Poříčí are administrative parts of Březnice. External links [Municipal web..
Březno
Březno is name of several locations in the Czech Republic: village Březno in Ústí nad Labem Region (Chomutov District) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link..
Březno (Chomutov District)
See other places named Březno. Březno is a village in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 1,200 inhabitants. External link [Village website] (cz) ..
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