Battle of the Ardennes Bulge
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~ a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
Battle of the Bulge
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~ a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
battle of the Chemin-des-Dames
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~ a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure
Battle of the Marne
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~ a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918
Battle of the Little Bighorn
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~ a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
Book of the Prophet Daniel
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~ an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar
Billie the Kid
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~ United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)
Bel and the Dragon
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~ an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel
Bearer of the Sword
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~ a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping; "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"
Bureau of the Census
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~ the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
Boy Orator of the Platte
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~ United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
bottom of the inning
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~ the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
break of the day
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~ the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"
breach of the peace
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~ any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled
Breughel the Elder
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~ Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)
Bayes' theorem
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~ (statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause
binomial theorem
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~ a theorem giving the expansion of a binomial raised to a given power
big bang theory
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~ (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature