Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Barium.

In education, abbreviation for Bachelor of Arts degree.
1 bachelor of arts
2 batting average
3 Buenos Aires

An auxiliary file, created either automatically or upon command, that contains the second-most-recent version of a file and that bears the same file name, with the extension .bak. See also backup.

A computer which provides security by serving as a gateway between an internal network and external systems. All outside traffic attempting to connect to the internal network is routed through the bastion host, which defends against potential attacks by intercepting and screening incoming packets. The bastion host may be part of a larger security system providing multiple layers of protection.

Množina: .batches

A group of documents or data records that are processed as a unit. See also batch job, batch processing.

See Israel Ben Eliezer

Množina: Ba'ath parties

Ruling political party in Iraq and Syria. Despite public support of pan-Arab unity and its foundations 1943 as a party of Arab nationalism, its ideology has been so vague that it has fostered widely differing (and often opposing) parties in Syria and Iraq.
The Ba'ath Party was founded in Damascus, Syria, 1943 by three French-educated Syrian intellectuals, in opposition to both French rule and the older generation of Syrian Arab nationalists. Its constitution is an uncertain blend of neo-Marxist socialism and nationalism. The movement split into several factions after 1958 and again in 1966. In Iraq, the Ba'ath Party took control briefly in 1963 and again from 1968 although its support there has always been limited. The rise of Saddam Hussein was not so much due to the popularity of the Ba'ath Party itself as the exploitation and manipulation of an existing ideology by Hussein for his own purposes.

Množina: Ba-ilas

bachelor of applied arts

Množina: baas

ETYM Cf. German bä.
The cry made by sheep.

To make the bleat of a sheep.

Množina: baa-lambs

Child's word for a sheep or lamb.

Množina: Baabdas

Capital of the province of Jebel Lubnan in central Lebanon, SE of Beirut. It is the site of the country's presidential palace.

(1893-1960) German-born US astronomer who made observations that doubled the distance, scale, and age of the universe. He discovered that stars are in two distinct populations according to their age, known as Population I (the younger) and Population II (the older). Later, he found that Cepheid variable stars of Population I are brighter than had been supposed and that distances calculated from them were wrong.
Baade, born in Shröttinghausen, studied at Münster and Göttingen. He emigrated to the US 1931, working at Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California, until 1948 and nearby Mount Palomar Observatory until 1958, when he returned to Germany.
During World War II, in 1943, Baade made use of the blackout darkness to study the Andromeda galaxy and was able to observe, for the first time, some of the stars in the inner regions of the galaxy. He found that the most luminous stars toward the center are not blue-white but reddish, and proposed that these have differing structures and origins. Population I stars, bluish, are young and formed from the dusty material of the spiral arms—hydrogen, helium, and heavier elements; Population II stars, reddish, are old, were created near the nucleus and contain fewer heavy elements.