Biscayne Bay Biscayne Bay is a lagoon that is approximately 35 miles long and up to 8 miles wide located on the Atlantic coast of south Florida. It is usually divided for purposes of discussion and analysis into three parts, North Bay, Central Bay and South Bay. North Bay separates Miami Beach on its barrier island from Miami on the mainland.
	Biscayne National Park Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, due east of Homestead, FL. The park preserves Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States. Ninety-five percent of the park is water. In addition, the shore of the bay is the location of an extensive mangrove forest.
	Biscuit A biscuit is a small Baking bread or cake. The exact meaning varies markedly in different parts of the world, sometimes leading to confusion. The etymology of the word "biscuit" is from Latin language via Middle French and means "twice cooked".
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	Bisexuality Bisexuality is the sexual orientation which refers to the aesthetic, romantic love, or sexual desire for individuals of either gender or of either sex. For some writers, the term is parallel to homosexuality and heterosexuality, while for others the term expresses a blend of the two.
	Bishkek Bishkek is the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It has a population of approximately 900,000 . Originally founded in 1878 as the Russian fortress of Pishpek , between 1926 and 1991 it was known as Frunze , after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze. In Kyrgyz language, a Bishkek is a churn used to make fermented mare's milk , the Kyrgyz national drink.
	Bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who, in certain Christianity churches, holds a position of authority.
	Bishop of Rome The Bishop of Rome is the bishop of the Holy See and is more commonly referred to as the Pope. The first Bishop of Rome to bear the title of "Pope" was Pope Boniface III in 607, the first to assume the title of "Universal Bishop" by decree of Phocas.
	Bismarck Archipelago The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, named in honour of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and belonging to Papua New Guinea. The archipelago includes mostly volcanic islands, the most important of which are:
	Bison Bison is a taxonomic genus containing six species of large even-toed ungulates within the subfamily Bovinae. Only two of these species still exist: the American Bison, which is the species commonly referred to as "buffalo" in American Western culture, and the Wisent, or Wisent.
	Bissau Bissau, estimated population 355,000 , is the capital of Guinea-Bissau. The city is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean. It is the country's largest city, major port, and administrative and military center. peanut, hardwoods, copra, palm oil, and rubber are the chief products.
	Bite A bite is a wound received from the mouth of an animal or person. Animals may bite in self-defense, or in an attempt to predate food. Other bite attacks may be apparently unprovoked, especially in the case of bites committed by psychologically or emotionally disturbed humans. Some disorders such as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome may cause people to bite themselves.
	Bithynia Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thrace Bosporus and the Euxine.
	Bitis Common names: puff adders, African adders,Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. ISBN 0-89464-877-2. African vipers.Spawls S, Branch B. 1995. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Ralph Curtis Books.
	Bitis arietans Common names: puff adder,Spawls S, Branch B. 1995. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Ralph Curtis Books. Dubai: Oriental Press. 192 pp. ISBN 0-88359-029-8.Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida.
	Bitis gabonica Common names: gaboon viper, butterfly adder, forest puff adder, swampjack, Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. ISBN 0-89464-877-2. gaboon adder.Spawls S, Branch B. 1995. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa.
	Bitter orange The bitter orange, refers to a citrus tree and its fruit. Many varieties of bitter oranges are used for their essential oil, which is used in perfume and as a flavoring. They are also used in herbal medicine. Other names include sour orange, bigarade orange and Seville orange.
	Bittern Bitterns are a classification of wading birds in the heron family Ardeidae. Species named as bitterns tend to be the shorter necked, often more secretive members of this family. Called hferblte in Old English language, the word bittern came to English language from Old French language butor, itself from Gallo-roman butitaurus, a portmanteau of latin Latin butio and taurus.
	Bitternut Hickory The Bitternut Hickory is a common hickory native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada, from Minnesota, southern Ontario and Vermont south to eastern Texas and northern Florida. It is a large deciduous tree, growing up to 35 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter.
	Bitterroot The plant is a low-growing perennial with a fleshy taproot and a simple or branched base. The flower stems are leafless, 1-3 cm tall, bearing at the tip a whorl of 5-6 linear bracts which are 5-10 mm long. A single flower appears on each stem with 6-9 oval shaped sepals. They range in color from whitish to deep pink or rose during May and June.
	Bitumen Bitumen is a category of organic compounds liquids that are highly viscous, black, sticky and wholly soluble in carbon disulfide. Bitumen is obtained by fractional distillation of crude oil. Bitumen being the heaviest and being the fraction with the highest boiling point, it appears as the bottommost fraction.
	Bituminous coal Bituminous coal is a relatively hard coal containing a tar-like substance called bitumen. It is of better quality than lignite but of poorer quality than anthracite coal. Bituminous coal is an organic sedimentary rock formed by diagenetic and submetamorphic compression of peat bog material.
	Bivalvia Bivalves are molluscs belonging to the class Bivalvia. They typically have two-part animal shells, with both parts being more or less symmetry. The class has 30,000 species, including scallops, clams, oysters and mussels. Other names for the class include Bivalva, Pelecypoda, and Lamellibranchia.
	Black and Tan Black and Tan is a style of beer made from a blend of a pale ale and a dark beer such as a stout or porter. Sometimes a pale lager is used instead of ale; this is more usually called a half and half. Although often regarded as an Irish drink, the Black and Tan is rarely, if ever, heard of in Ireland.
	Black bass Micropterus , is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. The type species is M. dolomieu, the smallmouth bass. The species of this genus are known as the black basses. The black basses are distributed throughout a large area east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to northeastern Mexico.
	Black body In physics, a black body is an object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation that falls onto it. No radiation passes through it and none is Reflection , yet it theoretically radiates every possible wavelength of energy. Despite the name, black bodies are not actually black as they radiate energy as well.
	Black Books Black Books is a Britain Situation comedy broadcast on Channel 4, written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley and produced by Nira Park. The show has twice won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Situation Comedy and won a Bronze Rose at the Rose d'Or of Montreux in 2001.
	Black Bryony Black Bryony is a plant, Tamus communis, of the yam family Dioscoreaceae. It is a climbing herb native to Europe and Asia. Its fairly large tuber is poisonous.
	Black buffalo The black buffalo, is a species of the Catostomidae or "sucker" family. References*
	Black cat The black cat is a feline whose fur is uniformly or mostly black. It is not a particular breed of cat and may be mixed or of a specific breed. In Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of bad omens. The all-black pigmentation is equally prevalent in both male and female cats, and typically skips one generation due to the characteristic's association with the X chromosome.
	Black Cherry The Black Cherry is a species of Prunus, native to eastern North America from southern Quebec and Ontario south to Texas and central Florida. It is a species in the subgenus bird cherry with flowers in racemes, and is a deciduous tree growing to 15-30 m tall.
	Black Death The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-late-14th century , killing between a third and two thirds of Medieval demography. Almost simultaneous epidemics occurred across large portions of Asia and the Middle East during the same period, indicating that the European outbreak was actually part of a multi-regional pandemic.
	Black eye A black eye is bruising around the eye commonly due to an injury to the face rather than an eye injury. The name is given due to the colour of bruising. Most black eye injuries are minor and will heal themselves in about one week. Trauma near the eyebrow or places not directly on the eye may make the eyelid go black.
	Black Flag Black Flag may refer to: *Black Flag , a brand of insecticide made by the Fountainhead Group *Czarny Sztandar , a Bialystok anarchist organisation *Chernoe Znamja , a Geneva anarchist newspaper *Black Flag , a hardcore punk band *Black Flag , an anarchist newspaper *Black Flag Army, a bandit unit operating around Hanoi in the late 19th century
	Black fly A black fly is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. They are related to the Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, and Thaumaleidae. There are over 1800 known species of black flies. The majority of species belong to the immense genus Simulium.
	Black Forest The Black Forest is a forest mountain range in Baden-Wrttemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metre . The name Black Forest comes from the general dark color of the numerous coniferous trees that grow in this region.
	Black Grouse The Black Grouse is a large Aves in the grouse family. It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern Eurasia in moorland and bogs with some trees. The Black Grouse is closely related to the Caucasian Black Grouse. These birds have a group display or Lek in early spring.
	Black Guillemot The Black Guillemot or Tystie, Cepphus grylle, is a medium-sized Alcidae at 32-38 cm in length, and with a 49-58 cm wingspan. Adult birds have black bodies with a white wing patch, a thin dark bill and red legs and feet. They show white wing linings in flight. In winter, the upperparts are pale grey and the underparts are white.
	Black Hand Black Hand , officially Unification or Death was a secret society founded in Serbia in May 1911 as part of the Pan-Slavism nationalism movement, with the intention of uniting all of the territories containing Serb populations . The society's implication in the June 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria helped ignite World War I.
	Black Hawk Black Hawk or Blackhawk or Blackhawks refer to several people, places and things.
	Black Hills The Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Set off from the main body of the Rocky Mountains, the region is somewhat of a geological anomalyaccurately described as an "island of trees in a sea of grass." The Black Hills are home to the tallest peaks of continental North America east of the Rockies.
	Black hole A black hole is an object predicted by general relativity with a gravitational field so strong that nothing can escape it not even light. A black hole is defined to be a region of space-time where escape to the outside universe is impossible. The Boundary of this region is a surface called the event horizon.
	Black Hole of Calcutta The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon where troops of the Nawab of Bengal held British Empire prisoner of war after the capture of Fort William, India on June 20, 1756. The prisoners were held overnight in conditions so cramped that a large proportion of those held died as a result from suffocation, heat exhaustion and crushing.
	Black Kite The Black Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal Bird of preys such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. It is a widespread species throughout the temperate and tropical parts of the Old World, and Australasia.
	Black locust Black Locust is a tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to eastern North America from northeast Texas to New York, and widely planted and naturalised elsewhere in the rest of temperate North America, Europe and Asia. It grows to 15–25 m tall, with a trunk up to 0.8 m diameter, with thick, deeply furrowed blackish bark.
	Black mamba The black mamba is the largest venomous snake in Africa, with an average length around 8 feet, but may grow to over 14 feet. It got its name because of the black inside of its mouth; the actual color of the skin is varied: dull yellowish-green to a gun-metal grey. It is one of the fastest snakes in the world, capable of moving at 10 to 12 mph.
	Black marlin The black marlin is a species of marlin found in tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific oceans not far from the surface. It is a large commercial game fish with a maximum published weight of 750 kg, but greater weights are known. It is one of the largest bony fish species. The black marlin's body is blue-black above, and a silvery white below, sometimes with light blue vertical stripes.
	Black Mulberry Black Mulberry is a species of mulberry. It is native to southwestern Asia, where it has been cultivated for so long that its precise natural range is unknown. It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10-13 m tall. The leaf are 10-20 cm long and 6-10 cm broad, downy on the underside, the upper surface rough with very short, stiff hairs.
	Black oak Black oak is a deciduous tree in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae group of oaks. It is native to eastern North America from southern Ontario south to northern Florida and southern Maine west to eastern Texas. It is widespread, but nowhere common.
	Black panther The black panther is the common name for a black specimen of any of several species of cats. Zoologically speaking, the term panther is synonymous with leopard. The genus name Panthera is a taxonomy category that contains all the species of a particular group of felids.
	Black pepper Black pepper is a flowering plant vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The same fruit is also used to produce white pepper and green pepper. Black pepper is native to South India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions.
	Black Poplar Black Poplar is a species of poplar in the cottonwood section of the genus, native to Europe and southwest Asia. It is a large deciduous tree reaching 30-40 m tall, native to Europe and western Asia. The leaf are diamond-shaped to triangular, 5-11 cm long, green on both surfaces.
	Black Racer The Racer is also a type of Black snake. In comic books, Black Racer was the equivalent of Death or the Grim Reaper among the New Gods from Jack Kirby's Fourth World meta-series. In a standard Kirby fashion, this cosmic entity makes use of skis as his means of transport, much as Silver Surfer used a surfboard for transportation through space.
	Black Rat The Black Rat is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus Rattus and the subfamily murinae . The species originated in tropical Asia and spread through the Near East in Ancient Rome times before reaching Europe in the 8th Century and spreading with Europeans across the world.
	Black Rat Snake A Black Rat Snake is a non-Venom species of rat snake. The snake prefers heavily wooded areas and they are known for having excellent climbing ability, including the ability to climb the trunk of large mature trees without the aid of branches. The Black Rat Snake is a constrictor, meaning it suffocates its prey, coiling around small animals and tightening its grip until they can no longer draw breath, before eating them.
	Black Rhinoceros The Black Rhinoceros is a mammal in the order Perissodactyla, native to the eastern and central areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Like all species of rhinoceros, it is on the endangered species list due to excessive poaching for their horn, which are mostly used in dagger handles as a symbol of wealth in many countries, and as a febrifuge in Chinese traditional medicine.
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	Black Sage Black Sage is a small, highly aromatic, evergreen shrub of the genus Salvia native to California, USA and Baja California, Mexico. It is common in the coastal sage scrub of Southern California and northern Baja California. Black sage has a dark appearance, especially during drought.
	Black salsify The black salsify or Spanish salsify, also known as black oyster plant, serpent root, and viper's grass, is a perennial member of the sunflower family, cultivated as a root vegetable in the same way as some of the members of the salsify genus Tragopogon, to which it is closely related.
	Black Sea The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Anatolia that is actually a distant arm of the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Mediterranean by the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.
	Black sea bass The black sea bass is an exclusively marine fish, also known as sea bass and blackfish. It inhabits the coasts from Maine to NE Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. They are most abundant off the waters of New York. They can be found in inshore waters and offshore in waters up to a depth of 130 m.
	Black Spot #REDIRECT Diplocarpon rosae
	Black Spruce The Black Spruce is a common coniferous tree in North America, ranging from Newfoundland west to Alaska, and south to northern New York, Minnesota and central British Columbia. This area is also known as the Taiga forest. Old synonyms include Abies mariana, Picea brevifolia, Picea nigra.
	Black squirrel Black squirrels are a Melanism phase of the Eastern Grey Squirrel. They are common in northeastern North America, and in some places, outnumber the grey squirrels by a ratio of about 10 to 1. They have also been found in the UK. Marysville, Kansas, Kansas, is known as "Black Squirrel City".
	Black Stork The Black Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread, but rare, species that breeds in the warmer parts of Europe, predominantly in central and eastern regions. This is a huge bird, nearly 1 m tall with a 1.8 m wingspan. It is all black except for the white belly and axillaries, and its red bill and legs.
	Black Swan The Black Swan, Cygnus atratus is a large bird migration Wildfowl which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest of Australia. It is also found along the east coast of Australia, Tasmania and recently introduced species in New Zealand.
	Black tea Black tea is a "true" tea made from leaves more heavily oxidization than the white tea, green tea, and oolong varieties. Black tea is generally stronger in flavor and contains more caffeine than the more lightly oxidized teas. In Chinese language and Chinese culture influenced languages, black tea is known as red tea, perhaps a more accurate description of the color of the liquid.
	Black tie Black tie is a dress code for formal evening events. Its primary component is the dinner jacket as it is known in the United Kingdom, the northeastern United States, and Canada. The jacket and matching trousers are typically called a tuxedo in the United States and Canada, and a smoking on the Europe continent.
	Black Walnut The Black Walnut is a native of eastern North America, where it grows, mostly alongside rivers, from southern Ontario, Canada west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia and southwest to central Texas. It is a large deciduous tree attaining heights of 3040 metres.
	Black-and-white Black-and-white is a broad adjectival term used to describe a number of forms of visual technology. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses. "Black-and-white" as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white most of these media included varying Grayscale.