Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest and List of countries by population in South America, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area and population. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it is the easternmost country of the Americas and it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
	Brazil Nut The Brazil Nut is a South American tree Bertholletia excelsa in the family Lecythidaceae. It is the only species in the genus Bertholletia. It is native to Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil, eastern Colombia, eastern Peru and eastern Bolivia. It occurs as scattered trees in large forests on the banks of the Amazon River, Rio Negro, and the Orinoco.
	Brazos River The Brazos River, originally called, the Rio Brazos de Dios which can be translated as "The River of God's Arms". is the 11th longest river in the United States at 2060 km from its source of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexicoor=Kammerer, J.C. |title=Largest Rivers in the United States
	Brazzaville Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is located on the Congo River. It has a population of 1,174,000 . The city was founded in 1880 on the site of a village named Nkuna by an Italy France explorer, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, after whom the city was named.
	Bread Bread is a staple food which is prepared by baking, steaming, or frying dough. Bread consists minimally of flour and water; edible salt is present in most cases; and usually a leavening agent such as yeast is used. Breads may also contain some amounts of sugar, spices, fruit , vegetables nuts and seeds , which are often used for decorative and flavoring purposes.
	Breadbasket Breadbasket can refer to several different topics: 1st) A basket, a woven container which is constructed at least partially from stiff fibers. The top is often left open. 2nd) A region, usually a province of a country, which because of richness of soil or advantageous climate produces an agricultural surplus which is often considered vital for the country as a whole.
	Breadboard A breadboard is a reusable solderless device used to build a prototype of an electronics electrical network and for experimenting with circuit designs. This is in contrast to stripboard and similar prototyping PCBs which are used to build more permanent prototypes or one offs and cannot easily be reused.
	Breadbox A breadbox, also called a bread bin, is a container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh. They were a common household kitchen item until bread started being made commercially with food preservatives and wrapped in plastic. Breadboxes are still used, especially by people who Baking bread at home.
	Breadfruit The Breadfruit , Malayalam language: kada-chakkai, Hawaiian language: ulu, Indonesian language: sukun Tagalog language: kolo; is a tree and fruit native to the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean islands.
	Breakage Breakage is a freeware cross platform drum machine. Its goal is to serve as a research platform for breakbeat composition above the note level with an intuitive, user friendly interface for live rhythm programming. Using neural networks to extract and use trends in drum patterns, Breakage employs artificial intelligence's data mining techniques in the service of interactive generative music, taking inspiration from Nick Collins's SuperCollider library "BBCut" for automatic breakbeat cutting.
	Breakfast Breakfast is a meal, preceding lunch or dinner and usually eaten in the morning. The English word derives from idea of breaking the involuntary fast of sleep, thus signifying the first meal eaten after awakening. It thus conveys the exact literal meaning of the Vulgar Latin word disjejunare which, however, evolved via the French dner to become the English word dinner.
	Breakfast Time "Breakfast Time" was also the name of a U.S. show based on The Big Breakfast, hosted by Tom Bergeron. The 4 1/2 hour cable show was later moved to a 1/2 hour slot on Fox and renamed 'Fox After Breakfast', where it died a quiet death. Breakfast Time was British television's first national breakfast show, beating ITV's TV-am to the air by two weeks.
	Breaking Point Breaking Point is an alternative rock band on the record label Wind-Up Records. They performed "One of a Kind," the entrance music for professional wrestler Rob Van Dam, which can be found on the album "WWF Forceable Entry." Their track "27" can be found on the soundtrack for The Scorpion King.
	Breakout Breakout is a Pong-like arcade game introduced by Atari in 1976, with a follow-up, Super Breakout, appearing in 1978. In the game, a layer of bricks lines the top third of the screen. A ball travels across the screen, bouncing off the top and side walls of the screen.
	Bream Bream is a general term for a number of species of freshwater and ocean fish, mainly, but not exhaustively, drawn from the genus Abramis, Acanthopagrus, Argyrops, Blicca, Brama, Etelis, Gymnocranius, Lethrinus, Nemipterus, Rhabdosargus and Scolopsis.
	Breast The term breast, also known by the Latin mamma in anatomy, refers to the upper ventral region of an animal's torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. In addition, the breasts are parts of a female mammal's body which contain the organ that secrete milk used to feed infants.
	Breast cancer Breast cancer is a cancer of breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females, affecting approximately one out of twelve to thirteen woman who reach age ninety at some stage of their life in the Western world. It is the second most fatal cancer in women.
	Breast implant A breast implant is a prosthesis used to enlarge the size of a breast(known as breast augmentation) for cosmetic surgery, to breast reconstruction, or for the purposes of sex reassignment surgery male-to-female.
	Breaststroke Breaststroke is swum on the breast and is the most popular recreational swimming style due to its stability and the ability to keep the head out of the water at all times. In most swimming classes, beginners learn either the breaststroke or the front crawl first.
	Breathless Breathless is a 1960 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard's first feature-length film is one of the inaugural and best-known films of the French New Wave. He wrote it with fellow New Wave director, Franois Truffaut, and released it the year after Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour.
	Breccia Breccia, the Italian language word for 'breach', is typically a Rock composed of angular fragments from a previous rock structure, Cementation in a Matrix that may be of a similar or a different material. It is therefore a Clastic rocks.
	Brecht Brecht is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Brecht proper, Sint-Job-in't-Goor and Sint-Lenaarts. On January 1 2006 Brecht had a total population of 26,464. The total area is 90.84 square kilometre which gives a population density of 291 inhabitants per km.
	Breech birth A breech birth refers to the pelvimetry of the baby in the uterus such that it will be delivered buttocks first as opposed to the normal head first position.
	Breeches Breeches are an item of clothing covering the body from the waist down, with separate coverings for each leg. The spelling britches reflects a common pronunciation, and is generally used in casual speech to mean "pants". Breeks is a Scots language or northern English spelling and pronunciation.
	Breeches buoy A breeches buoy is a crude rope-based rescue device used to extract people from wrecked vessels, or to transfer people from one location to another in situations of danger. The device resembles a round emergency personal flotation device with a leg harness attached. It is similar to a zip line.The breeches buoy was usually deployed from either ship to ship, or ship to shore using a lyle gun, and allowed single person evacuations.
	Breezy Breezy is an United States film released in 1973, starring William Holden and Kay Lenz. It was written by Jo Heims and directed by Clint Eastwood. It was the third film directed by Eastwood. Edith Alice "Breezy" Breezerman is a care free young hippie.
	Bremerhaven Bremerhaven is a city in the federal state of Bremen , Germany. It is located at the eastern bank of the Weser river mouth, opposite the town of Nordenham.
	Bren The Bren, usually called the Bren Gun, was a series of light machine guns adopted by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles into the 1980s. Whilst it is best known for its role as the United Kingdom and British Empire forces primary infantry light machine gun in World War II, it was also used in Korean War and saw service throughout the later half of the 20th century including the Falklands War and the 1991 Operation Granby / Gulf War.
	Brent Goose The Brent Goose, a goose of the genus Branta, is known in North America as Brant. The spelling "Brant" is the original one, with "Brent" being a later Folk etymology idea that it was derived from a classical Greek waterbird name brenthos. It is in fact Onomatopoeia, derived from the guttural call note of the species.
	Brescia Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 190,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital Milan. The city is the administrative capital of the Province of Brescia, one of the largest in Italy, with about 1,200,000 inhabitants.
	Bret Harte Francis Bret Harte was an United States author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
	Bretagne Bretagne is one of the 26 rgion in Frances of France. It occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of the country, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south. Its capital city is Rennes.
	Breviary A breviary is a liturgy book containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially for priests, in the Divine Office . A breviary of such convenient size that it could be carried on the person is called a portuary .
	Brevity Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. It debuted on January 3 2005. External links *
	Brewer's Spruce Brewer's Spruce or Weeping Spruce is a large evergreen pinophyta tree growing to 20-40 m tall, exceptionally 54 m, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 m. It is native to western North America, where it is one of the rarest spruces in the continent, endemic in the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon and northwest California.
	Brewery A brewery can be a building or place that produces beer, or a business involved in the production of beer. Breweries can take up multiple city blocks, or be a collection of equipment in a homebrewing kitchen. The diversity of size in breweries is matched by the diversity of processes, degrees of automation, and kinds of beer produced in breweries.
	Brewing Brewing is the production of alcoholic beverages and alcohol fuel through fermentation . This is the method used in beer production, although the term can be used for other drinks such as sake, mead and wine. The term is also sometimes used to refer to any chemical mixing process.
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	Bric-a-brac The term bric-a-brac was first used in the Victorian era. It referred then to collections of curios such as elaborately decorated teacups and small vases, feathers, wax flowers under glass domes, eggshells, statuettes, painted miniatures or photographs, and so on. Bric-a-brac was used as ornament on mantlepieces, tables, and shelves, or displayed in curio cabinets.
	Brick Brick is an artificial stone made by forming clay into rectangular masonry which are hardened, either by burning in a kiln or sometimes, in warm and sunny countries, by sun-drying.
	Brickwork Brickwork bond is produced when a bricklayer uses bricks and Mortar to build up structures such as walls, bridges and chimneys. Bricks are laid to expose their ends, or sides. As the work progresses, the bricks are laid in rows called courses. The manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid up is called the bond.
	Bride A bride is the female participant in a wedding ceremony. The term bride comes from the Teutonic word for a cook. She is typically attended by one or more bridesmaids or maid of honor. Her male partner is the bridegroom or "groom." Before a bride can be formally called "wife" or Mrs., she must finish the formal wedding procedure.
	Bridegroom A bridegroom is a man who is about to be marriage, or who has just been married. He is typically attended by a best man and groomsman. His partner is known as the bride, who is typically attended by one or more bridesmaids or maid of honour.
	Bridesmaid - ||} A bridesmaid is a girl or young woman who attends to the bride during or after a wedding or marriage ceremony. Traditionally bridesmaids were chosen from unwed young women of marriageable age. The history of the bridesmaid varies across cultures, religions and time periods.
	Bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle. Designs may be built higher than otherwise needed in order to allow other traffic beneath. The purpose of a bridge is to allow people or cargo easy passage over an obstacle by providing a route that would otherwise be uneven or impossible.
	Bridge circuit A bridge circuit is a type of electrical circuit in which the Current in a conductor splits into two parallel paths and then recombines into a single conductor, thereby enclosing a loop. It was originally used for measurement purposes, but can also be used in power supply.
	Bridgetown The City of Bridgetown, population 5,928 metropolitan area 110,000 , formerly the Town of Saint Michael, is the capital city of the island nation of Barbados. Geographically the Bridgetown port is located at , on the southwestern coast of the island along the Caribbean Sea.
	Bridle A bridle is a piece of equipment used to control a horse. The bridle fits over the horse's head, and has the purpose of holding the bit in the horse's mouth. The bitless bridle is NOT, in fact, a hackamore but an English variation of the western hackamore. The correct synonym for a hackamore would be a bosal, not a bitless bridle.
	Briefs Briefs are a type of Y-shaped underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where the material extends down the legs. In the case of men's underwear, briefs hold the user's genitals in a relatively fixed position, which makes briefs a popular underwear choice for men who are participating in athletic activities or who feel they need more support than loose-fitting underwear can provide.
	Brig In sailing, a brig is a vessel with two mast at least one of which is square rigged. In modern parlance, a brig is square rigged on both masts, and this is the standard name for such a vessel. Previously, "brig" has been used as an abbreviation of "brigantine", which in modern parlance is the standard name for a principally fore-and-aft two-masted rig with a square rigged foremast but which also has other historical meanings.
	Brigadier General Brigadier General is the lowest rank of general officer in some countries, usually ranking just above Colonel and just below Major General.
	Brigandine A brigandine, a form of body armour, is a cloth garment, generally canvas or leather, lined with small oblong steel plates rivet to the fabric. The form of the brigandine is essentially the same as the civilian Doublet, though it is commonly sleeveless. However, depictions of brigandine armor with sleeves are known.
	Brigantine In sailing, a brigantine is a vessel with two masts, at least one of which is square rigged. In modern parlance, a brigantine is a principally fore-and-aft rig with a square rigged foremast, as opposed to a brig which is square rigged on both masts. In the late 17th century, the Royal Navy used the term brigantine to refer to small two-masted vessels designed to be rowed as well as to sail, rigged with square sails on both masts.
	Brigham Young For other uses, see Brigham Young University Brigham Young was the second prophet and President of the Church of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Young had a variety of sobriquets, among the most popular of which is "The American Moses," because, like the biblical figure, he led his followers, the Mormon Pioneers in an often arduous "exodus" through a desert, to what they saw as a "promised land." He was also dubbed "The Li
	Bright Blue Bright Blue is a sporadic South African band that was prominent on the progressive scene in the final years of apartheid. The band's name "reflected the paradox of being bright in a very blue time" but was also a tribute to Chelsea FC. They are best known for the protest song "Weeping" that incorporated strands of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika at a time when public performance of the African National Congress anthem could lead to summary arrest.
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	Brighton Brighton is located on the south coast of England and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton & Hove. Brighton is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. With origins dating before Domesday Book, the ancient settlement of Brighthelmston emerged as an important health resort during the 18th century and a popular destination for day-trippers after the arrival of the railway in 1841.
	Brihaspati In Hindu mythology, Brihaspati is the guru of the devas and the chief nemesis of Shukracharya, the guru of the Danavas. There are hymns to him in the Rigveda. One of the mantra by Vishwamitra from Rigveda : Vrsabham charsninam vishwarupamdabhyam | Vrihaspatim-varenyam
	Brindisi Brindisi is an ancient city in the Italy region of Puglia, the capital of the province of Brindisi.
	Brindle Brindle is a coat coloring in animals, particularly dogs, cats, and horses. It is sometimes described as "tiger striped", although the brindle pattern is more subtle than that of a tiger's coat. The streaks of color are usually darker than the base coat, which is often tawny or grayish, although very dark markings can occur on a coat that's barely lighter.
	Brine shrimp Brine shrimp are a type of aquatic crustacean. They are found worldwide in saltwater, though not in oceans. Artemia is a well known genus as one variety, the Artemia nyos, a hybrid of Artemia salina, are sold as novelty gifts, most commonly under the marketing name Sea-Monkeys.
	Brink ---- Brink is a character in the comic book series, Leopold and Brink, originally published in 1997 by Faultline Press.
	Brinkmanship Brinkmanship is the policy or practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome. It occurs in international politics and foreign policy, and in contemporary settings is a military strategy involving the threat of use of nuclear weapons.
	Brioche Brioche is a light but rich France bread or cake made with a yeast dough enriched with Eggs, milk, and butter. The crust is glazed before baking and turns a deep golden brown. The crumb is delicate and pale yellow in colour. In Paris, it is traditionally baked in a fluted tin with a smaller ball of dough placed on top, either as buns or as one large loaf, but other shapes and preparations are traditional in different parts of France.
	Brisbane Brisbane is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian states and territories of Australia of Queensland, and is the third largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1.8 million. It is a city set close to the Pacific Ocean, and is situated beside the Brisbane River on plains between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range in South East Queensland.
	Brisket Brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest. While all meat animals have a brisket, the term is most often used to describe beef or veal. The beef brisket is one of the eight beef primal cuts. According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, the term derives from the Middle English "brusket" which comes from the earlier Old Norse language "brjosk", meaning cartilage.
	Bristlecone pine The bristlecone pines are a small group of pine trees that can reach an age far greater than that of any other single living organism known, up to nearly 5,000 years. There are three closely related species: * Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine Pinus aristata in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona
	Bristly locust Bristly Locust is a shrub or small tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States. Other common names include Rose acacia and Rose locust. It grows to 2-4 m tall, with densely glandular-bristly stems, somewhat sticky to touch.
	Bristol Bristol is a City status in the United Kingdom, unitary authority and Ceremonial counties of England in South West England England, 115 miles west of London and located at With a population of 400,000, and metropolitan area of 550,000, it is England's sixth, and the United Kingdom's ninth, most populous city, and one of England's English Core Cities Group.
	Bristol Channel The Bristol Channel is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from South West England and extending from the lower estuary of the River Severn to that part of the North Atlantic Ocean known as the Celtic Sea. It takes its name from the England city of Bristol and is over 50km across at its widest point.