VB
Encyclopedia
Organizations
- Vlaams BelangVlaams BelangVlaams Belang is a Belgian far-right political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels that advocates the independence of Flanders and strict limits on immigration, whereby immigrants would be obliged to adopt Flemish culture and language...
, Belgian political party - Viðskiptablaðið, Icelandic Financial News: VB.is
- Vejle BoldklubVejle BoldklubVejle Boldklub is a Danish football club with proud traditions from the town of Vejle. The club has won the Danish championship five times and the Danish cup title six times....
, Danish football club - Vágs Bóltfelag, Faroese football club
- VB Sports ClubVB Sports ClubVB Sports Club is a professional Maldivian football club based in Malé, Maldives. VB Sports Club is the former Island Football Club acquired by a leading entity and renamed on 8 November 2006....
, Maldivian football club
Companies
- VB Autobatterie - Johnson ControlsJohnson ControlsJohnson Controls, Inc. is a company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It was founded in 1885 by professor Warren S. Johnson, inventor of the first electric room thermostat....
's by 80%, and Robert Bosch GmbHRobert Bosch GmbHRobert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
's company by 20% - VB RocksVB Rocks-History:In 2004 after putting her music career on hold, Victoria Beckham teamed up with Rock and Republic to design her own jeans. The original jeans were designed for women to 'lift their bum'. Different types of washes were used and Victoria's Crown logo was put on the back pocket...
, fashion line designed by Victoria Beckham for Rock and Republic - Vera BradleyVera BradleyVera Bradley Designs, Inc. is an American design company best known for its soft, brightly patterned bags. The Fort Wayne, Indiana company produces a variety of products, including quilted cotton luggage, handbags and accessories. There are more than 3500 retailers of Vera Bradley and stand alone...
, an AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
fashion and bag-design company - Victoria BitterVictoria BitterVictoria Bitter is one of the many iconic beers manufactured in the Australian state of Victoria. VB currently maintains the highest market share of all beer sold in Australia, both on tap and packaged...
as in "VB Beer": a brewery organisation in Australia - Victory Brand, an AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
cigaretteCigaretteA cigarette is a small roll of finely cut tobacco leaves wrapped in a cylinder of thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder; its smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth and in some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well...
-manufacturer - Villeroy & BochVilleroy & BochVilleroy & Boch is a large manufacturer of ceramics with the company headquarters located in Mettlach, Germany.-Company history:The company began in the tiny French village of Audun le Tiche, where François Boch set up a pottery company with his three sons in 1748. Later, the company moved to...
, a producer of ceramics from Germany; also known as V&B or VB - Vincent BolloreVincent BolloréVincent Bolloré is a French industrialist, corporate raider and businessman.He heads the family investment group Bolloré and is ranked 736th richest person in the world according to Forbes, with an estimated fortune of US$1.7 billion...
, French corporate raider, billionaire and conglomerate also known as VB - The Vanguard GroupThe Vanguard GroupThe Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages approximately $1.6 trillion in assets. It offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to individual and institutional investors in the United States and abroad. Founder...
, large US investment company with the stock/ticker symbol: VB
Banks
- VolksbankVolksbankVolksbank was founded in 1850 and is a retail bank in Central Europe based in Vienna, Austria. It currently operates in Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.There are also 1,156 independent local...
, Volksbank.com: 4th largest Bank of Austria; also operating in Italy and 10 countries in Eastern Europe - Volksbanken und RaiffeisenbankenVolksbanken und RaiffeisenbankenVolksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken is a brand of the co-operative banks in Germany. "Volksbank" derives from People's Bank institutes and "Raiffeisenbanken" refers to banks founded on initiatives by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen...
, over 400 independent local Banks in Germany - VakifBankVakifBankVakıfBank is the fifth largest bank in Turkey with its $46 billion in assets as of December 31, 2009. The company offers some of the largest services in Turkey, and operates 610 branches domestically...
, large Bank in Turkey - Virtual bankVirtual bankA direct bank is a bank without any branch network. It offers its financial services by:* Telephone banking* Online banking* Automated teller machines * Mail banking* Mobile banking...
, Internet banking-system - Vestfyns Bank, Danish Bank VB.dk
- Victoria Bank, largest bank of Moldova VB.md
- Valliance Bank, a US Bank
- Vojvođanska banka, one of the largest banks in Serbia
Places
- Virginia Beach, largest city of the state of Virginia, USA
- Vero Beach, a city in the state of Florida, USA
- Van Buren (disambiguation)#Places, several different cities in the United States of America
- Venice Beach - a district of Los Angeles, USA
- VordingborgVordingborgVordingborg is a municipality in Region Sjælland on the southeast coast of the island of Zealand in south Denmark. The municipality includes the island of Masnedø, and covers an area of 621 km². It has a total population of 46,600...
, a municipality in Denmark - VogelsbergkreisVogelsbergkreisThe Vogelsbergkreis is a Kreis in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Schwalm-Eder, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Fulda, Main-Kinzig, Wetteraukreis, Gießen and Marburg-Biedenkopf.-Geography:...
, a region in Germany using the German car-plate prefix "VB" - VöcklabruckVöcklabruckVöcklabruck is the administrative center of the Vöcklabruck district, Austria. It is located in the western part of Upper Austria, close to the A1 Autobahn as well as the B1 highway, and has been ranked in the top 10 most-visited cities in Austria....
, a city in Austria using the Austrian car-plate series "VB" - 70 Virginis B70 Virginis b70 Virginis b is an extrasolar planet approximately 60 light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Announced in 1996 by Geoffrey Marcy and R. Paul Butler, 70 Virginis was one of the first stars confirmed to have planets orbiting it...
, a planet - von Braun crater, a lunar crater named after rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
Software
- vBulletinVBulletinvBulletin is a proprietary Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises and vBulletin Solutions, both subsidiaries of Internet Brands. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.-History:...
, PHP-based forum software package - Visual BasicVisual BasicVisual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model...
, computer-programming language from Microsoft - Vista Basic, an edition of Windows VistaWindows VistaWindows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
- VirtualBoxVirtualBoxOracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products...
, an x86-virtualization package from Sun Microsystems
Other uses
- Holden VB Commodore, an automobile introduced by Holden in 1978
- Virtual BoyVirtual BoyThe was a video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was the first video game console that was supposed to be capable of displaying "true 3D graphics" out of the box. Whereas most video games use monocular cues to achieve the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional...
, portable virtual-reality helmet-shaped video-game console by Nintendo - Vickers-BerthierVickers-BerthierThe Vickers-Berthier light machine gun manufactured by Vickers-Armstrong was based on a French design of just before World War I. In 1925 Vickers in Britain purchased licence rights for production in their Crayford factory, and as a replacement for the Lewis Gun.-History:During the 1932 British...
, a British light machine-gun - often abbreviated as (VB). - Volley Ball, a sport
- Vlaams BlokVlaams BlokThe Vlaams Blok was a Belgian far-right and secessionist political party with an anti-immigration platform. Its ideologies embraced Flemish nationalism, calling for the independence of Flanders. From its creation in 1978, it was the most notable militant right wing of the Flemish movement. Vlaams...
, Vlaams Belang former name - The Venture Bros.The Venture Bros.The Venture Bros. is an American animated television series that premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on February 16, 2003. The series mixes action and comedy together while it chronicles the adventures of the Venture family: well-meaning but incompetent teenagers Hank and Dean Venture; their...
, an animated series airing on Adult Swim - Veliki BratVeliki bratVeliki brat is a reality show shot and produced in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a local franchised version of the Big Brother reality series, which mostly includes contestants from Serbia along with some from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro.Produced by Emotion media company, the first...
, a television program in Serbia(literally: "Big Brother") - The VB speed in aviation related to gust intensity.
- The Von BondiesThe Von BondiesThe Von Bondies were an American alternative rock band. The group disbanded in July 2011. Its most recent members were Jason Stollsteimer on vocals and lead guitar, Christy Hunt on rhythm guitar and Leann Banks on bass guitar...
, American rock band - Valence Bond TheoryValence bond theoryIn chemistry, valence bond theory is one of two basic theories, along with molecular orbital theory, that were developed to use the methods of quantum mechanics to explain chemical bonding. It focuses on how the atomic orbitals of the dissociated atoms combine to give individual chemical bonds...
, VB theory in chemistry - Victory Baptist ChurchVictory Baptist ChurchVictory Baptist Church, having just celebrated its 33rd year of service to the community of Louisville, Kentucky was once one of the largest churches in the region. With the evangelical movement of the 1970s came booming congregation numbers and a busing ministry designed and run by Pastor Gardner...
, an American church: vb.org