dance notation: Twentieth-century developments: …to record Loring’s signature ballet, Billy the Kid (1938).

dress: The 19th century: …“billycock” and, in America, the derby, was introduced about 1850 by the hatter William Bowler. The straw boater, originally meant to be worn on the river, became popular for all summer activities. The homburg felt hat, introduced in the 1870s and popularized by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward…

Ténéré: Bilma oasis, near the centre of the Ténéré, has maximum and minimum July temperatures (summer average) of 108 °F (42 °C) and 75 °F (24 °C). Hot, dusty east or northeast winds (the harmattan) blow across the Ténéré generally year-round; irregular annual rainfall is about…

Thomas Cranmer: Early life: Tyndale, Robert Barnes, Thomas Bilney, and, above all, Cranmer, who by 1525 included among his prayers one for the abolition of papal power in England.

residence: …their household arrangements are called bilocal residence.

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games: Notable events from the Vancouver Winter Games: February 14:

African art: Lower Congo (Kongo) cultural area: These ingredients, called bilongo, are placed in a cavity, usually in the figure’s stomach but sometimes in the back or head. The opening of the cavity is covered by a shell or, in some modern fetishes, by a piece of mirror. The magical substances are believed to invest…

Paul Castellano: Assassination and aftermath: …and his newly appointed underboss, Thomas Bilotti, were gunned down in the street as they arrived at a steak house in Midtown Manhattan. The murders came only two weeks after the death from natural causes of Castellano’s previous underboss, Aniello Dellacroce, who had headed a rival Gambino faction that disregarded…

Biloxi, city, coseat (with nearby Gulfport) of Harrison county, southern Mississippi, U.S. The city lies on a narrow Gulf Coast peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico (south) and Back Bay of Biloxi (north). In 1699 the explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville planted the French flag across Biloxi Bay at

Neil Simon: Beach Memoirs (1983; film 1986); Biloxi Blues (1985; film 1988), which was awarded the Tony for best play; and Broadway Bound (1986; television movie 1992). Subsequent plays included Rumors (1988); Lost in Yonkers (1991; film 1993), which won both a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best

Mike Nichols: Middle years: Silkwood, Working Girl, and The Birdcage: Biloxi Blues (1988) was Nichols’s first filming of a play by his longtime stage collaborator Simon, who adapted his popular comedy into a more naturalistic period piece about a young man (Matthew Broderick) who comes of age while undergoing army basic training in the 1940s.…

Dmitri Bilozerchev is a Russian athlete who is considered to be one of the greatest male gymnasts of all time. Bilozerchev earned his first all-around gymnastics world championship in 1983 at age 16, when he scored an impressive total of 59.85 points out of a possible 60. He was a favourite to win

Queen of Sheba was, according to Jewish and Islamic traditions, the ruler of the kingdom of Sabaʾ (or Sheba) in southwestern Arabia. In the biblical account of the reign of King Solomon, she visited his court at the head of a camel caravan bearing gold, jewels, and spices. The story provides

Takht-e Soleymān: Kūh-e Belqeys is located about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Takht-e Soleymān. The highest point on the mountain’s dual peak rises to about 11,000 feet (3,300 metres) above sea level. A fortress located there dates to the Sāsānian period.

sweet gum: The American sweet gum, or bilsted (Liquidambar styraciflua), which sometimes reaches 45 metres (150 feet) in moist lowlands but is usually half that height at maturity, is grown for its handsome foliage, shade, and scarlet autumnal colour. It is also valued for its heartwood, called red…

Bilston enamelware, enameled products made in Bilston, Eng., which was one of the most prolific centres of enameling in the 18th century. A large number of enamelers worked in Bilston decorating small objects primarily by the transfer printing process. Bilston enamelware is often technically

Biltmore Estate, estate in Asheville, North Carolina, that was built in the late 1800s as the summer home of George W. Vanderbilt. Its most notable feature is a French Renaissance mansion that is considered the largest private residence in the United States. In the 1880s Vanderbilt, who belonged to

South Asian arts: Parsi theatre: …an incident from the Ramayana; Bilwa Mangal, a social play on the life of a poet, whose blind passion for a prostitute results in remorse; and Aankh ka Nasha (“The Witchery of the Eyes”), about the treachery of a prostitute’s love, with realistic dialogue of a brothel. Many of Hashr’s…

Iowa: Cultural institutions: A nonconventional attraction is the Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville, which displays a collection of antique hand-carved wooden clocks made by the Bily brothers. On the second floor of what is now this museum was where Czech composer Antonín Dvořák spent the summer of 1893, and artifacts and memorabilia about…

bimah, (from Arabic al-minbar, “platform”), in Jewish synagogues, a raised platform with a reading desk from which, in the Ashkenazi (German) ritual, the Torah and Hafṭarah (a reading from the prophets) are read on the Sabbath and festivals. In the Sephardic (Spanish) rite, the entire service is

bimah, (from Arabic al-minbar, “platform”), in Jewish synagogues, a raised platform with a reading desk from which, in the Ashkenazi (German) ritual, the Torah and Hafṭarah (a reading from the prophets) are read on the Sabbath and festivals. In the Sephardic (Spanish) rite, the entire service is

Marca: …interior were controlled by the Bimal, a subgroup of one of the four major Somali clans, who traded extensively in ivory, slaves, cattle, and hides. Offshore coral reefs make it necessary to carry goods by lighters between the port and oceangoing vessels, and they limit expansion of the port. The…

Nile River: Study and exploration: …expeditions under a Turkish officer, Selim Bimbashi, were made between 1839 and 1842, and two got to the point about 20 miles (32 km) beyond the present port of Juba, where the country rises and rapids make navigation very difficult. After these expeditions, traders and missionaries penetrated the country and…

Australian Capital Territory: Relief: …6,279 feet (1,914 metres) at Bimberi Peak. In the northeastern section there are broad valleys between rounded hills. While much of the generally rugged topography of the Australian Capital Territory allows small-scale farming, forestry, and grazing, only about one-third of the territory is suitable for urban development.

Bimbisara was one of the early kings of the Indian kingdom of Magadha. His expansion of the kingdom, especially his annexation of the kingdom of Anga to the east, is considered to have laid the foundations for the later expansion of the Mauryan empire. He is also known for his cultural achievements

Fleischer brothers: The short Bimbo’s Initiation (1931) is a prime example of the Fleischers’ quirky perverseness. In it, Betty Boop’s dog, Bimbo, is trapped in an underground labyrinth by a character who looks suspiciously like a demonic Mickey Mouse (evil Mickeys were common in early Fleischer cartoons). While there,…

thermometer: The bimetallic strip constitutes one of the most trouble-free and durable thermometers. It is simply two strips of different metals bonded together and held at one end. When heated, the two strips expand at different rates, resulting in a bending effect that is used to measure…

bimetallism, monetary standard or system based upon the use of two metals, traditionally gold and silver, rather than one (monometallism). The typical 19th-century bimetallic system defined a nation’s monetary unit by law in terms of fixed quantities of gold and silver (thus automatically

Bimini Islands, string of islands, northwestern Bahamas, West Indies. They extend 40 miles (65 km) north to south and lie about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Florida coast of the United States and 110 miles (175 km) west of the Bahamian capital of Nassau. The main island, North Bimini, on the

Bimini Islands, string of islands, northwestern Bahamas, West Indies. They extend 40 miles (65 km) north to south and lie about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Florida coast of the United States and 110 miles (175 km) west of the Bahamian capital of Nassau. The main island, North Bimini, on the

ether: Bimolecular dehydration: In the presence of acid, two molecules of an alcohol may lose water to form an ether. In practice, however, this bimolecular dehydration to form an ether competes with unimolecular dehydration to give an alkene. Bimolecular dehydration produces useful yields of ethers only…

reaction mechanism: Bimolecular: In bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reactions in which the substrate is attacked at a saturated carbon atom, the starting material has a tetrahedral structure, and the transition state has a trigonal bipyramidal structure (both of which are shown below). Each individual act of substitution produces…

reaction mechanism: Bimolecular: In bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reactions in which the substrate is attacked at a saturated carbon atom, the starting material has a tetrahedral structure, and the transition state has a trigonal bipyramidal structure (both of which are shown below). Each individual act of substitution produces…

veena, any of several stringed musical instruments of India, including arched harps (before 1000 ce), stick zithers, and lutes. The North Indian version, the bin, is used in classical Hindustani music. Classified as a stick zither, it is about 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length, having a large

Osama bin Laden: Early life: …more than 50 children of Muhammad bin Laden, a self-made billionaire who, after immigrating to Saudi Arabia from Yemen as a labourer, rose to direct major construction projects for the Saudi royal family. By the time of Muhammad’s death in an airplane accident in 1967, his company had become one…

Osama bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the September 11, 2001, attacks

Osama bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the September 11, 2001, attacks

Osama bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the September 11, 2001, attacks

Osama bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the September 11, 2001, attacks

Toʾ Janggut was a Malay leader of a peasant rebellion in Malaya in 1915, directed against British colonial rule. Muhammad Hasan, known as Toʾ Janggut because of his long white beard, was a peasant farmer and an itinerant rice trader in the southernmost district of Kelantan, a state that came under

2002 Bali Bombings: …his brothers (Ali Imron and Amrozi bin Nurhasyim) to help assemble and transport the bombs used in the attacks. Both he and bin Nurhasyim were sentenced to death; Imron expressed remorse and was sentenced to life in prison. Two other men, Azahari Husin and Dulmatin, were suspected of building and…

computer: UNIVAC: …Northrop Corporation to build the Binary Automatic Computer, or BINAC, which, when completed in 1949, became the first American stored-program computer.) The partners delivered the first UNIVAC to the U.S. Bureau of the Census in March 1951, although their company, their patents, and their talents had been acquired by Remington…

Uganda: Tyranny under Amin: …was replaced in June by Godfrey Binaisa, but Binaisa’s term of office was also short-lived. Supporters of Obote plotted Binaisa’s overthrow, and Obote returned to Uganda in May 1980.

September 11 attacks: The plot: …one of the key planners, Ramzi Binalshibh, became more radical while living in Hamburg. Some combination of perceived or real discrimination, alienation, and homesickness seems to have turned them all in a more militant direction. Increasingly cutting themselves off from the outside world, they gradually radicalized each other, and eventually…

computer: UNIVAC: …Northrop Corporation to build the Binary Automatic Computer, or BINAC, which, when completed in 1949, became the first American stored-program computer.) The partners delivered the first UNIVAC to the U.S. Bureau of the Census in March 1951, although their company, their patents, and their talents had been acquired by Remington…

integrated circuit: Analog versus digital circuits: …states is known as a binary circuit. Circuit design with binary quantities, “on” and “off” representing 1 and 0 (i.e., true and false), uses the logic of Boolean algebra. (Arithmetic is also performed in the binary number system employing Boolean algebra.) These basic elements are combined in the design of…

binary code, code used in digital computers, based on a binary number system in which there are only two possible states, off and on, usually symbolized by 0 and 1. Whereas in a decimal system, which employs 10 digits, each digit position represents a power of 10 (100, 1,000, etc.), in a binary

crystal: Ionic bonds: …alkaline earth chalcogenides form ionic binary crystals such as barium oxide (BaO), calcium sulfide (CaS), barium selenide (BaSe), or strontium oxide (SrO). They have the same structure as sodium chloride, with each atom having six neighbours. Oxygen can be combined with various cations to form a large number of ionically…

geothermal energy: Electric power generation: …around the flash steam and binary cycle designs, use a mixture of steam and heated water (“wet steam”) extracted from the ground to start the electrical generation process. Given that the excess water vapor at the end of each process is condensed and returned to the ground, where it is…

bit, in communication and information theory, a unit of information equivalent to the result of a choice between only two possible alternatives, as between 1 and 0 in the binary number system generally used in digital computers. The term is shortened from the words “binary digit.” It is also

binary fission, asexual reproduction by a separation of the body into two new bodies. In the process of binary fission, an organism duplicates its genetic material, or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and then divides into two parts (cytokinesis), with each new organism receiving one copy of DNA.

binary form, in music, the structural pattern of many songs and instrumental pieces, primarily from the 17th to the 19th century, characterized by two complementary, related sections of more or less equal duration that may be represented schematically as ab. In 18th-century compositions, including

Kuiper belt: Families, binaries, and satellites: …gravitationally bound together are called binary KBOs. Of the known cold classical KBOs, 15 to 20 percent are in binary systems. The Pluto-Charon system is binary but is unusual in the compactness of the system. The production of binary KBOs requires a large initial population of KBOs, many times larger…

Kuiper belt: Families, binaries, and satellites: …gravitationally bound together are called binary KBOs. Of the known cold classical KBOs, 15 to 20 percent are in binary systems. The Pluto-Charon system is binary but is unusual in the compactness of the system. The production of binary KBOs requires a large initial population of KBOs, many times larger…

binary number system, in mathematics, positional numeral system employing 2 as the base and so requiring only two different symbols for its digits, 0 and 1, instead of the usual 10 different symbols needed in the decimal system. The numbers from 0 to 10 are thus in binary 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101,

language: Language and conceptualization: …brain has a preference for binary oppositions, or polarities. If this is so, it will help explain the numerous pairs of related antonyms that are found: good, bad; hot, cold; high, low; right, wrong; dark, light; and so on. For finer discriminations, these terms can be put into more narrowly…

Arecibo Observatory: …Arecibo to discover the first binary pulsar. They showed that it was losing energy through gravitational radiation at the rate predicted by physicist Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and they won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1993 for their discovery.

formal logic: Classification of dyadic relations: Consider the closed wff (∀x)(∀y)(ϕxy ⊃ ϕyx), which means that, whenever the relation ϕ holds between one object and a second, it also holds between that second object and the first. This expression is not valid, since it is true for some relations…

telecommunication: Analog-to-digital conversion: …and distortion-free telecommunication is the binary signal. The simplest possible signal of any kind that can be employed to transmit messages, the binary signal consists of only two possible values. These values are represented by the binary digits, or bits, 1 and 0. Unless the noise and distortion picked up…

binary star, pair of stars in orbit around their common centre of gravity. A high proportion, perhaps one-half, of all stars in the Milky Way Galaxy are binaries or members of more complex multiple systems. Although binary stars are sometimes called double stars, the latter refers to any two stars

information theory: Discrete, noisy communication and the problem of error: …for the effectiveness of a binary symmetric channel at conveying information can be established by taking its raw throughput of bits and subtracting the number of bits necessary to transmit error corrections. The limit on the efficiency of a binary symmetric channel with noise can now be given as a…

binary number system, in mathematics, positional numeral system employing 2 as the base and so requiring only two different symbols for its digits, 0 and 1, instead of the usual 10 different symbols needed in the decimal system. The numbers from 0 to 10 are thus in binary 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101,

phase: Binary systems: Consider the binary system (Figure 2) that describes the freezing and melting of the minerals titanite (CaSiTiO5) and anorthite feldspar (CaAl2Si2O8). The melt can range in composition from pure CaSiTiO5 to pure CaAl2Si2O8, but the solids show no compositional substitution. All

computer programming language: Data structures: A bintree (binary tree) for example, either is empty or contains a root component with data and left and right bintree “children.” Such bintrees implement tables of information efficiently. Subroutines to operate on them are naturally recursive; the following routine prints out all the elements of…

chemical weapon: Properties of chemical weapons: …chemical arms may be so-called binary weapons in which the ingredients are mixed in flight while the weapon is being delivered. Binary weapons are safer and easier to store and handle than more-traditional chemical arms.

visual field defect: …fields are called bitemporal or binasal hemianopia, respectively.

Pearl Jam: Vitalogy through Pearl Jam: …good reviews, Yield (1998) and Binaural (2000) were not commercial successes.

sound: Beats: …of a mistuned octave, and binaural beats involve beating between tones presented separately to the two ears, so that they do not mix physically.

sound: Binaural perception: The paths from the ears to the brain are separate; that is, each ear converts the sound reaching it into electrical impulses, so that sounds from the two ears mix in the brain not as physical vibrations but as electrical signals. This separation…

sound: Binaural perception: The paths from the ears to the brain are separate; that is, each ear converts the sound reaching it into electrical impulses, so that sounds from the two ears mix in the brain not as physical vibrations but as electrical signals. This separation…

Western architecture: The early Byzantine period (330–726): …like the even more impressive Binbirdirek (Thousand and One Columns) cistern, new columns of unusually tall and slender proportions and new capitals of cubic form were designed specially. These cisterns assured an adequate supply of water even when the aqueducts that fed the city were cut by an attacking enemy.…

Binche, town, Walloon Region, Belgium. It lies 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Mons. Situated on a hill, Binche remains encircled by fortifications built in the 12th century and flanked by 27 towers. Its town hall was constructed in the second half of the 14th century and restored in the 16th century

Binchois was a Flemish composer of church music and of secular chansons that were among the finest of their genre, being notable for their elegance of line and grave sweetness of expression. The upper voice in Binchois’s mostly three-part songs is considered to be particularly lyrical. Gilles’s

Binchois was a Flemish composer of church music and of secular chansons that were among the finest of their genre, being notable for their elegance of line and grave sweetness of expression. The upper voice in Binchois’s mostly three-part songs is considered to be particularly lyrical. Gilles’s

Binchois was a Flemish composer of church music and of secular chansons that were among the finest of their genre, being notable for their elegance of line and grave sweetness of expression. The upper voice in Binchois’s mostly three-part songs is considered to be particularly lyrical. Gilles’s

Binchois was a Flemish composer of church music and of secular chansons that were among the finest of their genre, being notable for their elegance of line and grave sweetness of expression. The upper voice in Binchois’s mostly three-part songs is considered to be particularly lyrical. Gilles’s

Maeve Binchy was an Irish journalist and author of best-selling novels and short stories about small-town Irish life. Noted as a superb storyteller, Binchy examined her characters and their relationships with wit and great understanding. Educated at University College, Dublin (B.A., 1960), Binchy

binder, machine for cutting grain and binding it into bundles, once widely used to cut small grain such as wheat. The first patent was issued on a self-tie binder in 1850. The horse-drawn twine binder, first marketed in 1880, remained the chief method of harvesting small grain during the early

Captain Marvel: Shazam! and the litigious origins of Captain Marvel: The whimsical storytelling of writer Otto Binder was complemented by Beck’s clean dynamic penciling, and Captain Marvel would remain one of the best-selling titles of the Golden Age of comics (1938–c. 1950). Not content to play catch-up, DC filed suit against Fawcett for copyright infringement. The legal battle over Captain…

Western architecture: Scandinavia and Greece: …in 1839–48 from designs by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll. It was built to house the collection of sculpture that the celebrated Danish Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen presented to his native country in 1837. The opportunity was taken of providing a major cultural monument to strengthen national consciousness at a time of…

Mirzapur: …stairs, along the river; in Vindhyachal is an old temple of Kali, visited by pilgrims.

bindi, a mark or sticker worn on the forehead between the eyebrows by Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist women and occasionally men. The custom of wearing a bindi in South Asian countries dates back centuries, and the bindi’s significance has changed over time, so that there is not one static interpretation

bookbinding, the joining together of a number of leaves or folios (most frequently of paper, parchment, or vellum) within covers to form a codex or book, as opposed to a roll or scroll. Bookbinding began when the codex started to replace the roll. The earliest elaborately decorated bookbindings

binding energy, amount of energy required to separate a particle from a system of particles or to disperse all the particles of the system. Binding energy is especially applicable to subatomic particles in atomic nuclei, to electrons bound to nuclei in atoms, and to atoms and ions bound together in

drug: Receptors: …effects involve two distinct processes: binding, which is the formation of the drug-receptor complex, and receptor activation, which moderates the effect. The term affinity describes the tendency of a drug to bind to a receptor; efficacy (sometimes called intrinsic activity) describes the ability of the drug-receptor complex to produce a…

New Fire Ceremony, in Aztec religion, ritual celebrated every 52 years when the 260-day ritual and 365-day civil calendars returned to the same positions relative to each other. In preparation, all sacred and domestic fires were allowed to burn out. At the climax of the ceremony, priests ignited a

crystal: Molecular binding: The Dutch physicist Johannes D. van der Waals first proposed the force that binds molecular solids. Any two atoms or molecules have a force of attraction (F) that varies according to the inverse seventh power of the distance R between the centres of…

Pinjarra Massacre: Bindjareb Noongar, an Australian Aboriginal peoples, on October 28, 1834, near the modern town of Pinjarra, approximately 52 miles (83 kilometers) south of Perth in Western Australia. Tensions between the Bindjareb, who had lived in the area for some 40,000 years, and newly arrived European…

Khosrow II: Expansion of the empire: …revolt led by Bostām and Bindōē (brothers-in-law of Hormizd), which culminated in the king’s assassination, Bahrām Chūbīn renounced the allegiance of his army to the monarchy and forced the new king Khosrow to flee to Mesopotamia. Khosrow’s pursuers were held off by the military tactics of his uncle Bindōē, until…

Abhinav Bindra is an Indian rifle shooter and winner of the men’s 10-meter air rifle competition at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. He is India’s first-ever individual Olympic gold medalist. Bindra took up rifle shooting in his mid-teens and quickly advanced in the sport. He qualified for

Bindusara was the second Mauryan emperor, who ascended the throne about 297 bce. Greek sources refer to him as Amitrochates, Greek for the Sanskrit amitraghata (“destroyer of foes”). The name perhaps reflects his successful campaign in the Deccan. Chandragupta—Bindusara’s father and founder of the

Bindusara was the second Mauryan emperor, who ascended the throne about 297 bce. Greek sources refer to him as Amitrochates, Greek for the Sanskrit amitraghata (“destroyer of foes”). The name perhaps reflects his successful campaign in the Deccan. Chandragupta—Bindusara’s father and founder of the

bindweed, plants of the closely related genera Convolvulus and Calystegia (morning glory family; Convolvulaceae), mostly twining, often weedy, and producing handsome white, pink, or blue funnel-shaped flowers. Bellbine, or hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium), native to Eurasia and North America,

human intelligence: The IQ test: Binet’s early test was taken to Stanford University by Lewis Terman, whose version came to be called the Stanford-Binet test. This test has been revised frequently and continues to be used in countries all over the world.

Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who played a dominant role in the development of experimental psychology in France and who made fundamental contributions to the measurement of intelligence. Fascinated by the work of the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot on hypnosis at the Salpêtrière Hospital,

Lewis R. Binford was an American archaeologist. Binford taught principally at the University of New Mexico (1968–91) and later at Southern Methodist University (1991–2003). In the mid-1960s, he initiated what came to be known as the “New Archaeology,” which champions the use of quantitative methods

Lewis R. Binford was an American archaeologist. Binford taught principally at the University of New Mexico (1968–91) and later at Southern Methodist University (1991–2003). In the mid-1960s, he initiated what came to be known as the “New Archaeology,” which champions the use of quantitative methods

natural childbirth: …those of Fernand Lamaze, Elisabeth Bing, Robert Bradley, and Charles Leboyer. Although there are differences among their methods, all share the basic belief that if the prospective mother learns and practices techniques of physical and psychological conditioning, her discomfort during delivery will be lessened. Preparation also includes full instruction and…

Bing, search engine launched in 2009 by the American software company Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft’s previous search engine, Live Search, from the time of its release in 2006 consistently trailed well behind those of Google Inc., the industry giant, and the Internet portal site of Yahoo! Inc.

pottery: The European continent: The firm of Bing & Grøndahl was established in 1853 and has done excellent and imaginative work.