Look up: Ba-wan

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   Ba-wan
   `Ba-wan` is a Taiwanese snack food, consisting of a 6-8 cm diameter disk-shaped translucent dough filled with a savory stuffing and served with a sweet and savory sauce. The stuffing varies widely according to different regions in Taiwan, but usually consists of a mixture of pork, bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms. Changhua-style ba-wan is considered to be the `standard` `ba-wan` as it is the most famous and most widely imitated of all styles...
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   Babuje, Lawan
   (from the article `Bedde`) ...of Bedde. Dispersed about 1808 by warriors in the jihad (holy war) conducted by the Fulani, the Bade sought protection and again agreed to pay ...
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   Bagong Buwan
   `Bagong Buwan`, also known as `New Moon`, is a 2001 Filipino film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya starring Filipino actors Cesar Montano, Amy Austria, Jericho Rosales, Caridad Sanchez, Carlo Aquino, Noni Buencamino, Jiro Manio, Ronnie Lazaro, Jhong Hilario, and Jodi Santamaria. This movie is about the Muslim rebellion in Mindanao, Philippines and its effect on civilians. It is a look at the war in Mindanao between the Philippine government (dur...
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   Baildon No. 131, Saskatchewan
   `Baildon No. 131` is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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   Balabac, Palawan
   `Balabac` is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 25,257 people in 4,723 households. An international mining firm extracting chromium? is present on the island.
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   Balgowan
   `Balgowan` can refer to: * Balgowan, South Africa * Balgowan, South Australia * Balgowan a suburb of Dundee in Scotland
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   Ballygowan
   `Ballygowan` (in Irish: `Baile Mhic Gabhann`, ie town of the blacksmith) is a large village in County Down, Northern Ireland, with the town of Comber a short distance to the north-east, the town of Saintfield to the south, and the city of Belfast a further distance to the north-west. It had a population of 2,671 people in the 2001 Census.
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   Balwant Rai Mehat Vidya Bhawan
   `Balwant Rai Mehta Vidya Bhawan Senior Secondary School (BRMVB)` is a co-educational high school in Lajpat Nagar neighborhood of South Delhi. The second branch of the school was open at Majid Moth near Greater Kailash-II. The Servants of the People Society in 1960`s established the school. The school participates in the All India Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the CBSE. The school also has special classes and integrated educat...
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   Bandar Seri Begawan
   `Bandar Seri Begawan`, estimated population 46,229 (1991), is the capital of the Sultanate of Brunei.
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    Bandar Seri Begawan
    capital of Brunei. The city lies along the Brunei River near its mouth on Brunei Bay, an inlet of the South China Sea. It is an agricultural trade ... [6 related articles]
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    Bandar Seri Begawan
    Bandar Seri Begawan (bän'där ser'ē begä'wän) , city (1991 est. pop. 46,229), capital and chief port of the sultanate of Brunei, of which it is also the business and commercial center. Its manufactures include furniture, textiles, handicrafts, and building materi...
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    Bangawan
    `Bangawan` is a census town in Shahdol district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
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    Bangsawan
    `Bangsawan` is a type of traditional Malay opera. It was known to have developed from a sort of Indian theatre performance during the 19th century by visiting Indian travellers. Bangsawan is similar in western opera where certain characters are played during performance, the stories drawn from diverse sources, such as Indian, Western, Islamic, Chinese, Indonesian and Malay. Music, dance and costumes are used depending on the story told. Now, i...
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    bangsawan
    (from the article `Southeast Asian arts`) Bangsawan was created by professional Malay-speaking actors in the 1920s as light, popular entertainment. Songs and contemporary dances were added to ...
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    Bank of Taiwan
    The `Bank of Taiwan` (`BOT`, ) is a government-owned bank in Taipei City, Taiwan. The Bank of Taiwan was first established as central bank of Taiwan during the Japanese rule. In order to assist the economic development, `Bank Act of Taiwan` was promulgated in 1897 and the Bank of Taiwan was established in 1899 to encourage Japanese private sectors, including Mitsubishi and the Mitsui Group, to invest in Taiwan. There was extensive cooperation bet...
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    Bankend, Saskatchewan
    `Bankend` is a hamlet in the central part of Saskatchewan, Canada. Other towns in the area include Foam Lake, Ituna, Leslie, Wishart, West Bemd and Leross. Bankend is located between the Touchwood Hills and the Beaver Hills. Bankend was a booming agricultural community in 1928, HWY 35 arrived, and four grain elevators were built.
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    Bao Bao Wan
    `Bao Bao Wan` is the granddaughter of Wan Li Chairman of the National People's Congress from 1988-1993. Bao Bao`s father is Minister of the Chinese Chamber Of Promotion of International Trade. Bao Bao studied photography at the Sarah Lawrence College in New York and then French Literature in Paris. Having graduated from the Gemological Institute of America in 2006, Bao Bao now designs her own range of jewelry from Hong Kong.
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    Baron McGowan
    `Baron McGowan`, of Ardeer in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for `Harry Duncan McGowan`, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries. As of 2007 the title is held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2003.
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    Barrier Valley No. 397, Saskatchewan
    `Barrier Valley No. 397` is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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    Basawan
    (1556-1605) Mogul painter. He contributed paintings to many of the albums of miniatures that were a feature of the Mogul courts, in particular the Akbar-nama. His works are renowned for their subtle...
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    Bataraza, Palawan
    `Bataraza` is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. It is named after Datu Bataraza Narrazid, a locally influential Muslim chieftain and father of the town's first mayor and former mayor of Brooke's Point, the late Datu Sapiodin Narrazid. Bataraza was part of the municipality of Brooke's Point until 1964. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 41,458 people in 8,658 households. Main industries of Bataraz...
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    Bateman, Saskatchewan
    `Bateman` was once a prosperous town, which had a peak population of more than 300 citizens in the late 1920s. In 2000 the last resident left, and sadly many of the remaining buildings were torn down by the government of Saskatchewan.
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    Batoche, Saskatchewan
    `Batoche, Saskatchewan` was the site of the historic Battle of Batoche during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. The battle resulted in the defeat of Louis Riel and his Métis forces by Major General Frederick Middleton and his Northwest Field Force. The Métis settlement of Batoche (named after Xavier Letendre `dit` Batoche) was established in 1872. By 1885 it numbered 500 people. The Metis of the area settled on river lots, and the community conta...
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    Battle of Matewan
    The `Battle of Matewan` (also called the `Matewan Massacre`) was a shootout in Matewan, West Virginia on May 19, 1920. Prior to the battle, agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency and Matewan Police Chief Sid Hatfield argued over several evictions illegally carried out by the Baldwin-Felts detectives. After the argument, Hatfield obtained warrants for the arrest of the detectives and confronted them at the town train depot accompanied by a l...
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    Battle of Nahrawan
    `Battle of Nahrawan` was a battle between Ali ibn Abi Talib (the final Sunni Caliph and the 1st Shi'a Imam) and the Kharijites. After the unsatisfactory conclusion to the Battle of Siffin, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib returned with his army back to Kufa on the 13th of Safar 37 A.H. (~30 July 657 C.E.) During the march, a group of 12,000 men kept themselves at a distance from the main part of the army. The group was furious at the way things had ended...
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