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Bad Breath
Bad breath Definition Bad breath, also called halitosis, is an unpleasant odor of the breath. Usually it is due to poor hygiene, but it can be an indication of underlying health problems. Description Bad breath is likely to be experienced by most adults and many children, at least occasionally.... Read more |
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Bad Faith
BAD FAITH The fraudulent deception of another person; the intentional or malicious refusal to perform some duty or contractual obligation. Bad faith is not the same as prior judgment or negligence. One can make an honest mistake about one's own rights and duties, but when the rights of someone... Read more |
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Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach , city (1994 pop. 42,960), Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany, on the Nahe River. Its manufactures include optical instruments, tires, machinery, and leather. Bad Kreuznach was probably settled in the Stone Age. Its radioactive salt baths have been frequented since Roman times, when it... Read more |
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bad a bad excuse is better than none it is better to attempt to give some kind of explanation, even a weak one; proverbial saying recorded from the mid 16th century.bad hair day a day on which everything seems to go wrong, characterized as a day on which one's hair is particularly unmanageable; an... Read more |
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Bad Homburg vor der Hohe
Bad Homburg, Hesse/Germany The full name is Bad Homburg vor der Höhe which denotes a spa town (since 1834) at the foot of the (Taunus) mountains. Homburg means ‘High Fortress’, a reference to the Hohenburg Fortress, built in the 12th century but now in ruins. The town has given... Read more |
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Battle of Tenerife
Tenerife, battle of, 1657. On 20 April 1657 Blake won his last great victory, attacking a force of sixteen Spanish vessels at harbour in Santa Cruz, protected by shore batteries. Every enemy vessel was destroyed and all Blake's ships, some of them badly damaged, survived. The crushing blow helped to... Read more |
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Tay bridge
Tay bridge. The wide estuary of the river Tay on the east coast of Scotland presented a formidable obstacle to transport. The first bridge over the estuary was designed by Thomas Bouch for the North British Railway Company. It was almost 2 miles long, consisting of 85 wrought-iron lattice-girder... Read more |
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Constant Permeke
Permeke, Constant (1886–1952). Belgian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, with Frits van den Berghe and Gustave de Smet one of the leading exponents of Expressionism in Belgium in the period between the two world wars. He was born in Antwerp, the son of a painter, Henri-Louis Permecke... Read more |
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Bread or blood riots
‘Bread or blood’ riots, 1816. The years after Waterloo saw high prices, unemployment, and a trade recession, causing widespread distress. The agricultural labourers of the fenland were a depressed group, badly paid and housed. They complained of tithes, enclosures, threshing-machines,... Read more |
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