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B
is the chemical symbol for
Boron
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Chemical Symbols
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B
featured in the film
Buck Privates (1941)
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Songs in Films
B
is the international car registration for
Belgium
Geography
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Car Registrations
B
in Scrabble is worth
3 Points
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Scrabble Points
Melanie B Featuring Missy Elliott
had a U.K. Number One single with
I Want You Back
September 20 1998 for 1 week
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U.K. Number Ones
B or 2
in Braille is
Language
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Braille
J.S. Bach
composed
Mass in B Minor
Music
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Classical Music
B & B
is American Diner Lingo for
Bread and Butter
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American Diner Lingo
11
decimal has the hexadecimal equivalent
B
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Hexadecimal Numbers
Schubert Symphony #8 in B Minor
has the nickname
The Unfinished Symphony
Written in 1822 but not perfomed until 1865, decades after the composer's death
Music
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Classical Music Nicknames
Chopin Piano Sonata #2 in B Flat Minor
has the nickname
The Funeral March
The B Flat minor section of the third movement was used at J. F. Kennedy's state funeral
Music
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Classical Music Nicknames
Ida B Wells-Barnett
was the first African-American
Journalist and Civil Rights Activist That Crusaded Against Lynching
1862-1931
History & Mythology
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Famous African - Americans
The Beach Boys
released the single
Sloop John B
1966
Music
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Sounds of the 1960s
Ford
had the model
Model B
1904-1905, 1932-1934
Misc
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Car Models
The Triple B Ranch
refers to
Forerunner to What Became the Howdy Doody Show
Entertainment
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The Howdy Doody Show
Bob Sinclar / Cutee B / Dollarman
had a U.K. Top 40 single hit with
Sound Of Freedom
2007
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U.K. Top 40 Singles
China (P.R. Of)
has the mark
B
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Aircraft Registration Marks
China (Taiwan)
has the mark
B
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Aircraft Registration Marks
Museum of Natural History, 81st Street
is on the
B & C Lines
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New York Subway Stops
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
is on the
B & Q Lines
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New York Subway Stops
Avenue B
was released by
Iggy Pop
Music
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Songs - New York City
B & B
contains
Cognac
Misc
>
Cocktails
Slope-intercept Form of a Line
has the mathematical formula
Y = Mx + B
Where m=slope and b= the y-intercept of the line
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Mathematical Formulae
Surface Area of a Pyramid
has the mathematical formula
B + 1/2pl
Where B=base area, p=perimeter of the base, and l=slant height
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Mathematical Formulae
Commutative Property of Multiplication
has the mathematical formula
A X B X C = a X C X B
Think of “commuters” as the terms are actually moving about
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Mathematical Formulae
Intransitive Dice
states that
You Can Have Three Dice, Called A, B, and C, Such That A is Likely to Win in a Roll Against B, B is Likely to Win in a Roll Against C, and C is Likely to Win in a Roll Against A
Misc
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Paradoxes
Zeno's Paradoxes
states that
You Will Never Reach Point B from Point A As You Must Always Get Half-way There, and Half of the Half, and Half of That Half, and So On...
Misc
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Paradoxes
Si, Ge, As, Sb, B
are all
Metalloids
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Common Threads 1
The B Team
featured the character
Tonia Beardface
Played by Tim Ross
Entertainment
>
Best of Australian TV Comedy
"Devil's Grip"(pleurodynia)
is caused by infection with
Coxsackie B
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Disease and Etiology
Hepatitis B
is caused by infection with
Hepatitis B Virus
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Disease and Etiology
Pleurodynia
is caused by infection with
Coxsackie B
Science & Nature
>
Disease and Etiology
Tairrie B
has been a vocalist in
My Ruin
American, originally a rapper, later becoming a nu-metal singer
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Vocalists
___- Line
contains the word
B
Lamb
Music
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Song Titles - Missing Word
Opus 18, No. 6
is
String Quartet No. 6 in B Flat Major
Music
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Beethoven Opus Numbers
Opus 97
is
Piano Trio in B Flat Major "Archduke"
For Archduke Rudolph of Austria
Music
>
Beethoven Opus Numbers
Opus 130
is
String Quartet No. 13 in B Flat Major
With alternate finale, original finale known as op. 133
Music
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Beethoven Opus Numbers
B Town
Means
Birmingham
Language
>
CB Slang
Sue Grafton
wrote
B is for Burglar
1985. Anthony Award for Best Novel
Arts & Literature
>
Fiction - Mystery Crime and Thrillers
Professor Longhair
is the stage name of
Henry Roeland Byrd, 1918-1980, Pianist and Founding Father of New Orleans R & B
Entertainment
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Stage Names - Male
Mutya Buena
released the single
B Boy Baby (2007)
Featuring Amy Winehouse
Music
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Sounds of the 2000s
B & H Airlines
is based in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Misc
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Airlines of the World
Mutya Buena and Amy Winehouse
recorded
B Boy Baby
Music
>
Songs - Duets
"Dvořák: Concerto in B Minor for Cello and Orchestra"
was released by
Pablo Casals & the Czech Philharmonic
1938 - inducted in 1998
Music
>
Grammy Hall of Fame Award Winners - Albums
Bumble Bee Slim
performed the blues song
B & O Blues (1932)
Music
>
Nothin' But the Blues
B Reactor Museum
is situated in
Richland, U.S.A.
World's 1st industrial scale atomic reactor
Arts & Literature
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Museums of the World
Camille Saint-Saëns
composed
Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor
Op. 61, 1880
Music
>
Concertos
John Eliot Gardiner
recorded
Bach: Mass in B Minor
English Baroque Soloists; Archiv, 1990
Music
>
Classical Albums - 1980 - 1999
Collegium Vocale
recorded
Bach: Mass in B Minor
Philippe Herreweghe cond; Virgin Classics, 2009
Music
>
Classical Albums - 2000 - Present
Oregon
has the state insect
Oregon Swallowtail Butterfly
Geography
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U.S. State Insects
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