High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barry Grant is a fictional character in the defunct Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. He was portrayed by Paul Usher and was in the series from episode one in 1982 until 1995 with several sporadic guest appearances in 1997, 1998 and the final episode in 2003.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barry T. Albin (born July 7, 1952) is a Justice who was nominated to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court on July 10, 2002.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barry Bremen (June 30, 1947 – June 30, 2011) was a West Bloomfield, Michigan, insurance and novelty goods salesman and marketing executive known in the sports world as The Great Imposter. From the period 1979 to 1986, the 6`4", "lean" Bremen posed as a Major League Baseball umpire in the World Series, a player in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game, a player in a National Basketball Association All-Star Game, a referee in the National Football League, a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, and a professional golfer. He also posed as an Emmy Award accepter.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barry Sullivan is a Chicago lawyer and, as of July 1, 2009, the Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He is a former litigation partner at Jenner & Block LLP, where he was also a member of the Appellate and Supreme Court and the Labor and Employment Practices.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bastiaan (Bas) de Gaay Fortman (born November 6, 1937 in The Hague) is a Dutch politician and scholar. He has been a member of both the Dutch House of Representatives and the Senate for the PPR and GroenLinks parties. He currently holds the world`s only chair in Political Economy of Human Rights at the University of Utrecht.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Basdeo Panday (born May 25, 1933) was the 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001 and has served as Leader of the Opposition from 1976–1977, 1978–1986, 1989–1995 and 2001–2010. He was first elected to Parliament in 1976 as the Member for Couva North. He is the former Chairman and party leader of the Opposition United National Congress. In 2006, Panday was convicted of failing to declare a bank account in London and imprisoned but as of March 20, 2007, that conviction has been quashed by the Court of Appeal. He was granted bail on April 28 pending the outcome of his appeal due to his health condition and the poor state of health facilities at the Arouca prison. On May...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Basil Markesinis QC, DCL, FBA (born July 10, 1944) is a scholar of law and Jamail Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was Professor of Common and Civil Law, University College London.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bassem al-Tamimi (born c. 1967) is a Palestinian activist convicted by an Israeli military court of "sending people to throw stones, and holding a march without a permit". His 2011 arrest drew international attention, with the European Union describing him as a "human rights defender", and Amnesty International designating him a prisoner of conscience.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (November 26, 1853 – October 25, 1921) was a figure of the American Old West known as a buffalo hunter, U.S. Marshal and Army scout, avid fisherman, gambler, frontier lawman, and sports editor and columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph. He was the brother of lawmen James Masterson and Ed Masterson.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Intelligence Battalion 3-16 or Battalion 316 (various names: Group of 14 (1979–1981),Special Investigations Branch (DIES) (1982–1983),Intelligence Battalion 3-16 (from 1982 or 1984 to 1986),Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Branch (since 1987)) was the name of a Honduran army unit responsible for carrying out political assassinations and torture of suspected political opponents of the government during the 1980s.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Jarama (February 6–27, 1937) was an attempt by General Franco`s Nationalists to dislodge the Republican lines along the river Jarama, just east of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. Elite Spanish Legionnaires and Moroccan Regulares from the Army of Africa forced back the Republican Army of the Centre, including the International Brigades, but after days of fierce fighting no breakthrough was achieved. Republican counterattacks along the captured ground likewise failed, resulting in heavy casualties to both sides:
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Pease River occurred on December 18, 1860, near the town of Margaret, Texas in Foard County, Texas, United States. The town is located between Crowell and Vernon within sight of the Medicine Mounds just outside present-day Quanah, Texas. A monument on that spot marks the site of the famous battle between the Comanche Indians under Peta Nocona and a detachment of Texas Rangers and militia under Ranger Captain "Sul" Ross. The battle was fought to protect the lives and property of white settlers in the area who had encroached on land historically belonging to the Comanches. This very small skirmish gradually acquired an unwarranted grandiosity as a major Texan historical event...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Teruel was fought in and around the city of Teruel during the Spanish Civil War. The combatants fought the battle between December 1937 and February 1938, during the worst Spanish winter in twenty years. The battle was one of the bloodier actions of the war with the city changing hands several times, first falling to the Republicans and eventually being re-taken by the Nationalists. In the course of the fighting, Teruel was subjected to heavy artillery and aerial bombardment. The two sides suffered over 140,000 casualties between them in the two month battle. It was a decisive battle of the war, as Francisco Franco`s use of his superiority in men and material in regaining Teruel...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Little Robe Creek, also called the Battle of Antelope Hills, took place on May 12, 1858. It actually was a series of three distinct encounters that took place on a single day, between the Comanches on the one side, and Texas Rangers, militia, and allied Tonkawas attacking them. It was undertaken against the laws of the United States at the time, which strictly forbade such an incursion into the Indian Territories of Oklahoma, and marked a significant escalation of the Indian Wars. It also marked the first time American or Texas Ranger forces had penetrated the Comancheria as far as the Wichita Mountains, and Canadian River, and it marked a decisive defeat for the Comanches.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Badajoz was one of the first major Nationalist victories in the Spanish Civil War. A series of costly assaults won the Nationalists the fortified border city of Badajoz on August 14, 1936, cutting off the Spanish Republic from neighbouring Portugal and linking the northern and southern zones of Nationalist control (although actual contact with General Emilio Mola`s northern troops was not established until September 8).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Tonkin River was a major naval battle fought in northern Vietnam between the pirates of Shap Ng-tsai and the British Royal Navy with aid from the Qing navy and the Tonkinese. The 1849 expedition led to the destruction of Shap Ng-tsai`s fleet and the loss of over 2,000 men. The battle occurred over a three day period at the mouth of the Tonkin River, near present day Hai Phong.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of North Fork or the Battle of the North Fork of the Red River occurred on September 28, 1872, near McClellan Creek in Gray County, Texas, United States. A monument on that spot marks the site of the battle between the Comanche Indians under Kai-Wotche and Mow-way and a detachment of cavalry and scouts under U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie. There was an accusation that the battle was really an attempt "to make a massacre," as during the height of battle some noncombatants were wounded while mixed in with warriors.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bear hunting is the act of hunting bears. Bears have been hunted since prehistoric times for their meat and fur.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Admiral Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim, RN, MP, FRGS (12 June 1826 - 30 September 1886) was a Royal Navy officer, Arctic explorer, barrister, and author. He was the first man who traveled from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on the western side.