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Baal
God worshiped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, especially among Canaanites, for whom he was a fertility deity. In the mythology of Canaan, he was locked in combat with Mot, the god of death and sterility; depending on the outcome of their struggles, seven-year cycles of fertility or famine would ensue. Baal was also king of gods, having seized the kingship from the sea god, Yamm. Baal worship was popular in Egypt from the later New Kingdom to its end (1400-1075 BC). The Aramaeans used the Babylonian pronunciation Bel; Bel became the Greek Belos, identified with Zeus. The Old Testament often refers to a specific local Baal or multiple Baalim.


Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist. Studying chick development with his friend Christian Pander (1794-1865), Baer expanded Pander's concept of germ-layer formation to all vertebrates, thereby laying the foundation for comparative embryology. He emphasized that embryos of one species could resemble embryos (but not adults) of another, and that the younger the embryo the greater the resemblance, a concept in line with his belief that development proceeds from simple to complex, from like to different. He also discovered the mammalian ovum. His On the Development of Animals (2 vols., 1828-37) surveyed all existing knowledge on vertebrate development and established embryology as a distinct subject of research.


Bara
U.S. film actress. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she had a brief stage career before going to Hollywood. Her first major picture, A Fool There Was (1915), was accompanied by a publicity campaign, billing her as the daughter of an Eastern potentate, that made her an instant success. Establishing a sultry, exotic persona, she became the prototype of the screen "vamp." She made more than 40 films within a few years, but her popularity soon declined, and she retired in the 1920s.


Basra
City (pop., 1987 est.: 407,000), SE Iraq. It lies at the head of the Shatt al Arab, about 75 mi (120 km) from the Persian Gulf. Founded in AD 638, it became famous under the Abbasid dynasty; in TheThousand and One Nights it was the city from which Sinbad set out. In the 17th-18th cent. it became a trading center. Occupied by the British in World War I, the town and port underwent many improvements and grew in importance. After World War II, the growth of Iraq's petroleum industry turned Basra into a major refining center. It suffered heavy damage in the Iran-Iraq and Persian Gulf wars.


bear
Generally massive, short-legged mammal (family Ursidae), the most recently evolved carnivore, found in Europe, Asia, N. and S. America, and N. Africa. Closely related to the dog and the raccoon, most bears climb with ease and are strong swimmers. As a family, they are omnivores, but dietary preferences vary among species (polar bears feed mainly on seals, the spectacled bear on vegetation, etc.). Though they do not truly hibernate, ...

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