Biotechnology Biotechnology is a powerful, controversial and critical topic dealing with disease, genetics, and the use of microorganisms or other biological substances to make industrial or manufacturing processes. Biotechnology has spawned many new ideas and discoveries to benefit society. It plays a part in healing the sick with antibiotics and vaccines, hybridization in plants to produce bigger and more desirable food crops, sterilization of food goods and equipment, and understanding genetics...

Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft, Born William H. Gates on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. Skinny, shy and awkward, teenaged Bill Gates seemed an unlikely successor to his overachieving parents. His father, powerfully built and 6’6″ tall, was a prominent Seattle attorney, and his gregarious mother served on charitable boards and ran the United Way. While he showed enormous talent for math and logic, young Bill, a middle child, was...

Bigfoot Bigfoot or Sasquatch can be defined as a warm blooded mammal that is half human and half ape. Bigfoot stands about seven feet tall, and can weight anywhere from 200 pounds to 400 pounds. Bigfoot is said to be a very smart and clever animal. Bigfoot sightings first occurred around the 1800’s, from the mountains in Tibet, to the forests of Turkey. Bigfoot has always been described as, having dark...

Big Bang It is always a mystery about how the universe began, whether if and when it will end. Astronomers construct hypotheses called cosmological models that try to find the answer. There are two types of models: Big Bang and Steady State. However, through many observational evidences, the Big Bang theory can best explain the creation of the universe. The Big Bang model postulates that about 15 to 20 billion years...

Bhimtal Lake Bhimtal Lake is a lake in the town of Bhimtal, in Uttarakhand, India. There is an island at the centre of the lake. It is the largest lake in the only real lake district of India. It is around quarter to two km long and half a km broad with a depth of 18 km. It is a sweet water lake. Kathgodam to Bhimtal is at a distance of...

Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall, for twenty-eight years, separated friends, families, and a nation. A lot of suffering began for Germany when Second World War commenced, but by the end of the war Germany was in the mists of a disaster waiting to happen. After (WWII) was over, Germany was divided into four parts. The United States, Great Britain, and France controlled the three divisions that were formed in the Western...

Bering Sea Bering Sea was found in the year 1728 by a Danish Li navigator Vitus Bering, in Russia. Hence, the sea got the name after its founder. The total area covered by this sea is 22,91,900 square kilometer, with its average depth of 1,547 meter and its deepest point is Buldir islands with a depth of 4,773 meters. Bering Sea consists of several submarines and canyons. It has the world’s...

Bay of Bengal Bay of Bengal is the northern side expansion of the Indian Ocean. In the east, it is attached to India, in west Sri Lanka, and in the north with Bangladesh and north eastern with Burma. The Bay of Bengal is 1,600 kilometer in breadth and an average depth of 2,600 meter. There are several seas uniting in the Bay of Bengal, Ganga and Eravati are also among these...