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...

Baseball There has been much speculation about the origin of 1 baseball. In 1907, a special commission decided that the modern game was invented by Abner Doubleday, a West Point cadet, at Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839. One hundred years later the National Baseball Museum was opened at Cooperstown to honour Doubleday. Historians, however, disagree about the origin of baseball. Some say that baseball comes from bat-and-ball games of ancient times. It...

Baltic Sea Baltic Sea is situated in the Northern European Sea. On Lifts boundaries lies Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, North Eastern Germany and Eastern Denmark. It has got its own several groups of islands too. In the north lies Ireland Island, having Finland Basin in the east, joining Baltic Sea with St. Petersburg and Russia. In south and southern east, it forms two basins. In the west, its water...

Baking Powder Baking powder is a fine white powder used for making cakes, biscuits, and it is also used in toothpaste. Baking powder is normally made up of three different parts: an acid, a base and a filler of some sort. The uses of baking powder are numerous. The key to baking powder is its release of carbon dioxide. Baking powder has had a long-term mystique in toothpastes, there are varying...