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Ararat
Mountain, E Turkey. Located in Agri province, near the Iranian border, Ararat has two peaks, Great Ararat, at almost 17,000 ft (5,300 m) the highest in Turkey, and Little Ararat, almost 13,000 ft (4,000 m). Ararat is traditionally associated with the mountain where Noah's ark came to rest at the end of the biblical flood. A village on its slopes at the site where Noah is said to have built an altar was destroyed in an earthquake in 1840.


Bahrain
Country, constitutional monarchy, occupying an archipelago consisting of Bahrain Island and about 30 smaller islands, lying along the Arabian Peninsula in the Persian Gulf. Area: 255 sq mi (661 sq km). Population (1997 est.): 620,000. Capital: Manama. Most of the population is Arabic. Language: Arabic (official). Religion: Islam (official), divided between Sunnite and Shiite. Currency: Bahraini dinar. Bahrain Island accounts for seven-eighths of the country's total area and, with the islands of Al Muharraa and Sitra off its NE coast, constitutes the population and economic center of the country. Bahrain Island is 27 mi (43 km) long and 10 mi (16 km) wide, and is connected to Saudi Arabia by a 15-mi (25-km) causeway completed in 1986. The highest elevation is Ad-Dukhan Hill at 440 ft (132 m). The country has a developing mixed state and private-enterprise economy based largely on natural gas and petroleum refining. The chief of state is the emir and head of government is the prime minister. The area has long been an important trading center and is mentioned in Persian, Greek, and Roman references. It was ruled by Arabs from the 7th cent. AD, but then occupied by the Portuguese 1521-1602. Since 1783 it has been ruled by the Khalifah family, though through a series of treaties its defense remained a British responsibility 1820-1971. After Britain withdrew its forces from the Persian Gulf (1968), Bahrain declared its independence in 1971. It served as a center for the allies in the Persian Gulf War. Since 1994 it has experienced bouts of political unrest mainly by Shiites, who have attempted to get the government to restore the parliament (abolished in 1975).


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.


Bhasa
Indian dramatist. The earliest known dramatist in Sanskrit, he was known only by the allusions of other Sanskrit dramatists until the texts of 13 of his dramas were discovered and published in 1912. Most of his works are adaptations of themes of heroism and romantic love borrowed from the ...

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