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Bikini
Atoll with about 20 islets, Marshall Islands, Micronesia. It was administered by the U.S. from 1947 as part of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under a U.N. trusteeship. The U.S. used the atoll for atomic testing 1946-58. The 167 inhabitants were removed before the tests began and returned in 1969, but they were evacuated again in 1978 because of high radiation levels. Cleanup there continued, and in 1997 it was pronounced safe for inhabitation. The atoll became part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in 1979.
bit
In communication and information theory, a unit of information equivalent to the result of a choice between only two possible alternatives, such as 1 and 0 in the binary number system generally used in digital computers. It is also applied to a unit of memory corresponding to the ability to store the result of a choice between two alternatives. A byte consists of a string of eight consecutive bits and makes up the basic information processing unit of a computer. Because a byte includes only an amount of information equivalent to one letter or one symbol (e.g., a comma), the processing and storage capacities of computer hardware are usually given in kilobytes (1,024 bytes), megabytes (1,048,576 bytes), and even gigabytes (about 1 billion bytes) and terabytes (1 trillion bytes).
Bunin
Russian poet and novelist. He worked as a journalist and clerk while writing and translating poetry, and made his name as a short-story writer with such masterpieces as the title story of The Gentleman from San Francisco (1916). His other works include the novel Mitya's Love (1925), the story collection Dark Avenues (1943), fictional autobiography, memoirs, and books on L. Tolstoy and A. Chekhov. The first Russian awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933), he is among the best stylists in the language.
burial
Ritual disposal of human remains, often intended to facilitating the deceased's entry into the afterworld. Grave burial dates back at least 125,000 years. Types of grave range from trenches to large burial mounds to great stone tombs such as pyramids. Caves have also long been used for the dead, as in the case of the ancient Hebrews or the thousands of sepulchral caves (rock temples) of W India and Sri Lanka. Water burial, such as occurred among the Vikings, has also been common. Cremation and the scattering of ashes on water is widely practiced, especially in Asia; in India the remains of the deceased are thrown into the sacred Ganges River. Some peoples (Amer. Indian groups, Parsis, etc.) employ exposure to the elements to dispose of their dead. Among many peoples, the first burial is followed by a second, after an interval that often coincides with the duration of bodily decomposition. This reflects a concept of death as slow passage from the society of the living to that of the dead. Jewish custom requires speedy burial; a prayer known as the ...
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