BANKIVSKY the COCK, a bird of a set fazanovyh. Length samtsa ok. 65 sm, samka a little bit less. Dwells{lives} in jungle Juzh. And JUgo-Vost. Asia. An ancestor of domestic hens.

BANK BUILDINGS (offices), banking establishments, inherings to separate bankers or group of bankers. Have arisen in Italy (14 century) on the basis development of usury. In the beginning executed{designed} trade and banking operations, then - only last.

NOTES, see. Bank notes.

BANK NOTES (notes), the credit marks of money produced by issuing houses and alternating metal active money. Represent irredeemable liabilities. Have substituted the circulation of private{individual} commercial bills. Nerazmenny on gold, impregnated-paper money turned into.

The BANKING CAPITAL, set{combination} of money capitals (natural and borrowed funds) with which banks operate. Being enclosed in a banking, the banking capital makes bank profit.

BANKRUPTCY (from ital. banco - a bench, bank and rotto - broken), insolvency, a lack of funds for the debtor (a natural or legal face) and failure{refusal} in this connection to pay under the liabilities. The fact of bankruptcy is established{set} by a court decision, arbitration court and attracts fixed legal consequences. In the Russian Federation problems of insolvency (bankruptcy) of the enterprises are adjusted{regulated} according to the existing legislation.

BANCROFT (Bancroft) George (1800-91), the American diplomat, the historian; in 1845-46 marine minister. The main{basic} transactionses - " the History the USA " (t. 1-10).

BANKS (Banks), group of volcanic islands in a southwest part Quiet ok. Is part of the state Vanuatu. The area ok. 800 êì2 the Tropical vegetation. Cultivation of corn, tropical crops.

LANCE, spirit of a bath in poverjah eastern slavs, chilling people and requiring of victims which to him abandoned in a bath after washing.

BATH Oleg Aleksandrovich (r. 1931), the Russian scientist, the academician of the Russian Academy of Science (1992). Transactionses in range of a physical metallurgy and heat treatment of metal materials.

BANOVINA, an administrative and territorial unit in Yugoslavia in 1931-41.

BANSKA-BISTRITSA (Banska Bystrica), city in Slovakia, on r. Gron. 73 thousand inhabitants (1984). A machine industry, nonferrous machine industry, textile, wood-working, a food-processing industry. Center of Slovak national revolt 1944. Gothic church (13 century). A town hall and houses in style of the Renaissance (16-17 centuries). A monument to Slovak national revolt (1960th).

To BOWS (Bantam), the state (sultanat) on Zap. To Java in nach. 16 - nach. 19 centuries (before capture by the Netherlands colonialists).

BANTENG, a cloven-hoofed animal of a set polorogih; the feral{natural} bull. Length ok. 2 m, an altitude ok. 1,5 m. Dwelt{lived} in woods JUzh. And JUgo-Vost. Asia, in a feral{natural} condition it was saved only in few places of a former area (primarily in Myanma, on islands Java and Kalimantan). It tame (t. n. balijsky cattle). In the Red Data Book of the International union of nature protection and natural resources.

BANTING (Bunting) Sydney Persival (1873-1936), juzhnoafrikansky the political figure, one of osnovatelej Communist party of the republic of South Africa.

BANTING (Banting) Frederik the Underback (1891-1941), the canadian physiologist. Probeed a secretion of a pancreatic gland, has discovered (together with Dzh. Dzh. R.Makleodom, etc.) a hormone an insulin. The Nobel Prize (1923, together with McLeod).

BANTOK (Bantock) Grenvill (1868-1946), the English composer, the conductor and the teacher. Musical - scenic, vokalno-symphonic, program symphonic compositions on eastern, mythological, Grecian, Celtic and biblical scenes, etc.

To BOW, group of peoples in Center. And JUzh. To Africa (the largest - ruanda, makua, shona, kongo, malavi, rundi, zulu, a sand - bar, etc.). Ok. 200 million person (1992). Tongues to a bow. Were widely settled (from 1-st thousand up to n. e. Till 19 century), assimilating an aboriginal population (pygmies, carriers kojsanskih tongues).

To BOW, group of peoples in Center. And JUzh. To Africa (the largest - ruanda, makua, shona, kongo, malavi, rundi, zulu, a sand - bar, etc.). Ok. 200 million person (1992). Tongues to a bow. Were widely settled (from 1-st thousand up to n. e. Till 19 century), assimilating an aboriginal population (pygmies, carriers kojsanskih tongues).

To BOW TONGUES, group benue-kongolezskih tongues (Center. And JUzh. Africa). The most widespread from a bow of tongues: suahili, kikujju, rundi (kirundi), lingala, a bast, luganda, a sand - bar, zulu, kimbundu, shona, svazi, tsonga, etc.