FIRE WALL (a nem. Brandmauer), the obsolete title of a fireproof wall.

BRANDMEJSTER (a nem. Brandmeister), in Russia the officer of police, the chief of one of urban fire fighting details.

The HOSE (niderl. brandspuit), 1) a metal tip of a flexible hose; the obsolete title of a trunk in fire fighting technique... 2) Transportable a hand pump for washing decks, fire controls and so forth on courts.

BRANDT Alexander Andreevich (1855-1932), the Russian scientist in range of applied mechanics and thermodynamics. With 1920 - in emigration, cable cores in Yugoslavia. Transactionses under the theory of steam engines, their application on locomotives and courts, general and engineering tllermodynamics. The writer of memoirs " Leaves flavescent " (1930).

BRANDT (Brandt) Villi (an ice-film. A name and fam. Gerbert Charles Fram, Frahm) (r. 1913), the federal chancellor of Germany in 1969-74. In 1958-63 chairman of Social-democratic party of Germany (Zap. Berlin), in 1964-87 chairman SDPG. In 1957-66 ruling burgomaster Zap. Berlin. In 1966-69 vice-chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs in coalition (HDS - HSS and SDPG) government of Germany. The president Socialist internatsionala with 1976. The Nobel Prize of the world (1971).

BRANDT (Brandt) George (1694-1768), the Swedish chemist and mineralog. The main transactionses on study of an arsenic and his connections. Has discovered (1735) cobalt and has studied his properties.

BRANDT Feodor Fedorovich (Iogann Fridrih) (1802-79), the Russian zoologist, the academician Petersburg AN (1833). By origin the German, in Russia with 1831. The founder and the first director (with 1831) Zoological museum AN. Transactionses after a taxonomist, a zoogeography, a comparative anatomy and paleontology of mammals.

BRANDUKOV Anatoly Andreevich (1856-1930), the violoncellist, the conductor, the composer, the teacher. Acted in bands from A.G.Rubinshtejnom, F.Listom, S.V.Rahmaninovym. The professor (in 1906-17 director) the Musical - drama school of the Moscow philharmonic society and the Moscow conservatory (with 1921). Products for a violoncello (the play from a piano, concerts with an orchestra).

BRANDYS Anatoly Jakovlevich (1923-88), doubly the Hero of Soviet Union (1945), the general - lieutenant of aircraft (1985). In Great Domestic war in an attack aviation, the squadron commander; 227 sorties.

BRANKOVICH George (1645-1711), the Serbian historian. In 1683-99 has put forward the plan of building " Illirijskogo kingdoms " - the slavonic state from Black up to the Adriatic m. The writer " Slavjanoserbskoj chronicles " (from the most ancient times).

BRANKUZI (Brancusi) Konstantin (1876-1957), the Romanian sculptor - abstract artist. In 1902 has moved from Romania to Munich, then, in 1904 - to Paris. Created on some versions of one scene, integrating them in groups ("Kiss", 1910-21; "Pisces", 1924-30). Interest to a primitive sculpture of African peoples was reflected in creativity Brankuzi.

BRANT (Brant) Sebastjan (ok. 1458-1521), the german writer - humanist. The book poetic satyr " the Ship of fools " (1494).

BRANTING (Branting) Charles Jalmar (1860-1925), one of osnovatelej (1889) and leaders of the Social-democratic working consignment of Sweden (SDRPSH; with 1907 chairman of its Executive committee). In 1917-18 Minister of Finance, in 1920-25 prime minister, in 1921-23 also Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Nobel Prize of the world (1921).

BRANTOM (Brantome) Pierre de Burdej, sjer de (1540-1614), the French writer, court. The writer of pithy "Memoirs".

BRANH, in the Grecian mythology favourite Apollo basing his sanctuary in Didymiums bliz of Miletus; was in a nem the first divinator. Sacrificers of a temple belonged to stem Branha (Branhidy).

BRANHIOMIKOZ, disease of fishes (primarily sets karpovyh), called by mushrooms. Gills are struck. Pisces often perish.

BRASLAV, city (with 1940) in Belarus, Vitebsk region, on coast an eskar. Drivjaty, in 30 kms from zh.-d. An item. Druja. 10 thousand inhabitants (1991). A vegetable dehydration plant, manufacture of a building materials.

WRISTLET (frants. bracelet), ring-shaped (closed or disconnected) a dressing from diverse materials (metal, a bone, precious and ornamental stones, a velvet, dinging a bead, golden filaments or silk, etc.). A wristlet wore primarily on arms from a wrist up to an elbow, and also on legs, for shchikolotok.

BREASTSTROKE (frants. brasse, from bras - an arm), a way of sporting float on a breast, defined by simultaneous symmetrical motions of extremities in a horizontal plane.