Bankstown
a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
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- Bann
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- Bannable
to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime. Archaic. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon. to curse; execrate. the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction. informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion: society’s ban on racial discrimination. Law. a proclamation. a […]
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to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime. Archaic. to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon. to curse; execrate. the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction. informal denunciation or prohibition, as by public opinion: society’s ban on racial discrimination. Law. a proclamation. a […]
- Banneker, benjamin
banneker, benjamin Banneker (bān’ĭ-kər) American mathematician and astronomer who correctly predicted a solar eclipse in 1789. Although he had little formal education, Banneker published an almanac (1791-1802) containing his calculations of tidal cycles and future eclipses. Banneker, Benjamin [(ban-i-kuhr)] An African-American scientist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Banneker taught himself calculus and […]