The bard is a standard playable character class in many editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The bard class is versatile, capable of combat and of magic (divine magic in earlier editions, arcane magic in later editions).Bards use their artistic talents to induce magical effects. The class is loosely based on the special magic that music holds in stories …

Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District—a National Historic Landmark.. Founded in 1860, the institution consists of a liberal arts college and a conservatory, as well as eight graduate programs offering over 20 graduate …

Cephas Little Bard (April 7, 1843 – April 20, 1902) was a doctor and pioneer in Ventura, California, United States.After medical studies in Pennsylvania and service in the American Civil War, Bard moved to Ventura in 1868 and practiced medicine there for more than 30 years.He was also a collector of historical artifacts, a founder of the Ventura County Pioneers, and the …

Le Petit Bard est une copropriété unique de 860 logements (848 selon le recensement de 1999) qui a donné son nom à un quartier de l'ouest de Montpellier. Géographie. Le quartier est situé entre les quartiers des Cévennes au nord et de Celleneuve au sud-ouest et dans le canton de Montpellier-7. Il se trouve à ...

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of children's stories by the author J. K. Rowling.There is a storybook of the same name mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book of the Harry Potter series.. The book was originally produced in a limited edition of only seven copies, each handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling. The money earned at the auction of …

Cacofonix is the village bard. He is usually only a supporting character, but has a major part in the plots of some albums (see Asterix and the Normans, Asterix the Gladiator, Asterix and the Magic Carpet, The Mansions of the Gods, and Asterix and the Secret Weapon). He loves singing and playing his lyre, and jumps at every opportunity to do so.

Bard College at Simon's Rock (more commonly known as Simon's Rock) is a private residential liberal arts college in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.It is a unit of Bard College, which is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.. The school is an "early college", designed for students to enroll immediately after completing the tenth or eleventh grade, rather than after …

Taliesin (/ ˌ t æ l ˈ i ɛ s ɪ n / tal-YES-in, Welsh: [talˈjɛsɪn]; fl. 6th century AD) was an early Brittonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts of at least three kings.. In 1960, Ifor Williams identified eleven of the medieval poems ascribed ...

"The Bard" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It was the final episode of The Twilight Zone to be one hour long. A direct satire of the American television industry, the episode features a parody of Marlon Brando by Burt Reynolds, and concerns an inept screenwriter, who through the use of black magic, employs William …

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point-to-point (P2P), point-to-multipoint (P2MP), or mesh wired or wireless links. ...