Babel (disambiguation)
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Babel is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon
Babylon
Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...

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Babel may also refer to:

People

  • Isaak Babel, Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer
  • Ryan Babel
    Ryan Babel
    Ryan Guno Babel is a Dutch football player who currently plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He can play as a left winger and as a striker. Babel began his career at AFC Ajax in 1998, working his way up through the youth team and into the senior squad...

    , Dutch footballer
  • Markus Babbel
    Markus Babbel
    Markus Babbel is a former international German football player, who is currently manager of German Bundesliga club Hertha BSC. He played as a defender for clubs in Germany and England.-Career:...

    , German footballer

Places

  • The Babil Governorate in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel".
  • Babel Island
    Babel Island
    Babel Island is a granite island, with an area of 440 ha located off the east coast of Flinders Island. It is part of the Furneaux Group Archipelago, at the eastern end of Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. It is privately owned.-Fauna:...

    , Tasmania, Australia
  • Mount Babel (Alberta)
    Mount Babel (Alberta)
    Mount Babel is a mountain peak of the Bow Range in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The mountain can be seen from the Valley of the Ten Peaks.Mount Babel was first climbed by A Hart, E. Wheeler, L. Wilson and H. Worsfold in 1910....

    , Canada
  • Mount Babel (Quebec)
    Mount Babel (Quebec)
    Mount Babel is the highest peak of the René-Levasseur Island, at above sea-level, which is above the Manicouagan Reservoir level. It lies within the Louis-Babel Ecological Reserve in Quebec, Canada.-History:...

    , Canada

Tower of Babel

  • Tower of Babel
    Tower of Babel
    The Tower of Babel , according to the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built in the plain of Shinar .According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where...

     - Biblical account
  • Tower of Babel (disambiguation)
    Tower of Babel (disambiguation)
    The Tower of Babel in the Old Testament was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens.Tower of Babel may also refer to:-In artwork:* The Tower of Babel , painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder* The Tower of Babel The Tower of Babel in the Old Testament was a tower built by a united...

     - various artistic and written works deriving from the Biblical account

Literature

  • Babel (newspaper)
    Babel (newspaper)
    Babel is an Iraqi newspaper which was under the direction of Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein....

    , an Iraqi newspaper
  • Babel (book)
    Babel (book)
    Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.- Radio Ethiopia :# "Notice"# "Italy"# "The Tapper Extracts"# "Grant"# "Street of the Guides"# "Rimbaud Dead"# "Sohl"...

    , by Patti Smith
  • Babel-17
    Babel-17
    Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis plays an important part...

    , a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is strongly influential
  • Babel, a journal produced by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
    Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
    The Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations is the national professional body representing teachers of all languages in Australia....


Music

  • Babel Fish (band)
    Babel Fish (band)
    Babel Fish are a Norwegian pop rock band from Oslo formed in the late 1980s. The band's members are Tarjei van Ravens , Halvor Holter , Odd Jensen , and Simon Malm , the first three as co-founders....

    , a Norwegian band who got their name from the Douglas Adams books
  • Babel (soundtrack)
    Babel (soundtrack)
    Babel is the original soundtrack album, on the Concord label, of the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning film Babel starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi and Kôji Yakusho...

    , the soundtrack album from the 2006 film
  • Babel Label
    Babel Label
    The Babel Label is a record label was founded in 1994 by Oliver Weindling. It primarily records and releases jazz albums from UK artists. Ongoing relationships include artists such as Billy Jenkins, Christine Tobin and Huw Warren. A close relationship has been forged with a number of musicians from...

    , a British record label
  • "Babel", a song from the album Heligoland by Massive Attack

Film

  • Babel (1999 film)
  • Babel (film), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Translation aids

  • Babel fish, a fictional creature from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
  • Babel Fish (website)
    Babel Fish (website)
    Yahoo! Babel Fish is a web-based machine translation application on Yahoo! that translates text or web pages from one of several languages into another....

    , an automated bilingual dictionary lookup service for words and phrases

Star Trek

  • "Babel" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...

  • Babel (planet), a neutrally aligned planet in the fictional Star Trek universe
  • "Journey to Babel", an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series
    Star Trek: The Original Series
    Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

  • "Babel One", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
    Star Trek: Enterprise
    Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001...


Other

  • Babels
    Babels
    Babels is an international network of volunteer interpreters and translators that was born out of the European Social Forum process and whose main objective is to cover the interpreting needs of the various Social Forums...

    , a volunteer translators network
  • GPSBabel
    GPSBabel
    GPSBabel is a cross-platform, free software to transfer routes, tracks, and waypoint data to and from consumer GPS units, and to convert between over a hundred types of GPS data formats...

    , GPS file format conversion software
  • OpenBabel
    OpenBabel
    OpenBabel is free software, a chemical expert system mainly used for converting chemical file formats. Due to the strong relationship to informatics this program belongs more to the category cheminformatics than to molecular modelling. It is available for Windows, Unix, and Mac OS...

    , open-source chemical modeling software
  • Wikipedia:Babel, a language template system to identify Wikipedia users speaking certain languages
  • Babel (protocol)
    Babel (protocol)
    The Babel routing protocol is a distance-vector routing protocol for Internet Protocol packet-switched networks that is designed to be robust and efficient on both wireless mesh networks and wired networks....

    , a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol
  • Babel, a Turbo CD role-playing game released by Nippon Telenet
  • 5808 Babel'
    5808 Babel'
    5808 Babel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1987 by Karachkina, L. G. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

    , a minor planet
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