Battery. A battery is a hardware component that supplies power to a device, enabling that device to work without a power cord. Batteries are often capable of powering a laptop computer for several hours depending on how much power it requires.ou are here: Dictionary B-Definitions. A battery is a hardware component that supplies power to a device, enabling that device to work without a power cord.
Middle name Mohammed claim. One chain e-mail claimed incorrectly that President Obama's middle name is Mohammed or Muhammed. His actual middle name is Hussein. Polls and surveys. Public opinion surveys carried out, beginning in 2008, have shown that a number of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim.
Barack Obama is most famous for being the first African American President of the United States. Growing Up. Barack grew up in the state of Hawaii as well as Jakarta, a city in Indonesia. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was from Kansas while his father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born in Kenya, Africa. After his parents were divorced, his mother married a man from Indonesia and the family moved to Indonesia for a time. Later, Barack was raised by his grandparents in Hawaii. When he was a kid he went by the nickname Barry. Barack graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983.