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Banks of the Trinity
Banks of the Trinity is Cody Johnson's tenth studio album, a 16-track country record released June 26, 2026 on COJO Music/Warner Records Nashville, produced by Trent Willmon, featuring Luke Combs and Brothers Osborne and themed on his East Texas childhood.
Banks Peninsula
Banks Peninsula (Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū) is a 1,165 sq km volcanic peninsula near Christchurch, New Zealand, formed by the extinct Lyttelton and Akaroa shield volcanoes, named by Cook in 1770, and site of the 1840 French settlement at Akaroa.
Banksia
Banksia, genus of Australian Proteaceae shrubs and trees named for Joseph Banks in 1782; about 170 species, cone-like flower spikes, serotinous woody follicles, fire-adapted, many threatened by habitat loss and Phytophthora dieback.
Bankstown
Bankstown: former local government area in south-western Sydney, NSW, named for Sir Joseph Banks; 77 sq km, 203,202 residents (2015); merged with Canterbury on 12 May 2016 to form Canterbury-Bankstown.
Banksy
Banksy is the pseudonym of an anonymous British street artist, reportedly Robin Gunningham, born around 1972-1974 near Bristol, known for stenciled political murals, the self-shredding Love is in the Bin, Dismaland, and the Oscar-shortlisted film Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Banksy statue
Banksy statue, the Waterloo Place 'Blinded by the Flag' sculpture: unauthorized fibreglass statue of a suited man blinded by a flag, installed 29 April 2026 in London, confirmed by Banksy on Instagram, held by Westminster Council pending a permanence decision.
Banku music
Banku music is a genre term coined by Nigerian singer Mr Eazi for his signature sound, a fusion of Ghanaian highlife grooves and bounces with Nigerian chord progressions, plus R&B, hip-hop, and pop.
Bankura
Bankura (বাঁকুড়া) is a district of western West Bengal, India, in the Rarh region on the Chhotanagpur Plateau edge: 6,882 sq km, 3.6 million people (2011), famed for Bishnupur's terracotta temples, the Bankura horse, and an agriculture-based, drought-prone economy.
Bankura horse
The Bankura horse is a stylized terracotta horse made in Panchmura village, West Bengal, originally offered to deities like Dharma Thakur and now an emblem of Indian handicrafts.
Bankwest
Bankwest, also known as the Bank of Western Australia, is an Australian bank headquartered in Perth that the Commonwealth Bank bought from HBOS in 2008 for $2.1 billion.
Banky W.
Banky W. (Olubankole Wellington), Nigerian R&B singer, actor, and politician; co-founder of Empire Mates Entertainment (EME), Wizkid's former label, later a media agency; star of The Wedding Party; 2023 House of Representatives candidate.
Banliang coin
The banliang coin (半两钱) was the principal copper coin of Qin and early Han China, first issued around 378 BC and replaced by the wuzhu coin.
Banlieue
Banlieue: French term for the ring of communes around a ville-centre of an urban unit; neutral in statistics, pejorative since the 1970s for low-income grands ensembles estates, marked by QPV poverty and urban renewal policy.
Banma Zhixing (斑马智行)
Banma Zhixing (斑马智行), formally Banma Network Technology Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai-based provider of smart cockpit operating systems for cars, founded in 2015 by Alibaba and SAIC Motor.
Banna
Banna (Birdoswald Roman Fort) is a Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, Cumbria, built after AD 122, garrisoned by a cohort of over 800 men, occupied through the Roman period and into the post-Roman 6th century.
Bannack, Montana
Bannack, Montana: ghost town and state park near Dillon, site of Montana's first major gold strike (Grasshopper Creek, July 28, 1862) and first territorial capital, later home of the first successful US gold dredge.
Banned in Boston
Banned in Boston: catchphrase for the censorship of books, plays, and songs in Boston by the Watch and Ward Society and city authorities, famous from the 1920s; publishers courted bans to boost sales elsewhere.
Banner Johnstone
Banner Carruthers Johnstone (1882–1964), nicknamed Bush, English oarsman; won 1908 Olympic gold in the men's eights for Leander Club, rowed in four Cambridge Boat Races, later Daily Telegraph rowing correspondent.
Banner land system
Banner land (旗地) was land in Qing-dynasty China held by the Eight Banners, the Manchu ruling group's military-household organization, and cultivated under rules restricting its sale to non-Banner owners.
Banner Ridge (Banner Ridge Partners)
Banner Ridge Partners is a New York-based private equity firm founded by Anthony Cusano and Christopher Driessen that invests in distressed, special situations, and credit strategies.
Bannerghatta National Park
Bannerghatta National Park, a 1974-notified protected area about 22 km south of Bengaluru, Karnataka, also called Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), with zoo, safari, butterfly park, elephant sanctuary, and a contested eco-sensitive zone.
Bannerghatta Zoo
Bannerghatta Zoo, the zoo unit of Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP/BBBP), is a 731.88-hectare zoo, safari, butterfly park, and rescue centre 22 km south of Bengaluru, run by the Zoo Authority of Karnataka, holding over 2,300 animals of 102 species.
Bannerman Energy
Bannerman Energy, formerly Bannerman Resources, is an Australian-listed uranium developer whose flagship asset is the Etango Uranium Project in Namibia, funded partly by a 2026 joint venture with China National Nuclear Corporation's CNNC Overseas Limited.
Banners (ΞRS) (musician)
BANNERS (BANNΞRS), stage name of Michael Joseph Nelson (born 1986), is an English indie-pop singer-songwriter from Liverpool, formerly of the Liverpool Cathedral Choir, based in Toronto; known for "Someone to You" and albums Where the Shadow Ends (2019) and All Back to Mine (2024).
Bannock War
The Bannock War was an 1878 armed conflict between the Bannock people, joined by Shoshone and Paiute allies, and the United States Army across southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.
Bannovallum
Bannovallum (Banovallum), a Roman settlement in the Ravenna Cosmography, usually identified with Horncastle, Lincolnshire, though Caistor is possible. Late 3rd-century two-hectare walled enclosure on the Bain; sections of Spilsby sandstone wall survive to 3.5 m.
Banns of marriage
Banns of marriage: public church announcements of an intended marriage (from 'ban'), required on three Sundays; prescribed churchwide at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, still used by Anglican and Catholic churches, replaced by common licences in some cases.
Bannu
Bannu, formerly Daleep Nagar and Edwardesabad, is a city and district headquarters in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on the Kurram river; founded 1848, renamed 1903, agrarian Pashtun district of about 1.36 million people.
Bano Qudsia
Bano Qudsia (بانو قدسیہ, 1928–2017), born Qudsia Chattha, Pakistani Urdu novelist and playwright, wife of Ashfaq Ahmed; author of Raja Gidh and the classic TV play Aadhi Baat; Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Kamal-e-Fun Award recipient.
Banoffee pie
Banoffee pie, originally Banoffi pie, is an English dessert of bananas, cream, and boiled condensed-milk toffee, created by Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding at The Hungry Monk restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex, in the early 1970s from Blum's Coffee Toffee Pie.