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Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनू मैं तेरी दुल्हन)
Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनूँ मैं तेरी दुल्हन) is a Zee TV Hindi drama serial aired 14 August 2006 to 28 May 2009, 700 episodes, starring Divyanka Tripathi as Vidya, Sharad Malhotra as Sagar, and Kamya Punjabi as Sindoora, produced by Shakuntalam Telefilms.
Banorte
Banorte (Banco Mercantil del Norte) is one of Mexico's top three banking groups by assets, founded in Monterrey, publicly traded, and controlled by the Hank González family since 1992.
Banpu Power
Banpu Power was a Thai power generating company, established in 1996 as a Banpu subsidiary, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2016, and amalgamated with Banpu in 2026.
Banpur Mound
Banpur Mound: ancient mounds (kheras) at Banpur, Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India; chiefly Ganesh Khera with a large 22-armed Chandela-era Ganesha, plus Maniktila and Pali Khera, ASI-protected Jain temples and the Sahasrakut Chaityalaya.
Banqi
Banqi (半棋, Chinese dark chess, anqi) is a two-player hidden-piece game using 32 xiangqi pieces shuffled face-down on a 4×8 half board; first flip assigns colors, captures follow a rank ladder with a jumping cannon, distinct from Dark Chess and jieqi.
Banqiao Dam
The Banqiao Dam, built on the Ru River in Henan, China, in 1951 and 1952, failed in August 1975 during Typhoon Nina's record rainfall, killing tens of thousands.
Banqiao District
Banqiao District (板橋區), seat district of New Taipei City, Taiwan; formerly Fangqiao, a Qing river-trade town with a 1855 walled city built by the Lin family; New Taipei's most populous district, 553,538 residents in 2024.
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) is the cantonal bank of the Swiss canton of Vaud, founded in 1845, majority-owned by the canton, and the second-largest Swiss cantonal bank.
Banque Centrale Populaire
Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) is a Moroccan bank, listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange since 2004 and the listed central entity of the Crédit Populaire du Maroc group.
Banque du Liban
Banque du Liban (BDL) is the central bank of Lebanon, which financed the state and set the exchange rate until the banking system collapsed in 2019.
Banque Générale
Banque Générale was a private bank founded by John Law in 1716, the first central bank in France; it became the Banque Royale in 1718, whose paper money drove the Mississippi bubble that collapsed in 1720.
Banque Saudi Fransi
Banque Saudi Fransi is a Saudi joint-stock universal bank headquartered in Riyadh, founded by royal decree in 1977 from French bank branches, with corporate banking making up about 80% of its loan book.
Banquet
Banquet: a formal, elaborate meal for many people on a special occasion; from French banc (bench), once meaning a sweet course; spans Roman convivium, Joseon royal feasts, and modern plated or buffet catering.
Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II was the ten-day inaugural feast the Assyrian king held at his rebuilt capital Kalhu in 879 BCE, feeding 69,574 guests, as recorded on his Banquet Stele.
Banquet of Chestnuts
Banquet of Chestnuts (Ballo delle castagne): alleged orgy arranged by Cesare Borgia in the Apostolic Palace, Rome, 30-31 October 1501 with Pope Alexander VI; described mainly in Burchard's Liber Notarum and historically disputed.
Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II
The Banquet Stele of Ashurnasirpal II, also called Banquet Stela, is a sandstone stele from Nimrud recording a ten-day banquet for 69,574 guests around 879 BC.
Banquo
Banquo is a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth: a Scottish general and Thane of Lochaber, Macbeth's friend turned victim. Prophecy says his descendants will be kings; murdered by Macbeth, he haunts the banquet as a ghost and was recast from Holinshed's accomplice to flatter James I.
Banrock Station Wetland Complex
Banrock Station Wetland Complex: 1,375 ha Ramsar wetland (listed 21 October 2002) on the Murray River floodplain, Riverland, South Australia; first SA Ramsar site entirely on private land, managed by Accolade Wines, restored through wet-dry cycling.
Bans on circus animals
Bans on circus animals: legal prohibitions or restrictions on animals, especially wild animals, in circuses, adopted in 51 countries including nationwide bans in most of Europe and Latin America, with no US federal ban.
Bansha no goku
Bansha no goku (蛮社の獄) was the 1839 persecution in Edo of Western-studies scholars, including Watanabe Kazan and Takano Chōei, who criticized the shogunate's expulsion of foreign ships.
Banshee
Banshee (bean sí, "woman of the fairy mound") is the keening female death-messenger of Irish folklore, attached to old Gaelic families, studied by Patricia Lysaght (1986), with the Scottish bean nighe as counterpart.
Banshee (film)
Banshee (2006) is an American Oxygen TV action-thriller directed by Kari Skogland, written by Kirsten Elms, starring Taryn Manning as car thief Sage hunted by a DJ serial killer (Christian Campbell); 96 min, R, distinct from the 2003 UK Banshee.
Banshee (TV series)
Banshee (Cinemax, 2013–2016) is an American action crime drama created by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler, starring Antony Starr as ex-con thief Lucas Hood posing as a Pennsylvania sheriff; four seasons, 90% Rotten Tomatoes.
Banshilal Gurjar
Banshilal Gurjar is an Indian BJP politician from Madhya Pradesh, elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2024 and appointed national president of the BJP Kisan Morcha in 2026.
Bansho Shirabesho
Bansho Shirabesho (蕃書調所), the Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books, was the shogunate's institute for Western learning in Edo, founded in 1856 and a forerunner of the University of Tokyo.
Banska Bystrica
Banská Bystrica (Neusohl, Besztercebánya) is a central Slovak city chartered by Bela IV in 1255, a copper-mining hub under the Thurzo-Fugger company, center of the 1944 Slovak National Uprising, with about 72,500 residents.
Banskhera and Madhainagar copper-plate inscriptions of Harsha
The Banskhera and Madhainagar (Madhuban) copper-plate inscriptions are two royal charters of Emperor Harshavardhana recording land grants to Brahmin beneficiaries, dated circa 628 and 631 CE and counted among the principal sources for his biography.
Bansko (Банско)
Bansko (Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria at the foot of the Pirin mountains, 150 km from Sofia, transformed by a 2003 gondola lift into the country's flagship ski resort.
Bansuri (बाँसुरी)
Bansuri (बाँसुरी), North Indian keyless side-blown bamboo flute with six or seven holes, 30–100 cm long; adapted for Hindustani classical music by Pannalal Ghosh and associated with Krishna.
Bansuri Swaraj
Bansuri Swaraj, born 1984, is an Indian BJP politician and lawyer, daughter of former Union minister Sushma Swaraj, representing New Delhi in the Lok Sabha since 2024.