All articles starting with B

Banu Tayy

Banu Tayy (بنو طيء) was an Arab tribe of the northern Jazira and Syria, whose Jarrahid emirs were allies and rivals of the Fatimids in Palestine.

Banu Thaqif

Banu Thaqif (ثقيف) was an Arab tribe of the Hawazin confederation that dwelt in Ta'if, custodians of the idol al-Lat, resisting Islam until AH 9.

Sep 19, 2026

Banu Tripe Hot Pot

Banu Tripe Hot Pot (巴奴火锅), also known as Banu Hotpot, is a premium Chinese hot pot restaurant chain founded by Du Zhongbing in Anyang, Henan, in 2001.

Banu Umayya

Banu Umayya (بنو أمية) were a clan of the Quraysh that produced the first ruling dynasty of Islam, the Umayyad caliphate, founded by Muawiya and centered in Damascus.

Banua Wuhu (Gunung Banua Wuhu) is a submarine volcano in the Sangihe Islands, Indonesia, near Mahengetang Island, summit 5 m below sea level. Erupted 1835-1919, building ephemeral islands; hydrothermal venting; studied as a tsunami source.

Banumbirr Vallis

Banumbirr Vallis is a 400-km volcanic channel (vallis) on Venus in the Alpha Regio V-32 quadrangle at 7S, 4E, named in 1997 after the Arnhem Land (Yolngu) word for Venus, the Morning Star.

Banvir

Banvir (बनवीर) was a sixteenth-century ruler of Mewar who killed Rana Vikramaditya Singh, seized the throne of Chittaur, and tried to murder the young Udai Singh II.

Sep 27, 2026

Banwari Lal Verma

Banwari Lal Verma, also known as B. L. Verma, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a Union Minister of State and represents Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha.

Banwarilal Purohit (बनवारीलाल पुरोहित)

Banwarilal Purohit (बनवारीलाल पुरोहित), born 16 April 1940, is an Indian politician and Hitavada editor, three-time Nagpur MP, and former governor of Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab, resigning in 2024.

Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang

半夏白术天麻汤 (Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Cheng Zhongling's Yixue Xinwu with six herbs including pinellia, gastrodia, and atractylodes; transforms phlegm, extinguishes wind, and treats wind-phlegm vertigo, headache, and ischemic stroke.

Banxia Houpo Tang

半夏厚朴汤 (Banxia Houpo Tang, Hangekobokuto), a five-herb classical Chinese medicine formula from the Jin Gui Yao Lue (3rd century) treating plum-pit qi, the globus throat sensation; also called Siqi Tang, used in China, Japan, and Taiwan.

Banya (баня) (sauna)

Banya (баня) is the East Slavic steam bath, often called the Russian sauna: 60–80°C humid steam, venik whisk massage (parenie), cold plunges, roots in Kievan Rus' and Herodotus's Scythia, distinct from Finland's hotter, drier löyly sauna.

Banyan

Banyan (Ficus benghalensis, Indian banyan, Bengal fig): national tree of India, a fig whose aerial roots become prop trunks, letting one tree cover acres; Great Banyan near Kolkata spans ~1.5 ha with 3,000+ pillar roots; sacred, wasp-pollinated, invasive in Florida and Hawaii (Chinese banyan).

Oct 15, 2026

Banyen Oil Field

The Banyen Oil Field, also written Ban Yen, is an offshore oil field in the northern Gulf of Thailand producing light sweet crude since August 2008.

Oct 15, 2026

Banyu Urip

Banyu Urip is an onshore oil field in the Cepu Block in Bojonegoro Regency, East Java, Indonesia, discovered in 2001 and operated by ExxonMobil Cepu Limited.

Oct 15, 2026

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (Kloster Banz) is a former Benedictine abbey above the Main valley at Bad Staffelstein in Bavaria, rebuilt in Baroque style from 1698 and dissolved in 1803.

Banzai charge

Banzai charge (バンザイ突撃): Allied term for massed Japanese WWII infantry assaults shouting 'Tenno heika banzai'; Japanese called them gyokusai attacks. Founding episode Attu 1943; largest at Saipan 1944; no recorded successes.

Banzai Pipeline

The Banzai Pipeline, also called Pipeline Beach, is a famous surf reef break off ʻEhukai Beach Park on Oʻahu's North Shore, Hawaii, producing hollow waves over a shallow reef.

Banzare Coast

Banzare Coast, also written BANZARE Coast, is a Wilkes Land coast in East Antarctica between Cape Southard and Cape Morse, seen from the air in January 1931 by Mawson's BANZARE and named for the expedition.

Oct 22, 2026

Banzerato

The Banzerato was the military dictatorship headed by Hugo Banzer Suárez in Bolivia from 1971 to 1978, begun in a coup against Juan José Torres and ended by forced elections.

Banzhaf power index

The Banzhaf power index, also called the Penrose–Banzhaf index, measures voting power as the number of coalitions in which a voter can change the outcome, introduced by John F. Banzhaf III in 1965.

BANZSL

BANZSL (British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language) is a sign language family grouping BSL, Auslan, and NZSL, descending from British signing transmitted to Australia (1825) and New Zealand (1868), with a shared two-handed fingerspelling alphabet.

Bao ' An Stadium

Bao'an Stadium (宝安体育场, Bamboo Stadium), Shenzhen: 40,0-seat gmp-designed field-and-track stadium built 2009-2011 for the 2011 Universiade, bamboo-inspired cable roof, renovated 2025 for the 15th National Games.

Bao (包宝宝) (film)

Bao (包宝宝) is Pixar's 2018 eight-minute animated short and Domee Shi's directorial debut, the first Pixar short directed by a woman, about a Toronto Chinese immigrant mother whose dumpling comes to life; it won the 2019 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.