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Bảo Ninh
Bảo Ninh (Hoàng Ấu Phương, born 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist, author of Nỗi buồn chiến tranh (The Sorrow of War), translated into about 20 languages, winner of the 1994 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and 2016 Simhun Prize.
BAO reconstruction
BAO reconstruction is a data-analysis technique in observational cosmology that moves galaxies back toward their initial positions, sharpening the baryon acoustic oscillation feature and improving distance precision.
Bao Shangen (包上恩)
Bao Shangen (包上恩, real name Bao Lujia) is a Chinese actress born 2002 in Shenzhen, a Communication University of Zhejiang acting graduate. Debuting via I Am an Actress (2021), she won Best New Actress at the 4th Asian Content Awards for Love Behind the Melody and played Huang Rong in Iron Blood and Loyal Heart (2024).
Bao Shanju
Bao Shanju (鲍珊菊), Chinese track sprint cyclist born 1997 in Luoyang, Henan; Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold in women's team sprint with Zhong Tianshi and 31.804 world record; silver and bronze at 2022 and 2023 worlds.
Bao Shichen
Bao Shichen (包世臣, 1775–1855) was a Qing dynasty scholar and calligrapher from Jing County, Anhui, whose treatise Yizhou Shuangji became a foundational text of the stele school of calligraphy theory.
Bao Tranchi
Bao Tranchi, Vietnamese-born American costume and fashion designer, Next in Fashion season 2 finalist; refugee background, Otis College graduate, cutout label, The Greatest Beer Run Ever costume designer.
Báo Văn Nghệ
Báo Văn Nghệ, also written Văn Nghệ, is a Vietnamese weekly literary newspaper owned by the Vietnam Writers' Association, publishing fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism since 1948.
Bao Xin
Bao Xin (鮑信) was a Han dynasty official, Chancellor of Jibei, who raised Cao Cao to the governorship of Yanzhou and died fighting the Yellow Turbans.
Bao Xishun (鲍喜顺)
Bao Xishun (鲍喜顺, Xi Shun), born 1951, is a Chinese herdsman from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, measured at 2.361 m (7 ft 8.95 in); Guinness World Records' tallest living man 2005-2009, succeeded by Sultan Kösen.
Bao Zhao
Bao Zhao (鲍照), courtesy name Mingyuan, was a poet of the Liu-Song dynasty famous for his yuefu and seven-character verse, killed by mutinous soldiers in 466.
Bao Zheng (包拯)
Bao Zheng (包拯, Bao Gong, Bao Qingtian), 999–1062, Northern Song incorruptible official, censor and Kaifeng prefect famed for impeaching the powerful; later transformed by drama and fiction into the legendary black-faced Judge Bao.
Bao'an
Bao'an (宝安区) is a district on the northwestern coast of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, home to Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport and ranked 5th among China's top 100 industrial districts.
Bao'an Ancient City Site
保安古城遗址 (Bao'an ancient city site), also 前古城遗址, a Warring States walled-city site in Bao'an Town, Ye County, Henan; excavated 2007 for Yanshan Reservoir, possibly the Chu city of Juan, national protected site 8-0089-1-089 since 2019.
Baobab
Baobab (Tumble Tree) is a 2012 dexterity card game by Josep M. Allué, published by Piatnik and Blue Orange: 2–4 players aged 6+ balance 108 hidden cards on a tin baobab tree, fewest cards wins; Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013 recommendation.
Baobab (oil field)
Baobab is a deepwater oil and gas field in Block CI-40 off Côte d'Ivoire, discovered in 2001 and producing since 2005 through the FPSO Baobab Ivoirien.
Baobab Books
Baobab Books is the name of two unrelated publishers: a Swiss non-profit children's publisher in Basel, and a Zimbabwean literary publisher founded in Harare in 1988.
Baobab fruit pulp
Baobab fruit pulp (Adansonia digitata), the dry powdery mesocarp of the African baobab fruit, is rich in vitamin C, potassium, calcium, and fiber; EU novel food and US GRAS approved in 2008.
Baobab kids
Baobab kids names several unrelated children's organizations: a Canadian kids yoga company by Karen LeSage, French music channel Baobab Kids TV, a Ukrainian theme park, a UK company, an Australian day care, and a Malmö festival.
Baochang
Baochang (宝唱) was a Liang-dynasty Buddhist monk from Wu Commandery who served Emperor Wu's court, compiling scriptural catalogs and the Biqiuni zhuan on Chinese Buddhist nuns.
Baoding balls (保定健身球)
Baoding balls (保定健身球), Chinese exercise or medicine balls from Baoding, Hebei: pairs of steel, stone, or chiming hollow spheres rotated in one hand for dexterity, hand therapy, and meditation, first of Baoding's three treasures.
Baoding cogen power station
Baoding cogen power station (保定热电厂, Baoding Thermal Power Plant) is a coal-fired cogeneration plant in Baoding, Hebei, China, founded in 1958 and a main winter heat source for the city.
Baoding Zoo
Baoding Zoo (保定市动物园), Hebei, China: a 13-hectare city zoo founded in 1921 as Cao Kun's Chengnan Park, renamed People's Park in 1952, holding 130-plus species, Ming wall remains, and Yuanmingyuan Taihu rocks.
Baoding, Hebei
Baoding (保定市), a prefecture-level city in central Hebei, China, named in 1275 for 'protecting the capital'; 22,000 km², about 11.4 million residents, National Historical and Cultural City near Beijing, with Xiong'an New Area within its territory.
Baogen Shen
Baogen Shen (沈保根), born 1952 in Zhejiang, is a Chinese physicist and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician known for rare-earth permanent magnets and discovering the giant magnetocaloric La(Fe,Si)13 compounds.
Baohua Gu
Baohua Gu is an environmental geochemist and corporate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who studies mercury, uranium, and perchlorate in soils and water, and won a 2004 R&D 100 Award.
Baoji (city)
Baoji (宝鸡) is a prefecture-level city in western Shaanxi, China, at the western end of the Guanzhong Plain, known for its Zhou bronzes and titanium industry.
Baoji Xu
Baoji Xu is a neuroscientist whose laboratory established BDNF as a key regulator of body weight and synaptic plasticity; he has been a professor at UF Scripps since 2022.
Baojia system
The Baojia system (保甲) was a Qing dynasty institution of local control that grouped households in units of ten for policing, taxation, and registration, spread nationwide under the Yongzheng reign.
Baojian Ji
Baojian Ji (宝剑记, The Sword Record) is a 52-scene Ming dynasty chuanqi drama by Li Kaixian (1502–1568), adapted from the Lin Chong story in the novel Water Margin.
Baojin
Baojin (宝金), also known by his hao Bifeng, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji lineage honored by the Yuan and Ming courts, including Emperor Hongwu.