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Baphyras Catena
Baphyras Catena is a 95-km-long chain of collapse pits on Mars in Tempe Terra, centered at 38.77°N, 84.3°W; IAU-approved in 1991 and named after a classical Greek river.
Bapi Halder
Bapi Halder is an Indian politician elected to the Lok Sabha from Mathurapur, West Bengal, in 2024 as a Trinamool Congress candidate, later joining the NCPI.
Bapineuzumab
Bapineuzumab (AAB-001, ELN115727), Janssen/Elan/Pfizer humanized anti-amyloid-beta IgG1 antibody for Alzheimer's disease; failed four phase 3 trials in mild to moderate AD, withdrawn over lack of efficacy and ARIA-E risk.
Bappa Majumder
Bappa Majumder, also known as Bappa Mazumder (Bengali: বাপ্পা মজুমদার), is a Bangladeshi singer, lyricist, and composer born in 1972 who fronts the band Dalchhut.
Bappa Rawal
Bappa Rawal (बप्पा रावल), 8th-century founder-legend of Mewar's Guhila dynasty, credited with capturing Chittorgarh and founding the Eklingji stewardship tradition; identified variously with Kalabhoja or Shiladitya, absent from key king-list inscriptions.
Bappa Rawal's conquest of Chittor
Bappa Rawal's conquest of Chittor (बप्पा रावल का चित्तौड़ अधिकार) was the capture of Chittor fort by Bappa Rawal of the Guhila line, founding the Mewar kingdom.
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri (Alokesh Lahiri, 1952–2022), Indian music director and singer called the Disco King, pioneered disco in Bollywood with Disco Dancer (1982), Namak Halaal, and Sharaabi, winning the Filmfare Award and 2018 Lifetime Achievement honor.
Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024), Pakistani Parsi novelist, author of Cracking India (Ice-Candy-Man) and The Crow Eaters; wrote five novels on Partition, Parsi identity, and women, adapted by Deepa Mehta.
Baptism
Baptism, also known as water baptism or Holy Baptism, is a Christian rite of initiation with water, by immersion, pouring, or sprinkling, admitting a person into the Church.
Baptism (Lenny Kravitz album)
Baptism (2004) is Lenny Kravitz's seventh studio album, on Virgin Records, following Lenny (2001). Originally planned as a funk record, it became a back-to-basics rock album; Kravitz wrote, produced, arranged and performed all 13 tracks, with guests David Sanborn and Jay-Z.
Baptism at the Savica
Baptism at the Savica (Krst pri Savica) is an 1836 narrative poem by the Slovene poet France Prešeren, generally treated as the national epic of Slovene literature.
Baptism of Jesus
The Baptism of Jesus is the event in which John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan River, with the Holy Spirit descending like a dove.
Baptism of Joao I of Kongo
The baptism of Joao I of Kongo was the conversion of King Nzinga a Nkuwu to Catholicism at Mbanza Kongo on 3 May 1491, crowning eight years of Portuguese contact.
Baptism of Olga
The Baptism of Olga (Крещение Ольги) was the conversion to Christianity of Olga, regent of Kievan Rus', most likely in Constantinople around 957, though its date and place remain disputed.
Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)
Al-Maghtas (المغطس), Bethany Beyond the Jordan, is a Jordanian UNESCO World Heritage site (2015) on the Jordan River's east bank, 9 km north of the Dead Sea, accepted by most Christian Churches as where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Baptism with the Holy Spirit, also called baptism in the Spirit, is a Christian concept from seven New Testament verses, interpreted variously as empowerment for witness or conversion itself.
Baptist War
The Baptist War (Christmas Rebellion, Sam Sharpe Rebellion) was Jamaica's 1831–32 slave uprising, begun as a general strike by Baptist deacon Samuel Sharpe, involving perhaps sixty thousand enslaved people, suppressed by January 1832, and catalyzing the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
Baptiste (TV series)
Baptiste is a BBC One British crime drama (2019-2021), a spin-off of The Missing starring Tcheky Karyo as retired French detective Julien Baptiste, two six-part series set in Amsterdam and Budapest, made by Two Brothers Pictures.
Baptiste Addis
Baptiste Addis (born 2006) is a French recurve archer, Arc Club de Nîmes, Paris 2024 Olympic team silver medalist and youngest French athlete there; European team champion 2024 and 2026 World Cup qualification leader.
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault is a French materials scientist working on atom probe tomography and hydrogen in metals, and a CNRS Directeur de Recherche at the University of Rouen Normandy.
Baptistery of Butrint
Baptistery of Butrint (Pagëzimorja e Butrintit): circular late antique baptistery in Vlorë County, Albania, discovered by Ugolini in 1928, adapted from a Roman bath in the 5th–6th century, famed for its seven-band mosaic floor.
Baptistery of Pisa
The Baptistery of Pisa (Battistero di San Giovanni Battista) is the circular baptistery of Pisa Cathedral, begun in 1152 and the largest baptistery in Italy.
Baptistery of Saint Louis
The Baptistère de Saint Louis is a brass basin inlaid with silver and gold, made in Mamluk Egypt or Syria around 1325 to 1340 and now in the Louvre.
Baptistina family
The Baptistina family is an inner main-belt asteroid family of about 2,500 members near 2.25 AU, named for (298) Baptistina. Once proposed as the Chicxulub K/T impactor source, it was ruled out by S-type, LL-chondrite-like composition and revised ages.
Baptists
Baptists, also known as Baptist Christians, are a family of Protestant churches defined by believer's baptism by immersion and congregational governance, arising in seventeenth-century England and now worldwide.
Bapu Gokhale
Bapu Gokhale (बापू गोखले), born Narhar Ganesh Gokhale, was the last senapati of the Maratha state under Peshwa Baji Rao II, dying in battle in 1818.
Baqa'a refugee camp
Baqa'a camp (مخيم البقعة), established 1968 near Amman, is Jordan's largest Palestine refugee camp with about 128,586 residents, one of ten official UNRWA camps, formed to receive those displaced from al-Karama camp after the 1967 war.
Baqashot
Baqashot (Hebrew: בקשות, "supplications") are petitionary poems sung by Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews on winter Sabbath mornings, rooted in sixteenth-century Safed kabbalism under Isaac Luria.
Baqer Khan
Baqer Khan (باقرخان), honorifically titled Salar-e Melli, was an Iranian constitutionalist commander from Tabriz who, alongside Sattar Khan, led the city's armed defense during the Constitutional Revolution.
Baqet III
Baqet III was a governor of the Oryx nome in Upper Egypt at the end of the Eleventh Dynasty, known from his decorated rock tomb at Beni Hassan.