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Baqi Billah
Baqi Billah (باقی باللہ) was a Naqshbandi Sufi shaykh, born in Kabul around 1564, who established the order in Delhi and Mughal India and trained Ahmad Sirhindi before dying in 1603.
Baqi ibn Makhlad
Baqi ibn Makhlad (بقي بن مخلد) was a Cordoban traditionist, born in 817 and died in 889, who pioneered the study of hadith in al-Andalus after decades of study in the East.
Baqiyya ibn al-Walid
Baqiyya ibn al-Walid (بقية بن الوليد) was a Syrian hadith scholar of the taba' al-tabi'in generation, called the hadith master of Syria, born in 110 AH and died in 197 AH (812/13) at Mecca.
Baqt
The Baqt (بقط) was a treaty between Muslim Egypt and Christian Makuria, traditionally dated to 651/652, exchanging annual Nubian slaves for grain, wine, and cloth.
Baqueira-Beret
Baqueira-Beret: ski resort in the Val d'Aran, Catalan Pyrenees, Spain, opened 6 December 1964; Spain's largest ski area with 169–173 km of pistes across Baqueira, Beret, Bonaigua, and Peülla sectors.
Baqura
Baqura (Bakura) is a two-row mancala board game from Mesopotamia, described with full rules by Thomas Hyde in De Ludis Orientalibus (1694): 2x6 board, 36 counters per player, anti-clockwise sowing, even-number chain captures, and multi-round play.
Bar (establishment)
Bar (establishment): a licensed premises serving alcoholic drinks on-site; also called pub, tavern, saloon, or taproom. Covers historical types, alcohol licensing, social "third place" role, and industry scale.
Bar (law)
The bar is the collective of lawyers licensed to practice in a jurisdiction; admission requires a law degree, bar exam, and character and fitness review. Covers the term's 1300s origin, bar associations, unified versus voluntary bars, and the NextGen UBE transition.
Bar (music)
Bar (music): the vertical barline dividing a staff into measures, each holding the beats set by the time signature; also called measure (US). Covers terminology, notation conventions, and history from mensural notation to modern use.
Bar (unit)
The bar is a metric unit of pressure equal to exactly 100,000 pascals, or about one atmosphere. Proposed in 1906, it remains common in European meteorology and engineering.
Bar and bat mitzvah
Bar and bat mitzvah is the Jewish coming of age, reached at 13 for boys and 12 for girls, traditionally marked by reading from the Torah in synagogue.
Bar association
Bar association: professional organization of lawyers, also called the bar, Law Society, or Bar Council. Ranges from voluntary societies (ABA, founded 1878) to mandatory integrated bars with admission and disciplinary powers; independence from government is a recognized international standard.
Bar associations in Latin America
Bar associations in Latin America, known as colegios de abogados, are mandatory membership corporations; in Argentina, registration with the local colegio is required to practice law.
Bar Bar Bar
"Bar Bar Bar" (빠빠빠) is a 2013 single by South Korean girl group Crayon Pop, whose viral "helmet dance" made it the group's first chart-topper.
Bar bet
Bar bet: a wager made in a bar between patrons or a patron and bartender, either a friendly challenge or a trick bet exploiting word meanings; historically tied to pub games and regulated where facilitated commercially.
Bar Boys: After School
Bar Boys: After School is a 2025 Philippine comedy-drama sequel to Bar Boys (2017), directed by Kip Oebanda, reuniting Aquino, Nacino, Pineda, and Cipriano as law-school friends around a dying mentor, released December 25, 2025 via MMFF.
Bar chart
A bar chart, or bar graph, is a statistical graphic showing categorical data as rectangular bars with lengths proportional to their values, separated by gaps.
Bar complex
The bar complex of an associative algebra A is the chain complex whose n-th term is the tensor power A⊗(n+1), with a differential multiplying adjacent factors with alternating signs.
Bar Confederation
The Confederation of Bar (Konfederacja barska) was an armed alliance of Polish and Lithuanian nobles formed at Bar in 1768 to resist Russian control of the Commonwealth.
Bar Council of India
Bar Council of India (BCI), statutory regulator under the Advocates Act, 1961 (Adhivakta Adhiniyam) for India's legal profession and legal education; sets advocate conduct standards, recognizes law degrees, supervises State Bar Councils, but does not enrol advocates or discipline law students.
BAR domain
BAR domain (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs): crescent-shaped coiled-coil protein dimer that senses and induces membrane curvature. Subfamilies BAR/N-BAR, F-BAR, I-BAR; central to endocytosis, trafficking, and actin-linked membrane remodeling.
Bar examination
Bar examination: the US licensing test for lawyers, historically essay-based since 1855, now the NCBE UBE (MBE, MEE, MPT) transitioning to the laptop-based NextGen UBE from July 2026.
Bar form
Bar form (German: Barform) is a musical form with the AAB pattern, two repeated Stollen followed by a contrasting Abgesang, used by the Minnesinger and Meistersinger.
Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor, Maine: town on Mount Desert Island, gateway to Acadia National Park; 5,089 residents (2020), tourism- and cruise-driven economy, 1,000-passenger cruise cap contested in court.
Bar Hebraeus
Bar Hebraeus, also known as Abu'l-Faraj, was a Syriac Orthodox historian and polymath who served as Maphrian of the East from 1264 until his death in 1286.
Bar Hill Fort Bathhouse
Bar Hill Fort Bathhouse, Roman bathhouse inside the NW angle of Bar Hill Fort on the Antonine Wall near Twechar, Scotland; 38 m by 5.5 m, hypocaust-heated, excavated 1902-05 and 1978-82, later reused as a pottery kiln site.
Bar Hill Roman Fort
Bar Hill Roman Fort, near Twechar, Dunbartonshire, is the highest fort on the Antonine Wall and the only one detached from it, set about 30 m south of the rampart. Excavated 1902-05, its well yielded shoes, coins and an altar.
Bar Island
Bar Island: name of several small islands, chiefly the tidal island in Acadia National Park, Maine, joined to Bar Harbor by a sand bar walkable 1.5 hours around low tide; also islands in NSW, Canada, and the Marshall Islands.
bar italia
bar italia are a London indie rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, and Sam Fenton, formed in late 2019 and signed to Matador Records.
Bar Keepers Friend
Bar Keepers Friend is an American brand of household cleaning products, best known for its oxalic acid-based powdered cleanser, first formulated in Indianapolis in 1882 by chemist George William Hoffman.