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Barack Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center is a privately operated 19.3-acre Obama Foundation campus in Jackson Park, Chicago, opened June 19, 2026. Unlike NARA presidential libraries, it has no on-site archives; the all-digital Obama Presidential Library remains with NARA.
Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories
Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories, also called Barack Obama and Islam, are false claims from 2004 onward that Obama was secretly a Muslim, all debunked by fact-checkers.
Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982) was a Kenyan economist who studied at Harvard and criticized Kenya's 1965 development plan; he was the father of President Barack Obama.
Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates
Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates: Sonia Sotomayor (2009, first Latina justice, 68-31), Elena Kagan (2010, 63-37), and Merrick Garland (2016, never confirmed after Scalia's death).
Barack Obama's summer playlist
Barack Obama's summer playlist is the annual hand-picked song list Obama has shared each summer since 2015, first on the White House Spotify account in Day and Night halves, later on personal social media, briefly skipped in 2025.
Baracoa
Baracoa, Cuba's oldest town (founded 1511/1512 by Diego Velázquez as Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), first capital of the island, in Guantánamo province; supplies ~70% of Cuban cocoa, near El Yunque and the Toa River.
Baradarha power station
Baradarha power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station at Baradarha in Janjgir-Champa district, Chhattisgarh, India, owned by DB Power Limited, part of the Dainik Bhaskar media group.
Bărăgan deportations
The Bărăgan deportations (Deportările în Bărăgan) were a forced displacement by Romania's communist regime in June 1951, moving roughly 40,000 people from the Banat border region to the Bărăgan Plain.
Barah Maha (Punjabi poetry)
Barah Maha, also called Barahmasa, is a Punjabi folk-poetry form of twelve stanzas in which each month mirrors a woman's longing for her absent beloved.
Barahmaha
Barahmaha, also written Barah Maha or barahmasa, is a poetic genre of North India in which twelve stanzas, one per month, voice a woman's longing for her separated beloved.
Barahmasa
Barahmasa (बारहमासा, "twelve months") is a song and poetic genre of the Indian subcontinent in which the twelve months are described through a woman's longing for her absent beloved.
Barail
Barail (also Baralie, Sbaraglio) is a medieval Italian tables game of the backgammon family, recorded from the 13th century, played counter-clockwise from one side with 15 men and three dice or two dice plus a fixed six.
Baraipur, Khajuhi Ganj Mound
Baraipur, Khajuhi Ganj: mauza at Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, holding the ASI centrally protected Ancient Buddhist site of Sarnath (Dhamek Stupa, Jagat Singh Stupa, Major Kittoe's monastery), protected 1928, excavated by Oertal 1904-05.
Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome
Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome (BWCFF) is a rare genetic disorder marked by distinctive facial features, intellectual disability, and brain, eye, and other malformations, caused by ACTB or ACTG1 mutations.
Baraja Bendita
Baraja Bendita ("Blessed Deck of Cards") is Becky G's fifth studio album, released August 14, 2026 on RCA Records: 17 tracks, about 47 minutes, mixing reggaetón, Latin pop, house, and rap, preceded by singles PATRONA, EPA, and MARATHON.
Barak 8 (ברק 8)
Barak 8 (ברק 8), also designated LR-SAM or MR-SAM, is a long- and medium-range surface-to-air missile system jointly developed by India's DRDO and Israel Aerospace Industries.
Barak A. Cohen
Barak A. Cohen is a computational biologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for thermodynamic models of cis-regulation and massively parallel reporter assays.
Barak Khan
Barak Khan (Барақ хан), who died in 1427 or 1428, was a Jochid ruler who briefly seized the Golden Horde throne and fathered Janibek Khan.
Barak MX
Barak MX is an integrated air and missile defense system developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and unveiled in 2018, fielding Barak interceptors with ranges from 15 to 150 km.
Barak Sultan
Barak Sultan (Барақ сұлтан), died 1750, was a Kazakh sultan of the Middle Zhuz who became khan in 1749 and killed his rival Abulkhair Khan.
Barak, Kyrgyzstan
Barak was a Kyrgyz exclave village in Uzbekistan's Andijan region, the only Kyrgyz enclave in Uzbekistan; isolated after a 2013 border closure, it was transferred to Uzbekistan in a 2024 land swap and its residents resettled to Jany-Barak, Osh region.
Baraka (film)
Baraka is a 1992 non-narrative documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, shot in 70mm across 24 countries with no narration, music by Michael Stearns, followed by Samsara (2011).
Baraka (Mortal Kombat)
Baraka is a Mortal Kombat fighting game character, a bladed, cannibalistic Tarkatan warrior introduced in Mortal Kombat II (1993) serving Shao Kahn, later reimagined sympathetically in MK11 and Mortal Kombat 1 and played by C.J. Bloomfield in the 2026 Mortal Kombat II film.
Barakah nuclear power plant
The Barakah nuclear power plant is a four-unit nuclear station in Abu Dhabi, the first in the Arab world, supplying about a quarter of the UAE's electricity.
Barakaldo
Barakaldo, Basque municipality in Bizkaia on the Nervión estuary near Bilbao; second-largest Bizkaia city, former steel town, home of the Bilbao Exhibition Centre and Zamalanda park.
Barakamon
Barakamon (ばらかもん) is Satsuki Yoshino's slice-of-life manga about calligrapher Seishuu Handa exiled to the Goto Islands; 18 volumes, 10 million copies, 2014 anime by Kinema Citrus, 2023 Fuji TV drama.
Barakat I
Barakat I (بركات الأول) was Emir of Mecca under Mamluk suzerainty from 1425 until his death in 1454–1455, deposed by Sultan Jaqmaq in 1441 and restored in 1446.
Barakat ibn Muhammad
Barakat ibn Muhammad (بركات بن محمد) was Sharif of Mecca from 1497 to 1525, first under the Mamluks and then, from 1517, under the Ottomans.
Baramulla (film)
Baramulla is a 2025 Hindi supernatural horror thriller on Netflix, directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale, starring Manav Kaul as a cop probing child disappearances in Kashmir, tied to the Kashmiri Pandit exodus; 54% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Baran (باران)
Baran (باران, "Rain") is Majid Majidi's 2001 Iranian drama about Lateef, an Iranian worker who falls for Rahmat, an Afghan girl disguised as a boy; it won six Fajr Crystal Simorghs and the Montreal Grand Prize and was Iran's Oscar entry.