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Baran bo Odar
Baran bo Odar, born 1978 in Olten, Switzerland, is a director and screenwriter; with Jantje Friese he created Dark, the first German Netflix series (2017–2020), and 1899 (2022), after the features The Silence and Who Am I.
Barangay
Barangay: the lowest political administrative unit of the Philippines, descended from precolonial balangai boat communities led by datus, renamed barrio under Spain, and now a 42,011-unit grassroots government with elected captains and councils.
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel (Gin Kings), PBA team owned by Ginebra San Miguel Inc. of San Miguel Corporation; most popular PBA club, eleven titles, Tim Cone coach, won the 2026 Commissioner's Cup over TNT.
Baranivka Raion
Baranivka Raion (Баранівський район), a former district of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Baranivka on the Sluch River; established 1923, abolished in the July 2020 reform and merged into Zviahel Raion.
Baranof Island
Baranof Island (Tlingit Shee), a 4,065 km2 mountainous island in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago; site of Sitka, former Russian-American capital, heavy glaciation, and Tlingit-Russian conflict of 1802 and 1804.
Baranya County
Baranya County (Baranya megye) is Hungary's southernmost county, seat Pécs, area 4,430 km², population 348,781 (2026), 301 settlements, declining population, machinery industry dominant in Pécs.
Baraqish
Barāqish, known in antiquity as Yathill, is a walled city site in Wādī al-Jawf, Yemen, second city and religious center of the Minaean kingdom of Maʿīn.
Bārāsat
Bārāsat (Barasat, বারাসত) is the district headquarters town of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on Kolkata's outskirts; a municipality since 1869 with about 278,000 people (2011) and a Yellow Line metro terminus under construction.
Barasertib
Barasertib (AZD1152) is AstraZeneca's discontinued phosphate prodrug of the selective Aurora kinase B inhibitor AZD1152-HQPA (AZD2811), studied mainly in acute myeloid leukemia before phase III failure.
Barasingha (बारहसिंगा)
Barasingha (बारहसिंगा), or swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii), is a Vulnerable grassland deer endemic to India and Nepal; fewer than 5,000 remain, with recoveries at Kanha and Satpura.
Barath Shankar Subramanian
Barath Shankar Subramanian is a Partner at Accel who invests in early-stage Indian startups across AI, consumer, enterprise, and fintech, including Captain Fresh and SigTuple.
Barattarna
Barattarna, also written Parattarna, was a king of Mitanni, the Hurrian state of Upper Mesopotamia, who flourished around 1500 BC and is known only from foreign texts.
Barauni power station
Barauni power station, or Barauni Thermal Power Station, is a 720 MW coal-fired power station at Barauni in Begusarai district, Bihar, India, transferred from BSPGCL to NTPC in 2018.
Baraut Assembly constituency
Baraut Assembly constituency (AC 51), Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh; general seat under Baghpat Lok Sabha. BJP's Krishan Pal Malik is MLA, winning 2022 by 315 votes over the RLD; seat revived under 2008 delimitation.
Barawa
Barawa, also spelled Baraawe and historically known to outsiders as Brava (Somali: Baraawe), is a port city on Somalia's southern coast and a major medieval Swahili trading city-state.
Baray
Baray are the large artificial reservoirs built at Angkor, capital of the Khmer Empire, forming the center of a water network covering over 1,000 km²; the West Baray still holds water.
Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa
Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa, known as BAKITA, is Tanzania's National Kiswahili Council, created by an Act of Parliament in 1967 to develop and standardize Kiswahili.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar) is a 2021 American comedy directed by Josh Greenbaum, written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo of Bridesmaids, with Jamie Dornan; released on PVOD February 12, 2021, it holds 81% on Rotten Tomatoes and became a pandemic cult favorite.
Barb Regnitz
Barb Regnitz is an American Republican politician and Porter County Commissioner who won the 2026 Republican nomination for Indiana's 1st Congressional District, facing Democratic Congressman Frank J. Mrvan.
Barb Wire (1996 film)
Barb Wire (1996), David Hogan action-science-fiction film starring Pamela Anderson as the bounty hunter Barb Wire, based on the Dark Horse Comics character by Chris Warner; released May 3, 1996, grossed $3,793,614 against its budget and was panned by critics.
Barbacoa
Barbacoa: Mexican slow-cooked meat, usually lamb or goat, wrapped in maguey leaves and pit-cooked underground; Taíno-derived word that gave English "barbecue"; heartland Hidalgo, Actopan.
Barbad
Barbad (باربد) was a musician, composer, and poet who served as chief minstrel at the Sasanian court of Khosrow II, credited with organizing pre-Islamic Iran's royal musical system.
Barbadian dollar
The Barbadian dollar (BBD, also written Bds$) is the currency of Barbados, issued by the Central Bank of Barbados and fixed at BBD$2 = US$1 since 1975.
Barbadian literature
Barbadian literature is the body of writing, chiefly in English, produced by writers from Barbados, whose figures George Lamming and Kamau Brathwaite shaped Caribbean literature.
Barbadians
Barbadians, known as Bajans, are the people of Barbados and their descendants abroad, mostly of African descent, in an eastern Caribbean island independent since 1966.
Barbados
Barbados, easternmost Lesser Antilles island nation, capital Bridgetown, area 431 km2. British colony from 1627, independent 30 November 1966 under Errol Barrow, republic since 2021; tourism-driven economy, CARICOM member since 1973.
Barbados House of Assembly
The Barbados House of Assembly, founded in 1639, is the elected chamber of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados, giving the island the Commonwealth's third-oldest uninterrupted parliamentary tradition.
Barbados National Oil Company
The Barbados National Oil Company (BNOCL) was Barbados's state-owned oil and gas company, handling onshore exploration and production until it merged into BNECL in 2025.
Barbados Ridge
Barbados Ridge: the accretionary prism east of the Lesser Antilles arc, built by Atlantic (North American) plate subduction beneath the Caribbean Plate at ~20 mm/yr; up to 280–300 km wide, 20 km thick, exposed only on Barbados island.
Barbados Slave Code of 1661
The Barbados Slave Code of 1661, formally An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes, was a law regulating enslaved Africans in Barbados.