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Bardera Jama'a
Bardera Jama'a, or Baardheere Jamaaca, was a reformist Islamic religious settlement founded in 1819 on the Jubba River in southern Somalia, destroyed by the Geledi Sultanate in 1843.
Bardesanes
Bardesanes (ܒܪ ܕܝܣܢ) was a Christian philosopher, poet, and astrologer of Edessa, 154–222, the first known Syriac literary author and an early critic of astrology.
Bardet-Biedl syndrome
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS, Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl) is a rare autosomal recessive ciliopathy causing retinal dystrophy, obesity, polydactyly, kidney disease, and hypogonadism, linked to 25-plus BBS genes.
Bardet-Biedl syndrome 2 protein
Bardet-Biedl syndrome 2 protein (BBS2), also called BBSome complex member BBS2, is encoded by BBS2 on chromosome 16 and forms the BBS2-BBS7-BBS9 core of the BBSome ciliary trafficking complex; mutations cause Bardet-Biedl syndrome and nonsyndromic retinitis pigmentosa.
Bardhaman (বর্ধমান)
Bardhaman (Burdwan, বর্ধমান) is a West Bengal city, headquarters of Purba Bardhaman district, about 100 km from Kolkata; 314,638 people in 2011, historic Bardhaman Raj capital, Curzon Gate, and University of Burdwan.
Bardiche
The bardiche, also called berdiche or berdish (Russian: бердыш), is a polearm with a large crescent-shaped axe blade attached at two points, used in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s.
Bardiji
Bardiji, fully Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Harun al-Bardiji (أبو بكر أحمد بن هارون البرديجي), was a hadith scholar and hafiz who settled in Baghdad, dying there in 914.
Bardiya
Bardiya (Smerdis, Mardos), younger son of Cyrus the Great and brother of Cambyses II, briefly ruled the Achaemenid Empire in 522 BCE or, per Darius I, was impersonated by the Magian Gaumata.
Bardo (བར་དོ)
Bardo (བར་དོ), or antarabhāva, is the Tibetan Buddhist intermediate state between death and rebirth, traditionally lasting up to 49 days and described in the Bardo Thödol.
Bardo National Museum attack
The Bardo National Museum attack (هجوم متحف باردو) was a 2015 terrorist attack in Tunis in which two gunmen killed 22 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Bardo Thodol (བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ)
The Bardo Thodol, known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a Tibetan Buddhist funerary text guiding the dead through the intermediate state between death and rebirth.
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades) is a 2022 Mexican comedy-drama by Alejandro González Iñárritu for Netflix, starring Daniel Giménez Cacho as filmmaker Silverio Gama; 159 minutes, shot on 65mm by Darius Khondji, Venice premiere 2022, Metascore 55, one Oscar nomination.
Bardock (バーダック)
Bardock (バーダック), also called Bardock the Father of Goku, is a Saiyan warrior and Goku's father in Dragon Ball, created for the 1990 TV special, later canonized via Dragon Ball Minus and Dragon Ball Super.
Bardoli Satyagraha (બારડોલી સત્યાગ્રહ)
Bardoli Satyagraha (બારડોલી સત્યાગ્રહ), also called the Bardoli no-tax campaign, was a 1928 peasant tax revolt in Bardoli taluka, Surat district, Gujarat, led by Vallabhbhai Patel against a land revenue enhancement; it succeeded and earned Patel the title Sardar.
Bardown Roman industrial site
Bardown Roman industrial site: Romano-British ironworks at Wadhurst, Sussex (TQ 663293) on the River Limden, excavated by Henry Cleere 1960-68, producing an estimated 8,000-10,000 tons of iron, AD 120-250, scheduled 2022.
Bare (upcoming film)
Bare is an upcoming 2027 British drama, Lorna Tucker's feature directorial debut adapted from her 2025 memoir, starring Florence Hunt as runaway Sophie, with Isla Fisher and Colin Firth; filmed in London, in post-production.
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) is an American bare-knuckle boxing promotion founded by David Feldman in Philadelphia in 2018, the first legal, sanctioned bare-knuckle event in the US since 1889.
Bare Oil and Gas Field
Bare Oil and Gas Field is an onshore heavy-oil field in the Hamaca area of Venezuela's Orinoco Belt, with roughly 1.8 billion barrels of remaining reserves, operated for decades by PDVSA.
Bare Trees
Bare Trees is Fleetwood Mac's sixth studio album, released March 1972 on Reprise. Same lineup as Future Games, last album with Danny Kirwan, includes Sentimental Lady; certified Platinum in 1988.
Bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing is boxing without gloves, fought under 19th-century prize-ring rules and, since 2018, modern ABC unified rules in the US. Injuries are mostly lacerations and hand fractures; concussions are comparatively uncommon.
Bare: A Pop Opera
Bare: A Pop Opera is a sung-through rock musical by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere, following high school seniors at a Catholic boarding school; it premiered in Los Angeles in 2000.
Bareback (sexual act)
Bareback sex, also called barebacking or BB, is condomless anal intercourse; in public health usage, intentional condomless anal intercourse among MSM in HIV-risk contexts. Term arose in mid-1990s gay press among HIV-positive men, later broadened to any condomless sex.
Bareboat charter
A bareboat charter, also called a demise charter, is a lease of a ship giving the charterer full possession and control, without crew, as de facto owner.
Barefoot
Barefoot: walking or running without footwear, in direct foot-to-ground contact. Key facts: 40,000-year-old footwear history, wider feet and lower hallux valgus in habitual barefoot populations, mixed injury evidence, gradual transition advised.
Barefoot (2014 film)
Barefoot (2014) is an American romantic comedy directed by Andrew Fleming, starring Evan Rachel Wood and Scott Speedman, a remake of the 2005 German film Barfuss; it earned $15,071 and 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Barefoot doctors
Barefoot doctors (赤脚医生) were part-time rural health workers in China, promoted by Mao Zedong's June 26 Directive of 1965 and renamed village doctors in 1985.
Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン)
Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン, Hadashi no Gen) is Keiji Nakazawa's semi-autobiographical manga, serialized 1973–1985, depicting a boy's survival of the Hiroshima atomic bombing; translated into over 20 languages and adapted to film.
Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン) (1983 film)
Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン, Hadashi no Gen) is a 1983 Japanese anime film directed by Mori Masaki, adapted from Keiji Nakazawa's autobiographical Hiroshima bombing manga, produced by Gen Productions and Madhouse, released 21 July 1983, with a 1986 sequel.
Barefoot Gen 2 (はだしのゲン2)
Barefoot Gen 2 (はだしのゲン2, Hadashi no Gen 2) is a 1986 Madhouse anime film directed by Toshio Hirata, sequel to the 1983 Barefoot Gen, following Gen in postwar Hiroshima as his mother sickens from radiation.
Barefoot in the Park (film)
Barefoot in the Park (1967) is a Paramount romantic comedy directed by Gene Saks, adapted by Neil Simon from his Broadway play, starring Robert Redford reprising his stage role opposite Jane Fonda; it grossed $19,994,515 domestically.