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Bareilly (district)
Bareilly district, in the Rohilkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India, is named after its headquarters city of Bareilly and is known for zardozi embroidery and wooden furniture.
Bareilly (बरेली)
Bareilly (बरेली) is a city in Rohilkhand, northern Uttar Pradesh, near the Ramganga; founded 1537 by Jagat Singh Katehriya, a Rohilla capital, 1857 rebel center, and India's zari-zardozi craft hub.
Bareilly Ke Bacchan
Bareilly Ke Bacchan (बरेली के बच्चन), also spelled Bareilly Ke Bachchan, is a 2026 Hindi family dramedy on Colors TV and JioHotstar, a remake of Tamil Ayyanar Thunai, starring Pravisht Mishra and Ramneek Kataria as Krishna and Sangam Bacchan.
Bareilly Ki Barfi (बरेली की बर्फ़ी)
Bareilly Ki Barfi (बरेली की बर्फ़ी) is a 2017 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, starring Kriti Sanon, Ayushmann Khurrana, and Rajkummar Rao, adapted from Nicolas Barreau's French novel The Ingredients of Love, released 18 August 2017, earning ₹34.55 crore in India.
Bareiss algorithm
The Bareiss algorithm, also known as Montante's method, is a fraction-free form of Gaussian elimination that keeps integer matrices exact, published by Erwin Bareiss in 1968.
Barelvi movement
The Barelvi movement, or Ahl-e Sunnat wa Jama'at, is a Sunni reform movement that arose in Bareilly, India, in the late nineteenth century around the scholar Ahmad Raza Khan.
Barely Alive
Barely Alive is an American dubstep duo from Massachusetts, formed in 2013 by childhood friends Matt and Willie, signed to Disciple Recordings and fixtures of the riddim scene.
Barely Lethal
Barely Lethal is a 2015 American action-comedy directed by Kyle Newman, written by John D'Arco, starring Hailee Steinfeld as teen agent Megan Walsh, with Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Sophie Turner; released May 29, 2015, PG-13, 96 minutes.
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies: Canadian pop rock band formed 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, known as BNL. Hits: "One Week" (Hot 100 No. 1, 1998); albums Gordon and Stunt; 15 million records; Hall of Fame.
Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen
Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen (1884–1962) was a Dutch biochemist who, with Willem Frederik Donath, isolated vitamin B1 (thiamine) from rice polishings in Batavia in 1926, the first vitamin ever isolated.
Barend Van den Brande
Barend Van den Brande is a Belgian venture capital investor and founding partner of Hummingbird Ventures, best known as an early backer of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken.
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea, named for navigator Willem Barentsz, is a 1.6-million-km2 Arctic shelf sea north of Norway and Russia, averaging 230 m deep, warmed by Atlantic inflow, highly productive, and jointly fished and managed by Norway and Russia.
Barents Sea Drainages
Barents Sea Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion, number 407 in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World catalog, covering rivers draining into the Barents, White, and Kara Seas.
Barentsburg
Barentsburg (Баренцбург) is the Russian coal mining town on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, on Grønfjorden about 60 km from Longyearbyen. Owned and run by Trust Arktikugol since 1932, it had 340 registered residents in 2024 and remains Arktikugol's only operating mine.
Barentsjokulen
Barentsjokulen (Barentsjøkulen) is a 571 km² ice cap on Barentsøya, Svalbard, with four tidewater outlet glaciers including Freemanbreen, which surged in 1956; maximum measured ice thickness 270 m.
Barentsøya
Barentsøya, an island of the Svalbard archipelago between Spitsbergen and Edgeøya, about 1,288 km², part of Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973, named after Willem Barentsz though he never came near it.
Baret Montes
Baret Montes, a 170.39 km mountain range on Pluto's Sputnik Planitia western rim, IAU-approved April 26, 2018, named for Jeanne Baret, first woman to circumnavigate the globe; known for folded methane-water ice ridges.
Baretta
Baretta: American ABC crime drama (1975–1978, 82 episodes) starring Robert Blake as undercover detective Tony Baretta, retooled from Toma; won two Emmys, famous for the cockatoo Fred.
Baretto
Baretto: Italian diminutive for a small neighborhood bar, and the name of several venues, chiefly Baretto 1957, the historic San Siro stadium bar in Milan opened in 1957, a gathering point for Inter and AC Milan fans.
Barfi! (बर्फी!)
Barfi! (बर्फी!) is a 2012 Hindi romantic comedy-drama by Anurag Basu starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Ileana D'Cruz; India's Oscar entry for 2013 and one of 2012's highest-grossing Bollywood films.
Barfly (film)
Barfly (1987) is Barbet Schroeder's comedy-drama from Charles Bukowski's only screenplay, a semi-autobiographical story of Henry Chinaski, starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, financed by Cannon Films after a seven-year struggle.
Barfuss
Barfuss (Barefoot) is a 2005 German romantic comedy-drama directed by and starring Til Schweiger with Johanna Wokalek; a job-loser saves a psychiatric patient who follows him barefoot. Released 31 March 2005, 1.5 million admissions, FBW wertvoll, remade in the US in 2014.
Barga
Barga was a land or polity of northern Syria in the 14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and Hittite texts of Muršili II's reign.
Bargain (몸값)
Bargain (몸값, Momgap) is a 2022 TVING South Korean disaster thriller series, a six-episode one-take expansion of Lee Chung-hyun's 2015 short film, starring Jin Sun-kyu and Jeon Jong-seo; it won Best Screenplay at Canneseries 2023.
Bargain Hunt
Bargain Hunt is a long-running BBC One daytime antiques game show, first aired 13 March 2000 with David Dickinson, in which red and blue teams spend £300 on three antiques sold at auction for profit.
Bargain purchase
A bargain purchase is an acquisition where the fair value of net assets acquired exceeds the price paid, so the acquirer records a gain instead of goodwill.
Bargaining theory
Bargaining theory is the branch of economics and game theory that studies how parties with conflicting interests divide a surplus, beginning with John Nash's 1950 paper.
Barge
A barge, also called a river barge, is a flat-bottomed cargo vessel without its own propulsion, moved by a tug or push boat along rivers and canals.
Barghash bin Said
Barghash bin Said (برغش بن سعيد) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888, a son of Sultan Said bin Sultan who founded one of East Africa's oldest printing presses.
Barghash ibn Said
Barghash ibn Said (برغش بن سعيد) was sultan of Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888, a son of Sayyid Said bin Sultan who reformed the judiciary and signed antislavery treaties.