All articles starting with B

Barghest

Barghest (Barguest, Bargest): monstrous black goblin-dog of northern English folklore, especially Yorkshire, a nocturnal death omen with huge teeth and claws; famous haunts include Trollers Gill and York's snickelways; name etymology disputed (barrow-ghost, town-ghost, mountain or bear demon).

Oct 15, 2026

Bargi Dam

Bargi Dam, formally the Rani Avantibai Sagar Irrigation Project, is a dam on the Narmada River in Jabalpur district, Madhya Pradesh, supplying drinking water, irrigation, and hydropower.

Bargir

The bargir (बारगीर) was a Maratha cavalryman mounted and equipped at the state's expense, unlike the shiledar, who brought his own horse; the name Bargi later marked Maratha raiders who devastated Bengal from 1741 to 1751.

Sep 29, 2026

Bargmann transform

The Bargmann transform is a unitary integral transform, introduced by Valentine Bargmann in 1961, mapping functions on real space to holomorphic functions on complex space.

Oct 20, 2026

Barguzinskyi Biosphere Reserve

Barguzinskyi Biosphere Reserve (Баргузинский заповедник), Russia's first zapovednik, founded 1916 on Lake Baikal's northeast shore to save the sable; UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1986, World Heritage since 1996.

Oct 15, 2026

Barh I power station

Barh I power station, also known as Barh Super Thermal Power Project Stage-I, is a 1,980 MW coal-fired station built by NTPC at Barh in Patna district, Bihar, India.

Oct 15, 2026

Barh II power station

Barh II is the second stage of NTPC's Barh Super Thermal Power Station in Bihar, India, with two 660 MW supercritical coal-fired units built by BHEL.

Barha Sayyids

The Barha Sayyids (سادات بارہ) were a Sayyid lineage of the Muzaffarnagar region that supplied influential Mughal nobles from Akbar's reign until their power was broken in 1720.

Barham Salih

Barham Salih (برهم صالح), born 1960 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdish Iraqi PUK politician; President of Iraq 2018–2022, twice KRG prime minister, and 12th UNHCR High Commissioner since January 2026.

Barhiapur Or Bhadar Khas Mound

Barhiapur or Bhadar Khas Mound, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI site (serial 3424, Sarnath Circle) described as a series of enormous mounds.

Bari

Bari, capital of Puglia on Italy's Adriatic coast, is the region's largest city (315,284 inhabitants, ISTAT 2020) and third of southern Italy, a major Adriatic port, home of the Basilica of San Nicola, and site of an ongoing PNRR-funded BRT and urban renewal program.

Bari (district)

Bari is a region of Somalia at the country's northeastern tip, capital Bossaso, part of Puntland since 1998; economy of frankincense, goats, and fishing; population estimates 723,755 to 1,232,231; ISS insurgency in Al Miskaad mountains.

Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss, American journalist, founder of The Free Press (formerly Common Sense), and editor-in-chief of CBS News since October 2025 after Paramount's reported $150 million acquisition; former WSJ and NYT opinion editor who resigned in 2020.

BARI2D trial

BARI 2D (Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes), an NHLBI-funded 2x2 factorial randomized trial of 2,368 patients with type 2 diabetes and stable coronary disease, comparing revascularization versus medical therapy and insulin-sensitizing versus insulin-providing glycemic strategies.

Sep 19, 2026

Baria

Baria, also known as Villaricos, was a Phoenician and later Punic city at the mouth of the río Almanzora in Almería, Spain, sacked by Scipio in 209 BC.

Bariadi

Bariadi, town and regional capital of Simiyu Region, Tanzania; seat of Bariadi District Council. 260,927 residents in the 2022 census; cotton farming dominates the local economy; elevation about 1,282 m.

Bariatric surgery

Bariatric surgery, also called metabolic or weight-loss surgery, changes the digestive system to treat obesity. Main procedures are sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass; it improves type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related conditions.

Bariatrics

Bariatrics, also called bariatric medicine or metabolic and bariatric surgery, is the medical field treating obesity through medical weight management and digestive-system operations such as gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy, distinguished from general weight-loss advice by surgical indications based on BMI thresholds.

Baricitinib

Baricitinib (Olumiant) is an oral JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor, first FDA-approved systemic treatment for severe alopecia areata (June 2022), also used for rheumatoid arthritis and COVID-19; dosed 2 or 4 mg daily.

Barid

The barid (برید) was the state postal and intelligence service of the Islamic world, carried on in India under the Ghaznavids and the Delhi Sultanate.

Barid Shahi dynasty

The Barid Shahi dynasty (برید شاہی سلطنت) ruled the sultanate of Bidar in the Deccan from the late fifteenth century until Bijapur annexed it in 1619.

Barid Shahi takeover of Bidar

The Barid Shahi takeover of Bidar (बीदर की बारीदशाही) was the seizure of power at Bidar, the Bahmani capital in the Deccan, by the Barid family of ministers from about 1490.

Bariduum

Bariduum (Bariduo on the Peutinger Table) was a Roman road station in Dalmatia on the Salona–Servitium road, identified with Livno, Bosnia; home area of the Baridustae miners.

Barilari Bay

Barilari Bay (Bahía Barilari) is a glacier-marine fjord on the Graham Coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula at 65°55′S 64°43′W, named for Argentine admiral Atilio Barilari, with five tidewater glaciers and warm deep-water intrusions.

Bariloche

Bariloche (San Carlos de Bariloche), Argentine Andean city on Lake Nahuel Huapi in Río Negro; founded 1902 around Carlos Wiederhold's 1895 store; gateway to Nahuel Huapi National Park, alpine architecture, Centro Cívico, ski and chocolate tourism.

Barinas (city)

Barinas is a western Venezuelan city, capital of Barinas state, founded in 1577 as Altamira de Cáceres and twice relocated, to Moromoy in 1628 and to San Antonio de los Cerritos in 1759-1762, growing from tobacco and cattle.