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Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins is the vampire protagonist of the American daytime serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), played by Jonathan Frid, who transformed the failing show into a cultural phenomenon.
Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones (神威勇探), CBS private-eye series 1973–1980 starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether; a Quinn Martin 'old Columbo' with a milk-drinking elderly detective, 178 episodes, Cannon crossovers.
Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Joyce (born 1967, Tamworth) is an Australian MP for New England, three-time deputy prime minister and former Nationals leader who resigned from the Nationals in November 2025 and now sits as One Nation's Treasury spokesperson.
Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty is Charles Dickens's 1841 historical novel, his first, set during London's anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, featuring the simple-minded Barnaby, his raven Grip, and an unsolved double murder.
Barnacle
Barnacles (Cirripedia, Thecostraca) are marine crustaceans related to crabs that cement themselves permanently underwater using multi-protein glue; about 2,116 species, major biofouling organisms studied for bioinspired adhesives.
Barnacle (parking)
The Barnacle is a parking enforcement device that suction-cups across a windshield until fines are paid, developed by Kevin Dougherty and first trialed in 2016.
Barnacle goose
Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis), small black-and-white Arctic goose named for a medieval myth of hatching from barnacles. Four populations (Greenland, Svalbard, Russia, Baltic) winter in western Europe; Svalbard birds recovered from ~300 in 1948 to ~41,700.
Barnaparichay
Barnaparichay (বর্ণপরিচয়, "Introduction to Letters") is a Bengali alphabet primer by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, published in 1855 and still the customary first book for Bengali children.
Barnard (lunar crater)
Barnard is a 115.73-km-wide lunar impact crater near the Moon's eastern limb, adopted by the IAU in 1964 and named for astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard.
Barnard (Martian crater)
Barnard is a 121 km impact crater on Mars at 61.06S, 61.59E on the southern rim of Hellas basin, IAU-named in 1973 for astronomer Edward E. Barnard; it formed ~3.81 Ga and shows eskers and glaciofluvial activity. Distinct from the lunar crater Barnard.
Barnard 68
Barnard 68 (LDN 57) is a dark molecular cloud, or Bok globule, in Ophiuchus about 500 light-years away, cataloged by Edward Barnard in 1919 and on the verge of star collapse.
Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle ('Barney') is a Teesdale market town in County Durham, England, named for the Norman Balliol castle above the River Tees; besieged in 1569, now an English Heritage ruin near the Bowes Museum.
Barnard College
Barnard College, founded 1889 in Manhattan, is a private women's liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University, sharing its instruction, libraries, and degree while keeping its own trustees, endowment, and Foundations curriculum.
Barnard Hughes
Barnard Hughes, born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes (1915–2006), American character actor who won the 1978 Tony for Da, an Emmy for Lou Grant, and starred in Doc, Mr. Merlin, and The Lost Boys.
Barnard Regio
Barnard Regio is a 3,200-km-wide dark-terrain region on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, IAU-named in 1979 for astronomer Edward E. Barnard, on the subjovian equatorial hemisphere, home to furrow systems and a ~750 x 450 km, ~3 km high megadome.
Barnard's Star
Barnard's Star, also called Barnard's Runaway Star, is a red dwarf in Ophiuchus about 6 light-years from the Sun, the closest single star to the Solar System.
Barnard's Star b
Barnard's Star b, also called Barnard b, is a sub-Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star, a red dwarf about six light-years away, discovered in 2024 with the ESPRESSO spectrograph.
Barnase
Barnase, a 110-residue guanyl-specific ribonuclease secreted by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, is neutralized by its 89-residue inhibitor barstar; the pair is used in plant male sterility, biosafety kill switches, and cancer research.
Barnaul
Barnaul (Барнаул), administrative center of Altai Krai, Russia, on the left bank of the Ob River; founded with Akinfy Demidov's 1739 copper-silver smelting works, population about 689,000 in 2024, a manufacturing-led Siberian industrial city.
Barnawa Mound
Barnawa Mound (Lakha Mandap, Lakshagriha) is a 50-ft ASI-protected archaeological mound at Barnawa, Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, identified with Mahabharata Varnavat; 2017 excavation approved, 2024 court ruled it Lakshagriha land, not a dargah.
Barnburners and Hunkers
Barnburners and Hunkers were rival 1840s New York Democratic factions: radical antislavery-extension Barnburners versus conservative, office-seeking Hunkers. Their feud split the party, fueled the 1848 Free Soil ticket under Van Buren, and later dissolved into Hards and Softs.
Barndominium
A barndominium, colloquially a barndo, is a steel- or post-frame building finished as a home, often pairing open living space with an attached shop under one roof.
Barnenez
Barnenez (Cairn de Barnenez) is a Neolithic megalithic mausoleum at Plouezoc'h, Finistère, Brittany, with 11 passage graves in a 70 m dry-stone cairn, built from about 4500 BC and excavated by Pierre-Roland Giot after 1955 quarrying damage.
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the United States with roughly 700 stores plus BN.com and NOOK, traces to 1873, was rebuilt by Leonard Riggio from 1971, and was revived under James Daunt after Elliott's 2019 acquisition. Not affiliated with Barnes & Noble Education.
Barnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation, founded 1922 by Albert C. Barnes in Merion, Pennsylvania, is an art education institution holding 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, and major Matisse works, moved to Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway in 2012 after litigation.
Barnes Ice Cap
Barnes Ice Cap, a roughly 5,900 km² bowling-pin-shaped ice cap on central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, is the last remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, holds Canada's oldest known ice (~20,000 years), and is projected to disappear within 300 years.
Barnes maze
The Barnes maze is a rodent behavioral test in which an animal on a brightly lit circular platform learns which hole leads to an escape box, measuring spatial memory.
Barnes Railway Bridge
Barnes Railway Bridge, also known as Barnes Bridge, carries the Hounslow Loop railway across the River Thames between Barnes and Chiswick, London, alongside a disused 1849 cast iron bridge.
Barnes Wallis
Barnes Wallis (1887–1979) was an English aeronautical engineer with Vickers, best known for the geodetic Wellington bomber, the R100 airship, and the bouncing bomb used in the 1943 Dambusters raid.
Barnes, London
Barnes (SW13) is a riverside village district in Richmond upon Thames, southwest London, inside a Thames meander. Known for Barnes Pond, Barnes Green, Barnes Common, St Mary's Church, the Wetland Centre, and its high share of independent shops.