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Barnum (musical)
Barnum is a 1980 Cy Coleman-Michael Stewart-Mark Bramble circus musical about P.T. Barnum; it ran 854 Broadway performances, won three Tonys, and starred Jim Dale and Glenn Close.
Barnum effect
Barnum effect, also called Forer effect or fallacy of personal validation: cognitive bias in which people accept vague, general personality statements as uniquely accurate; first demonstrated by Bertram Forer in 1948, named by Paul Meehl.
Barnum's American Museum
Barnum's American Museum, also called P.T. Barnum's American Museum, was P.T. Barnum's New York exhibition hall at Broadway and Ann Street, 1841-1868, famous for the Feejee Mermaid hoax, live beluga whales, and two destructive fires.
Barnwell (nuclear waste site)
Barnwell, formally the Chem-Nuclear Site, is a commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in Barnwell County, South Carolina, operating by shallow land burial since 1971.
Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant
The Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant was a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant built at Barnwell, South Carolina, halted by President Carter's 1977 reprocessing deferral and closed in 1983 without ever operating.
Barnwood Roman cemetery
Barnwood Roman cemetery: Romano-British burial grounds along Ermin Street east of Gloucester, from a 1st-century burial plot with lead ossuarium to the 1998-9 Well's Bridge enclosed cemetery and 2020-21 Centre Severn farmstead finds.
Barnyard (film)
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy directed by Steve Oedekerk about farm animals that act human whenever people are away.
Baro Bhuyan
The Baro Bhuyan (বারো ভূঁইয়ে), meaning the twelve landholders, was a confederacy of chiefs of eastern Bengal who resisted Mughal expansion under Isa Khan from 1576 to 1612.
Barocaloric effect
The barocaloric effect is a reversible temperature or entropy change in a material caused by applying or removing hydrostatic pressure, one of the four caloric effects.
Barocaloric effect in plastic crystals
The barocaloric effect in plastic crystals is the large reversible entropy and temperature change produced when pressure drives a solid–solid transition, reaching values comparable to refrigerant R134a.
Barocaloric plastic crystals
Barocaloric plastic crystals are orientationally disordered molecular solids that change temperature under pressure through solid-solid order-disorder transitions, offering solid-state refrigeration without hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants like R134a.
Barochan Hill
Barochan Hill: Roman fort near Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, also recorded as Coria. Flavian fort built c. AD 79-80 during Agricola's campaigns, occupied about a decade, scheduled monument SM3318.
Barocius (lunar crater)
Barocius is an 82.72 km lunar impact crater at 44.98° S, 16.81° E in the southern highlands, named in 1935 after the Italian mathematician Francesco Barozzi (Franciscus Barocius, 1537–1604), with lettered satellite craters B through L approved in 2006.
Baroclinic instability
Baroclinic instability is a fluid-dynamical instability of rotating, stratified flow that converts available potential energy from a horizontal temperature gradient into kinetic energy, and it is the primary cause of synoptic-scale midlatitude storms.
Baroda College
Baroda College, formally the Baroda College of Science, was a college in the princely state of Baroda, India, opened in 1881 under Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III.
Baroda Residency
The Baroda Residency was the British political establishment at the court of the Gaekwad of Baroda, set up after the 1802 treaty with the East India Company.
Baroda school
The Baroda school is a movement in modern Indian art tied to the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, known for narrative figuration.
Baroda State
Baroda State, a Maratha princely state in western India ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty from c. 1721, under British subsidiary alliance from 1802; reformed under Sayajirao III, merged into Bombay State on 1 May 1949.
Baroka
Baroka FC (Bakgaga), South African club from Ga-Mphahlele near Polokwane founded 2007 by Khurishi Mphahlele; 2015/16 NFD champions, 2017/18 Telkom Knockout winners, six Premiership seasons, now in ABC Motsepe League after 2026 relegation.
Barolo
Barolo: Piedmont's flagship DOCG red wine, made only from Nebbiolo in 11 Langhe communes near Alba; aged at least 38 months, famed as "the king of wines" and distinct from Barbaresco.
Barom Reachea I
Barom Reachea I was king of Cambodia from 1566 to 1576, ruling from Lovek. He succeeded Ang Chan I and led invasions of Ayutthaya in 1570 and 1575.
Barom Reachea IV
Barom Reachea IV, also known as Srei Soriyopor, was King of Cambodia from 1603 to 1618 who reunified the country and initiated a marriage alliance with Vietnam.
Barometer
A barometer, historically known as a weather glass, is an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure. Invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1644, it underpins weather forecasting, aviation altimeters, and smartphone pressure sensors.
Barometric formula
The barometric formula, or barometric law, is the equation giving atmospheric pressure as a function of altitude, derived from hydrostatic balance and the ideal gas law.
Baron
Baron: lowest rank of the British peerage, below viscount; historically a term for nobles holding land directly from the king, central to Magna Carta 1215, equivalent to German Freiherr.
Baron Ambrosia
Baron Ambrosia is a fictional character created by filmmaker Justin Fornal. He stars in the BronxNet show Bronx Flavor, which ran for 34 episodes starting in 2008.
Baron Chanda
Baron Chanda is an Indian-born American biophysicist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who studies how voltage-gated and temperature-sensitive ion channels signal electrically.
Baron Corbin
Baron Corbin (Thomas Pestock, also Bishop Dyer) is an American wrestler and ex-NFL practice-squad lineman; WWE US Champion 2017 and 2026, 2019 King of the Ring, 2017 Money in the Bank, NXT and MLW tag champion.
Baron d'Holbach
Baron d'Holbach (Paul-Henri Thiry, 1723–1789), French Enlightenment philosopher of German origin, Paris salon host, Encyclopédie contributor, and author of the materialist, atheistic Système de la nature (1770).
Baron Danglars
Baron Danglars, a character in Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo), is the Pharaon's purser who frames Edmond Dantès, rises to a wealthy Parisian banker and baron, and is financially ruined by the Count's revenge.