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Baron Davis
Baron Davis (Baron Walter Louis Davis, born 1979, Los Angeles) is a former NBA point guard, 1999 No. 3 pick out of UCLA, two-time All-Star, and leader of the 2007 "We Believe" Warriors upset of Dallas, now an entrepreneur and producer.
Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer
Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer (1858–1943) was a Swedish geologist who founded varve chronology, counting annual clay layers to build a calendar for the last glaciation.
Baron Mordo
Baron Mordo (Karl Amadeus Mordo) is a Marvel Comics sorcerer and Doctor Strange's arch-nemesis, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Strange Tales #111 (1963); a reworked version played by Chiwetel Ejiofor appears in the MCU films.
Baron Munchausen
Baron Munchausen, fictional tall-tale teller drawn from Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen (1720–1797), launched by Raspe's 1785 English book, fixed by Bürger's 1786 German version, and eponym of Munchausen syndrome.
Baron of Rio Branco
Baron of Rio Branco, born José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, was a Brazilian diplomat who settled nearly all of Brazil's boundary disputes as foreign minister.
Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi (Bawon Samdi, Baron Saturday) is the head of the Gede lwa of the dead in Haitian Vodou, master of cemeteries and guide of souls, known for top-hat iconography, the Fèt Gede festival, and a misunderstood popular image.
Baron Strucker
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Baron Strucker), Marvel Comics villain, Supreme Hydra leader of Hydra and Nick Fury's nemesis; debuted in Sgt. Fury #5 (1964) by Lee and Kirby; MCU Age of Ultron character.
Baron Trump novels
The Baron Trump novels are two 1890s children's adventure books by Ingersoll Lockwood, following Baron Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp and his dog Bulger; rediscovered in 2017, with rejected Trump prophecy claims.
Baron Vaughn
Baron Vaughn (born 1980, Portales, New Mexico) is an American comedian and actor, Bud on Grace and Frankie, Tom Servo in MST3K's 2017 revival, and co-creator of The New Negroes.
Baron Zemo
Baron Zemo is the shared name of Marvel Comics villains Heinrich Zemo, a Nazi scientist introduced in Avengers #4 (1964), and his son Helmut, the thirteenth Baron, founder of the Thunderbolts and MCU villain played by Daniel Brühl.
Baron-sur-Odon
Baron-sur-Odon, a Calvados commune 10 km southwest of Caen, France, is known for the Gallo-Roman sanctuary of Le Mesnil with its concentric decagonal enclosures, a gold-inlaid Celtic sword scabbard, and the 1944 battle of Cote 112.
Baroness (band)
Baroness is an American sludge/progressive metal band formed in 2003 in Savannah, Georgia, fronted by John Baizley. Known for color-titled albums (Red, Blue, Purple, Stone), a 2015 Grammy nomination, and its Abraxan Hymns label.
Baroness (G.I. Joe)
Baroness (Anastasia DeCobray; also Anastasia Cissarovna or Cisarovna) is the fictional Cobra intelligence officer of Hasbro's G.I. Joe franchise, Destro's companion, debuting in Marvel's G.I. Joe comic, voiced by Morgan Lofting, and now an Energon Universe figure set to defect back to Cobra.
Baroness Cash
Baroness Cash is a British Conservative politician who entered the House of Lords in 2025 and serves as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities and Shadow Minister for Education.
Baroness Mary Vetsera
Baroness Mary Vetsera (Maria Alexandrine Freiin von Vetsera, 1871–1889), Austrian baroness and lover of Crown Prince Rudolf; died with him at Mayerling on 30 January 1889, buried secretly at Heiligenkreuz.
Baroness Merron
Baroness Merron is a British Labour politician who was MP for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010 and serves as a Health and Social Care Under-Secretary.
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford, is a British Conservative member of the House of Lords, serving as Shadow Chief Whip since 2024 after seven years as a Home Office minister.
Baronet
Baronet: hereditary British honour created by James I on 22 May 1611, ranking below the peerage and above knights; holders styled Sir; 1,226 baronetcies on the Official Roll, mostly passing to male heirs.
Barong (mythology)
Barong is the lion-form King of the Spirits in Balinese mythology, a protective figure opposed to the demon queen Rangda, central to the Barong dance, rwa bhineda balance, and Bali's sacred and tourist performances.
Barong mask
A Barong mask is a carved wooden mask from Bali, Indonesia, representing Barong, a mythical protective beast, most famously the lion-like Barong Ket with a human-hair beard.
Barong tagalog
Barong tagalog (Baro ng Tagalog, "dress of the Tagalog"), also called barong or camisa fuera, is the Philippines' embroidered sheer formal men's shirt worn untucked, made of piña or jusi, made national attire by 1975 presidential proclamation.
Baroque
Baroque: ornate European style of art, architecture and design, c. 1580–1750, originating in Italy; also called barroco-derived label. Defined by drama, movement, fused arts, and Catholic Counter-Reformation patronage under Bernini and Caravaggio.
Baroque (group)
Baroque (バロック) is a Japanese visual-kei rock band formed in 2001 around vocalist ryou and guitarist Kei, which reached Nippon Budokan in 2003, disbanded in 2004, and reunited in 2011.
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is the highly ornate and dramatic style that flourished in Europe from the 17th century to the mid-18th century. Originating in Italy, it became the first visual style with worldwide reach.
Baroque Churches of the Philippines
Baroque Churches of the Philippines: a 1993 UNESCO serial World Heritage site of four Spanish-colonial churches in Manila, Santa Maria, Paoay, and Miag-ao, built 16th-18th centuries in Earthquake Baroque style.
Baroque literature
Baroque literature is the European literature of roughly 1600 to 1720, marked by the Thirty Years' War, strict poetic rules, and vanitas themes; Martin Opitz and Andreas Gryphius led it.
Baroque music
Baroque music, Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750 between the Renaissance and Classical eras, defined by basso continuo, monody, opera, the concerto, and composers such as Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi.
Baroque novel
The Baroque novel is the long, elaborate prose fiction of seventeenth-century Europe, written between roughly the 1620s and the early eighteenth century, best remembered for Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus of 1668.
Baroque painting
Baroque painting: dramatic European painting style originating in Rome around 1600, flourishing to about 1750. Also known as Counter-Reformation art; defined by chiaroscuro, tenebrism, diagonal compositions, and emotional intensity, with Caravaggio, the Carracci, and Rubens as leading figures.
Baroque pop
Baroque pop, also called baroque rock, is a mid-1960s pop/rock style fusing rock songwriting with classical instrumentation such as harpsichord, strings, horns, and oboe; pioneered by the Left Banke, the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach, later revived as 1990s chamber pop.