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Basement
A basement is the lowest storey of a building, with its floor wholly or partly below the adjoining ground, classified as full, daylight, walkout, or lookout.
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx, the English house duo of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, formed in London in 1994. Known for Remedy, Rooty, Kish Kash (first Best Electronic/Dance Album Grammy), Brit Awards, and Glastonbury 2005.
Basement membrane
Basement membrane, or basal lamina: thin sheet-like extracellular matrix of laminin, type IV collagen, nidogen, and heparan sulfate proteoglycans lining epithelia and endothelia, supporting tissues, filtering blood in the kidney, and linked to diseases such as Alport syndrome.
Basenji
The Basenji is a small, short-haired hunting dog from central Africa, known as the African Barkless Dog because it does not bark, though it is not mute.
Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina
Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina is an 1852 political essay by Juan Bautista Alberdi, written in exile in Chile.
Baseten
Baseten, also known as Baseten Labs, is a San Francisco AI inference company founded in 2019 that helps companies deploy and serve AI models in production.
BASF
BASF, short for Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, is a German chemical company founded by Friedrich Engelhorn in 1865, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, where it runs the world's largest integrated chemical complex.
BASF-YPC
BASF-YPC Company Limited (Chinese 扬子石化—巴斯夫有限责任公司) is a 50:50 BASF and Sinopec joint venture founded in 2000 in Nanjing, producing about 3 million metric tons of chemicals and polymers annually.
Bash (Unix shell)
Bash, also called the Bourne-Again shell or GNU Bash, is the shell of the GNU operating system, written by Brian Fox in 1988 and standard on GNU/Linux.
Basha
Baashha (பாட்ஷா) is a 1995 Tamil gangster action film directed by Suresh Krissna, starring Rajinikanth as auto driver Manickam hiding a don's past, with Nagma and Raghuvaran; Deva composed, 1995 Pongal release, re-released in 4K in 2025.
Bashar Al Shatty
Bashar Al Shatty, also known as Bashar Al Shatti (بشار الشطي), is a Kuwaiti pop singer who finished second in the first Star Academy Arab World in 2004.
Bashar al-Assad (بشار الأسد)
Bashar al-Assad (بشار الأسد), president of Syria 2000–2024, succeeded his father Hafez after brother Bassel's 1994 death; ruled through a security-dominated Baath regime, survived civil war via Russian and Iranian intervention, and was ousted December 8, 2024, fleeing to Russia.
Bashiqa
Bashiqa (Başîqe) is a mixed Yazidi and Christian town on Iraq's Nineveh Plain, about 25 km east of Mosul, twin to Bahzani, known for olives, its Lebanese-like Arabic dialect, and the 2014 ISIS occupation and 2016 recapture.
Bashir Badr
Bashir Badr (بشیر بدر), born Syed Muhammad Bashir, was an Indian Urdu poet who gave the modern ghazal a plain, conversational language, winning the Padma Shri in 1999.
Bashir Jumblatt
Bashir Jumblatt (بشير جنبلاط), born around 1775, was a Druze sheikh of Mount Lebanon and head of the Jumblatt family at Mukhtara, executed in Acre in 1825 after revolting against Emir Bashir II.
Bashir Salahuddin
Bashir Salahuddin (born 1976, Chicago) is an American actor, writer, and comedian, co-creator of South Side and Sherman's Showcase with Diallo Riddle, a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writer, and actor in GLOW and Top Gun: Maverick.
Bashir Sfar
Bashir Sfar (البشير صفر, 1865–1917) was a Tunisian reformist administrator, educator, and journalist who founded the Khalduniyya association, co-launched Le Tunisien, and served as governor of Sousse.
Bashir Shihab II
Bashir Shihab II (بشير شهاب الثاني) was the emir of Mount Lebanon from 1788 to 1840, first under Ottoman and later Egyptian suzerainty, dying in exile in Istanbul in 1850.
Bashir Zaib
Bashir Zaib (Bashir Zeb, بشیر زیب), Baloch militant from Nushki, Muhammad Hasni tribe; former BSO-Azad chairman who leads the Balochistan Liberation Army since 2018, behind the Majeed Brigade and the 2025 Jaffar Express hijacking.
Bashkaus Valles
Bashkaus Valles is a 246.93-km valley system (vallis) on Mars at 25.68°S, 3.26°W in the Margaritifer Sinus region, IAU-approved in 2013 and named for the Bashkaus River in the Altai Republic, Russia.
Bashkir literature
Bashkir literature (башҡорт әҙәбиәте) is the literature of the Bashkir people of the Ural-Volga region, written in the Bashkir language and studied alongside kindred Tatar and Chuvash traditions.
Bashkir revolts (1705–1711, 1735–1740)
The Bashkir revolts (Башкирские восстания) were two Bashkir uprisings against Russian rule, caused by new taxes in 1704 and land seizure under the Orenburg Expedition.
Bashkir uprising (1662–1664)
The Bashkir uprising of 1662–1664 (Bashkir: Башҡорт ихтилалы) was one of the first large Bashkir rebellions against Muscovite rule, driven by land seizures, Kalmyk encroachment, and fiscal oppression; it ended in 1664 with promised government concessions.
Bashkirs (башҡорттар)
The Bashkirs (башҡорттар) are a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people of the southern Urals and the middle Volga region, the titular population of Bashkortostan in Russia, with 1,571,879 counted in the 2021 census.
Bashkirskiyi Ural Biosphere Reserve
Bashkirskiyi Ural (Башкирский Урал) is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve designated in 2012 in Bashkortostan, Russia, covering 345,700 ha across five protected areas, notable for the Burzyan wild-hive bee and Kapova cave Paleolithic art.
Bashkortostan (Башҡортостан)
Bashkortostan (Башҡортостан), Republic of Bashkortostan, is a Russian federal republic between the Volga and the Ural Mountains, capital Ufa. Oil refining center, population about 4.07 million, Bashkirs, Russians, and Tatars; site of January 2024 Baymak protests.
Bashō (Mercurian crater)
Bashō (Matsuo Bashō crater) is a 75-km impact crater on Mercury at 32.39°S, 170.45°W, named 1979 for the Japanese haiku poet; noted for bright rays, a dark low-reflectance halo, and interior hollows.
Bashō school
The Bashō school (蕉門, Shōmon) was the school of haikai poetry formed around Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) in Edo, whose shōfū style became the tradition from which modern haiku descends.
Bashorun Gaa
Bashorun Gaa, also written Gaha or Ga'a, was head of the Oyo Mesi council of the Oyo Empire, dominant from about 1750 until Alaafin Abiodun had him executed in 1774.
Bashpajali
Bashpajali (ബാഷ്പാഞ്ജലി) is a Malayalam poetry collection by the poet Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, published in 1935, with about fifty lyric poems written between his seventeenth and twenty-first years.