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Basick
Basick (베이식; born Lee Cheol-joo, 1986) is a South Korean rapper who won the Mnet rap competition Show Me the Money 4 in 2015, defeating Song Mino, then signed with RBW.
Basidiobolomycosis
Basidiobolomycosis is a chronic subcutaneous and occasionally gastrointestinal fungal infection caused by Basidiobolus ranarum, affecting mainly immunocompetent children in tropical regions, diagnosed by histopathology and culture, treated with azoles, potassium iodide, and surgery.
Basidiomycete lichenicolous fungi
Basidiomycete lichenicolous fungi are non-lichenized basidiomycetes that live on or inside lichen thalli as parasites, parasymbionts, or saprotrophs, including tremelloid Tremella parasites, Athelia-type corticioids, and the plurivorous Marchandiomyces.
Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota, the basidiomycete fungi, is the second largest fungal phylum, defined by the basidium producing four external basidiospores; it includes mushrooms, rusts, smuts, and yeasts, with over 52,000 described species.
Basidium
Basidium: the club-shaped spore-bearing cell of Basidiomycota fungi (mushrooms, puffballs, rusts), producing usually four exogenous basidiospores on sterigmata after meiosis; aseptate holobasidia or septate phragmobasidia, contrasting with the eight-spored ascus of ascomycetes.
Basij (بسیج)
The Basij (بسیج; Sazman-e Basij-e Mostazafin, Organization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed) is Iran's volunteer paramilitary militia, founded by Khomeini in 1979, now an IRGC branch known for wartime human-wave assaults and protest suppression.
Basil
Basil (Ocimum basilicum), sweet basil, holy basil, Thai basil: a mint-family annual herb from Africa and Asia grown for culinary, essential-oil, and medicinal use, with linalool and methyl chavicol chemotypes and DMR cultivars bred against downy mildew.
Basil al-Assad (باسل الأسد)
Basil al-Assad, the eldest son of Hafez al-Assad, was the expected heir apparent who died in 1994. He was also a medal-winning horseman and Syrian army major.
Basil Brown
Basil Brown (1888-1977), self-taught Suffolk archaeologist who discovered the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939 for Edith Pretty, also excavated West Stow and Castle Hill villa.
Basil Brush
Basil Brush is a British glove puppet fox created by Ivan Owen with a puppet designed by Peter Firmin, known for the catchphrase "boom boom" and a Terry-Thomas-style voice. He starred in The Basil Brush Show on BBC1 from 1968 to 1980, moved to ITV schools reading programs in 1982, returned in a 2002–2007 CBBC sitcom, and still tours live shows.
Basil D'Oliveira
Basil D'Oliveira (Dolly), Cape Coloured South African-born cricketer of Indian-Portuguese heritage who played 44 Tests for England; his 1968 exclusion from the MCC tour of South Africa, the D'Oliveira Affair, began apartheid sport's isolation.
Basil Greber
Basil J. Greber is a structural biologist using cryo-electron microscopy to study molecular machines, known for structures of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome and human TFIIH.
Basil Hayden's
Basil Hayden's (Basil Hayden since 2022) is an 80-proof Kentucky straight bourbon launched by Booker Noe in 1992 as the lightest member of Jim Beam's Small Batch Collection, using the 63% corn, 27% rye Old Grand-Dad mashbill, named for pioneer distiller Meredith Basil Hayden Sr.
Basil Heatley
Basil Heatley (Benjamin Basil Heatley, 1933-2019), English distance runner of Coventry Godiva Harriers; marathon world best 2:13:55 in 1964 and Olympic marathon silver at Tokyo 1964 behind Abebe Bikila.
Basil Hume
Basil Hume, born George Haliburton Hume, was a Benedictine monk who served as Cardinal and ninth Archbishop of Westminster from 1976 until his death in 1999.
Basil I (Βασίλειος Α΄)
Basil I (Βασίλειος Α΄), c. 812/830s–886, Byzantine emperor 867–886 and founder of the Macedonian dynasty; a peasant from Thrace/Macedonia who rose under Michael III, murdered him in 867, reformed law, and fought Paulicians and Arabs.
Basil I Skamandrinos
Basil I Skamandrinos (Greek ὁ Σκαμανδρηνός) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 970 to 974, a hermit elevated by Emperor John I Tzimiskes and later banished.
Basil II (Βασίλειος Β΄)
Basil II (Βασίλειος Β΄), the Bulgar-slayer, Byzantine emperor 976–1025: survived civil wars, annexed Bulgaria after Kleidion (1014), absorbed Tao and Vaspurakan, and left the empire at its medieval zenith.
Basil II Camateros
Basil II Camateros (Βασίλειος Καματηρός) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1183 to 1186, installed by Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos and anathematized by a church council in 1186 for permitting a non-canonical marriage.
Basil III
Basil III (Βασίλειος Γ´), born Vasileios Georgiadis, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1925 until his death in 1929, leading the Patriarchate after the Greco-Turkish population exchange.
Basil John Mason
Basil John Mason, known professionally as Sir John Mason after his 1979 knighthood, was a British physicist and meteorologist who established cloud microphysics as a discipline.
Basil Joseph (ബേസിൽ ജോസഫ്)
Basil Joseph (ബേസിൽ ജോസഫ്), born 1990 in Sultan Bathery, Kerala, is a Malayalam film director and actor who directed Kunjiramayanam, Godha, and the Netflix superhero hit Minnal Murali, then became a bankable lead actor.
Basil L. Plumley
Basil L. Plumley (1920–2012), US Army command sergeant major of three wars, sergeant major of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at Ia Drang, portrayed by Sam Elliott in We Were Soldiers.
Basil Louis Joffe
Basil Louis Joffe is a chemical and control engineer who spent his career in optimization software for the process industries, including as Vice President of Technology at Aspen Technology.
Basil M. Rifkind
Basil M. Rifkind, also published as B. M. Rifkind, was a physician and lipid researcher who led the NHLBI's Coronary Primary Prevention Trial and the National Cholesterol Education Program.
Basil O'Connor
Basil O'Connor (1892–1972) was an American lawyer and philanthropist, Franklin D. Roosevelt's law partner and longtime president of the March of Dimes, which funded the Salk polio vaccine.
Basil of Caesarea
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was a bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (c. 330–379) who shaped Eastern monasticism and Trinitarian theology.
Basil of Seleucia
Basil of Seleucia (Greek: Βασίλειος) was a fifth-century bishop and metropolitan of Seleucia in Isauria and a prolific homilist, known for reversing his christological votes between 448 and 451.
Basil Poledouris
Basil Konstantine Poledouris (1945–2006), Greek-American Hollywood film composer of 80+ scores; known for Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, Lonesome Dove (Emmy 1989), The Hunt for Red October, and Starship Troopers.
Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone (1892–1967) was a South African-born British actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films between 1939 and 1946 and for screen villain roles.