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Basil W. Wilson
Basil W. Wilson was an American oceanographic engineer known for work on wave generation, tsunami hazards, and harbor surge, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
Basil Wrigley Wilson
Basil Wrigley Wilson was an American oceanographic engineer who studied water wave generation, tsunami hazards, and harbor surge, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Basil Zaharoff
Basil Zaharoff, born Basileios Zacharoff, was a Greek-born arms dealer who made a fortune as sales agent for Maxim-Nordenfelt and Vickers, becoming the archetypal merchant of death.
Basilan
Basilan: island province of the Philippines in BARMM, northernmost of the Sulu Archipelago, 31 km from Zamboanga; Yakan homeland, rubber and coffee producer, historically shaped by Fort Isabela II and the Sultanate of Sulu.
Basilar artery
Basilar artery: unpaired brain artery formed by union of the vertebral arteries at the pontomedullary junction, ascending on the pons and ending as the posterior cerebral arteries; supplies brainstem, cerebellum, and occipital lobes.
Basilar membrane
Basilar membrane: elastic membrane dividing the cochlea's scala media and scala tympani, carrying the tonotopic traveling wave discovered by von Békésy (Nobel 1961), later shown to be nonlinear and amplified by outer hair cells.
Basilar skull fracture
Fracture of base of skull (basilar skull fracture), ICD-11 NA02.1: temporal-bone skull base fracture from blunt trauma; hemotympanum, Battle sign, raccoon eyes, CSF leak; diagnosed by CT, mostly managed conservatively.
Basildon
Basildon is a town and borough in Essex, England, designated a New Town on 4 January 1949 under the New Towns Act 1946. Built around ten neighbourhoods and a pedestrianised town centre, it had 193,489 residents in 2025.
Basile Luyet
Basile Joseph Luyet (1897–1974) was a Swiss-born Catholic priest and biologist, regarded as the father of cryobiology for proposing in 1937 that rapid cooling could turn water into glass.
Basileus (βασιλεύς)
Basileus (βασιλεύς, Mycenaean qa-si-re-u): the Greek word for king, from a subordinate chieftain under the wanax to Homer's many basilē̂es, the Athenian archon basileus, and the official title of Heraclius and Byzantine emperors.
Basileuterus
Basileuterus is a genus of New World wood-warblers (Parulidae) established by Cabanis in 1849, now reduced to about a dozen Neotropical species after molecular work moved most species to Myiothlypis; its monophyly is still questioned by B. lachrymosus.
Basilic vein
Basilic vein (vena basilica): large superficial vein of the arm, arising from the ulnar dorsal venous network, joining the brachial veins to form the axillary vein; preferred site for PICC and midline catheters and used for hemodialysis fistulas.
Basilica
A basilica is a large rectangular hall with a central nave, side aisles, and an apse, used in ancient Rome as a law court and later as a church form.
Basilica and convent of S. Ippolito
Basilica and convent of S. Ippolito (Complesso di Sant'Ippolito), Fiumicino, Italy: early Christian 4th-century funerary basilica of martyr Hippolytus, Roman cisterns, medieval Conventino, Romanesque bell tower, Leo III ciborium, Antiquarium, patronal feast 5 October.
Basilica Argentaria
Basilica Argentaria, Roman commercial building in Region VIII of Rome beside the Forum of Caesar on the Clivus Argentarius; a Trajanic two-aisled vaulted portico, named in the 4th-century Regionary Catalogues, used by money-changers or metalware dealers, later a school.
Basilica Cathedral of Lima
The Basilica Cathedral of Lima (Basílica Catedral de Lima) is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Lima, Peru, on the Plaza de Armas, founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535.
Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı, Sunken Palace) is the largest covered Byzantine cistern in Istanbul, built under Justinian I about 532 with 336 marble columns near the Hagia Sophia.
Basilica Damous el-Karita
Basilica Damous el-Karita (داموس الكريطة), a large nine-aisled Christian cemetery and pilgrimage basilica outside the walls of Roman Carthage, Tunisia, with baptistery, annex hall, and subterranean rotunda, possibly the Basilica Fausti.
Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore
Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore names two Italian churches: a late-4th-century central-plan paleo-Christian basilica in Milan, and a 13th-century Angevin Gothic Franciscan basilica in Naples built over the Roman macellum.
Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana
Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana, also called Santa Maria Nova, is a Roman Forum basilica atop the Temple of Venus and Roma, burial place of St. Francesca Romana (died 1440), renamed after her 1608 canonization, with Olivetan Benedictines since 1352.
Basilica di Santo Stefano in via Latina
Basilica di Santo Stefano in via Latina was a fifth-century Christian basilica in Rome, built at the third mile of the ancient Via Latina; only foundations survive.
Basilica Hilariana
Basilica Hilariana: 2nd-century AD collegial seat of the dendrophori on Rome's Caelian Hill, tied to the cult of Cybele and Attis, named after pearl merchant Poblicius Hilarus, famous for its apotropaic eye-and-animals mosaic.
Basilica Noniana
The Basilica Noniana was, perhaps, the civic basilica of the Roman town of Herculaneum, built by its patron Marcus Nonius Balbus and still buried since the AD 79 eruption.
Basilica of Bom Jesus
The Basilica of Bom Jesus, also called Bom Jesus Basilica, is a Jesuit church in Old Goa, India, consecrated in 1605, housing the relics of St Francis Xavier.
Basilica of Constantine (Ostia)
Basilica of Constantine (Ostia), the Constantinian episcopal cathedral of Ostia Antica, founded c. 330 AD by Constantine and Gallicanus; earliest known standard basilica, only unaltered Constantinian church foundation, under excavation since 2023.
Basilica of Cresconius
Basilica of Cresconius: paleochristian five-aisled basilica (39.50 × 28 m) at Cuicul (Djémila), Algeria, named for Bishop Cresconius, known from a metrical mosaic dedication inscription; dating disputed, 5th to 6th century.
Basilica of Lechaion
Basilica of Lechaion (Λέχαιον basilica), Early Christian church at Corinth's western harbor, dedicated to Leonides and seven martyrs; 180-223 m long, built after mid-5th century, destroyed by the 551/552 AD earthquake.
Basilica of Maxentius
The Basilica of Maxentius, also called the Basilica of Constantine, was the last and largest civic basilica of ancient Rome, a vaulted concrete hall in the Roman Forum.
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, also known as Basílica de Guadalupe, is Mexico's national sanctuary in Mexico City, housing the Virgin Mary's image on Juan Diego's tilma.
Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Basilique Notre-Dame de la Paix) is a Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, the largest church in the world.