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Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (San Paolo fuori le Mura) is one of Rome's four papal basilicas, built over the tomb of the Apostle Paul.
Basilica of Saint-Denis
The Basilica of Saint-Denis, a Gothic church in Saint-Denis north of Paris, holds the tombs of French kings and its 1144 choir is considered the first Gothic structure.
Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains
Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains (Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains), late 4th-century Roman hall in Metz, France, converted to a Benedictine nunnery church around 620, later a military warehouse, now a Cité musicale-Metz concert hall.
Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit
The Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit, also known as Ste. Anne de Detroit, is a Catholic minor basilica in Detroit, Michigan, founded in 1701.
Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano
Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano (Basilica di San Clemente), a minor basilica near Rome's Colosseum: a 12th-century church over a 4th-century basilica over 1st-century Roman buildings, a Mithraeum, and an imperial mint, rediscovered by Mullooly in 1857.
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
The Basilica of San Lorenzo, also called Basilica di San Lorenzo, is a Renaissance church in Florence, Italy, rebuilt by Brunelleschi as the Medici family's parish and burial church.
Basilica of San Vitale
The Basilica of San Vitale is a sixth-century church in Ravenna, Italy, consecrated in 547 and famous for its Byzantine mosaics of Justinian I and Theodora.
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe (Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe): 6th-century Early Christian basilica near Ravenna, Italy, consecrated 9 May 549 by Bishop Maximian, built over the tomb of Apollinaris, first bishop of Ravenna; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996.
Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, titular minor basilica in Rome's Trastevere district; founded 4th century under Julius I, rebuilt by Innocent II from 1140, with Cavallini's Life of the Virgin mosaics and a Domenichino ceiling.
Basilica of Santa Pudenziana
Basilica of Santa Pudenziana (Basilica di Santa Pudenziana), a 4th-century titular basilica on Via Urbana, Rome, near Santa Maria Maggiore, built over the Titulus Pudentis domus ecclesiae and holding the oldest surviving apse mosaic in a Christian church, dated 410-417.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption, or Baltimore Basilica, is America's first Roman Catholic cathedral, built 1806-1821 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for Bishop John Carroll, a neoclassical landmark with a 24-skylight dome, minor basilica since 1937.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, America's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.: largest Roman Catholic church in North America, Romanesque-Byzantine style, begun 1920, over 80 chapels, Trinity Dome mosaic dedicated 2017.
Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Paray-le-Monial)
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Paray-le-Monial (Basilique du Sacré-Cœur): Cluniac Romanesque priory church begun 1092 under Abbot Hugh of Semur as a smaller Cluny III; minor basilica since 1875, major Sacred Heart pilgrimage site.
Basilica Portuense
Basilica Portuense: the Early-Christian basilica of Portus, Rome's imperial harbour, built c. 375 AD, enlarged c. 430 and in the 6th century, abandoned in the 13th century, excavated 1991-2007 under Lidia Paroli.
Basilicata
Basilicata (Lucania) is a southern Italian region of 9,992 km² with provinces Potenza and Matera, about 530,000 residents, mountainous terrain, GDP per capita of 28.4 thousand euro (2024), and a stagnating, Melfi-automobile-dependent economy.
Basilicus
Basilicus (Salter 1849) is an extinct Ordovician asaphid trilobite genus, 485-450 Ma, marine and deposit-feeding; not the lizard genus Basiliscus, which uses Basilicus Oppel 1811 as a synonym.
Basilika
The Basilika (Τὰ Βασιλικά) is a Greek-language codification of Roman law in sixty books, promulgated by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise on Christmas Day 888.
Basilikos grammateus
The basilikos grammateus (βασιλικὸς γραμματεύς), the royal scribe, was the highest-ranking Egyptian official in each nome of Ptolemaic Egypt, handling records, land surveys, and fiscal transactions from 263 BC into the Roman period.
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, also recorded as Basilio de Santa Cruz Puma Callao, was a Peruvian painter of Quechua origin from Cusco and a leading master of the colonial Cuzco School.
Basilios
Basilios, born Gebre Giyorgis in 1891, was an Ethiopian monk of Debre Libanos who became the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's first Ethiopian-born archbishop in 1951 and first patriarch in 1959.
Basiliscus
Basiliscus is a genus of four Central American casque-headed lizards, including the green and common basilisks, famous as "Jesus Christ lizards" for sprinting bipedally across water using slap-and-stroke foot forces.
Basilisk
Basilisk (Greek basiliskos, Latin regulus), legendary king of serpents from Pliny's Natural History, a small Cyrenaican snake killing by gaze and breath; later fused with the cockatrice, a rooster-serpent hybrid hatched from a cock's egg.
Basilisk (manga)
Basilisk (バジリスク 〜甲賀忍法帖〜) is a 2003-2004 Kodansha seinen manga by Masaki Segawa adapting Futaro Yamada's novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls: ten Kouga versus ten Iga ninja in a Tokugawa succession duel. Five volumes, Kodansha Manga Award, 2005 Gonzo anime.
Basiliximab
Basiliximab (Simulect, CHI-621) is a chimeric IgG1 anti-CD25 monoclonal antibody approved in 1998 for prophylaxis of acute rejection in de novo allogeneic kidney transplantation, given as 20 mg on days 0 and 4.
Basilosaurus
Basilosaurus, "king lizard," is a genus of large serpentine archaeocete whales of the late Eocene (38–34 Ma), including B. isis and B. cetoides, apex predators with tiny detached hind limbs, misidentified first as marine reptiles.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative based in Bismarck, North Dakota, founded in 1961 to supply wholesale power to rural cooperatives.
Basin modeling
Basin modeling, also spelled basin modelling, is a numerical simulation method reconstructing a sedimentary basin's burial, thermal, and hydrocarbon generation and migration history to predict petroleum system evolution.
Basin of attraction
A basin of attraction is the set of initial states of a dynamical system whose trajectories converge to an attractor, such as a stable equilibrium or periodic orbit.
Basin Oil Pipeline
Basin Oil Pipeline is a crude oil pipeline carrying Permian Basin oil from west Texas and southern New Mexico to Cushing, Oklahoma, owned and operated by Plains All American Pipeline.
Basingstoke
Basingstoke, largest town in Hampshire, England, in the M3 corridor. Ancient market town recorded in Domesday Book 1086; cloth town, coaching hub, London overspill town from 1961, now a business center.