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Basque peace process
The Basque peace process is the sequence of truces, civil-society initiatives, and international facilitation that ended ETA's armed campaign without a negotiated settlement, ending in its 2018 dissolution.
Basque pelota
Basque pelota (pelota vasca, euskal pilota) is a family of Basque wall-ball games played bare-handed, with bats, rackets, or the wicker chistera basket; the basket form is jai alai. Olympic demonstration sport 1924, 1968, 1992; UNESCO heritage 2021.
Basque–Icelandic pidgin
Basque–Icelandic pidgin: an extinct 17th-century trade pidgin between Basque whalers and Icelandic traders, also called Icelandic-Basque pidgin. Known only from glossaries totaling about 900 entries published by Nicolaas Deen in 1937; mostly Basque lexicon with Romance, English, and other words, classified extinct.
Basques
Basques: people of Euskal Herria across Spain and France, defined by Euskara, a language isolate. Seven territories, Iron Age genetic continuity, fueros, autonomy since 1979, large Latin American diaspora.
Basquiat (film)
Basquiat (1996) is Julian Schnabel's directorial debut biopic of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, starring Jeffrey Wright and David Bowie as Andy Warhol, released by Miramax and restored in 4K in 2024.
Basra (game)
Basra (الباصرة), also Bastra, Ashush, or Assaba-al'-Komi, is a Middle Eastern fishing card game like Casino: players capture floor cards by rank or sums, with jack and 7♦ sweeps and 10-point basra bonuses.
Basra (البصرة)
Basra (البصرة, al-Baṣra), southern Iraqi port city on the Shatt al-Arab, founded as an Arab garrison (miṣr) about 638 CE by ʿUtba b. Ghazwān; Abbasid intellectual center, later Ottoman and modern Iraq's main oil-export outlet.
Basra Gateway Terminal
Basra Gateway Terminal is a container terminal at Umm Qasr, Iraq's only deep-water port, operated by ICTSI under a 2014 contract with Iraq's General Company for Ports.
Basra Governorate
Basra Governorate (محافظة البصرة) is Iraq's southeasternmost province, bordering Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. It holds Iraq's main seaports, about 93 billion barrels of oil reserves producing roughly 70% of national crude, and suffers chronic water crises and protests.
Basra Land
Basra Land (مدينة ملاهي البصرة, بصرة لاند) is an operating amusement park in Basra, Iraq, with a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, carousels, and family rides; distinct from Basra Family Park and Happy Land.
Basra Oil Company
Basra Oil Company (شركة نفط البصرة), formerly the South Oil Company, is Iraq's state-owned crude oil producer in Basra province, renamed in 2017 and producing around 3 million barrels per day.
Basra school of grammar
The Basra school of grammar (مدرسة البصرة اللغوية) was the 8th- and 9th-century Basran tradition of Arabic grammar, codified in Sibawayhi's Kitab, favoring analogy, and rivaling the school of Kufa.
Basra Sealines Oil Pipelines
The Basra Sealines are Iraq's offshore crude oil export pipelines, running from Basra to Persian Gulf tanker terminals and carrying most of Iraq's seaborne oil exports.
Basrah Heavy
Basrah Heavy is a heavy, sour Iraqi crude oil export grade, 24° API with 4% sulfur, launched by SOMO in June 2015 to protect Basrah Light's quality.
Bass
Bass: the double bass (upright bass, contrabass), the largest, lowest-pitched bowed orchestral string tuned in fourths, and the related electric bass guitar defined by Fender's 1951 Precision Bass.
Bass (fish)
Bass is a common name for unrelated fish: black basses (Micropterus, sunfish family Centrarchidae), temperate basses (Moronidae, including striped and European sea bass), and sea basses (Serranidae). The word has no taxonomic meaning; a 2022 study split largemouth and Florida bass into separate species.
Bass (voice type)
Bass (voice type): the lowest common male singing voice, typically E2–E4, below baritone and tenor. Subtypes include basso profondo, basso cantante, bass-baritone, and Russian oktavists; known for Sarastro, Osmin, and Wotan roles.
Bass Brewery
Bass Brewery, founded by William Bass in Burton upon Trent in 1777 as Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton, made the famous Bass Pale Ale, registered the UK's first trade mark (the red triangle, 1876), and is now an AB InBev brand brewed under contract at Burton.
Bass Brothers
Bass Brothers: Detroit production duo Jeff and Mark Bass, aka F.B.T. Productions (Funky Bass Team), who discovered and signed Eminem, produced The Slim Shady LP through 8 Mile, won an Oscar and Grammy for "Lose Yourself," and founded Web Entertainment and F.B.T. Studios in Ferndale, Michigan.
Bass Canyon
Bass Canyon is an annual three-day bass music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, founded, curated, and headlined by dubstep producer Excision since 2018.
Bass clarinet
Bass clarinet (Bassklarinette, clarinetto basso): single-reed woodwind an octave below the B-flat clarinet, about 132 cm long. First built in bassoon form by Grenser (1793); modern straight form by Adolphe Sax (1838); orchestral debut in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.
Bass diffusion model
The Bass diffusion model is a mathematical model of new product adoption proposed by Frank M. Bass in 1969, combining advertising and word-of-mouth effects into an S-shaped curve.
Bass drum
Bass drum (grosse caisse, gran cassa): a large low-pitched cylindrical drum with one or two heads, used in orchestras, military and marching bands, and drum kits, where the kick drum is played by foot pedal; entered the orchestra via Gluck in 1761 from Janissary music.
Bass guitar
Bass guitar: low-pitched stringed instrument, usually four strings, played horizontally with pickups and amplification. Invented in solidbody form by Paul Tutmarc in the 1930s; commercialized by the Fender Precision Bass of 1951.
Bass house
Bass house is a subgenre of house music fusing four-on-the-floor grooves with distorted bass music low-end, at 124 to 128 BPM, with Jauz, AC Slater, and Tchami among its central figures.
Bass Modulators
Bass Modulators is a Dutch hardstyle act founded in 2007 by Rick Buijtenhek and Roland Evers, known for a euphoric sound and festival sets at Defqon.1 and Qlimax.
Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops, also known as Bass Pro, is an American outdoor gear retailer founded by Johnny Morris in 1972, now operating nearly 200 stores across North America.
Bass Reeves
Bass Reeves (1838-1910), a formerly enslaved man from Texas or Arkansas, became one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi, serving 32 years in Indian Territory under Judge Parker and reporting over 3,000 arrests.
Bass Strait
Bass Strait is the sea passage between Victoria and Tasmania, over 65,000 km2 in area, discovered by George Bass and Matthew Flinders in 1798 and named after Bass; it holds major oil, gas, and offshore wind resources.
Bass Strait Drainages
Bass Strait Drainages, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 809 by Peter Unmack: rivers of northern Tasmania and the Victorian coast draining to Bass Strait, 105,000 km², three endemic fish, united by a glacial land bridge.