All articles starting with B

Bass-D

Bass-D (Eugenio Dorwart, 1973–2026) was a Dutch hardcore DJ and producer who won the 1992 Dutch DJ Championship, formed the duo Bass-D & King Matthew, and co-founded Masters of Hardcore.

Bassai (Bassae, Βάσσαι) is an Arcadian mountain sanctuary near Phigaleia, Greece, home to the Temple of Apollo Epicurius (420-400 BC), attributed to Iktinos, combining Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders with the oldest surviving Corinthian capital; UNESCO listed 1986.

Bassam Abu Sharif (بسام أبو شريف)

Bassam Abu Sharif (بسام أبو شريف), born 1946 in Jerusalem, is a Palestinian journalist and former PFLP spokesman who became a senior adviser and spokesman to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat.

Bassano del Grappa

Bassano del Grappa is a Veneto town in the province of Vicenza at the foot of Monte Grappa, crossed by the Brenta and known for the covered wooden Ponte degli Alpini (Ponte Vecchio), Palladio's 1569 design, grappa distilleries, and DOP white asparagus.

Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes

Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in south-eastern Senegal, inscribed in 2012 under criteria (iii), (v) and (vi), covering 50,309 ha across the Bassari–Salémata, Bedik–Bandafassi and Fula–Dindéfello areas.

Bassariscus

Bassariscus, ringtails and cacomistles, a genus of two procyonid species: B. astutus, the North American ringtail, and B. sumichrasti, the Central American cacomistle.

Basscon Wasteland

Basscon Wasteland, known since 2026 as the Wasteland Festival, is an annual hard dance festival presented by Insomniac's Basscon brand at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California.

Oct 20, 2026

Basse Vallée de l'Ouémé, Lagune de Porto-Novo, Lac Nokoué

Basse Vallée de l'Ouémé, Lagune de Porto-Novo, Lac Nokoué, Ramsar Site 1018 in southern Benin: a 652,760 ha wetland complex of the lower Ouémé River, Porto-Novo Lagoon, and Lake Nokoué, designated in 2000 and extended in 2018.

Oct 22, 2026

Basse Yutz Flagons

The Basse Yutz Flagons are a pair of early Celtic bronze wine flagons found in Lorraine, France, in 1927 and held in the British Museum.

Basse-Normandie (France)

Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy), former French administrative region of Calvados, Manche, and Orne, capital Caen, 17,589 km², 1.47 million people (2010); created 1956, merged with Haute-Normandie into Normandie on 1 January 2016.

Oct 20, 2026

Basse-Terre

Basse-Terre, western volcanic half of Guadeloupe (848 km²), Lesser Antilles; home of the 1,467 m Soufrière, highest Lesser Antilles peak, built since ~2.8 Ma by southward-migrating volcanism, with the town of Basse-Terre as Guadeloupe's capital.

Bassekou Kouyaté

Bassekou Kouyaté, born 1966 in the Ségou region of Mali, is a ngoni player and bandleader who leads the amplified ngoni quartet Ngoni Ba.

Sep 21, 2026

Bassem A. Hassan

Bassem A. Hassan, also published as Bassem Hassan, is a Belgian-trained developmental neurobiologist who leads the laboratory of Brain Development at the Paris Brain Institute.

Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف)

Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف), born 1974, Egyptian heart surgeon turned satirist; hosted Al Bernameg (2011–2014), the Middle East's first Daily Show-style political satire program, was prosecuted under Morsi, exiled in 2014, and revived his fame with 2023 Piers Morgan interviews.

Basset Hound

Basset Hound, a short-legged French scent hound (basset = French for low) with long ears, heavy bone, and scenting skill second only to the Bloodhound; AKC-recognized 1885, standard unchanged since 1964.

Basseterre

Basseterre, capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis on the island's southwest coast, about 16,000 residents; founded by the French in 1627, British capital from 1727, home to Port Zante cruise port.

Bassetki

Bassetki is a Bronze Age settlement mound in Dohuk Province, Iraq, identified as the ancient city Mardaman and known for a copper statue base of Naram-Sin.

Bassetki Statue

The Bassetki Statue is a copper statue base bearing an Old Akkadian inscription of Naram-Sin of Agade, found at Bassetki, ancient Mardaman, in northern Iraq.

Oct 15, 2026

Bassett Furniture

Bassett Furniture is an American manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of home furnishings, founded in 1902 in Bassett, Virginia, and by 1960 the world's largest producer of wood furniture.

Basshunter

Basshunter, real name Jonas Erik Altberg, is a Swedish singer, producer, and DJ whose 2008 single "Now You're Gone" spent five weeks at number one on the UK chart.

Bassia

Bassia (Bassia All., 1766; formerly Kochia) is a genus of about 20 C4 herbs in Amaranthaceae native to the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa; its best-known species, B. scoparia (burningbush, summer cypress), is an ornamental and invasive weed.

Bassia scoparia

Bassia scoparia (kochia, summer cypress, burning bush; syn. Kochia scoparia) is a C4 annual Amaranthaceae native to Eurasia, an ornamental and forage plant that is a major tumbleweed weed of the North American Great Plains with resistance to five herbicide sites of action.

Bassiacum

Bassiacum, Latin toponym of Roman Gaul, an -ako- derivative of the personal name Bassius, attested as Bassiaco in Palladius; related Bassiniacum is the Latin name of the Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France.

Bassian

Bassian: MEOW marine ecoregion 205 of the Southeast Australian Shelf province, Temperate Australasia realm, covering central Victoria and Bass Strait; also an IMCRA demersal province and a land-bridge biogeographic term.

Oct 10, 2026

Bassil I. Dahiyat

Bassil I. Dahiyat is a biotechnology executive and protein-design scientist who co-reported the 1997 first computational design of a novel protein and co-founded Xencor in 1997.

Bassin de la Dordogne Biosphere Reserve

Bassin de la Dordogne Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère du bassin de la Dordogne), UNESCO biosphere reserve designated 11 July 2012 in France; first in the world covering an entire watershed, about 24,000 km², 1.2 million inhabitants, coordinated by EPIDOR.