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Basti Artadi
Basti Artadi (Sebastian Artadi) is the Filipino vocalist and lyricist of heavy metal band Wolfgang, a four-time NU107 Vocalist of the Year, solo artist, and musical theater performer who continues singing despite facial paralysis.
Bastiaan R. Bloem
Bastiaan R. Bloem, known as Bas Bloem, is a Dutch neurologist and professor of movement disorders at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, best known as co-founder of ParkinsonNet.
Bastiagueiro
Bastiagueiro (Oleiros, A Coruña, Galicia) is a coastal locality with a beach, the Universidade da Coruña sports-science campus (former INEF, founded 1986), and the 4,000-seat multiusos arena A Colmea, budgeted at 11.7 million euros.
Bastian Assomo
Bastian Friedrich Assomo (born 2010, Berlin) is a German-Cameroonian youth striker at FC Bayern Munich, playing for Bayern II in Regionalliga Bayern; scored in 2026 preseason friendlies, no Bundesliga debut yet.
Bastian Karim
Bastian Karim (Sebastián Loaiza), Colombian gay adult film performer born 1996 in Pereira, based in Barcelona; active since 2017, XBIZ Europas Gay Performer of the Year 2023, GayVN actor of the year 2025, Carnal Media exclusive.
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Bastian Schweinsteiger, born 1984 in Kolbermoor, German midfielder, Bayern Munich legend with 20 titles and 2014 World Cup winner, later Manchester United and Chicago Fire, now ARD pundit and Kings League Germany president.
Bastien D. Gomperts
Bastien D. Gomperts is a cell biologist at University College London known for showing that G-proteins control secretion, and for co-authoring the textbook Signal Transduction.
Bastille
The Bastille was a 14th-century fortress at Paris's Porte Saint-Antoine, later a French state prison, stormed on 14 July 1789, an event marking the French Revolution's start, and demolished.
Bastille (ΔSTILLE) (band)
Bastille (BΔSTILLE) are an English indie pop band formed in London in 2010 by Dan Smith, with Kyle Simmons, Will Farquarson, and Chris Wood; known for Bad Blood, Pompeii, three UK number-one albums, and the Marshmello hit Happier.
Bastille Day
Bastille Day, France's Fête nationale or le 14 juillet, is the national holiday of 14 July, established by the law of 6 July 1880, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, marked by the Champs-Élysées military parade, firemen's balls and fireworks.
Bastille Day (2016 film)
Bastille Day, retitled The Take in the US, is a 2016 action thriller by James Watkins starring Idris Elba and Richard Madden as a CIA agent and pickpocket in Paris; pulled from French cinemas after the 2016 Nice attack.
Bastion
Bastion (Russian: Бастион), known as the K-300P Bastion-P, is a Russian coastal defense missile system firing the supersonic P-800 Oniks anti-ship missile, in service since 2015.
Bastion (comics)
Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti) is a Marvel Comics X-Men villain, a human-Sentinel hybrid fused from Master Mold and Nimrod through the Siege Perilous; leader of Operation: Zero Tolerance and Second Coming antagonist.
Bastion (video game)
Bastion is Supergiant Games' 2011 debut action RPG, an action role-playing game with reactive narration by Logan Cunningham, Darren Korb's 'acoustic frontier trip-hop' score, and Jen Zee's art.
Bastion fort
A bastion fort, also called a trace italienne or star fort, is a polygonal fortification with angled bastions providing overlapping fire, developed in Italy in the 15th century.
Bastion host
A bastion host, also called a jump box, is a hardened computer that serves as the sole access point between an external network and a protected internal network.
Bastion Point occupation
The Bastion Point occupation was a 506-day protest in which Ngāti Whātua, led by Joe Hawke, occupied Takaparawhau above Auckland's Waitematā Harbour against a housing development.
Bastipati Nagaraju Panchalingala
Bastipati Nagaraju Panchalingala, born in 1979 in Panchalingala, is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician from Andhra Pradesh who has represented Kurnool in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Bastnäsite
Bastnäsite, also spelled bastnaesite, is a rare-earth fluorocarbonate mineral and main ore of rare earths at Mountain Pass, California, and Bayan Obo, China; unlike monazite, it carries little thorium.
Bastogne
Bastogne (Bastenaken) is an Ardennes municipality in Belgium's Luxembourg province; since merging with Bertogne in December 2024 it is Belgium's largest municipality at 265 km², famed for the 1944 Battle of the Bulge siege and McAuliffe's 'Nuts!' reply.
Bastryk Vallis
Bastryk Vallis is a 190 km wide valley (vallis) on Venus at 7.5S, 347.5E, adopted by the IAU in 2000 and named for a Kumyk (Daghestan) river deity.
Basu Chatterjee
Basu Chatterjee (also Basu Chatterji), Hindi film director and cartoonist, master of middle-of-the-road cinema with Sara Akash, Rajnigandha, Chhoti Si Baat, Chameli Ki Shaadi; died 4 June 2020, Mumbai.
Basudeo N. Singh
Basudeo N. Singh, also printed as Basudeo Narayan Singh, is an Indian pharmaceutical businessman who co-founded Alkem Laboratories in Mumbai in 1973 and serves as its executive chairman.
Basuki Abdullah
Basuki Abdullah (1915–1993) was an Indonesian realist and naturalist painter, often called Indonesia's finest portraitist, who served as official painter of the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (钟万学)
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (钟万学), known as Ahok, Indonesian Christian ethnic-Chinese politician; regent of East Belitung, Governor of Jakarta 2014-2017, convicted of blasphemy in 2017, later Pertamina chief commissioner.
Basuo
Basuo (八所镇) is a town on Hainan's west coast and the seat of Dongfang city, China; population about 168,000, home to deep-water Basuo Port, named for a Ming garrison post.
Başur Höyük
Başur Höyük, Early Bronze Age cemetery mound in Siirt province, southeast Turkey (3100–2900 BCE), with cist tombs, human sacrifice retainer burials, ~1000 metal objects, ~100,000 beads, and a 40-piece stone game set.
Basus War
The Basus War (حرب البسوس) was a war between the Bakr and Taghlib tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia, remembered in Arabic tradition as lasting forty years.
Basuto Gun War
The Basuto Gun War, or War of the Guns, was the 1880–1881 conflict in which the Basotho of Basutoland resisted the Cape Colony's disarmament attempt.
Basuto Wars
The Basuto Wars, also written Basotho Wars, were three conflicts between 1858 and 1868 between King Moshoeshoe I's Basotho kingdom and the Orange Free State.