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Basutoland
Basutoland was a British territory in southern Africa, an enclave within South Africa placed under British protection in 1868 and independent as the Kingdom of Lesotho since 1966.
Bat
Bats (order Chiroptera, "hand-wing") are the only mammals with true powered flight, over 1,400 species, echolocation, and vital roles as pollinators, seed dispersers, and insect controllers saving US agriculture over $3 billion yearly.
Bat algorithm
The bat algorithm is a population-based metaheuristic introduced by Xin-She Yang in 2010 that mimics the frequency tuning, loudness, and pulse rate of bats' echolocation to find global optima of continuous functions, especially in engineering design.
Bat as food
Bat as food: eating bats as bushmeat, affecting at least 167 species (Pteropus, Eidolon helvum, Tadarida) across Africa, Asia, and Oceania, with conservation and zoonotic concerns including Nipah and Ebola risks.
Bat bomb
The bat bomb, code named Project X-Ray, was an experimental American World War II incendiary weapon that attached small bombs to bats, canceled in 1944 before combat use.
Bat Boy (character)
Bat Boy is the fictional half-boy, half-bat creature created for Weekly World News, debuting June 23, 1992 as 'Bat Child Found in Cave' from a West Virginia cave, later inspiring an off-Broadway musical and comics.
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker's 2025 adult horror debut (also titled Bat Eater), follows Chinese American crime scene cleaner Cora Zeng, haunted by hungry ghosts and a serial killer targeting East Asian women during the COVID-19 pandemic; winner of the 2025 Shirley Jackson Award for Novel.
Bat for Lashes
Bat for Lashes is the stage name of Natasha Khan (born 1979), a British art-pop singer-songwriter. Six albums from Fur and Gold (2006) to The Dream of Delphi (2024); three Mercury Prize shortlists, Ivor Novello winner.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson (William Barclay Masterson, 1853-1921), Canadian-born buffalo hunter, Army scout, Ford County Kansas sheriff, and Dodge City lawman, later a New York boxing columnist and U.S. marshal; famed gunfighter whose documented killings were few.
Bat Out of Hell
Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf's 1977 debut album written by Jim Steinman and produced by Todd Rundgren, rejected by most labels, sold tens of millions and spawned two sequels and a musical.
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, also called Bat Out of Hell II, is Meat Loaf's 1993 comeback album with Jim Steinman songs, led by "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", a No. 1 hit in the US and UK.
Bat Pussy
Bat Pussy is a roughly 50-minute American adult film of unknown authorship, likely shot around 1970 in the South and often called the first porn parody ever made.
Bat Ye'or (בת יאור)
Bat Ye'or, pen name meaning "daughter of the Nile" of Gisèle Littman (born 1933), is an Egyptian-born British-Swiss author who developed the concepts of "dhimmitude" and the "Eurabia" thesis.
Bat-and-ball games
Bat-and-ball games: family of team sports, also called striking-and-running games, including baseball, cricket, softball, rounders, pesäpallo, and British baseball, defined by a delivered ball, a batter, base running, and fielding outs.
Bat-eared fox
Bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis), a small African canid of arid grasslands with 46-50 teeth, the most of any heterodont placental mammal, feeding mainly on termites located by sound; IUCN Least Concern.
Bat-Fam
Bat-Fam is a 2025 Prime Video animated comedy series from DC and Warner Bros. Animation, a sequel to Merry Little Batman, following Batman (Luke Wilson), Damian, and reformed villains in a crime-free Gotham; ten episodes premiered November 10, 2025.
Bat-Mite
Bat-Mite, a Fifth-Dimensional imp in DC Comics created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff, debuted in Detective Comics #267 (May 1959); a reality-warping Batman fanboy retired in 1964, revived in 2015 miniseries and animation.
Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Oman with Bronze Age settlements, stone towers, and beehive tombs from the 3rd millennium BCE.
Bat's Castle
Bat's Castle is an Iron Age small multivallate hillfort with a cross-ridge outwork on Gallox Hill, Carhampton, Exmoor, Somerset; scheduled monument 1007667, 1.2 ha, with a 1983 coin hoard spanning 102 BC to AD 350.
Bat*21
Bat*21 is a 1988 American war drama directed by Peter Markle, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, dramatizing the 1972 rescue of downed Air Force colonel Iceal Hambleton in Vietnam.
BAT5906 (anti-VEGF antibody)
BAT5906 (维拉西塔单抗注射液) is Bio-Thera Solutions' full-length humanized IgG1κ anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody for ophthalmic use. Its Phase 3 nAMD trial beat ranibizumab on CRT and BCVA endpoints; NMPA accepted its nAMD marketing application in December 2025.
Bata Corporation
Bata Corporation (Baťa): family-owned footwear multinational founded 1894 in Zlín, Czechia, by the Baťa siblings; sells 150M+ pairs yearly in 70+ countries via 5,300 stores, largest footwear company in India.
Bata Illic
Bata Illic is a Serbian-born singer of German-language Schlager, born in Belgrade in 1939, best known for the 1972 number 1 hit 'Michaela' and still performing in his late 80s.
Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?
Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? is a 1983 Tagalog novel by Lualhati Bautista about Lea, a working mother in Manila raising two children by different fathers.
Bata, Litoral
Bata, in Litoral Province on mainland Río Muni, is the largest city and economic capital of Equatorial Guinea. Founded in 1905 as a Spanish timber and coffee port, it had roughly 400,000 residents by the mid-2020s.
Bata/Patous
Bata/Patous (Greek Βατὰ) was an ancient Greek colony, settlement, and port on the northeastern Black Sea coast at modern Novorossiysk, Russia, attested by Strabo, Arrian, and Ptolemy, dated 550 BC to AD 640.
Bataan
Bataan is a province in Central Luzon, Philippines, covering the Bataan Peninsula (1,372.98 sq km), capital Balanga City. Established 1757 from Pampanga; known for the 1942 Bataan Death March, Mount Natib, and the Freeport Area of Bataan.
Bataan (1943 film)
Bataan (1943) is an MGM World War II film directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Taylor as sergeant of a thirteen-man patrol holding a bridge on Bataan; the first multi-ethnic WWII combat film and genre template.
Bataan Death March (バターン死の行進)
The Bataan Death March was the forced transfer of roughly 60,000 to 80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from the Bataan Peninsula to Tarlac in April 1942.
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a completed 620 MW nuclear reactor at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan, Philippines, built between 1976 and 1984 but never operated.