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Bath C3

Bath C3 is a Roman bathhouse in block C3 of Dura-Europos, Syria, built of brick around 210 to 215 CE and apparently constructed by the Roman military garrison.

Bath County Pumped Storage Station

The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Bath County, Virginia, the largest in the United States at 3,003 megawatts, operating since 1985.

Bath E3 Phase 2

Bath E3 Phase 2, also called Bath E3/E4 or E3/E4 Bathing Complex, is the second building phase of the Roman military bath E3 at Dura-Europos, Syria: a 700 sq m early 3rd-century bath replacing Phase 1, with hypocausts, aqueduct, and palaestra in Block E4.

Bath Iron Works

Bath Iron Works is a shipyard on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, owned by General Dynamics since 1995 and one of two US yards building Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

Bath M7

Bath M7, Dura-Europos Roman bathhouse in block M7 near the Palmyrene Gate, built of brick around 210-215 CE, attributed to the Roman garrison and used mainly by soldiers.

Bath Rugby

Bath Rugby, founded 1865, is a professional English rugby union club playing at the Recreation Ground (The Rec) since 1894. Six league titles, six national cups, 1998 Heineken Cup as first English winner, 2025 Premiership and Challenge Cup champion.

Bath salts

Bath salts are water-soluble mineral preparations added to bathwater as cosmetic products, typically based on Epsom salt, Dead Sea or Himalayan salt, and sodium bicarbonate, distinct from the illicit stimulant drugs of the same name.

Bath salts (drug)

Bath salts, or Ivory Wave, are synthetic cathinones, man-made stimulant drugs chemically related to cathinone in khat, originally disguised as bath salts and plant food to evade drug laws.

Bath School disaster

The Bath School disaster (May 18, 1927) was Andrew Kehoe's bombing of Bath Consolidated School, Michigan, killing 38 children and adults; still the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.

Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University (BSU) is a UK public university in Bath, Somerset, founded as the Bath School of Art in 1852 and granted university status in 2005. Known for art, design, education, and creative writing; main campus Newton Park; TEF Silver; Guardian 2027 rank 59th.

Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis

Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis: monumental Roman bath-gymnasium in Lydia, Turkey, about 23,000 m2, with Marble Court imperial cult hall (211/212 AD) and later Sardis Synagogue; excavated and reconstructed by the Harvard-Cornell Expedition, 1964-1973.

Bath, Somerset

Bath, Somerset: English spa city founded by the Romans as Aquae Sulis around the UK's hottest thermal springs (46 °C), famed for Georgian Palladian architecture; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 and Great Spa Town of Europe since 2021.

Batha Region

Batha Region is an administrative region of Chad in the central-eastern Sahel, created in 2002 from the former Batha prefecture and named for the intermittent Batha River, which drains to Lake Fitri.

Bathe family (Irish judicial dynasty)

The Bathe (Bath) family, an Anglo-Norman Irish judicial dynasty of Drumcondra and Meath, supplied James Bathe (chief baron 1535) and John Bathe (solicitor general 1551, chief justice of common pleas 1554, exchequer chancellor 1577), allied by marriage to the Prestons and Dillons, and produced the Jesuit William Bathe and courtier Sir John Bathe (d. 1630).

Bathhouse Row

Bathhouse Row: eight historic bathhouses (1892–1923) along Central Avenue in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas; largest surviving early 20th-century bathhouse collection in the U.S., National Historic Landmark since 1987, with Buckstaff and Quapaw still bathing.

Bathinda (ਬਠਿੰਡਾ)

Bathinda (ਬਠਿੰਡਾ), historically Tabarhindh or Bhatinda, is a city and district in southern Punjab, India, in the Malwa region; fifth largest Punjab city, noted for its ancient fort, Haji Ratan tomb, and cotton-wheat agriculture.

Bathing

Bathing, the washing of the body with water and cleansers, spans Roman thermae, Middle Eastern hammams, and modern home bathrooms; shaped by germ theory, plumbing, skin-barrier effects, and monitored recreational bathing water quality.

Bathing (1999 film)

Bathing, internationally released as Shower (洗澡, Xizao), is Zhang Yang's 1999 Chinese comedy-drama about a Beijing bathhouse, father-son bonds, and demolition-driven modernization; it won FIPRESCI at Toronto and the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki.

Bathing suit ichthyosis

Bathing suit ichthyosis (BSI, Badeanzug-Ichthyose), a rare temperature-sensitive variant of autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis caused by TGM1 mutations, with dark platelike scales limited to the trunk, neck, and scalp.

Bathkol Tessera

Bathkol Tessera, a 1,485 km-wide deformed tessera terrain on Venus at 61°N 200°E, IAU-named in 1997 for an Israeli goddess of fate; shows no radar emissivity excursions with altitude.

Bathocuproine

Bathocuproine, or 2,9-dimethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, is a phenanthroline ligand whose methyl groups give selectivity for copper(I), forming an orange complex used in spectrophotometric copper determination and, as its water-soluble disulfonate BCS, in biochemical copper assays.

Bathoen I

Bathoen I (1845–1910) was kgosi of the Ngwaketse in Bechuanaland, now Botswana, and one of three chiefs whose 1895 London mission saved the Protectorate from Cecil Rhodes.

Bathophenanthroline

Bathophenanthroline (4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline) is a phenanthroline-class chelating reagent, introduced in 1951, that forms a red complex with ferrous iron but not ferric iron, long used for serum iron measurement.

Bathory (band)

Bathory, Swedish extreme metal band from Vällingby, Stockholm, founded 16 March 1983 by Quorthon (Thomas Forsberg), Jonas Åkerlund, and Frederick Melander; pioneered first-wave black metal and Viking metal with Bathory (1984), Blood Fire Death (1988), and Hammerheart (1990); ended with Quorthon's death in June 2004.

Bathroom

A bathroom is a room in a dwelling equipped for personal hygiene, typically containing a toilet and washbasin, and in a full bathroom a bathtub or shower.

Bathroom bill

Bathroom bills are US state laws requiring restroom use by sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity; about 21 states have them, from North Carolina's 2016 HB2 to Idaho's 2026 criminal ban, with active litigation and documented health effects.

Bathroom Equipment

Bathroom Equipment is a MeSH category (D000072296, introduced 2017) of receptacles for collecting human excrement: bedpans, commodes, toilets, and urinals used when patients cannot reach a bathroom.

Baths

Baths: immersion or washing of the body or its parts in water or another medium for cleansing or medical treatment, from Roman thermae to balneotherapy, spa therapy, bed bathing, and modern evidence reviews.

Baths of Antoninus at Carthage

Baths of Antoninus (Antoninian Baths), Carthage, Tunisia: 2nd-century Roman thermae, largest in Africa and outside Rome, built under Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, fed by the Zaghouan aqueduct, destroyed after the Vandal conquest.

Baths of Caracalla

The Baths of Caracalla (Thermae Antonianae), Rome's huge imperial thermae built 212-216 AD on the Piccolo Aventino by Emperor Caracalla: 1,600 bathers at a time, Aqua Antoniniana supply, libraries and palaestrae, in use until 537 AD.