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Baths of Cilurnum
Baths of Cilurnum: the external bathhouse of Chesters Roman Fort (Cilurnum) on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland. Hadrianic, uncovered 1884–5, the most complete Roman baths visible in Britain, with caldaria, tepidaria, frigidaria, and hypocaust heating.
Baths of Decius
Baths of Decius (Thermae Decianae), imperial Roman bath complex built by Emperor Decius on the Aventine Hill around 249-252 AD, serving the wealthy Aventine district; known from Palladio's plan, restored in 414.
Baths of Diocletian
Thermae Diocletiani (Baths of Diocletian, Terme di Diocleziano): largest imperial bath complex of ancient Rome, built 298-306 AD by Maximian for Diocletian, 13 hectares, 3,000 bathers; now a National Roman Museum site.
Baths of the Philosopher
Baths of the Philosopher (Terme del Filosofo, V,II,6-7): small Roman baths in region V of Ostia, Italy, named for two busts perhaps of Plotinus; built from Trajanic times, with baths added in the later third century AD.
Bathsheba (בַּת־שֶׁבַע)
Bathsheba (בַּת־שֶׁבַע, Bat Sheva) is a biblical figure in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings, the wife of Uriah the Hittite who became King David's wife and the mother of King Solomon.
Bathsheba Garnett
Bathsheba Garnett (born 17 September 1925, Manhattan) is an American actress and drama teacher, Broadway's Gideon (1961), University of Windsor professor, and the aged witch in Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015).
Bathtub
A bathtub is a large plumbing fixture, usually installed in a bathroom, that holds water in which a person sits or lies for bathing, made from materials like acrylic or cast iron.
Bathtub curve
The bathtub curve is a reliability engineering model showing a product population's failure rate over time, which falls early, stays constant, and rises as units wear out.
Bathukamma (బతుకమ్మ)
Bathukamma (బతుకమ్మ), Telangana's nine-day floral festival for women during Navratri: flower stacks of gunuka and tangedu, circle songs, Saddula Bathukamma immersion, Maha Gauri worship, state festival since BRS era.
Bathurst 1000
Bathurst 1000, also called The Great Race, is a 1000 km, 161-lap Supercars endurance race at Mount Panorama (Wahluu), Bathurst, NSW. First run 1960 at Phillip Island, at Bathurst since 1963; Peter Brock won nine; 2026 winner Brodie Kostecki.
Bathurst Inlet
Bathurst Inlet is a large north-south bay in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Canada, opening into Coronation Gulf. Its seasonal communities are Umingmaktok and Bathurst Inlet; basin 7,700 km², depth about 350 m.
Bathurst Island (Northern Territory)
Bathurst Island, one of the two main Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, Australia, about 50-80 km north of Darwin; area about 1,693 km2, named by Phillip Parker King in 1818, main community Wurrumiyanga (formerly Nguiu), site of the 1911 Gsell Catholic mission.
Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst, New South Wales: Australia's oldest inland European settlement, proclaimed 7 May 1815 by Governor Macquarie on Wiradjuri land. Known for the 1850s gold rushes, Mount Panorama motor racing, and Ben Chifley's birthplace.
Bathymetric SLAM
Bathymetric SLAM (BSLAM) is a simultaneous localization and mapping technique for underwater vehicles that builds seafloor depth maps from sonar measurements to bound dead-reckoning drift, proposed by Roman and Singh in 2005.
Bathymetry
Bathymetry, also known as seafloor mapping, is the study of the depths and shapes of underwater terrain, measured mainly with echo sounders and mapped with depth contours called isobaths.
Bathymetry mapping
Bathymetry mapping is the measurement and charting of seafloor depth, done from ships with sonar, from aircraft and satellites with lidar, or from satellites through gravity and optical methods.
Bathynerita naticoidea
Bathynerita naticoidea, accepted as Thalassonerita naticoidea, is a deep-sea phenacolepadid snail of Gulf of Mexico and Barbados cold seeps, grazing bacteria off Bathymodiolus childressi shells with teleplanic larvae.
Bathyscaphe
A bathyscaphe is a free-diving deep-submergence vehicle, invented by Auguste Piccard, using a gasoline-filled float for buoyancy; the Trieste carried the first humans to the ocean's deepest point in 1960.
Bathysphere
The Bathysphere was a tethered spherical submersible used by William Beebe and Otis Barton off Bermuda in the 1930s, reaching a record 923 meters in 1934.
Bati del Wambara
Bati del Wambara was a sixteenth-century noblewoman of the Adal Sultanate who married and influenced the two leaders of the Muslim conquest of Ethiopia, Ahmad Gran and Nur ibn Mujahid.
Batiana
Batiana, a Roman road station in Gallia Narbonensis on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Acunum and Valentia, also Vacianis/Bantianis and Untiana; identified near Baix or Étoile-sur-Rhône, France. Not the Batina-Sredno archaeological site.
Batida
Batida, Portuguese for "beat", is a fast, percussion-driven electronic club style from Lisbon's Afro-diasporic neighborhoods, and also the artist project of Angolan-born Lisbon producer Pedro Coquenão.
Batik
Batik is a Javanese wax-resist dyeing art using canting and cap tools, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009; celebrated on Indonesia's October 2 National Batik Day and threatened by printed imitations and AI motifs.
Batik Air
Batik Air is an Indonesian full-service airline launched by the Lion Air Group at Jakarta in 2013, whose name also covers Batik Air Malaysia, the former Malindo Air.
Batik in Indonesia
Batik in Indonesia: wax-resist dyeing of cotton and silk using the canting or copper cap, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009, with batik tulis, batik cap, and combination forms certified by the Batikmark.
Batik kraton
Batik kraton is the court batik of Central Java, Indonesia, developed in the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta, with some motifs once reserved for royalty.
Batik tulis
Batik tulis, meaning "drawn," is the oldest form of Indonesian batik: wax is drawn by hand with a canting to resist dye, taking one to three months per cloth.
Batillus
Batillus was a French ultra-large crude carrier of about 553,662 tonnes deadweight, built in 1976 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique for Shell; laid up after less than eight years, she was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1985.
Bating (leather)
Bating is the leather-making step after liming and deliming, before pickling, using proteolytic enzymes (traditionally trypsin, now often bacterial proteases) at pH 7.5–9 and 30–38°C to remove non-structural proteins, open collagen fibres, and soften pelts.
Batis
Batis is a scientific name shared by three unrelated organisms: a genus of small African songbirds, a genus of salt-marsh plants, and a European skate.