All articles starting with B

Bacchus and Ariadne

Bacchus and Ariadne is an oil painting by Titian, made between 1520 and 1523 for Alfonso I d'Este, showing Bacchus falling in love with the abandoned Ariadne.

Bacchylides

Bacchylides (Βακχυλίδης, c. 520–450 BC) was a Greek lyric poet from Ceos, ranked among the nine canonical lyric poets and known for victory odes and dithyrambs.

Bacdafucup is the 1993 debut studio album by hip hop group Onyx (Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz, Sonny Seeza, Big DS), released March 30, 1993 on JMJ/Def Jam, produced by Jam Master Jay and Chyskillz, with the hit single "Slam" reaching number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album going platinum.

BACE1

BACE1 (β-site APP cleaving enzyme 1, β-secretase) is a transmembrane aspartic protease identified in 1999 that performs the rate-limiting cleavage of APP to generate amyloid-β; its inhibitors all failed in Alzheimer's clinical trials.

BACE1-AS

BACE1-AS (BACE1AS, BACE1-AS1, NCRNA00177) is a human long non-coding antisense RNA at 11q23.3 that stabilizes BACE1 mRNA, elevating beta-secretase and amyloid-beta in Alzheimer's disease via a feed-forward loop.

BACE2

BACE2 (beta-secretase 2, DRAP) is a chromosome 21q22.3 gene encoding a transmembrane aspartyl protease homologous to BACE1; it cleaves APP non-amyloidogenically and acts in pigmentation and pancreatic beta-cell function.

Bach (Mercurian crater)

Bach is a 214 km diameter peak-ring impact basin on Mercury at 69.86°S, 103.01°W, named for composer J.S. Bach in 1976 and the namesake of the south polar Bach quadrangle (H15).

Bach absolutism

Bach absolutism (Bach-Ära, Bachův absolutismus) is the neo-absolutist regime that governed the Habsburg monarchy from 1849 to 1860, named after Interior Minister Alexander von Bach.

Bach Buquen

Bách Buquen is a French content creator and model, born in 2006, known for TikTok videos applying makeup on the Paris Métro to normalize makeup for men.

Bach cantatas (Koopman)

Ton Koopman's complete Bach cantata cycle: 22 volumes, 67 CDs, recorded 1994-2004 with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, first cycle to include all 21 secular cantatas, on Erato and Antoine Marchand.

Bach cantatas (Teldec)

Teldec Bach cantatas: Das Kantatenwerk, the first complete period-instrument cycle of Bach's sacred cantatas, recorded 1971–1990 by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt, 48 volumes on 83 discs, Gramophone Special Achievement Award 1990.

Bach family

The Bach family was a German lineage of musicians tracing its line to 16th-century miller Veit Bach. It included Johann Sebastian Bach and several of his composer sons.

Bach flower remedies

Bach flower remedies, also called flower essences, are 38 dilute flower preparations devised by Dr Edward Bach in the 1930s for negative emotions; placebo-controlled trials show no benefit beyond placebo, and they are probably safe.

Oct 15, 2026

Bạch Hổ Field

The Bạch Hổ Field (mỏ Bạch Hổ, "White Tiger") is Vietnam's largest offshore oil field, discovered in 1984 and operated by the Vietsovpetro joint venture.

Bach Ice Shelf

Bach Ice Shelf, an ice shelf in the southern embayment of Alexander Island, west Antarctic Peninsula, named after Johann Sebastian Bach. Area about 4,536 km² in 2010, sustained retreat, decoupling from the Monteverdi Peninsula pinning point, and resumed meltwater export.

Sep 24, 2026

Bach Thai Buoi

Bach Thai Buoi (Bạch Thái Bưởi, 1874–1932) was a Vietnamese entrepreneur who built the first Vietnamese-owned shipping fleet in French Indochina, breaking a French and Chinese monopoly.

Bạch Vân am thi tập

Bạch Vân am thi tập (白雲菴詩集), the Poetry Collection of the White Cloud Hermitage, is the Sino-character poetry collection of 16th-century Vietnamese scholar-official Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.

Bạch Vân quốc ngữ thi tập

Bạch Vân quốc ngữ thi tập, the White Cloud collection of national-language poems, is a chữ Nôm poetry collection by the sixteenth-century Vietnamese scholar Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.

Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis

Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV), the standard thematic catalogue of Johann Sebastian Bach's works, compiled by Wolfgang Schmieder (1950; 2nd ed. 1990; BWV³ 2022 by Blanken, Wolff, Wollny). Organized by genre, not chronology; BWV numbers identify all Bach compositions.

Bach–Weyl solutions

The Bach–Weyl solution is a static, axisymmetric vacuum solution of the Einstein field equations describing two masses held apart on an axis by a conical singularity, or strut.

Bacha bazi (بچه‌بازی)

Bacha bazi (بچه‌بازی, "boy play") is the Afghan practice of exploiting boys as dancers and for sexual gratification. Criminalized under the pre-2021 government and banned by the Taliban's 2024 morality law, it persists, with victims fearing punishment and stigma.

Bacha Coffee

Bacha Coffee is a luxury coffee retailer selling over 200 varieties of 100% Arabica coffee, revived in 2019 from the Dar el Bacha palace in Marrakech.

Oct 15, 2026

Bachaquero Oil Field

The Bachaquero Oil Field is a heavy-oil field on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo in Zulia, Venezuela, discovered by Shell in 1930 and operated since 2012 through the Petrozamora joint venture.

Oct 15, 2026

Bachaquero-Puerto Miranda Oil Pipeline

The Bachaquero-Puerto Miranda oil pipeline is a PDVSA crude oil pipeline in Zulia, Venezuela, running 66 miles from Bachaquero to the Puerto Miranda export terminal.

Bachata (dance)

Bachata (dance): Dominican partnered social dance from the 1960s, three steps plus a tap on beat 4, styles Dominican/traditional, moderna, and sensual; UNESCO heritage 2019.