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Bay of Angels
Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges) is Jacques Demy's 1963 French black-and-white romantic drama starring Jeanne Moreau as compulsive gambler Jackie and Claude Mann as bank clerk Jean, with Michel Legrand's score, set in the casinos of Nice.
Bay of Bengal
Bay of Bengal: triangular northern arm of the Indian Ocean between India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar; seasonally reversing monsoon currents, strong freshwater barrier layer, low productivity, and the world's deadliest tropical cyclone coast; BIMSTEC's namesake sea.
Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay (Golfo de Vizcaya, Golfe de Gascogne) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean bounded by western France and northern Spain, known for rough seas.
Bay of Fundy
Bay of Fundy: Atlantic bay between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, famed for the world's largest tides, over 16 m at Minas Basin, driven by near resonance of the bay–Gulf of Maine system with the 12.42-hour M2 tide.
Bay of Kiel
The Bay of Kiel (German: Kieler Bucht; Danish: Kiel Bugt) is a bay in the southwestern Baltic Sea off Germany's Schleswig-Holstein and the Danish islands, linked to Kiel by the Kiel Fjord.
Bay of Kotor (Бока которска)
The Bay of Kotor (Бока которска, Boka) is a winding Adriatic bay in southwestern Montenegro, a ria entering over 20 km inland with four gulfs, Venetian fortifications, the UNESCO-listed Kotor region (1979), and the Port of Kotor cruise hub.
Bay of Mecklenburg
Bay of Mecklenburg (Mecklenburger Bucht), a southwestern Baltic Sea bay off Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Belt Sea transition zone, with Zechstein salt-floored seabed, Baltic Ice Lake shorelines 20-40 m below sea level, and seasonal oxygen deficiency.
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos), inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on Cuba's southern coast, Matanzas Province; site of the failed CIA-backed Brigade 2506 exile invasion of April 17, 1961, defeated by Castro's forces in two days; also a diving destination.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, also known as Operation Zapata, was a failed 1961 military operation where CIA-trained Cuban exiles attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro's government in Cuba.
Bay of Plenty
Bay of Plenty (Te Moana a Toi): large bight and region on New Zealand's eastern North Island coast, named by Cook in 1769; Tauranga city and port, volcanic islands, dairy and kiwifruit economy.
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Bay Ridge, formerly Yellow Hook, is a residential neighborhood on the southwestern tip of Brooklyn, facing Upper New York Bay and the Narrows, renamed in 1853.
Bay Runner Pipeline
Bay Runner Pipeline is a roughly 145-mile intrastate natural gas pipeline in South Texas running from Agua Dulce to Port Isabel, with up to 2.64 Bcf/d capacity.
Bay Street Boards
Bay Street Boards: family-owned surf and skate shop at 3216 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, founded by Galeazzo and Sante Bentivoglio (later joined by brother Francesco); known for board repairs, rentals, used boards, and community board swaps.
Bay Tree Egg
The Bay Tree Egg is a 1911 Imperial Fabergé egg from Nicholas II to his mother, hiding a mechanical singing bird; it is now in Saint Petersburg.
Bay window
A bay window is a glazed projection from a building's external wall that carries the floor out with it, forming an alcove; canted, box, and bow are its plan types.
Bay Yanlış
Bay Yanlış ("Mr. Wrong") is a 2020 Turkish romantic comedy series by Gold Film for FOX, starring Can Yaman and Özge Gürel as neighbors Özgür and Ezgi. It ran 14 episodes (26 June–2 October 2020), ended early over ratings, and sold to 100+ countries as "Wrong".
Bay-class landing ship
The Bay-class landing ship is a class of four amphibious landing ships of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary, built in the early 2000s to replace older Landing Ship Logistic vessels.
Baya Mahieddine
Baya Mahieddine, born Fatma Haddad and known simply as Baya, was a self-taught Algerian painter whose gouaches of women, birds, and fish made her a sensation in Paris.
Bayaan (film)
Bayaan (बयान, Testimony) is a 2025 Hindi police procedural thriller by Bikas Ranjan Mishra starring Huma Qureshi as detective Roohi investigating a revered Rajasthan cult leader's abuse; it premiered in TIFF 2025's Discovery section and won the Sundar Prize Best Feature.
Bayajidda
Bayajidda, also called Bayajida or Abuyazidu, is the legendary founder of the Hausa states, said to have killed a serpent at a well in Daura, Nigeria.
Bayamo
Bayamo, capital of Granma province in eastern Cuba, founded by the Spanish in 1513; cradle of Cuban nationality where Pedro Figueredo wrote the national anthem La Bayamesa, first sung there on October 20, 1868.
Bayamón, Bayamón
Bayamón is a municipality of Puerto Rico in the north-central part of the island, the second most populous after San Juan and part of the San Juan metropolitan area.
Bayan al-Mughrib
Bayan al-Mughrib (بيان المغرب) is a chronicle of the Islamic West by the Marrakesh historian Ibn Idhari, covering North Africa and al-Andalus to the fall of the Almohads.
Bayan I
Bayan I was the first recorded khagan of the Avars, reigning from 562 or 565 to 602 and building an empire in the Carpathian Basin.
Bayan of the Baarin
Bayan of the Baarin, known in Chinese as Bóyán, was a Mongol general of the Yuan dynasty who conquered the Southern Song for Kublai Khan in 1276.
Bayan Resources
Bayan Resources is an Indonesian coal mining group headquartered in Jakarta and controlled by its founder, Low Tuck Kwong, with a record 68 million tonnes produced in 2025.
Bayan wujub al-hijra
Bayan wujub al-hijra is an Arabic treatise by Usman dan Fodio arguing that believers must migrate from unjust rule, appoint an imam, and wage jihad.
Bayan's dictatorship and fall
Bayan's dictatorship and fall (伯顏專權與被黜) was grand chancellor Bayan's one-man rule over Yuan emperor Toghon Temür from 1335 to 1340, ended by a coup led by his nephew Toqto'a.
Bayanchur Qaghan
Bayanchur Qaghan, known as Moyanchur and titled Tengri Qaghan, was the second ruler of the Uyghur Khaganate from 747 to 759, succeeding his father, the founder.
Bayanda Walaza
Bayanda Walaza (born 2006) is a South African sprinter, Olympic 4x100m relay silver medallist at Paris 2024, 2024 World U20 100m and 200m champion, with a 9.89 100m personal best.