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Bayanhua Jinshan power station
The Bayanhua Jinshan power station (华电白音华金山电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China, with two 600 MW lignite units operating since 2010.
Bayani (historian)
Bayani, born Muhammad Yusuf Bek, was a Khivan poet, historian, and court official under the Khiva khans who wrote the Shajara-yi khwarazmshahi, a general history of Khorezm, before his death in 1923.
Bayara Vallis
Bayara Vallis, a 500-km vallis (channel system) on Venus at 45.60°N, 16.50°E, named in 1994 after the Dogon (Mali) word for the planet Venus; one of 72 named Venusian valles.
Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), American Quaker pacifist, socialist, and openly gay civil rights strategist; co-founder of CORE, advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
Bayati
Bayati (Azerbaijani: Bayatı) is a form of Azerbaijani folk poetry of four seven-syllable lines with an a-a-b-a rhyme scheme, one of the oldest lyric genres of the Azerbaijani oral tradition.
Bayaz
Bayaz (بیاض, literally "white") is a small pocket notepad with leather covers from Persian manuscript culture, also used for anthologies of copied poems and maxims.
Bayazid Ansari
Bayazid Ansari (میاں بایزید انصاری), known to followers as Pir Roshan, was a 16th-century Pashtun Sufi master who founded the Roshaniyya movement and led armed resistance against the Mughal empire.
Bayazid Bastami
Bayazid Bastami (بایزید بسطامی) was an early Persian Sufi mystic of Bastam in northern Iran, famed for his ecstatic sayings and honored as Lord of the mystics.
Baybars al-Jashnakir's usurpation and fall
Baybars al-Jashnakir's usurpation and fall (بيبرس الجاشنكير) was the seizure of the Mamluk sultanate by the amir Baybars al-Jashnakir, who reigned as al-Malik al-Muzaffar from 1309.
Baybars al-Mansuri
Baybars al-Mansuri (بيبرس المنصوري) was a Mamluk amir, dawadar, and historian of Egypt who died in 1325, fought the Crusaders and Mongols, and wrote the chronicle Zubdat al-Fikra.
Baybars I
Baybars I (الظاهر بيبرس) was a Turkic Kipchak slave soldier who became the fourth Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, reigning from 1260 until his death in 1277.
Baybars' campaign against the Assassins and capture of Krak des Chevaliers
Baybars' capture of Krak des Chevaliers (قلعة الحصن) was the 1271 siege in which the Mamluk sultan Baybars took the castle from the Knights Hospitaller after a month.
Baybaşin family
Baybaşin family: Kurdish-Turkish crime clan from Lice, Turkey, also called the Bombacilar; led by brothers Huseyin (life sentence, Netherlands), Abdullah and Mehmet; once controlled up to 90% of UK heroin.
Baybayin
Baybayin is the pre-Spanish abugida script of the Tagalogs and other Philippine groups, with 17 Doctrina Christiana characters, kudlit vowel marks, a Spanish-introduced virama, and the 1613/1625 UST documents; wrongly called alibata.
Baydu
Baydu (بایدو) was the sixth il-khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate in Iran, seizing the throne from his cousin Gaykhatu in 1295 and reigning about six months.
Bayelsa State
Bayelsa State is a Nigerian state in the heart of the Niger Delta, created from Rivers State in 1996, with its capital at Yenagoa and the Ijaw people as its heartland.
Bayer
Bayer AG, German life science company in Leverkusen with Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, and Crop Science divisions; founded 1863, maker of Aspirin, acquired Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion, inheriting the Roundup glyphosate litigation.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen, the Werkself, a Bundesliga club founded 1 July 1904 by Bayer AG employees and wholly owned by Bayer. First German champion in 2023/24, unbeaten (28W 6D 0L), with a 51-game unbeaten run and the 2024 DFB-Pokal.
Bayer designation
A Bayer designation, or Bayer letter, identifies a star by a Greek letter followed by the constellation's Latin genitive, introduced by Johann Bayer in his 1603 atlas Uranometria.
Bayer filter
The Bayer filter is a color filter array over a digital image sensor, arranging red, green, and blue filters so one capture yields a full-color image.
Bayer process
The Bayer process is the industrial chemical method for refining bauxite ore into alumina, patented by Karl Josef Bayer in 1888 and still used for nearly all the world's alumina.
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
The Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, or Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, is a Munich academy of the arts founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948.
Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK)
Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) is Germany's largest pension group under public law, managing twelve professional and municipal schemes for Bavaria, with about €122 billion in assets and 2.2 million insured members.
Bayerite
Bayerite (バイエル石) is a rare monoclinic aluminum hydroxide mineral with the formula Al(OH)₃, named in 1928 for metallurgist Karl Josef Bayer and first found naturally in the Hatrurim Formation, Israel.
Bayern-class battleship
The Bayern class was a class of four dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy, armed with 38 cm guns and completed during the First World War.
Bayes A (genomic selection)
Bayes A is a Bayesian linear regression method for genomic selection, introduced by Meuwissen, Hayes, and Goddard in 2001, that gives each marker its own variance.
Bayes classifier
A Bayes classifier is a classification method that assigns an input to the class with the highest posterior probability given its features, computed with Bayes' theorem.
Bayes estimator
A Bayes estimator, or Bayesian estimate, is a decision rule minimizing posterior expected loss, depending on the chosen loss function and prior; squared error loss gives the posterior mean.
Bayes factor
The Bayes factor is the ratio of the marginal likelihoods of two competing statistical models, developed by Harold Jeffreys in 1935 to quantify scientific evidence.
Bayes risk
Bayes risk is the expected loss of a statistical decision rule averaged over a prior on the unknown parameter; the rule minimizing it is the Bayes rule.