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Bayonne
Bayonne (Baiona) is a French commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques at the Adour-Nive confluence, historic fortress and port city of the Basque Country, with 54,306 inhabitants, Vauban fortifications, and the Bonnat-Helleu Museum.
Bayonne Bridge
The Bayonne Bridge is a steel arch bridge across the Kill Van Kull between Bayonne, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York, completed in 1931 by the Port Authority.
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne, New Jersey: Hudson County peninsula city, originally Bergen Neck, incorporated 1869. Known for Standard Oil refining, the 1931 Bayonne Bridge steel arch, Military Ocean Terminal, and 71,686 residents (2020).
Bayou
Bayou: a slow-moving creek or still water channel of the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana French and Choctaw bayuk (small stream), first in English 1766; distinct from a swamp.
Bayou Bridge Oil Pipeline
The Bayou Bridge Pipeline is a crude oil pipeline running from Nederland, Texas, to the St. James, Louisiana hub, with a capacity of about 480,000 barrels per day.
Bayou Corne sinkhole
The Bayou Corne sinkhole, a 2012 collapse near the Napoleonville Salt Dome in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, formed after the Texas Brine Oxy Geismar #3 brine cavern failed, releasing natural gas and oil and prompting evacuations, monitoring, and litigation.
Bayou Country (album)
Bayou Country is Creedence Clearwater Revival's second album, released January 5, 1969 on Fantasy Records, featuring Proud Mary and Born on the Bayou, peaking at No. 7 in the US.
Bayou Lafourche
Bayou Lafourche is a former Mississippi River distributary running about 106-110 miles from Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to the Gulf, dammed in 1903-1904 and now supplying drinking water to about 300,000 residents.
Bayport Terminal
Bayport Terminal is a container shipping facility on the Bayport Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas, opened in 2007 as the second of Port Houston's two container terminals.
Bayraktar Akıncı
The Bayraktar Akıncı, Turkish for "raider", is a twin-engine unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by Turkish company Baykar, first flown in 2019 and entering Turkish service in 2021.
Bayraktar-class tank landing ship
The Bayraktar class is a class of two tank landing ships of the Turkish Navy, TCG Bayraktar and TCG Sancaktar, built in Istanbul and commissioned in 2017 and 2018.
Bayram Sit
Bayram Şit (1930-2019), Turkish freestyle wrestler; Olympic featherweight gold at Helsinki 1952, silver at 1954 Tokyo Worlds, fourth at Melbourne 1956; later coached France and Turkey.
Bayramzâde Zekeriyyâ Efendi
Bayramzâde Zekeriyyâ Efendi was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm, the state's chief mufti, under Sultan Murad III from 1592 until his death in 1593.
Bayreuth
Bayreuth, a Bavarian city of about 72,500 residents, is known for the Baroque Margravial Opera House (UNESCO World Heritage, 2012), the Bayreuth Festival founded by Richard Wagner in 1876, and the University of Bayreuth.
Bayreuth Festival
The Bayreuth Festival (Bayreuther Festspiele), founded by Richard Wagner, opened 13 August 1876 with the complete Ring premiere in the Festspielhaus he built with King Ludwig II's loan. Annual Wagner-only summer festival, family-run, canon of ten operas, hidden orchestra, 150th anniversary 2026.
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus): opera house on Bayreuth's Gruener Huegel, built 1872-1876 by Otto Brueckwald to Richard Wagner's specifications, opened 13 August 1876 with Rheingold; home of the annual Wagner-only Bayreuth Festival.
Bayrou government
The Bayrou government was the French cabinet under Prime Minister François Bayrou, 14 December 2024 to 9 September 2025, a minority coalition that survived eight censure motions before becoming the first Fifth Republic government to lose a 49.1 confidence vote.
Bays of Macquarie Island
The bays of Macquarie Island, a sub-Antarctic Australian reserve, include Buckles Bay and Hasselborough Bay at the north end, historic landing points for sealing and penguin-oil industries.
Baysari
Baysari (بيساري), fully Badr al-Din Baysari, was a Kipchak mamluk amir of the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and a close companion of Sultan Baybars, fighting at Ayn Jalut in 1260.
Bayshore Global Management
Bayshore Global Management is the single-family office of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2005 to manage his wealth and philanthropy.
Bayside (band)
Bayside, American emo/pop-punk band from Queens, New York, formed in 2000 by Anthony Raneri; known for Sirens and Condolences, the 2005 self-titled album, The Walking Wounded, and Cult's Billboard 200 number 24 peak.
Bayside Gannon power station
Bayside Gannon power station is the name for Tampa Electric's retired Gannon coal plant in Tampa, Florida, and its natural gas successor, the H.L. Culbreath Bayside Power Station.
Bayside Shakedown 2 (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ!)
Bayside Shakedown 2: Rainbow Bridge Shut Down! (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ!) is Fuji TV's 2003 police film sequel directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, starring Yuji Oda, which earned 17.35 billion yen and long held Japan's live-action box office record.
Baysunghur
Baysunghur (بایسنقر میرزا) was a Timurid prince of Herat (1397–1433), son and de facto heir of Shahrukh, who made Herat a leading center of manuscript painting and calligraphy.
Baysunghur Album
The Baysunghur Album is an album of collected calligraphic samples compiled for the Timurid prince Baysunghur (1397–1433), and is among the earliest extant Persian albums, or muraqqa.
Baysurf Lietzow
Baysurf Lietzow is a surf school in Lietzow on Rügen, Germany, on the Großer Jasmunder Bodden, founded by Joschi. It offers SUP, wingsurfing, wingfoiling, e-foiling, rentals, and team events.
Bayswater power station
Bayswater power station is a 2,715 MW black-coal-fired power station in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, owned by AGL and scheduled to close in 2033.
Bayt al-Mal
Bayt al-Mal (بيت المال), meaning "House of Money," was the public treasury of the Islamic state that collected revenues such as zakat, kharaj, and booty and funded salaries, military expenses, and public works.
Bayta Fretum
Bayta Fretum: a 165 km strait of liquid hydrocarbons in Kraken Mare on Titan, south of Mayda Insula; IAU-approved 2015, named for Asimov's Bayta Darell; Cassini observed waves there.
Baytex Energy
Baytex Energy is a Calgary, Alberta-based oil and natural gas company founded in 1993, producing light and heavy oil in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.