All articles starting with B

Baytown Refinery

The Baytown Refinery is an ExxonMobil petroleum refinery on the Houston Ship Channel in Baytown, Texas. Founded by Humble Oil, it began processing oil in 1920.

Bayu-Undan is a gas-condensate field in the Timor Sea discovered in 1995 that produced condensate, LPG, and LNG from 2004 until it ceased production in June 2025, as Timor-Leste's largest source of petroleum revenue.

Oct 10, 2026

BayWa

BayWa is a Munich-based trading and services group founded in 1923 by Bavarian agricultural cooperatives, with about 22,700 employees in 56 countries and revenues of €21.1 billion in 2024.

Baywatch

Baywatch is an American lifeguard drama starring David Hasselhoff as Mitch Buchannon, canceled by NBC in 1989, revived in syndication in 1991, and by 1996 the world's most-watched TV series, seen in 148 countries until 2001.

Baywatch (film)

Baywatch (2017) is Seth Gordon's R-rated action comedy based on the TV series, starring Dwayne Johnson as Mitch Buchannon and Zac Efron; it grossed $177.9 million worldwide on a $69 million budget and was panned by critics.

Baywatch Nights

Baywatch Nights: 1995-1997 syndicated spin-off of Baywatch starring David Hasselhoff as lifeguard-turned-private-investigator Mitch Buchannon; 44 episodes over two seasons, pivoting from detective stories to X-Files-style supernatural cases in season 2.

Sep 23, 2026

Baz Bahadur

Baz Bahadur (باز بهادر), born Miyan Bayezid, was the last independent sultan of Malwa in central India, defeated by Akbar's forces in 1561 and remembered for his love of Rupmati.

Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann, born Mark Anthony Luhrmann in 1962 in Sydney, is an Australian director, writer, and producer known for Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, and Elvis.

Bazaar

A bazaar, also known as a souq (بازار), is a clustered marketplace of shops and stalls central to commerce and social life in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Bazalt

Bazalt (НПО «Базальт») is a Russian state-owned munitions designer in Moscow, founded in 1938 and best known for the RPG-7 grenade launcher, of which over 9 million have been produced.

Bazar de la Charité

Bazar de la Charité: Paris Catholic charity bazaar institution whose 4 May 1897 sale on rue Jean-Goujon ended in a fire ignited by ether vapours of a Lumière Cinématographe lamp, killing about 117-130, mostly aristocratic women, including Duchess Sophie-Charlotte of Alençon.

Bazaruto Facula

Bazaruto Facula is a 215-km-wide bright spot (facula) on Titan at 11.6°N, 16.1°W, IAU-named in 2006 for a Mozambique island, centered on the dark 80-km Sinlap impact crater imaged by Cassini in 2005.

Sep 19, 2026

Bazaya

Bazaya (Akkadian Bāzāia) was an early Old Assyrian ruler of the city of Aššur, listed fifty-second in the Assyrian King List as son of Iptar-Sin, with a recorded 28-year reign.

Bazball

Bazball is the informal name for England men's Test cricket's aggressive style under coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes from 2022. Coined by ESPN Cricinfo's Andrew Miller, added to Collins dictionary in 2023; era ended with McCullum's dismissal as Test coach.

Bazedoxifene

Bazedoxifene (Conbriza, Duavee) is a third-generation SERM approved in the EU and Japan for postmenopausal osteoporosis, reducing vertebral fractures about 35-40% over 5 years; in the US it is sold only with conjugated estrogens.

Sep 19, 2026

Bazen of Axum

Bazen of Axum is an early king of Aksum in the Ethiopian king lists, traditionally reigning when Christ was born in the eighth year of his rule.

Bazex syndrome

Bazex syndrome (acrokeratosis paraneoplastica) is a rare paraneoplastic dermatosis with acral psoriasiform lesions and nail dystrophy, usually preceding upper aerodigestive squamous cell carcinoma; distinct from Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome.

Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome

Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome (BDCS, follicular atrophoderma and basal cell carcinomas) is a rare X-linked dominant genodermatosis first described in 1964, causing hypotrichosis, milia, hypohidrosis, follicular atrophoderma, and early-onset basal cell carcinomas, mapped to Xq24-q27.1.

Oct 22, 2026

Bazgasht-e adabi

Bazgasht-e adabi (بازگشت ادبی, "literary return") was a neoclassical movement in Persian poetry that revived the older Khorasani and Iraqi styles against the Indian style.

Bazhenov Formation

The Bazhenov Formation (баженовская свита) is an organic-rich siliceous marine shale covering over 1 million km² in the West Siberian Basin as the world's largest shale oil resource.

Bazhong

Bazhong (巴中), a prefecture-level city in northeastern Sichuan, China, at the southern foot of Micang Mountain; capital of the 1930s Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base, home to the Guangwushan-Nuoshuihe UNESCO Global Geopark, 2.61 million people, and 12,300 square kilometers.