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Badakhshān

Badakhshān (بدخشان) is a historical Central Asian region and one of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, with its capital at Fayzabad and the world's sole supply of lapis lazuli.

Badal (बादल) is a 2000 Hindi action revenge drama directed by Raj Kanwar, starring Bobby Deol, Rani Mukerji, and Amrish Puri, about a 1984 riot orphan raised by a terrorist; released 11 February 2000, it earned about 15.38 crore net in India.

Badal Ko Ghirte Dekha Hai

Badal Ko Ghirte Dekha Hai (बादल को घिरते देखा है) is a 1938 Hindi nature poem by Nagarjun, first published in Sarasvati, describing clouds gathering over the Himalayas.

Badaling Bear Garden

Badaling Bear Garden (八达岭熊乐园), also Badaling Bear Park, is a state-owned bear park in Yanqing, Beijing, near the Great Wall. Opened June 27, 1993, it holds about 380 Asiatic black, brown, and sun bears and has drawn welfare criticism.

Badalona

Badalona, coastal city in Barcelonès, Catalonia, Spain, on the Mediterranean about 10 km northeast of Barcelona; over 220,000 inhabitants, Roman colony Baetulo (c. 100 BC), 4.8 km of beaches, industrial heritage, and Joventut basketball club.

Badami (ಬದಾಮಿ)

Badami (ಬದಾಮಿ), ancient Vatapi, is a Karnataka town and Early Chalukya capital with four 6th-century red sandstone cave temples, Cave 3 dated 578 CE, on UNESCO's tentative Aihole-Badami-Pattadakal list.

Badami Cave 3

Badami Cave 3 is a rock-cut Vaishnava temple at Badami, Karnataka, dedicated by Chalukya king Mangalesha in 578/579 CE and considered the earliest dated Hindu temple in the Deccan.

Badami Cave 3 paintings

The Badami Cave 3 paintings are fragmentary sixth-century murals on the cornice and ceiling of Cave 3 at Badami, Karnataka, the earliest Brahmanical wall paintings known in India.

Badami cave temples

Badami cave temples: four 6th-7th century rock-cut sanctuaries at Vatapi, Early Chalukya capital in Karnataka; three Hindu caves (Shiva, Vishnu) and one Jain cave of Mahavira, carved in red sandstone.

Sep 23, 2026

Badan Chandra Borphukan

Badan Chandra Borphukan (বদনচন্দ্ৰ বৰফুকন) was the Ahom viceroy of Gauhati, in charge of Lower Assam, who in 1817 brought a Burmese army into Assam and was murdered in 1818.

Badan Pusat Statistik

Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), or Statistics Indonesia, is the government agency producing Indonesia's official statistics under Law Number 16 of 1997 and coordinating the Indonesian National Statistical System.

Badan Siber dan Sandi Negara

Badan Siber dan Sandi Negara (BSSN), in English the National Cyber and Crypto Agency, is Indonesia's non-ministerial agency for cybersecurity and cryptography, answering directly to the President.

Oct 10, 2026

Bādarāyaṇa

Bādarāyaṇa (बादरायण) is the name tradition gives to the author of the Brahma Sūtra, the Vedānta text systematizing the Upaniṣads, on which Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, and Madhva wrote rival commentaries.

Sep 19, 2026

Badarian culture

The Badarian culture, also known as the Badari culture, was a predynastic culture of Upper Egypt, the oldest known farming tradition in the Nile Valley, dating to about 4400–4000 BC.

Badarpur power station

Badarpur Thermal Power Station (BTPS) was a 720 MW coal-fired power station in South Delhi, India, operated by NTPC and closed permanently in 2018 over air pollution.

Badass Ravi Kumar

Badass Ravi Kumar is a 2025 Hindi musical action comedy, a spin-off of The Xpose (2014), directed by Keith Gomes and starring Himesh Reshammiya as Ravi Kumar; released 7 February 2025, it earned ₹9.66 crore net in India and received mixed, polarized reviews.

Badava

Badava (படவா) is a 2025 Tamil action drama directed by KV Nandha, starring Vimal and Soori, about a jobless troublemaker sent to Malaysia who returns to fight a brick-kiln owner promoting Seemai Karuvelam trees. Long-delayed, released February/March 2025, grossing ₹0.47 Cr.

Oct 20, 2026

Badb Linea

Badb Linea is a 1,750-km-long linea (elongate tectonic feature) on Venus at 14°N, 15°E in quadrangle V-20, named for the Irish war goddess and IAU-approved in 1997; it is a graben-rich rift zone near Irnini Mons active before and after the volcano's lavas.

BadBadNotGood

BadBadNotGood (BBNG) is a Canadian instrumental jazz and hip-hop band from Toronto, founded in 2010 at Humber College; known for viral Odd Future covers, the Sour Soul album with Ghostface Killah, IV, Talk Memory, and the 2024 album Mid Spiral.

Oct 20, 2026

Badbury Rings (United Kingdom)

Badbury Rings is a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on a chalk knoll in Shapwick, Dorset, England, with three ramparts, 5th-6th century reoccupation, National Trust ownership, and scheduled monument status since 1924.

Badd Blood: In Your House

Badd Blood: In Your House, a WWF pay-per-view held October 5, 1997 at the Kiel Center in St. Louis, featured the first Hell in a Cell match (Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker) and Kane's WWE debut.

Baddeley's model of working memory

Baddeley's model of working memory, proposed by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974 and revised in 2000, is a multicomponent theory comprising a central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and episodic buffer, contrasted with Cowan's embedded-processes model.

Baddeleyite

Baddeleyite is a rare monoclinic oxide mineral consisting of zirconium dioxide (ZrO₂), named for Joseph Baddeley in 1892 and widely used in uranium–lead dating of mafic igneous rocks.

Sep 19, 2026

Baddi Doub

Baddi Doub (بدي دوب, "I Want to Melt Away") is the 1998 debut album by Lebanese singer Elissa, whose title song launched her career and topped Arab sales charts.

Baddibu

Baddibu was a precolonial Mandinka kingdom on the north bank of the Gambia River in present-day The Gambia, seized in 1861 by the Islamic reformer Ma Bah Diakhou.

Baddies (TV series)

Baddies is a Zeus Network American reality TV franchise launched with Baddies ATL on May 16, 2021, reuniting Bad Girls Club alumni; executive producer Natalie Nunn leads regionally themed seasons (South, East, West, Caribbean, Midwest, USA) plus the Baddies Gone Wild spin-off.

Baddies season 5

Baddies Caribbean, the fifth season of the American reality series Baddies, premiered on the Zeus Network on May 5, 2024, following cast members across the Caribbean until October 2024.

Baddiewinkle

Baddiewinkle, aka Baddie Winkle, was the Instagram persona of Helen Ruth Elam Van Winkle (born 1928), a Kentucky great-grandmother who became a viral fashion influencer at 85 in 2014, reaching 3.8 million followers and brand deals with Missguided, Smirnoff, and INC.redible.

Bade

Bade (八德區, formerly 八塊厝 Bakuaicuo) is a district of Taoyuan City, Taiwan: the city's smallest district at 33.71 km², densely populated, with Hakka heritage, Sanyuan Temple, pond landscapes, and the Taoyuan Metro Green Line.