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Badho Bahu
Badho Bahu is an Indian Hindi romantic drama TV series on &TV (2016–2018), created by Dipti Kalwani, starring Rytasha Rathore as Komal "Badho" and Prince Narula as wrestler Lucky, remade in four South Indian languages.
Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (بديع الزمان الهمذاني) was an Arabic prose writer and poet, born in Hamadan and died in Herat in 1008, best known as the inventor of the maqama.
Badi H. Baltagi
Badi H. Baltagi is a Lebanese-born econometrician and Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University, known for panel data econometrics and his textbook Econometric Analysis of Panel Data.
Badi II
Badi II, or Badi II Abu Daqn, was a sultan (mek) of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar in the seventeenth century, known for defeating the Shilluk.
Badi IV
Badi IV (بادي الرابع), also called Badi Abu Shulukh, was sultan of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar from 1724 to 1761 or 1762, defeating an Ethiopian invasion in 1744.
Badi VII
Badi VII, also given as Badi VII bin Tabl, was the last sultan of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar in Sudan, who submitted without a fight to the Turco-Egyptian forces in June 1821.
Badi' al-Zaman Foruzanfar
Badi' al-Zaman Foruzanfar (بدیعالزمان فروزانفر) was a Persian literary scholar and professor at the University of Tehran who became Iran's leading twentieth-century scholar of Rumi.
Badi'iyyat
Badi'iyyat (البديعيات) are Arabic poems praising the Prophet Muhammad in which every verse contains at least one rhetorical embellishment device, flourishing mainly in the Mamluk period.
Badiar Biosphere Reserve
Badiar Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site (designated 2002) in northern Guinea around Badiar National Park, adjacent to Senegal's Niokolo-Koba; savanna and dry-forest zoning with core, buffer, and transition areas.
Badies
Badies (Vicus Badies) was a Roman road station on the Via Salaria in central Italy, listed in the Antonine Itinerary between Falacrinum and Ad Centesimum; its site near Accumoli is uncertain. Distinct from Badias in Numidia.
Badīn District
Badīn District (بدين) is a district of Sindh, Pakistan, east of the Indus on the deltaic plain; capital Badin town, 6,726 km², 1,947,081 people (2023), sugarcane farming, coastal salinity and flood risk.
Badis ibn al-Mansur
Badis ibn al-Mansur (باديس بن منصور) was the third ruler of the Zirid dynasty of Ifriqiya, reigning from 996 until his death in 1016 while besieging his great-uncle Hammad.
Badis ibn Habus
Badis ibn Habus (باديس بن حبوس) was the third Zirid emir of Granada in al-Andalus, reigning from 1038 to 1073 and known as the strongest of the Berber kings of southern al-Andalus.
Badkhn
A badkhn (בַּדְחָן) is a Jewish wedding entertainer and master of ceremonies who gladdens the bride and groom with rhymed verse, humor, and song, parallel to the court jester.
Badla (बदला) (2019 film)
Badla is a 2019 Hindi-language mystery thriller directed by Sujoy Ghosh, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu as a lawyer and his client, a businesswoman accused of murder.
Badland (video game)
Badland (BADLAND) is a 2013 side-scrolling physics platformer by Finnish two-person studio Frogmind, released on iOS April 4, 2013; iPad Game of the Year 2013, 10 million players, Game of the Year Edition on consoles in 2015.
Badland Hunters (황야)
Badland Hunters (황야) is a 2024 Korean Netflix post-apocalyptic action film, Heo Myung-haeng's directorial debut, starring Ma Dong-seok as hunter Nam-san rescuing a teen from a doctor's experiments; it topped Netflix's global non-English chart for three weeks.
Badlands
Badlands are dissected, sparsely vegetated landscapes on soft sediment, with rills, gullies and very high erosion rates; the White River Badlands of South Dakota are the type locality.
Badlands (film)
Badlands is a 1973 American crime drama directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as teenage fugitives loosely based on the 1958 Starkweather spree.
Badlands (Halsey album)
Badlands is Halsey's debut studio album, released August 28, 2015: a dystopian concept album of electropop and dark pop, triple platinum, with every track RIAA certified, peaking at UK number 9.
Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park is a 244,000-acre national park in southwestern South Dakota, protecting eroded White River Badlands buttes, Oligocene fossil beds, mixed-grass prairie, bison, and reintroduced black-footed ferrets; monument from 1939, national park since 1978.
Badlapur
Badlapur (बदलापूर), a commuter city in Thane district, Maharashtra, in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, governed by Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council; 174,226 people in 2011, town since 1971, divided East and West by its railway line.
Badlapur (बदलाPUR) (film)
Badlapur (बदलापुर) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir revenge thriller directed by Sriram Raghavan, starring Varun Dhawan as a man who pursues his wife and son's killers for fifteen years.
Badly Drawn Boy
Badly Drawn Boy is the alias of English singer-songwriter Damon Gough (born 1969), whose 2000 debut The Hour of Bewilderbeast won the Mercury Prize and led to the acclaimed About a Boy soundtrack.
Badmaash Company (बदमाश कंपनी)
Badmaash Company (बदमाश कंपनी) is a 2010 Yash Raj Films Hindi caper drama directed by Parmeet Sethi, starring Shahid Kapoor and Anushka Sharma as 1990s Bombay friends running a customs-duty-evasion import business, released 7 May 2010.
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport in which players hit a shuttlecock over a net, played by more than 200 million people and an Olympic sport since 1992.
Badminton Asia
Badminton Asia (Badminton Asia Confederation), the BWF-recognized governing body for badminton in Asia: 43 member associations across 5 sub-regions, headquartered in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, running the Asia Championships and team events.
Badminton Asia Championships
Badminton Asia Championships (亚洲羽毛球锦标赛), annual continental badminton championship since 1991, first held 1962 Kuala Lumpur; five events, Super 1000-level points, US$550,000 purse in 2026 at Ningbo, China, won by Shi Yu Qi and An Se-young.
Badminton Association of India
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) is the national governing body for badminton in India, a full Badminton World Federation member since 1935, based in New Delhi and led by president Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Badminton at the 2016 Rio Olympics: five events, 11–20 August, Riocentro Pavilhão 4, 172 athletes from 46 NOCs. Chen Long and Carolina Marín won singles gold; China took only two of five golds after sweeping London 2012.