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Bagalamukhi (बगलामुखी)
Bagalamukhi, also called Baglamukhi or Pitambara, is a yellow-clad Hindu goddess, the eighth of the ten Mahavidyas, whose stambhana power paralyzes speech and adversaries, sought for victory in disputes.
Bagan (ပုဂံ)
Bagan (ပုဂံ), Myanmar's Buddhist monument landscape on the Ayeyarwady River, World Heritage since 2019: eight components, 3,595 recorded monuments, 11th-13th century capital, brick temples, earthquake conservation.
Bagan mural painting
Bagan mural painting refers to the Buddhist wall paintings inside Bagan's temples in central Myanmar, created mostly between the 11th and 13th centuries during the city's time as a Buddhist imperial capital.
Bagana
Bagana is an active andesitic lava cone (stratovolcano) on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, 1,855 m high, erupting since at least 1842, with near-continuous lava effusion since 2000 and extreme SO2 degassing.
Bagani (TV series)
Bagani is a 2018 Philippine fantasy drama series set in the fictional precolonial world of Sansinukob. It follows five heroes granted mystical powers to defend their land.
Bagasse
Bagasse, also known as megass, is the dry fibrous residue left after sugar juice is extracted from sugarcane, produced at about 300 lb per ton of cane.
Bagassosis
Bagassosis, also known as bagasse disease or bagasse workers' lung, is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis of the lungs caused by inhaling dust from stored bagasse, the fibrous residue of sugar cane.
Bagauda
Bagauda is the traditional founder of the ruling dynasty of Kano, a Hausa city-state in northern Nigeria, credited with conquering the area around 999 and becoming its first king.
Bagbartu Mons
Bagbartu Mons is a 600 km diameter mons (mountain feature) on Venus at 65.5°N, 279°E in the Metis Mons quadrangle (V-6), within Lakshmi Planum; IAU-named in 1997 for an Urartu goddess and studied via Magellan dyke-swarm mapping.
Bağcılar
Bağcılar, a district of Istanbul on the European side between the TEM and E-5 roads, created in 1992 from Bakırköy's Kirazlı, Güneşli, and Mahmutbey quarters; 2025 population 707,635, 22 neighborhoods, 22 km².
Bagdad Mine
The Bagdad Mine is an open-pit copper and molybdenum mine in Yavapai County, Arizona, owned by Freeport-McMoRan and among the first major U.S. mines with a fully autonomous haulage fleet.
Bagdasar Dpir
Bagdasar Dpir (Պաղտասար Դպիր, ca. 1683–1768) was an Armenian poet, teacher, and printer of Constantinople who managed Armenian printing houses for over 50 years and wrote more than 200 verse works.
Bagdatti
Bagdatti was a governor of the Mannaean province of Uishdish, brother of the Mannean king Ullusunu, who took part in the killing of Aza and was captured by Sargon II in 716 BC.
Bagdogra Airport
Bagdogra Airport, also known as Siliguri International Airport, is an international airport in West Bengal, India, serving as the air gateway to Darjeeling and Sikkim.
Bagel
Bagel (Yiddish beygel, Polish bajgiel): ring-shaped bread from Jewish communities in Poland, boiled before baking for a chewy crust; first documented in Kraków in 1610, brought to New York and Montreal by Jewish immigrants, and mass-marketed by Lender's frozen bagels from 1962.
Bagerhat
Bagerhat (বাগেরহাট) is a coastal district in Khulna Division, southwestern Bangladesh, home to the UNESCO Historic Mosque City founded by Khan Jahan in the 15th century; district since 1984, 9 upazilas, prone to cyclones and salinity.
Bageshwar Dham Balaji Temple
Bageshwar Dham (बागेश्वर धाम) is a Hanuman temple and pilgrimage center in Gadha village, Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India, which grew rapidly after 2019 under Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri.
Baggage Claim (film)
Baggage Claim is a 2013 American romantic comedy written and directed by David E. Talbert, based on his novel, starring Paula Patton as a flight attendant with 30 days to get engaged.
Baggara Arabs
Baggara Arabs (also Shuwa Arabs) are Arabic-speaking semi-nomadic cattle herders of the Sahel's Baggara Belt, stretching over 2,500 km from Nigeria to Sudan; former camel nomads from Arabia who shifted to cattle by 1800, they speak West Sudanic Arabic and feature in the RSF's Sudan war recruitment.
Bagger 288
Bagger 288 is a giant bucket-wheel excavator built by Krupp for the German mining firm Rheinbraun, which began work at the Hambach lignite mine in 1978 and was then the largest land machine in the world.
Bagger 293
Bagger 293 is a giant bucket wheel excavator built in Germany in 1995 by TAKRAF, which holds the Guinness World Record as the largest land vehicle.
Baggu
Baggu is an American bag brand founded in San Francisco in 2007 by Emily Sugihara, best known for its Standard reusable ripstop nylon shopping bag.
Baggy Shanker
Baggy Shanker (Bhagat Singh Shanker), Labour and Co-operative MP for Derby South since July 2024, succeeding Margaret Beckett; former Derby City Council leader (2023–2024) and Rolls-Royce engineer.
Bagh Caves
The Bagh Caves are nine rock-cut Buddhist caves in Madhya Pradesh, India, excavated around the 4th to 6th century CE and known for Gupta-period murals.
Bagh nakh
The bagh nakh (Hindi: बाघ नख), also spelled wagh nakh, is a concealed claw weapon from the Indian subcontinent, known for Shivaji's killing of Afzal Khan.
Bagh Talar Toranj
Bagh Talar Toranj (باغ تالار ترنج) is a casino in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, near Mashhad and Toos, at 36.36491°N 59.57932°E, close to Kashaf village and Razavi Hospital; distinct from same-named venues in Sirjan and Isfahan.
Bagh-o-Bahar
Bagh-o-Bahar (باغ و بہار; "Garden and Spring") is an Urdu prose tale by Mir Amman, first published in 1804 and treated as a founding work of modern Urdu prose.
Bagha Jatin (যতীন্দ্রনাথ মুখোপাধ্যায়)
Bagha Jatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee, 1879–1915) was a Bengali revolutionary, leader of the Jugantar current, and organiser of a 1915 Indo-German arms plot who died of wounds after a September 1915 confrontation at Balasore, Odisha.
Baghandi Saghir
Baghandi Saghir (أبو بكر الباغندي الصغير), or Abu Bakr al-Baghandi, was a hadith hafiz of Baghdad, praised as the hafiz of Iraq but accused of tadlis, who died in 925.
Baghban (बाग़बान) (2003 film)
Baghban (बाग़बान) is a 2003 Hindi family drama directed by Ravi Chopra, produced by B.R. Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini as a retired couple neglected by their four sons, with Salman Khan as the adopted son Alok.