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Bago Myoma Sayadaw
Bago Myoma Sayadaw, known in official records as Bhaddanta Indacara, was a Burmese Theravada monk who served as first Chairman of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee from 1980.
Bago Region
Bago Region (ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး) is a central Myanmar administrative region split by the Bago Yoma into east and west; capital Bago city; rice and teak agriculture, 4.45 million people (2024 census), 39 irrigation dams, and heavy conflict displacement in its east.
Bago, Bago Region
Bago (ပဲခူး), formerly Pegu and historically Hanthawaddy, is a city in southern Myanmar and the capital of Bago Region, on the Bago River about 80 kilometers northeast of Yangon.
Bagoas
Bagoas was a Persian eunuch and chiliarch, the Achaemenid Empire's chief minister, who controlled the court until his death in 336 BC. Greek sources credit him with poisoning two kings.
Bagohi
Bagohi (also Bagavahya, or Bagoas) was the Persian governor of Yehud under Darius II, known from the Elephantine papyri, active around 410 to 407 BCE.
Bagong Pilipinas (campaign)
Bagong Pilipinas ("New Philippines") is the Marcos Jr. administration's official brand of governance and leadership in the Philippines, adopted by memorandum circular in July 2023 and launched publicly on January 28, 2024, covering agency branding, service fairs, digital government apps, and LGU funding programs.
Bagong Silang
Bagong Silang (Barangay 176), Caloocan City, Philippines; created 1971 from the Tala Estate as an NHA resettlement site; was the Philippines' most populous barangay (261,729 in 2020) until RA 11993 split it into six barangays in 2024.
Bagoué
Bagoué, a region of northern Côte d'Ivoire in the Savanes District with capital Boundiali; departments Boundiali, Tengréla, Kouto; 10,668 km², 515,890 people (2021); cashew, cotton, maize, cattle, gold, and an 83.5 MWc solar plant.
Bagpipes
Bagpipes: family of reed instruments with an air bag feeding a chanter and drones, mouth- or bellows-blown. Over 130 types worldwide, from Great Highland and uilleann pipes to gaita and gaida; continuous sound, no standard pitch.
Bagpuss
Bagpuss: 1974 British stop-motion children's TV series by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms for BBC2; 13 episodes about a saggy pink cloth cat in Emily's lost-property shop; voted Britain's favourite children's programme in a 1999 BBC poll.
Bagram (بگرام)
Bagram (بگرام), also known as Begram, is a town and district in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, about 60 km north of Kabul, known for the ancient city of Kāpiśa and Bagram Airfield.
Bagram Airfield
Bagram Airfield, also known as Bagram Air Base, is a military airfield in Parwan province, Afghanistan, about 25 miles north of Kabul, built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
Bagrat III of Georgia
Bagrat III of Georgia (ბაგრატ III; c. 960–1014) of the Bagrationi dynasty was the first king of a unified Georgia, becoming King of the Georgians in 1008.
Bagrat IV of Georgia
Bagrat IV (ბაგრატ IV) was a Bagrationi king who reigned over the united Georgian kingdom from 1027 to 1072, defending it against Byzantium and Seljuk invaders.
Bagrat V of Georgia
Bagrat V, called Bagrat the Great, was King of Georgia from 1360 until his death in 1393 or 1395, facing Timur's first invasions of the kingdom.
Bagrationi dynasty (ბაგრატიონი)
Bagrationi (ბაგრატიონი), Georgian branch of the Bagratid dynasty, ruled Georgia from 888 and a united kingdom from 1008 until the 1801 Russian annexation; Davidic-origin legend; Mukhraneli and Gruzinsky branches survive.
Bagratuni dynasty
The Bagratuni dynasty (Բագրատունի), also called the Bagratids, was an Armenian princely house that ruled a restored Armenian kingdom from 885 to 1045 and produced the royal line of Georgia.
Bagridae
Bagridae (bagrid or naked catfishes), family Bleeker 1858 of Siluriformes catfishes from African and Asian freshwaters; scaleless, four barbels, serrated spines; about 20 genera, 245 species; taxonomy reshaped by Mo 1991; mitogenomes show Hemibagrus non-monophyly.
Bagrus bajad
Bagrus bajad, commonly called the bayad, is a large bagrid catfish native to the Nile, Lake Chad, and the Niger and Senegal rivers, commercially fished as a food fish.
Bagryana (Mercurian crater)
Bagryana is a 101-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 3.89°S, 283.73°W, in quadrangle H-09, named for Bulgarian poet Elisaveta (1893-1991) and IAU-approved September 25, 2015.
Bagshot Park
Bagshot Park is a royal residence near Bagshot in Surrey, England, built in the 1870s for Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur and now home to Prince Edward.
Bagtiyarlyk Gas Field
Bagtiyarlyk Gas Field (Bagtyýarlyk) is a natural gas field on the Amu Darya River in eastern Turkmenistan, developed by CNPC since 2007 as the first foreign-operated gas project there.
Bagua (八卦)
Bagua (八卦, "eight trigrams") is the Chinese system of eight three-line yin-yang figures underlying the I Ching, feng shui, and BaZi, arranged in Earlier Heaven (Fuxi) and Later Heaven (King Wen) sequences.
Baguazhang (八卦掌)
Baguazhang (八卦掌, Eight Trigram Palm) is a late-Qing Chinese internal martial art built on circle walking, palm changes and angular footwork, traced to Dong Haichuan's Beijing teaching and now a national intangible cultural heritage.
Baguazo
The Baguazo was a violent 2009 confrontation between Peruvian police and indigenous protesters in the Amazonas region of northern Peru, leaving 33 dead and about 200 injured.
Baguette
Baguette: long, slender French bread loaf of flour, water, salt and leaven or yeast; regulated by the 1993 French bread decree as baguette de tradition française and inscribed by UNESCO in 2022 as intangible cultural heritage.
Baguio
Baguio: highly urbanized Philippine summer capital on a 5,000-foot Cordillera plateau, founded as an American colonial hill station under Daniel Burnham's 1905 plan; 368,426 residents (2024), water deficit of 4,000 cubic meters daily.
Baguio Botanical Garden
Baguio Botanical Garden (also Igorot Village, formerly Imelda Park) is a 5-hectare public garden on Leonard Wood Road, Baguio City, Philippines, at 1,540 m elevation, featuring Igorot huts, themed international gardens, and a WWII Japanese tunnel.
Bagutta Prize
The Bagutta Prize (Premio Bagutta) is an Italian literary prize awarded annually in Milan. Founded by writers in 1926, it is the oldest literary prize in Italy.
Bagworm moth
Bagworm moth (family Psychidae), also called case moths: about 1,000 moth species whose larvae live in portable silk-and-debris bags; females of most species are wingless and stay in the case, and the evergreen bagworm is a conifer pest.