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Bailleul-sur-Thérain
Bailleul-sur-Thérain, a commune in the Oise (Hauts-de-France), France, near Beauvais; INSEE code 60041; about 2,330 inhabitants in 2023; home of the Mont-César Gallic oppidum of the Bellovaci, a listed monument since 1979.
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British award for literary non-fiction worth £50,000 to the winning author, founded in 1999.
Baillie-Hamilton Island
Baillie-Hamilton Island, Nunavut: uninhabited Queen Elizabeth Island in the Canadian Arctic, 290 km2, 26 by 12 km, flat-topped with 215 m cliffs, kittiwake colony at Washington Point, polynya to its north.
Baillonella toxisperma
Baillonella toxisperma (moabi, African pearwood, djave nut tree), sole species of its genus in Sapotaceae, a giant Vulnerable Central African rainforest tree valued for durable timber and seed oil, dispersed by forest elephants.
Bailly (lunar crater)
Bailly, lunar walled plain near the Moon's south pole, largest crater on the visible side, about 300 km across, IAU-approved 1935, named for French astronomer Jean Sylvain Bailly.
Bailout
A bailout is the rescue of a distressed entity by a government using systemic-risk justifications; the U.S. government provided financial-sector support 16 times between 1970 and 2020.
Bailundo
Bailundo (Umbundu: Mbalundu) was an Ovimbundu kingdom in the central highlands of Angola, emerging around 1700 and defeated by Portugal in the Bailundo War of 1902 to 1903.
Bailundu
Bailundu, also spelled Bailundo or Mbalundu, was one of the most powerful Ovimbundu kingdoms in the central highlands of Angola, defeated by Portugal in the Bailundo War of 1902–03.
Bailus Walker Jr.
Bailus Walker Jr. (1934–2020) was an American environmental and occupational health scientist who led the Massachusetts and Michigan public health agencies and taught at Howard University.
Baily's beads
Baily's beads are bright pinpoints of sunlight that shine through valleys on the Moon's irregular edge in the seconds around totality during a solar eclipse.
Baima Natural Reserve
Baima Natural Reserve (白马雪山国家级自然保护区), or Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve, is a national protected area in Diqing, northwestern Yunnan, established 1983/1988, protecting the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey across 282,106 ha and 2343 vascular plant species.
Baimiao
Baimiao (白描, "plain drawing") is a Chinese painting technique that renders subjects entirely in ink lines, without color; Li Gonglin founded it as a genre in the Northern Song.
Baiming Xinkang (百明信康)
Baiming Xinkang (百明信康) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in Shanghai in 2018 that develops allergen-specific and autoimmune immunotherapies on its PCFiT and Apitope peptide platforms.
Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston and one of the three big strategy consultancies known as MBB, founded by Bill Bain in 1973.
Bain Capital
Bain Capital is a Boston-based alternative investment firm founded by Mitt Romney in 1984, managing roughly $230 billion in private equity, credit, and real estate.
Bain Capital Asia
Bain Capital Asia is the pan-Asian private equity platform of Boston-based Bain Capital, investing across Japan, India, China, Australia, and Korea since its first fund in 2007.
Bain Capital Double Impact
Bain Capital Double Impact is the impact-investing private equity platform of Bain Capital, established in Boston in 2015 to pursue financial returns alongside measurable social and environmental impact.
Bain Capital Europe
Bain Capital Europe is the European private equity arm of Boston-based Bain Capital, which opened its London office in 2000 and has raised six Europe buyout funds.
Bain Capital Insurance
Bain Capital Insurance is the insurance-focused private equity unit of Bain Capital, based in Boston and launched in 2021 under Matt Popoli; its first fund closed at $1.15 billion in 2023.
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities is a technology-focused private equity strategy of Bain Capital, based in Boston, investing in software, fintech, security, and healthcare IT companies.
Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures is the multi-stage venture capital arm of Bain Capital, headquartered in Boston with offices in the Bay Area and New York, managing over $10 billion.
Bain family murders
Bain family murders: killings of Robin, Margaret, Laniet, Arawa, and Stephen Bain in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 20 June 1994. David Bain was convicted in 1995, cleared by the Privy Council in 2007, acquitted at a 2009 retrial, and denied compensation in 2016.
Bain-marie
A bain-marie, French for "Mary's bath" and historically Balneum Mariae, is a heated water bath that gently and indirectly warms food containers or laboratory vessels.
Bainbridge Island, Washington
Bainbridge Island, Washington: an island city in Kitsap County in Puget Sound, 35 minutes from Seattle by ferry. Also City of Winslow (incorporated 1947); 24,825 residents (2020), 27.61 sq mi, Suquamish ancestral land, high-income Seattle suburb.
Bainbridge reflex
Bainbridge reflex (atrial reflex): heart rate rises when venous return and atrial stretch increase, via vagal afferents to the medulla and vagal withdrawal plus sympathetic outflow. Described by F. A. Bainbridge in 1915 in dogs; weaker in humans; linked to respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome
Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome, or ASXL3-related disorder (OMIM 615485), is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from de novo truncating ASXL3 (18q12.1) variants, causing severe developmental delay, hypotonia, feeding difficulties, and distinctive facial features.
Bainite
Bainite is a steel microstructure formed when austenite decomposes at temperatures between the pearlite and martensite ranges, named for Edgar C. Bain, who characterized it in 1930.
Baintha Brakk
Baintha Brakk, the Ogre, is a 7,285 m granite peak in Pakistan's Karakoram. First climbed 1977 by Scott and Bonington, summited only three times, with a 24-year gap between the first two ascents.
Bairaag (बैराग)
Bairaag (बैराग) is a 1976 Hindi drama directed by Asit Sen, starring Dilip Kumar in a triple role with Saira Banu; music by Kalyanji-Anandji; a box-office flop that preceded Dilip Kumar's five-year sabbatical.
Bairagi Kainla
Bairagi Kainla (बैरागी काइँला) is the pen name of Til Bikram Nembang Limbu, a Nepali poet born in 1939 in Panchthar District who co-founded the Tesro Aayam movement.