All articles starting with B

Bairam Khan (محمد بیرم خان)

Bairam Khan (محمد بیرم خان), Baharlu Turkmen noble of Qara Qoyunlu origin, regent and wakil al-saltana for Akbar, victor of Panipat 1556, assassinated 1561 in Gujarat.

Bairat Mound (Viratnagar, Jaipur district, Rajasthan): ancient Matsya capital with the Mauryan circular stupa-shrine on Bijak-ki-Pahari, two Ashokan edicts, excavated by Daya Ram Sahni 1935-36, ASI-protected.

Bairavaa (பைரவா)

Bairavaa (பைரவா), also spelled Bhairava, is a 2017 Tamil action thriller directed by Bharathan, starring Vijay in his 60th film as a debt collector fighting a corrupt medical-college chairman, with Keerthy Suresh and music by Santhosh Narayanan; released 12 January 2017.

Baire property

The Baire property, also called the property of Baire, is a regularity property of subsets of a topological space: the set differs from an open set only by a meager set.

Baire space (set theory)

Baire space in set theory is the set of all infinite sequences of natural numbers with the product topology; it is homeomorphic to the irrational real numbers.

Bairiga

Bairiga, also Ruoni (若尼) or Kangri Garpo I, is the 6,882 m highest peak of the Kangri Garpo Range in southeast Tibet, China, with 2,444 m prominence and no recorded ascent.

Bairong Financial (百融金融)

Bairong Financial, also known as Bairong Yunchuang (百融云创), is a Chinese fintech company founded by Zhang Shaofeng in 2014, selling AI credit analytics to banks and insurers.

Baise

Baise Shi (百色市) is a prefecture-level city in western Guangxi, China, bordering Yunnan, Guizhou, and Vietnam. Site of the 1929 Baise Uprising led by Deng Xiaoping; major aluminum and mango center; 36,206 km², 3.57 million residents (2020).

Baise-moi

Baise-moi (Rape Me) is a 2000 French film by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, adapted from Despentes's novel, starring Raffaëla Anderson and Karen Bach; famous for its unsimulated sex, French X-rating controversy, and bans in Australia and Ontario.

Oct 20, 2026

Baishan

Baishan is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jilin province, China, on the western side of the Changbai Mountains, bordering North Korea across the Yalu River.

Baishan hydroelectric plant

The Baishan hydroelectric plant (白山水电站) is a large hydropower station on the upper Second Songhua River at Huadian City, Jilin Province, built from 1975 and completed in 1994.

Oct 3, 2026

Baishe Srabon

Baishe Srabon (২২শে শ্রাবণ) is a 2011 Bengali psychological thriller directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Parambrata Chatterjee as police officers hunting a serial killer who leaves Bengali poetry verses at each murder in Kolkata.

Baishi Daoren Gequ

Baishi Daoren Gequ (白石道人歌曲) is a collection of songs and lyrics by Southern Song poet-composer Jiang Kui, the only Song ci collection surviving with musical notation.

Sep 24, 2026

Baishōron

Baishōron (梅松論) is a two-volume Japanese war chronicle of the Nanbokuchō period, written by an unknown author from the Ashikaga side as a counterpart to the Taiheiki.

Baishuijiang Biosphere Reserve

Baishuijiang Biosphere Reserve (白水江), Wenxian County, Gansu, China: UNESCO MAB site (2000) around a 1978 national nature reserve protecting giant pandas in the Minshan Mountains; 213,750 ha, forest 85.9%, core zone holds over 75% of panda habitat.

Băişoara

Băişoara (Băișoara), a settlement in the Iara Valley of the Apuseni Mountains, Transylvania, Romania; mining district with pits opened from 1972 under ME Iara, and a 1948-1949 anti-communist partisan area.

Bait (TV series)

Bait is a 2026 Prime Video British comedy-drama, six 25-minute episodes created by and starring Riz Ahmed as Shah Latif, a British-Pakistani actor auditioning for James Bond; Sundance premiere, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, Emmy-nominated.

Bait 3D

Bait 3D, also released as Bait, is a 2012 Australian-Singaporean 3D shark thriller directed by Kimble Rendall, about tsunami survivors trapped in a flooded supermarket with great white sharks.

Bait Bazi

Bait Bazi (بیت بازی) is a traditional Urdu verbal game in which players recite couplets in turn, each beginning with the last letter of the previous one.

Bait-and-switch

Bait-and-switch: deceptive sales practice of advertising a product the seller never intends to sell, then switching customers to a pricier alternative; illegal under FTC Act Section 5, distinct from loss leaders, and prohibited in Canada and the UK.

Baital Pachisi

Baital Pachisi (बैताल पचीसी; Sanskrit Vetālapañcaviṃśati), also known as Betal Pachisi, is an Indian frame-story collection of twenty-five riddle tales told by a vetala to King Vikramāditya.

Oct 10, 2026

Baiterek

Baiterek is Kazakhstan's state-owned development holding, created by presidential decree in 2013 to support lending to small businesses, housing, agriculture, and infrastructure, distinct from the asset-holding Samruk-Kazyna.

Baiturrahman Grand Mosque

The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque (Masjid Raya Baiturrahman) is a historic mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, first built in 1612 under Sultan Iskandar Muda and rebuilt by the Dutch after burning in 1873.

Baiwang Cloud (百望云)

Baiwang Cloud (百望云), formally Baiwang Co., Ltd., is a Chinese tax digitalization SaaS company founded in Beijing in 2015 by siblings Chen Jie and Chen Lin.

Baixa de Cassanje revolt

The Baixa de Cassanje revolt, also called Maria's War, was a January 1961 uprising by cotton-growing peasants in northern Angola against the compulsory cotton regime of Cotonang.

Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area

Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area (APA da Baixada Maranhense), a 1,775,036 ha seasonally flooded Ramsar site (no. 1020, 2000) in Maranhão, Brazil, created by state decree in 1991, rich in aquatic macrophytes and waterfowl, pressured mainly by livestock.

Baixas converter station

The Baixas converter station is an HVDC converter station near Perpignan, France, the French end of the underground France–Spain interconnection, built by INELFE and opened in 2015.

Baiyanghe power station

Baiyanghe power station (华能白杨河电厂) is a Huaneng coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Boshan District, Zibo, Shandong, China, operating two 300 MW units since 2009.

Baiyin

Baiyin Prefecture (白银市) is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu on the upper Yellow River; China's only city named for a precious metal, a 1958-founded copper mining hub now transformed into a diversified industrial and tourism economy.