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Bakerloo line
The Bakerloo line is a London Underground line running from Harrow & Wealdstone to Elephant & Castle; it opened in 1906 as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.
Bakersfield sound
The Bakersfield sound is a raw, electric-guitar-driven country subgenre from Bakersfield, California, honky-tonks, defined by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard as a reaction against the polished Nashville Sound.
Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield, California: county seat of Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley, ninth-largest California city (422,165 in 2025), founded by Thomas Baker, boomtown of the 1899 Kern River oilfield, home of the Bakersfield Sound, and ranked worst U.S. city for annual particle pollution.
Bakery
A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based foods baked in an oven, such as bread, cakes, pastries, and pies, ranging from small shops to automated plants.
Baketaten
Baketaten, also spelled Beketaten, was an Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty, generally identified as the youngest daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye, known from reliefs in the tomb of Huya at Amarna.
Baketwernel
Baketwernel was a queen of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, conventionally identified as a Great Royal Wife of Ramesses IX, whose reign is dated around 1128–1110 BC.
Bakevellia
Bakevellia (King, 1848) is an extinct genus of bakevelliid bivalves, type species Avicula antiqua (= binneyi), ranging Carboniferous to Late Cretaceous, epibyssate to endobyssate, and surviving the end-Permian extinction.
Bakggoch Folk Village
Bakggoch Folk Village (박꽃민속촌, Bakggochminsokchon) is a small theme park in Sinjeong-dong, Nam-gu, Ulsan, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, on Samsan-ro 30beon-gil near Yun Gallery and Jeongwon Folk Village.
Bakhar literature
Bakhar literature (बखर) is a genre of Marathi prose historical narrative, written from the late seventeenth century onward and considered an indispensable primary source of Maratha history.
Bakheet Al Katheeri
Bakheet Al Katheeri is an Abu Dhabi energy executive who leads Mubadala's UAE Investments platform, a $77.3 billion portfolio, after serving as CEO of Mubadala Petroleum from 2017 to 2021.
Bakhmut (Бахмут)
Bakhmut, formerly Artemivsk, is a city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, founded as a Cossack salt settlement and reduced to rubble in the 2022–2023 battle.
Bakhmut Municipality
Bakhmut Municipality (Бахмутська територіальна громада) is a territorial hromada in Bakhmut raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Bakhmut; it was created in 2019 and comprises 19 settlements.
Bakhodir Dzhalolov
Bakhodir Dzhalolov (Bahodir Jalolov, "The Big Uzbek"), born 1994, is an undefeated Uzbek heavyweight boxer, two-time Olympic super-heavyweight champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), two-time amateur world champion, and 18-0 (15 KO) as a professional.
Bakhram Murtazaliev
Bakhram Murtazaliev (Бахрам Муртазалиев), Russian super welterweight from Grozny based in California; IBF champion 2024-25, famous for the four-knockdown stoppage of Tim Tszyu, later losing the belt to Josh Kelly.
Bakhsh (بخش)
Bakhsh (بخش, "share, portion") is Iran's third-level administrative division between county (shahrestan) and rural district (dehestan), headed by a bakhshdar under the county farmandar; 1,193 existed in 1404 (2025-26), created by cabinet approval under population thresholds.
Bakhshi
A bakhshi is a folk epic singer and storyteller of Central Asia, especially among Uzbek, Karakalpak, and Turkmen peoples, performing dostons from memory with a dombra or dutar.
Bakht Khan
Bakht Khan (बख़्त ख़ान) was a Rohilla artillery officer who became commander in chief of the rebel forces at Delhi during the 1857 Indian Rebellion.
Bakht Singh of Marwar
Bakht Singh (बख्त सिंह), 1706–1752, was a Rathore ruler of Marwar who as governor of Nagaur fostered painting and poetry, and was murdered by a poisoned robe in 1752.
Bakhtiari confederation
The Bakhtiari confederation (ایل بختیاری) was a Lur-speaking tribal confederation of the Zagros Mountains, prominent in the 1909–1911 Constitutional Revolution until Pahlavi rule dismantled it.
Bakhtiari hydroelectric plant
The Bakhtiari hydroelectric plant is a planned 750 MW hydropower station on the Bakhtiari River in southwest Iran, to be fed by a 275 m arch dam.
Bakhtiari people
Bakhtiari (بختیاری) people: southwestern Iranian Lur-speaking Zagros group in Khuzestan, Chahar-Mahal and Bakhtiari, and Isfahan; Chahar Lang and Haft Lang divisions; 19th-century Bakhtiari tribal confederacy under the ilkhan.
Bakhtin Circle
The Bakhtin Circle was an informal group of young Soviet scholars named for Mikhail Bakhtin who met in Nevel, Vitebsk, and Leningrad from 1918 to 1929.
Bakhtiyar Akhmedov
Bakhtiyar Akhmedov (Бахтияр Шахабутдинович Ахмедов), Russian freestyle wrestler born 1987 in Buynaksk, Dagestan; 2008 Olympic super-heavyweight (≤120 kg) champion by upgrade after Artur Taymazov's doping disqualification.
Bakhtiyar Artayev
Bakhtiyar Artayev (Бахтияр Артаев), Kazakh amateur boxer born 1983 in Taraz; won welterweight (69 kg) gold and the Val Barker Trophy at Athens 2004, world bronzes 2005 and 2007, Beijing 2008 quarterfinalist.
Bakhtiyar Kaki
Bakhtiyar Kaki (بختیار کاکی), also known as Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, was a Chishti Sufi saint who made Delhi the order's center in India; he died there in 1235.
Bakhtiyar Khalji's conquest of Bihar
Bakhtiyar Khalji's conquest of Bihar was the Turkic commander Bakhtiyar Khalji's seizure of the fortified town of Bihar and destruction of its Buddhist monasteries around 1200.
Bakhtrioni
Bakhtrioni (ბახტრიონი) is an 1892 epic poem by the Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela recounting the 1659 uprising of the people of Kakheti against Persian rule, in which Georgian highlanders stormed the Bakhtrioni fortress.
Bakhtrioni Uprising
The Bakhtrioni Uprising (ბახტრიონის აჯანყება) was a 1659 revolt by the population of Kakheti, eastern Georgia, against Safavid Iranian rule, best remembered for storming Bakhtrioni Fortress, where the Persian Qizilbash force was stationed.
Bakhyt Sarsekbayev
Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (Бахыт Сарсекбаев), Kazakh boxer born 1981 in Pavlodar; won 2008 Beijing Olympic welterweight gold, beating Cuba's Carlos Banteux 18-9 in the final.
Baki
Baki (باقي), pen name of Mahmud Abdulbaki (1526–1600), was an Ottoman poet and jurist acclaimed as the "sultan of poets", best known for his elegy for Suleyman.