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Baki the Grappler
Baki the Grappler (グラップラー刃牙) is Keisuke Itagaki's martial arts manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion from October 1991, 42 volumes, first of the Baki franchise about Baki Hanma fighting to surpass his father Yujiro; adapted as a 2001 anime and Netflix series.
Bakili Muluzi
Bakili Muluzi is a Malawian politician and businessman who served as president of Malawi from 1994 to 2004, defeating Hastings Kamuzu Banda in the first multiparty elections.
Baking
Baking: dry-heat cooking in an oven, the final step for bread, cakes, and cookies. Covers heat and mass transfer, Maillard browning, ancient Egyptian origins, and the modern $500 billion baking industry.
Baking Impossible
Baking Impossible is a 2021 Netflix American reality competition series pairing bakers with engineers as 'bakineers' in nine two-person teams building edible creations that survive stress tests for a $100,000 prize, hosted by Justin Willman.
Baking It
Baking It is a Peacock holiday baking competition series (2021-2023), a spin-off of Making It, hosted by Maya Rudolph with Andy Samberg then Amy Poehler, judged by four grandmothers for a $50,000 prize.
Baking powder
Baking powder, a dry chemical leavener of sodium bicarbonate, acid salts (cream of tartar, monocalcium phosphate, SAS), and starch; double-acting types release CO2 in two stages; patented by Horsford in 1856.
Baking sheet
A baking sheet, also called a sheet pan or bun pan, is a flat rectangular metal tray with a one-inch rim on all four sides, made for oven use.
Bakir ibn Abd Allah al-Ashaj
Bakir ibn Abd Allah al-Ashaj (بكير بن عبد الله) was a Medinan hadith transmitter of the junior Tabi'un generation, graded trustworthy, who later settled in Egypt.
Bakjur
Bakjur (بكجور) was a governor of Homs under Sa'd al-Dawla and later of Damascus, whose oppressive rule brought a Fatimid army from Egypt before he rebelled from Raqqa.
Bakkula
Bakkula (बक्कुल; also Bākula or Vakkula) was an elder monk of the early Buddhist saṅgha whom the Buddha declared foremost in good health, living by tradition to 160.
Baklava
Baklava, also known as baqlawa or pakhlava, is a layered pastry of buttered filo sheets, nut filling, and syrup, made across Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Bakong
Bakong, also called Prasat Bakong, is a late ninth-century Hindu temple at Roluos near Siem Reap, Cambodia, built as the state temple of King Indravarman I and consecrated in 881.
Bakong Gas Field
The Bakong Gas Field is an offshore natural gas field in block SK408, about 120 km off Sarawak, Malaysia, discovered in 2014 and producing since 2020.
Bakongo migrations between Angola and Zaire
The Bakongo migrations between Angola and Zaire are the repeated movements of Kikongo-speaking peoples across the border, including a massive refugee exodus during the Angolan war of independence.
Bakony–Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark
Bakony–Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark: a 3,244 km2 geopark in western Hungary around Lake Balaton and the Bakony Mountains, EGN/GGN member since 2012, UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, managed by the Balaton Uplands National Park Directorate.
Bakr Awa
Bakr Awa is the largest archaeological mound of the Shahrizor plain in Sulaymaniyah province, northeastern Iraq, with a Late Bronze Age archive of Akkadian and Hurrian cuneiform tablets.
Bakr bin Laden
Bakr bin Laden is a Saudi businessman, son of construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden and half-brother of Osama, who led the Saudi Binladin Group from 1988 to 2015.
Bakr Elsherif
Bakr Elsherif is a Saudi technology entrepreneur known as a founder of Nana, the Riyadh grocery and quick-commerce delivery platform launched in 2016, where he led data and platform.
Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Nasafi
Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Nasafi was a hadith scholar of Nasaf, also called Nakhshab, in Transoxiana during the 4th/10th century, distinct from the later theologian Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Nasafi.
Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Qushayri
Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Qushayri (بكر بن محمد القشيري) was a Sunni Maliki jurist and judge of Basran origin who moved to Egypt and died there in 955.
Bakr ibn Wa'il
Bakr ibn Wa'il (بكر بن وائل) was a large Arabian lineage group of the Rabi'a branch, living between central Iraq and al-Yamama, remembered for the Battle of Dhi Qar.
Bakreswar Thermal Power Station
Bakreswar Thermal Power Station, also called Bakreswar Thermal Power Project, is a coal-fired power station at Bakreswar in Birbhum district, West Bengal, with an installed capacity of 1,050 MW.
Bakri al-Sadafi
Bakri al-Sadafi (بكري الصدفي) was an Egyptian Hanafi scholar of al-Azhar who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1905 to 1914, succeeding Muhammad Abduh.
Baksan Neutrino Observatory (Баксанская нейтринная обсерватория)
The Baksan Neutrino Observatory (Баксанская нейтринная обсерватория) is an underground laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Kabardino-Balkaria, founded in 1973 and built inside Mount Andyrchi.
Baksei Chamkrong inscription
The Baksei Chamkrong inscription (K. 286) is a Sanskrit text carved in 948 on the doorjambs of the Baksei Chamkrong temple, near Phnom Bakheng at Angkor, Cambodia.
Bakshi Jagabandhu
Bakshi Jagabandhu (ବକ୍ସି ଜଗବନ୍ଧୁ) was the hereditary commander of the Raja of Khurda's army in Odisha, who led the Paika Rebellion of 1817 against the East India Company.
Bakshish Singh
Bakshish Singh (Bakshish Sandhu Singh, 1929–1970), Indian field hockey right back with Punjab Police; won 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold and 1958 Asian Games silver; distinct from a 1924-born wrestler of the same name.
Baktash ibn Tutush
Baktash ibn Tutush (بكتاش بن تتش), known in Turkish scholarship as Ertash, was a Seljuk prince of the Damascus line who failed to retake the city from Tughtigin.
Baku
Baku (Bakı), capital and largest city of Azerbaijan on the Absheron peninsula at the Caspian Sea; historic oil boomtown, home of the UNESCO-listed Walled City, Maiden Tower, and Baku Metro, host of COP29.
Baku (mythology)
Baku (獏, 貘) is a Japanese folklore chimera that devours nightmares, derived from the Chinese spirit-beast mo; dream-eating is a Japanese addition, with Edo-period pillows, treasure-ship charms, and tapir naming.