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Balwant Wankhade
Balwant Baswant Wankhade, born 1967, is an Indian National Congress politician serving since 2024 in the Lok Sabha for Amravati, Maharashtra, after representing Daryapur in the state assembly.
Balwantray Thakore
Balwantray Thakore (બળવંતરાય ઠાકોર, 1869–1952) was a Gujarati poet, critic, and historian who pioneered the sonnet in Gujarati poetry, bridging the Pandit and Gandhi eras.
Balwinder Sandhu (ਬਲਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ)
Balwinder Singh Sandhu (ਬਲਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ), born 1956, Indian right-arm fast-medium swing bowler; 8 Tests, 22 ODIs; famous for bowling Gordon Greenidge in the 1983 World Cup final; later a coach.
Balyakalasakhi
Balyakalasakhi (ബാല്യകാലസഖി), meaning "childhood friend", is a 1944 Malayalam tragic love novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, his most popular novel and the first major Malayalam work to portray Muslim customs.
Balyan family
The Balyan family, also spelled Balian, was an Ottoman Armenian dynasty of architects who served the sultans for four generations and built Dolmabahçe Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque.
Balyogi Umeshnath
Balyogi Umeshnath is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in 2024 for a term to 2030.
Balys Sruoga
Balys Sruoga (1896–1947) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, playwright, and university professor, best known for Forest of the Gods, his memoir of imprisonment in the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp.
Balz–Schiemann reaction
The Balz–Schiemann reaction, also called the Schiemann reaction, converts aromatic amines into aryl fluorides via diazonium tetrafluoroborate salts, first reported by Balz and Schiemann in 1927.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝) is Dai Sijie's 2000 French novel and his 2002 film about two teens re-educated during China's Cultural Revolution whose forbidden Balzac books transform a village seamstress; the film opened Cannes Un Certain Regard and was banned in China.
Balzan
Balzan FC, formerly Balzan Youths FC (founded 1937, Ħal Balzan, Malta), is a Maltese football club; FA Trophy winners 2018-19, Premier League runners-up 2016-17 and 2017-18, home ground Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali.
Bam Adebayo
Bam Adebayo (Edrice Femi Adebayo), Miami Heat center-forward drafted 14th in 2017 out of Kentucky; three-time All-Star, five-time All-Defensive pick, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and scorer of the NBA's second-highest single-game total, 83 points in 2026.
Bam Adebayo's 83-point game
Bam Adebayo's 83-point game: verified NBA performance, March 10, 2026, Heat 150-129 Wizards; second-highest single-game total ever behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100, with NBA-record 36 free throws made on 43 attempts.
Bam and its Cultural Landscape
Bam and its Cultural Landscape (Arg-e Bam), UNESCO World Heritage site in Kerman Province, Iran, inscribed 2004, danger-listed 2004–2013 after the 2003 earthquake; Achaemenid origins, Silk Roads citadel of chineh and khesht earthen architecture, qanāt oasis.
Bam Aquino
Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aguirre Aquino IV, Filipino senator (2013–2019; since 2025), Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino chairman, cousin of Benigno Aquino III; principal sponsor of the Free College Law, placed 2nd in the 2025 Senate race.
Bam Bam Bigelow
Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow, 1961-2007), American pro wrestler of WWE, ECW, and WCW; flame-tattooed 390-lb big man who main-evented WrestleMania XI against Lawrence Taylor and won ECW, WCW, and IWGP titles.
Bam Margera
Bam Margera, born Brandon Margera, is an American former professional skateboarder and television personality from West Chester, Pennsylvania, best known for MTV's Jackass and his show Viva La Bam.
Bamako
Bamako, capital and largest city of Mali on the Niger River; founded around 1640, French colonial capital from 1908, now a fast-growing city facing floods, water shortages, and a 2025-2026 JNIM blockade.
Bamako (2006 film)
Bamako (2006) is a drama by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, premiered out of competition at Cannes, in which a courtyard tribunal in Mali's capital puts the World Bank and IMF on trial for Africa's poverty.
Bamako Encounters
Bamako Encounters (Rencontres de Bamako) is a biennial festival of contemporary photography and video from Africa and its diaspora, held in Bamako, Mali, since 1994.
Bamako Region
Bamako Region, officially the District de Bamako, is the capital district of Mali, containing the national capital and serving as the nerve center of the national economy.
Bamana bogolanfini dyeing by women
Bamana bogolanfini dyeing is the Malian textile tradition from central Mali in which women color handwoven cotton with fermented mud and leaf dye, producing cloth called mud cloth, worn at key stages of a woman's life.
Bamana boli power objects
A Bamana boli (plural boliw) is a power object of the Bamana people of Mali, encrusted with sacrificial matter and believed to accumulate the life force nyama.
Bamana Empire
The Bamana Empire, also called the Bambara or Ségou Empire, was a militarized West African state centered at Ségou on the middle Niger River, founded around 1712 by Biton Coulibaly.
Bamanpukur Mound
Bamanpukur Mound, also Ballal Dhipi, is an ASI-protected archaeological mound at Bamanpukur, Nadia, West Bengal, notified in 1920 as Ruins of Fort; 1980s excavations revealed a 13,000 sq.m brick temple complex of the 8th-12th centuries CE.
Bamar people
Bamar (Burmans), the largest ethnic group of Myanmar at about 68% of the population, Buddhist, centered in the central plains and delta, and politically dominant since 1948 independence.
Bambai Meri Jaan
Bambai Meri Jaan (बंबई मेरी जान) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language period crime drama streaming series on Prime Video, directed by Shujaat Saudagar, about a gangster's rise in post-independence Bombay.
Bambara Kingdom of Segou
The Bambara Kingdom of Segou (Ségou) was a Bamana warrior state on the Niger River founded by Biton Coulibaly around 1712 and conquered in 1861.
Bambara language
Bambara (Bamanankan, Bamanan) is a Mande language of the Manding group, Mali's most widely spoken language with roughly 15 million users, official since 2023, written in Latin script, with S Aux O V X word order and two tones.
Bambatha kaMancinza
Bambatha kaMancinza (uBambatha kaMancinza) was the chief of the amaZondi, a Zulu-speaking people in Natal, who led the 1906 poll-tax rebellion and was reported killed at Mome Gorge that June.
Bambatha rebellion
The Bambatha rebellion (Umvukelo waseBambatha), or Zulu Uprising of 1906, was an armed rising of Zulu chiefdoms in Natal against a new poll tax, led by Chief Bambatha.