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Bashkir literature
Bashkir literature (башҡорт әҙәбиәте) is the literature of the Bashkir people of the Ural-Volga region, written in the Bashkir language and studied alongside kindred Tatar and Chuvash traditions.
Bashō school
The Bashō school (蕉門, Shōmon) was the school of haikai poetry formed around Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) in Edo, whose shōfū style became the tradition from which modern haiku descends.
Bashpajali
Bashpajali (ബാഷ്പാഞ്ജലി) is a Malayalam poetry collection by the poet Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, published in 1935, with about fifty lyric poems written between his seventeenth and twenty-first years.
Bashy
Bashy, performance name of Ashley Thomas (born 1985), is a British grime and UK rap artist from London known for "Black Boys", the 2009 album Catch Me If You Can, acting roles, and the 2024 comeback album Being Poor Is Expensive.
Basia
Basia (Barbara Stanisława Trzetrzelewska, born 1954, Jaworzno, Poland) is a Polish jazz-pop singer, ex-Matt Bianco vocalist, whose Time and Tide and London Warsaw New York went US platinum; distinct from Basia Bulat.
Basic (2026 film)
Basic (2026) is an American romantic comedy directed and written by Chelsea Devantez, her feature debut, starring Ashley Park, Leighton Meester, and Taylor John Smith. Expanded from Devantez's 2020 short, it premiered at SXSW on March 16, 2026, and holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Basic (film)
Basic is a 2003 American-German-British military mystery thriller directed by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, and Samuel L. Jackson, set in Panama.
Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct (1992) is Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller starring Michael Douglas as detective Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as suspect Catherine Tramell, written by Joe Eszterhas, released March 20, 1992, grossing $353 million worldwide amid protests and NC-17 censorship battles.
Basic Instinct 2
Basic Instinct 2 (2006), also Risk Addiction, is Michael Caton-Jones's erotic thriller sequel starring Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell and David Morrissey; a $70 million film that grossed $35 million, scored 26 on Metacritic and 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, and won four Razzies.
Basick
Basick (베이식; born Lee Cheol-joo, 1986) is a South Korean rapper who won the Mnet rap competition Show Me the Money 4 in 2015, defeating Song Mino, then signed with RBW.
Basil Brush
Basil Brush is a British glove puppet fox created by Ivan Owen with a puppet designed by Peter Firmin, known for the catchphrase "boom boom" and a Terry-Thomas-style voice. He starred in The Basil Brush Show on BBC1 from 1968 to 1980, moved to ITV schools reading programs in 1982, returned in a 2002–2007 CBBC sitcom, and still tours live shows.
Basil Hayden's
Basil Hayden's (Basil Hayden since 2022) is an 80-proof Kentucky straight bourbon launched by Booker Noe in 1992 as the lightest member of Jim Beam's Small Batch Collection, using the 63% corn, 27% rye Old Grand-Dad mashbill, named for pioneer distiller Meredith Basil Hayden Sr.
Basil Joseph (ബേസിൽ ജോസഫ്)
Basil Joseph (ബേസിൽ ജോസഫ്), born 1990 in Sultan Bathery, Kerala, is a Malayalam film director and actor who directed Kunjiramayanam, Godha, and the Netflix superhero hit Minnal Murali, then became a bankable lead actor.
Basil Poledouris
Basil Konstantine Poledouris (1945–2006), Greek-American Hollywood film composer of 80+ scores; known for Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, Lonesome Dove (Emmy 1989), The Hunt for Red October, and Starship Troopers.
Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone (1892–1967) was a South African-born British actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films between 1939 and 1946 and for screen villain roles.
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, also recorded as Basilio de Santa Cruz Puma Callao, was a Peruvian painter of Quechua origin from Cusco and a leading master of the colonial Cuzco School.
Basilisk (manga)
Basilisk (バジリスク 〜甲賀忍法帖〜) is a 2003-2004 Kodansha seinen manga by Masaki Segawa adapting Futaro Yamada's novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls: ten Kouga versus ten Iga ninja in a Tokugawa succession duel. Five volumes, Kodansha Manga Award, 2005 Gonzo anime.
Baskerville
Baskerville is a Transitional serif typeface created in the 1750s by Birmingham printer John Baskerville, first used in his 1757 Virgil; known for vertical stress, high stroke contrast, and revivals from Monotype, Libre Baskerville, and Baskerville Punch.
Basket
Basket: a container woven from plant materials such as wicker, cane, bamboo, straw, roots, or splints using coiling, twining, or plaiting; used for carrying, storage, and cultural expression worldwide.
Basket Case (film)
Basket Case (1982) is Frank Henenlotter's $35,000 16mm horror comedy about Duane Bradley and his basket-dwelling deformed twin Belial seeking revenge on the doctors who separated them; a midnight movie hit that spawned two sequels.
Basket Case (song)
Basket Case, 1994 Green Day song from Dookie, second single, written by Billie Joe Armstrong about panic attacks; UK peak 55 then 7 on reissue, US Modern Rock #1, over 1.66 billion Spotify streams.
Basket weaving
Basket weaving is the hand interlacing of plant materials such as reeds, grasses, bark, and roots into containers, mats, and other objects, using three basic techniques: coiling, twining, and plaiting.
Basketball Wives
Basketball Wives is a VH1 reality series premiering April 11, 2010, created with Shaunie O'Neal, ex-wife of Shaquille O'Neal, following women linked to NBA players; 12 seasons, criticized for stereotyping, named a Time influential season.
Basketball Wives LA
Basketball Wives LA (Basketball Wives L.A.) is a VH1 reality series, a 2011 spin-off of Basketball Wives following wives, girlfriends, and exes of NBA players, premiering August 29, 2011, with cast including Jackie Christie, Draya Michele, and Shaunie O'Neal.
Basketmouth
Basketmouth, born Bright Okpocha, is a Nigerian comedian and actor who became one of Nigeria's foremost stand-up comedians and later released the albums Yabasi, Horoscopes, and Uburu.
Basketry in museum collections
Basketry in museum collections is the collecting, cataloging, display, and conservation of woven plant-fiber baskets, which serve as art, ethnographic record, and ancestral belongings for source communities.
Basketry Museum of the Roma
Basketry Museum of the Roma (Μουσείο Καλαθοπλεκτικής των Ρωμά), founded 1995 in Komotini and moved to Thrylorio in 2004, is an ethnological-technological museum of Roma basket-weaving with over 300 baskets from Thrace, the Balkans, and worldwide.
Baskets (TV series)
Baskets is an FX dark comedy (2016-2019, 4 seasons, 40 episodes) created by Zach Galifianakis, Louis C.K., and Jonathan Krisel, starring Galifianakis as twins Chip and Dale Baskets and Emmy-winning Louie Anderson as their mother Christine in Bakersfield.
Baskin (film)
Baskin (Baskın) is a 2015 Turkish horror film by Can Evrenol, expanded from his 2013 short: five cops answer a backup call and enter a hellish cult den led by The Father. Premiered at TIFF Midnight Madness 2015; self-financed; IFC Midnight released it in the US.
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins, also branded "31 Flavors," is an American ice cream specialty shop chain founded in 1945 in Glendale, California, by brothers-in-law Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, known for the 31-flavors concept and global franchising.