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Babe Ruth Bows Out

"Babe Ruth Bows Out" (The Babe Bows Out), Nat Fein's June 13, 1948 rear-view photograph of a dying Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium's silver anniversary, won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize, the first sports photo so honored.

Babe Slater

Babe Slater (Colby Edmund Slater, 1896-1965), American rugby union player, two-time Olympic gold medalist (1920 Antwerp, 1924 Paris) and captain of the 1924 U.S. team; first UC Davis alumnus to win Olympic gold.

Babe: Pig in the City

Babe: Pig in the City (1998) is George Miller's darker sequel to Babe, following Babe and Mrs. Hoggett to a menacing city to save their farm; a critical favorite and box-office failure.

Babek

Babek (Babək), known as Babak Khorramdin, was a ninth-century rebel who resisted the Abbasid Caliphate for twenty-two years and became a heroic subject of Azerbaijani literature.

Babel

Babel is a two-player board game by Uwe Rosenberg and Hagen Dorgathen, published by Kosmos in Germany in 2000, in which players build temples and attack their opponent's.

Babel (film)

Babel (2006) is a drama by Alejandro González Iñárritu, written by Guillermo Arriaga, linking four families in Morocco, the US–Mexico border, and Japan after a rifle shot; Cannes Best Director, Golden Globe Best Drama, Oscar for Best Original Score.

BABEL trial

BABEL trial (Better tArgeting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients), NCT03649191: Canadian cluster randomized trial of structured advance care planning in 29 nursing homes, 713 frail residents, 2018–2020, improving ACP comprehensiveness and reducing antibiotics.

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence (2022) is R.F. Kuang's Nebula and Locus Award-winning dark academia fantasy about Robin Swift, translation, and empire in 1830s Oxford and Canton.

Babeldaob SouthWest - Aimeliik State

Aimeliik State, southwest Babeldaob, Palau; hamlets Ngerkeai, Elechui, Medorm, Imul, Ngchemiangel; 363 people (2020), 38.7 km2; only daughter of Milad in oral tradition; entry-stage cultural tourism.

Babelsberg Studio

Studio Babelsberg, founded 1912 in Potsdam-Babelsberg, is the world's oldest large-scale film studio, formerly Bioscop, Ufa, and DEFA, now a Cinespace Studios site with 21 sound stages near Berlin.

Babemba Traoré

Babemba Traoré, also written Ba Bemba Traoré, was the last faama of the Kingdom of Kénédougou, ruling from Sikasso in present-day Mali from 1893 until his death in 1898.

Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms: 1937 Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical (289 performances) and its 1939 MGM film adaptation directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, origin of the let's-put-on-a-show film trope.

Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

Babes in Toyland (1934), aka March of the Wooden Soldiers, is a Hal Roach Studios MGM musical comedy starring Laurel and Hardy, the first film version of Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta, reissued in 1950 and remade by Disney in 1961.

Babes in Toyland (1961 film)

Babes in Toyland (1961) is Walt Disney Productions' first live-action musical, directed by Jack Donohue, adapting Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta after MGM's 1934 Laurel and Hardy version, starring Annette Funicello, Tommy Sands, and Ray Bolger, with two Oscar nominations.

Babes in Toyland (band)

Babes in Toyland: Minneapolis punk band formed 1987 by Kat Bjelland and Lori Barbero; three albums, Spanking Machine, Fontanelle, Nemesisters; riot grrrl influence, kinderwhore image, broke up in 2001 after a 2014–2015 reunion.

Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway is a 1941 MGM musical, the third Garland-Rooney "backyard musical," directed by Busby Berkeley, produced by Arthur Freed, with songs by Burton Lane including the Oscar-nominated "How About You."

Babesia

Babesia is a genus of tickborne, single-celled parasites that infect red blood cells and cause babesiosis; over 100 species exist, and a few, including B. microti, infect humans.

Babesiosis

Babesiosis, a tickborne parasitic disease caused by Babesia microti and related species infecting red blood cells, transmitted by Ixodes ticks and blood transfusion, endemic in the US Northeast and upper Midwest, treated with atovaquone-azithromycin.

Babestation

Babestation is a British adult chat TV channel launched 3 December 2002 on Game Network UK, the first UK babe channel, blending live presenters, premium-rate calls, and webcam services.

Babett Peter

Babett Peter, born 1988 in Oschatz, is a retired German left back with 118 caps, a 2007 World Cup, 2009 Euro, and 2016 Olympic gold; now Eintracht Frankfurt Women's sporting director.

Babette's Feast

Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud) is Gabriel Axel's 1987 Danish film adapted from Karen Blixen's 1950 story, about a Parisian chef who cooks a lavish dinner for pious sisters in Jutland; it won the 1988 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the first for Denmark.

Babi community

The Babi community (بابیان) was the body of followers of Sayyid Ali Mohammad Shirazi, the Bab, a religious movement founded in Shiraz, Iran, in 1844.

Babi dynasty

The Babi dynasty (બાબી વંશ) was an Afghan (Pathan) ruling house of Gujarat whose Junagadh line, founded by Sher Khan Babi, ruled independently from 1748.

Babi movement

The Babi movement (بابیه) was a messianic religious movement founded in Iran in 1844 by the Bab, who was executed in 1850; it later divided into Azali Babi and Bahai communities.

Babi uprisings

The Babi uprisings (شورش‌های بابی) were three armed revolts by followers of the Bab in Qajar Iran, fought at Shaykh Tabarsi, Nayriz, and Zanjan between 1848 and 1850.

Babi uprisings and the execution of the Bab

The Babi uprisings and the execution of the Bab (قیام بابیان و اعدام باب) were armed clashes between Babi followers and Qajar Iran, culminating in the Bab's 1850 execution.

Babi Yar (Бабин Яр)

Babi Yar (Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar) is a Kyiv ravine where Nazis shot 33,771 Jews on 29–30 September 1941 and about 100,000 victims total by 1943; a site of Soviet silencing and contested memorialization.

Babies (2026 film)

Babies (2026 film): American comedy-drama written and directed by Lauren Miller Rogen, starring Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen as a couple deciding on parenthood; distinct from the 2010 Balmès documentary and the BBC series.

Babies (British TV series)

Babies is a 2026 six-part BBC One drama created, written and directed by Stefan Golaszewski, starring Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen as a couple coping with miscarriage; 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Babil Governorate

Babil (Babylon) Governorate, central Iraq, capital Hillah on the Euphrates; area about 5,307 km², population over 2.2 million (2024 census); agriculture-dominated economy, desert climate, named for ancient Babylon.