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Baden-Baden

Baden-Baden, until 1931 simply Baden, is a Black Forest spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with twelve thermal springs (56–68.8 °C, 800,000 L/day), Roman origins as Aquae around 70 AD, and UNESCO World Heritage status since 2021 as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe.

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg, a southwest German federal state formed by referendum in 1952 from Württemberg-Baden, Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern; capital Stuttgart, 35,751 km², over 11.2 million people, third largest German state.

Baden-Württemberg-class frigate

The Baden-Württemberg class, also called Type F125, is a class of four frigates of the German Navy designed for long deployments, commissioned between 2019 and 2022.

Badeni crisis

The Badeni crisis was an 1897 political confrontation in Cisleithania, the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy, triggered by language ordinances making Czech equal to German in administration.

Badeni language ordinances

The Badeni language ordinances were 1897 decrees by Count Kasimir Felix Badeni making Czech equal to German as an official language in Bohemia and Moravia, repealed in 1899.

Badenoch shadow cabinet

Badenoch shadow cabinet: Conservative opposition front bench under Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Opposition since 2 November 2024; formed 5 November 2024, reshuffled July 2025 and August 2026, with Andrew Griffith as shadow chancellor and Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary.

Bader Ataya

Bader Ataya is a UAE-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded Dubai's cloud-kitchen company Kitopi in January 2018, serving as Chief Growth Officer, and earlier co-founded Mumzworld.com.

Bader charge analysis

Bader charge analysis is a method for assigning partial atomic charges by partitioning electron density into basins around each atom, from Bader's 1990 atoms-in-molecules theory.

Badfinger

Badfinger was a Welsh pop rock and power pop band formed in Swansea, signed to the Beatles' Apple Records, known for "Come and Get It" and "No Matter What."

Badge

Badge: an emblem signifying membership, rank, achievement, or identity, from medieval livery and regimental insignia to police shields and digital Open Badges (1EdTech, W3C Verifiable Credentials) used as micro-credentials in education.

Badge Man

Badge Man is an alleged figure seen in Mary Moorman's 1963 Dealey Plaza Polaroid behind the grassy knoll fence, named by Gary Mack and Jack White; photogrammetric studies by Crawley and Myers concluded it was not a feasible human shooter position.

Badge of Military Merit

Badge of Military Merit, the Purple Heart's predecessor, was a purple heart-shaped cloth decoration created by George Washington on August 7, 1782, at Newburgh, New York, honoring enlisted men for meritorious action; only three Revolutionary War recipients are verified.

Badger

Badger is a common name for various stout, burrowing mustelids within the Mustelidae family, including the European (Meles meles), which is protected by the Berne Convention.

Badges of the United States Air Force

Badges of the United States Air Force are uniform insignia authorized by the Department of the Air Force that signify aeronautical ratings, special skills, career field qualifications, and duty assignments.

Badges of the United States Army

Badges of the United States Army: combat and special skill badges (CIB, EIB, EFMB, ESB), marksmanship, and identification insignia governed by AR 670-1 and DA PAM 670-1, designed by The Institute of Heraldry, with roots in Civil War corps badges and the 1943 infantry badges.

Badges of the United States Marine Corps

Badges of the United States Marine Corps center on the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor (EGA), the Corps' official emblem adopted in 1868 under Commandant Jacob Zeilin, standardized in 1875, and redesigned in 1955 with a bald eagle and Semper Fidelis ribbon.

Badges of the United States Navy

Badges of the United States Navy are breast insignia prescribed in uniform regulations that mark qualification as a naval aviator, flight officer, aircrewman, or warfare specialist.

Badgingarra National Park

Badgingarra National Park, Western Australia: A Class Reserve 31809, about 13,121 ha in the Shire of Dandaragan, straddling Brand Highway 216 km north of Perth; kwongan heath wildflowers, Eucalyptus pendens, Iain Wilson Nature Trail.

Badh ibn Dustak

Badh ibn Dustak (بذ بن دستك) was a Kurdish chief of the Hamidiyya tribe who ruled Diyar Bakr from 983, rising from shepherd to master of Mayyafariqin, Amid, and Mosul.

Badhaai Do (बधाई दो)

Badhaai Do (बधाई दो) is a 2022 Hindi comedy-drama, a Badhaai Ho follow-up directed by Harshavardhan Kulkarni, starring Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar in a lavender marriage; released 11 February 2022, ₹18 crore box office, Filmfare Best Actress.

Badhaai Ho (बधाई हो)

Badhaai Ho (बधाई हो) is a 2018 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma, starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Neena Gupta, and Gajraj Rao, about a family reacting to a 51-year-old mother's pregnancy; it earned ₹220 crore worldwide and a National Film Award.

Badhan

Badhan (باذان), also written Bazan, was the last Sasanian governor of Sana'a in Yemen, a member of the abna' who converted to Islam in Muhammad's lifetime and became the first Muslim amir of Yemen.

Badho Bahu

Badho Bahu is an Indian Hindi romantic drama TV series on &TV (2016–2018), created by Dipti Kalwani, starring Rytasha Rathore as Komal "Badho" and Prince Narula as wrestler Lucky, remade in four South Indian languages.

Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani

Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (بديع الزمان الهمذاني) was an Arabic prose writer and poet, born in Hamadan and died in Herat in 1008, best known as the inventor of the maqama.

Badi H. Baltagi

Badi H. Baltagi is a Lebanese-born econometrician and Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University, known for panel data econometrics and his textbook Econometric Analysis of Panel Data.

Badi II

Badi II, or Badi II Abu Daqn, was a sultan (mek) of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar in the seventeenth century, known for defeating the Shilluk.

Badi IV

Badi IV (بادي الرابع), also called Badi Abu Shulukh, was sultan of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar from 1724 to 1761 or 1762, defeating an Ethiopian invasion in 1744.

Badi VII

Badi VII, also given as Badi VII bin Tabl, was the last sultan of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar in Sudan, who submitted without a fight to the Turco-Egyptian forces in June 1821.

Badi' al-Zaman Foruzanfar

Badi' al-Zaman Foruzanfar (بدیع‌الزمان فروزانفر) was a Persian literary scholar and professor at the University of Tehran who became Iran's leading twentieth-century scholar of Rumi.

Badi'iyyat

Badi'iyyat (البديعيات) are Arabic poems praising the Prophet Muhammad in which every verse contains at least one rhetorical embellishment device, flourishing mainly in the Mamluk period.