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Baghdad school
The Baghdad school, also called the Arabic or Abbasid school, was a tradition of manuscript illustration that flourished in Abbasid Iraq in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
Baghdad Sulcus
Baghdad Sulcus, a tiger stripe fracture on Saturn's moon Enceladus, the longest of four south-polar sulci at about 175 km, erupting jets of water vapor and ice particles into Enceladus' plume.
Baghead (2023 film)
Baghead (2023) is a supernatural horror film, Alberto Corredor's feature debut, expanded from his 2017 short with Lorcan Reilly. Freya Allan inherits a Berlin pub tied to Baghead, a shape-shifting entity channeling the dead; Shudder released it in 2024.
Bagheera (2024 film)
Bagheera (ಬಘೇರಾ) is a 2024 Kannada vigilante action thriller directed by Dr. Suri from a Prashanth Neel story, produced by Hombale Films, starring Sriimurali as cop-turned-vigilante Vedanth Prabhakar, released 31 October 2024.
Bagheera (बघीरा)
Bagheera (बघीरा, Baghīrā) is the black panther in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895); born in captivity at Oodeypore, he buys Mowgli's life with a bull and mentors him with Baloo, voiced by Sebastian Cabot (1967) and Ben Kingsley (2016).
Baghel Singh
Baghel Singh (ਬਘੇਲ ਸਿੰਘ), 1730–1802, was a Sikh military commander and leader of the Karorsinghia misl who captured Delhi in 1783 and built seven gurdwaras there.
Baghlan
Baghlan (بغلان) is a province of northeastern Afghanistan, capital Pul-e Khumri, created in 1964 from Qataghan; known for the Kunduz River valley, sugar production, the Surkh Kotal fire temple, and recurrent flash floods.
Baghlar Baghi
Baghlar Baghi (باغلارباغی), also Baghlarbaghi, is a 22-hectare recreational complex in Tabriz, Iran, opened in 1994, holding the largest amusement park in Tabriz and northwestern Iran plus a zoo, bird garden, and dolphinarium.
Baghouse
A baghouse, also called a fabric filter, is an air pollution control device that removes dust particles from gas streams by passing them through fabric bags.
Bagirmi
Bagirmi, also spelled Baguirmi, was a Muslim sultanate founded in the early sixteenth century southeast of Lake Chad, with its capital at Massenya in present-day Chad.
Bagistanus (mountain)
Mount Bagistanus, Greek Bagistanon, is the ancient name of Bisotun (Behistun) in western Iran, a sacred mountain with Darius I's trilingual rock inscription and relief, a park of Semiramis, and a Heracles relief.
Bağlama
Bağlama (saz), the most common stringed instrument of Türkiye, an Anatolian long-necked lute with mulberry soundboard, tied frets, La-Re-Mi tuning, and central roles in Alevi ritual and the âşık minstrel tradition.
Baglihar Dam
Baglihar Dam, or Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, is a 900 MW run-of-the-river dam on the Chenab River in Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir, commissioned in 2008.
Bagman (2024 film)
Bagman (2024 film) is a supernatural horror film directed by Colm McCarthy. It stars Sam Claflin as a father who must confront a child-snatching creature of folklore.
Bagmati Province
Bagmati Province (बागमती प्रदेश), one of Nepal's seven provinces created by the 2015 constitution, covers 13 central districts including Kathmandu, spans 20,300 km², and has Nepal's lowest multidimensional poverty rate at 7.0 percent.
Bagna càuda
Bagna càuda (bagna caoda), the hot garlic-anchovy-olive oil dipping sauce of Piedmont, served warm in a terracotta fujot with cardoons; canonical 2005 recipe, salt-road history, Bagna Cauda Day festival.
Bagnell Dam
Bagnell Dam, also known as Osage Dam, is a hydroelectric dam on the Osage River in Missouri completed in 1931, creating Lake of the Ozarks.
Bagnères-de-Luchon
Bagnères-de-Luchon (Luchon), Pyrenean spa town in Haute-Garonne, France, at 627 m near Spain; Roman-era thermal springs, revived by d'Étigny from 1759, Thermes Chambert 1857, Superbagnères ski resort, reopened 2025 rail line.
Bagni di Lucca
Bagni di Lucca is a town and spa center in Tuscany, Italy, known for thermal springs that made it one of Europe's most elegant 19th-century spas.
Bagni di Nerone
Bagni di Nerone (Baths of Nero), Terme di Nerone, Roman bath ruins in Largo Parlascio, Pisa; the only partially standing building of Roman Pisae, built in the late 1st century AD after Nero's death, linked to the Venuleii family.
Bagnoli di S. Gregorio
Bagnoli di S. Gregorio (Terme di Bagnoli) is a Roman villa and bath complex in contrada Bagnoli-San Gregorio near Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, discovered in 1986; six-room hypocaust baths with mosaics, built from the early 3rd century AD, damaged by a late-4th-century earthquake and reused in the Byzantine period.
Bago City
Bago City, a component city in Negros Occidental, Philippines, founded 1575, chartered 1966 under RA 4382; 24 barangays, 191,210 people (2020), rice granary of the province, distinct from Bago in Myanmar.
Bago Myoma Sayadaw
Bago Myoma Sayadaw, known in official records as Bhaddanta Indacara, was a Burmese Theravada monk who served as first Chairman of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee from 1980.
Bago Region
Bago Region (ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး) is a central Myanmar administrative region split by the Bago Yoma into east and west; capital Bago city; rice and teak agriculture, 4.45 million people (2024 census), 39 irrigation dams, and heavy conflict displacement in its east.
Bago, Bago Region
Bago (ပဲခူး), formerly Pegu and historically Hanthawaddy, is a city in southern Myanmar and the capital of Bago Region, on the Bago River about 80 kilometers northeast of Yangon.
Bagoas
Bagoas was a Persian eunuch and chiliarch, the Achaemenid Empire's chief minister, who controlled the court until his death in 336 BC. Greek sources credit him with poisoning two kings.
Bagohi
Bagohi (also Bagavahya, or Bagoas) was the Persian governor of Yehud under Darius II, known from the Elephantine papyri, active around 410 to 407 BCE.
Bagong Pilipinas (campaign)
Bagong Pilipinas ("New Philippines") is the Marcos Jr. administration's official brand of governance and leadership in the Philippines, adopted by memorandum circular in July 2023 and launched publicly on January 28, 2024, covering agency branding, service fairs, digital government apps, and LGU funding programs.
Bagong Silang
Bagong Silang (Barangay 176), Caloocan City, Philippines; created 1971 from the Tala Estate as an NHA resettlement site; was the Philippines' most populous barangay (261,729 in 2020) until RA 11993 split it into six barangays in 2024.
Bagoué
Bagoué, a region of northern Côte d'Ivoire in the Savanes District with capital Boundiali; departments Boundiali, Tengréla, Kouto; 10,668 km², 515,890 people (2021); cashew, cotton, maize, cattle, gold, and an 83.5 MWc solar plant.