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Bagpipes

Bagpipes: family of reed instruments with an air bag feeding a chanter and drones, mouth- or bellows-blown. Over 130 types worldwide, from Great Highland and uilleann pipes to gaita and gaida; continuous sound, no standard pitch.

Bagpuss

Bagpuss: 1974 British stop-motion children's TV series by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms for BBC2; 13 episodes about a saggy pink cloth cat in Emily's lost-property shop; voted Britain's favourite children's programme in a 1999 BBC poll.

Bagram (بگرام)

Bagram (بگرام), also known as Begram, is a town and district in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, about 60 km north of Kabul, known for the ancient city of Kāpiśa and Bagram Airfield.

Bagram Airfield

Bagram Airfield, also known as Bagram Air Base, is a military airfield in Parwan province, Afghanistan, about 25 miles north of Kabul, built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

Bagrat III of Georgia

Bagrat III of Georgia (ბაგრატ III; c. 960–1014) of the Bagrationi dynasty was the first king of a unified Georgia, becoming King of the Georgians in 1008.

Bagrat IV of Georgia

Bagrat IV (ბაგრატ IV) was a Bagrationi king who reigned over the united Georgian kingdom from 1027 to 1072, defending it against Byzantium and Seljuk invaders.

Bagrat V of Georgia

Bagrat V, called Bagrat the Great, was King of Georgia from 1360 until his death in 1393 or 1395, facing Timur's first invasions of the kingdom.

Bagrationi dynasty (ბაგრატიონი)

Bagrationi (ბაგრატიონი), Georgian branch of the Bagratid dynasty, ruled Georgia from 888 and a united kingdom from 1008 until the 1801 Russian annexation; Davidic-origin legend; Mukhraneli and Gruzinsky branches survive.

Sep 24, 2026

Bagratuni dynasty

The Bagratuni dynasty (Բագրատունի), also called the Bagratids, was an Armenian princely house that ruled a restored Armenian kingdom from 885 to 1045 and produced the royal line of Georgia.

Bagridae

Bagridae (bagrid or naked catfishes), family Bleeker 1858 of Siluriformes catfishes from African and Asian freshwaters; scaleless, four barbels, serrated spines; about 20 genera, 245 species; taxonomy reshaped by Mo 1991; mitogenomes show Hemibagrus non-monophyly.

Bagrus bajad

Bagrus bajad, commonly called the bayad, is a large bagrid catfish native to the Nile, Lake Chad, and the Niger and Senegal rivers, commercially fished as a food fish.

Bagryana (Mercurian crater)

Bagryana is a 101-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 3.89°S, 283.73°W, in quadrangle H-09, named for Bulgarian poet Elisaveta (1893-1991) and IAU-approved September 25, 2015.

Bagshot Park

Bagshot Park is a royal residence near Bagshot in Surrey, England, built in the 1870s for Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur and now home to Prince Edward.

Oct 15, 2026

Bagtiyarlyk Gas Field

Bagtiyarlyk Gas Field (Bagtyýarlyk) is a natural gas field on the Amu Darya River in eastern Turkmenistan, developed by CNPC since 2007 as the first foreign-operated gas project there.

Bagua (八卦)

Bagua (八卦, "eight trigrams") is the Chinese system of eight three-line yin-yang figures underlying the I Ching, feng shui, and BaZi, arranged in Earlier Heaven (Fuxi) and Later Heaven (King Wen) sequences.

Baguazhang (八卦掌)

Baguazhang (八卦掌, Eight Trigram Palm) is a late-Qing Chinese internal martial art built on circle walking, palm changes and angular footwork, traced to Dong Haichuan's Beijing teaching and now a national intangible cultural heritage.

Baguazo

The Baguazo was a violent 2009 confrontation between Peruvian police and indigenous protesters in the Amazonas region of northern Peru, leaving 33 dead and about 200 injured.

Baguette

Baguette: long, slender French bread loaf of flour, water, salt and leaven or yeast; regulated by the 1993 French bread decree as baguette de tradition française and inscribed by UNESCO in 2022 as intangible cultural heritage.

Baguio

Baguio: highly urbanized Philippine summer capital on a 5,000-foot Cordillera plateau, founded as an American colonial hill station under Daniel Burnham's 1905 plan; 368,426 residents (2024), water deficit of 4,000 cubic meters daily.

Baguio Botanical Garden

Baguio Botanical Garden (also Igorot Village, formerly Imelda Park) is a 5-hectare public garden on Leonard Wood Road, Baguio City, Philippines, at 1,540 m elevation, featuring Igorot huts, themed international gardens, and a WWII Japanese tunnel.

Bagutta Prize

The Bagutta Prize (Premio Bagutta) is an Italian literary prize awarded annually in Milan. Founded by writers in 1926, it is the oldest literary prize in Italy.

Bagworm moth

Bagworm moth (family Psychidae), also called case moths: about 1,000 moth species whose larvae live in portable silk-and-debris bags; females of most species are wingless and stay in the case, and the evergreen bagworm is a conifer pest.

Bagyi Aung Soe

Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990) was a Burmese painter, illustrator, and teacher regarded as the pioneer of modern art in Myanmar, who studied at Tagore's Śāntiniketan in India in 1951.

Sep 24, 2026

Bagyidaw

Bagyidaw (ဘကြီးတော်), also known as Sagaing Min, was the seventh king of Burma's Konbaung dynasty, reigning 1819 to 1837, and lost Burma's western empire in the First Anglo-Burmese War.

Bah Bah

Bah Bah (بح بح) is a small amusement park in Taourit, Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia, with carousel, train, go-karts and trampolines; rated 3.4/381 reviews. Not the Bah-Bah village in the Philippines.

Bah Oury

Bah Oury (Amadou Oury Bah, born 1958, Pita) is Guinea's prime minister, appointed 27 February 2024 by transitional president Mamadi Doumbouya and reappointed January 2026; former UFDG co-founder, 2008 reconciliation minister, exiled 2011-2015.

Sep 23, 2026

Baha al-Dawla

Baha al-Dawla (بهاء الدولة), son of 'Adud al-Dawla, was a Buyid ruler of Iraq and Fars from 989 to 1012, succeeded by his son Sultan al-Dawla.

Sep 23, 2026

Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad

Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad (ابن شداد) was a Shafii jurist and historian of Mosul who served Saladin as army judge from 1188 and wrote an authoritative biography of him.