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Baie-Comeau

Baie-Comeau, Quebec town on the Côte-Nord founded by Chicago Tribune owner Colonel Robert R. McCormick; incorporated 20 May 1937 around a newsprint mill, merged with Hauterive in 1982, about 21,750 inhabitants.

Baihe Dihuang Tang

百合地黄汤 (Baihe Dihuang Tang, Lily Bulb and Rehmannia Decoction), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yaolue, made of lily bulb and fresh Rehmannia juice to treat baihe disease (yin deficiency internal heat); now studied for depression, anxiety, and insomnia.

Baihetan hydroelectric plant

The Baihetan hydroelectric plant (白鹤滩水电站) is a 16 GW hydropower station on the Jinsha River between Sichuan and Yunnan, China, the world's second largest after Three Gorges.

Baihu Jia Renshen Tang

白虎加人参汤 (Baihu Jia Renshen Tang, White Tiger Decoction plus Ginseng), a Shanghan Lun formula of gypsum, zhimu, licorice, rice, and ginseng for qi-and-fluid injury with intense heat; studied in type 2 diabetes and sold as a Japanese kampo extract.

Oct 22, 2026

Baihua

Baihua (白話), or vernacular Chinese, is the written form of Chinese based on the spoken language; it replaced classical Chinese after the May Fourth movement of the late 1910s.

Sep 27, 2026

Baijayant Panda

Baijayant "Jay" Panda, born 1964, is an Indian BJP politician and National Vice-President who has represented Kendrapara, Odisha, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier terms with the Biju Janata Dal.

Baiji (白𬶨豚)

Baiji (白𬶨豚), Lipotes vexillifer, the Yangtze River dolphin of China, declared functionally extinct after a 2006 range-wide survey; IUCN lists it Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct), the first human-caused cetacean extinction.

Baiji Thermal power station

Baiji Thermal power station (محطة كهرباء بيجي الحرارية) is a mothballed fuel-oil-fired power plant in Baiji, Iraq, commissioned in 1983 with a 1,320 MW capacity.

Baijiu (白酒)

Baijiu (白酒) is China's traditional distilled grain spirit, made by solid-state fermentation with qu starter cultures and classified into aroma types (strong, sauce, light, rice), with strong-aroma baijiu holding about 70% of production.

Oct 3, 2026

Baiju Bawra (बैजू बावरा)

Baiju Bawra (बैजू बावरा) is Vijay Bhatt's 1952 Hindi musical drama for Prakash Pictures, starring Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari, and Surendra, with Naushad's raga-based score, a 100-week Bombay run, and the first Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Sep 19, 2026

Baiju Bhatt

Baiju Bhatt is an American technology founder who co-founded the brokerage company Robinhood Markets with Vladimir Tenev in 2013, serving as co-CEO and co-President until November 2020.

Sep 19, 2026

Baiju Dharmajan

Baiju Dharmajan is an Indian guitarist from Kerala, best known as the longtime lead guitarist of the rock band Motherjane, whose sound fuses South Indian classical music with rock.

Baiju Noyan

Baiju Noyan, also known as Baichu, was a Mongol general and military governor who commanded the Mongol forces in northwestern Iran and Anatolia from 1242 to 1259.

Baikal (microprocessor)

Baikal is a family of Russian microprocessors and systems-on-a-chip developed by Baikal Electronics since 2012, spanning embedded, workstation, and server chips on MIPS, Arm, and RISC-V.

Baikal Amur Mainline

The Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM; Байкало-Амурская магистраль) is a railway running north of the Trans-Siberian Railway, launched as a Soviet project in 1974 and proclaimed complete in 1984.

Baikal Rift Zone

The Baikal Rift Zone is the largest active continental rift system in Eurasia, a roughly 2,000 km network of basins in southeastern Siberia that contains Lake Baikal and still opens a few millimeters per year.

Baikal seal (нерпа)

Baikal seal (нерпа, Pusa sibirica), the only exclusively freshwater pinniped, endemic to Lake Baikal, Siberia. Ringed seal relative, isolated ~0.4 Mya; 82,500–115,000 seals, IUCN Least Concern; hunted by humans for 9,000 years.

Baikal Zapovedny Visit Centre

Baikal Zapovedny Visit Centre (Визит-центр «Байкал заповедный») is the visitor center of Baikal State Nature Reserve in Tankhoy, Buryatia, opened 11 January 2017; interactive Baikal expositions, sable enclosure, and eco-technologies.

Baikal-GVD

The Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope, known as Baikal-GVD, is a Cherenkov neutrino telescope in Lake Baikal, Russia, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, taking data since 2015 and expanding yearly.

Baikalskyi Biosphere Reserve

Baikalskyi Biosphere Reserve (Байкальский заповедник), designated 1986, is a 453,846 ha UNESCO MAB site on Lake Baikal's southern shore in Buryatia, Russia, centered on the 1969 Baikalsky zapovednik in the Khamar-Daban mountains.

Baikang Biotech

Baikang Biotech (Nanjing Baikang Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese supplier of antigens, antibodies, enzymes, and nucleotide raw materials for diagnostics, founded in Nanjing in 2019.

Baiken

Baiken (梅喧) is a recurring Guilty Gear fighting game character by Arc System Works: a wandering samurai survivor of destroyed Japan seeking revenge on That Man, debuting hidden in 1998 and joining Strive as DLC in 2022.

Baikonur

Baikonur (Байконур, Bayqongyr) is the common name for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppe, launch site of Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin's first orbital flight in 1961.

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome (Байқоңыр) is a spaceport in southern Kazakhstan leased and operated by Russia, and the launch site of Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin's 1961 flight.

Bail

Bail: money or conditions set by a court to secure a criminal defendant's release before trial. Also called cash bail or pretrial release. Distinguished by English common-law origins, the 1966 and 1984 U.S. Bail Reform Acts, and Illinois's 2023 abolition of cash bail.

Bail bondsman

A bail bondsman, or bail bond agent, guarantees a criminal defendant's court appearance for a nonrefundable fee, an occupation existing almost entirely in the United States.

Bail in the United States

Bail in the United States is the pretrial release system based on money or conditions guaranteeing court appearance. Key facts: Eighth Amendment limits, 24 states with expanded preventive detention, Illinois first to abolish cash bail in 2023, mixed reform evidence.