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Baise-moi
Baise-moi (Rape Me) is a 2000 French film by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, adapted from Despentes's novel, starring Raffaëla Anderson and Karen Bach; famous for its unsimulated sex, French X-rating controversy, and bans in Australia and Ontario.
Baishan
Baishan is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jilin province, China, on the western side of the Changbai Mountains, bordering North Korea across the Yalu River.
Baishan hydroelectric plant
The Baishan hydroelectric plant (白山水电站) is a large hydropower station on the upper Second Songhua River at Huadian City, Jilin Province, built from 1975 and completed in 1994.
Baishe Srabon
Baishe Srabon (২২শে শ্রাবণ) is a 2011 Bengali psychological thriller directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Parambrata Chatterjee as police officers hunting a serial killer who leaves Bengali poetry verses at each murder in Kolkata.
Baishi Daoren Gequ
Baishi Daoren Gequ (白石道人歌曲) is a collection of songs and lyrics by Southern Song poet-composer Jiang Kui, the only Song ci collection surviving with musical notation.
Baishōron
Baishōron (梅松論) is a two-volume Japanese war chronicle of the Nanbokuchō period, written by an unknown author from the Ashikaga side as a counterpart to the Taiheiki.
Baishuijiang Biosphere Reserve
Baishuijiang Biosphere Reserve (白水江), Wenxian County, Gansu, China: UNESCO MAB site (2000) around a 1978 national nature reserve protecting giant pandas in the Minshan Mountains; 213,750 ha, forest 85.9%, core zone holds over 75% of panda habitat.
Băişoara
Băişoara (Băișoara), a settlement in the Iara Valley of the Apuseni Mountains, Transylvania, Romania; mining district with pits opened from 1972 under ME Iara, and a 1948-1949 anti-communist partisan area.
Bait (TV series)
Bait is a 2026 Prime Video British comedy-drama, six 25-minute episodes created by and starring Riz Ahmed as Shah Latif, a British-Pakistani actor auditioning for James Bond; Sundance premiere, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, Emmy-nominated.
Bait 3D
Bait 3D, also released as Bait, is a 2012 Australian-Singaporean 3D shark thriller directed by Kimble Rendall, about tsunami survivors trapped in a flooded supermarket with great white sharks.
Bait Bazi
Bait Bazi (بیت بازی) is a traditional Urdu verbal game in which players recite couplets in turn, each beginning with the last letter of the previous one.
Bait-and-switch
Bait-and-switch: deceptive sales practice of advertising a product the seller never intends to sell, then switching customers to a pricier alternative; illegal under FTC Act Section 5, distinct from loss leaders, and prohibited in Canada and the UK.
Baital Pachisi
Baital Pachisi (बैताल पचीसी; Sanskrit Vetālapañcaviṃśati), also known as Betal Pachisi, is an Indian frame-story collection of twenty-five riddle tales told by a vetala to King Vikramāditya.
Baiterek
Baiterek is Kazakhstan's state-owned development holding, created by presidential decree in 2013 to support lending to small businesses, housing, agriculture, and infrastructure, distinct from the asset-holding Samruk-Kazyna.
Baiturrahman Grand Mosque
The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque (Masjid Raya Baiturrahman) is a historic mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, first built in 1612 under Sultan Iskandar Muda and rebuilt by the Dutch after burning in 1873.
Baiwang Cloud (百望云)
Baiwang Cloud (百望云), formally Baiwang Co., Ltd., is a Chinese tax digitalization SaaS company founded in Beijing in 2015 by siblings Chen Jie and Chen Lin.
Baixa de Cassanje revolt
The Baixa de Cassanje revolt, also called Maria's War, was a January 1961 uprising by cotton-growing peasants in northern Angola against the compulsory cotton regime of Cotonang.
Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area
Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area (APA da Baixada Maranhense), a 1,775,036 ha seasonally flooded Ramsar site (no. 1020, 2000) in Maranhão, Brazil, created by state decree in 1991, rich in aquatic macrophytes and waterfowl, pressured mainly by livestock.
Baixas converter station
The Baixas converter station is an HVDC converter station near Perpignan, France, the French end of the underground France–Spain interconnection, built by INELFE and opened in 2015.
Baiyanghe power station
Baiyanghe power station (华能白杨河电厂) is a Huaneng coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Boshan District, Zibo, Shandong, China, operating two 300 MW units since 2009.
Baiyin
Baiyin Prefecture (白银市) is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu on the upper Yellow River; China's only city named for a precious metal, a 1958-founded copper mining hub now transformed into a diversified industrial and tourism economy.
Baiyue (百越)
Baiyue (百越, also 百粵) is the blanket Qin-Han term for the many unrelated Yue peoples of southern China and northern Vietnam, with branches such as Minyue, Nanyue, Xi'ou, and Luoyue; noted for tattooing, boat use, and bronze drums, they were absorbed under Qin-Han commanderies.
Baiza Bai
Baiza Bai (बाईजाबाई) was a Maratha queen of Gwalior State who served as regent for the Scindia dynasty from 1827 to the early 1830s and was also a banker.
Baizhang Huaihai
Baizhang Huaihai (百丈怀海) was a Tang dynasty Chan master on Baizhang Mountain in Hongzhou, remembered for the rule "a day without work is a day without food."
Baizuo (白左)
Baizuo (白左, "white left") is a derogatory Chinese internet neologism for Western liberals seen as obsessed with political correctness; coined on Renren in 2010, it surged after the 2015 refugee crisis and 2016 US election and was later adopted by Western conservatives such as Tucker Carlson.
Baja 1000
Baja 1000, originally the NORRA Mexican 1000 Rally (first run November 1, 1967, founded by Ed Pearlman), is SCORE International's annual non-stop ~1,000-mile off-road desert race down Mexico's Baja California peninsula for trucks, buggies, motorcycles, quads, and UTVs.
Baja Beach Fest 2026
Baja Beach Fest 2026 was the August 7–9, 2026 edition of the reggaeton and Latin music beach festival in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, with three sold-out nights and over 90,000 attendees.
Baja Bug
A Baja Bug, also called a Baja Beetle, is a Volkswagen Beetle modified for off-road desert use, a style that arose in California in the late 1960s.
Baja California
Baja California, the 29th state of Mexico since 1952, occupies the northern Baja California peninsula with 7 municipalities, about 3.77 million people (2020), a manufacturing- and trade-driven border economy, and the binational Tijuana River sewage cleanup.
Baja California Peninsula
Baja California Peninsula, northwestern Mexico, states of Baja California and Baja California Sur; arid peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California, detached by the San Andreas fault system, a plant-endemism hotspot with over 4,000 plant species.