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Bajram Curri

Bajram Curri (1862–1925) was an Albanian chieftain and leader of uprisings against Ottoman rule, and after 1912 for the defense of Kosovo against Serbian rule.

Bajrang Dal

Bajrang Dal (बजरंग दल) is the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, founded 8 October 1984 during the Ram Janmabhoomi movement under Vinay Katiyar; known for cow-protection campaigns, the 1992 Ayodhya ban, 2002 Gujarat riot involvement, and CIA and Facebook designations.

Bajrang Manohar Sonwane

Bajrang Manohar Sonwane, born in 1970, is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) representing Beed, Maharashtra, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Bajrang Punia (बजरंग पुनिया)

Bajrang Punia (बजरंग पुनिया), Indian freestyle wrestler, 65 kg, born 1994. Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze, three World Championship medals, 2018 Asian Games and CWG gold; four-year NADA ban from 2024.

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (बजरंगी भाईजान)

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (बजरंगी भाईजान) is a 2015 Hindi film directed by Kabir Khan, starring Salman Khan as a man returning a mute Pakistani girl to her family.

Bak kut teh

Bak kut teh (肉骨茶, bah-kut-tê, rou gu cha), literally 'meat bone tea', is a Malaysian-Singaporean pork-rib herbal soup with no tea in it; styles include clear peppery Teochew and dark soy Hokkien/Klang versions, with a disputed origin.

Bak Mei (白眉)

Bak Mei (白眉, Pak Mei, White Eyebrow) is a Hakka close-range southern Chinese kung fu style attributed to a monk of the Five Elders legend, systematized by Cheung Lai Chuen (1882–1964), known for explosive short power and the Nine Step Push form.

BAK1

BAK1 (BCL2 antagonist/killer 1, BAK) is a human gene at 6p21.31 encoding a pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family protein that oligomerizes in the mitochondrial outer membrane to release cytochrome c; redundant with BAX, linked to CLL and germ cell tumor risk loci.

Baka (Japanese word)

Baka (ばか, バカ, 馬鹿) is the most widely used Japanese insult, meaning fool or folly, with senses of devotion, excess, and malfunction. Ateji 'horse deer'; disputed Sanskrit moha etymology; Kanto/Kansai severity split with aho; OED-recorded English borrowing since 1945.

Baka (prince)

Baka, also written Bakare, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a son of King Djedefre, known from inscribed quartzite statue fragments found at Abu Rawash.

Baka and Test (バカとテストと召喚獣)

Baka and Test is a comedic school light novel series by Kenji Inoue and Yui Haga, first published under Famitsu Bunko in 2007 and adapted into anime.

Baka Not Nice

Baka Not Nice (Travis Savoury, born 1979) is a Toronto rapper and former Drake bodyguard signed to OVO Sound in 2017; known for "Live Up to My Name" (#77 Canada), the 4Milli EP, and Kendrick Lamar's "weird case" line.

Bakaffa

Bakaffa (ባካፋ) was emperor of Ethiopia from 1721 to 1730, succeeding his brother Dawit III and leaving the throne to his young son Iyasu II.

Bakaiti

Bakaiti (बकैती) is a Hindi comedy-drama ZEE5 original web series by Dice Media about the middle-class Kataria family of old Ghaziabad, starring Rajesh Tailang and Sheeba Chaddha; Season 1 premiered August 1, 2025 and Season 2 on September 25, 2026.

Bakari Sellers

Bakari Sellers (born 1984) is an American attorney, CNN political commentator, and author from Denmark, South Carolina; the son of civil rights leader Cleveland Sellers, he became the youngest member of the South Carolina legislature in 2006 at 22, served House District 90 through 2014, was the 2014 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, and wrote My Vanishing Country.

Bakary Sako

Bakary Sako, born 1988 in Ivry-sur-Seine, is a Malian left-footed forward and ex-France U21 player. Known for Wolves (124 apps, 38 goals), Crystal Palace (47 Premier League apps, 5 goals), and Mali debut 5 March 2014 vs Senegal.

Bakassi conflict

The Bakassi conflict was a territorial dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon over the Bakassi Peninsula, settled after a 2002 International Court of Justice ruling awarded sovereignty to Cameroon.

Bakasura Restaurant

Bakasura Restaurant (బకాసుర రెస్టారెంట్) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-horror film directed by debutant SJ Shiva, starring Praveen and Viva Harsha as a gluttonous demon; released 8 August 2025, it earned ₹0.76 crore and streams on Prime Video and Sun NXT.

Bake Off: The Professionals

Bake Off: The Professionals, originally Bake Off: Crème de la Crème, is a British baking competition where professional pastry chef teams compete in two challenges per episode.

Bake Squad

Bake Squad is a Netflix reality baking competition hosted by Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi, in which four bakers, Broussard, Holt, Jimenez, and Rull, compete for a client's dessert choice; no eliminations, two seasons from 2021.

Baked beans

Baked beans: white (navy/haricot) beans slow-cooked in sauce, sweet molasses style in North America, tomato-sauce tinned style in Britain; Boston-derived dish commercialized by Heinz from 1869.

Baked potato

Baked potato (jacket potato in the UK): a whole potato baked in its skin by dry heat until fluffy inside and crisp outside. Covers russet varieties, oven, microwave, and air fryer methods, nutrition, Victorian street-food history, and foil botulism safety.

Bakelite

Bakelite, chemically polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin developed by Belgian-born chemist Leo Baekeland in 1907 and regarded as the first wholly synthetic plastic.

Bakeneko (化け猫)

Bakeneko (化け猫), also called kaibyō or monster cat, is a Japanese yōkai: an aged cat that gains supernatural power, takes human form, dances, licks lamp oil, or avenges its master, distinct from the forked-tailed nekomata and famous for the Edo-period Nabeshima cat disturbance.

Bakening

Bakening (Бакенинг), also known as Kamchatka Peak, is an andesitic stratovolcano rising to 2,278 m on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, about 100 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Bakenkhons

Bakenkhons, also written Bakenkhonsu, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes under Ramesses II, serving about 70 years, the last 27 as High Priest; his autobiographical block statues record his career year by year.

Bakenranef

Bakenranef, also known as Bakenrenef or Greek Bocchoris, was the second and last king of Egypt's 24th Dynasty at Sais, son of Tefnakhte, proverbial as a lawgiver.

Bakenrenef (vizier)

Bakenrenef was a vizier of Egypt's 26th Dynasty under Psamtik I and a priest of Ptah and Sokar, known from a rock-cut tomb at Saqqara.

Bakeout

Bakeout is the controlled heating of a vacuum system while it is pumped, accelerating the release of adsorbed and dissolved gases so low pressure is reached faster.

Baker (lake)

Baker Lake (Qamani'tuaq, "where the river widens") is a large Arctic lake in Nunavut's Kivalliq Region at the mouth of the Thelon River, near Canada's geographic centre; named in 1761 after HBC governor Sir William Baker, it hosts Nunavut's only inland Inuit community.