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Bankura horse
The Bankura horse is a stylized terracotta horse made in Panchmura village, West Bengal, originally offered to deities like Dharma Thakur and now an emblem of Indian handicrafts.
Bankwest
Bankwest, also known as the Bank of Western Australia, is an Australian bank headquartered in Perth that the Commonwealth Bank bought from HBOS in 2008 for $2.1 billion.
Banky W.
Banky W. (Olubankole Wellington), Nigerian R&B singer, actor, and politician; co-founder of Empire Mates Entertainment (EME), Wizkid's former label, later a media agency; star of The Wedding Party; 2023 House of Representatives candidate.
Banliang coin
The banliang coin (半两钱) was the principal copper coin of Qin and early Han China, first issued around 378 BC and replaced by the wuzhu coin.
Banlieue
Banlieue: French term for the ring of communes around a ville-centre of an urban unit; neutral in statistics, pejorative since the 1970s for low-income grands ensembles estates, marked by QPV poverty and urban renewal policy.
Banma Zhixing (斑马智行)
Banma Zhixing (斑马智行), formally Banma Network Technology Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai-based provider of smart cockpit operating systems for cars, founded in 2015 by Alibaba and SAIC Motor.
Banna
Banna (Birdoswald Roman Fort) is a Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, Cumbria, built after AD 122, garrisoned by a cohort of over 800 men, occupied through the Roman period and into the post-Roman 6th century.
Bannack, Montana
Bannack, Montana: ghost town and state park near Dillon, site of Montana's first major gold strike (Grasshopper Creek, July 28, 1862) and first territorial capital, later home of the first successful US gold dredge.
Banned in Boston
Banned in Boston: catchphrase for the censorship of books, plays, and songs in Boston by the Watch and Ward Society and city authorities, famous from the 1920s; publishers courted bans to boost sales elsewhere.
Banner Johnstone
Banner Carruthers Johnstone (1882–1964), nicknamed Bush, English oarsman; won 1908 Olympic gold in the men's eights for Leander Club, rowed in four Cambridge Boat Races, later Daily Telegraph rowing correspondent.
Banner land system
Banner land (旗地) was land in Qing-dynasty China held by the Eight Banners, the Manchu ruling group's military-household organization, and cultivated under rules restricting its sale to non-Banner owners.
Banner Ridge (Banner Ridge Partners)
Banner Ridge Partners is a New York-based private equity firm founded by Anthony Cusano and Christopher Driessen that invests in distressed, special situations, and credit strategies.
Bannerghatta National Park
Bannerghatta National Park, a 1974-notified protected area about 22 km south of Bengaluru, Karnataka, also called Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), with zoo, safari, butterfly park, elephant sanctuary, and a contested eco-sensitive zone.
Bannerghatta Zoo
Bannerghatta Zoo, the zoo unit of Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP/BBBP), is a 731.88-hectare zoo, safari, butterfly park, and rescue centre 22 km south of Bengaluru, run by the Zoo Authority of Karnataka, holding over 2,300 animals of 102 species.
Bannerman Energy
Bannerman Energy, formerly Bannerman Resources, is an Australian-listed uranium developer whose flagship asset is the Etango Uranium Project in Namibia, funded partly by a 2026 joint venture with China National Nuclear Corporation's CNNC Overseas Limited.
Banners (ΞRS) (musician)
BANNERS (BANNΞRS), stage name of Michael Joseph Nelson (born 1986), is an English indie-pop singer-songwriter from Liverpool, formerly of the Liverpool Cathedral Choir, based in Toronto; known for "Someone to You" and albums Where the Shadow Ends (2019) and All Back to Mine (2024).
Bannock War
The Bannock War was an 1878 armed conflict between the Bannock people, joined by Shoshone and Paiute allies, and the United States Army across southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.
Bannovallum
Bannovallum (Banovallum), a Roman settlement in the Ravenna Cosmography, usually identified with Horncastle, Lincolnshire, though Caistor is possible. Late 3rd-century two-hectare walled enclosure on the Bain; sections of Spilsby sandstone wall survive to 3.5 m.
Banns of marriage
Banns of marriage: public church announcements of an intended marriage (from 'ban'), required on three Sundays; prescribed churchwide at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, still used by Anglican and Catholic churches, replaced by common licences in some cases.
Bannu
Bannu, formerly Daleep Nagar and Edwardesabad, is a city and district headquarters in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on the Kurram river; founded 1848, renamed 1903, agrarian Pashtun district of about 1.36 million people.
Bano Qudsia
Bano Qudsia (بانو قدسیہ, 1928–2017), born Qudsia Chattha, Pakistani Urdu novelist and playwright, wife of Ashfaq Ahmed; author of Raja Gidh and the classic TV play Aadhi Baat; Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Kamal-e-Fun Award recipient.
Banoffee pie
Banoffee pie, originally Banoffi pie, is an English dessert of bananas, cream, and boiled condensed-milk toffee, created by Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding at The Hungry Monk restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex, in the early 1970s from Blum's Coffee Toffee Pie.
Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनू मैं तेरी दुल्हन)
Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनूँ मैं तेरी दुल्हन) is a Zee TV Hindi drama serial aired 14 August 2006 to 28 May 2009, 700 episodes, starring Divyanka Tripathi as Vidya, Sharad Malhotra as Sagar, and Kamya Punjabi as Sindoora, produced by Shakuntalam Telefilms.
Banorte
Banorte (Banco Mercantil del Norte) is one of Mexico's top three banking groups by assets, founded in Monterrey, publicly traded, and controlled by the Hank González family since 1992.
Banpu Power
Banpu Power was a Thai power generating company, established in 1996 as a Banpu subsidiary, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2016, and amalgamated with Banpu in 2026.
Banpur Mound
Banpur Mound: ancient mounds (kheras) at Banpur, Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India; chiefly Ganesh Khera with a large 22-armed Chandela-era Ganesha, plus Maniktila and Pali Khera, ASI-protected Jain temples and the Sahasrakut Chaityalaya.
Banqi
Banqi (半棋, Chinese dark chess, anqi) is a two-player hidden-piece game using 32 xiangqi pieces shuffled face-down on a 4×8 half board; first flip assigns colors, captures follow a rank ladder with a jumping cannon, distinct from Dark Chess and jieqi.
Banqiao Dam
The Banqiao Dam, built on the Ru River in Henan, China, in 1951 and 1952, failed in August 1975 during Typhoon Nina's record rainfall, killing tens of thousands.
Banqiao District
Banqiao District (板橋區), seat district of New Taipei City, Taiwan; formerly Fangqiao, a Qing river-trade town with a 1855 walled city built by the Lin family; New Taipei's most populous district, 553,538 residents in 2024.
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) is the cantonal bank of the Swiss canton of Vaud, founded in 1845, majority-owned by the canton, and the second-largest Swiss cantonal bank.