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Banwarilal Purohit (बनवारीलाल पुरोहित)

Banwarilal Purohit (बनवारीलाल पुरोहित), born 16 April 1940, is an Indian politician and Hitavada editor, three-time Nagpur MP, and former governor of Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab, resigning in 2024.

Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang

半夏白术天麻汤 (Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Cheng Zhongling's Yixue Xinwu with six herbs including pinellia, gastrodia, and atractylodes; transforms phlegm, extinguishes wind, and treats wind-phlegm vertigo, headache, and ischemic stroke.

Banxia Houpo Tang

半夏厚朴汤 (Banxia Houpo Tang, Hangekobokuto), a five-herb classical Chinese medicine formula from the Jin Gui Yao Lue (3rd century) treating plum-pit qi, the globus throat sensation; also called Siqi Tang, used in China, Japan, and Taiwan.

Banya (баня) (sauna)

Banya (баня) is the East Slavic steam bath, often called the Russian sauna: 60–80°C humid steam, venik whisk massage (parenie), cold plunges, roots in Kievan Rus' and Herodotus's Scythia, distinct from Finland's hotter, drier löyly sauna.

Banyan

Banyan (Ficus benghalensis, Indian banyan, Bengal fig): national tree of India, a fig whose aerial roots become prop trunks, letting one tree cover acres; Great Banyan near Kolkata spans ~1.5 ha with 3,000+ pillar roots; sacred, wasp-pollinated, invasive in Florida and Hawaii (Chinese banyan).

Oct 15, 2026

Banyen Oil Field

The Banyen Oil Field, also written Ban Yen, is an offshore oil field in the northern Gulf of Thailand producing light sweet crude since August 2008.

Oct 15, 2026

Banyu Urip

Banyu Urip is an onshore oil field in the Cepu Block in Bojonegoro Regency, East Java, Indonesia, discovered in 2001 and operated by ExxonMobil Cepu Limited.

Oct 15, 2026

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (Kloster Banz) is a former Benedictine abbey above the Main valley at Bad Staffelstein in Bavaria, rebuilt in Baroque style from 1698 and dissolved in 1803.

Banzai charge

Banzai charge (バンザイ突撃): Allied term for massed Japanese WWII infantry assaults shouting 'Tenno heika banzai'; Japanese called them gyokusai attacks. Founding episode Attu 1943; largest at Saipan 1944; no recorded successes.

Banzai Pipeline

The Banzai Pipeline, also called Pipeline Beach, is a famous surf reef break off ʻEhukai Beach Park on Oʻahu's North Shore, Hawaii, producing hollow waves over a shallow reef.

Banzare Coast

Banzare Coast, also written BANZARE Coast, is a Wilkes Land coast in East Antarctica between Cape Southard and Cape Morse, seen from the air in January 1931 by Mawson's BANZARE and named for the expedition.

Banzerato

The Banzerato was the military dictatorship headed by Hugo Banzer Suárez in Bolivia from 1971 to 1978, begun in a coup against Juan José Torres and ended by forced elections.

Banzhaf power index

The Banzhaf power index, also called the Penrose–Banzhaf index, measures voting power as the number of coalitions in which a voter can change the outcome, introduced by John F. Banzhaf III in 1965.

BANZSL

BANZSL (British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language) is a sign language family grouping BSL, Auslan, and NZSL, descending from British signing transmitted to Australia (1825) and New Zealand (1868), with a shared two-handed fingerspelling alphabet.

Bao ' An Stadium

Bao'an Stadium (宝安体育场, Bamboo Stadium), Shenzhen: 40,0-seat gmp-designed field-and-track stadium built 2009-2011 for the 2011 Universiade, bamboo-inspired cable roof, renovated 2025 for the 15th National Games.

Bao (包宝宝) (film)

Bao (包宝宝) is Pixar's 2018 eight-minute animated short and Domee Shi's directorial debut, the first Pixar short directed by a woman, about a Toronto Chinese immigrant mother whose dumpling comes to life; it won the 2019 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

Bảo Đại

Bảo Đại (Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, 1913–1997) was the last emperor of Vietnam, abdicating in 1945 and replaced as head of state by Ngô Đình Diệm in 1955.

Sep 19, 2026

Bao Fan

Bao Fan (包凡, born 1970 in Shanghai) is a Chinese investment banker who founded China Renaissance and brokered deals for Alibaba and Tencent before his 2023 detention.

Bao Gong An

Bao Gong An (包公案) is a Ming-dynasty collection of Chinese court-case fiction about the Song official Bao Zheng judging crimes, considered the earliest Chinese detective-fiction collection.

Bao huang

Bao huang (dìwáng, 帝王) is a Chinese climbing card game for five players from Shandong, where joker holders play as emperor and eunuch against three commoners.

Bao Kiswahili (DR Congo)

Bao Kiswahili (DR Congo), also called Bao, Lusole, or Busolo, is a four-row mancala sowing game of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, played by Bangubangu and Nonda people with a 4x8 board and 64 counters.

Sep 24, 2026

Bao Ma Fa (Horse Maintenance Law)

Bao Ma Fa (保马法) was a Northern Song law of Wang Anshi's New Policies under which rural households raised state horses in exchange for tax exemption.

Bảo Ninh

Bảo Ninh (Hoàng Ấu Phương, born 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist, author of Nỗi buồn chiến tranh (The Sorrow of War), translated into about 20 languages, winner of the 1994 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and 2016 Simhun Prize.

BAO reconstruction

BAO reconstruction is a data-analysis technique in observational cosmology that moves galaxies back toward their initial positions, sharpening the baryon acoustic oscillation feature and improving distance precision.

Bao Shangen (包上恩)

Bao Shangen (包上恩, real name Bao Lujia) is a Chinese actress born 2002 in Shenzhen, a Communication University of Zhejiang acting graduate. Debuting via I Am an Actress (2021), she won Best New Actress at the 4th Asian Content Awards for Love Behind the Melody and played Huang Rong in Iron Blood and Loyal Heart (2024).