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Baptism
Baptism, also known as water baptism or Holy Baptism, is a Christian rite of initiation with water, by immersion, pouring, or sprinkling, admitting a person into the Church.
Baptism (Lenny Kravitz album)
Baptism (2004) is Lenny Kravitz's seventh studio album, on Virgin Records, following Lenny (2001). Originally planned as a funk record, it became a back-to-basics rock album; Kravitz wrote, produced, arranged and performed all 13 tracks, with guests David Sanborn and Jay-Z.
Baptism at the Savica
Baptism at the Savica (Krst pri Savica) is an 1836 narrative poem by the Slovene poet France Prešeren, generally treated as the national epic of Slovene literature.
Baptism of Jesus
The Baptism of Jesus is the event in which John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan River, with the Holy Spirit descending like a dove.
Baptism of Joao I of Kongo
The baptism of Joao I of Kongo was the conversion of King Nzinga a Nkuwu to Catholicism at Mbanza Kongo on 3 May 1491, crowning eight years of Portuguese contact.
Baptism of Olga
The Baptism of Olga (Крещение Ольги) was the conversion to Christianity of Olga, regent of Kievan Rus', most likely in Constantinople around 957, though its date and place remain disputed.
Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)
Al-Maghtas (المغطس), Bethany Beyond the Jordan, is a Jordanian UNESCO World Heritage site (2015) on the Jordan River's east bank, 9 km north of the Dead Sea, accepted by most Christian Churches as where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Baptism with the Holy Spirit, also called baptism in the Spirit, is a Christian concept from seven New Testament verses, interpreted variously as empowerment for witness or conversion itself.
Baptist War
The Baptist War (Christmas Rebellion, Sam Sharpe Rebellion) was Jamaica's 1831–32 slave uprising, begun as a general strike by Baptist deacon Samuel Sharpe, involving perhaps sixty thousand enslaved people, suppressed by January 1832, and catalyzing the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
Baptiste (TV series)
Baptiste is a BBC One British crime drama (2019-2021), a spin-off of The Missing starring Tcheky Karyo as retired French detective Julien Baptiste, two six-part series set in Amsterdam and Budapest, made by Two Brothers Pictures.
Baptiste Addis
Baptiste Addis (born 2006) is a French recurve archer, Arc Club de Nîmes, Paris 2024 Olympic team silver medalist and youngest French athlete there; European team champion 2024 and 2026 World Cup qualification leader.
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault is a French materials scientist working on atom probe tomography and hydrogen in metals, and a CNRS Directeur de Recherche at the University of Rouen Normandy.
Baptistery of Butrint
Baptistery of Butrint (Pagëzimorja e Butrintit): circular late antique baptistery in Vlorë County, Albania, discovered by Ugolini in 1928, adapted from a Roman bath in the 5th–6th century, famed for its seven-band mosaic floor.
Baptistery of Pisa
The Baptistery of Pisa (Battistero di San Giovanni Battista) is the circular baptistery of Pisa Cathedral, begun in 1152 and the largest baptistery in Italy.
Baptistery of Saint Louis
The Baptistère de Saint Louis is a brass basin inlaid with silver and gold, made in Mamluk Egypt or Syria around 1325 to 1340 and now in the Louvre.
Baptistina family
The Baptistina family is an inner main-belt asteroid family of about 2,500 members near 2.25 AU, named for (298) Baptistina. Once proposed as the Chicxulub K/T impactor source, it was ruled out by S-type, LL-chondrite-like composition and revised ages.
Baptists
Baptists, also known as Baptist Christians, are a family of Protestant churches defined by believer's baptism by immersion and congregational governance, arising in seventeenth-century England and now worldwide.
Bapu Gokhale
Bapu Gokhale (बापू गोखले), born Narhar Ganesh Gokhale, was the last senapati of the Maratha state under Peshwa Baji Rao II, dying in battle in 1818.
Baqa'a refugee camp
Baqa'a camp (مخيم البقعة), established 1968 near Amman, is Jordan's largest Palestine refugee camp with about 128,586 residents, one of ten official UNRWA camps, formed to receive those displaced from al-Karama camp after the 1967 war.
Baqashot
Baqashot (Hebrew: בקשות, "supplications") are petitionary poems sung by Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews on winter Sabbath mornings, rooted in sixteenth-century Safed kabbalism under Isaac Luria.
Baqer Khan
Baqer Khan (باقرخان), honorifically titled Salar-e Melli, was an Iranian constitutionalist commander from Tabriz who, alongside Sattar Khan, led the city's armed defense during the Constitutional Revolution.
Baqet III
Baqet III was a governor of the Oryx nome in Upper Egypt at the end of the Eleventh Dynasty, known from his decorated rock tomb at Beni Hassan.
Baqi Billah
Baqi Billah (باقی باللہ) was a Naqshbandi Sufi shaykh, born in Kabul around 1564, who established the order in Delhi and Mughal India and trained Ahmad Sirhindi before dying in 1603.
Baqi ibn Makhlad
Baqi ibn Makhlad (بقي بن مخلد) was a Cordoban traditionist, born in 817 and died in 889, who pioneered the study of hadith in al-Andalus after decades of study in the East.
Baqiyya ibn al-Walid
Baqiyya ibn al-Walid (بقية بن الوليد) was a Syrian hadith scholar of the taba' al-tabi'in generation, called the hadith master of Syria, born in 110 AH and died in 197 AH (812/13) at Mecca.
Baqt
The Baqt (بقط) was a treaty between Muslim Egypt and Christian Makuria, traditionally dated to 651/652, exchanging annual Nubian slaves for grain, wine, and cloth.
Baqueira-Beret
Baqueira-Beret: ski resort in the Val d'Aran, Catalan Pyrenees, Spain, opened 6 December 1964; Spain's largest ski area with 169–173 km of pistes across Baqueira, Beret, Bonaigua, and Peülla sectors.
Baqura
Baqura (Bakura) is a two-row mancala board game from Mesopotamia, described with full rules by Thomas Hyde in De Ludis Orientalibus (1694): 2x6 board, 36 counters per player, anti-clockwise sowing, even-number chain captures, and multi-round play.
Bar (establishment)
Bar (establishment): a licensed premises serving alcoholic drinks on-site; also called pub, tavern, saloon, or taproom. Covers historical types, alcohol licensing, social "third place" role, and industry scale.
Bar (law)
The bar is the collective of lawyers licensed to practice in a jurisdiction; admission requires a law degree, bar exam, and character and fitness review. Covers the term's 1300s origin, bar associations, unified versus voluntary bars, and the NextGen UBE transition.