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Bar-le-Duc
Bar-le-Duc, prefecture of the Meuse department in northeastern France, former capital of the duchy of Bar; Renaissance upper town, Musée barrois, Ligier Richier's Transi, and goose-quill-deseeded currant jam since 1344.
Bar-Rakib
Bar-Rakib, also Bar-Rekub, was king of Samʾal, an Aramean kingdom in the northern Levant, from about 733 to 713 BC, the last king known from inscriptions at Zincirli.
Bara (archaeological site)
Bara is an archaeological mound in Rupnagar District, Punjab, India, the type site of the Bara culture, excavated by Y.D. Sharma in 1955 and 1971.
Bara (薔薇) (genre)
Bara (薔薇, "rose") is the English label for Japanese gay manga, called gei komi in Japan; derived from the 1971 magazine Barazoku, once a slur, objected to by Tagame, and distinct from female-audience BL.
Bara bada bastu
Bara bada bastu, KAJ's Swedish-language sauna-pop song in the Vörå dialect, won Melodifestivalen 2025, placed fourth for Sweden at Eurovision 2025 with 321 points, and passed 100 million Spotify streams.
Bāra Banki
Bāra Banki (बाराबंकी), or Barabanki, is a district of Ayodhya division, Uttar Pradesh, India, in central Awadh east of Lucknow: 3,891.5 sq km, 3,260,699 people (2011), headquarters Barabanki city, known for menthol mint and opium farming.
Bara ga Saita
Bara ga Saita (バラが咲いた, "A Rose Has Bloomed") is a 1966 Japanese song sung by Maki Mike, written by Hamaguchi Kōji and usually called the first hit of Japanese-made folk.
Bara Imambara
Bara Imambara, also called Asafi Imambara, is a monumental Shia congregation hall in Lucknow, India, built by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula between 1784 and 1791 as famine relief.
Bara Mound
Bara Mound: ASI centrally protected 'small high mound, ancient site of a large Hindu Temple' at Bara, Tehsil Bara, Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh; protected 1920, now under Sarnath Circle.
Bara Sapoko Ndiaye
Bara Sapoko Ndiaye (born 2007, Mékhé, Senegal) is a Senegalese midfielder for FC Bayern Munich, number 39, signed permanently in 2026 from Gambinos Stars Africa via Red&Gold Football; a Senegal 2026 World Cup squad member with two caps.
Bara Thermal Power Project
Bara Thermal Power Project, also called Prayagraj TPP, is a 1,980 MW coal-fired power station at Bara in Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh, with three 660 MW supercritical units.
Bara-irnun
Bara-irnun, also spelled Bara-irnum or Barag-irnun, was a queen consort of Umma in Sumer around 2370 BC, wife of the ruler Gishakidu and known from a gold votive plaque in the Louvre.
Baraat
Baraat (Hindi बरात, Urdu برات; alias varayatra) is the South Asian groom's wedding procession, with baraati attendants, sehra bandi, ghodi or car, dhol and dancing, milni welcome, and jaimala, across Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jain, and diaspora practice.
Barabar Caves
Barabar Caves (बराबर), with the nearby Nagarjuni Caves, are India's oldest surviving rock-cut caves, Mauryan period, Bihar, dedicated by Ashoka and Dasharatha to Ajivika monks, famed for mirror-like Mauryan polish.
Barabbas
Barabbas, also known as Jesus Barabbas, is the prisoner whom the Gospels say the Jerusalem crowd chose for release by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus of Nazareth.
Baraboo, WI Micro Area
Baraboo, WI Micro Area (CBSA 12660) is an OMB-defined micropolitan statistical area covering Sauk County, Wisconsin, centered on Baraboo; population 66,486 (ACS 2024), part of the Madison-Janesville-Beloit combined statistical area.
Barachiel (בַּרַכְאֵל)
Barachiel (בַּרַכְאֵל), also called Barakiel, is an archangel of Eastern Orthodox tradition known as the distributor of God's blessings, depicted with white roses and commemorated on November 8.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama (Barack Hussein Obama II), 44th U.S. president 2009–2017 and first African American in the office; Illinois and U.S. senator, signatory of the ACA, stimulus, and Dodd-Frank, winner of 365 electoral votes in 2008 and the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
Barack Obama "Hope" poster
Barack Obama "Hope" poster is Shepard Fairey's 2008 red, beige, and blue stencil portrait of candidate Obama, based on a Mannie Garcia AP photograph, first captioned Progress, later acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.
Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign
Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign: Obama for America's winning Democratic primary and general-election effort, defeating John McCain 365-173 electoral votes; raised $745.7 million, pioneered MyBO online organizing and small-dollar fundraising.
Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
Birtherism: false conspiracy theories claiming Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, making him constitutionally ineligible for the presidency; debunked by Hawaii officials, two birth certificates, and courts, yet promoted by Donald Trump from 2011.
Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies
Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies: disputes over Senate filibusters of his lower-court nominees, the 2013 Reid nuclear option, the blocked D.C. Circuit seats, the 52.5% second-term confirmation rate, and the unvoted 2016 Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination.
Barack Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center is a privately operated 19.3-acre Obama Foundation campus in Jackson Park, Chicago, opened June 19, 2026. Unlike NARA presidential libraries, it has no on-site archives; the all-digital Obama Presidential Library remains with NARA.
Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories
Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories, also called Barack Obama and Islam, are false claims from 2004 onward that Obama was secretly a Muslim, all debunked by fact-checkers.
Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982) was a Kenyan economist who studied at Harvard and criticized Kenya's 1965 development plan; he was the father of President Barack Obama.
Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates
Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates: Sonia Sotomayor (2009, first Latina justice, 68-31), Elena Kagan (2010, 63-37), and Merrick Garland (2016, never confirmed after Scalia's death).
Barack Obama's summer playlist
Barack Obama's summer playlist is the annual hand-picked song list Obama has shared each summer since 2015, first on the White House Spotify account in Day and Night halves, later on personal social media, briefly skipped in 2025.
Baracoa
Baracoa, Cuba's oldest town (founded 1511/1512 by Diego Velázquez as Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), first capital of the island, in Guantánamo province; supplies ~70% of Cuban cocoa, near El Yunque and the Toa River.
Baradarha power station
Baradarha power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station at Baradarha in Janjgir-Champa district, Chhattisgarh, India, owned by DB Power Limited, part of the Dainik Bhaskar media group.
Bărăgan deportations
The Bărăgan deportations (Deportările în Bărăgan) were a forced displacement by Romania's communist regime in June 1951, moving roughly 40,000 people from the Banat border region to the Bărăgan Plain.