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Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies: Canadian pop rock band formed 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, known as BNL. Hits: "One Week" (Hot 100 No. 1, 1998); albums Gordon and Stunt; 15 million records; Hall of Fame.
Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen
Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen (1884–1962) was a Dutch biochemist who, with Willem Frederik Donath, isolated vitamin B1 (thiamine) from rice polishings in Batavia in 1926, the first vitamin ever isolated.
Barend Van den Brande
Barend Van den Brande is a Belgian venture capital investor and founding partner of Hummingbird Ventures, best known as an early backer of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken.
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea, named for navigator Willem Barentsz, is a 1.6-million-km2 Arctic shelf sea north of Norway and Russia, averaging 230 m deep, warmed by Atlantic inflow, highly productive, and jointly fished and managed by Norway and Russia.
Barents Sea Drainages
Barents Sea Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion, number 407 in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World catalog, covering rivers draining into the Barents, White, and Kara Seas.
Barentsburg
Barentsburg (Баренцбург) is the Russian coal mining town on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, on Grønfjorden about 60 km from Longyearbyen. Owned and run by Trust Arktikugol since 1932, it had 340 registered residents in 2024 and remains Arktikugol's only operating mine.
Barentsjokulen
Barentsjokulen (Barentsjøkulen) is a 571 km² ice cap on Barentsøya, Svalbard, with four tidewater outlet glaciers including Freemanbreen, which surged in 1956; maximum measured ice thickness 270 m.
Barentsøya
Barentsøya, an island of the Svalbard archipelago between Spitsbergen and Edgeøya, about 1,288 km², part of Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973, named after Willem Barentsz though he never came near it.
Baret Montes
Baret Montes, a 170.39 km mountain range on Pluto's Sputnik Planitia western rim, IAU-approved April 26, 2018, named for Jeanne Baret, first woman to circumnavigate the globe; known for folded methane-water ice ridges.
Baretta
Baretta: American ABC crime drama (1975–1978, 82 episodes) starring Robert Blake as undercover detective Tony Baretta, retooled from Toma; won two Emmys, famous for the cockatoo Fred.
Baretto
Baretto: Italian diminutive for a small neighborhood bar, and the name of several venues, chiefly Baretto 1957, the historic San Siro stadium bar in Milan opened in 1957, a gathering point for Inter and AC Milan fans.
Barfi! (बर्फी!)
Barfi! (बर्फी!) is a 2012 Hindi romantic comedy-drama by Anurag Basu starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Ileana D'Cruz; India's Oscar entry for 2013 and one of 2012's highest-grossing Bollywood films.
Barfly (film)
Barfly (1987) is Barbet Schroeder's comedy-drama from Charles Bukowski's only screenplay, a semi-autobiographical story of Henry Chinaski, starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, financed by Cannon Films after a seven-year struggle.
Barfuss
Barfuss (Barefoot) is a 2005 German romantic comedy-drama directed by and starring Til Schweiger with Johanna Wokalek; a job-loser saves a psychiatric patient who follows him barefoot. Released 31 March 2005, 1.5 million admissions, FBW wertvoll, remade in the US in 2014.
Barga
Barga was a land or polity of northern Syria in the 14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and Hittite texts of Muršili II's reign.
Bargain (몸값)
Bargain (몸값, Momgap) is a 2022 TVING South Korean disaster thriller series, a six-episode one-take expansion of Lee Chung-hyun's 2015 short film, starring Jin Sun-kyu and Jeon Jong-seo; it won Best Screenplay at Canneseries 2023.
Bargain Hunt
Bargain Hunt is a long-running BBC One daytime antiques game show, first aired 13 March 2000 with David Dickinson, in which red and blue teams spend £300 on three antiques sold at auction for profit.
Bargain purchase
A bargain purchase is an acquisition where the fair value of net assets acquired exceeds the price paid, so the acquirer records a gain instead of goodwill.
Bargaining theory
Bargaining theory is the branch of economics and game theory that studies how parties with conflicting interests divide a surplus, beginning with John Nash's 1950 paper.
Barge
A barge, also called a river barge, is a flat-bottomed cargo vessel without its own propulsion, moved by a tug or push boat along rivers and canals.
Barghash bin Said
Barghash bin Said (برغش بن سعيد) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888, a son of Sultan Said bin Sultan who founded one of East Africa's oldest printing presses.
Barghash ibn Said
Barghash ibn Said (برغش بن سعيد) was sultan of Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888, a son of Sayyid Said bin Sultan who reformed the judiciary and signed antislavery treaties.
Barghest
Barghest (Barguest, Bargest): monstrous black goblin-dog of northern English folklore, especially Yorkshire, a nocturnal death omen with huge teeth and claws; famous haunts include Trollers Gill and York's snickelways; name etymology disputed (barrow-ghost, town-ghost, mountain or bear demon).
Bargi Dam
Bargi Dam, formally the Rani Avantibai Sagar Irrigation Project, is a dam on the Narmada River in Jabalpur district, Madhya Pradesh, supplying drinking water, irrigation, and hydropower.
Bargir
The bargir (बारगीर) was a Maratha cavalryman mounted and equipped at the state's expense, unlike the shiledar, who brought his own horse; the name Bargi later marked Maratha raiders who devastated Bengal from 1741 to 1751.
Bargmann transform
The Bargmann transform is a unitary integral transform, introduced by Valentine Bargmann in 1961, mapping functions on real space to holomorphic functions on complex space.
Barguzinskyi Biosphere Reserve
Barguzinskyi Biosphere Reserve (Баргузинский заповедник), Russia's first zapovednik, founded 1916 on Lake Baikal's northeast shore to save the sable; UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1986, World Heritage since 1996.
Barh I power station
Barh I power station, also known as Barh Super Thermal Power Project Stage-I, is a 1,980 MW coal-fired station built by NTPC at Barh in Patna district, Bihar, India.
Barh II power station
Barh II is the second stage of NTPC's Barh Super Thermal Power Station in Bihar, India, with two 660 MW supercritical coal-fired units built by BHEL.
Barha Sayyids
The Barha Sayyids (سادات بارہ) were a Sayyid lineage of the Muzaffarnagar region that supplied influential Mughal nobles from Akbar's reign until their power was broken in 1720.