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Basmati Blues
Basmati Blues is a 2017 American Bollywood-style musical rom-com by Dan Baron starring Brie Larson as a scientist selling sterile GMO rice in Kerala, India; its 2017 trailer drew white-savior backlash and the film flopped critically and commercially.
Basmyls
The Basmyls, also spelled Basmils and known in Chinese as Baximi (拔悉密), were a Turkic-speaking nomadic tribal confederation of the early medieval eastern steppe and Dzungaria.
BaSO4-based radiative cooling paint
A BaSO4-based radiative cooling paint is a white coating using barium sulfate pigment to reflect 98.1% of sunlight, cooling surfaces 4.5 °C below ambient even in midday sun.
Basohli painting
Basohli painting is a school of Pahari miniature painting that flourished in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Basohli, a hill state in present-day Jammu and Kashmir.
Basohli Tantric Devi series
The Basohli Tantric Devi series is a set of about seventy miniature paintings of the goddess Devi, made around 1660 to 1670 at Basohli in North India.
Basommatophora
Basommatophora (Keferstein, 1865) was a former order of aquatic pulmonate snails with one pair of basal-eyed tentacles; now unaccepted, replaced by the superorder Hygrophila after molecular studies showed paraphyly.
Basophil
A basophil, also called a basophil granulocyte, is a type of white blood cell, discovered by Paul Ehrlich in 1879, that releases histamine and drives allergic inflammation and immunity against parasites.
Basophil activation test
The basophil activation test is a flow cytometry blood test that diagnoses IgE-mediated allergy by measuring CD63 and CD203c activation on basophils exposed to a suspected allergen.
Basophil mast progenitor cell
Basophil mast progenitor cell (BMCP, Cell Ontology CL:0002028) is a bipotent hematopoietic progenitor giving rise to basophils and mast cells; mouse splenic Lin− c-Kit+ β7hi cells, fate set by C/EBPα versus MITF, bipotency debated.
Basophilic cytoplasm
Basophilic cytoplasm is cytoplasm that stains blue-purple with basic cationic dyes, mainly because of RNA in ribosomes and rough ER; prominent in protein-synthesizing cells and altered in lead poisoning.
Basophilic erythroblast
Basophilic erythroblast (basophilic normoblast, early erythroblast, rubricyte): the second recognizable erythroid precursor, after the proerythroblast. Deep blue ribosome-rich cytoplasm, no nucleoli, 12-17 µm, divides before maturing into the polychromatic erythroblast.
Basotho migrant labour
Basotho migrant labour is the system by which men from Lesotho have worked as contract laborers, above all in South Africa's Witwatersrand gold mines, since the late 19th century.
Basqaq system
The Basqaq system (баскаки) was the Mongol khans' network of officials, called baskaks, stationed in the Russian principalities from the mid-13th century to collect tribute and keep the princes obedient.
Basque conflict
The Basque conflict was the armed struggle between Spain and ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), formed in 1959 under Franco, which killed about 840 people before its 2011 ceasefire, 2017 disarmament, and 2018 dissolution.
Basque Country (autonomous community)
Basque Country (Euskadi, País Vasco): autonomous community in northern Spain under the 1979 Statute of Gernika, comprising Álava, Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia, with its own parliament, lehendakari and foral tax system.
Basque Country (greater region)
The Basque Country, in Basque Euskal Herria, is the cultural region of the Basque people, seven historical territories across northern Spain and southwestern France, not a single political entity.
Basque Country national football team
The Basque Country national football team (Euskal Selekzioa) is an unofficial men's team representing the Basque region, playing friendlies only since 1915.
Basque cuisine
Basque cuisine (Euskal sukaldaritza, cocina vasca) is the cooking of the Basque Country, Spain/France: pintxos, txokos, cod and four sauces, New Basque Cuisine from 1977 led by Arzak and Subijana, and the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastián.
Basque dialects
Basque dialects (euskalkiak): regional varieties of Basque across the Basque Country, Navarre and the French Basque Country; five current dialects per Zuazo, eight in Bonaparte's 1869 map, plus Standard Basque (batua).
Basque Energy Board
The Basque Energy Board (Ente Vasco de la Energía, EVE) is the energy agency of the Basque Government in northern Spain, based in Bilbao and managing renewable energy and storage programs.
Basque language
Basque (euskara) is the only living language isolate of Europe, spoken by about 806,000 people in the western Pyrenees; ergative, agglutinating, SOV, vigesimal; its only established relative is ancient Aquitanian.
Basque Nationalist Party
Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea – Partido Nacionalista Vasco (EAJ-PNV), the Basque Nationalist Party, founded 31 July 1895 by Sabino de Arana y Goiri; moderate Christian democratic Basque nationalist party, dominant in Basque elections and governing via lehendakaris and coalitions.
Basque peace process
The Basque peace process is the sequence of truces, civil-society initiatives, and international facilitation that ended ETA's armed campaign without a negotiated settlement, ending in its 2018 dissolution.
Basque pelota
Basque pelota (pelota vasca, euskal pilota) is a family of Basque wall-ball games played bare-handed, with bats, rackets, or the wicker chistera basket; the basket form is jai alai. Olympic demonstration sport 1924, 1968, 1992; UNESCO heritage 2021.
Basque–Icelandic pidgin
Basque–Icelandic pidgin: an extinct 17th-century trade pidgin between Basque whalers and Icelandic traders, also called Icelandic-Basque pidgin. Known only from glossaries totaling about 900 entries published by Nicolaas Deen in 1937; mostly Basque lexicon with Romance, English, and other words, classified extinct.
Basques
Basques: people of Euskal Herria across Spain and France, defined by Euskara, a language isolate. Seven territories, Iron Age genetic continuity, fueros, autonomy since 1979, large Latin American diaspora.
Basquiat (film)
Basquiat (1996) is Julian Schnabel's directorial debut biopic of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, starring Jeffrey Wright and David Bowie as Andy Warhol, released by Miramax and restored in 4K in 2024.
Basra (game)
Basra (الباصرة), also Bastra, Ashush, or Assaba-al'-Komi, is a Middle Eastern fishing card game like Casino: players capture floor cards by rank or sums, with jack and 7♦ sweeps and 10-point basra bonuses.
Basra (البصرة)
Basra (البصرة, al-Baṣra), southern Iraqi port city on the Shatt al-Arab, founded as an Arab garrison (miṣr) about 638 CE by ʿUtba b. Ghazwān; Abbasid intellectual center, later Ottoman and modern Iraq's main oil-export outlet.
Basra Gateway Terminal
Basra Gateway Terminal is a container terminal at Umm Qasr, Iraq's only deep-water port, operated by ICTSI under a 2014 contract with Iraq's General Company for Ports.