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Basra Governorate

Basra Governorate (محافظة البصرة) is Iraq's southeasternmost province, bordering Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. It holds Iraq's main seaports, about 93 billion barrels of oil reserves producing roughly 70% of national crude, and suffers chronic water crises and protests.

Basra Land

Basra Land (مدينة ملاهي البصرة, بصرة لاند) is an operating amusement park in Basra, Iraq, with a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, carousels, and family rides; distinct from Basra Family Park and Happy Land.

Oct 15, 2026

Basra Oil Company

Basra Oil Company (شركة نفط البصرة), formerly the South Oil Company, is Iraq's state-owned crude oil producer in Basra province, renamed in 2017 and producing around 3 million barrels per day.

Oct 22, 2026

Basra school of grammar

The Basra school of grammar (مدرسة البصرة اللغوية) was the 8th- and 9th-century Basran tradition of Arabic grammar, codified in Sibawayhi's Kitab, favoring analogy, and rivaling the school of Kufa.

Oct 15, 2026

Basra Sealines Oil Pipelines

The Basra Sealines are Iraq's offshore crude oil export pipelines, running from Basra to Persian Gulf tanker terminals and carrying most of Iraq's seaborne oil exports.

Oct 15, 2026

Basrah Heavy

Basrah Heavy is a heavy, sour Iraqi crude oil export grade, 24° API with 4% sulfur, launched by SOMO in June 2015 to protect Basrah Light's quality.

Bass

Bass: the double bass (upright bass, contrabass), the largest, lowest-pitched bowed orchestral string tuned in fourths, and the related electric bass guitar defined by Fender's 1951 Precision Bass.

Bass (fish)

Bass is a common name for unrelated fish: black basses (Micropterus, sunfish family Centrarchidae), temperate basses (Moronidae, including striped and European sea bass), and sea basses (Serranidae). The word has no taxonomic meaning; a 2022 study split largemouth and Florida bass into separate species.

Bass (voice type)

Bass (voice type): the lowest common male singing voice, typically E2–E4, below baritone and tenor. Subtypes include basso profondo, basso cantante, bass-baritone, and Russian oktavists; known for Sarastro, Osmin, and Wotan roles.

Bass Brewery

Bass Brewery, founded by William Bass in Burton upon Trent in 1777 as Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton, made the famous Bass Pale Ale, registered the UK's first trade mark (the red triangle, 1876), and is now an AB InBev brand brewed under contract at Burton.

Bass Brothers

Bass Brothers: Detroit production duo Jeff and Mark Bass, aka F.B.T. Productions (Funky Bass Team), who discovered and signed Eminem, produced The Slim Shady LP through 8 Mile, won an Oscar and Grammy for "Lose Yourself," and founded Web Entertainment and F.B.T. Studios in Ferndale, Michigan.

Bass Canyon

Bass Canyon is an annual three-day bass music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, founded, curated, and headlined by dubstep producer Excision since 2018.

Bass clarinet

Bass clarinet (Bassklarinette, clarinetto basso): single-reed woodwind an octave below the B-flat clarinet, about 132 cm long. First built in bassoon form by Grenser (1793); modern straight form by Adolphe Sax (1838); orchestral debut in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

Bass diffusion model

The Bass diffusion model is a mathematical model of new product adoption proposed by Frank M. Bass in 1969, combining advertising and word-of-mouth effects into an S-shaped curve.

Bass drum

Bass drum (grosse caisse, gran cassa): a large low-pitched cylindrical drum with one or two heads, used in orchestras, military and marching bands, and drum kits, where the kick drum is played by foot pedal; entered the orchestra via Gluck in 1761 from Janissary music.

Bass guitar

Bass guitar: low-pitched stringed instrument, usually four strings, played horizontally with pickups and amplification. Invented in solidbody form by Paul Tutmarc in the 1930s; commercialized by the Fender Precision Bass of 1951.

Bass house

Bass house is a subgenre of house music fusing four-on-the-floor grooves with distorted bass music low-end, at 124 to 128 BPM, with Jauz, AC Slater, and Tchami among its central figures.

Bass Modulators

Bass Modulators is a Dutch hardstyle act founded in 2007 by Rick Buijtenhek and Roland Evers, known for a euphoric sound and festival sets at Defqon.1 and Qlimax.

Bass Pro Shops

Bass Pro Shops, also known as Bass Pro, is an American outdoor gear retailer founded by Johnny Morris in 1972, now operating nearly 200 stores across North America.

Bass Reeves

Bass Reeves (1838-1910), a formerly enslaved man from Texas or Arkansas, became one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi, serving 32 years in Indian Territory under Judge Parker and reporting over 3,000 arrests.

Bass Strait

Bass Strait is the sea passage between Victoria and Tasmania, over 65,000 km2 in area, discovered by George Bass and Matthew Flinders in 1798 and named after Bass; it holds major oil, gas, and offshore wind resources.

Oct 20, 2026

Bass Strait Drainages

Bass Strait Drainages, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 809 by Peter Unmack: rivers of northern Tasmania and the Victorian coast draining to Bass Strait, 105,000 km², three endemic fish, united by a glacial land bridge.

Bass-D

Bass-D (Eugenio Dorwart, 1973–2026) was a Dutch hardcore DJ and producer who won the 1992 Dutch DJ Championship, formed the duo Bass-D & King Matthew, and co-founded Masters of Hardcore.

Bassai

Bassai (Bassae, Βάσσαι) is an Arcadian mountain sanctuary near Phigaleia, Greece, home to the Temple of Apollo Epicurius (420-400 BC), attributed to Iktinos, combining Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders with the oldest surviving Corinthian capital; UNESCO listed 1986.

Bassam Abu Sharif (بسام أبو شريف)

Bassam Abu Sharif (بسام أبو شريف), born 1946 in Jerusalem, is a Palestinian journalist and former PFLP spokesman who became a senior adviser and spokesman to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat.

Bassano del Grappa

Bassano del Grappa is a Veneto town in the province of Vicenza at the foot of Monte Grappa, crossed by the Brenta and known for the covered wooden Ponte degli Alpini (Ponte Vecchio), Palladio's 1569 design, grappa distilleries, and DOP white asparagus.

Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes

Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in south-eastern Senegal, inscribed in 2012 under criteria (iii), (v) and (vi), covering 50,309 ha across the Bassari–Salémata, Bedik–Bandafassi and Fula–Dindéfello areas.