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Basse Yutz Flagons
The Basse Yutz Flagons are a pair of early Celtic bronze wine flagons found in Lorraine, France, in 1927 and held in the British Museum.
Basse-Normandie (France)
Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy), former French administrative region of Calvados, Manche, and Orne, capital Caen, 17,589 km², 1.47 million people (2010); created 1956, merged with Haute-Normandie into Normandie on 1 January 2016.
Basse-Terre
Basse-Terre, western volcanic half of Guadeloupe (848 km²), Lesser Antilles; home of the 1,467 m Soufrière, highest Lesser Antilles peak, built since ~2.8 Ma by southward-migrating volcanism, with the town of Basse-Terre as Guadeloupe's capital.
Bassekou Kouyaté
Bassekou Kouyaté, born 1966 in the Ségou region of Mali, is a ngoni player and bandleader who leads the amplified ngoni quartet Ngoni Ba.
Bassem A. Hassan
Bassem A. Hassan, also published as Bassem Hassan, is a Belgian-trained developmental neurobiologist who leads the laboratory of Brain Development at the Paris Brain Institute.
Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف)
Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف), born 1974, Egyptian heart surgeon turned satirist; hosted Al Bernameg (2011–2014), the Middle East's first Daily Show-style political satire program, was prosecuted under Morsi, exiled in 2014, and revived his fame with 2023 Piers Morgan interviews.
Basset Hound
Basset Hound, a short-legged French scent hound (basset = French for low) with long ears, heavy bone, and scenting skill second only to the Bloodhound; AKC-recognized 1885, standard unchanged since 1964.
Basseterre
Basseterre, capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis on the island's southwest coast, about 16,000 residents; founded by the French in 1627, British capital from 1727, home to Port Zante cruise port.
Bassetki
Bassetki is a Bronze Age settlement mound in Dohuk Province, Iraq, identified as the ancient city Mardaman and known for a copper statue base of Naram-Sin.
Bassetki Statue
The Bassetki Statue is a copper statue base bearing an Old Akkadian inscription of Naram-Sin of Agade, found at Bassetki, ancient Mardaman, in northern Iraq.
Bassett Furniture
Bassett Furniture is an American manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of home furnishings, founded in 1902 in Bassett, Virginia, and by 1960 the world's largest producer of wood furniture.
Basshunter
Basshunter, real name Jonas Erik Altberg, is a Swedish singer, producer, and DJ whose 2008 single "Now You're Gone" spent five weeks at number one on the UK chart.
Bassia
Bassia (Bassia All., 1766; formerly Kochia) is a genus of about 20 C4 herbs in Amaranthaceae native to the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa; its best-known species, B. scoparia (burningbush, summer cypress), is an ornamental and invasive weed.
Bassia scoparia
Bassia scoparia (kochia, summer cypress, burning bush; syn. Kochia scoparia) is a C4 annual Amaranthaceae native to Eurasia, an ornamental and forage plant that is a major tumbleweed weed of the North American Great Plains with resistance to five herbicide sites of action.
Bassiacum
Bassiacum, Latin toponym of Roman Gaul, an -ako- derivative of the personal name Bassius, attested as Bassiaco in Palladius; related Bassiniacum is the Latin name of the Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France.
Bassian
Bassian: MEOW marine ecoregion 205 of the Southeast Australian Shelf province, Temperate Australasia realm, covering central Victoria and Bass Strait; also an IMCRA demersal province and a land-bridge biogeographic term.
Bassil I. Dahiyat
Bassil I. Dahiyat is a biotechnology executive and protein-design scientist who co-reported the 1997 first computational design of a novel protein and co-founded Xencor in 1997.
Bassin de la Dordogne Biosphere Reserve
Bassin de la Dordogne Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère du bassin de la Dordogne), UNESCO biosphere reserve designated 11 July 2012 in France; first in the world covering an entire watershed, about 24,000 km², 1.2 million inhabitants, coordinated by EPIDOR.
Bassin de la Lufira
Bassin de la Lufira, Ramsar Site no. 2318 in DR Congo's Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, and Lualaba provinces; 4,470,993-ha wetland designated 31 October 2017, the country's fourth Ramsar site, with endemic weavers, reptiles, and mining-pollution threats.
Bassin versant Oti-Mandouri
Bassin versant Oti-Mandouri, Ramsar site no. 1721, is a 425,000-hectare faunal reserve and wetland complex on the Oti River in Togo's Savanes region, designated 2 February 2008, with 27 mammal and 37 fish species and vulnerable hippos and elephants.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal's president since April 2024, former tax inspector and Pastef secretary general elected from prison with 54.28% first-round votes; youngest president, sovereignty reforms, later split with Sonko.
Bassivity Digital
Bassivity Digital, also known as Bassivity Music, is a Belgrade-based hip-hop and urban music label, described as the largest urban music platform in the Balkans.
Bassline
Bassline, also called bassline house or Niche, is a UK garage sub-genre that emerged in Yorkshire and the Midlands in the early 2000s, known for heavy bass.
Bassnectar
Bassnectar, the stage name of Lorin Ashton, is an American DJ and electronic music producer from Santa Cruz, California, known for a bass-heavy blend of dubstep, breakbeat, and drum 'n' bass.
Basso continuo
Basso continuo, or figured bass and thoroughbass (Generalbass, basse continue), is the Baroque practice of improvising chords above a notated bass line; it originated in early 1600s Italy, declined in the late eighteenth century, and thrives in historically informed performance.
Basso profondo
Basso profondo (Italian for "deep bass"), also called contrabass or oktavist, is the lowest bass voice type, heard in opera and Russian Orthodox choral music.
Bassoon
Bassoon (Fagott, fagotto, basson): lowest standard orchestral woodwind, a non-transposing double-reed instrument in C with range B♭1 upward, Heckel and French systems, four-joint maple body, and a contrabassoon cousin an octave lower.
Bassorah Fossa
Bassorah Fossa is a fossa (trough) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, approved by the IAU in 1982 and named for the town from which Sindbad embarked on his third voyage in One Thousand and One Nights.
Bassrush Massive
Bassrush Massive is a recurring bass music event series by Insomniac's Bassrush brand, held since the early 2010s in Las Vegas, San Bernardino, and Phoenix.
Bassrush Massive 2014
Bassrush Massive 2014 was a series of bass-music events under Bassrush, Insomniac Events' bass brand, including an April 5 show at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino.