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Bastille (ΔSTILLE) (band)
Bastille (BΔSTILLE) are an English indie pop band formed in London in 2010 by Dan Smith, with Kyle Simmons, Will Farquarson, and Chris Wood; known for Bad Blood, Pompeii, three UK number-one albums, and the Marshmello hit Happier.
Bastille Day
Bastille Day, France's Fête nationale or le 14 juillet, is the national holiday of 14 July, established by the law of 6 July 1880, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, marked by the Champs-Élysées military parade, firemen's balls and fireworks.
Bastille Day (2016 film)
Bastille Day, retitled The Take in the US, is a 2016 action thriller by James Watkins starring Idris Elba and Richard Madden as a CIA agent and pickpocket in Paris; pulled from French cinemas after the 2016 Nice attack.
Bastion
Bastion (Russian: Бастион), known as the K-300P Bastion-P, is a Russian coastal defense missile system firing the supersonic P-800 Oniks anti-ship missile, in service since 2015.
Bastion (comics)
Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti) is a Marvel Comics X-Men villain, a human-Sentinel hybrid fused from Master Mold and Nimrod through the Siege Perilous; leader of Operation: Zero Tolerance and Second Coming antagonist.
Bastion (video game)
Bastion is Supergiant Games' 2011 debut action RPG, an action role-playing game with reactive narration by Logan Cunningham, Darren Korb's 'acoustic frontier trip-hop' score, and Jen Zee's art.
Bastion fort
A bastion fort, also called a trace italienne or star fort, is a polygonal fortification with angled bastions providing overlapping fire, developed in Italy in the 15th century.
Bastion host
A bastion host, also called a jump box, is a hardened computer that serves as the sole access point between an external network and a protected internal network.
Bastion Point occupation
The Bastion Point occupation was a 506-day protest in which Ngāti Whātua, led by Joe Hawke, occupied Takaparawhau above Auckland's Waitematā Harbour against a housing development.
Bastipati Nagaraju Panchalingala
Bastipati Nagaraju Panchalingala, born in 1979 in Panchalingala, is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician from Andhra Pradesh who has represented Kurnool in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Bastnäsite
Bastnäsite, also spelled bastnaesite, is a rare-earth fluorocarbonate mineral and main ore of rare earths at Mountain Pass, California, and Bayan Obo, China; unlike monazite, it carries little thorium.
Bastogne
Bastogne (Bastenaken) is an Ardennes municipality in Belgium's Luxembourg province; since merging with Bertogne in December 2024 it is Belgium's largest municipality at 265 km², famed for the 1944 Battle of the Bulge siege and McAuliffe's 'Nuts!' reply.
Bastryk Vallis
Bastryk Vallis is a 190 km wide valley (vallis) on Venus at 7.5S, 347.5E, adopted by the IAU in 2000 and named for a Kumyk (Daghestan) river deity.
Basu Chatterjee
Basu Chatterjee (also Basu Chatterji), Hindi film director and cartoonist, master of middle-of-the-road cinema with Sara Akash, Rajnigandha, Chhoti Si Baat, Chameli Ki Shaadi; died 4 June 2020, Mumbai.
Basudeo N. Singh
Basudeo N. Singh, also printed as Basudeo Narayan Singh, is an Indian pharmaceutical businessman who co-founded Alkem Laboratories in Mumbai in 1973 and serves as its executive chairman.
Basuki Abdullah
Basuki Abdullah (1915–1993) was an Indonesian realist and naturalist painter, often called Indonesia's finest portraitist, who served as official painter of the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (钟万学)
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (钟万学), known as Ahok, Indonesian Christian ethnic-Chinese politician; regent of East Belitung, Governor of Jakarta 2014-2017, convicted of blasphemy in 2017, later Pertamina chief commissioner.
Basuo
Basuo (八所镇) is a town on Hainan's west coast and the seat of Dongfang city, China; population about 168,000, home to deep-water Basuo Port, named for a Ming garrison post.
Başur Höyük
Başur Höyük, Early Bronze Age cemetery mound in Siirt province, southeast Turkey (3100–2900 BCE), with cist tombs, human sacrifice retainer burials, ~1000 metal objects, ~100,000 beads, and a 40-piece stone game set.
Basus War
The Basus War (حرب البسوس) was a war between the Bakr and Taghlib tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia, remembered in Arabic tradition as lasting forty years.
Basuto Gun War
The Basuto Gun War, or War of the Guns, was the 1880–1881 conflict in which the Basotho of Basutoland resisted the Cape Colony's disarmament attempt.
Basuto Wars
The Basuto Wars, also written Basotho Wars, were three conflicts between 1858 and 1868 between King Moshoeshoe I's Basotho kingdom and the Orange Free State.
Basutoland
Basutoland was a British territory in southern Africa, an enclave within South Africa placed under British protection in 1868 and independent as the Kingdom of Lesotho since 1966.
Bat
Bats (order Chiroptera, "hand-wing") are the only mammals with true powered flight, over 1,400 species, echolocation, and vital roles as pollinators, seed dispersers, and insect controllers saving US agriculture over $3 billion yearly.
Bat algorithm
The bat algorithm is a population-based metaheuristic introduced by Xin-She Yang in 2010 that mimics the frequency tuning, loudness, and pulse rate of bats' echolocation to find global optima of continuous functions, especially in engineering design.
Bat as food
Bat as food: eating bats as bushmeat, affecting at least 167 species (Pteropus, Eidolon helvum, Tadarida) across Africa, Asia, and Oceania, with conservation and zoonotic concerns including Nipah and Ebola risks.
Bat bomb
The bat bomb, code named Project X-Ray, was an experimental American World War II incendiary weapon that attached small bombs to bats, canceled in 1944 before combat use.
Bat Boy (character)
Bat Boy is the fictional half-boy, half-bat creature created for Weekly World News, debuting June 23, 1992 as 'Bat Child Found in Cave' from a West Virginia cave, later inspiring an off-Broadway musical and comics.
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker's 2025 adult horror debut (also titled Bat Eater), follows Chinese American crime scene cleaner Cora Zeng, haunted by hungry ghosts and a serial killer targeting East Asian women during the COVID-19 pandemic; winner of the 2025 Shirley Jackson Award for Novel.
Bat for Lashes
Bat for Lashes is the stage name of Natasha Khan (born 1979), a British art-pop singer-songwriter. Six albums from Fur and Gold (2006) to The Dream of Delphi (2024); three Mercury Prize shortlists, Ivor Novello winner.