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Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson (William Barclay Masterson, 1853-1921), Canadian-born buffalo hunter, Army scout, Ford County Kansas sheriff, and Dodge City lawman, later a New York boxing columnist and U.S. marshal; famed gunfighter whose documented killings were few.
Bat Out of Hell
Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf's 1977 debut album written by Jim Steinman and produced by Todd Rundgren, rejected by most labels, sold tens of millions and spawned two sequels and a musical.
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, also called Bat Out of Hell II, is Meat Loaf's 1993 comeback album with Jim Steinman songs, led by "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", a No. 1 hit in the US and UK.
Bat Pussy
Bat Pussy is a roughly 50-minute American adult film of unknown authorship, likely shot around 1970 in the South and often called the first porn parody ever made.
Bat Ye'or (בת יאור)
Bat Ye'or, pen name meaning "daughter of the Nile" of Gisèle Littman (born 1933), is an Egyptian-born British-Swiss author who developed the concepts of "dhimmitude" and the "Eurabia" thesis.
Bat-and-ball games
Bat-and-ball games: family of team sports, also called striking-and-running games, including baseball, cricket, softball, rounders, pesäpallo, and British baseball, defined by a delivered ball, a batter, base running, and fielding outs.
Bat-eared fox
Bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis), a small African canid of arid grasslands with 46-50 teeth, the most of any heterodont placental mammal, feeding mainly on termites located by sound; IUCN Least Concern.
Bat-Fam
Bat-Fam is a 2025 Prime Video animated comedy series from DC and Warner Bros. Animation, a sequel to Merry Little Batman, following Batman (Luke Wilson), Damian, and reformed villains in a crime-free Gotham; ten episodes premiered November 10, 2025.
Bat-Mite
Bat-Mite, a Fifth-Dimensional imp in DC Comics created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff, debuted in Detective Comics #267 (May 1959); a reality-warping Batman fanboy retired in 1964, revived in 2015 miniseries and animation.
Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Oman with Bronze Age settlements, stone towers, and beehive tombs from the 3rd millennium BCE.
Bat's Castle
Bat's Castle is an Iron Age small multivallate hillfort with a cross-ridge outwork on Gallox Hill, Carhampton, Exmoor, Somerset; scheduled monument 1007667, 1.2 ha, with a 1983 coin hoard spanning 102 BC to AD 350.
Bat*21
Bat*21 is a 1988 American war drama directed by Peter Markle, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, dramatizing the 1972 rescue of downed Air Force colonel Iceal Hambleton in Vietnam.
BAT5906 (anti-VEGF antibody)
BAT5906 (维拉西塔单抗注射液) is Bio-Thera Solutions' full-length humanized IgG1κ anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody for ophthalmic use. Its Phase 3 nAMD trial beat ranibizumab on CRT and BCVA endpoints; NMPA accepted its nAMD marketing application in December 2025.
Bata Corporation
Bata Corporation (Baťa): family-owned footwear multinational founded 1894 in Zlín, Czechia, by the Baťa siblings; sells 150M+ pairs yearly in 70+ countries via 5,300 stores, largest footwear company in India.
Bata Illic
Bata Illic is a Serbian-born singer of German-language Schlager, born in Belgrade in 1939, best known for the 1972 number 1 hit 'Michaela' and still performing in his late 80s.
Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?
Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? is a 1983 Tagalog novel by Lualhati Bautista about Lea, a working mother in Manila raising two children by different fathers.
Bata, Litoral
Bata, in Litoral Province on mainland Río Muni, is the largest city and economic capital of Equatorial Guinea. Founded in 1905 as a Spanish timber and coffee port, it had roughly 400,000 residents by the mid-2020s.
Bata/Patous
Bata/Patous (Greek Βατὰ) was an ancient Greek colony, settlement, and port on the northeastern Black Sea coast at modern Novorossiysk, Russia, attested by Strabo, Arrian, and Ptolemy, dated 550 BC to AD 640.
Bataan
Bataan is a province in Central Luzon, Philippines, covering the Bataan Peninsula (1,372.98 sq km), capital Balanga City. Established 1757 from Pampanga; known for the 1942 Bataan Death March, Mount Natib, and the Freeport Area of Bataan.
Bataan (1943 film)
Bataan (1943) is an MGM World War II film directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Taylor as sergeant of a thirteen-man patrol holding a bridge on Bataan; the first multi-ethnic WWII combat film and genre template.
Bataan Death March (バターン死の行進)
The Bataan Death March was the forced transfer of roughly 60,000 to 80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from the Bataan Peninsula to Tarlac in April 1942.
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a completed 620 MW nuclear reactor at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan, Philippines, built between 1976 and 1984 but never operated.
Bataclan (theatre)
The Bataclan (Le Bataclan) is a historic Paris concert hall at 50 boulevard Voltaire, opened 1864-65 as the Grand Café Chinois and named after Offenbach's operetta Ba-ta-clan; now a 1,500-capacity rock venue, Monument Historique since 1991, and site of the 13 November 2015 massacre that killed 90 concertgoers.
Batagaika crater
Batagaika crater, or Batagay megaslump, in Yakutia, Siberia, is the world's largest retrogressive thaw slump, a thermokarst landform exposing 650,000-year-old permafrost, releasing about a million cubic meters of material yearly, and yielding mammoth and horse fossils.
Batahaliye
Batahaliye was a queen of Napatan Kush in the fifth to fourth century BC, wife of King Harsiotef, buried in a pyramid at Nuri in Sudan.
Batak
Batak: collective label for the Toba, Karo, Simalungun, Pakpak, Angkola, and Mandailing peoples of North Sumatra's Lake Toba highlands, 8-10 million people, patrilineal marga clans, Dalihan Na Tolu kinship, and a majority-Protestant population shaped by the RMG mission from 1861.
Batak Christianization
Batak Christianization is the conversion of the Batak people of northern Sumatra, led by the German Rhenish Missionary Society from 1861, resulting in the Batak Protestant Christian Church.
Batak literature
Batak literature is the oral and written literary tradition of the Batak peoples of North Sumatra, Indonesia, including songs, laments, proverbs, and bark-book pustaha manuscripts.
Batak massacre
The Batak massacre was the killing of the inhabitants of Batak, a town in the Rhodope Mountains of Ottoman Rumelia, now Bulgaria, by Ottoman bashi-bazouk irregulars in May 1876.
Batāla
Batāla (Batala, ਬਟਾਲਾ), city in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India; founded 1465/1466 CE by Rai Ram Deo, a Bhatti Rajput from Kapurthala; pre-partition foundry town, 2011 population 158,621.