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Bath School disaster
The Bath School disaster (May 18, 1927) was Andrew Kehoe's bombing of Bath Consolidated School, Michigan, killing 38 children and adults; still the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.
Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University (BSU) is a UK public university in Bath, Somerset, founded as the Bath School of Art in 1852 and granted university status in 2005. Known for art, design, education, and creative writing; main campus Newton Park; TEF Silver; Guardian 2027 rank 59th.
Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis
Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis: monumental Roman bath-gymnasium in Lydia, Turkey, about 23,000 m2, with Marble Court imperial cult hall (211/212 AD) and later Sardis Synagogue; excavated and reconstructed by the Harvard-Cornell Expedition, 1964-1973.
Bath, Somerset
Bath, Somerset: English spa city founded by the Romans as Aquae Sulis around the UK's hottest thermal springs (46 °C), famed for Georgian Palladian architecture; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 and Great Spa Town of Europe since 2021.
Batha Region
Batha Region is an administrative region of Chad in the central-eastern Sahel, created in 2002 from the former Batha prefecture and named for the intermittent Batha River, which drains to Lake Fitri.
Bathe family (Irish judicial dynasty)
The Bathe (Bath) family, an Anglo-Norman Irish judicial dynasty of Drumcondra and Meath, supplied James Bathe (chief baron 1535) and John Bathe (solicitor general 1551, chief justice of common pleas 1554, exchequer chancellor 1577), allied by marriage to the Prestons and Dillons, and produced the Jesuit William Bathe and courtier Sir John Bathe (d. 1630).
Bathhouse Row
Bathhouse Row: eight historic bathhouses (1892–1923) along Central Avenue in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas; largest surviving early 20th-century bathhouse collection in the U.S., National Historic Landmark since 1987, with Buckstaff and Quapaw still bathing.
Bathinda (ਬਠਿੰਡਾ)
Bathinda (ਬਠਿੰਡਾ), historically Tabarhindh or Bhatinda, is a city and district in southern Punjab, India, in the Malwa region; fifth largest Punjab city, noted for its ancient fort, Haji Ratan tomb, and cotton-wheat agriculture.
Bathing
Bathing, the washing of the body with water and cleansers, spans Roman thermae, Middle Eastern hammams, and modern home bathrooms; shaped by germ theory, plumbing, skin-barrier effects, and monitored recreational bathing water quality.
Bathing (1999 film)
Bathing, internationally released as Shower (洗澡, Xizao), is Zhang Yang's 1999 Chinese comedy-drama about a Beijing bathhouse, father-son bonds, and demolition-driven modernization; it won FIPRESCI at Toronto and the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki.
Bathing suit ichthyosis
Bathing suit ichthyosis (BSI, Badeanzug-Ichthyose), a rare temperature-sensitive variant of autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis caused by TGM1 mutations, with dark platelike scales limited to the trunk, neck, and scalp.
Bathkol Tessera
Bathkol Tessera, a 1,485 km-wide deformed tessera terrain on Venus at 61°N 200°E, IAU-named in 1997 for an Israeli goddess of fate; shows no radar emissivity excursions with altitude.
Bathocuproine
Bathocuproine, or 2,9-dimethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, is a phenanthroline ligand whose methyl groups give selectivity for copper(I), forming an orange complex used in spectrophotometric copper determination and, as its water-soluble disulfonate BCS, in biochemical copper assays.
Bathoen I
Bathoen I (1845–1910) was kgosi of the Ngwaketse in Bechuanaland, now Botswana, and one of three chiefs whose 1895 London mission saved the Protectorate from Cecil Rhodes.
Bathophenanthroline
Bathophenanthroline (4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline) is a phenanthroline-class chelating reagent, introduced in 1951, that forms a red complex with ferrous iron but not ferric iron, long used for serum iron measurement.
Bathory (band)
Bathory, Swedish extreme metal band from Vällingby, Stockholm, founded 16 March 1983 by Quorthon (Thomas Forsberg), Jonas Åkerlund, and Frederick Melander; pioneered first-wave black metal and Viking metal with Bathory (1984), Blood Fire Death (1988), and Hammerheart (1990); ended with Quorthon's death in June 2004.
Bathroom
A bathroom is a room in a dwelling equipped for personal hygiene, typically containing a toilet and washbasin, and in a full bathroom a bathtub or shower.
Bathroom bill
Bathroom bills are US state laws requiring restroom use by sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity; about 21 states have them, from North Carolina's 2016 HB2 to Idaho's 2026 criminal ban, with active litigation and documented health effects.
Bathroom Equipment
Bathroom Equipment is a MeSH category (D000072296, introduced 2017) of receptacles for collecting human excrement: bedpans, commodes, toilets, and urinals used when patients cannot reach a bathroom.
Baths
Baths: immersion or washing of the body or its parts in water or another medium for cleansing or medical treatment, from Roman thermae to balneotherapy, spa therapy, bed bathing, and modern evidence reviews.
Baths of Antoninus at Carthage
Baths of Antoninus (Antoninian Baths), Carthage, Tunisia: 2nd-century Roman thermae, largest in Africa and outside Rome, built under Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, fed by the Zaghouan aqueduct, destroyed after the Vandal conquest.
Baths of Caracalla
The Baths of Caracalla (Thermae Antonianae), Rome's huge imperial thermae built 212-216 AD on the Piccolo Aventino by Emperor Caracalla: 1,600 bathers at a time, Aqua Antoniniana supply, libraries and palaestrae, in use until 537 AD.
Baths of Cilurnum
Baths of Cilurnum: the external bathhouse of Chesters Roman Fort (Cilurnum) on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland. Hadrianic, uncovered 1884–5, the most complete Roman baths visible in Britain, with caldaria, tepidaria, frigidaria, and hypocaust heating.
Baths of Decius
Baths of Decius (Thermae Decianae), imperial Roman bath complex built by Emperor Decius on the Aventine Hill around 249-252 AD, serving the wealthy Aventine district; known from Palladio's plan, restored in 414.
Baths of Diocletian
Thermae Diocletiani (Baths of Diocletian, Terme di Diocleziano): largest imperial bath complex of ancient Rome, built 298-306 AD by Maximian for Diocletian, 13 hectares, 3,000 bathers; now a National Roman Museum site.
Baths of the Philosopher
Baths of the Philosopher (Terme del Filosofo, V,II,6-7): small Roman baths in region V of Ostia, Italy, named for two busts perhaps of Plotinus; built from Trajanic times, with baths added in the later third century AD.
Bathsheba (בַּת־שֶׁבַע)
Bathsheba (בַּת־שֶׁבַע, Bat Sheva) is a biblical figure in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings, the wife of Uriah the Hittite who became King David's wife and the mother of King Solomon.
Bathsheba Garnett
Bathsheba Garnett (born 17 September 1925, Manhattan) is an American actress and drama teacher, Broadway's Gideon (1961), University of Windsor professor, and the aged witch in Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015).
Bathtub
A bathtub is a large plumbing fixture, usually installed in a bathroom, that holds water in which a person sits or lies for bathing, made from materials like acrylic or cast iron.
Bathtub curve
The bathtub curve is a reliability engineering model showing a product population's failure rate over time, which falls early, stays constant, and rises as units wear out.