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Batroc the Leaper
Batroc the Leaper (Georges Batroc) is a Marvel Comics French mercenary, master of savate, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; he debuted in Tales of Suspense #75 (1966) as an honorable recurring Captain America foe and leader of Batroc's Brigade.
Batroun
Batroun, also known as Batroûn or Botrun, is a coastal city in northern Lebanon, 53 km north of Beirut, on the site of the Phoenician town of Batrun.
Bats
Bats (1999) is an American creature-feature horror film directed by Louis Morneau, written by John Logan, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Dina Meyer; genetically altered bats attack a Texas town, grossing $10.2 million on a $5.3 million budget.
Bats language
Bats language, also known as Tsova-Tush, is a severely endangered Nakh language spoken in Zemo Alvani, eastern Georgia. It has no written form and is classified as moribund.
Batschkapp Frankfurt
The Batschkapp, also written Die Batschkapp, is a rock and pop concert venue in Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1976 by the city's Sponti scene as a left-wing cultural center.
BATSE
BATSE, the Burst and Transient Source Experiment, was a gamma-ray detector on NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory that recorded 2,704 bursts from 1991 to 2000.
Batson (Martian crater)
Batson is a 75 km impact crater on Mars at 28.91°S, 84.15°E on the northeastern Hellas basin rim, IAU-named in 2018 for USGS planetary cartographer Raymond M. Batson, and heavily modified by Amazonian glaciation.
Batsugun (バツグン)
Batsugun (バツグン) is Toaplan's December 1993 vertical arcade shooter, widely credited as the first bullet hell (danmaku) game; its Special Version, Saturn port, and modern re-releases under Tatsujin and City Connection distinguish it from other shmups.
Batsuit
The Batsuit is the protective costume worn by DC Comics superhero Batman, a cape, cowl, utility belt, and body suit with a chest bat emblem, redesigned for films since 1966.
Battagram
Battagram (also Batagram) District, Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: a fully rural mountain district of 554,133 people (2023 census) over 1,301 sq km, created in 1993 from Mansehra, hit hard by the 2005 earthquake.
Battal Rukabi
Battal Rukabi, in full Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Batal al-Rukabi, was a Yemeni scholar who wrote a commentary on the rare vocabulary of al-Muhadhdhab.
Battalion
Battalion: a military unit of a headquarters plus several companies, typically infantry, 430 to 900 strong, commanded by a lieutenant colonel, and generally the smallest unit capable of independent operations.
Battalion Oil
Battalion Oil Corporation, the successor to Halcón Resources since January 2020, is a Houston-based independent energy company producing oil and gas in the Delaware Basin of West Texas.
Battalion tactical group (бatal'onnaya)
The battalion tactical group (батальонная тактическая группа, BTG) was a combined-arms formation of the Russian Army, its principal unit of action from the mid-2010s until 2022.
Battalname
Battalname is an anonymous Anatolian Turkish prose folk epic about Seyyid Battal Gazi, an Arab commander against Byzantium, generally dated between the late 11th and early 13th centuries.
Battambang
Battambang (បាត់ដំបង) is a province in northwestern Cambodia, named after its capital city on the Sangker River and known as "the rice bowl of Cambodia" for its dominant role in rice production.
Battelle Developmental Inventory
The Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI) is a standardized assessment of developmental skills in children from birth through age 7, used for early intervention and special education eligibility.
Battelle Memorial Institute
Battelle Memorial Institute is a nonprofit contract research organization founded in 1929 in Columbus, Ohio, that manages eight U.S. national laboratories and helped develop the photocopying process, the UPC barcode, and compact discs.
Batten disease
Batten disease, also called Spielmeyer-Vogt disease or Batten-Mayou syndrome, is the common name for the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses, inherited lysosomal storage disorders causing childhood vision loss, seizures, and early death.
Batten Hanger
Batten Hanger (Elsted, West Sussex) is a scheduled Romano-British villa occupied from the first to mid-fifth century, where a late Roman aisled hall, coin hoard, cemetery, and temple show rare firm fifth-century occupancy.
Battenberg cake
Battenberg cake, also spelled Battenburg, is a British teatime cake of pink and yellow sponge joined with apricot jam to show a chequered slice, wrapped in marzipan.
Battenberg family
Battenberg family: morganatic branch of the House of Hesse founded by Prince Alexander of Hesse and Julia von Hauke in 1851; anglicized to Mountbatten in 1917; linked to British, Spanish, Bulgarian, and Swedish royalty.
Batter (cooking)
Batter (cooking): a semifluid flour-based mixture of flour, liquid, and often eggs, used for pancakes, cakes, and as a frying coating; distinct from dough by its higher water content.
Batterbee Mountains
The Batterbee Mountains are prominent mountains rising to 2,200 m on the west coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, overlooking George VI Sound, first sighted by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935.
Battered woman syndrome
Battered woman syndrome (BWS), or battered person syndrome, is a psychological pattern from persistent intimate partner violence, introduced by Lenore Walker in 1979; used in self-defense and duress defenses but absent from the DSM.
Batteries Not Included
Batteries Not Included is a 1987 American comic science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins, in which tiny alien spaceships help New York apartment tenants resist a developer.
Battering ram
A battering ram is a siege engine, a heavy beam swung or pushed against gates and walls, used from Bronze Age Syria into the medieval period.
Battersea
Battersea is a district on the south bank of the Thames in Wandsworth, southwest London, formerly market gardens, transformed by railways from 1840, known for Battersea Park, Battersea Power Station, and Clapham Junction.
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home (Battersea) is a UK animal welfare charity founded in 1860 by Mary Tealby, rescuing and rehoming dogs and cats from three centres, with a non-selective intake policy and about £70m annual income.
Battersea Park
Battersea Park is an 83-hectare Grade II Victorian park on the south bank of the Thames in Wandsworth, London, opened in 1854, with a lake, Subtropical Garden, Festival Gardens site, Peace Pagoda, and children's zoo.