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Bauge (oil field)

Bauge is a Norwegian oil field on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 2013 as Snilehorn and producing since 2023 via a subsea tieback to Njord, operated by Equinor.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus: German school of art, architecture and design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in April 1919, continued in Dessau and Berlin, closed by Nazi pressure in 1933; famed for art-and-technology modernism.

Bauhaus (band)

Bauhaus: English post-punk band formed in Northampton in 1978 (Murphy, Ash, David J, Haskins), also known as Bauhaus 1919, whose 1979 single "Bela Lugosi's Dead" launched gothic rock.

Bauhaus AG

Bauhaus AG is a family-owned German DIY and home-improvement retailer founded in Mannheim in 1960 by Heinz Georg Baus, running over 290 stores in 19 European countries.

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau

Serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany, inscribed 1996 and extended 2017, comprising seven Bauhaus buildings in Weimar, Dessau, and Bernau under criteria (ii), (iv), (vi), 8.1614 ha.

Bauhaus Building (Dessau)

The Bauhaus Building (Bauhausgebäude) in Dessau, Germany, is the school building Walter Gropius designed for the Bauhaus, opened in 1926 and listed by UNESCO since 1996.

Bauhaus metal workshop

The Bauhaus metal workshop was the metalworking department of the German Bauhaus school from 1919 to 1929, producing lighting fixtures and tableware under László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt.

Bauhaus photography

Bauhaus photography is the photographic work and teaching of the German Bauhaus art school, active 1919 to 1933, driven above all by László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.

Bauhaus typography

Bauhaus typography is the geometric, functionalist lettering and page layout produced at the German Bauhaus school between 1919 and 1933, known for sans-serif type, lowercase setting, and asymmetric layouts.

Bauhinia

Bauhinia (Plum) is a genus of pantropical trees and shrubs belonging to the Fabaceae family. Taxonomic debate exists over its circumscription, with counts ranging from 150 to 380 species.

Bauhinia × blakeana

Bauhinia × blakeana (洋紫荊), Hong Kong orchid tree, a sterile artificial hybrid of B. purpurea × B. variegata discovered near Pokfulam in the 1880s; flower is Hong Kong's emblem since 1965.

Bauke W. Dijkstra

Bauke W. Dijkstra is a Dutch biochemist and protein crystallographer, emeritus professor at the University of Groningen, known for the α/β-hydrolase fold and enzyme structures.

Baul (বাউল)

Baul (বাউল) are mystic minstrels of rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, a syncretic devotional sect blending Vaishnava, Buddhist Sahajiya, and Sufi elements, centered on the body as God's seat, with Lalon Shah (1774–1890) as central figure and UNESCO-listed Baul songs.

Baule art

Baule art (Baoulé art) is the wood-carving tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, including spirit-spouse figures, mblo and Goli masks, and carved doors.

Baule figure sculpture

Baule figure sculpture is the carved wooden human figure tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, made since the 1700s to house spirit spouses and nature spirits for diviners.

Baum–Connes conjecture

The Baum–Connes conjecture, from operator algebras and noncommutative geometry, states that the assembly map is an isomorphism; it was posed by Paul Baum and Alain Connes in 1982.

Baum–Welch algorithm

The Baum–Welch algorithm, also called the forward–backward algorithm, is an expectation-maximization method that estimates the transition and emission probabilities of a hidden Markov model from unlabeled observations, with applications in speech recognition and computational biology.

Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Bauman Moscow State Technical University (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана, BMSTU), founded by decree of Nicholas I on July 1, 1830, is Russia's oldest technical university in Moscow, origin of the 'Russian method' of engineering training, alma mater of Korolev and Tupolev, and a Roscosmos-linked national research university.

Baume & Mercier

Baume & Mercier is a Swiss luxury watchmaker headquartered in Geneva, with origins dating to 1830 and its manufacture at Les Brenets in the Swiss Jura.

Baumeister (magazine)

Baumeister is a German monthly architecture magazine published in Munich since 1902, one of the longest-running in the German-speaking world, now the flagship of publisher Georg Media.

Baumer (company)

Baumer, also known as the Baumer Group, is a Swiss family-owned manufacturer of sensors, encoders, and measuring instruments for factory and process automation, founded in Frauenfeld in 1952.

Baumgarten an der March

Baumgarten an der March, a cadastral community of Weiden an der March in Gänserndorf district, Lower Austria, on the Slovak border; known for a Roman temporary camp of the Marcomannic Wars, lorica squamata finds, an early medieval settlement, and the Salzsteppe nature reserve.

Baumgartner's Bombay

Baumgartner's Bombay is a 1988 novel by Indian writer Anita Desai, following Hugo Baumgartner, a German Jew who flees to India and is interned during World War II.

Baumkuchen

Baumkuchen (バウムクーヘン), German "tree cake," is a layered spit-roasted cake with tree-ring cross-section. Introduced to Japan by WWI POW Karl Juchheim in 1919, it symbolizes longevity there; Salzwedel Baumkuchen holds an EU PGI.

Baumol's cost disease

Baumol's cost disease is the tendency for costs of services like health care, education, and live performance to rise faster than inflation, described by economist William Baumol in 1967.

Baumüller

Baumüller is a German family-owned manufacturer of electric drive and automation systems, including servo motors, converters, and control technology, founded in Nuremberg in 1930 and serving machine building, e-mobility, and marine applications.

Baúna Oil and Gas Field

The Baúna Oil and Gas Field is an offshore oil field in Brazil's Santos Basin, discovered in 2008 and operated by Karoon Energy since 2020.

Bauru

Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil; 'Cidade Sem Limites'; interior municipality of about 379,000 people (2022), former railway junction, regional capital B, services-based economy, home of the sanduíche Bauru.

Bausch & Lomb

Bausch & Lomb (Bausch + Lomb), founded 1853 in Rochester, New York by John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb, is an eye health company making contact lenses, lens care, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, and surgical devices; it introduced the first US mass-produced soft contact lens (SofLens, 1971) and IPO'd as BLCO in 2022.

Bausch Health

Bausch Health Companies Inc., formerly Valeant Pharmaceuticals, is a Laval, Quebec-based specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company with ~1,000 products in five segments, flagship drug Xifaxan, ~88% ownership of Bausch + Lomb, and 2025 revenue of $10,266 million.