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Baby of the House
Baby of the House is the unofficial title for the youngest member of the UK House of Commons, decided by date of birth, with no formal duties; Sam Carling, 22, held it after July 2024.
Baby Rani Maurya
Baby Rani Maurya is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who served as Governor of Uttarakhand from 2018 to 2021 and is now a Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister.
Baby sign language
Baby sign language: simple gestures, often from ASL, taught to hearing infants with spoken words to communicate before speech. Founded by Acredolo, Goodwyn, and Garcia in the 1980s; independent reviews find no proven language benefit and no harm.
Baby talk
Baby talk, formally infant-directed speech (IDS) or child-directed speech, is the higher-pitched, repetitive, simplified register adults and older children use with infants, studied for its acoustic features, cross-cultural regularities, and role in language learning.
Babycare (company)
Babycare is a Chinese full-category mother-and-baby brand founded in 2014 in Hangzhou by Li Kuo, offering about 30,000 products and ranked first in China mother-and-baby sales.
Babydog
Babydog Justice, the English Bulldog of West Virginia governor and U.S. senator Jim Justice, became a political celebrity through COVID vaccine sweepstakes, the 2024 RNC, and a Capitol mural.
Babylonia
Babylonia: ancient south-Mesopotamian civilization named for Babylon, from early second millennium BCE to the Persian conquest of 539 BCE; Hammurabi's Code, cuneiform scholarship, Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the modern UNESCO site.
Babylonian Almanac
The Babylonian Almanac is a cuneiform hemerological text that classifies every day of an ideal 360-day year, the most fundamental text of Mesopotamian day-list hemerology.
Babylonian captivity
Babylonian captivity: the deportation of Judeans to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 and 586 BCE and their exile until Cyrus's decree of 538 BCE; attested by the Weidner ration lists and Al-Yahudu tablets and formative for Jewish monotheism and scripture.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 16)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 16), commonly called the Akitu Chronicle, is a Babylonian historiographical text recording the 652–648 BC war between Šamaš-šuma-ukin of Babylon and his brother Aššurbanipal of Assyria.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 3)
The Babylonian Chronicle, also known as the Fall of Nineveh Chronicle, is a Babylonian tablet recording Nabopolassar's campaigns of 616–609 BC, including the capture of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 4)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 4), or Chronicle Concerning the Late Years of Nabopolassar, is a cuneiform tablet in the British Museum recording Nabopolassar's wars, 608-605 BC.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 8)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 8), known as BCHP 1 or the Alexander Chronicle, is a fragmentary cuneiform tablet in the British Museum covering Darius III and Alexander the Great.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 9)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 9), also called the Artaxerxes III Chronicle, is a fragmentary Late Babylonian tablet recording prisoners taken from Sidon in 345 BC.
Babylonian Chronicles
The Babylonian Chronicles are Akkadian cuneiform tablets recording Babylonian history year by year, mostly held in the British Museum, from the eighth century BCE to the Hellenistic period.
Babylonian King List A
Babylonian King List A is a damaged cuneiform tablet listing the kings of Babylonia and their regnal years, from the First Dynasty down to Kandalanu.
Babylonian Map of the World
The Babylonian Map of the World, or Imago Mundi, is a clay tablet in the British Museum bearing the oldest known world map, centered on Babylon.
Babylonian religion
Babylonian religion: the polytheistic cult system of ancient southern Mesopotamia, centered on Marduk of Babylon and the Esagila temple, its creation epic Enuma Elish, and its continuity under Persian and Hellenistic rule.
Babylonian star-catalogues
The Babylonian star-catalogs are systematic lists of stars and constellations compiled in ancient Mesopotamia, best known through the two-tablet compendium MUL.APIN, composed before about 750 BC.
Babylonian Theodicy
The Babylonian Theodicy is an Akkadian acrostic dialogue poem in which a sufferer debates divine justice with a friend who defends worship of the gods.
Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BC
The Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BC, also called the Babylonian-Assyrian War of 1235 BCE, was the war in which Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria defeated Kaštiliaš IV of Babylon and conquered the city of Babylon.
BabyTV
BabyTV is a television channel for infants, toddlers, and parents, launched in Israel in December 2003 as the first 24-hour commercial-free channel for under-threes; acquired by Fox International Channels in 2007, later Disney-owned, distributed in over 100 countries, and wound down in 2026.
BAC Holding International
BAC Holding International Corp. is a Panamanian holding company, incorporated in 1972 and controlled by Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, that owns the BAC Credomatic banking group across Central America.
Bacan Sultanate
The Bacan Sultanate, or Kesultanan Bacan, was a sultanate in North Maluku, Indonesia, one of the four traditional kingdoms alongside Ternate and Tidore, disestablished in 1960.
Baccalauréat
Baccalauréat (le bac): France's national secondary-school-leaving examination and first higher-education diploma, created 17 March 1808 under Napoleon; graded 60% terminal exams, 40% contrôle continu, with general, technological, and professional tracks.
Bacchanalia
Bacchanalia, Roman mystery rites of Dionysus/Bacchus spread from southern Italy via Etruria, suppressed by the senate in 186 BCE under the senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, the oldest surviving senatus consultum.
Bach absolutism
Bach absolutism (Bach-Ära, Bachův absolutismus) is the neo-absolutist regime that governed the Habsburg monarchy from 1849 to 1860, named after Interior Minister Alexander von Bach.
Bach Thai Buoi
Bach Thai Buoi (Bạch Thái Bưởi, 1874–1932) was a Vietnamese entrepreneur who built the first Vietnamese-owned shipping fleet in French Indochina, breaking a French and Chinese monopoly.
Bacha bazi (بچهبازی)
Bacha bazi (بچهبازی, "boy play") is the Afghan practice of exploiting boys as dancers and for sexual gratification. Criminalized under the pre-2021 government and banned by the Taliban's 2024 morality law, it persists, with victims fearing punishment and stigma.
Bacha Coffee
Bacha Coffee is a luxury coffee retailer selling over 200 varieties of 100% Arabica coffee, revived in 2019 from the Dar el Bacha palace in Marrakech.