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Baltimore riot of 1861
The Baltimore riot of 1861, also known as the Pratt Street Riot, was a street battle in Baltimore in April 1861 that caused the first fatalities of the Civil War.
Baltimore School for the Arts
Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA), a public magnet high school at 712 Cathedral Street in Baltimore, Maryland, founded 1979-1980, admits students solely by audition into six arts disciplines, pairs arts training with college prep, and runs the free TWIGS program for grades 2-8.
Baltimore-class cruiser
Baltimore-class cruiser: US Navy WWII heavy cruisers (CA-68 to CA-136), developed from USS Wichita free of treaty limits; 13,600 tons, nine 8-inch guns, 33 knots; served WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and as missile cruiser conversions.
Balto-Slavic languages
Balto-Slavic is the proposed Indo-European subgroup uniting the Baltic and Slavic languages under a reconstructed Proto-Balto-Slavic ancestor, supported by shared sound laws, accentual mobility, and core lexicon, though its uniformity and a distinct Proto-Baltic stage remain debated.
Balts
Balts (baltai, balti): Indo-European peoples of the south-eastern Baltic coast speaking Baltic languages; today only Lithuanians and Latvians survive, Old Prussians and other tribes extinct after the 13th-century Teutonic conquest.
Balu'a Stele
The Balu'a Stele, also called the Al-Balu'a Stele, is a basalt relief monument found in 1930 at Khirbet al-Balu'a in Jordan, bearing an undeciphered hieroglyphic-style inscription.
Balubakat
Balubakat, the Association des Baluba du Katanga, was a Congolese political party of the Baluba people of northern Katanga, founded in 1957 under Jason Sendwe.
Balulu
Balulu was, per the Sumerian King List, the fourth and last king of the First Dynasty of Ur, credited with a 36-year reign in the mid-25th century BC.
Balumama (बाळूमामा महाराज)
Balumama (बाळूमामा महाराज), born Balappa, was a sant of the Dhangar shepherd community, born in 1892 in Karnataka and venerated after his 1966 samadhi at Adamapur, Maharashtra.
Balvinder Singh Sahni
Balvinder Singh Sahni, known as Abu Sabah, is an Indian-born businessman who founded the Dubai property developer Raj Sahni Group and was convicted of money laundering in 2025.
Balvir Singh
Balvir Singh is an American Democratic politician in the New Jersey General Assembly's 7th district, appointed in January 2025 and the first Sikh legislator in New Jersey.
Balwant Singh of Benares
Balwant Singh of Benares (بلونت سنگھ) was a zamindar who ruled the Benares state from 1740 to 1770 and is regarded as the real founder of the Benares Raj.
Balwant Singh of Bharatpur
Balwant Singh (बलवंत सिंह) was Maharaja of the Jat princely state of Bharatpur in Rajasthan from 1826 to 1853, succeeded by his son Jashwant Singh.
Balwant Wankhade
Balwant Baswant Wankhade, born 1967, is an Indian National Congress politician serving since 2024 in the Lok Sabha for Amravati, Maharashtra, after representing Daryapur in the state assembly.
Balyogi Umeshnath
Balyogi Umeshnath is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in 2024 for a term to 2030.
Bam Aquino
Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aguirre Aquino IV, Filipino senator (2013–2019; since 2025), Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino chairman, cousin of Benigno Aquino III; principal sponsor of the Free College Law, placed 2nd in the 2025 Senate race.
Bamana Empire
The Bamana Empire, also called the Bambara or Ségou Empire, was a militarized West African state centered at Ségou on the middle Niger River, founded around 1712 by Biton Coulibaly.
Bamar people
Bamar (Burmans), the largest ethnic group of Myanmar at about 68% of the population, Buddhist, centered in the central plains and delta, and politically dominant since 1948 independence.
Bambara Kingdom of Segou
The Bambara Kingdom of Segou (Ségou) was a Bamana warrior state on the Niger River founded by Biton Coulibaly around 1712 and conquered in 1861.
Bambara language
Bambara (Bamanankan, Bamanan) is a Mande language of the Manding group, Mali's most widely spoken language with roughly 15 million users, official since 2023, written in Latin script, with S Aux O V X word order and two tones.
Bambatha kaMancinza
Bambatha kaMancinza (uBambatha kaMancinza) was the chief of the amaZondi, a Zulu-speaking people in Natal, who led the 1906 poll-tax rebellion and was reported killed at Mome Gorge that June.
Bambatha rebellion
The Bambatha rebellion (Umvukelo waseBambatha), or Zulu Uprising of 1906, was an armed rising of Zulu chiefdoms in Natal against a new poll tax, led by Chief Bambatha.
Bamboo Annals
The Bamboo Annals (竹书纪年) is a Warring States chronicle of the state of Wei, unearthed from a royal tomb at Jijun in the Western Jin dynasty, covering Yao through the Zhou.
Bambora
Bambora is a Stockholm-based payment service provider founded by Johan Tjärnberg in 2014 under Nordic Capital, sold to Ingenico Group in 2017 for about €1.5 billion.
Bamnauli Mound
Bamnauli Mound (Kasuri) is an ancient archaeological mound at Bamnauli village, Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, India; a centrally protected ASI monument (N-UP-A87) with chalcolithic to post-Gupta cultural layers, distinct from other villages named Bamnauli.
Bamum Kingdom
The Bamum Kingdom was a pre-colonial kingdom in western Cameroon, founded in 1394 with its capital at Foumban, best known for the Bamum script invented by King Ibrahim Njoya.
Ban (law)
Ban (law): a legal prohibition of an activity, product, or substance, via statute, constitutional amendment, administrative order, or writ of prohibition. Covers creation, legality and proportionality limits, US alcohol Prohibition 1920–1933, and unintended consequences.
Ban (title)
Ban: governor or viceroy title used in medieval and early modern Croatia, Bosnia, and southern Hungary from the 10th century, revived in Yugoslavia's 1929-1941 banovinas; territory called banat or banovina; office abolished 1946-1947.
Ban Biao
Ban Biao (班彪) was an Eastern Han historian and official who continued Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and fathered Ban Gu, Ban Chao, and Ban Zhao.
Ban Changthai
Ban Changthai (Ban Chang Thai, Baan Chang Thai) was an elephant camp in Klong Prao, Ko Chang, Trat, Thailand, offering rides, shows and bathing; rated 3.4/5 on Tripadvisor, excluded from bookings under animal welfare guidelines, and closed by April 2026.