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Banu Tayy
Banu Tayy (بنو طيء) was an Arab tribe of the northern Jazira and Syria, whose Jarrahid emirs were allies and rivals of the Fatimids in Palestine.
Banu Thaqif
Banu Thaqif (ثقيف) was an Arab tribe of the Hawazin confederation that dwelt in Ta'if, custodians of the idol al-Lat, resisting Islam until AH 9.
Banu Tripe Hot Pot
Banu Tripe Hot Pot (巴奴火锅), also known as Banu Hotpot, is a premium Chinese hot pot restaurant chain founded by Du Zhongbing in Anyang, Henan, in 2001.
Banu Umayya
Banu Umayya (بنو أمية) were a clan of the Quraysh that produced the first ruling dynasty of Islam, the Umayyad caliphate, founded by Muawiya and centered in Damascus.
Banvir
Banvir (बनवीर) was a sixteenth-century ruler of Mewar who killed Rana Vikramaditya Singh, seized the throne of Chittaur, and tried to murder the young Udai Singh II.
Banwari Lal Verma
Banwari Lal Verma, also known as B. L. Verma, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a Union Minister of State and represents Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha.
Banwarilal Purohit (बनवारीलाल पुरोहित)
Banwarilal Purohit (बनवारीलाल पुरोहित), born 16 April 1940, is an Indian politician and Hitavada editor, three-time Nagpur MP, and former governor of Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab, resigning in 2024.
Banzai charge
Banzai charge (バンザイ突撃): Allied term for massed Japanese WWII infantry assaults shouting 'Tenno heika banzai'; Japanese called them gyokusai attacks. Founding episode Attu 1943; largest at Saipan 1944; no recorded successes.
Banzerato
The Banzerato was the military dictatorship headed by Hugo Banzer Suárez in Bolivia from 1971 to 1978, begun in a coup against Juan José Torres and ended by forced elections.
BANZSL
BANZSL (British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language) is a sign language family grouping BSL, Auslan, and NZSL, descending from British signing transmitted to Australia (1825) and New Zealand (1868), with a shared two-handed fingerspelling alphabet.
Bảo Đại
Bảo Đại (Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, 1913–1997) was the last emperor of Vietnam, abdicating in 1945 and replaced as head of state by Ngô Đình Diệm in 1955.
Bao Fan
Bao Fan (包凡, born 1970 in Shanghai) is a Chinese investment banker who founded China Renaissance and brokered deals for Alibaba and Tencent before his 2023 detention.
Bao Ma Fa (Horse Maintenance Law)
Bao Ma Fa (保马法) was a Northern Song law of Wang Anshi's New Policies under which rural households raised state horses in exchange for tax exemption.
Bao Xin
Bao Xin (鮑信) was a Han dynasty official, Chancellor of Jibei, who raised Cao Cao to the governorship of Yanzhou and died fighting the Yellow Turbans.
Bao Zhao
Bao Zhao (鲍照), courtesy name Mingyuan, was a poet of the Liu-Song dynasty famous for his yuefu and seven-character verse, killed by mutinous soldiers in 466.
Bao Zheng (包拯)
Bao Zheng (包拯, Bao Gong, Bao Qingtian), 999–1062, Northern Song incorruptible official, censor and Kaifeng prefect famed for impeaching the powerful; later transformed by drama and fiction into the legendary black-faced Judge Bao.
Baochang
Baochang (宝唱) was a Liang-dynasty Buddhist monk from Wu Commandery who served Emperor Wu's court, compiling scriptural catalogs and the Biqiuni zhuan on Chinese Buddhist nuns.
Baojia system
The Baojia system (保甲) was a Qing dynasty institution of local control that grouped households in units of ten for policing, taxation, and registration, spread nationwide under the Yongzheng reign.
Baojin
Baojin (宝金), also known by his hao Bifeng, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji lineage honored by the Yuan and Ming courts, including Emperor Hongwu.
Baopuzi
Baopuzi (抱朴子) is a fourth-century Chinese work by Ge Hong, with inner chapters on Daoist alchemy and immortality and outer chapters on Confucian government and conduct.
Baoshan Chu slips
The Baoshan Chu slips (包山楚简) are 278 inscribed Warring States bamboo slips excavated in 1987 from a tomb at Baoshan, Hubei, the working papers of a Chu court official.
Baoshan Iron & Steel
Baoshan Iron & Steel (宝钢股份), commonly called Baosteel, is China's largest listed steelmaker, the flagship of state-owned China Baowu, based in Shanghai and listed there in 2000.
Baotang school of Chan
The Baotang school of Chan (保唐宗) was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist school founded by the monk Wuzhu, known for rejecting formal precepts and rites.
Baoyi Qaghan
Baoyi Qaghan (保義可汗) ruled the Uyghur Khaganate from 808 to 821, its height, after defeating Tibet as a general and taking Liang province in 808.
Baozhi
Baozhi (寶誌) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Southern Dynasties, conventionally dated 418–514, famed as a miracle worker and revered as an incarnation of the bodhisattva Guanyin.
Baphomet
Baphomet: name of an idol Templars were accused of worshipping at their 1307 trials, likely a corruption of Mahomet; later the goat-headed Sabbatic Goat drawn by Eliphas Lévi in 1856, adopted by Crowley, the Church of Satan, and The Satanic Temple.
Bapi Halder
Bapi Halder is an Indian politician elected to the Lok Sabha from Mathurapur, West Bengal, in 2024 as a Trinamool Congress candidate, later joining the NCPI.
Bappa Rawal
Bappa Rawal (बप्पा रावल), 8th-century founder-legend of Mewar's Guhila dynasty, credited with capturing Chittorgarh and founding the Eklingji stewardship tradition; identified variously with Kalabhoja or Shiladitya, absent from key king-list inscriptions.
Bappa Rawal's conquest of Chittor
Bappa Rawal's conquest of Chittor (बप्पा रावल का चित्तौड़ अधिकार) was the capture of Chittor fort by Bappa Rawal of the Guhila line, founding the Mewar kingdom.
Baptism
Baptism, also known as water baptism or Holy Baptism, is a Christian rite of initiation with water, by immersion, pouring, or sprinkling, admitting a person into the Church.