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Baptism of Jesus
The Baptism of Jesus is the event in which John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan River, with the Holy Spirit descending like a dove.
Baptism of Joao I of Kongo
The baptism of Joao I of Kongo was the conversion of King Nzinga a Nkuwu to Catholicism at Mbanza Kongo on 3 May 1491, crowning eight years of Portuguese contact.
Baptism of Olga
The Baptism of Olga (Крещение Ольги) was the conversion to Christianity of Olga, regent of Kievan Rus', most likely in Constantinople around 957, though its date and place remain disputed.
Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Baptism with the Holy Spirit, also called baptism in the Spirit, is a Christian concept from seven New Testament verses, interpreted variously as empowerment for witness or conversion itself.
Baptist War
The Baptist War (Christmas Rebellion, Sam Sharpe Rebellion) was Jamaica's 1831–32 slave uprising, begun as a general strike by Baptist deacon Samuel Sharpe, involving perhaps sixty thousand enslaved people, suppressed by January 1832, and catalyzing the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
Baptists
Baptists, also known as Baptist Christians, are a family of Protestant churches defined by believer's baptism by immersion and congregational governance, arising in seventeenth-century England and now worldwide.
Bapu Gokhale
Bapu Gokhale (बापू गोखले), born Narhar Ganesh Gokhale, was the last senapati of the Maratha state under Peshwa Baji Rao II, dying in battle in 1818.
Baqashot
Baqashot (Hebrew: בקשות, "supplications") are petitionary poems sung by Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews on winter Sabbath mornings, rooted in sixteenth-century Safed kabbalism under Isaac Luria.
Baqer Khan
Baqer Khan (باقرخان), honorifically titled Salar-e Melli, was an Iranian constitutionalist commander from Tabriz who, alongside Sattar Khan, led the city's armed defense during the Constitutional Revolution.
Baqet III
Baqet III was a governor of the Oryx nome in Upper Egypt at the end of the Eleventh Dynasty, known from his decorated rock tomb at Beni Hassan.
Baqi Billah
Baqi Billah (باقی باللہ) was a Naqshbandi Sufi shaykh, born in Kabul around 1564, who established the order in Delhi and Mughal India and trained Ahmad Sirhindi before dying in 1603.
Baqi ibn Makhlad
Baqi ibn Makhlad (بقي بن مخلد) was a Cordoban traditionist, born in 817 and died in 889, who pioneered the study of hadith in al-Andalus after decades of study in the East.
Baqiyya ibn al-Walid
Baqiyya ibn al-Walid (بقية بن الوليد) was a Syrian hadith scholar of the taba' al-tabi'in generation, called the hadith master of Syria, born in 110 AH and died in 197 AH (812/13) at Mecca.
Baqt
The Baqt (بقط) was a treaty between Muslim Egypt and Christian Makuria, traditionally dated to 651/652, exchanging annual Nubian slaves for grain, wine, and cloth.
Bar (law)
The bar is the collective of lawyers licensed to practice in a jurisdiction; admission requires a law degree, bar exam, and character and fitness review. Covers the term's 1300s origin, bar associations, unified versus voluntary bars, and the NextGen UBE transition.
Bar and bat mitzvah
Bar and bat mitzvah is the Jewish coming of age, reached at 13 for boys and 12 for girls, traditionally marked by reading from the Torah in synagogue.
Bar association
Bar association: professional organization of lawyers, also called the bar, Law Society, or Bar Council. Ranges from voluntary societies (ABA, founded 1878) to mandatory integrated bars with admission and disciplinary powers; independence from government is a recognized international standard.
Bar associations in Latin America
Bar associations in Latin America, known as colegios de abogados, are mandatory membership corporations; in Argentina, registration with the local colegio is required to practice law.
Bar Confederation
The Confederation of Bar (Konfederacja barska) was an armed alliance of Polish and Lithuanian nobles formed at Bar in 1768 to resist Russian control of the Commonwealth.
Bar Council of India
Bar Council of India (BCI), statutory regulator under the Advocates Act, 1961 (Adhivakta Adhiniyam) for India's legal profession and legal education; sets advocate conduct standards, recognizes law degrees, supervises State Bar Councils, but does not enrol advocates or discipline law students.
Bar examination
Bar examination: the US licensing test for lawyers, historically essay-based since 1855, now the NCBE UBE (MBE, MEE, MPT) transitioning to the laptop-based NextGen UBE from July 2026.
Bar Hebraeus
Bar Hebraeus, also known as Abu'l-Faraj, was a Syriac Orthodox historian and polymath who served as Maphrian of the East from 1264 until his death in 1286.
Bar Kokhba Revolt
The Bar Kokhba Revolt (132–135 CE), also called the Second Jewish Revolt, was the last major Jewish uprising against Roman rule in Palestine, led by Shimon ben Kosiba.
Bar Lev Line (קו בר לב)
Bar Lev Line (קו בר לב), Israeli fortification line along the Suez Canal built from December 1968, named for Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev; about 160 km with roughly 30 maozim strongpoints behind a 20-meter sand rampart, collapsed on 6 October 1973 except Budapest.
Bar topnotchers in the Philippines
Bar topnotchers in the Philippines are the examinees with the highest ratings on the Philippine Bar Examinations, administered by the Supreme Court, which lists the top 20.
Bar-Rakib
Bar-Rakib, also Bar-Rekub, was king of Samʾal, an Aramean kingdom in the northern Levant, from about 733 to 713 BC, the last king known from inscriptions at Zincirli.
Bara-irnun
Bara-irnun, also spelled Bara-irnum or Barag-irnun, was a queen consort of Umma in Sumer around 2370 BC, wife of the ruler Gishakidu and known from a gold votive plaque in the Louvre.
Barabbas
Barabbas, also known as Jesus Barabbas, is the prisoner whom the Gospels say the Jerusalem crowd chose for release by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus of Nazareth.
Barachiel (בַּרַכְאֵל)
Barachiel (בַּרַכְאֵל), also called Barakiel, is an archangel of Eastern Orthodox tradition known as the distributor of God's blessings, depicted with white roses and commemorated on November 8.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama (Barack Hussein Obama II), 44th U.S. president 2009–2017 and first African American in the office; Illinois and U.S. senator, signatory of the ACA, stimulus, and Dodd-Frank, winner of 365 electoral votes in 2008 and the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.