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Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign
Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign: Obama for America's winning Democratic primary and general-election effort, defeating John McCain 365-173 electoral votes; raised $745.7 million, pioneered MyBO online organizing and small-dollar fundraising.
Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
Birtherism: false conspiracy theories claiming Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, making him constitutionally ineligible for the presidency; debunked by Hawaii officials, two birth certificates, and courts, yet promoted by Donald Trump from 2011.
Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies
Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies: disputes over Senate filibusters of his lower-court nominees, the 2013 Reid nuclear option, the blocked D.C. Circuit seats, the 52.5% second-term confirmation rate, and the unvoted 2016 Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination.
Barack Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center is a privately operated 19.3-acre Obama Foundation campus in Jackson Park, Chicago, opened June 19, 2026. Unlike NARA presidential libraries, it has no on-site archives; the all-digital Obama Presidential Library remains with NARA.
Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories
Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories, also called Barack Obama and Islam, are false claims from 2004 onward that Obama was secretly a Muslim, all debunked by fact-checkers.
Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982) was a Kenyan economist who studied at Harvard and criticized Kenya's 1965 development plan; he was the father of President Barack Obama.
Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates
Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates: Sonia Sotomayor (2009, first Latina justice, 68-31), Elena Kagan (2010, 63-37), and Merrick Garland (2016, never confirmed after Scalia's death).
Bărăgan deportations
The Bărăgan deportations (Deportările în Bărăgan) were a forced displacement by Romania's communist regime in June 1951, moving roughly 40,000 people from the Banat border region to the Bărăgan Plain.
Barak 8 (ברק 8)
Barak 8 (ברק 8), also designated LR-SAM or MR-SAM, is a long- and medium-range surface-to-air missile system jointly developed by India's DRDO and Israel Aerospace Industries.
Barak Khan
Barak Khan (Барақ хан), who died in 1427 or 1428, was a Jochid ruler who briefly seized the Golden Horde throne and fathered Janibek Khan.
Barak Sultan
Barak Sultan (Барақ сұлтан), died 1750, was a Kazakh sultan of the Middle Zhuz who became khan in 1749 and killed his rival Abulkhair Khan.
Barakat I
Barakat I (بركات الأول) was Emir of Mecca under Mamluk suzerainty from 1425 until his death in 1454–1455, deposed by Sultan Jaqmaq in 1441 and restored in 1446.
Barakat ibn Muhammad
Barakat ibn Muhammad (بركات بن محمد) was Sharif of Mecca from 1497 to 1525, first under the Mamluks and then, from 1517, under the Ottomans.
Barath Shankar Subramanian
Barath Shankar Subramanian is a Partner at Accel who invests in early-stage Indian startups across AI, consumer, enterprise, and fintech, including Captain Fresh and SigTuple.
Barattarna
Barattarna, also written Parattarna, was a king of Mitanni, the Hurrian state of Upper Mesopotamia, who flourished around 1500 BC and is known only from foreign texts.
Baraut Assembly constituency
Baraut Assembly constituency (AC 51), Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh; general seat under Baghpat Lok Sabha. BJP's Krishan Pal Malik is MLA, winning 2022 by 315 votes over the RLD; seat revived under 2008 delimitation.
Barb Regnitz
Barb Regnitz is an American Republican politician and Porter County Commissioner who won the 2026 Republican nomination for Indiana's 1st Congressional District, facing Democratic Congressman Frank J. Mrvan.
Barbad
Barbad (باربد) was a musician, composer, and poet who served as chief minstrel at the Sasanian court of Khosrow II, credited with organizing pre-Islamic Iran's royal musical system.
Barbadian dollar
The Barbadian dollar (BBD, also written Bds$) is the currency of Barbados, issued by the Central Bank of Barbados and fixed at BBD$2 = US$1 since 1975.
Barbadians
Barbadians, known as Bajans, are the people of Barbados and their descendants abroad, mostly of African descent, in an eastern Caribbean island independent since 1966.
Barbados House of Assembly
The Barbados House of Assembly, founded in 1639, is the elected chamber of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados, giving the island the Commonwealth's third-oldest uninterrupted parliamentary tradition.
Barbados Slave Code of 1661
The Barbados Slave Code of 1661, formally An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes, was a law regulating enslaved Africans in Barbados.
Barbara Amiel
Barbara Amiel, Lady Black of Crossharbour (born 1940, Watford), British-Canadian columnist, first female editor of the Toronto Sun, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph columnist, and wife of Conrad Black since 1992; author of Friends and Enemies (2020).
Barbara Ann Crancer
Barbara Ann Crancer (born 1938), daughter of Jimmy Hoffa and sister of James P. Hoffa, was a St. Louis County associate circuit judge 1992-2008 who sued the Justice Department for the FBI's Hoffa file.
Barbara B. Crabb
Barbara B. Crabb, full name Barbara Brandriff Crabb, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Wisconsin since 1979.
Barbara Berlusconi
Barbara Berlusconi, born 1984, is an Italian businesswoman and daughter of Silvio Berlusconi, a Fininvest director since 2003 and former AC Milan deputy chairman and CEO.
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer, born Barbara Levy (1940), Democratic U.S. senator from California 1993-2017, House 1983-1993; first woman to chair Senate Environment and Public Works and Ethics committees; retired 2016, succeeded by Kamala Harris.
Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce Bush (1925–2018), US first lady 1989–1993, wife of President George H. W. Bush and mother of President George W. Bush, second woman after Abigail Adams in both roles, and founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
Barbara Bush (born 1981)
Barbara Pierce Bush (born 1981), daughter of George W. Bush, is an American social entrepreneur who co-founded Global Health Corps in 2009 and served as its CEO for nine years; author of Sisters First with her twin sister.
Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (1910-2002), British Labour politician, MP for Blackburn 1945-1979 and Cabinet minister under Harold Wilson; introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970, breathalyser, seat belts, and child benefit, and authored the divisive 1969 White Paper In Place of Strife.