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Barbara Reskin
Barbara Reskin is an American sociologist of gender and workplace inequality at the University of Washington, and was the 93rd president of the American Sociological Association.
Barbara Roberts
Barbara Roberts, born Barbara Kay Hughey, is an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995, becoming the first woman elected to the office.
Barbara Scheitz
Barbara Scheitz (born 1965) is a German dairy entrepreneur who has led the family-owned organic dairy Andechser Molkerei Scheitz in Andechs, Bavaria, since 2003, winning EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018.
Barbara Sinatra
Barbara Sinatra (Barbara Blakeley, later Barbara Marx), American model and Las Vegas showgirl; fourth and final wife of Frank Sinatra from 1976 until his 1998 death; co-founder of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center for abused children in Rancho Mirage.
Barbara Underwood
Barbara D. Underwood, New York Solicitor General since 2007 and the state's 66th and first female Attorney General (2018), formerly Principal Deputy and Acting U.S. Solicitor General; argued roughly 21 Supreme Court cases including Bruen and Commerce v. New York.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989), American narrative historian and journalist, twice won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Guns of August and Stilwell; self-trained, she wrote best-selling literary history outside academia.
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters was an American broadcast journalist who was the first woman to co-anchor a network evening newscast, spent 15 years on Today, co-hosted 20/20, and created The View in 1997.
Barbara Washington
Barbara Anne Washington is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving in the Missouri Senate from the 9th district, covering southeastern Kansas City, after three years in the Missouri House.
Barbarian
Barbarian: from Greek barbaros, 'foreign speaker' (echoic 'bar-bar-bar'), a label for non-Greeks, especially Medes and Persians; hardened after the Persian Wars and later applied across Roman, medieval, and modern usage.
Barbarian invasions into the Roman Empire of the 3rd century
Barbarian invasions into the Roman Empire of the 3rd century (Crisis of the Third Century, 235–284 AD): Alemanni, Franks, and Gothic confederations breached the Rhine and Danube limes, prompting defense in depth and the loss of Dacia.
Barbarian kingdoms
Barbarian kingdoms, the regna of Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Franks, and later Lombards and others, were the ethnic-named successor states that replaced the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, blending Roman administration with new rulers.
Barbarossa brothers
The Barbarossa brothers, Oruç Reis and Hayreddin, were Ottoman corsairs from Lesbos who seized Algiers in 1516 and brought the central Maghreb under Ottoman rule.
Barbary Crusade
The Barbary Crusade (حصار المهدية) was a Franco-Genoese crusading expedition led by Louis II, duke of Bourbon, that besieged the Hafsid port of Mahdia, Tunisia, in 1390 and withdrew in failure after two months.
Barbary Wars
Barbary Wars: two U.S. conflicts, against Tripoli (1801–1805) and Algiers (1815–1816), fought to end North African corsair piracy, tribute, and ransom of American merchant ships.
Barbatos
Barbatos is the eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia in the Lesser Key of Solomon, a Great Duke of 30 legions who appears when the Sun is in Sagittarius with four noble kings, understands birdsong and animal voices, reveals enchanted treasure, and reconciles friends.
Barbecue
Barbecue is cooking meat low and slow over indirect heat from wood or charcoal, a tradition central to the American South, from Caribbean barabicu and Spanish barbacoa.
Bärbel Bas
Bärbel Bas is a German SPD politician who served as President of the Bundestag from 2021 to 2025 and is now Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.
Bärbel Kofler
Bärbel Kofler is a German politician of the SPD who has served as a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development since 2021.
Barbelo
Barbelo, also called Barbeloth, is the first thought and image of the Invisible Spirit in Sethian Gnosticism, a Mother-Father figure some Gnostic schools worshipped as Barbeliotae.
Barbeque Nation
Barbeque Nation is an Indian fixed-price restaurant chain where diners grill appetizers at a live charcoal grill embedded in each table, followed by an unlimited buffet.
Barbhai Council
The Barbhai Council (बारभाई समिती) was the league of Maratha ministers and commanders that ruled the Peshwa state after Narayanrao's murder, blocking his uncle Raghunathrao.
Barboncito
Barboncito (c. 1820–1871) was a Navajo headman and ceremonial singer, first signatory of the 1868 treaty that ended the Bosque Redondo internment and restored the Navajo homeland.
Barbu Catargiu
Barbu Catargiu was a Romanian conservative politician who became the first prime minister of the united Principalities in 1862, serving until his assassination that June.
Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei
Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, born Barbu Bibescu, was a Wallachian statesman who ruled as prince of Wallachia in two periods between 1849 and 1856, enacting reforms and abolishing slavery in 1856.
Barcid conquest of Iberia
The Barcid conquest of Iberia, also known as the Carthaginian conquest of Spain, was Carthage's conquest of southern and eastern Iberia between 237 and 219 BC, led by Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal.
Barcid dynasty
The Barcids, also known as the Barcid family, were the Carthaginian family of Hamilcar Barca and his son Hannibal, who ruled Carthaginian Spain and fought Rome from 237 to 202 BC.
Barclays
Barclays, also known as Barclays Plc, is a British bank operating a ring-fenced UK retail bank alongside a non-ring-fenced international bank, with total assets of £1.5 trillion.
Barclays Bank DCO
Barclays Bank DCO was the international and colonial banking subsidiary of Barclays, established in 1925. It combined three institutions and served regions across Africa and the Caribbean.
Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd
Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd [1980] QB 677, also cited as Barclays v Simms, is an English restitution case in which Robert Goff J let a bank recover a cheque paid despite a stop instruction, establishing the causative mistake test.
Bard (Dungeons & Dragons)
Bard (Dungeons & Dragons): a versatile performer-spellcaster class first printed in Dragon #17 (1978) and the 1978 AD&D Players Handbook. In 5e it is a Charisma full caster with Bardic Inspiration and Magical Secrets; the 2024 revision adds the College of Dance.