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Bard College
Bard College, originally St. Stephen's College, is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, founded in 1860 on a 1,200-acre Hudson River campus.
Bardaisan of Edessa
Bardaisan of Edessa (ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ), also rendered Bardesanes, was a Syriac philosopher and poet, 154 to 222, at the court of the Abgarid kings of Edessa.
Bardas Phokas the Younger
Bardas Phokas the Younger (Βάρδας Φωκᾶς) was a Byzantine general who crushed Bardas Skleros's revolt in 979 and died rebelling against Basil II in 989.
Bardera Jama'a
Bardera Jama'a, or Baardheere Jamaaca, was a reformist Islamic religious settlement founded in 1819 on the Jubba River in southern Somalia, destroyed by the Geledi Sultanate in 1843.
Bardesanes
Bardesanes (ܒܪ ܕܝܣܢ) was a Christian philosopher, poet, and astrologer of Edessa, 154–222, the first known Syriac literary author and an early critic of astrology.
Bardiji
Bardiji, fully Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Harun al-Bardiji (أبو بكر أحمد بن هارون البرديجي), was a hadith scholar and hafiz who settled in Baghdad, dying there in 914.
Bardiya
Bardiya (Smerdis, Mardos), younger son of Cyrus the Great and brother of Cambyses II, briefly ruled the Achaemenid Empire in 522 BCE or, per Darius I, was impersonated by the Magian Gaumata.
Bardo (བར་དོ)
Bardo (བར་དོ), or antarabhāva, is the Tibetan Buddhist intermediate state between death and rebirth, traditionally lasting up to 49 days and described in the Bardo Thödol.
Bardo National Museum attack
The Bardo National Museum attack (هجوم متحف باردو) was a 2015 terrorist attack in Tunis in which two gunmen killed 22 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Bardo Thodol (བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ)
The Bardo Thodol, known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a Tibetan Buddhist funerary text guiding the dead through the intermediate state between death and rebirth.
Bardoli Satyagraha (બારડોલી સત્યાગ્રહ)
Bardoli Satyagraha (બારડોલી સત્યાગ્રહ), also called the Bardoli no-tax campaign, was a 1928 peasant tax revolt in Bardoli taluka, Surat district, Gujarat, led by Vallabhbhai Patel against a land revenue enhancement; it succeeded and earned Patel the title Sardar.
Bareback (sexual act)
Bareback sex, also called barebacking or BB, is condomless anal intercourse; in public health usage, intentional condomless anal intercourse among MSM in HIV-risk contexts. Term arose in mid-1990s gay press among HIV-positive men, later broadened to any condomless sex.
Barefoot
Barefoot: walking or running without footwear, in direct foot-to-ground contact. Key facts: 40,000-year-old footwear history, wider feet and lower hallux valgus in habitual barefoot populations, mixed injury evidence, gradual transition advised.
Barefoot doctors
Barefoot doctors (赤脚医生) were part-time rural health workers in China, promoted by Mao Zedong's June 26 Directive of 1965 and renamed village doctors in 1985.
Barelvi movement
The Barelvi movement, or Ahl-e Sunnat wa Jama'at, is a Sunni reform movement that arose in Bareilly, India, in the late nineteenth century around the scholar Ahmad Raza Khan.
Barend Van den Brande
Barend Van den Brande is a Belgian venture capital investor and founding partner of Hummingbird Ventures, best known as an early backer of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken.
Baretta
Baretta: American ABC crime drama (1975–1978, 82 episodes) starring Robert Blake as undercover detective Tony Baretta, retooled from Toma; won two Emmys, famous for the cockatoo Fred.
Barga
Barga was a land or polity of northern Syria in the 14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and Hittite texts of Muršili II's reign.
Bargain purchase
A bargain purchase is an acquisition where the fair value of net assets acquired exceeds the price paid, so the acquirer records a gain instead of goodwill.
Bargaining theory
Bargaining theory is the branch of economics and game theory that studies how parties with conflicting interests divide a surplus, beginning with John Nash's 1950 paper.
Barghash bin Said
Barghash bin Said (برغش بن سعيد) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888, a son of Sultan Said bin Sultan who founded one of East Africa's oldest printing presses.
Barghash ibn Said
Barghash ibn Said (برغش بن سعيد) was sultan of Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888, a son of Sayyid Said bin Sultan who reformed the judiciary and signed antislavery treaties.
Barghest
Barghest (Barguest, Bargest): monstrous black goblin-dog of northern English folklore, especially Yorkshire, a nocturnal death omen with huge teeth and claws; famous haunts include Trollers Gill and York's snickelways; name etymology disputed (barrow-ghost, town-ghost, mountain or bear demon).
Bargir
The bargir (बारगीर) was a Maratha cavalryman mounted and equipped at the state's expense, unlike the shiledar, who brought his own horse; the name Bargi later marked Maratha raiders who devastated Bengal from 1741 to 1751.
Barha Sayyids
The Barha Sayyids (سادات بارہ) were a Sayyid lineage of the Muzaffarnagar region that supplied influential Mughal nobles from Akbar's reign until their power was broken in 1720.
Barham Salih
Barham Salih (برهم صالح), born 1960 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdish Iraqi PUK politician; President of Iraq 2018–2022, twice KRG prime minister, and 12th UNHCR High Commissioner since January 2026.
Barhiapur Or Bhadar Khas Mound
Barhiapur or Bhadar Khas Mound, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI site (serial 3424, Sarnath Circle) described as a series of enormous mounds.
Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss, American journalist, founder of The Free Press (formerly Common Sense), and editor-in-chief of CBS News since October 2025 after Paramount's reported $150 million acquisition; former WSJ and NYT opinion editor who resigned in 2020.
Barid
The barid (برید) was the state postal and intelligence service of the Islamic world, carried on in India under the Ghaznavids and the Delhi Sultanate.
Barid Shahi dynasty
The Barid Shahi dynasty (برید شاہی سلطنت) ruled the sultanate of Bidar in the Deccan from the late fifteenth century until Bijapur annexed it in 1619.