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Barid Shahi takeover of Bidar
The Barid Shahi takeover of Bidar (बीदर की बारीदशाही) was the seizure of power at Bidar, the Bahmani capital in the Deccan, by the Barid family of ministers from about 1490.
Barinder Kumar Goyal
Barinder Kumar Goyal is an Indian Aam Aadmi Party politician, MLA for Lehra since 2022 and a Punjab minister holding the water resources and mines portfolios.
Barindra Kumar Ghose
Barindra Kumar Ghose (বারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ) was a Bengali revolutionary against British rule, younger brother of Sri Aurobindo, who founded the weekly Jugantar, led the Maniktala secret society, and later became a Calcutta editor.
Barings Bank
Barings Bank, also known as Baring Brothers, was a London merchant bank founded in 1762 by John and Francis Baring. It collapsed in 1995 after unauthorized trading losses.
Barisan Nasional
Barisan Nasional (National Front), Malaysian political coalition formed 1973 from the expanded Alliance of UMNO, MCA, and MIC; ruled Malaysia with two-thirds majorities 1974-2004, lost federal power in 2018, and now serves in Anwar Ibrahim's unity government.
Barisan Sosialis
Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front) was a left-wing opposition party in Singapore, formed in 1961 after a split from the People's Action Party and led by Lim Chin Siong and Lee Siew Choh.
Barito Pacific
Barito Pacific is a Jakarta-based Indonesian conglomerate founded by Prajogo Pangestu in 1979 as a timber business, listed since 1993, now centered on petrochemicals, geothermal power, and infrastructure.
Barker College
Barker College (Hornsby, Sydney) is an independent coeducational Anglican day and boarding school, Pre-K to Year 12. Founded 1890 by Henry Plume, Anglican-owned since 1919, fully coed by 2022, with Indigenous campuses Darkinjung, Ngarralingayil, and Dhupuma Barker.
Barkha Dutt (बरखा दत्त)
Barkha Dutt (बरखा दत्त), born 1971, is an Indian broadcast journalist known for frontline 1999 Kargil War reporting at NDTV, hosting We the People and The Buck Stops Here, the Radia tapes controversy, Padma Shri, and founding Mojo Story.
Barkiyaruq
Barkiyaruq (برکیارق), full name Rukn al-Din Abu'l-Mozaffar Barkiyaruq ibn Malikshah, was the Great Seljuk sultan of Iran and Iraq from 1092 to 1104, fighting five succession wars against his brother Muhammad Tapar.
Barksdale Organization
Barksdale Organization: fictional West Baltimore drug trafficking organization in HBO's The Wire, led by Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, based in the Franklin Terrace towers, dissolved in 2004.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar, is a medieval Christian legend retelling the Buddha's life as an Indian prince converted to Christianity by the hermit Barlaam.
Barnabas
Barnabas, originally named Joseph, was a Levite from Cyprus and early church leader surnamed 'son of encouragement' who vouched for Paul, co-led the first missionary journey, and championed Gentile converts.
Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Joyce (born 1967, Tamworth) is an Australian MP for New England, three-time deputy prime minister and former Nationals leader who resigned from the Nationals in November 2025 and now sits as One Nation's Treasury spokesperson.
Barnard College
Barnard College, founded 1889 in Manhattan, is a private women's liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University, sharing its instruction, libraries, and degree while keeping its own trustees, endowment, and Foundations curriculum.
Barnburners and Hunkers
Barnburners and Hunkers were rival 1840s New York Democratic factions: radical antislavery-extension Barnburners versus conservative, office-seeking Hunkers. Their feud split the party, fueled the 1848 Free Soil ticket under Van Buren, and later dissolved into Hards and Softs.
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the United States with roughly 700 stores plus BN.com and NOOK, traces to 1873, was rebuilt by Leonard Riggio from 1971, and was revived under James Daunt after Elliott's 2019 acquisition. Not affiliated with Barnes & Noble Education.
Barnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation, founded 1922 by Albert C. Barnes in Merion, Pennsylvania, is an art education institution holding 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, and major Matisse works, moved to Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway in 2012 after litigation.
Barnett formula
The Barnett formula, also known as Barnett consequentials, is the UK Treasury rule for setting changes to the devolved block grants of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Barney and Betty Hill incident
Barney and Betty Hill incident, also called the Hill Abduction or Zeta Reticuli Incident: a September 19–20, 1961 reported UFO encounter near Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, the first widely publicized American alien-abduction account, told through 1964 hypnosis and John Fuller's 1966 book The Interrupted Journey.
Barney Frank
Barney Frank (1940-2026), Massachusetts Democratic congressman 1981-2013, first sitting member of Congress to come out voluntarily as gay (1987), chaired House Financial Services and co-authored the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
Barney Hartman
Barney Hartman, born Bernard Hartman in 1894, was an American beverage bottler in Knoxville, Tennessee who co-created Mountain Dew with his brother Ally and died in May 1949, months after its introduction.
Barney Hussey-Yeo
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo is a British entrepreneur who founded the AI financial assistant Cleo in 2016 after working as a data scientist at Wonga; it became a unicorn in 2025.
Barnum effect
Barnum effect, also called Forer effect or fallacy of personal validation: cognitive bias in which people accept vague, general personality statements as uniquely accurate; first demonstrated by Bertram Forer in 1948, named by Paul Meehl.
Barnum's American Museum
Barnum's American Museum, also called P.T. Barnum's American Museum, was P.T. Barnum's New York exhibition hall at Broadway and Ann Street, 1841-1868, famous for the Feejee Mermaid hoax, live beluga whales, and two destructive fires.
Baro Bhuyan
The Baro Bhuyan (বারো ভূঁইয়ে), meaning the twelve landholders, was a confederacy of chiefs of eastern Bengal who resisted Mughal expansion under Isa Khan from 1576 to 1612.
Baroda College
Baroda College, formally the Baroda College of Science, was a college in the princely state of Baroda, India, opened in 1881 under Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III.
Baroda Residency
The Baroda Residency was the British political establishment at the court of the Gaekwad of Baroda, set up after the 1802 treaty with the East India Company.
Baroda State
Baroda State, a Maratha princely state in western India ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty from c. 1721, under British subsidiary alliance from 1802; reformed under Sayajirao III, merged into Bombay State on 1 May 1949.
Barom Reachea I
Barom Reachea I was king of Cambodia from 1566 to 1576, ruling from Lovek. He succeeded Ang Chan I and led invasions of Ayutthaya in 1570 and 1575.