Society and history

Barom Reachea IV

Barom Reachea IV, also known as Srei Soriyopor, was King of Cambodia from 1603 to 1618 who reunified the country and initiated a marriage alliance with Vietnam.

Baron

Baron: lowest rank of the British peerage, below viscount; historically a term for nobles holding land directly from the king, central to Magna Carta 1215, equivalent to German Freiherr.

Baron d'Holbach (Paul-Henri Thiry, 1723–1789), French Enlightenment philosopher of German origin, Paris salon host, Encyclopédie contributor, and author of the materialist, atheistic Système de la nature (1770).

Sep 24, 2026

Baron of Rio Branco

Baron of Rio Branco, born José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, was a Brazilian diplomat who settled nearly all of Brazil's boundary disputes as foreign minister.

Baron Samedi

Baron Samedi (Bawon Samdi, Baron Saturday) is the head of the Gede lwa of the dead in Haitian Vodou, master of cemeteries and guide of souls, known for top-hat iconography, the Fèt Gede festival, and a misunderstood popular image.

Baroness Cash

Baroness Cash is a British Conservative politician who entered the House of Lords in 2025 and serves as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities and Shadow Minister for Education.

Baroness Mary Vetsera

Baroness Mary Vetsera (Maria Alexandrine Freiin von Vetsera, 1871–1889), Austrian baroness and lover of Crown Prince Rudolf; died with him at Mayerling on 30 January 1889, buried secretly at Heiligenkreuz.

Baroness Merron

Baroness Merron is a British Labour politician who was MP for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010 and serves as a Health and Social Care Under-Secretary.

Baroness Williams of Trafford

Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford, is a British Conservative member of the House of Lords, serving as Shadow Chief Whip since 2024 after seven years as a Home Office minister.

Baronet

Baronet: hereditary British honour created by James I on 22 May 1611, ranking below the peerage and above knights; holders styled Sir; 1,226 baronetcies on the Official Roll, mostly passing to male heirs.

Barong (mythology)

Barong is the lion-form King of the Spirits in Balinese mythology, a protective figure opposed to the demon queen Rangda, central to the Barong dance, rwa bhineda balance, and Bali's sacred and tourist performances.

Barotse Native Authority

The Barotse Native Authority was the statutory native authority created in 1936 under British indirect rule in Barotseland, the Lozi kingdom of the upper Zambezi basin in Northern Rhodesia.

Barotseland Agreement 1964

The Barotseland Agreement 1964 was a treaty signed in London on 18 May 1964 that incorporated Barotseland into the new Republic of Zambia; Zambia abrogated it in 1969.

Sep 23, 2026

Barquq

Barquq (الظاهر برقوق) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria and the first of the Circassian (Burji) line, reigning twice from 1382 until his death in 1399.

Sep 24, 2026

Barquq's seizure of the throne (1382)

Barquq's seizure of the throne (انقلاب برقوق) was the November 1382 deposition of child sultan al-Salih Hajji by the Circassian amir Barquq, who became sultan.

Barr Yaron

Barr Yaron is a venture capital investor and Partner at Amplify Partners, known for the annual State of AI Engineering survey, whose 2026 edition drew 1,048 responses.

Oct 15, 2026

Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks is an American cybersecurity company headquartered in Campbell, California, founded in 2003, known for email protection, network security, and data protection products for small and medium-sized businesses.

Sep 29, 2026

Barratt Impulsiveness Scale

The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) is a self-report questionnaire measuring impulsiveness, introduced by Ernest Barratt in 1959; the current BIS-11 has 30 items scored 30 to 120.

Barreau du Québec

The Barreau du Québec, or Quebec Bar, is the professional order regulating advocates in Quebec under the Professional Code, with 31,501 members on its Roll as of 2026.

Barrett Brown

Barrett Lancaster Brown, American journalist and Project PM founder, prosecuted over a link to hacked Stratfor data; pleaded guilty 2014, sentenced to 63 months and $890,250 restitution, released 2016, later wrote My Glorious Defeats.

Barricades in Riga

The Barricades in Riga, known in Latvian as Barikāžu laiks, was a mass non-violent resistance in January 1991, when people blockaded government buildings in support of Latvia's restored independence.

Barrie Drewitt-Barlow

Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, British businessman known as one of Britain's first gay fathers through US surrogacy (twins Aspen and Saffron, 1999) and co-owner of Maldon & Tiptree FC; charged with husband Scott in 2026 with rape, sexual assault, and trafficking offences, which they deny.

Oct 10, 2026

Barrier option

A barrier option is an option whose payoff depends on whether the underlying asset price reaches a pre-agreed barrier level, either activating (knock-in) or extinguishing (knock-out) the option.

Barriers to entry

Barriers to entry, also called entry barriers, are market features that make it harder or more expensive for new firms to compete, central to industrial organization and antitrust practice.

Barrington D. Parker, Jr.

Barrington D. Parker, Jr., also known as Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a Second Circuit judge since 2001, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Barrio Azteca

Barrio Azteca, or Los Aztecas, is a transnational prison gang founded in the mid-1980s Texas prison system by El Paso and Juárez inmates, allied with the Juárez Cartel, funded by cuota extortion and drug trafficking, implicated in the 2010 U.S. consulate murders in Ciudad Juárez.