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Baruch Hager (Mekor Baruch)
Baruch Hager, known as Imrei Baruch, was the second Rebbe of Vizhnitz, leading the Hasidic court in Bukovina from 1884 until his death in 1892 or 1893.
Baruch Hager of Seret-Vizhnitz, Haifa
Baruch Hager (ברוך הגר) was a Hasidic rebbe of the Hager dynasty, fourth son of Yisra'el of Vizhnitz, who led Seret-Vizhnitz in Haifa from 1947.
Baruch Marzel (ברוך מאיר מרזל)
Baruch Marzel (ברוך מאיר מרזל), Israeli far-right activist born in the U.S. and living in Hebron; Kahane aide and former Kach leader; repeated Knesset bids; sanctioned by Britain, the EU, Singapore, and Israel.
Baruch Spinoza
Baruch (Bento, Benedictus) Spinoza, 1632-1677, Dutch rationalist philosopher of the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community. Excommunicated 1656; substance monism in the Ethics; Theological-Political Treatise 1670.
Baruch Steinberg
Baruch Steinberg was a Polish military rabbi, the last chief rabbi of the interwar Polish Army, murdered by the Soviet NKVD in the Katyń massacre in 1940.
Bārûtu
Bārûtu, "The Art of the Diviner", is a first-millennium BC Akkadian scholarly series on extispicy, divination from sheep entrails, with ten chapters and some 8,000 omens.
Barzakh
Barzakh (برزخ), Arabic for barrier or isthmus, is the Islamic intermediate state between death and resurrection, named from Qur'an 23:100; also Ibn 'Arabi's metaphysical Limit and a modern figure of liminality.
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (برزان إبراهيم حسن التكريتي, 1951-2007), Saddam Hussein's half-brother, headed Iraq's Mukhabarat intelligence service 1979-1983, served as UN ambassador in Geneva managing Saddam's hidden finances, and was hanged in 2007 for the Dujail killings.
Basalt Infrastructure Partners
Basalt Infrastructure Partners, formerly Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners, is a mid-market infrastructure private equity firm founded in 2011, based in London and New York.
Basant Maheshwari
Basant Maheshwari (बसंत महेश्वरी) is a Kolkata-based equity investor, author of the 2014 book The Thoughtful Investor, and co-founder of Basant Maheshwari Wealth Advisers LLP.
Basant Maheshwari Wealth Advisers LLP
Basant Maheshwari Wealth Advisers LLP is a Kolkata-based equity investment firm co-founded by Basant Maheshwari and Shalu Mehra in 2016, running a concentrated stock portfolio.
Basant Soren
Basant Soren is an Indian politician representing Dumka (ST). He is the youngest son of Shibu Soren and served as a minister in the state government in 2024.
Basasiri's seizure of Baghdad
Basasiri's seizure of Baghdad (أمر البساسيري) was the capture of the Abbasid capital in 1058–1059 by the Turkish general Arslan al-Basasiri, acting for the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir of Egypt.
Basava (ಬಸವ)
Basava (ಬಸವ, Basavanna), twelfth-century Kannada vachana poet and Kalachuri commander at Kalyana, central figure of the Lingayat/Virashaiva tradition; founder-versus-reformer debate and 2018 Karnataka minority-religion politics distinguish him.
Basava Purana
The Basava Purana (బసవ పురాణము) is a thirteenth-century Telugu hagiography of Basavesvara, the twelfth-century Virasaiva (Lingayat) leader, written by Palkuriki Somanatha and collecting legends of Virasaiva saints.
Basavaraj Bommai
Basavaraj Bommai (Kannada: ಬಸವರಾಜ ಬೊಮ್ಮಾಯಿ), BJP politician, son of S. R. Bommai; 23rd Chief Minister of Karnataka 2021–2023, Shiggaon MLA 2008–2023, and BJP MP for Haveri in the 18th Lok Sabha since 2024.
Basavaraj Horatti
Basavaraj Horatti is an Indian politician who served as Chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council, elected from its teachers' constituency for a record eight successive terms.
Basavaraj Rayareddy
Basavaraj Rayareddy, also spelled Basavaraj Rayareddi, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as Karnataka's Higher Education Minister, a six-term MLA from Yelburga, and a former Koppal member of the Lok Sabha.
Basawan
Basawan (بساون), also written Basavan, was an Indian miniature painter at the Mughal court of Akbar, active from about 1556 to 1600 and father of the painter Manohar.
Base and superstructure
Base and superstructure: the Marxist model from Marx's 1859 Preface in which the economic structure of production relations determines the legal, political, and ideological superstructure, with debates over determinism, autonomy, and culture.
Base Boy Entertainment Network Inc
Base Boy Entertainment Network Inc is a Santa Monica, California music and media company founded by Juavona Gallien in 2023, operating the BaseBoyEnt app that pays gig workers in stock rather than cash.
Base erosion and profit shifting
Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) is multinational tax avoidance via profit shifting to low-tax jurisdictions, addressed by the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, its 15-action 2015 package, the Inclusive Framework, and the Two-Pillar global minimum tax.
Base10 (venture capital firm)
Base10 Partners, usually shortened to Base10, is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Adeyemi Ajao and TJ Nahigian that backs startups automating the real economy.
Base10 Advancement Initiative
The Base10 Advancement Initiative is a late-stage venture fund of San Francisco firm Base10 Partners, launched in 2021 to donate half its carried interest to historically Black colleges and universities.
Base10 Partners
Base10 Partners is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded by Adeyemi Ajao and TJ Nahigian that invests from seed through Series B in companies automating the real economy.
Basefarm Holding
Basefarm Holding was a Norwegian managed cloud infrastructure and big data services provider founded in 2000, acquired by France's Orange in 2018 for €350 million, with the brand retired in 2022.
Basel Accords
The Basel Accords are international banking regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, setting minimum capital, leverage, and liquidity requirements for banks that take effect through national law.
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is a panel of banking supervisors and central bankers hosted by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Basel Convention
The Basel Convention (1989, in force 1992) is the main global treaty controlling transboundary movements of hazardous and other wastes, using prior informed consent; 191 parties, with Ban, plastic waste (2021), and e-waste (2025) amendments.
Basel I
Basel I is the 1988 Basel Capital Accord, an international agreement requiring internationally active banks to hold capital equal to at least 8 percent of risk-weighted assets.