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Basra school of grammar
The Basra school of grammar (مدرسة البصرة اللغوية) was the 8th- and 9th-century Basran tradition of Arabic grammar, codified in Sibawayhi's Kitab, favoring analogy, and rivaling the school of Kufa.
Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops, also known as Bass Pro, is an American outdoor gear retailer founded by Johnny Morris in 1972, now operating nearly 200 stores across North America.
Bass Reeves
Bass Reeves (1838-1910), a formerly enslaved man from Texas or Arkansas, became one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi, serving 32 years in Indian Territory under Judge Parker and reporting over 3,000 arrests.
Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف)
Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف), born 1974, Egyptian heart surgeon turned satirist; hosted Al Bernameg (2011–2014), the Middle East's first Daily Show-style political satire program, was prosecuted under Morsi, exiled in 2014, and revived his fame with 2023 Piers Morgan interviews.
Bassetki Statue
The Bassetki Statue is a copper statue base bearing an Old Akkadian inscription of Naram-Sin of Agade, found at Bassetki, ancient Mardaman, in northern Iraq.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal's president since April 2024, former tax inspector and Pastef secretary general elected from prison with 54.28% first-round votes; youngest president, sovereignty reforms, later split with Sonko.
Baster Trek
The Baster Trek was the 1868 to 1870 migration of the Rehoboth Basters from the Cape Colony to Rehoboth in present-day Namibia, led by Hermanus van Wyk.
Bastet
Bastet (Bast), ancient Egyptian cat goddess of Bubastis, daughter of Re, mother of Mihos; originally a fierce lioness of Lower Egypt later gentled into a domestic cat, the benevolent counterpart of Sekhmet.
Bastion Point occupation
The Bastion Point occupation was a 506-day protest in which Ngāti Whātua, led by Joe Hawke, occupied Takaparawhau above Auckland's Waitematā Harbour against a housing development.
Bastipati Nagaraju Panchalingala
Bastipati Nagaraju Panchalingala, born in 1979 in Panchalingala, is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician from Andhra Pradesh who has represented Kurnool in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Basudeo N. Singh
Basudeo N. Singh, also printed as Basudeo Narayan Singh, is an Indian pharmaceutical businessman who co-founded Alkem Laboratories in Mumbai in 1973 and serves as its executive chairman.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (钟万学)
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (钟万学), known as Ahok, Indonesian Christian ethnic-Chinese politician; regent of East Belitung, Governor of Jakarta 2014-2017, convicted of blasphemy in 2017, later Pertamina chief commissioner.
Basus War
The Basus War (حرب البسوس) was a war between the Bakr and Taghlib tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia, remembered in Arabic tradition as lasting forty years.
Basuto Gun War
The Basuto Gun War, or War of the Guns, was the 1880–1881 conflict in which the Basotho of Basutoland resisted the Cape Colony's disarmament attempt.
Basuto Wars
The Basuto Wars, also written Basotho Wars, were three conflicts between 1858 and 1868 between King Moshoeshoe I's Basotho kingdom and the Orange Free State.
Basutoland
Basutoland was a British territory in southern Africa, an enclave within South Africa placed under British protection in 1868 and independent as the Kingdom of Lesotho since 1966.
Bat Boy (character)
Bat Boy is the fictional half-boy, half-bat creature created for Weekly World News, debuting June 23, 1992 as 'Bat Child Found in Cave' from a West Virginia cave, later inspiring an off-Broadway musical and comics.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson (William Barclay Masterson, 1853-1921), Canadian-born buffalo hunter, Army scout, Ford County Kansas sheriff, and Dodge City lawman, later a New York boxing columnist and U.S. marshal; famed gunfighter whose documented killings were few.
Bat Ye'or (בת יאור)
Bat Ye'or, pen name meaning "daughter of the Nile" of Gisèle Littman (born 1933), is an Egyptian-born British-Swiss author who developed the concepts of "dhimmitude" and the "Eurabia" thesis.
Bataan Death March (バターン死の行進)
The Bataan Death March was the forced transfer of roughly 60,000 to 80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from the Bataan Peninsula to Tarlac in April 1942.
Batahaliye
Batahaliye was a queen of Napatan Kush in the fifth to fourth century BC, wife of King Harsiotef, buried in a pyramid at Nuri in Sudan.
Batak
Batak: collective label for the Toba, Karo, Simalungun, Pakpak, Angkola, and Mandailing peoples of North Sumatra's Lake Toba highlands, 8-10 million people, patrilineal marga clans, Dalihan Na Tolu kinship, and a majority-Protestant population shaped by the RMG mission from 1861.
Batak Christianization
Batak Christianization is the conversion of the Batak people of northern Sumatra, led by the German Rhenish Missionary Society from 1861, resulting in the Batak Protestant Christian Church.
Batak massacre
The Batak massacre was the killing of the inhabitants of Batak, a town in the Rhodope Mountains of Ottoman Rumelia, now Bulgaria, by Ottoman bashi-bazouk irregulars in May 1876.
Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais
Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE): special-operations battalions of Brazilian state military polices, notably PMERJ's Rio de Janeiro unit (1991, from 1978 NuCOE), volunteer tactical reserve for hostage rescue, bomb disposal, and favela urban operations.
Batallon rifles
Batallón Rifles, a celebrated infantry battalion of Gran Colombia created in 1818 with British riflemen, fought at Boyacá, Bomboná, and Carabobo before its dissolution in 1830.
Batang Kali massacre
Batang Kali massacre: killing of 24 unarmed Chinese rubber-estate workers by a Scots Guards patrol on 12 December 1948 at Sungai Rimoh, Selangor, during the Malayan Emergency; disputed accounts, halted investigations, and failed legal campaigns for an inquiry.
Batara Guru
Batara Guru is a divine ancestor figure in Bugis mythology of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, the first king of Luwu', also a name for Shiva in Javanese, Malay, and Batak traditions.
Batavian Republic
Batavian Republic (Bataafse Republiek), Dutch client state of France 1795-1806, successor to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands; proclaimed 19 January 1795 after French invasion, first Dutch constitution in 1798, ended as Kingdom of Holland under Louis Bonaparte.
Batawana
The Batawana (BaTawana) are a Tswana people who broke from the BaNgwato and established a state in Ngamiland, northwestern Botswana, around the Okavango Delta in the early nineteenth century.