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Battles of Saratoga
Battles of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights), two Revolutionary War engagements of September 19 and October 7, 1777, where Gates's American army defeated Burgoyne, whose surrender on October 17 brought France into the war.
Battles of the Isonzo
Battles of the Isonzo (Soča Front): twelve World War I battles between Italy and Austria-Hungary along the Isonzo River, 23 June 1915 to 10 November 1917, ending with the German-Austrian breakthrough at Caporetto.
Battles of Yuhigok and Dadaepo
The Battles of Yuhigok and Dadaepo were 1592 engagements of the Japanese invasion of Korea near Busan, where commander Yun Heung-sin died defending Dadaejin fortress.
Battleship Row
Battleship Row: line of Ford Island mooring quays at Pearl Harbor where seven US battleships berthed on 7 December 1941 and bore the attack's heaviest losses; Arizona and Oklahoma never returned to service.
Batu Khan
Batu Khan (Бат хаан), grandson of Genghis Khan through Jochi, led the 1236–1242 western campaign conquering Rus and defeating Hungary at Mohi, then founded the Golden Horde with its capital Sarai on the lower Volga.
Batu Khasikov
Batu Khasikov is a Russian politician and former multiple world kickboxing champion, co-founder of Fight Nights Global, who has served as Head of the Republic of Kalmykia since 2019.
Batu Lintang camp
Batu Lintang camp, also called Lintang Barracks or Kuching POW camp, was a Japanese-run POW and civilian internment camp at Kuching, Sarawak, in Borneo, 1942 to 1945.
Batu's invasion of North-Eastern Rus
Batu's invasion of North-Eastern Rus (Батыево нашествие) was the Mongol conquest of the Russian principalities in 1237–1240, led by Batu, which destroyed Ryazan, Vladimir, and Kiev and began Horde rule.
Batukeshwar Dutt (বটুকেশ্বর দত্ত)
Batukeshwar Dutt (বটুকেশ্বর দত্ত), 1910–1965, Indian revolutionary and HSRA member; with Bhagat Singh bombed the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929, underwent a 63-day hunger strike, served the Cellular Jail, later joined Quit India.
Batumi Zoo
Batumi Zoo (ბათუმის ზოოპარკი), also called the Batumi zoological corner, is a small zoo in 6 May Park on Nurigeli Lake, Batumi, Georgia; animal keeping on the site dates to 1898, with a 2006-2007 reconstruction into three sectors.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon, American journalist and author, former opinion editor of The Forward and deputy opinion editor of Newsweek; wrote Bad News (2021) and Second Class (2024); hosts NewsNation's Batya!; self-described MAGA lefty.
Bau uprising
The Bau uprising was an 1857 attack by Hakka Chinese gold miners of Bau, Sarawak, led by Liu Shan Bang, against the government of Rajah James Brooke in Kuching.
Bauchi Emirate
Bauchi Emirate is a traditional emirate in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, founded in the early nineteenth century as one of the eastern emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (बौधायन श्रौतसूत्र)
The Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (बौधायन श्रौतसूत्र) is a Sanskrit ritual manual of the Krishna Yajurveda, prescribing Vedic sacrifices in 29 chapters, dated to about 800–600 BC.
Baudouin of Belgium
Baudouin (Boudewijn), fifth King of the Belgians (1951-1993), reigned over Congo's independence and Belgium's federalization; in 1990 he was declared unable to reign for 36 hours rather than sign the abortion law.
Bauhaus AG
Bauhaus AG is a family-owned German DIY and home-improvement retailer founded in Mannheim in 1960 by Heinz Georg Baus, running over 290 stores in 19 European countries.
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Bauman Moscow State Technical University (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана, BMSTU), founded by decree of Nicholas I on July 1, 1830, is Russia's oldest technical university in Moscow, origin of the 'Russian method' of engineering training, alma mater of Korolev and Tupolev, and a Roscosmos-linked national research university.
Baumol's cost disease
Baumol's cost disease is the tendency for costs of services like health care, education, and live performance to rise faster than inflation, described by economist William Baumol in 1967.
Bautista Saavedra
Bautista Saavedra Mallea was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 29th president of Bolivia from 1921 to 1925, known for the country's first social and labor legislation.
Bavandids
The Bavandids (باوندیان) were a local Iranian dynasty that ruled Tabaristan along the southern Caspian shore for about seven centuries, until their last ruler was killed in 1349.
Bāvarī
Bāvarī (बावरी) is a brahmin teacher of the three Vedas who, aged one hundred twenty, sent sixteen students to question the Buddha, producing the Pārāyanavagga.
Bavaria District (DoDDS-Europe)
Bavaria District was a school district of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Europe, running sixteen American schools for military families in Bavaria, Germany, until 2016.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, BAdW): Munich academy and research institute founded 1759 by Elector Maximilian III Joseph; four sections, capped membership, own institutes including LRZ and WMI.
Bavarian language
Bavarian (Bairisch) is a group of Upper German dialects with over 10 million speakers in Altbayern, Austria except Vorarlberg, and South Tyrol, divided into North, Middle, and South Bavarian, with no standard orthography and an 8th-century written tradition.
Bavarian Soviet Republic
Bavarian Soviet Republic (Räterepublik Baiern, Munich Soviet Republic): short-lived unrecognized socialist council state in Bavaria, proclaimed 7 April 1919 after Eisner's assassination, led by Toller then communists Leviné and Levien, crushed by Reichswehr and Freikorps in early May 1919.
Bavarians
Bavarians (Bayern, historically Baiuvarii/Bajuwaren): people of the Free State of Bavaria and speakers of the Bavarian (Bairisch) dialect continuum spanning Altbayern, Austria and South Tyrol; over 13 million residents, Wittelsbach rule 1180–1918, Catholic Old Bavaria versus Protestant Franconia.
Bavian inscriptions
The Bavian inscriptions, also known as the Khinnis rock reliefs, are Neo-Assyrian rock reliefs and cuneiform texts carved for King Sennacherib at Khinis near Mosul, Iraq.
Bawa Jan Gwarzo
Bawa Jan Gwarzo was Sarkin Gobir, ruler of the Hausa kingdom of Gobir in northwestern Hausaland from 1777 to 1795, remembered for granting Usman dan Fodio's five requests.
Bawag Group
Bawag Group, formally BAWAG Group AG, is a publicly listed Austrian retail and SME banking group serving more than 4 million customers in seven core markets.
Bawang Putih Bawang Merah
Bawang Putih Bawang Merah, Malay for "Garlic and Shallot," is a popular Indonesian folk tale about kind Bawang Putih and her envious stepsister Bawang Merah under a harsh stepmother.