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Bagh District Bagh District is a district in Pakistan that was carved out of Poonch District in 1988. The district shares its borders with Muzaffarabad District in the north, with Poonch district in the south, with Baramulla District of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the east and is bounded to Punjab (Pakistan) in the west.
Bagh e Melli Bagh e Melli (The National Garden) is a government compound where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, The National Museum of Iran, Malek National Museum, and the future National Museum of Post are located.
Bagh nakh A bagh nakh, also known as a tiger claw or a wagh nakh, is an Indian hand-to-hand weapon designed to fit over the knuckles or concealed under and against the palm. Usually made of metal, it features between two and four claws, and is designed to slash through skin and muscle.
Bagha Jatin Bagha Jatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee (7 December 1879–10 September 1915) was a Bengali Indian revolutionary philosopher against British rule. He was the principal leader of the Yugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal, and was responsible for the planned German Plot during World War I.
Bagha Jatin/Temp3 Bagha Jatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee (7 December 1879–10 September 1915) was an Indian revolutionary activist against British rule. He was one of the leaders of the Yugantar party that was the main association of revolutionaries in Bengal, and was instrumental in the planned Indo-German Conspiracy during World War I.
Bagha Mosque The famous Bagha Mosque in terracotta is on the east of Bagha upazila in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The natural surrounding of the Bagha Mosque, with thousands of migratory birds visiting the adjacent dighi (pond) can be another attraction for tourists.
Bagha-Chall Bagha-Chall (meaning "Change of Tigers") is a strategic, two-player board game that originates in Nepal. The game is asymmetric in that one player controls four tigers and the other player controls up to twenty goats.
Baghal Baghal, covering an area of 312 sq km and currently a part of Himachal Pradesh state, was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj. The state was founded by Rana Sabha Chand in the year 1643, and was acceded to India on 15th April 1948.
Baghbanpura Baghbanpura (Urdu: باغبان پورہ) is a town located along the Grand Trunk Road some 5 kilometers northeast of the main Lahore city. The site of Baghbanpura was granted by Mughal Empiror Shah Jehan to Mian Muhammad Yousaf s/o Mian Muhammad Ishaq in lieu of giving his private village land Ishaq Pur as a gift to empiror for the construction of Shalimar Garden.
Baghdad Arabic Baghdad Arabic or the Muslim Baghdadi Arabic is the Arabic dialect spoken in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. During the last century, Baghdad Arabic has become the lingua franca of Iraq, and the language of commerce and education.
Baghdad bridge stampede The Baghdad bridge stampede occurred on August 31, 2005 when up to 1,000 people died following a stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge, which crosses the Tigris river in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.It was the biggest loss of life in Iraq in one day since the US-led invasion of 2003.
Baghdad Battery The Baghdad Battery is the common name for a number of artifacts apparently discovered in the village of Khuyut Rabbou'a (near Baghdad, Iraq) in 1936. These artifacts came to wider attention in 1938, when Wilhelm König, the German director of the National Museum of Iraq, found the objects in the museum's collections, and (in 1940, having returned to Berlin due to illness) published a paper speculating that they may have been galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects.
Baghdad Bulletin The Baghdad Bulletin was an independent bimonthly English-language news magazine first published on 9 June 2003. It was one of an estimated seventy newspapers that were launched in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein after the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Baghdad Citizens Gathering On 31 December 2006, a Baathist group previously unknown who following the execution of Saddam Hussein, the former ruler of Iraq and leader of Iraq's Baath Party, very publicly issued a statement in Amman in Jordan at the Jordanian branch of the Iraqi Baath Party (apparently sent from the Baath Party organisation in Iraq) endorsing Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri - Saddam's Deputy as the new "President of Iraq" and new leader of the Baath Party.Jordan Baathists pledge loyalty to Saddam deputy Jerusalem Post, 31 December 2006A group of Iraqi Baathists pledges allegiance to Saddam's fugitive deputy, naming him leader International Herald Tribune, 31 December 2006
Baghdad College Baghdad College is an elite secondary school for boys in Baghdad, Iraq. It is among the nation's most highly regarded preparatory schools, boasting several well-known alumni and countless Iraqi professionals and intellectuals now living throughout the world.
Baghdad Governorate Baghdad Governorate ( ) in the nation of Iraq includes the city of Baghdad and the surrounding metropolitan area, including Al Mahmudiyah and the infamous Abu Ghraib. It has an area of 734 km², the smallest of the 18 governorates of Iraq but the most populous.
Baghdad Manifesto The manifesto of Baghdad is the testimony given by a number of Muslim Sunni and "Twelvers" Shiite genealogists and law scholars known all across the Islamic world in 402/1011, doubting the Sacred Mohammedan-‘Alid lineage of the Fatimids, they were declared to be descended from a Jew by the name of Ibn al-qaddah, A Munafiq, which meant that the Fàtimid Dynasty were traced back to an infidel, an enemy of the faith, instead of the noble and venerable "Âalulbayt"(Family of the prophet) which was the basic Justification of the Sanctity of The Fàtimid rulers in the Ismaali doctrine, and the Primal reason for the world wide Dawa (Ismaili propaganda) Success.
Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility adjacent to the Tuwaitha "Yellow Cake Factory" contains the remains of nuclear reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It was used as a storage facility for spent reactor fuel and industrial and medical wastes.
Baghdad Railway In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire planned to construct a Baghdad Railway under German control. It became a source of international tensions but they were resolved in 1914 before the war began.
Baghdad Scuba Review Sprouting out of the dawn in Madison Wisconsin, Baghdad Scuba Review is a first-rate model of what the band is attempting to introduce to its listeners: full scale, well disciplined progressive rock. As a six-piece group of uncommonly talented musicians, with both entertaining and amusing personalities, this bold group of artists carries impeccable musicianship to spawn a chimerical stage presence and as a newborn band has already embraced a sizeable following.
Baghdad University Baghdad University (Arabic: جامعة بغداد, Jaama'a Baghda'ad) is the largest university in Baghdad, Iraq, commissioned by the Royal Government of Iraq in the late 1950's and situated near the Tigris river. Its buildings were designed by Walter Gropius, AIA, who commenced his master plan in the 1960's for a new University Campus for the Colleges of Engineering, Sciences and Liberal Arts for a total of 6,800 students.
Baghdaddies Formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1996, the Baghdaddies are a popular festival band playing a brass-laden mix of Gypsy, Klezmer, Ska and East European influenced musical styles. Festival favourites, the Baghdaddies tour the UK and Europe extensively, and have a reputation as a band who get everyone dancing.
Baghdadi Mahmudi al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi (Arabic: البغدادي علي المحمودي )(born 1945?) was appointed General Secretary of the General People's Congress (prime minister) of Libya on 5 March, 2006 in succession to Shukri Ghanem.
Bagher Khan Bagher Khan (1870s , Tabriz - November , 1911, Persian: باقر خان), honorarily titled Sālār-e Melli (Persian: سالار ملی meaning Leader of the Nation), was one of the key figures in the Persian Constitutional Revolution
Baghvashi Baghvashi were a noble family in the medieval Georgia, with notable members from the 9th to 12th centuries. Expelled from their original fiefdom Argveti around ca 876, they ruled subsequently the duchy of Kldekari until the main male line went extinct in 1102.
Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (大自然の魔獣 バギ, Taishizen no Majuu Bagi) is an anime movie that premiered on the Nippon Television network on August 19, 1984. It was written by Osamu Tezuka as a critique of the Japanese government's approval of recombinant DNA research that year.
Bagisu The Bagisu, alternately referred to as Gisu, Gishu, Masaba, or Sokwia (people of Bugisu) are a sub-group of the Bamasaaba people of Eastern Uganda, closely related to the Bukusu people of Kenya. Bagisu live in the mainly in Mbale District of Uganda on the slopes of Mount Elgon.
Bagler The Bagli Party or Bagler was a faction or party during the Norwegian Civil Wars. It was formed in SkĂĄne, then part of Denmark, in 1196 around the pretender Inge Magnusson (nicknamed the Baglar-King) to depose king Sverre Sigurdsson.
Bagley-Keane Act The Bagley-Keene Act of 1967, officially known as the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, mandates open meetings for California State agencies, boards, and commissions in order to facilitate accountability and transparency of government activities and protect the rights of citizens to participate in State government deliberations. Similarly, California's Brown Act of 1953 protects citizen rights with regard to open meetings at the county and local government level.
Baglihar Dam Baglihar Dam is a dam project in the Chenab River in Chandrakot in the southern Doda district of Kashmir Jammu province, India, near the border with Pakistan. The first phase of the Baglihar Dam was completed in 2004.
Baglung District Baglung district, a part of Dhawalagiri Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Baglung as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,784 sq km and has a population (2001) of 268,937.
Bagman A bag man (or bagman) is a person designated to collect money in a protection racket. Originally the term applied only to Mafia members collecting for mob bosses, but the term later spread to use in corrupt police precincts where a foot patrolman was the designated "bagman" to pick up and deliver bribes from the local mob(s) to the precinct captain.
Bagman (arcade game) Bagman is a platform arcade game released by Valadon Automation in 1982. The player manoeuvres 'Bagman' ("the convict") through various mine shafts picking up money bags and placing them in the wheelbarrow at the surface of the mine, climbing up and down ladders, and avoiding enemies.
Bagna Cauda Bagna Cauda (from the Piedmontese bagna caĂ´da, "hot sauce", etymologically related to Italian bagno, meaning "bath") is a warm dip for bread, boiled vegetables (especially cardoons), and roasted peppers, which is native to Northern Italy in the Piedmont. It is also eaten over pasta (preferably penne) and on polenta.
Bagnall, Staffordshire Bagnall is a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England, just to the north-east of the Stoke-on-Trent urban area. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 700.
Bagnold formula The Bagnold formula, named after Ralph Alger Bagnold, relates the amount of sand moved by the wind to wind speed. It states that the mass transport of sand is proportional to the third power of the friction velocity.
Bagnolians The Bagnolians were a sect in the 8th century, deemed heretical, who rejected the Old Testament and part of the New. They held the world to be eternal, and affirmed that God did not create the soul, when he infused it into the body.
Bago (horse) Bago (born February 3, 2001 in France) was the European Three-Year-Old Champion Thoroughbred race horse in 2004. Bred by the Niarchos family, Bago is best known for winning the 2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe amongst his five Group One successes.
Bago Division Bago Division is an administrative division of Myanmar, located in the southern portion of the country. It is bordered by Magway Division and Mandalay Division to the north; Kayin State, Mon State and the Gulf of Martaban to the east; Yangon Division to the south and Ayeyarwady Division and Rakhine State to the west.
Bagoas Bagoas (in Old Persian Bagoi; died 336 BC) was an eunuch who became the confidential minister of Artaxerxes III. He threw in his lot with the Rhodian condottiere Mentor, and with his help succeeded in subjecting Egypt again to the Persian empire (probably 342 BC).
Bagombo Snuff Box Bagombo Snuff Box (ISBN 0-399-14505-2) is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1999. The book contains previously-unconnected short fiction, most of it written in the 1950s, that did not appear in Vonnegut's previous collection, Welcome to the Monkey House.
Bagon is one of the fictional species of Pokémon from the Pokémon Franchise - a series of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. Bagon made its introduction as a third generation Pokémon, upon the release of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
Bagoong monamon Bagoong monamon, bagoong monamon-dilis, or simply bagoong and bugguong munamon in Ilocano, is a common ingredient used in the Philippines and particularly in Northern Ilocano cuisine. It is made by fermenting salted anchovies.
Bagpipe Maintenance The bagpipes are a woodwind instrument, and with all woodwinds, they are affected by the environment in which they are stored and played in. This results in many problems with the care and maintenance of the bagpipes.
Bagpipes Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe.
Bagram Bagram or Bagrām (anciently Kapici or Kapisa) is an antique city 60 kilometers northwest of Kabul in Afghanistan, near today's city of Charikar. It was built at the junction of the Ghorband and the Panjshir valley, acting as a passage point to India on the Silk Road, towards Kabul and Bamiyan.
Bagramyan Battalion Bagramyan Battalion is a defunct military organization based in Abkhazia, Georgia and composed of ethnic Armenians that fought for the independent Abkhazian Republic during the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict.Bagramyan Battalion MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base It was named in honour of the Marshal of Soviet Union Hovhannes Bagramyan who also had been ethnic Armenian.
Bagrat I Kuropalates Bagrat I Kuropalates (830-876) was the second son of Ashot I. He succeeded his father as presiding prince of Iberia and kuropalates, but it is unclear which lands he actually possessed; most likely he ruled over a part of Tao and Kola.
Bagrat I the Little Bagrat I the Little (Bagrat Mtsire, ბაგრატ I მცირე in Georgian) (d. 1372), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was king of western Georgia (also known as the Kingdom of Imereti) from 1329 until 1330.
Bagrat III of Georgia Bagrat III (Georgian: ბაგრატ III) (c. 960 – May 7, 1014), of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty, was King of the Abkhazians from 978 on (as Bagrat II) and King of Kings of the Georgians from 1008 on.
Bagrat IV of Georgia Bagrat IV (1018-1072), of the Bagrationi dynasty, governed the Kingdom of Georgia in 1027-1072. Strong and courageous, he managed to strengthen the nation’s independence despite serious internal and foreign threats.
Bagrat V of Georgia Bagrat V, “the Great” (Georgian: ბაგრატ V დიდი, Bagrat V Didi) (died 1393) was the son of the Georgian king Davit IX with whom he was co-ruler from 1355, and became king after the death of his father in 1360.
Bagrat VI of Georgia Bagrat VI (Georgian: ბაგრატ VI) (born circa 1439 – died 1478), a representative of the Imeretian branch of the Bagrationi royal house, was a king of Imereti (as Bagrat II) from 1463, and a king of Georgia from 1465 until his death.
Bagrati Cathedral The Cathedral of the Dormition, or the Kutaisi Cathedral, more commonly known as Bagrati Cathedral (Georgian: ბაგრატი; ბაგრატის ტაძარი, or Bagratis tadzari), is the 11th-century cathedral church in the city of Kutaisi, the region of Imereti, Georgia. The cathedral, now in ruins, has gone down as a masterpiece in the history of medieval Georgian architecture.
Bagrationi Dynasty The Bagrationi dynasty () was a ruling family whose ascendancy in Georgia lasted from the early Middle Ages until the early 19th century. In modern usage, this royal line is frequently referred to as the Georgian Bagratids, a Hellenized form of their dynastic name.
Bagrationovsk Bagrationovsk (; German: Preußisch Eylau before 1946; Lithuanian: Yluva/Prūsų Ylava; Polish: Pruska Iława/Iławka) is a small town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located some 37 km south of Kaliningrad, at . Population: 7,000 (2004 est.
Bagrationovskaya Bagrationovskaya is a Moscow Metro station, located on the surface portion of the Filyovskaya Line. Designed by Robert Pogrebnoi and Cheremin and opened in 1961 as part of the western extension of the Filyovskiy radius, the station unlike the other three coming from the centre, features a more functional design innovation.
Bagratuni Dynasty The Bagratuni or Bagratid royal dynasty of Armenia (Armenian: Բագրատունյաց Արքայական Տոհմ or Bagratunyac Arqayakan Tohm) is a royal family whose branches formerly ruled many regional polities, including the Armenian lands of Syunik, Lori, Vaspurakan, Kars, Taron, and Tayk.
Bagri language Bagri is a transitional dialect of Punjabi language of the Indo-Aryan family. In India for political reasons it is tagged together with Bangru, a dialect of Rajasthani language which is considered a hindi variant and is spoken in the area adjacent to Bagri.
Bagrut Te'udat Bagrut ( - certification of maturity) is the name of the official high school qualification certificate in Israel, also called a matriculation certificate (though not to be confused with a High school diploma or certificate which are also given in Israel after completion of the twelfth grade). The bagrut certificate is similar to the English A-levels, German Abitur and Austrian Matura.
Bags' Groove Bags' Groove is an album recorded in 1954 by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. Both takes of the title track come from a session on 24 December 1954 ("Bags" was vibraphonist Milt Jackson's nickname).
Bagshot Beds In geology, the Bagshot Beds are a series of sands and clays of shallow-water origin, some being fresh-water, some marine. They belong to the upper Eocene formation of the London and Hampshire basins, in England and derive their name from Bagshot Heath in Surrey.
Bagshot, Surrey Bagshot is a small village in west Surrey, England, that served as an important staging post between London and Southampton. It is situated 43 km (27 miles) southwest of London, off the M3 motorway and on the A30 road, between the towns of Camberley and Sunningdale.
Bagsværd Kostskole og Gymnasium Bagsværd Kostskole og Gymnasium (Eng: Bagsværd Boarding School and Gymnasium), usually referred to among students, teachers etc. as simply BK, is a private school situated in Bagsværd, a suburb of Copenhagen.
Bagthorpe with Barmer Bagthorpe with Barmer is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish includes the hamlets of Bagthorpe and Barmer, and is situated some 15 km west of Fakenham and 20 km north east of King's Lynn.
Bagua Map A Bagua Map is a tool used in Feng Shui to map a room or location and see how the different sections correspond to different aspects in one's life. The Bagua Map is based on the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes.
Baguette A baguette (French for "little stick") is a variety of bread distinguishable by its much greater length than width, and noted for their very crispy crust. A standard baguette is five or six centimeters wide and three or four centimeters tall, but can be up to a meter in length.
Baguio City The City of Baguio (Ilokano: Ciudad ti Baguio; Filipino: Lungsod ng Baguio) is a 1st class highly urbanized city in northern Luzon in the Philippines. Baguio City was established by Americans in 1900 and created by the Philippine Assembly as the Summer Capital of the Philippines on June 1, 1903.
Baha Araji Baha Araji (also transliterated Bahaa al-Aaraji) is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is a spokesman for the United Iraqi Alliance and a member of the Sadrist Movement which is led by Muqtada as-Sadr.
Baha-ud-din Zakariya Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya (Persian: بہاؤ الدین زکریا ) was a Sufi of Suhrawardiyya order (tariqa). His full name was Al-Sheikh Al-Kabir Sheikh-ul-Islam Baha-ud-Din Abu Muhammad Zakaria Al-Qureshi Al-Asadi Al Hashmi.
BahaĂŻ, Chad BahaĂŻ is a town in the Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region of Chad. It has been affected by the ongoing Darfur conflict, and the town's United Nations humanitarian forces were reduced to a "minimum presence" in early December 2006 due to the danger posed to workers.
Bahadur Khel Bahadur Khel, a village of the Undivided India, currently in the Kohat district of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, was an important rock salt mining facility. The rock salt quarries, extending to an area of one mile long by half mile broad, contain good quality of rock salt sometimes also used for edible purpose.
Bahadur Shah II Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar, or Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862), also known as Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar was his nom de plume, or takhallus, as an Urdu poet), was the last of the Mughal emperors in India. He was born on October 24, 1775, and was the son of Akbar Shah II from his Hindu wife Lalbai.
Bahadur Shah of Gujarat Bahadur Shah (ruled 1526-1535 and 1536-1537) was a Sultan of Gujarat. During his reign Gujarat was under pressure from the expanding Mughal Empire under emperors Babur (died 1530) and Humayun (1530-1540), and from the Portuguese, who were estabishing fortified settlements on the Gujarat coast to expand their power in India from their base in Goa.
Bahadur Yar Jung Bahadur Yar Jung (or Bahadur Yar Jang) (3 February 1905, Hyderabad – c. 1944) was an Indian Muslim nationalist who argued for the separation of Muslim states in India during the British Raj in the 1930s and 1940s.
Bahadurabad Bahadurabad (Urdu: بہادرآباد) (Officially known as Bahadur Yar Jang Co-operative Housing Society) is a neighborhood of Gulshan Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is located in the Civic Centre zone in the Gulshan Town.
Bahakel Communications Bahakel Communications is a communications company, owning radio and television stations in the United States. The company was founded in 1965 by Cy Bahakel when he put WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina on the air and was controlled by Bahakel (and, in later years, his children) until his death from unknown causes at age 87 on April 20, 2006.
Bahala Na Gang One of the oldest and largest Filipino gangs Filipino gangs, Bahala Na (meaning I don't care) or BNG along with other prison gangs such as OXO, and Sigue-Sigue were established among inmates in the notorious jails of the Philippines in the early 1940s and eventually spread its operations throughout the globe. The gang is known to have chapters in North and Latin America as well as Europe.
Bahama Banks The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago. The term is usually used to refer to either the Great Bahama Bank around Andros Island, or the Little Bahama Bank of Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco, which are the largest of the platforms.
Bahamas Electricity Corporation The Bahamas Electricity Corporation - (BEC) is a government corportion that provides electricity to all of the Bahama Islands except for Grand Bahama. The current Minister in charge is the Minister of Public Works and Utilities, the Hon.
Bahamas National Championship Final The Bahamas National Championship Final is the highest championship of football (soccer) in Bahamas. It is played between the winners of the New Providence Football League, the Grand Bahama Football League and the Abaco Football League.
Bahamian dollar The dollar (currency code BSD) has been the currency of The Bahamas since 1966. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively BS$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies.
Bahamut (Final Fantasy) Bahamut is a summoned creature in Square-Enix's Final Fantasy series of RPGs. The name Bahamut originates from an aquatic creature in Arabian mythology Bahamut also bears similarities to Falak], an omnipotent dragon in Islamic theology.
Bahaoddin Adab Bahaoddin Adab (, also Bahaeddin) is a prominent Iranian Kurdish politician and engineer; Born in 1945 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran. He has a civil engineering master degree from Amirkabir University of Technology (Polytechnique).
Bahar Soomekh Bahar Soomekh (Persian: بهار سومخ born March 30, 1975) is an Iranian-born Jewish American actress. She began acting in the early 2000s, and is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Crash (2005),
Bahariasaurus Bahariasaurus (meaning "Bahari lizard") was originally thought to be a very large carnivore, but turned out to be bones of a medium-sized carnivore mixed up with bones of a titanosaurid sauropod. It is probably synonymous with Deltadromeus, another predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Africa.
Baharistan-i-Ghaibi The Baharistan-i-Ghaibi, written by Mirza Nathan, is a major historical document that has served as the primary source for the reconstruction of the history of Bengal, Cooch Behar, Assam and Bihar under the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir (1605-1627). Unlike other histories of the Mughal Empire, written by court historians by order of the emperor and covering the history of the whole empire, the Baharistan-i-Ghaibi deals only with the affairs of Bengal and the adjoining area.
Baharna The Baharna ( } are the indigenous inhabitants of the villages and some of the coastal shores of the archipelago of Bahrain and the cities of Qatif and Al-Hasa on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia (see historical region of Bahrain). They are Arabs, descending from Arab tribes, speaking their own dialect known as "Bahrani".
Bahawal Stadium The Bahawal Stadium is a cricket ground in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. It was the first cricket ground in Western Pakistan to host a Test match, when it hosted the second Test of Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 1954-55 India's inaugural tour of Pakistan.
Bahawalpur (princely state) The State of Bahawalpur was a princely state of the Punjab in what is now Pakistan, stretching along the southern bank of the Sutlej and Indus Rivers, with its capital city at Bahawalpur. The state was counted amongst the Rajputana states (now Rajasthan) to the southeast.
Bahay Tsinoy The Bahay Tsinoy, or the Chinese Filipino House is a mansion located in the Intramuros section of Manila, that has been converted into a museum. The museum documents the history, lives and accomplishments of the Chinese in the Philippines, as well as their position in society.
Bahía de los Ángeles The Bahía de los Ángeles ("Bay of Angels") is a bay located along the east side of the Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California, in northwest Mexico. The bay faces the Sea of Cortez, and it has a desert climate.
Bahía Escocesa Bahía Escocesa is a large bay in the Dominican Republic, stretching 70 kilometres across the northeast coast from Cabrera to Cabo Cabrón. The coast of the bay is entirely within two provinces, María Trinidad Sánchez in the west, and Samaná in the south.
Bahía Mágica Bahía mágica (English title:Magic Bay ) is a 2002 Argentine animated adventure film combining a human cast with animated figures, directed by Marina Valentini and script written by José María Paolantonio based on a book by Ricardo Wullicher.
Bahá'í calendar The Bahá'í calendar, also called the Badí‘ calendar, common to the Bahá'í Faith, is a solar calendar with regular years of 365 days, and leap years of 366 days. Years are composed of 19 months of 19 days each, plus an extra period of "Intercalary Days" (4 in regular and 5 in leap years).
Bahá'í concept of God Bahá'ís believe in a single, imperishable God, the creator of all things, including all the creatures and forces in the universe. God is described as "a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty.
Bahá'í divisions The Bahá'í Faith has had challenges to leadership at the death of every head of the religion. The vast majority of Bahá'ís have followed a line of authority from Bahá'u'lláh to `Abdu'l-Bahá to Shoghi Effendi to the Custodians to the Universal House of Justice.
Bahá'í Faith and auxiliary language Auxiliary language in the Bahá'í Faith focuses on a particular teaching; that the world should adopt an international auxiliary language, and everyone should have to learn only one or two languages. The aim of this teaching is that the adoption of an international auxiliary language will improve communication and foster unity among peoples and nations.
Bahá'í Faith and education The theme of education in the Bahá'í Faith is given quite prominent emphasis. Its literature gives a principle of universal, or compulsory education, which is identified as one of key principles alongside monotheism and the unity of humanity.
Bahá'í Faith and gender equality One of the main teachings of the Bahá'í Faith is gender equality; that men and women are equal. The equality of the sexes is seen by Bahá'ís as a spiritual and moral standard that is essential for the unification of the planet and the unfoldment of world order, and in the importance of implementing the principle in individual, family, and community life.

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