Bad

Ragaz, Bad, town, St. Gall canton, E Switzerland, at the confluence of the Rhine and Tamina rivers. It is a spa, with hot mineral waters conducted from the ancient springs of Pfäfers, a village c.2 mi (3 km) to the south.

known as Charles the Bad

(born 1332—died Jan. 1, 1387) King of Navarra (1349–87). He acquired Normandy from John II of France by threatening an English alliance. Arrested for his treachery in 1356, he escaped a year later and regained Normandy. He pursued shifting alliances in Spain in an effort to expand Navarrese power. Charles V voided his claims in France, and the discovery of his plot to poison the French king cost him all of Normandy except Cherbourg.

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BAD may refer to:

• Big Audio Dynamite - British rock band founded by Mick Jones, formerly of punk pioneers The Clash.
• Broken as designed - A computer slang term originating at IBM, saying of a program that it is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of defects in implementation. (Compare Defective by Design.)
• Banda language (ISO 639 alpha-3, bad)
• Bank Account Debits Tax, an Australian tax
• Barksdale Air Force Base (IATA airport code: BAD) in Bossier City, Louisiana, United States
• B.A.D, Taiwanese boy band.
• Bcl-2-associated death promoter, a pro-apoptotic protein
• Bookworm Adventures Deluxe, a word-forming game by PopCap Games, released in 2006.
• Bipolar Affective Disorder, disregulatory mood disorder.

See also

• Bad