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Bi4O4S3
Bi4O4S3 is a bismuth oxysulfide compound reported in 2012 as the first BiS2-based superconductor, superconducting at about 4.5 K and founding a family of layered superconductors.
Bia (rapper)
Bia (Bianca Miquela Landrau, born 1991, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American rapper signed to Epic Records, known for "Whole Lotta Money" with Nicki Minaj, "Best on Earth" with Russ, and her 2025 debut album BIANCA.
Bia Biosphere Reserve
Bia Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB reserve designated 1983 in Ghana's Western North Region near Côte d'Ivoire, one of two in Ghana, combining Bia National Park and Resource Reserve rainforest with cocoa-farming transition zones.
Biafra
Biafra, also the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state declared from Nigeria's Eastern Region by Ojukwu on 30 May 1967; its 1967–1970 war with Nigeria, blockade, and famine killed up to two million people before its January 1970 surrender.
Biafran airlift
The Biafran airlift was the international relief operation that flew food and medicine into blockaded Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War, delivering up to 100,000 tons in about 7,800 flights.
Biafran declaration of independence
The Biafran declaration of independence was the 30 May 1967 proclamation by Eastern Region governor Chukwuemeka Ojukwu creating the Republic of Biafra, which began the Nigerian Civil War.
Biafran famine
The Biafran famine was the mass starvation of the secessionist Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, caused by a Nigerian blockade during the Nigerian Civil War.
Biag ni Lam-ang
Biag ni Lam-ang (Life of Lam-ang) is the Ilocano folk epic of northwestern Luzon, first published by Isabelo de los Reyes in El Ilocano (1889-1890), telling of the hero Lam-ang's birth, vengeance, courtship of Ines Kannoyan, and resurrection.
Biagio da Cesena
Biagio da Cesena (Biagio Martinelli, 1463–1544), papal master of ceremonies and diarist, remembered for criticizing the nudity of Michelangelo's Last Judgment and for the disputed tale that he was painted as Minos in the fresco.
Biagio Longo
Biagio Longo (1872–1950) was an Italian botanist who identified the pino loricato pine on the Pollino massif in 1905 and held botany chairs at Siena, Pisa, and Naples.
Biak
Biak: main island of the Schouten Islands off northern Indonesian Papua, seat of Biak Numfor Regency. Known for Inumaki Cave Pleistocene archaeology, the 1944 Allied landing, the 1996 Mw 8.2 tsunami, and fisheries and festival tourism.
Bialgebra
A bialgebra (also bigebra) is a vector space with both an algebra structure and a compatible coalgebra structure, the common ancestor of Hopf algebras and quantum groups.
Bialik Prize
The Bialik Prize (פרס ביאליק) is a literary award the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality grants in literature and Jewish thought, founded in 1933 for the poet Hayim Nahman Bialik's sixtieth birthday.
Białowieża Forest (Белавежская пушча)
Białowieża Forest (Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Puszcza Białowieska) is a 141,885-ha transboundary UNESCO World Heritage primary forest on the Poland–Belarus border, home to the largest free-roaming European bison population and the site of a major logging and border-barrier conservation conflict.
Białystok
Białystok, capital of Podlaskie Voivodeship in northeastern Poland, largest city of the region with 289.2 thousand residents (2025), Branicki Palace "Polish Versailles", 1943 ghetto uprising, birthplace of Esperanto's Zamenhof.
Bian Gong
Bian Gong (邊貢, 1476–1532) was a Ming dynasty poet, writer, and official from Licheng, Shandong, one of the Former Seven Masters, whose works survive as the Huaquan Collection.
Bian Jingzhao
Bian Jingzhao (边景昭), also written Bian Wenjin, was a Chinese flower-and-bird court painter of the early Ming dynasty, remembered for the celebrated hanging scroll Three Friends and a Hundred Birds (1413).
Bian lian (变脸)
Bian lian (变脸, face-changing) is the signature stunt of Sichuan opera: performers switch painted silk masks instantly on stage using wiping, blowing, thread-pulling, and breath techniques. Originating in the 1930s play Guizheng Lou, it is a national intangible cultural heritage, reportedly a 1987 state second-level secret, with a Guinness record of 29 changes.
Bian Que
Bian Que (扁鹊) is a legendary Chinese physician of the Spring and Autumn period, recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian as the founder of pulse diagnosis.
Bian River canal transport system
The Bian River canal transport system (汴河漕运制度) was the Song dynasty's policy framework for shipping tax grain from the Yangtze and Huai regions to the capital.
Bian Zhilin
Bian Zhilin (卞之琳) was a Chinese modernist poet, translator, and scholar who carried new poetry from the Crescent Moon school into 1930s modernism, best known for the poem Duanzhang.
Bianca (song)
Bianca (BIANCA) is a 2025 Italian trap single by RRARI DAL TACCO featuring Kid Yugi, released January 24, 2025; it topped Spotify Italy, reached number 2 on FIMI/GfK, and leads the album NON SONO GESÙ.
Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Andreescu, known as Bibi Andreescu, is a Canadian tennis player who won the 2019 US Open, beating Serena Williams to become Canada's first Grand Slam singles champion.
Bianca Belair
Bianca Belair (Bianca Crawford, b. April 9, 1989), WWE wrestler "The EST of WWE" from Knoxville. Former collegiate hurdler and CrossFit athlete; 2021 Women's Royal Rumble winner, WrestleMania 37 main-eventer, 419-day Raw Women's Champion, PWI 2024 top tag team with Jade Cargill.
Bianca Bustamante
Bianca Bustamante (born 2005), Filipino racing driver from Manila; W Series rookie 2022, two-time F1 Academy winner, first woman in McLaren's Driver Development Programme, later GB3, CUPRA KIRO Formula E, Eurocup-3.
Bianca Censori
Bianca Censori (born 1995) is an Australian architect, University of Melbourne-trained, who led architecture at Yeezy from 2020, reportedly married Ye in late 2022, and debuted the performance work BIO POP in Seoul in 2025.
Bianca Comparato
Bianca Comparato (Bianca de Souza Mendes Comparato), Brazilian actress born 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, known for Michele Santana in Netflix's 3% (2016–2020), Avenida Brasil, and the Grande Prêmio-winning Somos tão jovens; daughter of writer Doc Comparato.
Bianca de' Medici
Bianca de' Medici, also known as Bianca dei Pazzi, was a Florentine noblewoman, sister of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who married Guglielmo de' Pazzi in 1459.
Bianca Del Rio
Bianca Del Rio (Roy Haylock, born 1975) is an American drag queen and insult comedian from Louisiana; winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 6 (2014), first drag queen to headline Carnegie Hall and Wembley Arena, star of Hurricane Bianca and seven stand-up tours.
Bianca Gascoigne
Bianca Jade Gascoigne (born 1986) is a British glamour model and television personality, the adopted daughter of footballer Paul Gascoigne, known for winning Celebrity Love Island and finishing sixth on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.