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Bianca Jackson
Bianca Jackson (also Butcher) is a fictional EastEnders character played by Patsy Palmer from 1993 to 2025, daughter of Carol Jackson and David Wicks, wife of Ricky Butcher, and mother of Liam, Tiffany, and Morgan.
Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger (Bianca Pérez Mora-Macías), Nicaraguan-born British human rights advocate, founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, 2004 Right Livelihood laureate, Council of Europe death-penalty abolition ambassador, ex-wife of Mick Jagger.
Bianca Kajlich
Bianca Maria Kajlich (born 1977, Seattle) is an American actress and former ballerina with Olympic Ballet Theatre, known for Jennifer Morgan on Rules of Engagement (2007-2013, 100 episodes) and films 10 Things I Hate About You, Bring It On, and Halloween: Resurrection.
Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight (born 1989) is an American sprinter who won gold in the 4 × 100 meters relay at the 2012 London Olympics, setting the world record of 40.82.
Bianca Lawson
Bianca Lawson (born 1979) is an American actress known as Megan Jones on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Kendra on Buffy, Maya on Pretty Little Liars, and Darla on Queen Sugar (2016–2022).
Bianca Leigh
Bianca Leigh (born 1962, Willingboro, New Jersey) is an American trans actress, singer, and writer; Mary Ellen in Transamerica, Karma in Hurricane Bianca, and Mary's Chaperone in the original Broadway cast of Oh, Mary!
Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu
Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a Nigerian politician and diplomat appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Bola Tinubu in 2026, after serving as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2024.
Bianca Ryan
Bianca Ryan, American singer from Philadelphia, first winner of America's Got Talent (2006, age 11, $1 million prize), Columbia Records debut, later independent via Bianca Ryan Records after vocal cord surgery.
Bianca Umali
Bianca Umali (Maria Isadora Bianca Soler Umali), born 2000 in Paranaque, is a Filipino GMA/Sparkle actress known for Tropang Potchi, Kambal Karibal, Sahaya, Legal Wives, and as Terra in Encantadia Chronicles: Sang'gre; World Vision ambassador since 2017.
Bianchi classification
The Bianchi classification, introduced by Luigi Bianchi in 1897, sorts three-dimensional real Lie algebras into nine types, the possible symmetry groups of spatially homogeneous universe models.
Bianchi identities
The Bianchi identities are two differential identities satisfied by the curvature and torsion of a connection on a manifold, named for Luigi Bianchi, who proved them in 1902.
Bianchini (Martian crater)
Bianchini is an IAU-approved 1973 impact crater on Mars at −63.85°, 264.71°, named for Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer (1662–1729); listed diameter 70.71 km (feature page: 47.00 km).
Biangbiang noodles
Biangbiang noodles (𰻝𰻝面, biángbiáng miàn, kudai mian, belt noodles) are belt-wide hand-pulled wheat noodles from Shaanxi's Guanzhong region, named for the slapping sound of the dough and the untypable ~58-stroke biang character, classically served oil-splashed (youpo).
Bianhu qimin
Bianhu qimin (编户齐民) is the Han-dynasty term for the registered commoner households that bore taxes, corvée labor, and military service, first recorded in the Book of Han.
Bianisotropic metamaterials
Bianisotropic metamaterials are engineered electromagnetic media whose particles respond to electric and magnetic fields and exhibit magnetoelectric coupling between them, in volumetric composites and thin metasurfaces.
Bianisotropic metasurfaces
Bianisotropic metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength scatterers whose response includes magnetoelectric coupling alongside electric and magnetic polarization, allowing wave transformations such as refraction at wide angles, polarization control, and isolation.
Bianka
Bianka (Бьянка) is the stage name of Tatyana Eduardovna Lipnitskaya, a Belarusian-born singer, songwriter, and producer who pioneered "Russian folk R'n'B", blending R&B with chastushka elements.
Bianka Schwede
Bianka Schwede (Borrmann), born 1953 in Dresden, East German rower with SC Einheit Dresden; won gold in the women's coxed fours at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, East Germany's first female rowing gold, and world eights titles in 1974-1975.
Bianna Golodryga
Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga (Бианна Витальевна Голодрыга) is a Moldovan-born American journalist, CNN anchor and senior global affairs analyst, co-anchoring One World with Zain Asher; previously CBS This Morning, Yahoo News, and ABC's GMA Weekend, co-author of Don't Feed the Lion.
Bianniu Mountain Fortress Site
边牛山城址 (Bianniu Mountain Fortress site), a dustpan-shaped earthen-walled Goguryeo-era fortress in Xihu District, Benxi, Liaoning; over 2,000 m of walls, reused in the Jin dynasty, a 2013 seventh-batch national key cultural relics protection unit.
Bianwen
Bianwen (变文) are Tang dynasty Chinese popular narrative texts that combine prose and rhymed verse, used by monks and storytellers to present Buddhist sutra stories and folk legends to lay audiences.
Bianxiao Cui
Bianxiao Cui is a biophysical chemist and the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, known for nanopillar electrophysiology and membrane curvature research.
Bianzheng Lu
辨证录 (Bianzheng lu), also titled 辨证冰鉴 and 辨证奇闻, is a 14-juan, 126-section Qing clinical manual by Chen Shiduo, completed around 1687, organizing 776 case entries by symptom differentiation and prescription.
Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng
The Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng is a set of 65 bronze chime bells excavated in 1978 from a 5th-century BC tomb in Suizhou, Hubei, China.
Bianzhu (Stringed Pearls)
Bianzhu (编珠, "Stringed Pearls") is a Chinese paired-phrase reference compilation traditionally attributed to Du Gongzhan around 610, though scholars have long disputed whether it is a genuine Sui work.
Biar Aqueduct
The Biar Aqueduct (Wadi el-Biyar Aqueduct) is the most sophisticated ancient aqueduct supplying Jerusalem, running 4.7 km from the Hebron Hills to Solomon's Pools and serving the city until 1967.
Biarritz
Biarritz, Basque Biarritz, is an Atlantic resort city in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. A former whaling village transformed by Empress Eugénie and Napoleon III's 1854 Villa Eugénie, now the Hôtel du Palais, it is famed for surfing, Belle Époque villas, and coastal erosion.
Biarticular actuation
Biarticular actuation is a robotics and biomechanics scheme in which a single actuator spans two adjacent joints, like the gastrocnemius crossing ankle and knee, enabling energy transfer and coordinated control.
Bias
Bias, in psychology, a systematic deviation of judgment from rational norms; cognitive bias arises from heuristics, mental shortcuts studied since Kahneman and Tversky's 1974 heuristics-and-biases program, with documented effects in medicine, economics, and fact-checking.
Bias (concept)
Bias (concept): in epidemiology and research, systematic deviation of results or inferences from the truth, also called systematic error, epidemiologic bias; three main types: selection, information, confounding.