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Bibliotheca (Photius)
The Bibliotheca, also known as the Myriobiblos, is a ninth-century collection of summaries and critical judgments of several hundred books read by Photius, patriarch of Constantinople.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (مكتبة الإسكندرية)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (مكتبة الإسكندرية), the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt, inaugurated 16 October 2002; a $200 million UNESCO-backed library, museum, and conference complex holding about 2 million printed items near the ancient library's site.
Bibliotheca Corviniana
The Bibliotheca Corviniana was the royal library of King Matthias Corvinus, regarded as the second greatest Renaissance collection of books in Europe after the Vatican Library.
Bibliotheca Teubneriana
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, formally Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, is a German series of critical editions of Greek and Latin literature founded in 1849.
Bibliothèque bleue
The Bibliothèque bleue was a French collection of cheap, small booklets with blue covers, printed chiefly at Troyes from about 1600 and spread across the countryside by peddlers.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the French national library, descended from the royal library and renamed BnF in 1994; run on five Paris-area sites including François-Mitterrand (1996), with legal deposit since 1537 and the Gallica digital library.
Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is the guided reading of selected literature for mental health, emotional development, or behavior change. It interacts with the reader to aid personal adjustment and can augment therapy.
Biblis nuclear power plant
The Biblis nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Biblis) was a two-unit pressurized water reactor station at Biblis in Hesse, Germany, shut down in 2011 and being decommissioned by RWE.
Biblis Tholus
Biblis Tholus is a 168.60-km-wide low-relief shield volcano (tholus) on Mars at 2.52°N, 235.62°E on western Tharsis, IAU-approved 2007; its caldera is Biblis Patera, and the edifice is about 3.35 billion years old.
Bibracte
Bibracte, Gallic oppidum on Mont Beuvray, capital of the Aedui in the 1st century BC, 5,000-10,000 inhabitants, 200 ha ramparts, abandoned for Autun; major European excavation site since 1984.
BibTeX
BibTeX is a bibliography-processing program and reference data format used with the LaTeX typesetting system; written by Oren Patashnik for Leslie Lamport's LaTeX and first released in 1985, it remains LaTeX's standard bibliography mechanism.
Bibury
Bibury is a Cotswold village in Gloucestershire on the River Coln, famed for Arlington Row, a Grade I listed 1380 monastic wool store converted to weavers' cottages, and called England's most beautiful village by William Morris.
Bibyeonsa
Bibyeonsa (비변사, 備邊司), the Border Defense Council, was a Joseon government office that became the supreme organ of state affairs after 1592, until its 1865 merger into the Uijeongbu.
Bibyeonsa Deungnok
Bibyeonsa Deungnok (비변사등록, Records of the Border Defense Council) is a set of 273 manuscript volumes recording the deliberations of the Bibyeonsa, the council that governed late Joseon Korea, covering 1617 to 1892.
Bic (company)
Bic, formally Société BIC, is a French company founded by Marcel Bich that makes disposable ballpoint pens, lighters, and razors, including the Bic Cristal launched in 1950.
Bic Camera
Bic Camera is a Tokyo-based Japanese consumer electronics retailer founded by Ryuji Arai, incorporated in 1980 and traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as code 3048.
Bic Cristal
The Bic Cristal, also known as the Bic pen, is a disposable ballpoint pen launched in France in 1950, described as the best-selling pen in the world.
Bicai
Bicai (必才), courtesy name Dayong, was a Yuan-dynasty Tiantai Buddhist monk, abbot of Dezang, Xingfu, and Yanfu temples near Hangzhou, honored by Emperor Shundi with the title Fojian Yuanzhao.
Bicalutamide
Bicalutamide (Casodex) is a first-generation nonsteroidal androgen receptor inhibitor approved in 1995, given as 50 mg daily with an LHRH analog for Stage D2 metastatic prostate cancer; second-generation ARIs now outperform it.
Bicameralism
Bicameralism: a legislature divided into two chambers, both needed to pass laws; also called a two-chamber parliament. 82 of 189 national parliaments are bicameral; rooted in the 14th-century English parliament.
Bicara Therapeutics
Bicara Therapeutics Inc. is a clinical-stage Boston biopharmaceutical company developing dual-action antibodies for solid tumors, led by ficerafusp alfa and listed on Nasdaq since 2024.
Bicarbonate
Bicarbonate (hydrogencarbonate), the ion HCO3−, is the conjugate base of carbonic acid and the main buffer of blood pH; its sodium salt is baking soda.
Bicarbonate buffer system
The bicarbonate buffer system is a chemical equilibrium among dissolved CO2, carbonic acid, and bicarbonate ions that resists pH change in blood, seawater, and natural waters.
Bicategory
A bicategory is a weak 2-category in which composition of morphisms is associative and has identities only up to invertible 2-morphisms, introduced by Jean Bénabou in 1967.
Bicaudal-D protein
Bicaudal-D (BicD; BICD1, BICD2 in mammals) is a coiled-coil dynein cargo adaptor protein linking mRNAs, vesicles, and organelles to dynein-dynactin transport; discovered in Drosophila via double-abdomen mutants, with BICD2 mutations causing SMALED2 spinal muscular atrophy.
Bicchoo Ka Khel
Bicchoo Ka Khel (बिच्छू का खेल), Hindi crime thriller web series on ZEE5 and ALTBalaji, premiered 18 November 2020; 9 episodes, directed by Ashish Shukla, starring Divyendu Sharma as Akhil, based on Amit Khan's novel, set in Banaras.
Bicentenario Oil Pipeline
The Bicentenario Oil Pipeline (Oleoducto Bicentenario, or OBC) is a 230-kilometer crude oil pipeline in Colombia running from Yopal, Casanare to Saravena, Arauca, opened in 2013 to carry Llanos Orientales crude.
Bicentenario-Ayacucho Biosphere Reserve
Bicentenario-Ayacucho Biosphere Reserve, Peru's eighth UNESCO MAB reserve (June 2023), 312,900.46 ha in Ayacucho region, 22 districts, 283,468 people, core zones Pampa de Ayacucho Historical Sanctuary and Titankayocc, largest Puya raimondii population.
Bicentennial Man (film)
Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American science fiction drama directed by Chris Columbus, in which Robin Williams plays a robot who spends two centuries trying to become human.
Bicentennial Test
Bicentennial Test: one-off Benson and Hedges Australia v England Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, 29 January to 2 February 1988, marking the Australian Bicentenary; drawn, England 425, Australia 214 and 328/2 following on, Boon 184.