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Bidar (ಬೀದರ್)
Bidar (ಬೀದರ್), hill-top city in north-eastern Karnataka; Bahmani capital from 1424, Barid Shahi seat, home of Bidri ware, the laterite Bidar Fort, karez qanats, Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib, and an IAF Hawk training base.
Bidar Kadın
Bidar Kadın (Bidâr Kadınefendi, 1858–1918), Circassian consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, mother of Naime Sultan and Şehzade Abdülkadir, second kadınefendi from 1895, died in Erenköy, Istanbul.
Bidco Africa
Bidco Africa, also known as Bidco Industries, is a Kenyan family-owned manufacturer of edible oils, soaps, and detergents, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Thika.
Bidding system
A bidding system in contract bridge is the base language a partnership agrees on for its bids, later extended by conventions; natural examples include Standard American, 2/1 Game Force, and Acol.
Biddu
Biddu, born Biddu Appaiah, is an India-born, England-based music producer and composer who produced "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974) and pioneered Indi-pop with Nazia Hassan's Disco Deewane.
Bide
Bide is a 2020 combinatorial abstract strategy board game by Alek Erickson for 2-6 players on an empty hex-hex base 5 board, featuring stored-turn hands (bide/release), outward-pushing shock waves, and center-distance group scoring; unrelated to StrategyForge's fictional heron character.
Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory
Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory: claims, spread by Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Russian-linked sources, that Joe Biden corruptly fired Ukraine's prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016 to protect son Hunter and Burisma; long debunked but central to 2019 impeachment and a 2023–2024 inquiry.
Bidenomics
Bidenomics is the economic program of the Biden administration (2021 to 2025), defined by Joe Biden as growing the economy from the middle out and bottom up.
Bidens
Bidens (beggar-ticks, bur-marigold) is a cosmopolitan Asteraceae genus of roughly 200–280 species with centers of diversity in Africa and the Americas, barbed awned achenes, notable Pacific island adaptive radiations, and the medicinal weed Bidens pilosa.
Bidens pilosa
Bidens pilosa (Spanish needles, cobbler's pegs, xian feng cao) is an Asteraceae herb native to tropical America, used in traditional medicine for over 40 ailments, chemically rich in polyacetylenes and flavonoids, and a noxious weed in 40+ countries.
Bidesia
Bidesia (बिदेसिया) is a Bhojpuri folk theater form from Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, created by Bhikhari Thakur to depict labor migration and the sorrow of abandoned wives.
Bidet
A bidet is a plumbing fixture or toilet attachment that cleans the perineal and anal areas with a stream of water, invented in France in the early 18th century.
Bidet shower
A bidet shower, also known as the health faucet, bum gun, or Muslim shower, is a handheld trigger sprayer beside a toilet used for washing the anus and genitals.
Bidhan Chandra Roy (বিধান চন্দ্র রায়)
Bidhan Chandra Roy (বিধান চন্দ্র রায়) was an Indian physician, educator, and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1948 until his death in 1962.
Bidhoba Bibaha
Bidhoba Bibaha (বিধবা বিবাহ, "widow marriage") was the nineteenth-century movement in colonial Bengal to legalize Hindu widow remarriage, led by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar and culminating in the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856.
Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement
Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, also written Bidibidi, is a refugee settlement in Yumbe District, Uganda, established in 2016 to host South Sudanese refugees fleeing civil war, growing to over 280,000 residents.
Bidirectional charging
Bidirectional charging lets an electric vehicle both draw power from a charger and discharge back out, powering appliances or a home, or selling electricity to the grid.
Bidirectional gated recurrent unit network
A bidirectional gated recurrent unit network (BiGRU) is a recurrent neural network that runs two GRU layers in opposite directions, combining past and future context for tagging and encoding sequences.
Bidirectional LSTM
A bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM) is a recurrent neural network that runs two LSTM layers over the same sequence in opposite directions, introduced by Graves and Schmidhuber in 2005.
Bidirectional Mendelian randomization
Bidirectional Mendelian randomization is a genetic epidemiology design that uses genetic variants as instruments to test causal effects of two traits on each other, judging direction.
Bidirectional recurrent neural network
A bidirectional recurrent neural network (BRNN) is a neural network architecture that processes sequence data in both forward and reverse directions, introduced by Schuster and Paliwal in 1997.
Bidirectional reflectance distribution function
The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is the standard measure of a surface's directional reflection, giving the ratio of reflected radiance to incident irradiance for given light directions.
Bidirectional search
Bidirectional search is a graph search algorithm that runs two simultaneous searches, from the start and the goal, meeting in the middle to find a shortest path.
Bidoni
Bidonì (Bidoniu) is a village of about 150 inhabitants in Barigadu, province of Oristano, Sardinia, known for the Roman Temple of Jupiter on Monte Onnariu, the island's only Jupiter temple, with an inscribed IOVIS altar.
Bidriware
Bidriware is a metal handicraft from Bidar, Karnataka, India, where silver wire is inlaid into a blackened zinc-copper alloy, leaving bright silver designs on black.
Bidrohi
Bidrohi (বিদ্রোহী, "The Rebel") is a Bengali revolutionary poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam, written in December 1921 and published in 1922, which earned him the title Bidrohi Kavi, the Rebel Poet.
Bids for the 2020 Summer Olympics
Bids for the 2020 Summer Olympics: six applicant cities (Istanbul, Tokyo, Baku, Doha, Madrid, Rome; Rome withdrew), three finalists, Tokyo elected 60-36 over Istanbul at the 125th IOC Session, Buenos Aires, 7 September 2013.
Bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics
Bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics: six applicant cities (Beijing, Almaty, Krakow, Lviv, Oslo, Stockholm); four withdrew over costs or support, and Beijing beat Almaty 44-40 on 31 July 2015.
Bids for the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics
Bids for the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics: Paris and Los Angeles candidacies ended in a joint IOC award at Lima, 13 September 2017, Paris taking 2024 and LA 2028 after Budapest, Hamburg, and Rome withdrew.
Bids for the 2032 Summer Olympics
Bids for the 2032 Summer Olympics: Brisbane, Australia elected host 21 July 2021 (72-5 IOC vote), the first under the IOC's Targeted Dialogue process; A$7.1 billion venue program, new Victoria Park stadium.