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Bids for the 2036 Summer Olympics
Bids for the 2036 Summer Olympics: seven IOC interested parties (Germany/Munich, Hungary, India/Ahmedabad, Qatar/Doha, South Korea/Jeonbuk, South Africa, Türkiye) in continuous dialogue; host elected mid-2029 under a new three-stage dialogue process.
Bids for the 2038 Asian Games
Bids for the 2038 Asian Games (23rd Asian Games): OCA host selection. India formally bid with Ahmedabad in April 2026; Malaysia, Mongolia, South Korea and others expressed interest; decision not before 2028.
Bids for the Summer Universiade
Bids for the Summer Universiade are city candidatures to host the summer World University Games, decided by FISU through contested votes, single-candidate awards, and withdrawals.
Bids to college bowl games
Bids to college bowl games: how FBS teams earn NCAA bowl eligibility (6-6 or better, APR-based 5-7 alternates), conference tie-ins, the Bowl Coalition/Alliance/BCS eras, and CFP selection committee assignments.
Bidual
The bidual (second dual) of a vector space X is the dual of its dual, X = (X), containing X via a canonical embedding; reflexivity means this embedding is onto.
Bidvest Wits F.C.
Bidvest Wits F.C. (Clever Boys, The Students) was a Johannesburg PSL club tied to Wits University and Bidvest from 2005/6; 2016/17 Absa Premiership and 2017 Telkom Knockout champions; franchise sold to TTM in 2020.
Bidya Devi Bhandari (विद्या देवी भण्डारी)
Bidya Devi Bhandari (विद्या देवी भण्डारी), born 1961, is a Nepali CPN-UML politician, Nepal's second and first female president (two terms, 2015–2023), who later returned to UML politics as senior leader.
Bidyut Baran Mahato
Bidyut Baran Mahato, born 1963, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, in the Lok Sabha since 2014 and has won the Sansad Ratna Award five consecutive years.
Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი)
Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი), Georgian billionaire founder of Georgian Dream, prime minister 2012-13, made fortune in Russian banking and mining; de facto ruler, US-sanctioned December 2024.
Bié Plateau
Bié Plateau (Planalto do Bié, formerly Bihé): high plateau in central Angola, 1,500–1,800 m, covering Huambo and Bié provinces; water tower feeding the Cuanza, Congo, Zambezi, and Okavango systems; chief towns Huambo and Cuito.
Bie Re Zhen Qianjin, Ta Ba Shi Chaoji Nver Nu
Bie Re Zhen Qianjin, Ta Ba Shi Chaoji Nver Nu (别惹真千金，她爸是超级女儿奴) is a 2025 Chinese 60-episode vertical short drama directed by Liu Xiaoxiao, starring Min Xinghan and Gao Jiehui, a rebirth revenge heiress story that ranked 7th on DataEye's 2025 annual heat list.
Biebrza National Park
Biebrza National Park (Biebrzański Park Narodowy), established 9 September 1993, is Poland's largest national park at 59,223 ha, protecting the Biebrza Marshes peatlands; Ramsar site since 1995, Natura 2000 since 2004.
Biedermeier
Biedermeier, also called Vormärz, is the Central European cultural era and style between the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the 1848 revolutions, known for bourgeois domesticity, simple elegant furniture, and genre painting by Waldmüller and Spitzweg.
Biel bienne
FC Biel-Bienne 1896, Swiss football club founded 13 November 1896 in Biel/Bienne, red and white, Swiss champion 1946/47, plays at the 5,200-capacity Tissot Arena, first third-tier club in a Swiss Cup final (2025).
Biela (lunar crater)
Biela, lunar crater in the Moon's southern highlands, ~77 km diameter at -54.9°, 51.5°E, LAC-128; IAU-approved 1935, named for Austrian astronomer Wilhelm von Biela (1782-1856), with 15 lettered satellite craters.
Bielany
Bielany, a Polish place name from Old Polish biel (marsh) with suffix -any, names Warsaw's green northern district (131,420 residents, Camaldolese monastery 1639), a rural gmina in Sokołów County, and villages near Kęty, Wrocław, and Toruń.
Biełaruskaja dumka
Biełaruskaja dumka («Беларуская думка», Belarusian Thought) is the name of several Belarusian periodicals, including a weekly social, literary, and agricultural magazine founded in Grodno in 1930.
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is a German city in North Rhine-Westphalia, founded around 1214 by the Counts of Ravensberg. About 343,500 residents, Sparrenburg castle landmark, Bielefeld University (1969), and first place for objective quality of life in the 2026 Glücksatlas city ranking.
Bielefeld conspiracy
Bielefeld conspiracy (Bielefeld-Verschwörung): satirical German internet joke from a 1994 Usenet post by Achim Held claiming the city of Bielefeld does not exist, run by "SIE" (THEM), tested by three questions; city answered with a 1999 denial and the 2019 €1 million #Bielefeldmillion contest.
Bieler Lake
Bieler Lake: official lake in Nunavut, Canada, at 70°23′N 73°5′W, named 5 April 1951, NTS sheet 037E07, water level about 505 m asl; distinct from the Swiss Bielersee.
Bielski partisans
The Bielski partisans were a Jewish partisan group founded in 1942 in Western Belorussia by Tuvia, Asael, Zus, and Aharon Bielski, combining armed resistance with rescue; over 1,200 Jews survived in their Naliboki Forest camp.
Biemond syndrome type 2
Biemond syndrome type 2 is an extremely rare hereditary disorder involving iris coloboma, short stature, obesity, hypogonadism, polydactyly, and intellectual disability, first described by Biemond in 1934.
Biennale
Biennale (Italian; English: biennial): a large recurring exhibition of contemporary art held every two years, begun with the Venice Biennale in 1895. Covers national pavilions, documenta, Manifesta, and the global spread to over 300 biennials.
Biennial plant
Biennial plant: a flowering plant completing its life cycle in two seasons, overwintering as a rosette, then flowering, seeding, and dying; examples include carrots, beets, cabbage, parsley, and evening primrose, often vernalization-dependent.
Bienvenido Lumbera
Bienvenido Lumbera (1932–2021), known as Bien Lumbera or Ka Bien, was a Filipino poet, playwright, essayist, and literary critic who was named National Artist for Literature in 2006.
Bienvenido Santos
Bienvenido Santos (1911–1996) was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, and poet whose work chronicles Filipino exile in America; his collection Scent of Apples won the 1980 American Book Award.
Bienville
Bienville names Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680-1767), founder of New Orleans, and places honoring him, chiefly Lac Bienville (1,047 km2, Quebec) and Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
Bienville Fractal
Bienville Fractal is the seed-stage venture capital program of Bienville Capital Management, a New York investment firm founded in 2008 that creates and seeds Vertical SaaS companies.
Biermösl Blosn
Biermösl Blosn was a Bavarian satirical music trio founded in 1976 by the brothers Hans, Michael, and Christoph Well, pioneers of Neue Volksmusik who gave their last concerts in 2012.
Biesse
Biesse is an Italian multinational manufacturer of machines, lines, and components for processing wood, glass, stone, metal, and composites, founded in Pesaro, Italy, in 1969.