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Bilal Philips
Bilal Philips, also known as Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, is a Jamaican-Canadian Sunni Islamic scholar and author who converted to Islam in 1972 and founded the accredited online International Open University.
Bilal Saeed (بلال سعید)
Bilal Saeed (بلال سعید) is a Pakistani singer, composer, and songwriter known for "12 Saal" (2011) and "Teri Khair Mangdi" from the 2016 film Baar Baar Dekho.
Bilal Sonses
Bilal Sonses is a Turkish singer, songwriter, and composer born in Istanbul in 1993, known since his 2016 song "İki Kelime"; his duet "Hasbelkader" topped the Turkish charts in 2020.
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero is a 2015 3D animated action-adventure film by Dubai's Barajoun Entertainment, directed by Ayman Jamal and Khurram H. Alavi, based on Bilal ibn Rabah; first Middle Eastern CG feature, $30M budget, premiered at DIFF 2015.
Bilalama
Bilalama was a ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of Eshnunna in the Diyala region around 2000 BC, known from his seal inscription and the rebuilt Palace of the Rulers at Tell Asmar.
Bilangan Fu
Bilangan Fu is a 2008 Indonesian novel by Ayu Utami, her third, following the rock climber Sandi Yuda in rural Java; it won the 2008 Khatulistiwa Literary Award.
Bilaṅgika-Bhāradvāja
Bilaṅgika-Bhāradvāja (बिलङ्गिकभारद्वाज), also known as Piṅgala, is a brahmin of Rājagaha who confronted the Buddha, took refuge after hearing a single verse, and soon became an arahant.
Bilanka Ramayana
Bilanka Ramayana (ବିଲଙ୍କା ରାମାୟଣ) is an Odia poetic retelling of the Ramayana, attributed to Sarala Das, in which Rama, aided by Sita, kills a thousand-headed Ravana in the subterranean city of Bilanka.
Bilarab bin Haitham
Bilarab bin Haitham (Sayyid Bilarab bin Haitham bin Tarik Al Said) is an Omani royal, son of Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, serving as Minister of State and Governor of Muscat and founder of the Bilarab bin Haitham Initiatives and its architectural design award.
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh: district headquarters city, second largest in the state, seat of the Chhattisgarh High Court at Bodri (Nyayadhani). About 400 years old, named after fisherwoman Bilasa; Kalachuri and Maratha heritage, rice and Kosa industry, Arpa river.
Bilastine
Bilastine (Bilaxten) is a second-generation, non-sedating H1-antihistamine approved in Europe in 2010 for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and urticaria, dosed 20 mg daily, not metabolized, excreted unchanged, and affected by grapefruit juice and P-gp inhibitors.
Bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris
Bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris (BADI) is a rare eye disorder causing sudden pigment loss in both irises, with photophobia and red eye that usually resolves on its own.
Bilateral cochlear implantation
Bilateral cochlear implantation is the surgical placement of cochlear implants in both ears, improving speech understanding in noise and sound localization beyond what one implant provides.
Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation disease
BDUMP (bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation, paraneoplastic uveal melanocytic hyperplasia) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome of benign uveal melanocyte proliferation from occult cancer, causing bilateral vision loss, cataracts, and retinal detachment.
Bilateral divorce and recognition treaties
Bilateral divorce and recognition treaties are agreements between two states governing whether, and on what conditions, a divorce granted by one state's courts is recognized in the other.
Bilateral filter
The bilateral filter is an edge-preserving image-smoothing operator that replaces each pixel with a weighted average of nearby pixels, reducing noise while keeping edges sharp, unlike Gaussian blur.
Bilateral filtering
Bilateral filtering is an edge-preserving image smoothing method that replaces each pixel with a weighted average of neighbors, weighting by spatial distance and intensity difference so edges stay sharp.
Bilateral investment treaty
A bilateral investment treaty (BIT) is an agreement between two countries to protect investments each country's investors make in the other, with binding treatment standards and investor-state arbitration.
Bilateral lung transplant
Bilateral lung transplant is surgery that replaces both of a patient's lungs with donor lungs, the dominant form of lung transplantation, used to treat end-stage lung disease.
Bilateral monopoly
A bilateral monopoly is a market with a single seller, a monopolist, facing a single buyer, a monopsonist, where price is indeterminate and outcomes depend on bargaining power.
Bilateral stimulation (psychology)
Bilateral stimulation is the rhythmic alternating left–right presentation of a sensory signal, most often guided eye movements, taps, or tones, used in psychotherapy to accompany recall of distressing memories.
Bilateral striopallidodentate calcinosis
Bilateral striopallidodentate calcinosis, also known as primary familial brain calcification or Fahr's disease, is a rare inherited disorder marked by calcium deposits in the basal ganglia.
Bilateral T20I series between full members
A bilateral T20I series between full members is a multi-match Twenty20 International cricket series between two full-member nations, typically two to five matches, distinct from ICC global events.
Bilateral teleoperation
Bilateral teleoperation is a remote-manipulation scheme in which an operator drives a master device commanding a slave robot, with contact forces reflected back to the operator's hand.
Bilateral treaties of Australia
Bilateral treaties of Australia: two-party international agreements concluded under the Constitution's section 61 executive power, covering FTAs, BITs, defense alliances (ANZUS, PNG, Fiji), and social security and extradition treaties.
Bilateral treaties of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Bilateral treaties of the Hawaiian Kingdom: nineteenth-century friendship, commerce, navigation, and reciprocity agreements with the United States, Britain, France, Japan, and others, concluded 1826–1893 and terminated or disputed after the 1898 U.S. annexation.
Bilateral treaty
Bilateral treaty: an international agreement between two subjects of international law with treaty-making capacity, also called a two-party treaty or accord. Most UN-registered treaties are bilateral; governed by the 1969 Vienna Convention, usually a signed instrument or exchange of notes.
Bilateria
Bilateria: the clade of triploblastic, bilaterally symmetric animals, spanning Protostomia and the contested Deuterostomia, defined by Hox-patterning of the anterior-posterior axis, with trace fossils younger than about 560 Ma.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (بلاول بھٹو زرداری)
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (بلاول بھٹو زرداری), born 1988, chairs the Pakistan Peoples Party and was Pakistan's youngest foreign minister (2022–2024); he led PPP's 54-seat 2024 result and its coalition with PML-N.
Bilawal Lahooti
Bilawal Lahooti is a Pakistani drummer and percussionist of the Lahore alternative rock band Karakoram, credited on the band's Coke Studio Season 14 song "Ye Dunya" in 2022.