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Bisantrene
Bisantrene (Zantrene, CL-216942, NSC 337766) is an anthracenyl bishydrazone DNA-intercalating, topoisomerase II-inhibiting anticancer drug with doxorubicin-like activity but low cardiotoxicity, developed in the 1980s and rediscovered as an FTO inhibitor for AML.
Bisarjan
Bisarjan (বিসর্জন, "Sacrifice"/"Immersion") is Rabindranath Tagore's 1890 Bengali verse drama, adapted from his novel Rajarshi, in which the Tripura king bans animal sacrifice and clashes with the royal priest Raghupati.
Bisat Oil Field
Bisat Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Oman's Block 60, discovered in 2017 and operated by OQEP, producing crude from the Shuaiba limestone formation.
Bisayan languages
The Bisayan languages (Visayan, Binisaya) are a group of about forty closely related Austronesian languages spoken across the central Philippines, with Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray the most widely spoken.
Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee, Arizona: former copper mining boomtown in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, county seat since 1929, once the largest city in Arizona Territory, now an artist and heritage tourism community after the 1975 mine closure.
Bisca
Bisca is a Portuguese point-trick card game of the Briscola family, played with a 40-card deck, no follow-suit rule, Ace 11 and Seven 10 points, 61 of 120 points winning, with variants for 2 to 6 players in Portugal, Brazil, and Angola.
Biscari massacre
The Biscari massacre, also called the Santo Pietro massacres, was the 14 July 1943 killing of 73 Italian and German POWs by US 45th Division soldiers near Biscari airfield, Sicily; Sergeant Horace West was convicted and later paroled, Captain Compton acquitted.
Biscay
Biscay, also known as Vizcaya, is a province of the Basque Country, Spain. It is the most populated, covering 2,217 square kilometers and bounded by the Bay of Biscay.
Biscayan dialect
Biscayan dialect (bizkaiera), the Western dialect of Basque spoken in Bizkaia, western Gipuzkoa, and northeastern Araba; the westernmost, most divergent Basque dialect, codified by Labayru Gramatika alongside Standard Basque (batua).
Biscayne Bay
Biscayne Bay is a shallow subtropical lagoon along Miami-Dade County, Florida, from Haulover Inlet to Key Largo, home to Biscayne National Park and state aquatic preserves; a $64 billion economic asset facing seagrass loss, nutrient pollution, and Everglades restoration efforts.
Biscayne National Park
Biscayne National Park, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, protects Biscayne Bay, the northernmost Florida Keys, mangrove shoreline, and the northern Florida Reef Tract. Authorized 1968 as a monument, redesignated 1980; about 95 percent water.
Bisclavret
Bisclavret is an Old French narrative lai by Marie de France, written in the late 12th century, telling of a noble knight who periodically becomes a werewolf.
Biscoe Islands (landform)
Biscoe Islands: Antarctic island group off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, from Pitt to Barcroft Islands, discovered by John Biscoe on 17-18 February 1832 and named Biscoe's Range by the Enderby firm.
Biscotti
Biscotti, plural of biscotto, are Italian cookies whose name means twice-baked; abroad the word means the hard Tuscan almond cookies called cantucci or biscotti di Prato, baked, sliced, and dried in a second oven pass for long shelf life.
Biscuit
Biscuit: from Latin panis biscoctus, twice-cooked ship bread. Means a crisp cookie-like item in British English and a soft scone-like quick bread in North America; biscuit products have 1–5% moisture.
Biscuit (bread)
Biscuit (bread): the North American quick bread, a chemically leavened round distinct from the British cookie-biscuit; Southern staple adopted for its buttermilk, lard, and soft wheat flour.
Biscuits and gravy
Biscuits and gravy, also called sawmill, country, or white gravy and biscuits, is an American Southern breakfast of leavened biscuits smothered in white sausage gravy made from pork drippings, flour, and milk, originating in Appalachian frontier and logging-camp cooking.
Bisection bandwidth
Bisection bandwidth is the minimum aggregate link capacity crossing any partition that divides a network into two equal halves, bounding the worst-case throughput for traffic between them; it compares topologies for supercomputers and data centers.
Bisection method
The bisection method is a simple, robust root-finding algorithm that repeatedly halves an interval where a continuous function changes sign, converging linearly on a root of f(x) = 0.
Biserka Višnjić
Biserka Višnjić (née Rožić, born 1953, Trogir), Croatian handball left wing for Yugoslavia; Olympic gold 1984 and silver 1980, world gold 1973 and bronze 1982, IHF Cup 1982 with Trešnjevka.
Bisexual erasure
Bisexual erasure (bi erasure, bisexual invisibility) is the ignoring, falsifying, or reexplaining of bisexuality as gay or straight. Covers Yoshino's epistemic contract, gendered stereotypes, media tropes, and health disparities.
Bisexual flag
Bisexual flag: pink, purple, blue pride flag designed by Michael Page, unveiled 5 December 1998 at BiCafe; 2:1:2 stripes with colors from Liz Nania's biangles; BiNet USA's 2020 copyright claim was dropped.
Bisexual lighting
Bisexual lighting: use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, matching the bisexual pride flag, in film, TV, and music to signal bisexuality; originated in a 2014 Tumblr post about Sherlock, peaked 2016-2018, and was used deliberately in Heartstopper.
Bisexual pornography
Bisexual pornography depicts sex involving performers of both sexes, especially male-male-female scenes. Key facts: genre emerged with 1985's Bi-Coastal; tagged mainly MMF on tube sites; criticized for hypersexualized, coerced depictions of bisexuality.
Bisexuality
Bisexuality (bi): romantic, emotional, or sexual attraction to more than one gender. Distinct from pansexuality; largest LGBTQ+ identity (5.3% of U.S. adults); faces bi-erasure and elevated mental health disparities.
Bishabriksha
Bishabriksha (বিষবৃক্ষ, The Poison Tree) is an 1873 Bengali social novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, serialized in his magazine Bangadarshan, centered on a triangular relationship involving widow remarriage.
Bishad Shindhu
Bishad Shindhu (বিষাদ সিন্ধু, "Ocean of Sorrow") is an epic Bengali novel by Mir Mosharraf Hossain, published in three parts between 1885 and 1891, retelling the Karbala tragedy.
Bishan Singh Bedi (ਬਿਸ਼ਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਬੇਦੀ)
Bishan Singh Bedi (ਬਿਸ਼ਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਬੇਦੀ), 1946-2023, Indian left-arm spin bowler and captain; 266 Test wickets at 28.71, 1,560 first-class wickets, spin quartet member, ICC Hall of Fame 2009.
Bishandas
Bishandas (بشن داس) was a Mughal portrait painter who served Emperor Jahangir and traveled to Persia from 1613 to 1620 to paint Shah Abbas I and his court.
Bishangarh Fossae
Bishangarh Fossae is a 163-km-long fossa (graben system) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, centered at 24°S, 225.8°W, IAU-approved February 4, 2010, named from the Arabian Nights tale "Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri Banu."