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Bishara al-Khuri
Bishara al-Khuri (بشارة الخوري) was a Lebanese Maronite lawyer and statesman who served as the first president of independent Lebanon, from 1943 until his resignation in 1952.
Bisher Banshi
Bisher Banshi (বিষের বাঁশী, "The Poisonous Flute") is a 1924 Bengali poetry collection by Kazi Nazrul Islam, banned by the British colonial government two months after publication.
Bishkek (Бишкек)
Bishkek (Бишкек), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan in the Chuy valley. Founded 1878, renamed 1926 and 1991; about 1 million residents, four districts, severe winter air pollution.
Bishnoi
The Bishnoi, also known as Vishnoi, are a religious community in Rajasthan, India, founded by Guru Jambheshwar around 1485 and known for protecting trees and wildlife.
Bishnu Dey
Bishnu Dey (বিষ্ণু দে) was a Bengali poet and art critic, a pioneer of modernism in post-Tagore Bengali literature, who won the Jnanpith Award in 1971.
Bishnu Pada Ray
Bishnu Pada Ray, born in 1950, is an Indian BJP politician who has represented the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier terms from 1999 to 2019.
Bishnu Prasad Rabha
Bishnu Prasad Rabha, called Kalaguru (teacher of art), was a 20th-century Assamese poet, songwriter, playwright, and actor, remembered as a founder of modern Assamese culture and as a communist legislator.
Bishnu S. Atal
Bishnu S. Atal, born 1933 in Kanpur, India, is an Indian-born speech researcher who spent most of his career at Bell Labs and created the CELP speech coding method.
Bishnu Shrestha (विष्णु श्रेष्ठ)
Bishnu Prasad Shrestha (विष्णु श्रेष्ठ), born 1975 in Parbat, Nepal, is a Naik of the 7/8 Gorkha Rifles, Indian Army, who fought 30-40 train robbers alone with a khukuri on the Maurya Express in 2010 and received gallantry medals.
Bishoftu International Airport
Bishoftu International Airport is a greenfield airport under construction near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, led by Ethiopian Airlines Group to relieve capacity constraints at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.
Bishōjo (美少女)
Bishōjo (美少女, bishoujo) is Japanese for a beautiful girl and, in English fandom, a genre of anime and manga depicting cute young girls; attested from 1686, central to otaku media, and borrowed into Chinese and Korean.
Bishōjo game
Bishōjo game (美少女ゲーム), also gal game: Japanese genre of games centered on interacting with attractive anime-style female characters, mostly visual novels with branching routes; male-oriented counterpart to otome games, historically tied to eroge.
Bishōnen (美少年)
Bishōnen (美少年), literally "beautiful boy," is a Japanese term and aesthetic for slender, androgynously beautiful young men, rooted in Edo-period wakashu imagery and central to shōjo manga, male idols, and boys' love (BL) manga.
Bishonen (美少年之恋) (film)
Bishonen (美少年之戀, also Beauty) is Yonfan's 1998 Hong Kong gay romance drama starring Stephen Fung, Daniel Wu, and Shu Qi; produced by Sylvia Chang, it won Best Film at the 13th Milan Gay Film Festival.
Bishop
A bishop in the Catholic Church holds the highest degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders, governing a diocese and succeeding to the place of the Apostles.
Bishop (chess)
Bishop (chess): the diagonal-moving piece, historically the alfil or elephant, bound to one square color for the whole game; worth about 3 pawns, strongest in open positions, and the bishop pair is a recognized advantage.
Bishop and knight checkmate
Bishop and knight checkmate: the hardest basic chess mate, forcing a lone king into a corner matching the bishop's color via the W maneuver, mate in at most 33 moves under the 50-move rule.
Bishop Auckland
Bishop Auckland, County Durham market town, seat of the Bishops of Durham at Auckland Palace; railway and coal town, later Auckland Project heritage regeneration led by Jonathan Ruffer from 2012.
Bishop Briggs
Bishop Briggs, stage name of Sarah Grace McLaughlin (born 1992), London-born, Los Angeles-based English singer-songwriter named after Bishopbriggs, Scotland; known for "River" (2016), albums Church of Scars and Champion, and winning The Masked Singer season 9 as Medusa.
Bishop Fitzgerald
Bishop Fitzgerald, American NFL safety (Detroit Lions, born 2003, Woodbridge, Virginia). Former quarterback; Coffeyville CC, NC State, USC; consensus All-American 2025 with 5 interceptions; Titans UDFA 2026.
Bishop Fox
Bishop Fox is a privately held offensive security consulting firm headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. Founded in 2005 as Stach & Liu, it offers penetration testing, red teaming, and the Cosmos attack surface platform.
Bishop Gorman High School
Bishop Gorman High School (BGHS), the Gaels, is a Roman Catholic college-preparatory high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, founded September 7, 1954 by the Clerics of St. Viator and named for Bishop Thomas K. Gorman; about 1,500 students on a 52-acre campus since 2007.
Bishop of Dover
The Bishop of Dover, styled Bishop in Canterbury, is a Church of England suffragan bishop who oversees the Diocese of Canterbury, undertaking most of the Archbishop of Canterbury's diocesan duties.
Bishop of Llandaff
The Bishop of Llandaff, historically Bishop of Glamorgan, is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Llandaff in the Church in Wales, the most populous of its six Welsh dioceses.
Bishop of London
The Bishop of London is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of London, seated at St Paul's Cathedral, with a House of Lords seat by right.
Bishop Rock
Bishop Rock, westernmost rock of the Isles of Scilly, England, site of the 1858 Trinity House lighthouse strengthened in 1887; 49 m tall, automated 1992, famed as the smallest island with a building.
Bishop score
Bishop score (cervix score, pelvic score): 0-13 digital cervical assessment of dilation, effacement, station, consistency, and position, devised by Edward Bishop in 1964 to predict labor induction success; simplified and modified variants exist.
Bishop Sycamore High School scandal
Bishop Sycamore High School scandal: a Columbus, Ohio, football team from a nonexistent school (precursor CoF Academy) lost 58-0 to IMG Academy on ESPN on August 29, 2021; coach Roy Johnson was fired and Ohio investigators deemed the school a scam.
Bishop-Wisecarver
Bishop-Wisecarver is a family-owned manufacturer in Pittsburg, California, of linear and rotary motion components, best known as the inventor of the DualVee guide wheel and track system introduced in 1967.
Bishop, California
Bishop, California: small Inyo County city at the north end of the Owens Valley off US 395, gateway to the High Sierra and Mount Whitney, home of Mule Days, the Bishop Paiute Tribe, and world-class bouldering and trout fishing.