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Bishop's Court

Bishop's Court, or Bishopscourt, is the name of Anglican bishops' residences in several countries: a Grade I medieval palace of the Bishops of Exeter at Sowton, Devon, plus examples in Wellington, North Adelaide, Winnipeg, Kirk Michael, and Cape Town.

Bishop's House

Bishop's House names many unrelated buildings, chiefly official residences of diocesan bishops, including East Denton Hall in Newcastle (1622, Grade I), houses in Easton MD, Auckland, Boise, Perth, Hong Kong, and Pugin's demolished Birmingham house.

Oct 15, 2026

Bishop's simplified method of slices

Bishop's simplified method of slices, also known as the Simplified Bishop Method, is a geotechnical limit equilibrium method for computing a slope's factor of safety against circular slip failure.

Bishop's Stortford

Bishop's Stortford is a Hertfordshire market town on the Essex border, on the River Stort. Also called Esterteferd; known for Waytemore Castle, the 1769 Stort Navigation, Stansted Airport proximity, and its conservation area.

Bishopric of Courland

The Bishopric of Courland, Latin Episcopatus Curoniensis, was a church principality of the Livonian Confederation in western Latvia from 1234 to 1583, seat at Piltene.

Bishopric of Dorpat

The Bishopric of Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu piiskopkond; German: Bisdom Dorpat) was a prince-bishopric in southeastern Estonia, a member of the Livonian Confederation from 1224 until Tartu surrendered to Russia in 1558.

Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek

The Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, known in Estonian as the Saare-Lääne piiskopkond, was a Roman Catholic prince-bishopric in western Estonia and on Saaremaa, Hiiumaa, and Muhu from 1228 to 1559.

Bishops in Methodism

A bishop in Methodism is an ordained elder set apart for general oversight, not a separate order of ministry, tracing to John Wesley's 1784 ordination of Thomas Coke.

Bishops in the Catholic Church

Bishops in the Catholic Church are successors of the Apostles, holding the fullness of Holy Orders to teach, sanctify, and govern; there were 5,525 in 2024.

Bishops' sagas

The Bishops' sagas (Biskupa sögur) are medieval Icelandic sagas telling the lives of bishops of Skálholt and Hólar, from the mid eleventh century to the fourteenth.

Bishopstone

Bishopstone: name of several English villages meaning 'the bishops' farm', notably two Wiltshire parishes (one with the scheduled Starveall Farm Roman villa), an East Sussex Anglo-Saxon manor, a Herefordshire village with a Roman villa, and a Buckinghamshire hamlet.

Sep 24, 2026

Bishr al-Hafi

Bishr al-Hafi (بشر الحافي) was an ascetic and Sufi of the early Abbasid period who lived in Baghdad, born in Merv in Khurasan around 767 and known as Bishr the Barefoot.

Oct 10, 2026

Bishr al-Marisi

Bishr al-Marisi (بشر المريسي, died 833) was a Baghdad-based Hanafi theologian who championed the createdness of the Qur'an, advised the caliph al-Ma'mun, and was condemned as an unbeliever by Sunni hadith scholars.

Sep 23, 2026

Bishr ibn al-Mu'tamir

Bishr ibn al-Mu'tamir (بشر بن المعتمر) was an early Abbasid Mu'tazili theologian and poet who founded the Baghdad school of the Mu'tazila and originated the doctrine of tawallud.

Sep 23, 2026

Bishr ibn Marwan

Bishr ibn Marwan (بشر بن مروان) was an Umayyad prince, son of Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakam and brother of Caliph Abd al-Malik, who governed Kufa and Basra and died in 693 or 694.

Oct 10, 2026

Bishr ibn Musa al-Asadi

Bishr ibn Musa al-Asadi was a ninth-century Sunni hadith scholar and hafiz of Baghdad, a jeweller at Bab al-Tin who was born in 190 AH and died in 288 AH aged 98.

Sep 19, 2026

Bisht

The bisht (بشت) is a men's cloak of wool or camel hair worn over the thobe across the Arab world, now reserved for weddings, funerals, and ceremonies.

Bishwa Sahitya

Bishwa Sahitya (বিশ্বসাহিত্য), Bengali for "world literature," is a concept given its canonical Bengali form by Rabindranath Tagore in his essay and lecture of that title.

Sep 19, 2026

Bisi

Bisi, Ge'ez for 'man of...', is a royal epithet borne by Aksumite kings from Endubis to Wa'zeb, attested in inscriptions and coin legends over 250 years.

Bisimulation

Bisimulation (bisimilarity) is a relation between the states of two transition systems guaranteeing behavioral indistinguishability, introduced for automata by David Park in 1981 and extended by Robin Milner to communicating processes.

Sep 19, 2026

Bisitun Cave

Bisitun Cave, also spelled Bisotun, is a Paleolithic cave in Kermanshah province, western Iran, excavated by Carleton Coon in 1949, yielding Mousterian tools and a Neanderthal-aligned human radius.

Bisj pole

A bisj pole is a tall carved wooden memorial pole made by the Asmat people of southwestern New Guinea for a memorial feast honoring the dead.

Biskra

Biskra (بسكرة), ancient Vescera or Ad Piscinam, is an oasis city in southeastern Algeria at the Aurès foot, gateway to the Sahara, capital of the Ziban, with about 262,000 people and a major date palm industry.

Biskra Province

Biskra Province (بسكرة), Algeria's wilaya 07, capital Biskra, the Gateway to the Desert: 20,986 km², ~772,746 people, 30 municipalities, millions of Deglet Nour date palms, and major untapped desert-tourism potential.

Bislama

Bislama is an English-lexified creole language of Vanuatu. Its vocabulary is mostly English, and it functions as a national language and lingua franca across the islands.

Bisleri

Bisleri is India's leading packaged drinking water brand, owned by Bisleri International (Parle/Chauhan family) since 1969, Italian in origin, RO-purified and remineralized under IS 14543, with about 36% organized market share and the Bottles for Change recycling program.