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Black ice
Black ice, also known as glare ice or Glatteis, is a thin, transparent coating of glaze ice on roads that is hard to see because the dark pavement shows through it.
Black Ice (album)
Black Ice (2008) is AC/DC's fifteenth studio album, produced by Brendan O'Brien in Vancouver, their debut Columbia/Sony BMG release, first UK/US chart-topper in decades, and Malcolm Young's final album.
Black Indians in the United States
Black Indians are Americans of combined African American and Native American ancestry, shaped by slavery among Native nations, census misclassification, one-drop rules, and ongoing tribal membership and Freedmen recognition disputes.
Black Ink Crew
Black Ink Crew (Black Ink Crew New York) is a VH1 reality series premiered January 7, 2013, following Ceaser Emanuel's African-American-owned Harlem tattoo shop staff across 10 seasons, with Chicago and Compton spin-offs.
Black Iris
Black Iris is a 1926 oil painting by the American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe, showing a single dark iris enlarged far beyond lifesize so the flower fills the canvas.
Black Is King
Black Is King is Beyoncé's 2020 visual album on Disney+, based on The Lion King: The Gift, 85 minutes, directed with Emmanuel Adjei, Blitz Bazawule, and Kwasi Fordjour; 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, six Grammy nominations.
Black Island
Black Island is the name of several islands worldwide, best known being a volcanic island in Antarctica's Ross Archipelago and an island in the Argentine Islands, Graham Coast.
Black Isle Studios
Black Isle Studios, formerly Dragonplay, was Interplay's internal RPG division formed in 1996 under Feargus Urquhart; it developed Fallout, Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, and Icewind Dale, published BioWare's Baldur's Gate, and was shut down by Interplay in December 2003.
Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) (manga)
Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) is Osamu Tezuka's medical manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion 1973–1983, 243 self-contained episodes about Hazama Kuroo, an unlicensed genius surgeon, distinguishable from the card game and other uses of the name.
Black July (කළු ජූලි)
Black July (කළු ජූලි) was the anti-Tamil pogrom that swept Sri Lanka from 23 July 1983, killing about 3,000 Tamils and triggering the 26-year civil war.
Black Kettle
Black Kettle (Cheyenne: Mo'ohtavetoo'o), born about 1803, was a Southern Cheyenne peace chief who signed US treaties, survived the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, and died at the Washita in 1868.
Black kite
Black kite (Milvus migrans), a widespread dark raptor of Eurasia, Africa, and Australia; Least Concern with 4–5.7 million mature individuals; split from the yellow-billed kite; subspecies include migrans, lineatus, govinda.
Black knight
The Black knight is an Arthurian romance trope: a knight in black armor or without heraldry who hides his identity. Key examples include Chrétien's nameless knight defeated by Yvain, Moriaen the Middle Dutch Moorish hero, and modern comic and game aliases.
Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
Black Knight (Dane Whitman) is a Marvel Comics superhero, third bearer of the name after Sir Percy of Scandia and Nathan Garrett. Debuting in Avengers #47 (1967), he wields the cursed Ebony Blade, joined the Avengers, and was played by Kit Harington in Eternals (2021).
Black Knight (film)
Black Knight is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Gil Junger, in which Martin Lawrence plays an amusement-park worker who wakes up in 14th-century England.
Black Knight (Marvel Comics)
Black Knight is a Marvel Comics legacy title held by Sir Percy of Scandia (1955), the villain Nathan Garrett (1964), and Avenger Dane Whitman (1967), wielder of Merlin-forged, cursed Ebony Blade; Dane appears in the MCU Eternals played by Kit Harington.
Black Knight (Monty Python)
The Black Knight is the John Cleese character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) who guards a bridge, has all four limbs cut off by King Arthur, and keeps fighting, saying 'Tis but a scratch.
Black Knight (South Korean TV series)
Black Knight (택배기사, Taekbaegisa) is a 2023 Netflix South Korean dystopian sci-fi series by Cho Ui-seok, based on Lee Yoon-gyun's webtoon Delivery Knight, starring Kim Woo-bin as courier 5-8 in 2071 Korea.
Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory
Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory: claims of a 13,000-year-old alien satellite in polar orbit, also called an ancient alien probe. Debunked as a composite legend; the famous STS-88 photo shows a lost thermal blanket.
Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (흑기사)
Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (흑기사) is a 2017 KBS2 Korean fantasy romance drama, 20 episodes, starring Kim Rae-won and Shin Se-kyeong, about a CEO, a travel agent, and two 200-year-old witches; distinct from the 2023 Netflix series Black Knight.
Black Kray
Black Kray (Sickboyrari), stage name of Timothy O'Neal Mills, born 1994, Richmond, Virginia rapper, producer, and filmmaker; founder of Goth Money Records, early Raider Klan member, and influential figure in cloud rap, emo rap, and tread.
Black Label Society
Black Label Society is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1998 by guitarist and vocalist Zakk Wylde, best known as Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist.
Black Lagoon
Black Lagoon (ブラック・ラグーン) is a seinen manga by Rei Hiroe, serialized in Sunday GX since 2002, about salaryman Rock joining the Lagoon Company couriers in Roanapur; 14 volumes, 10 million copies, Madhouse anime.
Black Lantern Corps
Black Lantern Corps: DC Comics fictional undead army created by Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver, and Ivan Reis, first appearing in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (2008). Deceased beings reanimated by black rings, led by Nekron, based on Ryut in Sector 666, antagonists of Blackest Night.
Black Legion (political movement)
The Black Legion was a white supremacist terrorist offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, active mainly in Michigan and Ohio from 1925 to 1936, with about 30,000 Michigan members, up to 50 murders, and collapse after the 1936 Poole murder convictions.
Black Liberation Army
The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground US urban guerrilla group formed by a split from the Black Panther Party in the early 1970s, following Marighella's doctrine, active roughly 1970-1976 in bombings, robberies, and police shootings.
Black Lightning
Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce) is a DC Comics superhero with lightning powers, debuting in Black Lightning #1 (1977) as DC's first Black title character; adapted into a 2018 CW series starring Cress Williams.
Black Lightning (TV series)
Black Lightning is a CW superhero drama (2018–2021) created by Salim Akil, starring Cress Williams as retired hero Jefferson Pierce, father to Thunder and Lightning.
Black Like Me
Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin's 1961 nonfiction book (journal of a 1959 journey), recounts six weeks in the segregated Deep South after the white journalist darkened his skin with methoxsalen; a bestseller, Sepia-funded, later a 1964 film.
Black liquor recovery
Black liquor recovery is the part of the kraft pulping process that evaporates and burns spent cooking liquor to regenerate sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide while recovering its heat value.