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Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman
Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (2025) is a collaborative album by Wu-Tang Clan and producer Mathematics, released as a 5,000-copy Record Store Day exclusive featuring all nine surviving members.
Black Saturday bushfires
The Black Saturday bushfires, also called the February 7 Victorian bushfires, burned across Victoria, Australia, on 7 February 2009, killing 173 people and destroying over 2,000 homes.
Black screen of death
The black screen of death is a Microsoft Windows failure state where the display goes black with only a cursor visible, leaving the computer apparently unusable.
Black Sea
The Black Sea, called Pontus Euxinus in antiquity, is a marginal sea between southeastern Europe and Anatolia, connected to the Mediterranean only through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.
Black Sea - Bulgaria
Black Sea - Bulgaria (LTER_EU_BG_003) is a Bulgarian long-term ecological research site established in 1991, covering cape Kaliakra, cape Galata and Varna Bay, and Koketrays Sand bank, distinct from the separate Sozopol LTER site.
Black Sea (film)
Black Sea is a 2014 submarine thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Jude Law as a laid-off salvage captain who leads a British-Russian crew to recover sunken Nazi gold.
Black Sea (XTC album)
Black Sea is the fourth studio album by English band XTC, released 12 September 1980 on Virgin (V2173), produced by Steve Lillywhite. It peaked at number 16 in the UK, number 1 in New Zealand, and number 41 in the US, and was XTC's most commercial album to that point.
Black Sea Cossack Host
The Black Sea Cossack Host (Чорноморське козацьке військо) was a Cossack formation of the Russian Empire, formed from former Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1787 and merged into the Kuban Cossack Host in 1860.
Black Sea deluge hypothesis
Black Sea deluge hypothesis, or Noah's Flood hypothesis, proposed by Ryan and Pitman in 1997: an abrupt early Holocene Mediterranean inflow through the Bosporus flooding a freshwater Black Sea lake; contested by the gradualist Outflow Hypothesis.
Black Sea Fleet (Черноморский флот)
Russian Black Sea Fleet (Черноморский флот), based at Sevastopol, Crimea, with Novorossiysk as fallback; lost the flagship Moskva in April 2022 and roughly a third of its vessels to Ukrainian missiles and naval drones, forcing withdrawal eastward.
Black Sea slave trade
The Black Sea slave trade was the long-distance commerce of enslaved people from the Black Sea region to Mediterranean markets, peaking in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Black Sea Trade and Development Bank
The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) is a multilateral development bank owned by the 11 member states of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, based in Thessaloniki, Greece since 1999.
Black Semiconductor
Black Semiconductor GmbH is a German semiconductor startup founded in Aachen in 2020 by brothers Daniel and Sebastian Schall, developing graphene-based photonic interconnects that let chips communicate optically.
Black Seminoles
Black Seminoles (Seminole freedmen, Mascogos) are descendants of escaped slaves who allied with the Seminoles in Spanish Florida, fought in the Seminole Wars, migrated to Oklahoma, Mexico (Coahuila), and Texas, served as Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, and remain distinct from Seminole Indians.
Black separatism
Black separatism is the strand of Black nationalism advocating separate institutions, or a separate nation, for Black people, historically via the Nation of Islam, Republic of New Africa, and Garveyism; distinct from community nationalism, it rarely demands territorial exit from the United States.
Black September (أيلول الأسود)
Black September (أيلول الأسود), the 1970–71 Jordanian civil war: King Hussein's army crushed the PLO-fedayeen state-within-a-state after PFLP hijackings and a Syrian invasion; the PLO fled to Lebanon, spawning the Black September Organization and the 1972 Munich attack.
Black September Organization (منظمة أيلول الأسود)
Black September Organization (منظمة أيلول الأسود), a Palestinian militant group linked to Fatah, active 1971–1973; named after the 1970 Jordan conflict; carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and the 1973 Khartoum embassy killings.
Black Sesame Technologies (黑芝麻智能)
Black Sesame Technologies (黑芝麻智能) is a Chinese automotive chip designer founded in Wuhan in 2016, known for its Huashan driving-assistance SoCs and its 2024 Hong Kong listing.
Black shale
Black shale is a dark mudrock rich in organic matter and pyrite, defined by more than 1% total organic carbon, that can generate oil and natural gas.
Black sheep
Black sheep: sheep with black fleece and the English idiom for a disreputable family member, first recorded 1640. Covers ASIP/MC1R genetics of black wool and the rare Black Welsh Mountain breed.
Black Sheep (1996 film)
Black Sheep is a 1996 American buddy comedy directed by Penelope Spheeris, starring Chris Farley and David Spade in their second film after Tommy Boy; it opened at number one.
Black Ships (黒船)
Black Ships (黒船) were Western vessels that arrived in Japan in 1853, leading to the Treaty of Kanagawa and the end of Japan's national seclusion policy.
Black Shuck
Black Shuck, also called Old Shuck, is a ghostly black dog in English folklore said to roam East Anglia, an omen of death in some accounts and a companion in others.
Black sigatoka
Black sigatoka (black leaf streak), a banana and plantain disease caused by the fungus Pseudocercospora fijiensis (Mycosphaerella fijiensis), first described 1963 in Fiji's Sigatoka Valley, causing about USD 1.6 billion yearly losses.
Black silicon
Black silicon is silicon whose surface is textured with nanoscale needles, pores, or cones so it reflects about 1% of light, developed for solar cells, photodetectors, and antibacterial surfaces.
Black site
Black site: a secret military or intelligence prison and interrogation facility whose existence the government denies; best known from the CIA's 2002-2008 network in Poland, Thailand, and elsewhere holding 119 detainees.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks (Peau noire, masques blancs) is Frantz Fanon's 1952 first book, published by Éditions du Seuil, Paris, with a preface by Francis Jeanson, analyzing racism, language, and the black psyche in a white colonial world.
Black Skinhead
Black Skinhead (BLKKK SKKKN HEAD), 2013 Kanye West song from Yeezus, produced with Daft Punk; SNL debut May 18, 2013; three-times US platinum; interactive Nick Knight video.
Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025
Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 is Public Enemy's sixteenth studio album, surprise-dropped on Bandcamp June 27, 2025 with a 72-hour pay-what-you-want window; 12 tracks, about 40 minutes, addressing ageism, technology, and gun violence.
Black smoker
A black smoker is a type of hydrothermal vent that emits superheated, mineral-rich water as dark, smoke-like fluid, first observed in 1979 on the East Pacific Rise.