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Black Swan manslaughter case
The Black Swan manslaughter case was the Florida prosecution of former ballet dancer Ashley Benefield, convicted in 2024 of fatally shooting her estranged husband Doug in 2020.
Black Swan Theatre Company
Black Swan Theatre Company, also known as Black Swan State Theatre Company, is Western Australia's state theater company, founded in Perth in 1991 and resident at the State Theatre Centre.
Black swan theory
Black swan theory: Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 2007 concept of rare, extreme-impact, retrospectively explained events, rooted in Hume's induction problem, fat tails, and risk-management practice.
Black Taj Mahal
The Black Taj Mahal, also known as the Black Taj, is a legend that Shah Jahan planned a black marble tomb opposite the white Taj Mahal in Agra.
Black Talon
Black Talon was a Winchester hollow-point handgun ammunition, introduced around 1991, whose bullet expanded into six razor-sharp talons; controversy after 1993 mass shootings led Winchester to restrict it to law enforcement.
Black tar heroin
Black tar heroin (BTH, Chiva, Negra) is a crude, dark, sticky Mexican heroin dominating western US markets; less refined than powder heroin, requiring heated preparation, and linked to wound botulism, soft tissue infections, and lower HIV prevalence.
Black tea
Black tea (Chinese hongcha, 红茶, "red tea") is fully oxidized Camellia sinensis tea, made by withering, rolling, enzymatic oxidation, and drying; distinct from heicha dark tea, standardized in ISO 3720, with India its largest producer.
Black Test Car (黒の試走車)
Black Test Car (黒の試走車, Kuro no shisōsha) is a 1962 Daiei black-and-white industrial-espionage thriller directed by Yasuzo Masumura from Sueyuki Kajiyama's novel, starring Jiro Tamiya; first of Daiei's Black series.
Black theology
Black theology, also called black liberation theology, is a Christian theology of liberation rooted in the black experience of oppression, first named in the late 1960s.
Black Thought
Black Thought (Tariq Trotter, born 1973) is a Philadelphia rapper, co-founder and lead MC of the Roots, known for Things Fall Apart, the 2017 Funk Flex freestyle, and the solo Streams of Thought, Cheat Codes, and Glorious Game projects.
Black Thunder Coal Mine
Black Thunder Coal Mine is a large surface coal mine in Campbell County, Wyoming, opened in 1977 and among the largest coal producers in the United States.
Black Tides
Black Tides is a survival thriller film directed by Renny Harlin. It stars John Travolta and Melissa Barrera in a story set off the southern coast of Spain.
Black tie
Black tie is a formal evening dress code built on the dinner jacket and black bow tie, less formal than white tie. Originating with an 1865 Henry Poole & Co. commission for the Prince of Wales and named the tuxedo at New York's Tuxedo Club in 1886, it is worn for evening events after 6 p.m.
Black Tie White Noise
Black Tie White Noise is David Bowie's eighteenth studio album, released in April 1993. His first solo album since 1987, it reunited him with Nile Rodgers and topped the UK chart.
Black Tiger Sex Machine
Black Tiger Sex Machine (BTSM) is a Montreal electronic trio, Marc-André Chagnon, Julien Maranda, Patrick Barry, known for LED tiger helmets, Kannibalen Records, and albums Welcome to Our Church and New Worlds.
Black titania
Black TiO2, or black titania, is a defect-rich, reduced form of titanium dioxide whose Ti3+ centers and oxygen vacancies extend its light absorption from the ultraviolet into the visible range.
Black Tom Cassidy
Black Tom Cassidy (Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy) is a Marvel Comics Irish mutant, cousin-rival of Banshee and partner of Juggernaut, debuting in X-Men #99 (1976); he channels force and heat blasts through a shillelagh and later serves on Krakoa's X-Force.
Black Tom explosion
The Black Tom explosion was German sabotage of a Jersey City, New Jersey munitions depot on July 30, 1916, destroying about two million pounds of war material, damaging the Statue of Liberty's torch, and leading to $50 million in reparations awarded in 1939.
Black Tongue
Black Tongue is a British deathcore band from Kingston upon Hull, England, formed in January 2013, known for downtempo "Doomcore" deathcore. Members overlap with Infant Annihilator; releases include Falsifier, Born Hanged, The Unconquerable Dark (2015), and Nadir (2018).
Black Tortoise (Chinese astronomy)
The Black Tortoise (玄武, Xuanwu) is the northern quadrant of the traditional Chinese sky and one of its Four Symbols, depicted as a tortoise entwined with a snake, representing winter and water.
Black triangle (UFO)
Black triangle UFO: a reported unidentified aerial phenomenon, also called flying triangle or TR-3B in lore, described as a large dark silent triangular craft with corner lights; over 8,100 NUFORC reports, linked to the Belgian wave and Phoenix Lights, mostly explained as misidentified aircraft.
Black turtle bean
Black turtle bean (frijol negro), a small shiny black-seeded variety of Phaseolus vulgaris, staple of Latin American cuisine; classic cultivar Black Turtle Soup, second-leading US dry bean class after pinto, Michigan producing about 46%.
Black Twitter
Black Twitter is the informal name for the networked community of African American Twitter users, named in a 2009 Medium article. Known for hashtag campaigns #BlackLivesMatter, #OscarsSoWhite, and #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, and its influence on US news media.
Black Uhuru
Black Uhuru is a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1972 by Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, best known for winning reggae's first Grammy Award with Anthem.
Black Unicorn Factory
Black Unicorn Factory is a California company founded by Johnny Stewart in 2020 that runs a pre-IPO program and the Follow Me for Equity app.
Black Veil Brides
Black Veil Brides: American rock band formed in 2006, led by Andy Biersack, known for Kiss- and Mötley Crüe-inspired black makeup and studded glam look, albums from We Stitch These Wounds (2010) to Vindicate (2026).
Black Velvet (song)
Black Velvet (song): 1989 blues-rock ballad by Christopher Ward and David Tyson, recorded by Alannah Myles as an Elvis Presley tribute; No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 in 1990, Grammy winner, UK No. 2.
Black Venus
Black Venus (Vénus noire) is Abdellatif Kechiche's 2010 French-Italian historical drama about Saartjie Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus", starring Yahima Torres; it competed at Venice 2010 and opened in France on 27 October 2010.
Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley
The black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley, also called the safety-pin dress or "that dress", is Gianni Versace's spring 1994 black silk gown with gold Medusa safety pins, worn by Hurley to the 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere.
Black Volta
The Black Volta, or Mouhoun, is a permanent West African river rising in Burkina Faso, flowing about 1,350 km into Lake Volta in Ghana; its basin spans four countries.