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Black-eyed children
Black-eyed children (BEKs) are an internet urban legend about pale children with entirely black eyes who beg entry to homes or cars. Originated with Brian Bethel's 1996 Abilene, Texas account, posted online January 1998; no physical evidence exists.
Black-eyed pea
Black-eyed pea, a market type of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), also called southern pea or crowder pea; African-domesticated legume with a black hilum, spread via the Columbian Exchange, central to hoppin' John and New Year's luck traditions.
Black-faced cuckooshrike
Black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae), also called Shufflewing or Blue Jay, a 32–34 cm blue-grey Australian and southern New Guinea songbird with a black face and throat, wing-shuffling habit, IUCN Least Concern.
Black-figure pottery
Black-figure pottery (black-figure vase painting): ancient Greek technique, Corinthian origin c. 700-720 BC, Athenian peak with Exekias, black slip silhouettes with incised detail, replaced by red-figure after c. 530 BC.
Black-footed cat
Black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), smallest African wild cat, 1–2.5 kg, endemic to southern Africa; nocturnal, Vulnerable IUCN, population about 13,867, threatened by poisoning, habitat loss, and AA-amyloidosis.
Black-footed ferret
Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes), the only ferret native to the Americas, a nocturnal prairie dog-hunting mustelid twice presumed extinct, rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981, and restored through captive breeding, reintroduction, and cloning from preserved genes.
Black-hole X-ray binary
A black-hole X-ray binary is a binary star system in which a stellar-mass black hole accretes matter from a companion star, producing strong X-ray emission from the inner accretion disk.
Black-ish
Black-ish (black-ish) is an American ABC sitcom created by Kenya Barris, airing 2014-2022 over 8 seasons, following ad executive Dre Johnson (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) raising an upper-middle-class Black family; Peabody winner, 26 Emmy nominations, spun off Grown-ish and Mixed-ish. Not the Netflix show #blackAF.
Black-legged kittiwake
Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a small cliff-nesting gull of northern oceans with black wingtips and legs; IUCN Vulnerable, with severe North Atlantic declines from food shortage, fisheries, climate change, and 2023 avian flu.
Black-tailed deer
Black-tailed deer are two coastal subspecies of mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus and O. h. sitkensis, ranging from south-central California to southeastern Alaska; forest-edge browsers managed for hunting, threatened by logging and severe winters.
Black-tailed jackrabbit
The black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) is a hare, not a rabbit, found across western North America from desert scrubland to prairies, with up to four litters a year.
Black-topped pottery
Black-topped pottery is a Predynastic Egyptian ware with a burnished red body and black rim, typical of Naqada I and II, about 4000 to 3000 BC.
Black-winged kite algorithm
The black-winged kite algorithm (BKA) is a swarm-intelligence metaheuristic for numerical and engineering optimization, introduced by Jun Wang and colleagues in Artificial Intelligence Review in 2024.
Black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire
The black-yellow-white flag (чёрно-жёлто-белый флаг), also called the Romanov or Köhne flag, was the state flag of the Russian Empire from 11 June 1858, displaced for decoration in 1883 by Alexander III and finally superseded by the white-blue-red tricolor in 1896.
Black–Scholes equation
The Black–Scholes equation, also called the Black–Scholes–Merton equation, is a partial differential equation that option prices must satisfy, derived by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in 1973.
Black–Scholes model
The Black–Scholes model, also called the Black–Scholes-Merton model, is a mathematical formula for pricing stock options, published by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in 1973.
Black, White & Gray - Love Kills
Black, White & Gray - Love Kills is a 2025 Hindi-language SonyLIV crime-thriller mockumentary in six episodes, directed by Pushkar Sunil Mahabal, starring Mayur More, Palak Jaiswal, Deven Bhojani, and Tigmanshu Dhulia, about a fictional Nagpur murder case investigated by journalist Daniel Gray.
Black's Beach
Black's Beach (Torrey Pines City Beach and State Beach) is a two-mile San Diego beach beneath 300-foot cliffs, known for expert winter surf, difficult cliff access, and a customary clothing-optional northern section.
Blackadder
Blackadder is a BBC1 British historical sitcom (1983–1989, plus specials) starring Rowan Atkinson as successive Edmund Blackadders and Tony Robinson as Baldrick, written by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, and Atkinson, spanning medieval, Elizabethan, Regency, and First World War settings.
Blackadder Goes Forth
Blackadder Goes Forth, also called Blackadder 4, is the 1989 fourth and final BBC series of Blackadder by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, set in 1917 Western Front trenches, starring Rowan Atkinson, and famous for its poppy-field finale Goodbyeee.
Blackadder II
Blackadder II (1986) is the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, set at the Elizabethan court of Queen Elizabeth I, aired in six episodes on BBC One from 9 January to 20 February 1986.
Blackadder the Third
Blackadder the Third is the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder (also known as Blackadder III), set in the Regency era with Edmund Blackadder as butler to Prince George. Six episodes aired on BBC One in 1987; it won the 1988 BAFTA for Best Comedy Series.
BlackAF
#blackAF is a 2020 Netflix comedy series created by and starring Kenya Barris as a fictionalized version of himself, with Rashida Jones as his wife Joya. Eight episodes, mockumentary format, 46% critics score, renewed then cancelled in 2021.
Blackballing
Blackballing: rejecting a club membership candidate by secret ballot, white ball for approval, black ball against; word from 1770, used in gentlemen's clubs, Freemasonry, and fraternities, now figurative for exclusion.
Blackbear (musician)
blackbear (Matthew Tyler Musto, b. 1990, Florida) is an American singer-songwriter-producer blending pop, emo, R&B, and hip-hop; co-wrote Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" and released Deadroses, Digital Druglord, and Everything Means Nothing.
Blackbeard
Blackbeard (Edward Teach, c. 1680–1718) was an English pirate whose flagship Queen Anne's Revenge, the captured French slaver La Concorde, blockaded Charleston in 1718 and wrecked at Beaufort Inlet, where its 1996-discovered wreck has yielded over 400,000 artifacts.
Blackbeard's Ghost
Blackbeard's Ghost is a 1968 American family fantasy comedy from Walt Disney Productions, directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, and Suzanne Pleshette.
Blackberry
Blackberry (Rubus subgenus Rubus): solid-core aggregate bramble fruit, unlike hollow raspberries. Over 400 cultivars; Mexico leads production (250,000 MT forecast 2025); invasive weed in Australia.
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is a Canadian technology company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, whose smartphones dominated the 2000s before the company pivoted to security software and QNX embedded vehicle systems.
BlackBerry (film)
BlackBerry (2023) is a Canadian comedy-drama biopic directed by Matt Johnson, adapted from the book Losing the Signal, starring Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, and Johnson as Research in Motion's founders, dramatizing the smartphone's rise and fall.