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Blackstar (song)
"Blackstar" ("★") is David Bowie's nearly ten-minute title track and first single (20 November 2015) from his final album Blackstar, recorded with Donny McCaslin's quartet, used for The Last Panthers, and directed as a Johan Renck video.
Blackstone
Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative asset manager founded in 1985 by Stephen Schwarzman and Peter Peterson, today the world's largest with over $1.3 trillion in assets.
Blackstone Canal
The Blackstone Canal was a 46-mile waterway built between 1824 and 1828 to link Worcester, Massachusetts, with Providence, Rhode Island; railroads closed it in 1848.
Blackstone Inc.
Blackstone Inc., formerly The Blackstone Group, is an American alternative asset manager headquartered in New York, reporting more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management in 2025.
Blackstone Real Estate Partners
Blackstone Real Estate Partners is the series of opportunistic real estate private equity funds managed by Blackstone Inc., including the record $30.4 billion BREP X fund.
Blackstone Real Estate Partners X F
Blackstone Real Estate Partners X F is a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2022 as a parallel vehicle of Blackstone's $30.4 billion BREP X real estate fund.
Blackstone wind farm
Blackstone wind farm, operating as Top Crop Wind Farm I, is a 102 MW onshore wind farm near Blackstone, Illinois, with 68 GE turbines online since 2009.
Blackstone's ratio
Blackstone's ratio is William Blackstone's maxim from the Commentaries (1765-1769) that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer, underpinning the presumption of innocence, with variant ratios from Fortescue's 20:1 to Maimonides' 1000:1.
Blackstreet
Blackstreet is an American R&B vocal group founded in New York by Teddy Riley and Chauncey Hannibal after Guy disbanded. Known for the four-week Hot 100 No. 1 "No Diggity" and the 4x platinum album Another Level.
Blackswan (블랙스완)
Blackswan (블랙스완), also B.S., is a four-member K-pop girl group under DR Music, debuted October 16, 2020 via rebranding of Rania, and the first K-pop idol group with no Korean members: Fatou, NVee, Gabi, and Sriya.
Blacktip reef shark
Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus), also blackfin reef shark, a shallow-water Indo-Pacific requiem shark with black-tipped fins, to 1.8 m, live-bearing with 2-4 pups; distinct from the Atlantic blacktip shark C. limbatus.
Blacktip shark
Blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), a warm-temperate to tropical requiem shark with black-tipped fins and a white anal fin, distinct from the blacktip reef shark; Near Threatened globally, rebuilt in the US Atlantic in 2003.
Blacktip Station Loop Pipeline
The Blacktip Station Loop Pipeline is a 20-mile crude oil pipeline loop in Texas, completed by Plains All American in 2015, adding 200,000 barrels per day of capacity.
Blacktown
Blacktown is a local government area in Western Sydney, NSW, governed by Blacktown City Council. Established as a shire in 1906 and a city in 1979, it is NSW's largest LGA by population (438,843 in 2024), with strong Darug heritage and major growth precincts.
Blackwall Tunnel
The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels under the River Thames in east London, opened in 1897 and linking Poplar with the Greenwich Peninsula.
Blackwater (company)
Blackwater, later Xe Services and Academi and now part of Constellis, was the US private security company founded by Erik Prince that guarded State Department convoys in Iraq and became infamous for the 2007 Nisour Square shooting.
Blackwater (Game of Thrones)
"Blackwater" (Game of Thrones) is season 2 episode 9, aired May 27, 2012; written by George R. R. Martin and directed by Neil Marshall, it devotes the entire hour to the Battle of the Blackwater and cost a reported $8 million.
Blackwater (waste)
Blackwater is the wastewater from toilets, consisting of feces, urine, toilet paper, and flushing water. It carries most of sewage's nitrogen and pathogens and can be treated to recover biogas and nutrients.
Blackwater Bossing
Blackwater Bossing, formerly Blackwater Elite, is a PBA basketball team from Caloocan City owned by Dioceldo Sy of Ever Bilena. Joined the PBA in 2014; renamed Bossing in 2020 after Vic Sotto; ended a record 29-game losing streak in 2022.
Blackwater Coal Mine
Blackwater Coal Mine is a large open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, Australia, operating since 1967 and owned by Whitehaven Coal with Nippon Steel and JFE Steel.
Blackwater Falls State Park
Blackwater Falls State Park, in Tucker County near Davis, West Virginia, centers on a 57-foot amber cascade on the Blackwater River. Established 1937, it offers a 51-room lodge, 39 cabins, 65 campsites, 20 miles of trails, and the East Coast's longest sledding magic carpet.
Blackwater fever
Blackwater fever is a severe syndrome in malaria patients, usually after antimalarial treatment like quinine, causing massive red cell destruction, dark urine, anemia, and kidney failure.
Blackwater Park
Blackwater Park is Opeth's fifth studio album, released March 2001, recorded at Studio Fredman and co-produced by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree. Eight tracks blending death metal with progressive and acoustic passages; the band's international breakthrough, later certified silver.
Blackwater river
A blackwater river, or blackwater stream, is a river stained tea-brown to black by dissolved humic acids from decaying vegetation, transparent and acidic; the Rio Negro is the largest example.
Blackway
Blackway is a 2015 thriller directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Julia Stiles. The film follows a young woman who returns to her Pacific Northwest logging town.
Blackwell (microarchitecture)
Blackwell, also known as Nvidia Blackwell, is a GPU microarchitecture announced by NVIDIA in March 2024 as the successor to Hopper for data center accelerators.
Blackwell's
Blackwell's, also known as Blackwell UK, is a British academic and specialist bookseller founded by Benjamin Henry Blackwell in Oxford in 1879, and owned by Waterstones since 2022.
Blackwood convention
Blackwood convention: contract bridge slam convention invented by Easley Blackwood in 1933; 4NT asks for aces (5♣ 0/4, 5♦ 1, 5♥ 2, 5♠ 3), 5NT asks for kings; variants include Roman Key Card Blackwood and Gerber.
Blackwood's Magazine
Blackwood's Magazine, commonly called Maga, was a Tory monthly magazine founded by William Blackwood in Edinburgh in 1817, a leading Victorian periodical that ran until 1980.
Blacula
Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William Crain, starring William Marshall as African prince Mamuwalde, cursed by Dracula and revived in Los Angeles; the first black vampire movie and a 1972 box-office hit.