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Blame! (ブレム!)
BLAME! (ブラム) is Tsutomu Nihei's hard SF manga serialized in Monthly Afternoon 1997-2003, 10 volumes, following Killy's search for the Net Terminal Gene in an endless megastructure city; adapted as a 2017 Polygon Pictures anime film.
Blanca Aráuz
Blanca Aráuz (Blanca Stella Aráuz Pineda, 1909 to 1933) was a Nicaraguan telegrapher who organized the communications of Sandino's guerrilla army and was declared a National Heroine in 2015.
Blanca de los Ríos
Blanca de los Ríos (1859–1956) was a Spanish writer, critic, and scholar who published fiction as Carolina del Boss and edited the Spanish Golden Age.
Blanca Elena Jimenez Cisneros
Blanca Elena Jiménez Cisneros is a Mexican environmental engineer and UNAM researcher specializing in wastewater treatment and safe water reuse, serving as Ambassador of Mexico to France since 2021.
Blanca Pacheco
Blanca Pacheco is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the California State Assembly from the 64th district, first elected in 2022.
Blanca Peak
Blanca Peak, a 14,350-foot (4,374 m) summit in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Range, is the range's highest peak and Colorado's fourth-highest fourteener, with 5,331 feet of prominence and a Lake Como standard route.
Blanca Rubio
Blanca Rubio is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the California State Assembly's 48th district, first elected in November 2016 after 16 years as a teacher.
Blanca Soto
Blanca Soto (Blanca Delfina Soto Benavides, born 1979, Monterrey) is a Mexican actress and former Miss Mexico World (1997) who won Miss Verano Viña Internacional 1998, starred in Eva Luna and Señora Acero, and left Telemundo's No te puedes esconder (2019) as her last TV role.
Blanca Suárez
Blanca Suárez (Blanca Martínez Suárez, born 1988, Madrid) is a Spanish actress known for El internado, El barco, Netflix's Las chicas del cable, and Almodóvar's La piel que habito; Goya-nominated, Platino and Ondas winner.
Blanca Varela
Blanca Varela (1926–2009) was a Peruvian poet of the Generación del 50, whose first book Ese puerto existe appeared in 1959 and whose prizes included the Octavio Paz award.
Blancan
The Blancan is a North American land mammal age spanning most of the Pliocene, named for Mt. Blanco, Texas, and defined by the first appearance of voles.
Blancanieves
Blancanieves (Snow White) is Pablo Berger's 2012 Spanish-French silent black-and-white film, a Grimm fairy tale retelling set in 1920s Seville where Carmen joins bullfighting dwarfs; it won ten Goya Awards including Best Film.
Blancanus (lunar crater)
Blancanus lunar crater, named for Giuseppe Biancani (Biancanus), IAU-approved 1935; 105.82 km diameter impact crater at 63.77 S, 21.63 W, southwest of Clavius with terraced walls and satellite craters Blancanus A-W.
Blancas, Lomas
Lomas Blancas (Sierra Negra), volcano number 357064, is a small late-Pleistocene to Holocene stratovolcano in Chile's Southern Andean Volcanic Arc, 2,268 m high, 15 km SE of Nevado de Longaví, with no known Holocene eruptions.
Blanchard's transsexualism typology
Blanchard's transsexualism typology, also called the autogynephilia theory, is Ray Blanchard's classification of male-to-female transsexualism into androphilic and non-homosexual (autogynephilic) types, defined by erotic arousal at the thought of oneself as a woman; it remains scientifically influential and controversial.
Blanche Baker
Blanche Baker (Blanche Garfein, born 1956, New York) is an American actress, Emmy winner for Holocaust (1978), known for Sixteen Candles, The Handmaid's Tale, Raw Deal, and Taking Chance, now a writer-director and NYFA senior faculty.
Blanche Barrow
Blanche Barrow (Blanche Caldwell), wife of Buck Barrow, Clyde Barrow's brother; joined the Barrow gang in 1933, was captured at Platte City, Missouri, sentenced to 10 years, and wrote a memoir.
Blanche Capel
Blanche Capel is an American developmental biologist at Duke University known for research on how the gonad commits to becoming a testis or an ovary, including the role of Sry.
Blanche Devereaux
Blanche Devereaux is the Southern belle widow of NBC's The Golden Girls (1985-1992), played by Rue McClanahan, owner of the Miami house, Emmy-winning role, later in The Golden Palace.
Blanche DuBois
Blanche DuBois, protagonist of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), is a fading Southern belle, ex-English teacher, and sister of Stella Kowalski, created on Broadway by Jessica Tandy and played on film by Vivien Leigh.
Blanche Monnier
Blanche Monnier (1849–1913), the Séquestrée de Poitiers, a Frenchwoman found 23 May 1901 after about 25 years shut in a closed room of her family's Poitiers house; mother died in detention, brother Marcel acquitted on appeal, case made famous by André Gide.
Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France
Blanche of Navarre (Blanche d'Évreux, c. 1331–1398), daughter of Joan II of Navarre, was Queen of France as second wife of Philip VI from 29 January to 22 August 1350, then a long-lived dowager queen nicknamed Belle Sagesse.
Blanche P. Alter
Blanche P. Alter is an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology and cancer genetics, known for building and leading the National Cancer Institute's Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes study.
Blanche Taylor Moore
Blanche Taylor Moore (born Blanche Kiser, 1933), also called the Black Widow of North Carolina, is a former Kroger head cashier on death row since 1990 for the arsenic murder of boyfriend Raymond Reid; also suspected in other poisonings.
Blanching (cooking)
Blanching is a cooking technique in which food, usually vegetables, is briefly boiled or steamed, then cooled in ice water, chiefly to prepare it for freezing.
Blancmange
Blancmange (blanc mangier, "white food") is a molded milk pudding set with cornstarch or gelatin, flavored with almond or vanilla. Medieval chicken-and-rice savory dish, now a British dessert, cousin of panna cotta and manjar blanco.
Blancmange (band)
Blancmange: English synth-pop band formed in Harrow, London, 1979 by Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe; hits 'Living on the Ceiling' (UK No. 7), 'Blind Vision', 'Don't Tell Me'; split 1986, revived 2011; the band, not the dessert.
Blanco 1
Blanco 1, also called the zeta Sculptoris cluster, is a nearby young open star cluster in Sculptor discovered by Victor Blanco in 1949, often compared with the Pleiades.
Blanco, Cerro
Cerro Blanco (Robledo) is a 4,670 m Holocene caldera in Catamarca, Argentina, source of the Central Andes' largest Holocene eruption (~4.2 ka, >100 km3 tephra), now slowly subsiding with an active blind geothermal field.
Blancpain
Blancpain is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer based in Le Brassus and owned by the Swatch Group, known for the Fifty Fathoms of 1953 and its Ocean Commitment program.