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Blas de Lezo
Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta was a Spanish naval officer under Philip V, nicknamed Mediohombre, who defended Cartagena de Indias against Admiral Edward Vernon in 1741.
Blas de Otero
Blas de Otero (1916–1979) was a Spanish poet from Bilbao whose work moved from tormented existential verse to the socially committed poetry of the postwar generation.
Blas Frangione
Blas Frangione is a physician-scientist and Research Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose group discovered the first amyloid-β gene mutation, found in Dutch-type hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis.
Blas Ruiz de Hernan Gonzalez
Blas Ruiz, born in Spain around 1560, was a Spanish adventurer who helped restore King Prauncar to the Cambodian throne in 1596 and became a provincial governor.
Blas Valera
Blas Valera was a mestizo Jesuit priest in colonial Peru, the first mestizo ordained by the order, known for his Quechua linguistic work and lost Latin history of the Incas.
Blaschko's lines
Blaschko's lines, or lines of Blaschko, are invisible human skin patterns tracing embryonic epidermal cell migration, described by Alfred Blaschko in 1901; visible only when cutaneous mosaicism or diseases like lichen striatus follow them.
Blasco Núñez Vela
Blasco Núñez Vela was a Spanish colonial administrator and the first viceroy of Peru, appointed by Charles V in 1543 to enforce the New Laws.
Blasé A. Carabello
Blasé A. Carabello, also written Blase A. Carabello, is an American cardiologist specializing in valvular heart disease, known for his influential 1997 New England Journal of Medicine review.
Blaser
Blaser (Blaser Jagdwaffen GmbH) is a German hunting-rifle manufacturer in Isny im Allgäu, founded in 1957 and best known for its R93 and R8 straight-pull bolt-action rifles with interchangeable barrels.
Blåsjø Reservoir
Blåsjø is a reservoir on the Setesdal plateau in southwestern Norway and, with 7.8 TWh of energy content, Norway's largest hydropower reservoir, formed by linking mountain lakes.
Blåskimen
Blåskimen is a high, ice-covered island in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, at the juncture of the Jelbart and Fimbul ice shelves, about 80 km north of Novyy Island.
Blasphemous (video game)
Blasphemous is a 2019 2D Metroidvania action-platformer by Seville studio The Game Kitchen, starring the Penitent One in the Spain-inspired world of Cvstodia; sequel Blasphemous 2 followed in 2023.
Blasphemy
Blasphemy is speech or conduct that insults or shows contempt for God or anything a religion holds sacred, and a criminal offense in many countries.
Blasphemy law
Blasphemy law criminalizes insult or contempt toward religion, gods, or sacred symbols. Around 95 countries retain such laws; punishments range from fines to death, and UN human rights bodies deem them broadly incompatible with free-expression rights.
Blass matrix
The Blass matrix is a passive, traveling-wave beamforming network of directional couplers that forms multiple simultaneous beams from a phased array, introduced by J. Blass in 1960.
Blast (2026 film)
Blast (பிளாஸ்ட்), also released in Telugu as Blast Zone, is a 2026 Tamil martial arts action thriller directed by debutant Subash K Raj, starring Arjun Sarja, Abhirami, and Preity Mukhundhan; AGS Entertainment released it on 28 May 2026, with Ravi Basrur's music and Netflix streaming from 25 June 2026.
Blast crisis in chronic myelogenous leukemia
Blast crisis, or blast phase, is the final phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia, defined by 20% or more immature leukemic blasts in blood or bone marrow.
Blast fishing
Blast fishing, also called dynamite or bomb fishing, uses underwater explosives to kill fish for easy collection. It shatters coral reefs across Southeast Asia, Tanzania, and the Red Sea; swim bladder rupture kills fish, and enforcement plus rubble stabilization drive recovery.
Blast from the Past (film)
Blast from the Past is a 1999 American romantic comedy directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Brendan Fraser as a man raised in a fallout shelter.
Blast furnace
A blast furnace, or iron blast furnace, is a tall shaft furnace that smelts iron ore into molten pig iron, the central unit of integrated steelmaking worldwide.
Blast injury
Blast injury: trauma from explosion exposure, classified by DoD taxonomy into primary (overpressure), secondary (fragments), tertiary (displacement), quaternary, and quinary categories; blast lung is the most common fatal primary injury among survivors.
Blast of Tempest
Blast of Tempest (絶園のテンペスト, Zetsuen no Tempest, The Civilization Blaster) is a 2009-2013 shōnen manga by Kyo Shirodaira, Arihide Sano, and Ren Saizaki in 10 volumes, plus a 24-episode 2012-2013 Bones anime, about Mahiro Fuwa's revenge for his murdered sister Aika with the exiled sorceress Hakaze Kusaribe.
Blast vibration and damage control in tunnelling
Blast vibration and damage control in tunnelling is the practice of limiting ground vibration that cracks nearby structures and blast damage to the tunnel's own rock and support.
Blast wave
A blast wave is a region of compressed gas that expands supersonically outward from an explosion, led by a shock front across which pressure and temperature rise abruptly.
Blasted
Blasted is the first full-length play by British playwright Sarah Kane, premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1995 and now a defining work of in-yer-face theater.
Blastema
A blastema is a mass of proliferating, undifferentiated cells forming at an injury site during epimorphic regeneration, from which salamanders and zebrafish regrow limbs, fins, and tails.
Blastemal cell
Blastemal cells are the proliferating, largely lineage-restricted progenitor cells of the blastema that rebuild amputated limbs and fins in salamanders and zebrafish; most mammals, including humans, do not form blastemas.
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN), formerly blastic NK-cell lymphoma, is a rare aggressive CD4+/CD56+/CD123+ hematologic malignancy of plasmacytoid dendritic cell precursors, presenting as purple skin lesions, treated with tagraxofusp and pivekimab sunirine.
Blastobasidae
Blastobasidae, or scavenger moths, is a family of small dull-gray Gelechioidea moths established by Meyrick in 1894, with roughly 275 to 500 described species, greatest diversity in the New World tropics, and larvae that scavenge or feed on living plants.
Blastocladiales
Blastocladiales is an order of zoosporic fungi in the phylum Blastocladiomycota, containing soil and freshwater saprotrophs, parasites of plants and invertebrates, and laboratory models such as Allomyces.