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Bleacher
Bleacher, usually plural bleachers: tiered, typically roofless bench seating in tiers, especially cheap unreserved stadium seating; governed in the US by ICC 300 standards for bleachers and grandstands.
Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report (B/R), founded 2007 by Finocchio, Goldberg, Nemetz, and Freund, is a digital sports media brand with a mobile app (formerly Team Stream), acquired by Turner in 2012 for $170 million and now a Warner Bros. Discovery social-first sports brand.
Bleachers (album)
Bleachers (2024) is the self-titled fourth studio album by Jack Antonoff's band Bleachers, released March 8, 2024 on Dirty Hit; it peaked at number 5 in the UK and features Lana Del Rey, Florence Welch, Matty Healy, and Aaron Dessner.
Bleachers (band)
Bleachers is the American indie pop band founded by Jack Antonoff (born 1984) of Steel Train and fun. Known for "I Wanna Get Better," Springsteen-influenced anthemic pop, and five albums including Bleachers (2024) and everyone for ten minutes (2026) on Dirty Hit.
Bleaching of wood pulp
Bleaching of wood pulp is the multistage chemical treatment that removes residual lignin from kraft pulp, turning it bright white for printing papers, tissue, and other white grades.
Bleak House
Bleak House, Charles Dickens's 1852-1853 novel serialized in 20 parts by Bradbury and Evans, satirizes Chancery through Jarndyce and Jarndyce and uses dual narration by an anonymous narrator and Esther Summerson.
Bleak House (2005 TV serial)
Bleak House (2005 TV serial), BBC1 adaptation of Dickens's novel by Andrew Davies, produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark; 15 episodes after EastEnders, first major British drama shot in HD, Peabody Award, about six million viewers.
Bleak Moments
Bleak Moments (1971) is Mike Leigh's debut feature film, adapted from his 1970 stage play, about secretary Sylvia caring for her disabled sister in South London; made for about £18,000 on 35mm.
Blechnaceae
Blechnaceae, the blechnoid fern family (Polypodiales, eupolypods II), has about 250-265 species, mostly in Blechnum, centered in Australasia and the Neotropics; molecular work showed Blechnum polyphyletic, prompting Telmatoblechnum and a 24-genus classification.
Bleda
Bleda (bristlebills) is a genus of African lowland-forest bulbuls, family Pycnonotidae, erected by Bonaparte in 1857; five species including B. ugandae, split from B. notatus in 2024, with Miocene West African origins.
Bledisloe Cup
Bledisloe Cup, annual New Zealand All Blacks vs Australia Wallabies rugby union trophy donated by Lord Bledisloe (1931/1932). All Blacks lead 48 titles to 12, have held it since 2003, and lead the head-to-head 128-45.
Bleed air
Bleed air, also called engine bleed air, is compressed air drawn from a jet engine's compressor to power aircraft systems like cabin pressurization, air conditioning, and wing anti-icing.
Bleed American
Bleed American, also released as Jimmy Eat World after 9/11, is Jimmy Eat World's self-funded 2001 DreamWorks breakthrough album, with "The Middle" hitting No. 5 on the Hot 100 and the record selling 1.7 million US copies.
Bleed for This
Bleed for This is a 2016 biographical boxing drama directed by Ben Younger, starring Miles Teller as Vinny Pazienza and Aaron Eckhart as Kevin Rooney, dramatizing Pazienza's comeback from a 1991 broken neck.
Bleed valve
A bleed valve in a gas turbine engine vents compressed air from the compressor to prevent stall and surge and to supply air for aircraft services.
Bleeding
Bleeding (hemorrhage) is blood loss from damaged vessels, arrested by hemostasis or by pressure, tourniquets, surgery, and transfusion; over 90% of pre-facility trauma deaths are from hemorrhage.
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas: violent 1854-1861 conflict over slavery in Kansas Territory after the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise; about 56 killed, rival governments, free-state admission in 1861.
Bleeding Love
Bleeding Love: 2007 pop ballad by Leona Lewis from Spirit, written by Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder. Seven weeks at UK number 1, biggest UK seller of 2007, US Billboard Hot 100 number 1 for four non-consecutive weeks in 2008.
Bleeding Steel (机器之血)
Bleeding Steel (机器之血) is a 2017 Chinese sci-fi action film directed by Leo Zhang, starring Jackie Chan, Show Lo, and Ouyang Nana; released December 22, 2017 in China and shot partly in Sydney, including a fight on the Opera House sails.
Bleeding time
Bleeding time, an in vivo test of primary hemostasis measuring how fast skin vessels stop bleeding after a standardized incision (normal 1–9 minutes); once widely used preoperatively, now obsolete, replaced by PFA-100 and clinical history.
Bleeds (Wednesday album)
Bleeds is the sixth studio album by North Carolina indie rock band Wednesday, released September 19, 2025 on Dead Oceans. Recorded with Alex Farrar in Asheville, it reflects Karly Hartzman's breakup with MJ Lenderman and earned a Metacritic score of 88.
Bleek and Lloyd Collection
The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is an archive of nineteenth-century notebooks and dictionaries preserving the languages and folklore of the ǀxam and ǃkun San peoples.
BLEEX
BLEEX, the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton, is a DARPA-funded powered lower-body exoskeleton developed at UC Berkeley under Homayoon Kazerooni and unveiled in 2004, the first energetically autonomous load-carrying exoskeleton.
Bleiburg repatriations
Bleiburg repatriations: May 1945 forced handover of Croatian NDH soldiers and civilians by British forces in Austria to Tito's Partisans, followed by death marches, mass executions, and a contested annual commemoration.
Blekinge Archipelago Biosphere Reserve
Blekinge Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (Blekinge Arkipelag), UNESCO MAB site designated June 2011 in south-east Sweden; 259,500 ha across Karlskrona, Ronneby, Karlshamn; first Swedish biosphere focused on Baltic Sea issues; includes Naval Port of Karlskrona World Heritage site.
Blekinge skärgård
Blekinge skärgård (Blekinge archipelago), Ramsar Site no. 1115 in Blekinge County, southeast Sweden, designated 14 November 2001, 12,958 ha of islands, marshes and shallow Baltic waters with over 100 red-listed species and 20,000 waterbirds.
Blemmyan language
Blemmyan is the language of the Blemmyes, known from about ninety personal names in late antique Greek and Coptic documents, and closely related to Beja.
Blemmyes
The Blemmyes (Blemmyae) were a nomadic pastoralist people of the Eastern Desert between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, best known as raiders of Roman Egypt and rivals of Meroitic Kush.
Blemyomachia
The Blemyomachia (also spelled Blemmyomachia) is a fragmentary anonymous Greek epic poem on papyrus celebrating a Roman victory over the Blemmyes, doubtfully attributed to Olympiodorus of Thebes.
Blend modes
A blend mode, also called a blending mode, is a formula for combining pixels of an image layer with those beneath, central to Photoshop and GIMP.