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Bless This Mess (TV series)

Bless This Mess is an ABC single-camera sitcom (2019–2020, 26 episodes) co-created by Lake Bell and Elizabeth Meriwether, starring Bell and Dax Shepard as New York newlyweds farming in Bucksnort, Nebraska; Metacritic 60, IMDb 7.0.

Oct 22, 2026

Blessing

A blessing is a pronouncement or invocation of divine favor upon a person, place, or undertaking, among the most widespread of religious practices and found in most major traditions.

Blessing of the Fleet

The Blessing of the Fleet is an annual ceremony, rooted in Catholic fishing communities, in which a priest blesses fishing boats and crews for a safe, bountiful season.

Blessings (Calvin Harris song)

"Blessings" is a 2025 dance single by Calvin Harris featuring vocalist Clementine Douglas, released 9 May 2025 on Columbia. It peaked at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on the sales chart, and drew a plagiarism claim from Chicane over his 1996 track "Offshore".

Oct 22, 2026

Blessingway

Blessingway (Hózhǫ́ǫ́jí, also Hózhójí) is the central blessing ceremony of the Navajo (Diné), performed for harmony, good luck, and health rather than to cure illness.

Blessthefall

Blessthefall (blessthefall), Phoenix, Arizona metalcore/post-hardcore band formed 2004; seven albums from His Last Walk (2007) to Gallows (2025); Hollow Bodies hit Billboard number 15; hiatus 2019, returned 2023.

Blessy

Blessy Ipe Thomas (Blessy) is an Indian director who made his debut with Kazh-cha (2004). He is best known for Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life, 2024).

Blestium

Blestium (Blestio, Blestivm) was a Roman fort and ironworking settlement named in the Antonine Itinerary and identified with Monmouth, Wales; a 1st-century fort preceded a civilian, iron-smelting settlement of the 2nd to 4th century AD.

Bletchley Declaration

The Bletchley Declaration is a non-binding statement on artificial intelligence safety agreed on 1 November 2023 by 28 countries and the European Union at Bletchley Park, England.

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is a country estate in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, where nearly 10,000 British codebreakers broke German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers during World War II.

Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata (Bai-Ji, Chinese ground orchid, urn orchid) is a hardy terrestrial orchid native to China, Korea, and Japan, used in traditional Chinese medicine for hemostasis and grown as an ornamental.

BLEU

BLEU (bilingual evaluation understudy) is an automatic metric for machine translation quality, proposed by Kishore Papineni and colleagues at IBM Research in 2002, that counts n-gram overlap with human reference translations.

Sep 19, 2026

Bleu Clair

Bleu Clair is the stage name of Kurniawan Wicaksono, an Indonesian tech house DJ and producer based in Jakarta, known for 'Make You Mine' with Ytram and releases on Insomniac Records and STMPD RCRDS.

BLEURT

BLEURT (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy with Representations from Transformers) is an automatic evaluation metric from Google Research that scores generated text against a reference using a fine-tuned pre-trained Transformer.

Blew

Blew is a 1989 song by Nirvana, written by Kurt Cobain and the opening track of the debut album Bleach on Sub Pop; it also titled the band's UK-only Tupelo EP of the same year.

Blicca bjoerkna

Blicca bjoerkna, the white bream or silver bream, is a small deep-bodied cyprinid fish native to Europe and Asia that closely resembles and hybridizes with the common bream.

Sep 19, 2026

Blick Bassy

Blick Bassy, born Bassy Olama Blick, is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in France whose 2019 album 1958 honored independence leader Ruben Um Nyobé.

Blickfeld

Blickfeld is a Munich-based German company that develops solid-state 3D LiDAR sensors and perception software, founded in 2017 and acquired by Senstar Technologies in 2026.

Sep 19, 2026

Blickle family

The Blickle family is the owner family of SEW-EURODRIVE, a Bruchsal, Germany drive-technology maker whose gearmotors hold a 36% global market share; Jürgen Blickle has led it since 1987.

Blickling Hall

Blickling Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean red-brick country house near Aylsham in Norfolk, England, built from about 1619 on the site of Anne Boleyn's birthplace.

Blid Corona

Blid Corona is a corona, a large ring-shaped volcano-tectonic feature on Venus. It lies almost exactly on the equator, measures 175 km across, and was named in 2003 for a Scandinavian goddess.

Blida

Blida (البليدة), Algeria's City of Roses, founded 1535 by Sidi Ahmed El Kebir with Andalusian refugees on the Mitidja plain southwest of Algiers; leading citrus wilaya, seismic zone III, about 554,000 residents in 2026.

Blighia sapida

Blighia sapida (ackee, akee), Sapindaceae tree native to West and West Central Africa, national fruit of Jamaica; red capsules with edible yellow aril, toxic unripe due to hypoglycin A causing Jamaican vomiting sickness.

Blight

Blight: rapid plant foliage death, chiefly late blight (Phytophthora infestans) and early blight (Alternaria solani) of potato and tomato; losses up to 82%, managed by fungicides, forecasting, and resistance breeding.

Blighty

Blighty, or Old Blighty, is British slang for Britain or England, from Urdu bilāyatī ("foreign") via Anglo-Indian army usage; soldiers in the World Wars also used "a blighty one" for a slight wound sending them home.

Blimp

A blimp is a non-rigid airship, an engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft whose envelope holds its shape through internal gas pressure alone, without a frame, distinguishing it from rigid Zeppelins.

Blinatumomab

Blinatumomab (Blincyto) is a bispecific CD19-directed CD3 T-cell engager by Amgen, US-approved 2014, given as 28-day continuous IV infusions for B-cell precursor ALL, with CRS and ICANS boxed warnings.

Blind (poker)

A blind in poker, also called a blind bet, is a forced bet placed before cards are dealt; the standard game uses a small blind and a big blind.

Blind (블라인드) (2011 film)

Blind (블라인드) is a 2011 South Korean thriller directed by Ahn Sang-hoon, starring Kim Ha-neul as a blind witness to a hit-and-run who helps catch the killer.