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Blocking of YouTube in Russia
Blocking of YouTube in Russia: since July 2024 Roskomnadzor throttled YouTube via TSPU devices to 128 kbps, denying a formal block, blaming Google Global Cache, cutting the 95-million-user audience and pushing traffic to VK Video and Rutube.
Blocking set
A blocking set in a finite projective or affine plane is a set of points that intersects every line, originating in Moses Richardson's 1955 work on games.
Blockley Almshouse
Blockley Almshouse was Philadelphia's public institution for the poor in West Philadelphia, combining poor relief, a hospital, and an asylum, and evolving into Philadelphia General Hospital.
Blockly
Blockly is an open-source JavaScript library for building visual programming editors in which users write programs by dragging and dropping blocks that snap together, rather than typing code.
Blockpit
Blockpit is an Austrian crypto tax and compliance software company founded in Linz in 2017. It calculates cryptocurrency tax liabilities under national tax rules and produces filing-ready reports.
Blockratize Inc.
Blockratize Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated New York company doing business as Polymarket, an on-chain prediction market that received a $1.0 billion ICE investment in 2025.
BlocPower
BlocPower is a Brooklyn-based building decarbonization company founded in 2014 by Donnel Baird. It finances heat pump and electrification retrofits in older buildings in low- and moderate-income urban communities.
Bloem Life Enterprise, Inc.
Bloem Life Enterprise, Inc. is a Delaware biotechnology company based in Houston, Texas, whose only public record is a $145 million securities filing in October 2021.
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein, the City of Roses, is the Free State capital and South Africa's judicial capital. Founded in 1846 on J.N. Brits' farm, it was capital of the Orange Free State from 1854 to 1900.
Bloemfontein Convention
The Bloemfontein Convention, also called the Orange River Convention, was the treaty signed at Bloemfontein on 23 February 1854 by which Britain recognized the Orange Free State's independence.
Blog
A blog, short for weblog, is a website made up of dated posts displayed newest first, typically with reader comments and RSS or Atom syndication feeds.
Blog del Narco
Blog del Narco (El Blog del Narco) is an anonymous Mexican citizen-journalism site founded March 2, 2010, covering cartel violence and drug-war news; its pseudonymous editor "Lucy" revealed she was a woman journalist in 2013.
Blog rock
Blog rock: early-2000s indie rock microgenre promoted through MP3 blogs, also called blog-rock. Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Voxtrot; peaked mid-2000s with the Hype Machine, faded by decade's end.
Blogger (service)
Blogger, also known as Blogspot, is a free blog-hosting service owned by Google, launched in August 1999 by Pyra Labs. Google acquired it in 2003, its first company purchase.
Bloghouse
Bloghouse (blog house, bloghaus) was a mid-to-late 2000s electronic music scene and era, roughly 2006-2011, defined by MP3 blogs, Hype Machine, and MySpace discovery rather than a single sound, spanning Justice, Uffie, Ed Banger, and electroclash-derived distorted house.
Blohm & Voss BV 141
The Blohm & Voss BV 141 was a German World War II reconnaissance aircraft with a fully asymmetric layout, its glazed crew gondola set beside the engine.
Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking
The Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking was a large six-engined German flying boat of the Second World War, the largest to reach operational status, with 13 built.
Blohm & Voss BV 238
The Blohm & Voss BV 238 was a German six-engine flying boat of World War II, the largest built during the war; only one prototype flew before it was destroyed.
Blok D
Blok D (Блок Д, "Block D") is a Soviet and Russian liquid-oxygen and kerosene rocket upper stage, developed in the early 1960s at OKB-1 under Sergei Korolev.
Blok L
Blok L was the fourth stage of the Soviet Molniya 8K78 rocket, igniting in orbit to send Luna, Venera, and Mars probes out of Earth orbit.
Bloke Modisane
Bloke Modisane, born William Modisane (1923–1986), was a South African journalist, writer, and actor of the 1950s Drum generation, known for the autobiography Blame Me on History.
BLOKS Group (布鲁可)
BLOKS Group (布鲁可), registered as Shanghai Bloks Technology Group Co., Ltd., is a Chinese toy maker founded in Shanghai in 2014 by Zhu Weisong, co-founder of Youzu Interactive.
Blokus
Blokus, also Blokus Duo, is an abstract strategy board game invented by Bernard Tavitian around 2000, published by Mattel: 2-4 players place 21 corner-touching polyomino pieces each on a 20x20 grid.
Blolo bian
A blolo bian is a carved wooden figure made by the Baule people of Côte d'Ivoire representing the male spirit spouse a person left behind in the other world at birth.
Blom Bank
Blom Bank is a Lebanese universal bank incorporated in 1951, the country's largest bank by assets, with 75 branches in Lebanon and 17 in Jordan.
Blomberg–Fritsch affair
Blomberg–Fritsch affair: January–February 1938 scandals that removed War Minister Werner von Blomberg and Army chief Werner von Fritsch, letting Hitler create the OKW and take personal command of the Wehrmacht.
Blomstrand lethal chondrodysplasia
Blomstrand lethal chondrodysplasia (BLC), also called Blomstrand osteochondrodysplasia, is a rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia from PTH1R gene mutations, lethal before or shortly after birth.
Blonanserin
Blonanserin (Lonasen) is an atypical antipsychotic antagonist at dopamine D2/D3 and 5-HT2A receptors, approved for schizophrenia in Japan, South Korea, India, and China as tablets and a transdermal patch.
Blond
Blond (blonde) hair: low-eumelanin human hair color common in northern Europe (polygenic, KITLG enhancer and 200+ variants) and independently in Melanesia via a recessive TYRP1 93C allele at 26% frequency, absent outside Oceania.
Blond Ambition World Tour
Madonna's third world tour (April 13 to August 5, 1990), originally titled the Like A Prayer World Tour; 57 shows in 10 countries supporting Like a Prayer and I'm Breathless, with Jean Paul Gaultier costumes and themed theatrical acts.