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Blonde (2022 film)
Blonde (2022) is Andrew Dominik's NC-17 Netflix drama starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, adapted from Joyce Carol Oates's 2000 novel; it premiered at Venice, drew abortion-depiction controversy, and earned de Armas a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Blonde (Frank Ocean album)
Blonde (also styled Blond) is Frank Ocean's second studio album, self-released on Boys Don't Cry on August 20, 2016, a day after Endless fulfilled his Def Jam contract; 17 tracks, Billboard 200 No. 1, Metacritic 87.
Blonde on Blonde
Blonde on Blonde is Bob Dylan's 1966 double album on Columbia, his seventh, produced by Bob Johnston and mostly recorded in Nashville with session players. Opening single hit No. 2; famed for its "thin wild mercury" sound. Distinct from Frank Ocean's 2016 Blonde and a Welsh band of the same name.
Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock trio formed in New York City in 1993, built around singer Kazu Makino and the Italian-born twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace.
Blonde stereotype
The blonde stereotype, especially the "dumb blonde" trope, links blonde women to low intelligence and sexuality; it traces to Rosalie Duthé and the 1775 play Les Curiosités de la Foire, was consolidated by postwar Hollywood and Marilyn Monroe, and persists in jokes and media.
Blondi
Blondi (1941–29 April 1945) was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd bitch, given as a puppy in 1941, used in Nazi propaganda, and killed by cyanide in the Führerbunker on 29 April 1945 to test the poison before Hitler's suicide.
Blondie (album)
Blondie is the eponymous 1976 debut album by the American rock band Blondie, released on Private Stock and produced by Richard Gottehrer, with the hit "In the Flesh" in Australia.
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in the mid-1970s, led by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein, with over 40 million records sold worldwide.
Blondie (comic strip)
Blondie, also starring Blondie Boopadoop and Dagwood Bumstead, is an American comic strip created by Chic Young, debuted September 8, 1930, in King Features syndication. The 1933 marriage turned it into the long-running Bumstead family domestic comedy; films, radio, and TV followed.
Blondie Chaplin
Blondie Chaplin (Terrence William Chaplin, born 1951, Durban) is a South African singer-guitarist of the Flames, a 1972–73 Beach Boys member and lead singer of "Sail On, Sailor," a 15-year Rolling Stones touring sideman, and a Brian Wilson touring collaborator since 2013.
Blondie discography
Blondie discography: the New York new wave band's studio albums from Blondie (1976) and Parallel Lines (1978) through Pollinator (2017) and the upcoming High Noon (2027), plus live albums, compilations, and the Against the Odds box set.
Bloober Team
Bloober Team, Polish horror game studio founded 2008 in Krakow, listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange; maker of Layers of Fear, The Medium, Observer, Blair Witch, the acclaimed 2024 Silent Hill 2 remake, and Cronos: The New Dawn (2025).
Blood
Blood: specialized circulating body fluid of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets; about 55% plasma, carries oxygen, fights infection, clots; types A, B, AB, O with Rh factor.
Blood (journal)
Blood is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering hematology, the study of blood and blood disorders. It has been the official journal of the American Society of Hematology since 1976.
Blood (video game)
Blood is a 1997 MS-DOS horror first-person shooter by Monolith Productions on the Build engine, starring undead gunslinger Caleb versus the demon Tchernobog; expansions Plasma Pak and Cryptic Passage, sequel Blood II, remastered as Fresh Supply (2019) and Refreshed Supply (2025).
Blood & Guts (2025)
AEW Blood & Guts (2025), November 12, 2025 Dynamite from Greensboro, NC: first-ever Women's Blood & Guts (Storm surrenders), O'Reilly taps Moxley in the men's match, Page beats Hobbs, cage match with Joe set for Full Gear.
Blood & Oil
Blood & Oil (working title Oil) was a 2015 ABC prime-time soap opera starring Don Johnson, Chace Crawford, and Rebecca Rittenhouse, set in the Bakken oil boom; cut from 13 to 10 episodes and canceled after one season.
Blood & Treasure
Blood & Treasure is an American action-adventure TV series (2019–2022) created by Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia, starring Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas as an antiquities expert and art thief chasing terrorist Karim Farouk; season 1 on CBS, season 2 on Paramount+, 26 episodes.
Blood & Water (South African TV series)
Blood & Water is a South African Netflix coming-of-age mystery drama (2020-2024, four seasons) in which Cape Town teen Puleng Khumalo investigates whether private-school swimming star Fikile Bhele is her sister abducted at birth; Netflix's second African original after Queen Sono.
Blood agar
Blood agar is an enriched bacteriological culture medium made by adding 5% sheep blood to a nutrient agar base. It grows fastidious organisms and differentiates bacteria by their hemolytic reactions.
Blood alcohol content
Blood alcohol content (BAC), or blood alcohol concentration, measures ethanol in blood in g/dL. Key facts: US per se limit 0.08 g/dL (Utah 0.05), crash risk 4x at 0.08, ADH zero-order elimination, blood/breath ratio 2100:1.
Blood and Black Lace
Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l'assassino) is Mario Bava's 1964 Italian giallo about a masked killer murdering models at a Rome fashion house; commonly considered the archetypal giallo and a forerunner of the slasher film.
Blood and Bone
Blood and Bone (2009), Japanese title ブラッド＆ボーン 真拳闘魂, is Ben Ramsey's direct-to-DVD martial arts film starring Michael Jai White as ex-con fighter Isaiah Bone in Los Angeles underground fighting, with Julian Sands, Eamonn Walker, and real MMA fighters Kimbo Slice and Bob Sapp.
Blood and Bone (The Boys episode)
Blood and Bone is the series finale of The Boys, season 5 episode 8, aired May 20, 2026 on Prime Video; Homelander dies in the Oval Office as The Boys storm the White House.
Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand: 1922 Fred Niblo silent drama starring Rudolph Valentino as matador Juan Gallardo, adapted from Blasco Ibáñez's Sangre y arena; remade in Technicolor by Mamoulian in 1941 with Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth.
Blood and soil
Blood and soil (Blut und Boden) is a nationalist, often fascist ideology tying racial heredity to territory; a Nazi slogan popularized by Richard Walther Darré, foundational to Nazi agrarian policy and Lebensraum, and still used by far-right movements.
Blood as food
Blood as food: the culinary use of animal blood in dishes like black pudding, boudin noir, morcilla, blood tofu, and dinuguan; ancient, rich in iron and protein, but religiously prohibited in Islam and Judaism and absent from American food.
Blood bank
A blood bank collects, tests, separates, stores and distributes donated blood; covers component storage rules (red cells 1–6 °C up to 42 days, platelets 20–22 °C), NAT and pathogen reduction, the 2017 global supply gap, and 2023–2025 FDA policy changes.
Blood Banking
Blood banking: organized collection, testing, processing, storage, and distribution of blood for transfusion. Began with sodium citrate storage (1914–1915); now governed by WHO policy, mandatory HIV/hepatitis/syphilis screening, and hemovigilance.
Blood Blockade Battlefront
Blood Blockade Battlefront (血界戦線, Kekkai Sensen) is Yasuhiro Nightow's Shueisha manga set in Hellsalem's Lot, a sealed post-breach New York, adapted into two 12-episode Studio Bones anime (2015, 2017), distinct from Trigun.