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Bloquons tout
Bloquons tout (Block Everything): leaderless French protest movement born on social networks in May-2025, calling to blockade France on 10 September 2025 against Bayrou's €43.8bn austerity budget; 812 actions, 473 arrests.
Blord
Blord is the professional name of Linus Williams Ifejirika, a Nigerian cryptocurrency entrepreneur and CEO of the Blord Group, known for Bitcoin trading and the Billpoint app.
Blossom (musician)
Blossom, identified as Emile Fromm, is a London-born, Phoenix-raised DJ, producer, and vocalist in bass house and drum & bass who has released on Night Bass and UKF and played EDC Las Vegas and Lollapalooza.
Blossom (九重紫) (Chinese TV series)
Blossom (九重紫, Jiu Chong Zi) is a 2024 Chinese historical romance drama adapted from Zhi Zhi's novel, directed by Zeng Qingjie, starring Meng Ziyi and Li Yunrui; 34 episodes on Tencent Video from December 6, 2024, Douban 7.8, Asian TV Awards winner.
Blossom algorithm
The blossom algorithm, also called Edmonds's matching algorithm, is Jack Edmonds's 1965 algorithm that computes a maximum-cardinality matching in any undirected graph, even with odd cycles, in polynomial time.
Blossom Biosciences (博胜药业)
Blossom Biosciences (博胜药业) is a biopharmaceutical company launched in 2021, co-founded by Hansoh Pharmaceutical and Cormorant Asset Management to in-license and develop medicines for greater China, with $72 million in Series A funding.
Blossom Capital
Blossom Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded by Ophelia Brown that invests in European technology companies at the Series A stage, with early bets on Checkout.com and MoonPay.
Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie was an American jazz singer and pianist known for a light, childlike soprano voice, six Verve albums, and her own label, Daffodil Records.
Blossom Entertainment (블러썸엔터테인먼트)
Blossom Entertainment (블러썸엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean entertainment company founded in 2012 by Joo Bang-ok and Ji Young Joo, known for actor management, dramas like The Good Detective, films like Miracle, and its Giant Books publishing and creator agency arms.
Blossom Music Center
Blossom Music Center, opened July 19, 1968 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is the summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra, owned by the Musical Arts Association, with a covered pavilion, large lawn, and a dual classical and popular concert history.
Blossom Rock
Blossom Rock, also known as Marie Blake, was an American actress best known for playing Grandmama in 64 episodes of The Addams Family from 1964 to 1966.
Blossom Rupes
Blossom Rupes is a 486-km lobate scarp on Mercury near the equator (center 3.04°S, 270.15°W), IAU-approved in 2013, part of the north-south, west-vergent Blossom Thrust System active until 3.5–3.7 Ga.
BlossomHill Therapeutics
BlossomHill Therapeutics is a clinical-stage San Diego biopharmaceutical company founded in 2020 by J. Jean Cui, developing macrocyclic cancer therapies including the EGFR inhibitor BH-30643.
Blossoms (band)
Blossoms are an English indie-pop quintet formed in 2013 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, by Tom Ogden and Joe Donovan. Known for synth-forward Brit-pop and five UK Number 1 albums including Blossoms (2016) and Gary (2024).
Blossoms of Power (百花杀)
Blossoms of Power (百花杀, originally 东风信) is a 2026 Tencent Video costume drama adapted from Jin Huang's novel, starring Meng Ziyi and He Yu, 36 episodes, a summer hit with polarized reviews over its similarity to Jiuchong Zi.
Blotting
Blotting is a laboratory technique in molecular biology that transfers DNA, RNA, or proteins from a separation gel onto a membrane, where labeled probes or antibodies detect them.
Blotting paper
Blotting paper, also called bibulous paper, is a soft, thick, porous, unsized paper that absorbs liquids, historically used to soak up excess ink from fresh writing.
Bloukion
Bloukion (Greek Βλούκιον, Latinized Blucium) was a Galatian fortress and the royal residence of King Deiotaros, identified with a hill near Karalar, Ankara Province, Turkey.
Blount (Martian crater)
Blount is a 77-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 43.16°S, 17.69°E in quadrangle MC-27, adopted by the IAU on February 3, 2025 and named for American planetary geologist Katherine "Kit" Hoyt Price Blount (1951–2020).
Blount County, Tennessee, United States
Blount County, Tennessee: East Tennessee county created July 11, 1795 from Knox County, named for territorial governor William Blount; county seat Maryville; 143,820 residents (2025 estimate); includes Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Blouse
Blouse: a lightweight, loose-fitting women's upper-body garment, from French workwear origins (1820s English adoption) through the 1890s shirtwaist, 1910s ready-made boom, Romanian ie, and Indian sari blouse traditions.
Blow (Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton and Bruno Mars song)
"Blow" is a 2019 song by Ed Sheeran with Chris Stapleton and Bruno Mars, released in July 2019 as a single from Sheeran's album No.6 Collaborations Project.
Blow (film)
Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama directed by Ted Demme, starring Johnny Depp as cocaine trafficker George Jung, with Penélope Cruz and Ray Liotta.
Blow by Blow
Blow by Blow is a 1975 instrumental album by English guitarist Jeff Beck. Produced by George Martin, it marked his transition to jazz-rock fusion and achieved platinum status.
Blow molding
Blow molding, also called blow forming, is a manufacturing process that makes hollow plastic parts such as bottles and tanks by inflating heated plastic in a mold.
Blow My Mind (Robyn song)
Blow My Mind is a Robyn song from Don't Stop The Music (2002), written with Alexander Kronlund and produced by Guy Sigsworth; in 2026 Robyn re-recorded it for Sexistential with new lyrics about her son Tyko.
Blow Out
Blow Out is Brian De Palma's 1981 American political thriller starring John Travolta as a Philadelphia sound-effects man who records evidence of a staged car-crash assassination, with Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, and Dennis Franz; a box-office failure later reappraised and released by the Criterion Collection.
Blow the Man Down (song)
"Blow the Man Down" is an English sea shanty, a halyard work song first documented in 1867 and closely associated with the Black Ball Line of packet ships sailing between New York and Liverpool.
Blow Up Your Video
Blow Up Your Video is a 1988 studio album by AC/DC, their first produced by Harry Vanda and George Young since 1978, reaching No. 2 in the UK.
Blow-by
Blow-by is the leakage of combustion gases past an engine's pistons into the crankcase, caused by imperfect piston-ring sealing, and is controlled by positive crankcase ventilation.