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Bindle
Bindle: US slang for a hobo's bundle of bedding and possessions carried on a stick; also a small folded paper packet for powdered drugs; Scots bindle means a binding cord or rope.
Bindu (actress)
Bindu (Bindu Nanubhai Desai, बिन्दू), Indian Hindi-film actress born 1941 in Valsad, famed as the vamp and 'Mona Darling' of Kati Patang's 'Mera Naam Shabnam', over 160 films and seven Filmfare nominations; some databases give a disputed 1951 birth date.
Bindu Madhavi (பிந்து மாதவி)
Bindu Madhavi (பிந்து மாதவி), born 1986 in Madanapalle, is an Indian actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema, debuting in Avakai Biryani (2008), known for Veppam, Kazhugu, and Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga, and winner of Bigg Boss Non-Stop (2022).
Bing (TV series)
Bing is a British CGI-animated CBeebies preschool series (premiered June 2014) based on Ted Dewan's Bing Bunny books, produced by Acamar Films, Brown Bag Films, and Tandem Films, following toddler bunny Bing and carer Flop, an Emmy winner licensed to 141 territories.
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby, 1903–1977), American singer and actor, pioneer of intimate microphone crooning; best-selling "White Christmas," Oscar for Going My Way, 104 films, radio and tape-recording pioneer.
Bing Russell
Bing Russell (Neil Oliver Russell, 1926-2003), American character actor and minor league ballplayer; Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza, father of Kurt Russell, and owner of the independent Portland Mavericks, 1973-1977.
Bing Worthington
Bing Worthington (Bing Crosby Worthington Jr.), Snoop Dogg's younger brother, was an American music executive, tour manager, and producer who co-founded Dogg Records and died in February 2024 at 44.
Binge-watching
Binge-watching, also called marathon viewing, is watching multiple episodes of a TV show or multiple videos in one sitting, popularized by Netflix from 2013. Key facts: third-episode scholarly threshold, sleep loss of two to eight hours, links to depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
Bingo (folk song)
Bingo (Roud 589), also "Bingo Was His Name-O" or "B-I-N-G-O", is an English children's folk song about a farmer's dog, first printed in 1780, with verses that replace spelled letters with claps.
Bingo Players
Bingo Players is a Dutch electro-house project founded in 2006 by Maarten Hoogstraten and Paul Bäumer, best known for the 2011 tracks "Rattle" and "Cry (Just a Little)".
Bini (group)
BINI (from 'binibini', young lady) is an eight-member Filipino P-pop girl group under Star Magic/Star Music, formed via ABS-CBN's Star Hunt Academy; known as the 'Nation's Girl Group', it topped Philippine charts in 2024 and passed one billion Spotify streams in 2025.
Binni Krishnakumar
Binni (Binny) Krishnakumar, born 1974 in Thodupuzha, Kerala, is a Carnatic classical vocalist and playback singer, half of a noted vocal duo with husband K. Krishnakumar, and singer of "Raa Raa" in Chandramukhi (2005).
Binnu Dhillon (ਬਿੱਨੂ ਢਿੱਲੋਂ)
Binnu Dhillon (ਬਿੱਨੂ ਢਿੱਲੋਂ), born Barinder Singh Dhillon, is a Punjabi actor, comedian and producer from Dhuri, Sangrur, best known as Goldy in Carry On Jatta and a two-time Filmfare Awards Punjabi winner.
Binodiini (film)
Binodiini: Ekti Natir Upakhyan (বিনোদিনী: একটি নটীর উপাখ্যান), also called Binodiini, is a 2025 Bengali biographical drama directed by Ram Kamal Mukherjee, starring Rukmini Maitra as theatre icon Binodini Dasi, released 23 January 2025.
Binomio de Oro
Binomio de Oro, also known as El Binomio de Oro, is a Colombian vallenato group founded in 1976 by Israel Romero and Rafael Orozco in Barranquilla.
Bio Booster Armor Guyver (強殖装甲ガイバー)
Bio Booster Armor Guyver (Kyōshoku Sōkō Gaibā) is a Japanese science fiction manga by Yoshiki Takaya in which a student becomes the armored bio-weapon Guyver, fighting the organization Chronos.
Bio-Dome
Bio-Dome is a 1996 American comedy directed by Jason Bloom, starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin as slackers sealed inside an ecological research facility for a year.
Biodynamic wine
Biodynamic wine is wine from grapes farmed by Rudolf Steiner's 1924 biodynamic system, certified mainly by Demeter (founded 1932), covering about 1% of world vineyards, with stricter cellar rules than organic wine and contested scientific evidence.
Biographia Literaria
Biographia Literaria is an 1817 autobiographical and critical work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, mixing memoir with literary criticism and setting out his theory of imagination.
Biographical film
Biographical film (biopic, from biographical picture): a film depicting aspects of a famous person's life. A hybrid of fiction and historical truth, spanning 1930s Hollywood prestige pictures to ironic independent and streaming-era works.
Biographical prose
Biographical prose is prose that recounts a person's life, deeds, and character as literature, between history and fiction, founded in China by Sima Qian's Shiji of the Han dynasty.
Biographies of Exemplary Women
Biographies of Exemplary Women (Lienü zhuan, 列女傳) is a collection of moralistic biographies of women compiled by the Han scholar Liu Xiang, the earliest Chinese book devoted to women's moral education.
Biography
Biography: an account of a person's life written by someone else, distinct from autobiography. Covers its ancient origins, life writing scholarship, memoir, ethics of privacy, and digital biography.
Biohackers
Biohackers: people applying DIY biology, self-measurement, and technology to their own bodies, from community labs to longevity entrepreneurs like Bryan Johnson; also a cancelled German Netflix thriller series (2020-2021).
Biohazard (band)
Biohazard is an American hardcore/metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 1987 (some sources say 1988), pioneers of fusing hardcore, metal, and hip-hop; known for Urban Discipline (1992), State of the World Address (1994), and the 2025 reunion album Divided We Fall.
Biological War: A Scenario
Biological War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen's 2026 Dutton nonfiction bestseller following Nuclear War: A Scenario, imagines an engineered plague escaping a Siberian Russian lab and collapsing civilization in six days.
Bion of Smyrna
Bion of Smyrna (Βίων ὁ Σμυρναῖος) was a Greek bucolic poet, probably active in the late 2nd century BCE, whose chief surviving work is the Lament for Adonis.
Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)
Bionic, Christina Aguilera's fourth studio album (RCA, June 8, 2010), an electro-pop departure after Back to Basics; Metascore 56, US Billboard 200 number three, UK number one, later reassessed as ahead of its time.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
Bionic Woman (2007) is NBC's short-lived reimagining of the 1976–78 Lindsay Wagner series, starring Michelle Ryan as rebuilt bartender Jaime Sommers. Eight episodes aired before the WGA strike; it premiered to 13.91 million viewers and was cancelled in spring 2008.
Biophilia (album)
Biophilia (2011) is Björk's eighth studio album, released via Nonesuch/One Little Indian as the first album issued as a suite of ten interactive iPad/iPhone apps, with custom instruments, a Grammy for Best Recording Package, and MoMA acquisition.