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Birth of a Beauty (미녀의 탄생)
Birth of a Beauty (미녀의 탄생) is a 2014 SBS South Korean romantic-comedy revenge drama in which a mistreated housewife, Sa Geum Ran, transforms into Sara via full-body plastic surgery; 21 episodes, starring Joo Sang Wook, Han Ye Seul, Jung Gyu Woon, and Wang Ji Hye.
Birth of the Cool
Birth of the Cool, first titled on a 1957 Capitol LP, collects Miles Davis Nonet recordings from 1949–50 with Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, and John Lewis arrangements, French horn and tuba textures, and credit as a starting point of cool jazz.
Birth of the New World
Birth of the New World (Nacimiento del Nuevo Mundo, La Estatua de Colón) is a 110-meter bronze Christopher Columbus statue by Zurab Tsereteli in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, completed 2016; tallest sculpture in the Western Hemisphere, rejected by several U.S. cities.
Birthday
Birthday: the annual anniversary of a person's birth. Also called dies natalis (Latin). Ancient Persians and Romans celebrated it; Kinderfest created the candle cake; modern birthdays act as rites of temporality with milestones like the quinceañera.
Birthday Blizzard '26
Birthday Blizzard '26 is J. Cole's surprise four-freestyle mixtape, hosted by DJ Clue and released around his 41st birthday in late 2026 over classic Bad Boy and LOX beats as a prelude to The Fall-Off.
Birthday cake
Birthday cake: frosted celebration cake with lit candles, one per year of life, blown out with a wish. Originated in 18th-century Germany's Kinderfest; also a vanilla-sprinkle flavor.
Birthday Girl (2001 film)
Birthday Girl (2001 film) is a British-American comedy-crime-thriller directed by Jez Butterworth. It stars Nicole Kidman as Sophia, a lonely bank clerk's Russian mail-order bride.
Birthday Letters
Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by Ted Hughes, 88 poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath, ending decades of public silence about their marriage.
Birthing (album)
Birthing is the seventeenth studio album by experimental rock band Swans, released May 30, 2025 on Young God/Mute. Seven tracks, about 1 hour 55 minutes; developed on the 2023–2024 tour; final album of the Big Sound era.
Biryani
Biryani (बिरयानी) is a layered South Asian rice dish of basmati rice with spiced meat or vegetables, sealed and finished by dum cooking; distinct from one-pot pulao, with kachchi and pakki schools and many regional styles.
Birzhan Sal
Birzhan Sal (Біржан сал, Birzhan Kozhagululy) was a nineteenth-century Kazakh singer, composer, and improvising poet, best known for his 1871 poetic contest with Sara Tastanbekkyzy.
Bisa Kdei
Bisa Kdei, born Ronald Kwaku Dei Appiah in 1986, is a Ghanaian highlife singer-songwriter and producer who leads his own label, Black Legendary Music, and modernized the genre.
Bisarjan
Bisarjan (বিসর্জন, "Sacrifice"/"Immersion") is Rabindranath Tagore's 1890 Bengali verse drama, adapted from his novel Rajarshi, in which the Tripura king bans animal sacrifice and clashes with the royal priest Raghupati.
Bisclavret
Bisclavret is an Old French narrative lai by Marie de France, written in the late 12th century, telling of a noble knight who periodically becomes a werewolf.
Biscotti
Biscotti, plural of biscotto, are Italian cookies whose name means twice-baked; abroad the word means the hard Tuscan almond cookies called cantucci or biscotti di Prato, baked, sliced, and dried in a second oven pass for long shelf life.
Biscuit
Biscuit: from Latin panis biscoctus, twice-cooked ship bread. Means a crisp cookie-like item in British English and a soft scone-like quick bread in North America; biscuit products have 1–5% moisture.
Biscuit (bread)
Biscuit (bread): the North American quick bread, a chemically leavened round distinct from the British cookie-biscuit; Southern staple adopted for its buttermilk, lard, and soft wheat flour.
Biscuits and gravy
Biscuits and gravy, also called sawmill, country, or white gravy and biscuits, is an American Southern breakfast of leavened biscuits smothered in white sausage gravy made from pork drippings, flour, and milk, originating in Appalachian frontier and logging-camp cooking.
Bisexual pornography
Bisexual pornography depicts sex involving performers of both sexes, especially male-male-female scenes. Key facts: genre emerged with 1985's Bi-Coastal; tagged mainly MMF on tube sites; criticized for hypersexualized, coerced depictions of bisexuality.
Bishabriksha
Bishabriksha (বিষবৃক্ষ, The Poison Tree) is an 1873 Bengali social novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, serialized in his magazine Bangadarshan, centered on a triangular relationship involving widow remarriage.
Bishad Shindhu
Bishad Shindhu (বিষাদ সিন্ধু, "Ocean of Sorrow") is an epic Bengali novel by Mir Mosharraf Hossain, published in three parts between 1885 and 1891, retelling the Karbala tragedy.
Bisher Banshi
Bisher Banshi (বিষের বাঁশী, "The Poisonous Flute") is a 1924 Bengali poetry collection by Kazi Nazrul Islam, banned by the British colonial government two months after publication.
Bishnu Dey
Bishnu Dey (বিষ্ণু দে) was a Bengali poet and art critic, a pioneer of modernism in post-Tagore Bengali literature, who won the Jnanpith Award in 1971.
Bishnu Prasad Rabha
Bishnu Prasad Rabha, called Kalaguru (teacher of art), was a 20th-century Assamese poet, songwriter, playwright, and actor, remembered as a founder of modern Assamese culture and as a communist legislator.
Bishōjo (美少女)
Bishōjo (美少女, bishoujo) is Japanese for a beautiful girl and, in English fandom, a genre of anime and manga depicting cute young girls; attested from 1686, central to otaku media, and borrowed into Chinese and Korean.
Bishōjo game
Bishōjo game (美少女ゲーム), also gal game: Japanese genre of games centered on interacting with attractive anime-style female characters, mostly visual novels with branching routes; male-oriented counterpart to otome games, historically tied to eroge.
Bishōnen (美少年)
Bishōnen (美少年), literally "beautiful boy," is a Japanese term and aesthetic for slender, androgynously beautiful young men, rooted in Edo-period wakashu imagery and central to shōjo manga, male idols, and boys' love (BL) manga.
Bishonen (美少年之恋) (film)
Bishonen (美少年之戀, also Beauty) is Yonfan's 1998 Hong Kong gay romance drama starring Stephen Fung, Daniel Wu, and Shu Qi; produced by Sylvia Chang, it won Best Film at the 13th Milan Gay Film Festival.
Bishop Briggs
Bishop Briggs, stage name of Sarah Grace McLaughlin (born 1992), London-born, Los Angeles-based English singer-songwriter named after Bishopbriggs, Scotland; known for "River" (2016), albums Church of Scars and Champion, and winning The Masked Singer season 9 as Medusa.
Bisht
The bisht (بشت) is a men's cloak of wool or camel hair worn over the thobe across the Arab world, now reserved for weddings, funerals, and ceremonies.