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Bhutto family
Bhutto family, Sindhi Pakistani political dynasty leading the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP); Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (executed 1979), Benazir Bhutto (assassinated 2007), Asif Ali Zardari, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari; distinct from the rival Sharif family of PML-N.
Bi Chanyu
Bi Chanyu, also known as the second Huhanye Chanyu, founded the Southern Xiongnu in 48 AD, submitting to the Eastern Han dynasty, and reigned until his death in 56 AD.
Bi Gan
Bi Gan (比干) was a Shang prince and kinsman of the last Shang king, killed for remonstrating with him, and later honored as a god of wealth.
Bi Gan's Execution
Bi Gan's Execution (比干剖心) was the killing of the Shang prince Bi Gan, whose heart King Zhou cut out after Bi Gan remonstrated with him.
Bi Sheng
Bi Sheng (毕升) was a Northern Song dynasty commoner who invented movable-type printing using fired clay types during the Qingli era (1041–1048) of Emperor Renzong.
Bi Yuan
Bi Yuan (毕沅, 1730–1797) was a Qing dynasty official, scholar, and patron of learning who served as governor of Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong and led the compilation of the Xu Zizhi Tongjian.
Biafra
Biafra, also the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state declared from Nigeria's Eastern Region by Ojukwu on 30 May 1967; its 1967–1970 war with Nigeria, blockade, and famine killed up to two million people before its January 1970 surrender.
Biafran declaration of independence
The Biafran declaration of independence was the 30 May 1967 proclamation by Eastern Region governor Chukwuemeka Ojukwu creating the Republic of Biafra, which began the Nigerian Civil War.
Biagio da Cesena
Biagio da Cesena (Biagio Martinelli, 1463–1544), papal master of ceremonies and diarist, remembered for criticizing the nudity of Michelangelo's Last Judgment and for the disputed tale that he was painted as Minos in the fresco.
Bian Jingzhao
Bian Jingzhao (边景昭), also written Bian Wenjin, was a Chinese flower-and-bird court painter of the early Ming dynasty, remembered for the celebrated hanging scroll Three Friends and a Hundred Birds (1413).
Bian Que
Bian Que (扁鹊) is a legendary Chinese physician of the Spring and Autumn period, recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian as the founder of pulse diagnosis.
Bian River canal transport system
The Bian River canal transport system (汴河漕运制度) was the Song dynasty's policy framework for shipping tax grain from the Yangtze and Huai regions to the capital.
Bianca de' Medici
Bianca de' Medici, also known as Bianca dei Pazzi, was a Florentine noblewoman, sister of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who married Guglielmo de' Pazzi in 1459.
Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger (Bianca Pérez Mora-Macías), Nicaraguan-born British human rights advocate, founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, 2004 Right Livelihood laureate, Council of Europe death-penalty abolition ambassador, ex-wife of Mick Jagger.
Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu
Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a Nigerian politician and diplomat appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Bola Tinubu in 2026, after serving as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2024.
Bianhu qimin
Bianhu qimin (编户齐民) is the Han-dynasty term for the registered commoner households that bore taxes, corvée labor, and military service, first recorded in the Book of Han.
Bianna Golodryga
Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga (Бианна Витальевна Голодрыга) is a Moldovan-born American journalist, CNN anchor and senior global affairs analyst, co-anchoring One World with Zain Asher; previously CBS This Morning, Yahoo News, and ABC's GMA Weekend, co-author of Don't Feed the Lion.
Bianzhu (Stringed Pearls)
Bianzhu (编珠, "Stringed Pearls") is a Chinese paired-phrase reference compilation traditionally attributed to Du Gongzhan around 610, though scholars have long disputed whether it is a genuine Sui work.
Bias
Bias, in psychology, a systematic deviation of judgment from rational norms; cognitive bias arises from heuristics, mental shortcuts studied since Kahneman and Tversky's 1974 heuristics-and-biases program, with documented effects in medicine, economics, and fact-checking.
Bias against left-handed people
Bias against left-handed people: stigma, forced right-hand conversion, and tool design disadvantaging the roughly 10.6% left-handed minority, rooted in right-good/left-bad symbolism and debunked pathology myths.
Bias blind spot
Bias blind spot: the tendency to see cognitive and motivational biases in others more than in oneself, named by Pronin, Lin, and Ross (2002), explained by naive realism, self-enhancement, and the introspection illusion, and unattenuated by cognitive sophistication.
Bibb Graves
Bibb Graves (David Bibb Graves, 1873–1942), Alabama governor 1927–31 and 1935–39, progressive builder of roads and schools who was Grand Cyclops of the Montgomery Klan klavern and left office amid renaming debates over his legacy.
Bibhu Prasad Tarai
Bibhu Prasad Tarai is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party member who represents Jagatsinghpur, Odisha in the Lok Sabha, elected in 2024 and earlier from 2009 to 2014.
Bibhuti Bhusan Jena
Bibhuti Bhusan Jena (also spelled Bibhuti Bhushan Jena) is a BJP politician from Golanthara, Ganjam, Odisha, MLA for Gopalpur since 2024 and Odisha cabinet minister for Commerce and Transport and Steel and Mines since June 2024.
Bibi Aisha
Bibi Aisha (Aesha Mohammadzai) is an Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off in 2009 for fleeing a forced child marriage; her 2010 TIME cover photograph by Jodi Bieber won World Press Photo of the Year.
Bibi Bhani
Bibi Bhani (ਬੀਬੀ ਭਾਨੀ, 1535 to 1598) was the daughter of Guru Amar Das, wife of Guru Ram Das, and mother of Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru.
Bibi Nanaki
Bibi Nanaki (ਬੀਬੀ ਨਾਨਕੀ) was the elder sister of Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, and is regarded as the first Sikh; she died at Sultanpur Lodhi in 1518.
Bibi Sahib Kaur
Bibi Sahib Kaur (ਬੀਬੀ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਕੌਰ, 1771 to 1801) was a Sikh warrior who served as chief minister of Patiala and led its armies against a Maratha invasion in 1794.
Bibi Titi Mohammed
Bibi Titi Mohammed (1926–2000) was a Tanzanian politician and freedom fighter who led the women's wing of TANU, enrolling about 5,000 women ahead of Tanganyika's independence in 1961.
Bible
The Bible is the sacred scripture of Jews and Christians, a library of texts whose contents differ by tradition, from the 24-book Tanakh to the 81-book Ethiopian canon.