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Bidco Africa
Bidco Africa, also known as Bidco Industries, is a Kenyan family-owned manufacturer of edible oils, soaps, and detergents, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Thika.
Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory
Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory: claims, spread by Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Russian-linked sources, that Joe Biden corruptly fired Ukraine's prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016 to protect son Hunter and Burisma; long debunked but central to 2019 impeachment and a 2023–2024 inquiry.
Bidenomics
Bidenomics is the economic program of the Biden administration (2021 to 2025), defined by Joe Biden as growing the economy from the middle out and bottom up.
Bidhoba Bibaha
Bidhoba Bibaha (বিধবা বিবাহ, "widow marriage") was the nineteenth-century movement in colonial Bengal to legalize Hindu widow remarriage, led by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar and culminating in the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856.
Bids to college bowl games
Bids to college bowl games: how FBS teams earn NCAA bowl eligibility (6-6 or better, APR-based 5-7 alternates), conference tie-ins, the Bowl Coalition/Alliance/BCS eras, and CFP selection committee assignments.
Bidya Devi Bhandari (विद्या देवी भण्डारी)
Bidya Devi Bhandari (विद्या देवी भण्डारी), born 1961, is a Nepali CPN-UML politician, Nepal's second and first female president (two terms, 2015–2023), who later returned to UML politics as senior leader.
Bidyut Baran Mahato
Bidyut Baran Mahato, born 1963, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, in the Lok Sabha since 2014 and has won the Sansad Ratna Award five consecutive years.
Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი)
Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი), Georgian billionaire founder of Georgian Dream, prime minister 2012-13, made fortune in Russian banking and mining; de facto ruler, US-sanctioned December 2024.
Biełaruskaja dumka
Biełaruskaja dumka («Беларуская думка», Belarusian Thought) is the name of several Belarusian periodicals, including a weekly social, literary, and agricultural magazine founded in Grodno in 1930.
Bielefeld conspiracy
Bielefeld conspiracy (Bielefeld-Verschwörung): satirical German internet joke from a 1994 Usenet post by Achim Held claiming the city of Bielefeld does not exist, run by "SIE" (THEM), tested by three questions; city answered with a 1999 denial and the 2019 €1 million #Bielefeldmillion contest.
Bielski partisans
The Bielski partisans were a Jewish partisan group founded in 1942 in Western Belorussia by Tuvia, Asael, Zus, and Aharon Bielski, combining armed resistance with rescue; over 1,200 Jews survived in their Naliboki Forest camp.
Bienville Fractal
Bienville Fractal is the seed-stage venture capital program of Bienville Capital Management, a New York investment firm founded in 2008 that creates and seeds Vertical SaaS companies.
Bifröst
Bifröst (Old Norse Bifrǫst, also Bilröst, Ásbrú) is the burning rainbow bridge between Midgard and Asgard in Norse mythology, guarded by Heimdall at Himinbjörg and foretold to break under Múspell's sons at Ragnarök.
Bifukumon-in
Bifukumon-in (美福門院), born Fujiwara no Tokushi, was the consort of retired Emperor Toba and mother of Emperor Konoe, who shaped Japan's imperial succession in the 1140s and 1150s.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a 16-university NCAA Division I athletic conference founded in 1996, headquartered in Irving, Texas, under Commissioner Brett Yormark; a Power Four league with an automatic College Football Playoff football berth.
Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf is the archetypal fairy-tale wolf villain of Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs (ATU 333, 123, 124), analyzed by Jürgens and Hackett as a stereotype formed by merging wolf behavior with the shadow archetype of evil.
Big bath (accounting)
A big bath is an earnings-management practice in which a company loads impairments, write-downs, and restructuring charges into one period so future earnings appear higher.
Big Boy (radio host)
Big Boy (Kurt Alexander, born 1969) is an American radio host, not the Channel 4 series or any other Big Boy: Los Angeles Power 106 and Real 92.3 morning host of Big Boy's Neighborhood, syndicated nationwide, Radio Hall of Fame inductee.
Big dick energy
Big dick energy (BDE) is a slang term for an unassuming, effortless confidence. It first went viral in 2018, notably after Kyrell Grant used it to describe Anthony Bourdain.
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
The Big East Conference (1979–2013) was a Division I athletic conference founded by Dave Gavitt with seven Eastern basketball schools, later added football in 1991, peaked with 11 NCAA bids in 2011, and split in 2013 into the American Athletic Conference and a new Catholic-school Big East.
Big Eight Conference
Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA Division I-A athletic conference descended from the 1907 MVIAA; members included Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State; dissolved in 1996 to form the Big 12 with four Southwest Conference schools.
Big Five banks of Canada
The Big Five banks of Canada, also called the Big 5 banks, are RBC, TD, Scotiabank, BMO, and CIBC, holding over 90% of Canadian banking assets.
Big Five personality traits
Big Five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism; the consensus five-factor taxonomy of personality derived from lexical studies, with HEXACO's Honesty-Humility as the main alternative.
Big Four (banking)
The Big Four in banking is a country-specific label for the four dominant banks in a national market, notably in China, Australia, and the United States.
Big Four (Western Europe)
Big Four (Western Europe): informal grouping of France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, the four largest West European states; distinct from the Paris Peace Conference Big Four and the Big Four audit firms.
Big Four accounting firms
The Big Four accounting firms, also called the Big Four auditors, are Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG, which between them audit most of the world's large listed companies.
Big Four television networks
The Big Four television networks are ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, which have dominated over-the-air commercial television in the United States since Fox expanded the Big Three around 1990.
Big Jim Colosimo
Big Jim Colosimo (Giacomo Colosimo), Chicago vice lord of the Levee District who built brothel and gambling empire, was murdered May 11, 1920 after refusing bootlegging, enabling Torrio and Capone's Outfit.
Big lie
The big lie (Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique in which a gross falsehood repeated relentlessly becomes credible; Hitler coined the term in Mein Kampf (1925).
Big Lots
Big Lots, formerly Consolidated Stores Corporation, is an American discount retail chain founded in 1967 that sells closeout furniture, home goods, and food at low prices.