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Bisexual flag
Bisexual flag: pink, purple, blue pride flag designed by Michael Page, unveiled 5 December 1998 at BiCafe; 2:1:2 stripes with colors from Liz Nania's biangles; BiNet USA's 2020 copyright claim was dropped.
Bisexual lighting
Bisexual lighting: use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, matching the bisexual pride flag, in film, TV, and music to signal bisexuality; originated in a 2014 Tumblr post about Sherlock, peaked 2016-2018, and was used deliberately in Heartstopper.
Bisexuality
Bisexuality (bi): romantic, emotional, or sexual attraction to more than one gender. Distinct from pansexuality; largest LGBTQ+ identity (5.3% of U.S. adults); faces bi-erasure and elevated mental health disparities.
Bishandas
Bishandas (بشن داس) was a Mughal portrait painter who served Emperor Jahangir and traveled to Persia from 1613 to 1620 to paint Shah Abbas I and his court.
Bishara al-Khuri
Bishara al-Khuri (بشارة الخوري) was a Lebanese Maronite lawyer and statesman who served as the first president of independent Lebanon, from 1943 until his resignation in 1952.
Bishnoi
The Bishnoi, also known as Vishnoi, are a religious community in Rajasthan, India, founded by Guru Jambheshwar around 1485 and known for protecting trees and wildlife.
Bishnu Pada Ray
Bishnu Pada Ray, born in 1950, is an Indian BJP politician who has represented the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier terms from 1999 to 2019.
Bishnu Shrestha (विष्णु श्रेष्ठ)
Bishnu Prasad Shrestha (विष्णु श्रेष्ठ), born 1975 in Parbat, Nepal, is a Naik of the 7/8 Gorkha Rifles, Indian Army, who fought 30-40 train robbers alone with a khukuri on the Maurya Express in 2010 and received gallantry medals.
Bishop
A bishop in the Catholic Church holds the highest degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders, governing a diocese and succeeding to the place of the Apostles.
Bishop Fox
Bishop Fox is a privately held offensive security consulting firm headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. Founded in 2005 as Stach & Liu, it offers penetration testing, red teaming, and the Cosmos attack surface platform.
Bishop Gorman High School
Bishop Gorman High School (BGHS), the Gaels, is a Roman Catholic college-preparatory high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, founded September 7, 1954 by the Clerics of St. Viator and named for Bishop Thomas K. Gorman; about 1,500 students on a 52-acre campus since 2007.
Bishop of Dover
The Bishop of Dover, styled Bishop in Canterbury, is a Church of England suffragan bishop who oversees the Diocese of Canterbury, undertaking most of the Archbishop of Canterbury's diocesan duties.
Bishop of Llandaff
The Bishop of Llandaff, historically Bishop of Glamorgan, is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Llandaff in the Church in Wales, the most populous of its six Welsh dioceses.
Bishop of London
The Bishop of London is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of London, seated at St Paul's Cathedral, with a House of Lords seat by right.
Bishop Sycamore High School scandal
Bishop Sycamore High School scandal: a Columbus, Ohio, football team from a nonexistent school (precursor CoF Academy) lost 58-0 to IMG Academy on ESPN on August 29, 2021; coach Roy Johnson was fired and Ohio investigators deemed the school a scam.
Bishopric of Courland
The Bishopric of Courland, Latin Episcopatus Curoniensis, was a church principality of the Livonian Confederation in western Latvia from 1234 to 1583, seat at Piltene.
Bishopric of Dorpat
The Bishopric of Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu piiskopkond; German: Bisdom Dorpat) was a prince-bishopric in southeastern Estonia, a member of the Livonian Confederation from 1224 until Tartu surrendered to Russia in 1558.
Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek
The Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, known in Estonian as the Saare-Lääne piiskopkond, was a Roman Catholic prince-bishopric in western Estonia and on Saaremaa, Hiiumaa, and Muhu from 1228 to 1559.
Bishops in Methodism
A bishop in Methodism is an ordained elder set apart for general oversight, not a separate order of ministry, tracing to John Wesley's 1784 ordination of Thomas Coke.
Bishops in the Catholic Church
Bishops in the Catholic Church are successors of the Apostles, holding the fullness of Holy Orders to teach, sanctify, and govern; there were 5,525 in 2024.
Bishops' sagas
The Bishops' sagas (Biskupa sögur) are medieval Icelandic sagas telling the lives of bishops of Skálholt and Hólar, from the mid eleventh century to the fourteenth.
Bishr al-Hafi
Bishr al-Hafi (بشر الحافي) was an ascetic and Sufi of the early Abbasid period who lived in Baghdad, born in Merv in Khurasan around 767 and known as Bishr the Barefoot.
Bishr al-Marisi
Bishr al-Marisi (بشر المريسي, died 833) was a Baghdad-based Hanafi theologian who championed the createdness of the Qur'an, advised the caliph al-Ma'mun, and was condemned as an unbeliever by Sunni hadith scholars.
Bishr ibn al-Mu'tamir
Bishr ibn al-Mu'tamir (بشر بن المعتمر) was an early Abbasid Mu'tazili theologian and poet who founded the Baghdad school of the Mu'tazila and originated the doctrine of tawallud.
Bishr ibn Marwan
Bishr ibn Marwan (بشر بن مروان) was an Umayyad prince, son of Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakam and brother of Caliph Abd al-Malik, who governed Kufa and Basra and died in 693 or 694.
Bishr ibn Musa al-Asadi
Bishr ibn Musa al-Asadi was a ninth-century Sunni hadith scholar and hafiz of Baghdad, a jeweller at Bab al-Tin who was born in 190 AH and died in 288 AH aged 98.
Bisi
Bisi, Ge'ez for 'man of...', is a royal epithet borne by Aksumite kings from Endubis to Wa'zeb, attested in inscriptions and coin legends over 250 years.
Bislama
Bislama is an English-lexified creole language of Vanuatu. Its vocabulary is mostly English, and it functions as a national language and lingua franca across the islands.
Bismarck
Bismarck most often refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), the Prussian statesman who unified Germany in 1871 and served as its first chancellor until 1890.
Bismarck Archipelago campaign
The Bismarck Archipelago campaign was a World War II Allied operation, running from December 1943 to November 1944, to isolate and neutralize the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul in the Bismarck Archipelago.