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Black Saturday bushfires
The Black Saturday bushfires, also called the February 7 Victorian bushfires, burned across Victoria, Australia, on 7 February 2009, killing 173 people and destroying over 2,000 homes.
Black Sea Cossack Host
The Black Sea Cossack Host (Чорноморське козацьке військо) was a Cossack formation of the Russian Empire, formed from former Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1787 and merged into the Kuban Cossack Host in 1860.
Black Sea Fleet (Черноморский флот)
Russian Black Sea Fleet (Черноморский флот), based at Sevastopol, Crimea, with Novorossiysk as fallback; lost the flagship Moskva in April 2022 and roughly a third of its vessels to Ukrainian missiles and naval drones, forcing withdrawal eastward.
Black Sea slave trade
The Black Sea slave trade was the long-distance commerce of enslaved people from the Black Sea region to Mediterranean markets, peaking in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Black Sea Trade and Development Bank
The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) is a multilateral development bank owned by the 11 member states of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, based in Thessaloniki, Greece since 1999.
Black Semiconductor
Black Semiconductor GmbH is a German semiconductor startup founded in Aachen in 2020 by brothers Daniel and Sebastian Schall, developing graphene-based photonic interconnects that let chips communicate optically.
Black Seminoles
Black Seminoles (Seminole freedmen, Mascogos) are descendants of escaped slaves who allied with the Seminoles in Spanish Florida, fought in the Seminole Wars, migrated to Oklahoma, Mexico (Coahuila), and Texas, served as Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, and remain distinct from Seminole Indians.
Black separatism
Black separatism is the strand of Black nationalism advocating separate institutions, or a separate nation, for Black people, historically via the Nation of Islam, Republic of New Africa, and Garveyism; distinct from community nationalism, it rarely demands territorial exit from the United States.
Black September (أيلول الأسود)
Black September (أيلول الأسود), the 1970–71 Jordanian civil war: King Hussein's army crushed the PLO-fedayeen state-within-a-state after PFLP hijackings and a Syrian invasion; the PLO fled to Lebanon, spawning the Black September Organization and the 1972 Munich attack.
Black September Organization (منظمة أيلول الأسود)
Black September Organization (منظمة أيلول الأسود), a Palestinian militant group linked to Fatah, active 1971–1973; named after the 1970 Jordan conflict; carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and the 1973 Khartoum embassy killings.
Black Sesame Technologies (黑芝麻智能)
Black Sesame Technologies (黑芝麻智能) is a Chinese automotive chip designer founded in Wuhan in 2016, known for its Huashan driving-assistance SoCs and its 2024 Hong Kong listing.
Black Shuck
Black Shuck, also called Old Shuck, is a ghostly black dog in English folklore said to roam East Anglia, an omen of death in some accounts and a companion in others.
Black site
Black site: a secret military or intelligence prison and interrogation facility whose existence the government denies; best known from the CIA's 2002-2008 network in Poland, Thailand, and elsewhere holding 119 detainees.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks (Peau noire, masques blancs) is Frantz Fanon's 1952 first book, published by Éditions du Seuil, Paris, with a preface by Francis Jeanson, analyzing racism, language, and the black psyche in a white colonial world.
Black Sparrow Press
Black Sparrow Press was an independent literary publisher founded by John and Barbara Martin in Los Angeles in 1966, best known for publishing almost all of Charles Bukowski's major works.
Black Speech
Black Speech (Black Speech of Mordor): fictional language created by Sauron in the Second Age to unify his servants; attested mainly through the One Ring inscription and an orc curse; extremely sparsely developed by Tolkien, unlike Qenya and Sindarin.
Black Standard (راية السوداء)
Black Standard (راية السوداء, rāyat al-sawdāʾ), the Black Banner or Banner of the Eagle: the black flag of Islamic tradition linked to Muhammad's banner al-ʿUqāb, the dynastic color of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the flag adopted by modern jihadist groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Black Stone (الحجر الأسود)
The Black Stone (الحجر الأسود, al-Hajar al-Aswad) is a fragmented dark stone in a silver frame at the Kaaba's southeastern corner in Mecca, marking the start and end of tawaf.
Black suffrage
Black suffrage is the right of Black Americans to vote in US elections, guaranteed by the 15th Amendment in 1870 and enforced by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Black Sun (symbol)
Black Sun (Schwarze Sonne, Sonnenrad): a Nazi-created symbol of twelve Sig runes around a central circle, first a mosaic in Wewelsburg Castle's SS hall, now an almost always white supremacist hate symbol and swastika substitute.
Black supremacy
Black supremacy: a racist belief in Black racial superiority and dominance, analogous to white supremacy. Article distinguishes it from Black nationalism, Black Power, and separatism, and covers the scholarly dispute over labeling black nationalist groups as hate groups.
Black Swan manslaughter case
The Black Swan manslaughter case was the Florida prosecution of former ballet dancer Ashley Benefield, convicted in 2024 of fatally shooting her estranged husband Doug in 2020.
Black swan theory
Black swan theory: Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 2007 concept of rare, extreme-impact, retrospectively explained events, rooted in Hume's induction problem, fat tails, and risk-management practice.
Black theology
Black theology, also called black liberation theology, is a Christian theology of liberation rooted in the black experience of oppression, first named in the late 1960s.
Black Tom explosion
The Black Tom explosion was German sabotage of a Jersey City, New Jersey munitions depot on July 30, 1916, destroying about two million pounds of war material, damaging the Statue of Liberty's torch, and leading to $50 million in reparations awarded in 1939.
Black triangle (UFO)
Black triangle UFO: a reported unidentified aerial phenomenon, also called flying triangle or TR-3B in lore, described as a large dark silent triangular craft with corner lights; over 8,100 NUFORC reports, linked to the Belgian wave and Phoenix Lights, mostly explained as misidentified aircraft.
Black Twitter
Black Twitter is the informal name for the networked community of African American Twitter users, named in a 2009 Medium article. Known for hashtag campaigns #BlackLivesMatter, #OscarsSoWhite, and #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, and its influence on US news media.
Black Unicorn Factory
Black Unicorn Factory is a California company founded by Johnny Stewart in 2020 that runs a pre-IPO program and the Follow Me for Equity app.
Black War
The Black War (1824–1831) was the violent frontier conflict in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) between Aboriginal nations and British colonists, ending in martial law, the Black Line campaign, forced removal to Wybalenna, and near-destruction of Tasmania's Indigenous population.
Black Watch
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Am Freiceadan Dubh, was Scotland's senior Highland infantry regiment, raised in 1739 as the 42nd Foot and amalgamated into The Royal Regiment of Scotland as its 3rd Battalion in 2006.