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Blackstone Real Estate Partners X F
Blackstone Real Estate Partners X F is a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2022 as a parallel vehicle of Blackstone's $30.4 billion BREP X real estate fund.
Blackstone's ratio
Blackstone's ratio is William Blackstone's maxim from the Commentaries (1765-1769) that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer, underpinning the presumption of innocence, with variant ratios from Fortescue's 20:1 to Maimonides' 1000:1.
Blackwater (company)
Blackwater, later Xe Services and Academi and now part of Constellis, was the US private security company founded by Erik Prince that guarded State Department convoys in Iraq and became infamous for the 2007 Nisour Square shooting.
Blackwell's
Blackwell's, also known as Blackwell UK, is a British academic and specialist bookseller founded by Benjamin Henry Blackwell in Oxford in 1879, and owned by Waterstones since 2022.
Blackwood's Magazine
Blackwood's Magazine, commonly called Maga, was a Tory monthly magazine founded by William Blackwood in Edinburgh in 1817, a leading Victorian periodical that ran until 1980.
Bladud
Bladud, also known as King Bladud, is a legendary king of the Britons whom the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth credited around 1135 with founding the city of Bath.
Blaine Milam
Blaine Keith Milam (TDCJ #999558), Texas death row inmate convicted in 2010 of capital murder of 13-month-old Amora Carson; executed by lethal injection September 25, 2025, after stays in 2019 and 2021 over bite-mark science and intellectual-disability claims.
Blaine Trump
Blaine Trump (Martha Lindley Blaine Beard), American socialite and philanthropist, ex-wife of Robert Trump (married 1984, divorced after 25 years), cofounder and vice chair of God's Love We Deliver.
Blaine Wilhour
Blaine Wilhour is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 110th district, known for opposing tax increases.
Blair Academy
Blair Academy, founded 1848 in Blairstown, New Jersey, is a coeducational Presbyterian-founded boarding and day school for grades 9-12 on a 463-acre campus, with about 460 students, $81,950 boarding tuition, and a Blair-Peddie football rivalry dating to 1903.
Blair House
Blair House, the President's Guest House at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, is the official U.S. guest residence for visiting heads of state, presidents-elect, and state funeral families, purchased by the government in 1942 and run by the State Department's Office of the Chief of Protocol.
Blaise Compaoré
Blaise Compaoré, Burkinabé army officer and president of Burkina Faso 1987–2014, took power in the 1987 coup that killed Thomas Sankara, ruled 27 years, fell in the 2014 term-limit insurrection, and was sentenced to life in absentia in 2022.
Blaise Gisbert
Blaise Gisbert (1657–1731) was a French Jesuit rhetorician and preacher whose treatise on sacred eloquence, expanded in 1715, was translated into English, German, Italian, and Latin.
Blaise Metreweli
Blaise Metreweli (born 1977) is a British intelligence officer and the 18th Chief of MI6, known as 'C', the first woman to lead the Secret Intelligence Service. Formerly Director General 'Q' for technology, she took office 1 October 2025, succeeding Sir Richard Moore.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician, physicist, and religious writer; built the Pascaline calculator, founded probability theory with Fermat, proved atmospheric pressure on the Puy de Dôme, and wrote the Provinciales and Pensées.
Blake Doriot
Blake Doriot is an American politician and Republican member of the Indiana Senate representing District 12, elected in 2016 after 24 years as Elkhart County Surveyor.
Blake Gendebien
Blake Gendebien is a second-generation dairy farmer from Lisbon, New York, and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 21st district in the 2026 election.
Blake Johnson
Blake Johnson is an American Republican politician who has represented Arkansas Senate District 21 since 2015, serves as Senate Majority Leader, and lost the March 2026 Republican primary to Jeremy Wooldridge.
Blake Masters
Blake Masters is an American technology executive, venture investor, and Republican politician who lost Arizona's 2022 Senate race to incumbent Mark Kelly by about 5 points.
Blake Miguez
Blake Miguez is an American Republican politician who has represented Louisiana's Senate District 22 since 2024 and is a 2026 candidate for the U.S. House in the state's 6th district.
Blake Moore
Blake D. Moore is an American politician and Republican U.S. Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district since 2021, elected House Republican Conference Vice Chair in 2023.
Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie is an American entrepreneur best known as founder of TOMS, the footwear company whose One for One model gave a pair of shoes for every pair sold.
Blake Tillery
Blake Tillery is an American politician and Republican member of the Georgia State Senate, representing the 19th district since 2017 and serving as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Blambangan
Blambangan was the last major Hindu kingdom of Java, in the eastern salient around modern Banyuwangi, surviving until the Dutch East India Company conquered it from 1767 to 1773.
Blambangan War
The Blambangan War (1767–1773) was a series of VOC campaigns that destroyed the independence of Blambangan, Java's last Hindu kingdom, ending with the fall of the rebel stronghold at Bayu.
Blanca Pacheco
Blanca Pacheco is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the California State Assembly from the 64th district, first elected in 2022.
Blanca Rubio
Blanca Rubio is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the California State Assembly's 48th district, first elected in November 2016 after 16 years as a teacher.
Blanchard's transsexualism typology
Blanchard's transsexualism typology, also called the autogynephilia theory, is Ray Blanchard's classification of male-to-female transsexualism into androphilic and non-homosexual (autogynephilic) types, defined by erotic arousal at the thought of oneself as a woman; it remains scientifically influential and controversial.
Blanche Barrow
Blanche Barrow (Blanche Caldwell), wife of Buck Barrow, Clyde Barrow's brother; joined the Barrow gang in 1933, was captured at Platte City, Missouri, sentenced to 10 years, and wrote a memoir.
Blanche Monnier
Blanche Monnier (1849–1913), the Séquestrée de Poitiers, a Frenchwoman found 23 May 1901 after about 25 years shut in a closed room of her family's Poitiers house; mother died in detention, brother Marcel acquitted on appeal, case made famous by André Gide.