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Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France
Blanche of Navarre (Blanche d'Évreux, c. 1331–1398), daughter of Joan II of Navarre, was Queen of France as second wife of Philip VI from 29 January to 22 August 1350, then a long-lived dowager queen nicknamed Belle Sagesse.
Blanche Taylor Moore
Blanche Taylor Moore (born Blanche Kiser, 1933), also called the Black Widow of North Carolina, is a former Kroger head cashier on death row since 1990 for the arsenic murder of boyfriend Raymond Reid; also suspected in other poisonings.
Bland–Allison Act
The Bland–Allison Act was an 1878 US federal law requiring the Treasury to buy $2–4 million of silver monthly and coin it into legal-tender silver dollars, passed over Hayes's veto.
Blas de Lezo
Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta was a Spanish naval officer under Philip V, nicknamed Mediohombre, who defended Cartagena de Indias against Admiral Edward Vernon in 1741.
Blas Ruiz de Hernan Gonzalez
Blas Ruiz, born in Spain around 1560, was a Spanish adventurer who helped restore King Prauncar to the Cambodian throne in 1596 and became a provincial governor.
Blas Valera
Blas Valera was a mestizo Jesuit priest in colonial Peru, the first mestizo ordained by the order, known for his Quechua linguistic work and lost Latin history of the Incas.
Blasco Núñez Vela
Blasco Núñez Vela was a Spanish colonial administrator and the first viceroy of Peru, appointed by Charles V in 1543 to enforce the New Laws.
Blasphemy
Blasphemy is speech or conduct that insults or shows contempt for God or anything a religion holds sacred, and a criminal offense in many countries.
Blasphemy law
Blasphemy law criminalizes insult or contempt toward religion, gods, or sacred symbols. Around 95 countries retain such laws; punishments range from fines to death, and UN human rights bodies deem them broadly incompatible with free-expression rights.
Blau Monuments
The Blau Monuments are two inscribed stone objects of the late fourth or early third millennium BC, among the earliest known Sumerian inscriptions, held in the British Museum.
Blaze Media
Blaze Media, home of The Blaze TV, is an American conservative media company formed by the 2018 merger of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze and Mark Levin's CRTV, based in Irving, Texas.
Blazon
Blazon: the formal heraldic language describing coats of arms and flags precisely enough to reproduce them from text alone; Norman-French vocabulary, classic form about 1250, rule of tincture.
Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report (B/R), founded 2007 by Finocchio, Goldberg, Nemetz, and Freund, is a digital sports media brand with a mobile app (formerly Team Stream), acquired by Turner in 2012 for $170 million and now a Warner Bros. Discovery social-first sports brand.
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas: violent 1854-1861 conflict over slavery in Kansas Territory after the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise; about 56 killed, rival governments, free-state admission in 1861.
Bleek and Lloyd Collection
The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is an archive of nineteenth-century notebooks and dictionaries preserving the languages and folklore of the ǀxam and ǃkun San peoples.
Bleiburg repatriations
Bleiburg repatriations: May 1945 forced handover of Croatian NDH soldiers and civilians by British forces in Austria to Tito's Partisans, followed by death marches, mass executions, and a contested annual commemoration.
Blemmyan language
Blemmyan is the language of the Blemmyes, known from about ninety personal names in late antique Greek and Coptic documents, and closely related to Beja.
Blemmyes
The Blemmyes (Blemmyae) were a nomadic pastoralist people of the Eastern Desert between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, best known as raiders of Roman Egypt and rivals of Meroitic Kush.
Blemyomachia
The Blemyomachia (also spelled Blemmyomachia) is a fragmentary anonymous Greek epic poem on papyrus celebrating a Roman victory over the Blemmyes, doubtfully attributed to Olympiodorus of Thebes.
Blend word
Blend word, also called portmanteau word, a word fusing parts of two source words (brunch, smog, motel). Term coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871); studied in morphology as extra-grammatical word formation.
Blended learning
Blended learning, also called hybrid learning, is an instructional approach combining face-to-face teaching with online learning; universities adopted it widely in the 2000s, and the flipped classroom is a variant.
Blickle family
The Blickle family is the owner family of SEW-EURODRIVE, a Bruchsal, Germany drive-technology maker whose gearmotors hold a 36% global market share; Jürgen Blickle has led it since 1987.
Blighty
Blighty, or Old Blighty, is British slang for Britain or England, from Urdu bilāyatī ("foreign") via Anglo-Indian army usage; soldiers in the World Wars also used "a blighty one" for a slight wound sending them home.
Blind men and an elephant
Blind men and an elephant: an Indian parable (Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 1317) in which blind men each touch one part of an elephant and mistake it for the whole; found in Buddhist Udāna 6.4, Jain anekāntavāda texts, Sanai, Rumi, and Saxe's poem.
Blinding of Vasily II
The blinding of Vasily II (Ослепление Василия II) was the capture and blinding of Grand Prince Vasily II of Moscow by his cousin Dmitry Shemyaka in 1446.
Bling Capital
Bling Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded by Ben Ling in 2018 and headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida since 2023. It invests $1 million to $5 million in software, healthcare, and consumer companies.
Bling Ring
The Bling Ring: Los Angeles youths including Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, and Alexis Neiers who burglarized celebrity homes such as Paris Hilton's in 2008-2009, stealing over $3 million; subject of Coppola's 2013 film.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell's 2005 Little, Brown book on rapid cognition and thin-slicing, following The Tipping Point, covering the Getty kouros, Gottman's marriage predictions, and critiques of expert intuition.
Blinn College
Blinn College is a public community college district based in Brenham, Texas, founded in 1883 as Mission Institute. Known for its Texas A&M TEAM co-enrollment program, six campuses, and Texas-leading transfer rate.
Blippar
Blippar is a London-based augmented reality technology company founded by Ambarish Mitra and Omar Tayeb, known for an app that unlocked digital content from objects and ads.