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BlissBio (百力司康)
BlissBio (百力司康), formally Bliss Biopharmaceutical (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Hangzhou, China, founded in 2017, developing antibody-drug conjugates for cancer, including the HER2-targeting lead asset BB-1701.
Blissymbols
Blissymbols (Blissymbolics, Semantography) is a semantic graphical language of Bliss-characters and Bliss-words created by Charles K. Bliss, first used clinically in 1971 and standardized by BCI with 6,551 authorized symbols in its 2026 vocabulary.
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg, German for "lightning war," is the popular term for Germany's mobile combined-arms offensives of 1939-1941; never an official Wehrmacht doctrine, and its status as a coherent concept is debated by historians.
Blizzard of 1977
The Blizzard of 1977 was a severe blizzard that struck Western New York and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1, 1977, paralyzing Buffalo and killing 29 people.
Blizzard the Avalanche Fund LP
Blizzard the Avalanche Fund LP is a New York-managed venture fund launched in 2021 by the Avalanche Foundation and Ava Labs to back over $200 million in Avalanche startups.
Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois (BQ), Quebec sovereigntist federal party founded 1990-1991 by Lucien Bouchard after Meech Lake; runs candidates only in Quebec, was Official Opposition with 54 seats in 1993, led since 2019 by Yves-François Blanchet.
Block grant
A block grant is a fixed-sum transfer from a central government to state or local governments, spendable within a broad area like community development or family assistance.
Block Parent Program
Block Parent Program: Canadian volunteer child-safety network whose approved members display a window sign offering their home as an emergency refuge. Founded in London, Ontario, in 1968, nationalized in 1983-1986, RCMP-affiliated, and in decline since the 2000s.
Block, Inc.
Block, Inc., formerly Square, Inc., is an American financial technology company founded by Jack Dorsey in 2009, best known for its Square seller services and Cash App.
Blockade
A blockade, also known as a naval quarantine, is a belligerent operation barring vessels and aircraft of all nations from enemy ports, airports, or coasts; ships attempting passage may be seized.
Blockade of Biafra
Blockade of Biafra: Nigeria's Federal Military Government encirclement of the secessionist Eastern Region from 31 May 1967 to January 1970, combining naval, land, currency, and supply restrictions that caused famine, killed up to two million, and prompted the Biafran airlift.
Blockbuster (retailer)
Blockbuster was an American video rental chain that grew from a single Dallas store in 1985 into the world's largest home-video retailer, peaking at about 9,100 stores.
Blockbusting
Blockbusting was the discriminatory practice of panicking white homeowners into selling cheaply, then reselling to Black buyers at inflated prices, from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Blockcap, Inc.
Blockcap, Inc., also known as Block Capital Inc., was an Austin, Texas-based bitcoin mining company founded in 2020 and acquired by Core Scientific in July 2021 for about $1.139 billion.
Blockchain.com
Blockchain.com, formerly Blockchain.info, is a London-headquartered cryptocurrency financial services company founded in 2011 as a Bitcoin block explorer, now offering a consumer wallet, exchange, and institutional prime brokerage, custody, and over-the-counter trading.
Blocking of YouTube in Russia
Blocking of YouTube in Russia: since July 2024 Roskomnadzor throttled YouTube via TSPU devices to 128 kbps, denying a formal block, blaming Google Global Cache, cutting the 95-million-user audience and pushing traffic to VK Video and Rutube.
Blockpit
Blockpit is an Austrian crypto tax and compliance software company founded in Linz in 2017. It calculates cryptocurrency tax liabilities under national tax rules and produces filing-ready reports.
Blockratize Inc.
Blockratize Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated New York company doing business as Polymarket, an on-chain prediction market that received a $1.0 billion ICE investment in 2025.
Bloem Life Enterprise, Inc.
Bloem Life Enterprise, Inc. is a Delaware biotechnology company based in Houston, Texas, whose only public record is a $145 million securities filing in October 2021.
Bloemfontein Convention
The Bloemfontein Convention, also called the Orange River Convention, was the treaty signed at Bloemfontein on 23 February 1854 by which Britain recognized the Orange Free State's independence.
Blog del Narco
Blog del Narco (El Blog del Narco) is an anonymous Mexican citizen-journalism site founded March 2, 2010, covering cartel violence and drug-war news; its pseudonymous editor "Lucy" revealed she was a woman journalist in 2013.
BLOKS Group (布鲁可)
BLOKS Group (布鲁可), registered as Shanghai Bloks Technology Group Co., Ltd., is a Chinese toy maker founded in Shanghai in 2014 by Zhu Weisong, co-founder of Youzu Interactive.
Blom Bank
Blom Bank is a Lebanese universal bank incorporated in 1951, the country's largest bank by assets, with 75 branches in Lebanon and 17 in Jordan.
Blomberg–Fritsch affair
Blomberg–Fritsch affair: January–February 1938 scandals that removed War Minister Werner von Blomberg and Army chief Werner von Fritsch, letting Hitler create the OKW and take personal command of the Wehrmacht.
Blood and soil
Blood and soil (Blut und Boden) is a nationalist, often fascist ideology tying racial heredity to territory; a Nazi slogan popularized by Richard Walther Darré, foundational to Nazi agrarian policy and Lebensraum, and still used by far-right movements.
Blood brother
Blood brother: a person bound by a blood pact, a ritual exchange of blood creating an alliance between unrelated people. Known from Herodotus, African ethnography, and modern practice; classified as ritual kinship, with hepatitis transmission risk.
Blood chit
Blood chit: a notice carried by military aircrew bearing a flag, serial number, and multilingual promise of reward to anyone aiding a downed serviceman; used from WWI RAF "ransom notes" and Flying Tigers hu chao to modern Tyvek chits in Afghanistan under CJCSI 3270.01C.
Blood diamond
Blood diamond (conflict diamond, war diamond): a rough diamond sold by rebel movements or their allies to finance wars against legitimate governments, notably in Angola, Sierra Leone, and Liberia; now under 0.1% of production per the Kimberley Process.
Blood eagle
The blood eagle (Old Norse blóðǫrn) was a ritual execution attributed to the Viking Age, in which ribs were broken and lungs pulled out to resemble wings.
Blood Family Mafia
Blood Family Mafia (BFM), Quebec street gang led by Dave "Pic" Turmel; fought the Hells Angels from 2022 over drug taxes; Turmel arrested in Italy 2025; splintered into NSG and COD.