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Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water: an English proverb (Chinese 血浓于水, Korean 피는 물보다 진하다) meaning family ties outrank other bonds; first in English print as "Blude's thicker than water" (Ramsay, 1737), popularized by Scott's Guy Mannering (1815); the covenant "reversal" is a modern invention.
Blood libel
Blood libel, also called the blood accusation, is the false accusation that Jews murdered Christians, usually children, to use their blood in rituals such as making matzah.
Blood moon prophecy
The blood moon prophecy is the belief, taught by pastors Mark Biltz and John Hagee, that four total lunar eclipses on Jewish festivals portend a major event for Israel.
Blood of Christ
Blood of Christ, also called the Precious Blood, names in Christian usage the blood Jesus shed at his Passion and the consecrated wine, which Catholic doctrine holds has become that blood.
Blood of Zeus
Blood of Zeus is a Netflix adult animated series by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides about Heron, son of Zeus; three seasons, 2020-2025, Powerhouse Animation, formerly titled Gods & Heroes.
Blood Order
Blood Order (Blutorden, Ehrenzeichen vom 9. November 1923), the NSDAP's highest party decoration, instituted 1934 for Munich Putsch participants; about 4,000 awarded, silver 800, Feldherrnhalle reverse, prohibited in Germany today.
Blood Pledge Corps Incident
The Blood Pledge Corps Incident (血盟団事件, Ketsumeidan jiken) was a series of 1932 Tokyo assassinations by the ultranationalist Ketsumeidan, led by Inoue Nisshō, who killed former finance minister Inoue Junnosuke and Mitsui chief Dan Takuma.
Blood quantum laws
Blood quantum laws define Native American identity and tribal enrollment by documented fraction of "Indian blood." Rooted in the 1887 Dawes Act allotment era; BIA benchmark one-fourth; about 70% of tribes use them.
Blood type personality theory
Blood type personality theory (血液型性格関連説, ketsueki-gata) is the pseudoscientific Japanese belief that ABO blood type predicts personality. Proposed by Takeji Furukawa in 1927, discredited in 1933, revived by Masahiko Nomi's 1971 book; large surveys show no blood type-personality link.
Bloodless surrender of Edo
The bloodless surrender of Edo (Edo muketsu kaijō) was the peaceful transfer of Edo Castle to the imperial government on April 11, 1868, negotiated by Saigō Takamori and Katsu Kaishū.
Bloods
The Bloods, also known as the Blood gang, are a loose association of predominantly African American street gangs that formed in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Bloody
Bloody is an English word meaning covered in blood, also used as an intensifier in British and Australian English, first recorded in the sixteenth century.
Bloody Benders
Bloody Benders, a German immigrant family of four (John Sr., Ma, John Jr., Kate) who ran an inn on the Osage Mission Trail in Labette County, Kansas, and murdered at least 11 travelers from 1871 to 1873 before fleeing; their fate is unresolved.
Bloody Code
The Bloody Code is the name later given to the English criminal law of the long eighteenth century, under which many crimes, mostly property crimes, carried the death penalty.
Bloody Disgusting
Bloody Disgusting, also called BD (bloody-disgusting.com), is the American horror entertainment brand founded in 2001 by Brad Miska and Tom Owen; now Cineverse's horror division, it produced V/H/S and runs Bloody FM, Bloody Press and SCREAMBOX.
Bloody Mary (folklore)
Bloody Mary is a children's mirror ritual and urban legend: chant her name into a dark bathroom mirror, usually three times. Also called Mary Worth or Mary Whales; documented by the 1970s, studied by Dundes (1998), with no established link to Mary Tudor.
Bloody Sunday (1905)
Bloody Sunday (Кровавое воскресенье), 9/22 January 1905, St. Petersburg: troops fired on unarmed workers led by Father Georgii Gapon marching to petition Tsar Nicholas II, killing hundreds and starting the 1905 Revolution.
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Bloody Sunday 1920 (Domhnach na Fola): day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920 during the Irish War of Independence, when the IRA killed 14 suspected British intelligence officers, Crown forces killed 14 civilians at Croke Park, and three prisoners died in Dublin Castle.
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972): British 1 Para soldiers shot 13 civil rights marchers dead in Derry's Bogside, a 14th dying later. The Widgery report exonerated troops; the 2010 Saville Inquiry found the killings unjustified, prompting David Cameron's apology.
Bloody Sunday Inquiry
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, or Saville Report, was a 1998 tribunal chaired by Lord Saville. It concluded that British soldiers fired first on unarmed civilians in Londonderry in 1972.
Bloom's taxonomy
Bloom's taxonomy, or the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, is a 1956 hierarchical classification of learning goals by Benjamin Bloom's committee across cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, revised in 2001 into six verb-based levels from remember to create.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, also called Bloomberg Billionaires, is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people, updated after every New York trading day since 2012.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek is Bloomberg L.P.'s business magazine, founded September 1929 as BusinessWeek and purchased from McGraw-Hill in 2009. Known for long-form business journalism, regional editions, a metered paywall, and recent relaunch as a monthly print title.
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial-data, software, and media company founded in 1981 by Michael Bloomberg, whose Bloomberg Terminal delivers market data and trading to over 325,000 financial professionals.
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News, the news division of Bloomberg L.P., founded 1990 as Bloomberg Business News under Matthew Winkler, now led by John Micklethwait; a global business and markets wire serving Terminal subscribers and client outlets, distinct from the Walter Bloomberg aggregator account.
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television (BTV) is Bloomberg L.P.'s 24-hour business and financial news channel, launched in 1994, competing with CNBC and Fox Business and reaching over 400 million homes from New York, London, and Hong Kong studios.
Bloomberg Terminal
The Bloomberg Terminal, also known as Bloomberg Professional Services, is a subscription software platform giving financial professionals real-time market data, news, analytics, and the Instant Bloomberg chat network.
Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale's is an upscale American department store chain founded in New York in 1872, owned by Macy's, Inc., with its flagship at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
Bloquons tout
Bloquons tout (Block Everything): leaderless French protest movement born on social networks in May-2025, calling to blockade France on 10 September 2025 against Bayrou's €43.8bn austerity budget; 812 actions, 473 arrests.
Blossom Biosciences (博胜药业)
Blossom Biosciences (博胜药业) is a biopharmaceutical company launched in 2021, co-founded by Hansoh Pharmaceutical and Cormorant Asset Management to in-license and develop medicines for greater China, with $72 million in Series A funding.