Black-billed Cuckoo The Black-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus, is a cuckoo. Adults have a long brown tail and a black bill. The head and upper parts are brown and the underparts are white. There is a red ring around the eye. Juveniles are drabber, and the eye ring is greenish. Their breeding habitat is edges of wooded areas across North America east of the Rockies.
	Black-capped Chickadee The Black-capped Chickadee, Parus atricapillus or Poecile atricapillus, is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the titmouse family Paridae. Adults have a black cap and bib with white sides to the face. Their underparts are white with rusty brown on the flanks; their back is grey.
	Black-crowned Night Heron The Black-crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, is a medium-sized heron.
	Black-eyed pea The black-eyed pea, also called black-eyed bean, blackeye, field peas, lobiya or chawli, is a subspecies of the cowpea, grown for its medium-sized edible bean, which mutates easily giving rise to a number of varieties, the common commercial one called the California Blackeye being pale-colored with a prominent black spot.
	Black-footed Albatross The Black-footed Albatross, Phoebastria nigripes, is a large seabird from the North Pacific. It is one of three albatross that range in the northern hemisphere, nesting on isolated tropical islands.
	Black-footed Ferret The Black-footed Ferret is a small carnivorous North American mammal closely related to the Steppe Polecat of Russia, and a member of the diverse family Mustelidae which also includes weasels, mink, polecats, martens, otters, and badgers. It should not be confused with the ferret.
	Black-necked Grebe The Black-necked Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis †, is a member of the grebe family of water Avess. It breeds in vegetated areas of freshwater lakes across Europe, Asia, Africa, northern South America and the southwest and western United States.
	Black-necked Stilt The Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, is a locally abundant resident of Americas wetlands and coastlines, from the coastal areas of California, much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida , then south to Peru, northern Brazil and the Galapagos islands.
	Black-necked Stork The Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, is a large wading Aves in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species, which is a resident breeder in southern Asia and Australasia, from India east to New Guinea and the northern half of Australia.
	Black-tailed Deer The Black-tailed deer is a species of deer found in western North America. It is sometimes classified as a subspecies of the mule deer, as reflected in its scientific name O. hemionus columbianus as compared to the Rocky Mountain mule deer's O. hemionus hemionus. However this classification is not widely followed.
	Black-winged Stilt The Black-winged Stilt, Himantopus himantopus, is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. Adults are 33-36 cm long. They have long pink legs, a long thin black bill and are mainly white with a dark cap and a dark back. The taxonomy of this bird is still somewhat contentious: some sources believe that there are as many as five distinct species; others consider some or all of these to be subspecies.
	Blackbeard Blackbeard was the nickname of Edward Teach, alias Edward Thatch , a notorious England pirate who had a short reign of terror in the Caribbean Sea between 1716 and 1718, during a period of time referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy. His best known vessel was the Queen Anne's Revenge, which is believed by some to have run aground near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina in 1718.
	BlackBerry The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, world wide web browsing and other wireless information services. It was developed by Research In Motion and delivers information over the wireless data networks of cellular telephone service companies.
	Blackberry The blackberry is a widespread and well known shrub; commonly called a bramble in the eastern U.S. and Europe but a caneberry in the western U.S. growing to 3 m and producing a soft-bodied fruit popular for use in desserts, jams, seedless jellies and sometimes wine. Several Rubus species are called blackberry and since the species easily hybridize, there are many cultivars with more than one species in their ancestry.
	Blackbird The Blackbird or Common Blackbird is a European member of the thrush family Turdidae. It is common in woods and gardens over all of Europe and much of Asia south of the Arctic Circle. Populations are resident except for northern birds which move south in winter.
	Blackbuck Black Buck is a species of antelope found mainly in India but also in parts of Pakistan and Nepal. There are also introduced populations in various parts of the world including numerous ranches in Texas in the United States of America. Local names for the species include Kala hiran, Sasin, Iralai Maan and Krishna Jinka
	Blackburn Blackburn is a town in Lancashire, England. It is the main part of the Blackburn with Darwen borough, which has a population of List of English districts by population. It was a key centre for the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution and is popularly known as the home of Blackburn Rovers F.C..
	Blackburnian Warbler The Blackburnian Warbler, Dendroica fusca , is a small New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southern Canada, the Great Lakes region and New England south to North Carolina. It is bird migration, wintering in the southern Central America and South America, and is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
	Blackcap The Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, is a common and widespread Old World warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe. This small passerine bird is bird migration, and northern and central European breeders winter in southern Europe and north Africa where the local populations are resident.
	Blackface Blackface is a style of theatre cosmetics that originated in the United States, used to affect the countenance of an iconic, racism, United States archetype - that of the ethnic slur or List of ethnic slurs.
	Blackfoot The Blackfoot Confederacy is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native Americans in the United States Tribal sovereignty in Montana. The Blackfoot Confederacy consists of the North Peigan, the South Peigan, the Kainai Nation, and the Siksika Nation or more correctly Siksikawa.
	Blackfriars Blackfriars is an area of central London, which lies in the south-west corner of the City of London. The name Blackfriars was first used in 1342 and derives from the black habits of the Dominican Order who moved their priory from Holborn to the area between the River Thames and Ludgate Hill in 1276.
	Blackheart Blackheart is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. He is a demon, the "son" of Mephisto. Created by Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr., he first appeared in Daredevil Vol.1, #270.
	Blackjack Blackjack, also known as twenty-one or Pontoon, is one of the most popular casino game card games in the world. Much of blackjack's popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting . Blackjack's precursor was vingt-et-un , which originated in French casinos around 1700, and did not offer the 3:2 bonus for a two-card 21.
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	Blackshirts The Blackshirts were Fascism paramilitary groups in History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars during the period immediately following World War I and until the end of World War II. Inspired by Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts, the Blackshirts were organized by Benito Mussolini as a military tool of his Fascist movement.
	Blacksmith A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from iron or steel by "forging" the metal; i.e., by using hand tools to hammer, bend, cut and otherwise shape it in its non-liquid form. Usually the metal is heated until it glows red or orange as part of the forging process. Blacksmiths create such products as Wrought iron gates, grills, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils and weapons.
	Blackthorn See also: Blackthorn, Oxfordshire the village and Blackthorn Cider the beverage The Blackthorn is a large shrub or a small tree of the genus Prunus, botanically Prunus spinosa. Its fruit is called the sloe. The blackthorn is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
	Blacktip shark The blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, is a large shark, native to the continental shelf and insular shelves of tropical and warm temperate seas around the world. The blacktip is a large fairly stout shark, grey in colour, normally with black-tipped fins. It has a long, narrow, pointed snout, long gill slits, a large first dorsal fin and fairly large second dorsal.
	Blackwall hitch The blackwall hitch is a simple half hitch over a hook. It will hold only when subjected to a constant strain. It is used when the rope and hook are of equal size and is likely to slip if subjected to more than ordinary strain.
	Bladderwort Bladderwort is the common name given to the plants of the genus Utricularia, the largest genus of carnivorous plants. There are over two hundred species found in fresh water and wet soil across every continent other than Antarctica. Bladderworts are cultivated for their flowers which are often compared with snapdragons and orchids.
	Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal was a France mathematician, physicist, and religion philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
	Blank There are a number of uses for the word blank: * In archeology, a blank is a thick, shaped stone biface of suitable size and configuration for refining into a stone tool. * In the board game Scrabble, the blank tile is unique in that it does not have a Scrabble_letter_values of the alphabet on it.
	Blanket A blanket is a type of bedding, generally a large, rectangular piece of cloth, intended to keep the user warm, especially while they sleep. Blankets are distinguished from Bed sheets by their thickness and purpose; the thickest sheet is still thinner than the lightest blanket, because blankets are for warmth, while sheets are for hygiene, comfort and aesthetics.
	Blarney Blarney is a village in the south of Ireland, located 8km northwest of Cork in the Republic of Ireland. It is the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone. The modern definition of the word goes something like this: *Blarney(noun)- A charming way of persuading people.
	Blarney Stone The Blarney Stone is a legendary block of limestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of gab. The stone was set into a tower of the castle in 1446. The Blarney Stone is supposed to be half of the original Stone of Scone.
	Blasphemy Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of a God. These may include using sacred names as stress expletives without intention to pray or speak of sacred matters. Sometimes blasphemy is used loosely to mean any profane language, for example in "With much hammering and blasphemy, the locomotive's replacement spring was finally fitted."
	Blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of furnace for smelting iron ore. The combustion material and ore are supplied from the top while an air flow is supplied from the bottom of the chamber, so that the chemical reaction takes place throughout the ore, not only at the surface.
	Blast Off Blast Off is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1989 only in Japan. It is the sequel to Bosconian, which was released 8 years earlier.
	Blastema A blastema is a mass of undifferentiated cells capable of growth and regeneration into Organs or body parts. Blastemata are typically found in the early stages of an organism's morphogenesis such as in embryos, and in the regeneration of tissues, organs and bone.
	Blasting cap A blasting cap is a small explosive device generally used to detonator a larger, more powerful explosive such as dynamite. Blasting caps come in a variety of types, some of which are: non-electric caps, electric caps and fuse caps. They are used in commercial mining and are set off by a dynamo device which generates a short burst of current in a line long enough to ensure safety.
	Blastocoele A blastocoel(e) or blastocele or cleavage cavity or segmentation cavity is the central region of a blastula. It is filled with fluid. A blastocoele forms during embryogenesis when a zygote divides into many cells through mitosis. The adjective of "blastocoel(e)" is blastocoelic.
	Blastomycosis Blastomycosis is a fungal infection caused by the organism Blastomyces dermatitidis
	Blastosphere A Blastosphere is the hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. External links
	Blastula The blastula is an early stage of embryonic development in animals. It is also called blastosphere. It is produced by cleavage of a fertilized ovum and consists of a spherical layer of around 128 cells surrounding a central fluid-filled cavity called the blastocoel. The blastula follows the morula and precedes the gastrula in the developmental sequence.
	Blattidae The Blattidae is a family of the Blattodea order. It contains many large common household cockroaches. *Periplaneta americana *Eurycotis floridana *Blatta orientalis *Periplaneta fuliginosa
	Blazing Star Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo-Geo home game system. It is the semi-official sequel to the acclaimed Neo-Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo-Geo Read-only memory at 346 megabit, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered Sprites, brief anime and Computer-generated imagery cutscenes, and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions.
	Blazon In heraldry and vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of, most often, a coat of arms or flag, which enables a person to construct or reconstruct the appropriate image. A coat of arms or flag is therefore not primarily defined by a picture, but rather by the wording of its blazon.
	Bleach To bleach something is to remove or lighten its color; a "bleach" is a chemical that can produce these effects, often via oxidation. Common chemical bleaches include sodium hypochlorite, or "chlorine bleach," and "oxygen bleach," which contains hydrogen peroxide or a peroxide-releasing compound such as sodium perborate or sodium percarbonate.
	Bleacher Disambiguation: for other uses, please see bleach Bleachers is a term used to describe the raised, tiered stands found by sports fields or at other spectator events in the USA. Bleachers are long rows of benches, often consisting of alternating steps and seats. They range in size from small, modular, aluminum stands that can be moved around soccer or field hockey fields to large permanent structures that flank either side of a football field.
	Bleak The bleak is a small fish of the Cyprinid family, allied to the bream and the minnow, but with a more elongate body, resembling a sardine. The maximum length is approximately 25 cm. It is found in European streams. The bleak has a varied diet and feeds upon small molluscs, insect larvae, worms, small shellfish and plant detritus.
	Bleb A bleb is a large blister filled with serous fluid. Blebs can form on a number of tissues due to different pathologies, including frostbite tissues and damaged cell cell membrane. In ophthalmology, blebs may be formed intentionally in the treatment of glaucoma.
	Blechnaceae Blechnaceae is a family of ferns, the Pteridophyta. Within the family there are nine genera including Blechnum, the Hard Ferns and some 240 species. Mostly ground dwelling some are climbers, they are distributed world wide. A characteristic feature is that the young opening leaves are usually tinged with red.
	Bleeders The Bleeders are a Punk rock/Hardcore punk band from New Zealand. The group consists of Angelo Munro, Gareth Stack, Ian King, Hadleigh O'Donald and Matt Clark.
	Bleeding Bleeding is the loss of blood from the body. Hemorrhage or haemorrhage is the medicine term for bleeding. In common usage, a hemorrhage means particularly severe bleeding; although technically it means escape of blood to extravascular space. The complete loss of blood is referred to as exsanguination.
	Bleeding Hearts Bleeding Hearts is a 1994 novel by Ian Rankin, under the pseudonym Jack Harvey. It is the second novel he wrote under this name. For the plant known as Bleeding Hearts, see Dicentra spectabilis.
	Bletilla Bletilla is a temperate, terrestrial plant genus of orchids containing 9 species distributed through China, Japan and Taiwan. The name is actually a diminutive of Bletia because of the resemblance between the two genera. The genera Jimensia Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz and Polytoma Lour. ex Gomes are generally included into Bletilla.
	Blinders Blinders, also known as blinkers, are a set of leather straps attached to the bridle of a horse to prevent it from seeing to its side. They are used to keep horses from being distracted or spooked, especially on crowded city streets. They are frequently spoken of metaphorically to refer to people with an overly narrow focus or inability to see the larger picture.
	Blindfold A blindfold is a garment, usually of cloth, tied to one's head to cover the eyes to disable the wearer's sight. It is usually worn when the eyes are in a closed state and thus prevents the wearer from opening them.
	Blindness Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness". Total blindness is the complete lack of form and light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP", an abbreviation for "no light perception"ximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, are fully sightless.
	Blindside Blindside is a Christian post-hardcore/hard rock/alternative rock band from Stockholm, Sweden. They formed in 1994 as "Underfree" and kept that name for two years before releasing their debut Extended play in 1996.
	Blink Blinking is the opening and closing of the eyelid. It is an essential function of the eye that helps spread tears across, and remove irritants from, the surface of the cornea and conjunctiva. Each blink typically takes between 100 and 150 milliseconds from start to finish.
	Blintz A blintz, blintze or blin is a thin pancake which is often served in connection with a religious rite or festival in several cultures. The word "blin" comes from Slavic languages mlin, that means "to mill". Blins had a somewhat ritual significance for early Slavic peoples in pre-Christian times since they were a symbol of the sun, due to their round form.
	Blister A blister or bulla is a defense mechanism of the human body. It consists of a pool of lymphatic system and other Bodily fluids beneath the upper layers of the skin. It may be formed in response to burn or friction, and helps to repair damage to the skin.
	Blister beetle Beetles in the Coleoptera family Meloidae are commonly known as blister beetles. There are approximately 2,500 known species worldwide. They are known as "blister beetles" because they secrete cantharidin, a poisonous chemical causing blistering of the skin and painful swelling if consumed.
	Blithe Blithe is a fictional character from DC Comics' Supergirl series. She first appeared in Supergirl # 39, December 1999.
	Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg is a popular name for an offensive Operational warfare military doctrine which involves an initial bombardment followed by employment of mobile forces attacking with speed and surprise to prevent an enemy from implementing a coherent defense .
	Blizzard A blizzard is a severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy snow. They are caused when a high pressure area meets a low pressure area.
	Bloat Bloat, also known as torsion, gastric torsion, and gastric dilatation-volvulus is a medical condition in which the stomach becomes overstretched by excessive gas content. Meteorism, its name derived from the writings of Hippocrates, is now rarely used in English.
	Bloater The bloater is a freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes. It is silver in color with a pink and purple iridescence and reaches an average length of 9 inches. In British cuisine, the bloater is a type of kipper, where the herring has been smoked whole, with its innards intact.