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Black Library The Black Library is a section of BL Publishing (itself a division of Games Workshop) devoted to publishing novels, art books, background books and graphic novels set in the Warhammer Fantasy world and the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Some of the more famous and popular titles include the Gaunt's Ghosts and Eisenhorn novels by Dan Abnett for Warhammer 40,000, and the Gotrek and Felix series by William King and Nathan Long for Warhammer.
Black Light Burns Black Light Burns is an American gothic/alternative rock band created by Wes Borland (formerly of Limp Bizkit, Big Dumb Face, Eat the Day). The band's lineup consists of naturally Borland himself, along with Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), and Josh Freese (The Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails).
Black Light Theatre of Prague The Black Light Theatre of Prague (černé divadlo) or simply Black Theatre, is a Czech performance style characterized by the use of black box theatre augmented by black light trickery. Although this performance style can be found in many places around the world, nowhere is it more prolific or specialized than in Prague.
Black Lightning Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce) is a fictional superhero, DC Comics' first African American hero to star in his own title. Created by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eden, he first appeared in Black Lightning #1 (April 1977).
Black Like Me (1961) Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961 (it was made into a film in 1964). The book describes Griffin's (a white native of Dallas, Texas) six-week experience travelling throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia passing as a black man.
Black Like Me (film) Black Like Me is a 1964 film directed by Carl Lerner and based on the book of the same name. In it, James Whitmore plays John Finley Horton, a White American journalist who darkens his skin and passes for a black man in a Southern town.
Black Line The Black Line is a notorious incident that occurred in 1830 on Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land as it was then known. After many years of conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal known as the Black War, Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur called upon every able-bodied male colonist, convict or free, to form a human chain that then swept across the settled districts, moving south and east for several weeks in an attempt to corral the Aborigines on the Tasman Peninsula by closing off Eaglehawk Neck (the isthmus connecting the Tasman peninsula to the rest of the island).
Black Lion Tamarin The Black Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) or Golden-rumped Lion Tamarin is a lion tamarin found only in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Paraná, almost exclusively at the Morro do Diabo State Park. It lives in secondary and primary forests along its restricted range.
Black Lips Black Lips is a 1960s-style garage rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. Still teenagers, they formed in 2000 when the band guitarist Cole Alexander and bassist Jared Swilley were in, The Renegades, and the band guitarist Ben Eberbaugh was in, The Reruns, split up.
Black Lizard Black Lizard was a publisher during the 1980s. An imprint of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the decades between the 1930s and the 1960s.
Black Lotus Records Black Lotus Records is a independent record label based in Greece that specializes in metal. After licensing an amount of new artists Black Lotus Records surprised the scene by a postponement of all its announced titles.
Black magic (programming) In programming, black magic is a tongue-in-cheek description of a technique that works, but is never documented because nobody really understands why it works. It is more obscure than voodoo programming, which may be done by a cookbook approach.
Black market The black market or underground market is the part of economic activity involving illegal dealings, typically the buying and selling of merchandise or services illegally. The goods themselves may be illegal to sell (e.
Black marlin The black marlin (Makaira indica) is a species of marlin found in tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific oceans not far from the surface. It is a large commercial game fish with a maximum published weight of 750 kg, but greater weights are known.
Black meets white Black meets white (or White meets black) is a recent term to describe a movie that is centered about the culture shock between a White European-American and a Black African-American (sometimes, the white is replaced by an Asian), where the White tends to be represented as serious and conservative and the Black as jolly and streetwise. It is especially typical of buddy cop films, and has almost become a synonym of the genre.
Black model The Black model (sometimes known as the Black-76 model) is a variant of the Black-Scholes option pricing model. It's primary applications are for pricing bond options, interest rate caps / floors, and swaptions.
Black mudfish The black mudfish, Neochanna diversus, is a galaxiid of the genus Neochanna, found only in swamps and wetlands in the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand, from Kaitaia in the north to the Mokau River in the south. Its length is up to 12 cm.
Black Madonna A Black Madonna or Black Virgin is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark or black skin. This name applies in particular to European statues or pictures of a Madonna which are of special interest because her dark face and hands seem to need explanation.
Black Madonna of Częstochowa The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Częstochowska in Polish) icon was, according to legend, painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress table top from the house of the Holy Family.
Black Madonna Shrine, Missouri The Black Madonna Shrine and Grotto is a shrine located in the unincorporated area south of Pacific and Southwest of Eureka in the state of Missouri, United States. It was constructed in 1938 by Brother Bronislaus, a Polish native, of the Franciscan order.
Black Mafia Family The Black Mafia Family, or BMF, is an extensive criminal organization that recently delved into the world of hip-hop music and entertainment, successfully promoting a variety of rap artists. However, the DEA claims their investments in hip-hop are primarily a cover for money laundering funds acquired through drug trafficking.
Black Mafia Life Black Mafia Life was the second album by gangsta rap crew Above the Law, released on February 2, 1993; being released some time after their popular debut, Black Mafia Life proved a surprising success. Especially without Dr.
Black Mage The Black Mage (黒魔道士; kuromadōshi, or くろまどうし in earlier games without kanji support) is a character class (or job) in Square Enix's Final Fantasy series of computer role-playing games. It is occasionally referred to as the Wizard or Black Wizard, although this is sometimes a separate upgrade of the class.
Black Magic (game) Black Magic is a party game whose object is to try and guess patterns in sequences of words, numbers or objects. It is most commonly played at a party where the group consists of people who know the pattern, and people who are trying to guess it.
Black Maiden Black Maiden is a group of people — mainly from Europe — participating in various art disciplines like demos, music, textmode art, graphics design, graffiti and alike. Black Maiden was founded in 1985 by two Luxemburgians known by the pseudonyms Voice and Tex, originally as an Amstrad CPC cracking group.
Black Maple The Black Maple (Acer nigrum) is a species of maple closely related to the Sugar Maple, and treated as a variety or subspecies of it by some authors. Identification can be confusing due to the tendency of the two species to form hybrids.
Black Mark Productions Black Mark Productions is a independent record label based in Sweden that specializes in extreme metal releases and was founded by Quorthon, who was best known as the leader of Bathory until his untimely death in 2004. Its name is a reference to the title of Bathory's third album, Under the Sign of the Black Mark.
Black Market Activities Black Market Activities is an independent record label which was founded, and run, by Guy Kozowyk the singer of Boston, MA based metal band The Red Chord. Black Market Activities (or BMA, as it is often referred to) was started with the goal of releasing records by bands that are pushing the boundaries of extreme music while keeping a friendly artist centered attitude that steers clear of a lot of the "major label" business-like dealings that tend to hurt and exploit bands.
Black Market Hero Black Market Hero is a five person Metal band, comprised of members from the bands 40 Below Summer and Flaw. Max's and Joey's band 40 Below Summer, released a CD/DVD combo called The Last Dance and they're having a small tour for the promotion of the album, along with Black Market Hero & other artists.
Black Marketing Black Marketing was a dramatic propaganda short produced by the office of War Information in 1943 and directed by William Castle. It is an educational film warning American civilians against buy unrationed foodstuffs and materials.
Black Marsh Black Marsh is a region of the fictional continent of Tamriel featured in Bethesda Softworks' Elder Scrolls series of RPGs. It is presented as the homeland of the reptilian humanoid race of Argonians and a race of sentient trees known as the Hist.
Black Marvel Black Marvel (Daniel Lyons) is a fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer Stan LeeLambiek Comiclopedia: Stan Lee and artist Al Gabriele,Grand Comics Database: Mystic Comics #5 he first appeared in Mystic Comics vol.
Black Mass In Satanic tradition, Black Mass is the name given to a ceremony supposedly celebrated during the Sabbath, which was a parody of the Christian Mass. Its main objective was the profanation of the Host, although there is no agreement among authors on how hosts were obtained or profaned (see also host desecration); the most common idea is that they were profaned by means of some ritual related to sexual practices.
Black May Bloody May or Black May (Thai: พฤษภาทมิฬ) is the popular name for the 17-20 May 1992 popular protest in Bangkok against the government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon and the the bloody military crackdown that followed. Up to 200,000 people demonstrated in central Bangkok at the height of the protests.
Black Merda Black Merda (pronounced Murder also known as Black Murder means The Killing of Black People) was an African American psychedelic rock band from Detroit, Michigan, active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It often bills itself as "the first black rock band.
Black Mesa (game mod) Black Mesa (previously known as "Black Mesa: Source") is a third-party total conversion mod for Half-Life 2. The ultimate goal of the mod is to re-create the original Half-Life from the ground up, using the advanced capabilities of the Source engine, the improved graphics quality of Half-Life 2 and enhanced character AI, to create a new and more engrossing in-game world by introducing more varied, complex environments and more challenging, realistic gameplay.
Black Mesa (Oklahoma) Black Mesa extends from Mesa de Maya in Colorado southeasterly 28 miles along the north bank of the Cimarron River, crossing the northeast corner of New Mexico to end at the confluence of the Cimmaron and Carrizo Creek near Kenton in the Oklahoma panhandle. It's highest elevation is over 5,700 feet in Colorado; in New Mexico it attains 5,239 feet; and in Oklahoma, it reaches 4,973 feet, the highest point in that state.
Black Mesa and Lake Powell The Black Mesa and Lake Powell is a private railroad owned by Salt River Project operating in Northern Arizona within the Navajo Nation. It transports coal 78 miles from the Peabody Energy's Black Mesa Mine near Kayenta, Arizona to the Navajo Generating Station power plant at Page, Arizona.
Black Mesa Bible Camp Black Mesa Bible Camp, more often referred to as BMBC or Black Mesa, is a Christian camp located near Black Mesa and Kenton, Oklahoma of the United States. During its three sessions a year that it currently offers at Camp Billy Joe, BMBC helps Campers to develop spiritually kids to grow stronger in their faith.
Black Mesa East Black Mesa East is a fictional location from Valve Software's 2004 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. Black Mesa East is a resistance base, located in the outskirts of City 17, opposite to a dam, its generating station, and its reservoir, and right next to the abandoned mining town of Ravenholm.
Black Mesa Incident The Black Mesa Incident is a key event appearing in the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life. The "incident" depicts the invasion of several races of intelligent extra-terrestrials into a large research facility located in the New Mexico Desert.
Black Mesa Research Facility The Black Mesa Research Facility (also referred to as simply Black Mesa in the games) is a fictional complex located in the desert of New Mexico, United States, and is the setting for most of the events of the computer game Half-Life and its expansions.
Black Mesa, Arizona Black Mesa (also called Big Mountain) is an upland area in Navajo County, Arizona. In Navajo it is called Dzil Yizhiin ("Black Mountain") and during Mexican rule of Arizona it was called Mesa de las Vacas (Spanish "mesa of the cows").
Black Monday (1894) The Bank Crash of 1894 called Black Monday was one of the turning points in Newfoundland's early history that added to the financial woes of Britain’s Oldest Colony when two of the commercial banks of Newfoundland, the Union Bank (established in 1854) and the Commercial Bank (established in 1858), both located in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, had closed their doors to the public on December 10, 1894.
Black Monday (1987) Black Monday is the name given to Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell dramatically, and on which similar enormous drops occurred across the world. By the end of October, stock markets in Hong Kong had fallen 45.
Black Monday (Malta) October 15, 1979, is referred to as Black Monday in Malta. The offices and printing rooms of Progress Press, publisher of The Times of Malta, were ransacked and set on fire during a spontaneous political rally by Labour Party supporters following allegations of a failed attempt on Prime Minister Dom Mintoff's life in his offices at the Auberge de Castille, Valletta.
Black Moon (band) Black Moon is a hip hop group, consisting of members Buckshot, 5ft and DJ Evil Dee (of Da Beatminerz). The group is most well-known for their debut album Enta Da Stage, and their affiliation with the Boot Camp Clik.
Black Moon Clan The Black Moon Clan is a fictional clan existing in the 30th century in the Sailor Moon metaseries. It comprises the antagonists of the second major story arc, which is called Black Moon in the manga and which fills the majority of the Sailor Moon R anime.
Black Moon Rising Black Moon Rising, (1986) is an action film directed by Harley Cokliss, written by John Carpenter and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton and Robert Vaughn. The focus of the film was a prototype vehicle designed and built by French designer Bernard Beaujardin, called the 'Black Moon'.
Black Mountain (band) Black Mountain is an indie-rock band led by Stephen McBean. The band is closely influenced by many past artists, and criticisms often walk the line between praising adept imitation and blasting blatant re-use of old ideas.
Black Mountain of Hazara Black Mountain is a mountain range and a tribal area on the Hazara border of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. On the western slopes and face of the Black Mountain, the leading tribes inhabiting the area are the Hassanzais, Akazais and Chagharzais etc.
Black Mountain Ranch, San Diego, California Black Mountain Ranch is a community in the northeastern part of the city of San Diego, California. Black Mountain Ranch encompasses 5,100 acres and is located west of 4S Ranch and Rancho Penasquitos, south of the Santa Fe Valley, east of Fairbanks Ranch and Rancho Santa Fe Farms, and north of Torrey Highlands.
Black Mountain Side Black Mountain Side is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. The beginning of the song starts over the end of the previous track, "Your Time Is Gonna Come"
Black Mountain transmitting station The Black Mountain transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated on land 300.8 m (987 ft) above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level) to the west of the city of Belfast, in Northern Ireland ().
Black Mountains (California) The Black Mountains of California are located in the eastern part of the state in Death Valley National Park. The Black Mountains are essentially a continuation of the Amargosa Range, and lie in a generally north-south direction at the southern end.
Black Mountains, Wales The Black Mountains (Welsh: Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills in south-eastern Wales, and a small part of Herefordshire, England. They are the easternmost of the three groups of hills that are covered by the Brecon Beacons National Park, and are frequently confused with the westernmost, which are collectively called the Black Mountain.
Black Muscat Black Muscat is a Vitis vinifera grape variety derived from the crossing of the Schiava Grossa and Muscat of Alexandria varieties. It is known under a variety of local names such as Golden Hamburg, Muscat Hamburg, and Black Hamburg in the US; Muscat de Hambourg (or Hamburgh) in France; Moscato di Amburgo in Italy; and Muscat Gamburgskiy in Russia and former Soviet Union countries.
Black Museum The Black Museum of Scotland Yard was a famed collection of criminal memorabilia kept at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in London, England. Established in 1948, it was intended to help the police in their study of crime and criminals.
Black n' Red Black n' Red is a brand of books and pads of paper, produced by John Dickinson Stationery Limited, with a striking black and red design. The front and back covers of such books are black, with the text "Black n' Red" written in red font in the bottom right corner of the cover.
Black noise Black noise is noise that has a frequency spectrum of predominantly zero power level over all frequencies except for a few narrow bands or spikes. An example of black noise in a facsimile transmission system is the spectrum that might be obtained when scanning a black area in which there are a few random white spots.
Black Nazarene The Black Nazarene is a life-sized, dark-skinned statue of Jesus Christ that a priest bought in Mexico, and carved by an Aztec carpenter. The image is now enshrined in the minor basilica in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines and the day on which devotees go to the church is Friday.
Black Night "Black Night" is a song by British heavy metal band Deep Purple, first released as a single in 1970, and then included in 25th Year Anniversary remake of their 1970 album, Deep Purple in Rock. The song became a smash hit following its release, peaking at #2 on UK charts, and to this day remains one of Deep Purple's highest ranked song.
Black Nobility The Black Nobility (Italian: aristocrazìa nera) were Italian aristocratic families who sided with the Papacy under Pope Pius IX as opposed to Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy when the Piedmont monarchy came to Rome in 1870, ending the Papal States and taking over the Apostolic Palace. As the Pope confined himself to the Vatican for 59 years, those who had received their titles from the Holy See—such as the Privy Chamberlains of the Sword and Cape—kept their own doors closed in mourning, leading to the title "Black Nobility.
Black oak Black oak (Quercus velutina) is a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks. It is native to eastern North America from southern Ontario south to northern Florida and southern Maine west to northeastern Texas.
Black oreo The black oreo, Allocyttus niger, is an oreo of the family Oreosomatidae, found around Australia and New Zealand between latitudes of between 43° S and 55° S at depths of between 560 and 1,300 m. Its length is up to 47 cm.
Black Oak Arkansas Black Oak Arkansas is an American Southern rock band named after the band's hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas. The band reached the height of its fame in the 1970s with ten charting albums released in that decade.
Black Oceans Black Oceans () is a novel written in 2001 by Jacek Dukaj, Polish science fiction writer and published in Poland by SuperNOWA. The novel fits in the hard science fiction genre, describing the late-21st century Earth facing technological singularity.
Black Ops (Half-Life) Black Ops, sometimes hyphenated to Black-Ops, are a fictitious commando group briefly seen in the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life and later expanded upon and featured in its expansion pack Half-Life: Opposing Force. Working independently of the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU), Black Ops invaded the Black Mesa Research Facility to conceal any evidence of the resonance cascade.
Black Organization (Case Closed) The Black Organization (黒の組織, kuro no soshiki) serves as the main antagonist in the anime/manga series Case Closed (Detective Conan). It is a syndicate that commits crimes such as illegal deals, blackmail, robberies, and assassinations.
Black Orchid (Doctor Who) Black Orchid is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two parts on March 1 and March 2 1982. This story was the first purely historical adventure for the Doctor — featuring no science fiction elements save for the TARDIS — since The Highlanders, and to date, the last.
Black Orpheus Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro in Portuguese) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during the Carnival.
Black Ox Orkestar Black Ox Orkestar is a European Jewish Folk quartet of musicians from Montreal, Canada that formed in the summer of 2000 to explore their common Jewish heritage for sounds that could speak to them in the present.
Black pea The black pea (Lathyrus niger) is the main ingredient in the dish Black Peas (also called Parched Peas or Maple Peas) that is a traditional Lancashire dish served often on or around Bonfire Night (5th November). The dish, popular in Bolton, is long soaked overnight and simmered to produce a type of mushy pea.
Black people (disambiguation) Black people is a racial, ethnic, and social classification that has been applied to various dark-skinned people in various ways. Although there is no universally agreed-upon criteria for deciding who is black, the term most usually refers:
Black people in Ireland Since the mid-18th century there were small numbers of black people resident in Ireland, mainly concentrated in the major towns, especially Dublin. Many of those in the 18th century were servants of wealthy families.
Black pepper Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The same fruit is also used to produce white pepper and green pepper.
Black players in American professional football Details of the history of black players in American professional football depend on the professional football league considered: the National Football League (NFL), which evolved from the first professional league, the American Professional Football Association, or the American Football League, (AFL), a rival league from 1960 through 1969, which eventually merged with the NFL.
Black powder Black powder was the original gunpowder and practically the only known propellant and explosive until the middle of the 19th century. It has largely been superseded by more efficient explosives such as smokeless powders and TNT.
Black powder substitute A black powder substitute is a replacement for black powder used in muzzleloading and cartridge firearms. Black powder substitutes offer a number of advantages over black powder, primarily including reduced sensitivity, reduced fouling, and increased efficiency.
Black pudding Black pudding or blood pudding is a sausage made by cooking animal blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. Blood sausage is a more recent North American term for the same as well as a useful term for similar blood-based solid foods around the world.
Black pudding (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the black pudding is an ooze. It resembles a bubbling, heaping pile of thick, black, pudding-like (obviously) goo, roughly 15 feet across and 2 feet thick.
Black P. Stone East The Black P. Stone East or Black Stone East are a group of individuals, often described by law enforcement as a large criminal street gang, operating on the East Coast of the United States that is the original Almighty Black P.
Black Pagoda The Black Pagoda is a temple of the Hindu god Surya, and is located in the village of Konark in the Indian state of Orissa. For its architecture and decoration, it is recognised as a major building of Orissa, a state that is famous in India for the beauty of its many temples.
Black Panther (comics) The Black Panther (T'Challa) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe who is the first modern Black superhero. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and penciler-co-plotter Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Fantastic Four Vol.
Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African American civil rights and self-defense organization, active within the United States in the late 1960s into the 1970s.
Black Partridge The Black Partridge, Melanoperdix niger also known as Black Wood Partridge is a small, up to 27cm long, partridge with a thick bill, grey legs and dark brown iris. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Melanoperdix.
Black Patch Park The area now known as the Black Patch was part of a sparsely populated landscape of commons and woodland dotted with farms and cottages which has been transformed from heath to farmland then to a carefully laid out municipal park surrounded by engineering companies employing thousands of people; Tangyes founded by Richard Tangye, Nettlefolds, (later GKN plc), the Birmingham Railway Carriage Wagon Company, Birmingham Aluminium Castings, ironworks, glassmaking and brewing. Research at the start of the new millennium, has recorded how, from the mid-19th century until they were evicted from it at the start of the 20th, the 'Black Patch' was the camping ground of a community of tent and 'vardo' (caravan) dwellers who were to become integrated with 'gaujos' (non-Gypsies) in surrounding districts.
Black Patch Tobacco Wars In the early years of the twentieth century, tobacco planters formed a protectionist Dark Tobacco District Planters' Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee. This was in opposition to a corporate monopoly: the American Tobacco Company (ATC) trust, owned by James B.
Black Pearl The Black Pearl, often simply referred to as the Pearl, is a fictional pirate ship that figures prominently in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The Black Pearl is easily recognised by its distinctive black hull and sails.
Black People's Convention The Black People's Convention (BPC) was founded at the end of 1972 as the Nationalist Liberatory Flagship of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa. Black in the context of BCM is an inclusive concept of historically oppressed peoples ( Africans, Coloureds and (Asian) Indians) in then apartheid South Africa.
Black Pete Black Pete (also known by countless other names, including Peg-Leg Pete and, simply, Pete) is a fictional character from the Walt Disney Company stables. He was originally depicted as an anthropomorphic cat and occasionally depicted with a pegleg, and best known as the arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, also known as BPAL, Black Phoenix, or simply "the Lab," is an online company selling perfume oil. BPAL is owned by Elizabeth Moriarty and Brian Constantine, and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Black Phoenix Society Founded in Toronto 2005 by Kurtis Baily, the Black Phoenix Society is a Canadian based organization bent on the education of First Nations and Black North-Americans. Its members recognize the shared struggles of their respective denominations during the North-American colonial era as a unifying agent, having many of the same negative effects on their population as a whole.
Black Phoenix Trading Post Black Phoenix Trading Post, also known as "BPTP," "the Trading Post," or simply "the Post," is an online company which sells officially licensed garments, jewellery, statues, and other sundries related to its sister-company, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. Black Phoenix Trading Post is owned and operated by Ted Barrial.
Black Power Black Power was a political movement, most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that strove to express a new racial consciousness among blacks in the United States. More generally, the term refers to a conscious choice on the part of blacks to nurture and promote their collective interests, advance their own values, and secure their own well-being and some measure of autonomy, rather than permit others to shape their futures and agendas.
Black Power (New Zealand) Black Power is a New Zealand gang, formed and organised in Whakatane in retaliation to the Mongrel Mob, and is part of the international United Black Power Movement. Black Power members wear a patch or leather jacket which bears the Black Power emblem — a clenched upright fist — and is recognised as a symbol of Power.
Black Power Revolution The Black Power Revolution also known as the 1970 Revolution, Black Power Uprising and also by some as the February Revolution was an attempt by a number of social elements, peoples and interest groups, with a lot of varied interests to makeplain the issues which the leaders and planners of the day failed to address and redress. It was manily led by many various interests within the trade unions, the army and other social groups and were noted to attract many disaffected members of the then ruling PNM under Eric Williams.
Black Press (Canadian publishing company) Black Press is a publication company that produces major newspapers in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada and the states of Washington, Hawaii and Ohio in the United States. Black Press administers over ninety-five newspapers like the Akron Beacon Journal, Honolulu Star-Bulletin and fourteen regional website press presences.
Black Prince (tank) The Tank, Infantry, Black Prince (A43) was the name assigned to an experimental development of the Churchill tank with a larger, wider hull and a QF 17-pounder (76 mm) gun. It was named after a 14th century figure, Edward, Prince of Wales, who fought at Crécy.
Black Projects, White Knights Black Projects, White Knights is a collection of short stories written by Kage Baker and published by small-press science fiction publisher Golden Gryphon Press, assembling various short stories set in the universe of The Company series, which comprises the bulk of her published fiction. Almost all of the stories contained within this volume have been published previously in the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, with the remainder being previously unpublished.

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