BCL may stand for:
Law & Politics
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Bachelor of Civil Law
Bachelor of Civil Law (abbreviated BCL, or B.C.L.; la, Baccalaureus Civilis Legis) is the name of various degrees in law conferred by English-language universities. The BCL originated as a postgraduate degree in the universities of Oxford and Camb ...
, the term used to describe a variety of legal degrees offered by universities in English-speaking countries (as distinct from
Canon Law
Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is th ...
and Common Law)
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Bangladesh Chhatra League
The Bangladesh Chhatra League ( bn, বাংলাদেশ ছাত্রলীগ; translation: Bangladesh Students' League; BSL), formerly known as the East Pakistan Student League, often simply called the Chhatra League, is a students' p ...
, the student wing of
Bangladesh Awami League
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
* British
Common Law
In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions."The common law is not a brooding omnipresen ...
, the legal system, developed in England after the
Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conque ...
in
1066
1066 (Roman numerals, MLXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
Worldwide
* March 20 – Halley's Comet reaches perihelion. Its appearance is subsequently recorded in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Asia
* ''un ...
, used by approximately
one third of the global population.
Logic
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Binary combinatory logic
People
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Bunga Citra Lestari
Bunga Citra Lestari (born 22 March 1983), often referred to by her initial BCL, is an Indonesian singer, actress, talent show judge, and television personality.
Career
Bunga Citra Lestari grew up as a multi-talented girl until she started her ...
, Indonesian actress and singer
Science
* Members of the
Bcl-2 family
The Bcl-2 familyTC# 1.A.21 consists of a number of evolutionarily-conserved proteins that share Bcl-2 homology (BH) domains. The Bcl-2 family is most notable for their regulation of apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, at the mitochondrion ...
, a group of related proteins involved in apoptosis, particularly
bcl-2
Bcl-2 (B-cell lymphoma 2), encoded in humans by the ''BCL2'' gene, is the founding member of the Bcl-2 family of regulator proteins that regulate cell death (apoptosis), by either inhibiting (anti-apoptotic) or inducing (pro-apoptotic) apoptosis. ...
Sports
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Baltimore Catholic League The Baltimore Catholic League (BCL), locally known as the Catholic League is a competitive basketball association composed of private Catholic high schools in the Baltimore, Maryland geographic area.
History
The BCL was founded in 1972, after t ...
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Bangladesh Championship League
Bangladesh Championship League (BCL) is the second-tier football league of Bangladesh run by the Bangladesh Football Federation. It was founded in 2012. The league is also known as TVS Championship League for sponsorship agreements from 2018–1 ...
, 2nd tier of Bangladesh football league system
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Bangladesh Cricket League
The Bangladesh Cricket League is an annual first-class cricket tournament that began in Bangladesh in the 2012–13 season.
History
The Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) was inaugurated in the 2012–13 season as a four-team first-class tourname ...
, an annual four-team first-class cricket competition in Bangladesh
* Either one of two leagues that form the Bay Area Conference, part of the
North Coast Section
The North Coast Section (NCS) is a part of the California Interscholastic Federation, governing the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, up along the northern coast of the state of California, from Fremont in the south to Crescent C ...
of the California Interscholastic Federation
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Bay Counties League – West (BCL West) which has 16 schools
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Bay Counties League – East
The Bay Area Conference is a school athletic conference located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The league is a member of the North Coast Section, one of ten sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Federation.
Leagues
The athletic ...
(BCL East) which has 10 schools
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Baseball Challenge League
The Route Inn BCL, formerly known as the , is an independent minor baseball league in Japan. The league's abbreviated designation is "."
League structure
The Baseball Challenge League has three divisions, East, Middle, and West, with four teams ...
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Basketball Champions League
The Basketball Champions League (BCL) is an annual professional basketball competition for European clubs, organised by FIBA. It is the top-level competition organised by FIBA Europe, therefore the champion participates in the FIBA Intercontin ...
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Boston City League
The Boston City League is a high school athletic conference in District B of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) is an organization that sponsors activities in th ...
, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts, United States
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Box Cricket League
Box Cricket League (BCL) is an Indian sports reality television show where celebrities are seen competing with each other in an indoor cricket game format.
Establishment
The BCL was inspired by the popularity of the Celebrity Cricket League ...
, an Indian sports league
Technology
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Base Class Library
The Standard Libraries is a set of libraries included in the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) in order to encapsulate many common functions, such as file reading and writing, XML document manipulation, exception handling, application globa ...
, a computer programming standard library which forms a fundamental part of the Standard Libraries of the Common Language Infrastructure
Transport
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Barra del Colorado Airport
Barra del Colorado Airport is an airport serving the Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge in Limón Province, Costa Rica. The airport is on the Colorado River, near the Caribbean coast.
Airlines and destinations
There are currently no scheduled s ...
in Barra del Colorado, Costa Rica
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Bencoolen MRT station
Bencoolen MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Downtown Line (DTL) in Singapore. It is located at the boundary of Rochor and Museum planning areas. Situated under Bencoolen Street, the station serves primarily ...
in Singapore (MRT station abbreviation)
Other uses
* the ISO 639-3 code for the
Central Bikol language
Central Bikol commonly called Bikol Naga, also known simply as Bikol, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bicolanos, primarily in the Bicol Region of southern Luzon, Philippines. It is spoken in the northern and western part of Camarines ...
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Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...
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Birmingham Central Library
Birmingham Central Library was the main public library in Birmingham, England, from 1974 until 2013, replacing a library opened in 1865 and rebuilt in 1882. For a time the largest non-national library in Europe, it closed on 29 June 2013 and was ...
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British Cellophane
British Cellophane Ltd (BCL) was a joint venture company formed in 1935 between La Cellophane SA and Courtaulds, when they began building a major factory for producing Cellophane in Bridgwater, Somerset, England.
History
19th century
The proce ...
Limited
* Broadcast Communications Limited (New Zealand), now
Kordia
Kordia is a New Zealand government-owned company, offering a range of technology services and solutions to businesses. It provides a range of services, including mission-critical connectivity, cloud and cyber security services, as well as manag ...
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BCL Limited BCL Limited, originally founded as ''Bamangwato Concessions Limited'', was a mining company in Selebi-Phikwe in Botswana. It was formed in 1956 to mine copper.
In 1959, an agreement, signed by African Authority Rasebolai Kgamane, along with Seretse ...
, formerly
Bamangwato Concessions Limited, a mining company in Botswana
* "B.C.L. RED", a designation of the fictional superhero
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy is the name of three superhero characters in the comic book series ''Herogasm'' and '' The Boys'', created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The first character introduced (the second successor to the mantle, made by Vought along w ...
in the television series ''The Boys''
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