Blackstone refers to various people, places and concepts.

Company

• Blackstone Group,through its subsidiaries, provides alternative asset management and financial advisory services worldwide. It operates in four segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Estate, Marketable Alternative Asset Management, and Financial Advisory. The Corporate Private Equity segment engages in private equity investing through five general private equity funds and one specialized fund focusing on media and communications-related investments. Its corporate private equity funds pursue various transactions, including leveraged buyout acquisitions of seasoned companies, transactions involving start-up businesses in established industries, turnarounds, minority investments, corporate partnerships, and industry consolidations. The Real Estate segment manages six general real estate opportunity funds and two internationally focused real estate opportunity funds. Its real estate opportunity funds invest in lodging, urban office buildings, residential properties, distribution, and warehousing centers, as well as various real estate operating companies. The Marketable Alternative Asset Management segment engages in the management of funds of hedge funds, mezzanine funds and senior debt vehicles, proprietary hedge funds, and publicly-traded closed-end mutual funds. The Financial Advisory segment provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services, restructuring and reorganization advisory services, and fund placement services for alternative investment funds. Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. operates as the general partner of the company. The Blackstone Group L.P. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Mumbai, and Hong Kong.

Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) is a prominent private equity and investment management firm founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. ...

People

• Charles Blackstone, an American author
• Elliott Blackstone, once sergeant of the San Francisco Police Department and advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgendered community in that city
• Gay Blackstone, widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr
• Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885–1965), a famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr.
• Harry Blackstone, Jr. (1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century
• Ian Blackstone, an English former footballer
• Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan
• Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone
• Timothy Blackstone, Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president
• William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist
  • Blackstone's formulation, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist
  • The Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, a major legal text of the eighteenth century; often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's Commentaries"
• William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton (1595–1675), early English settler in New England
• William Eugene Blackstone, an American evangelist and Christian Zionist
• William Seymour Blackstone, an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1800s

Charles Blackstone’s first novel, The Week You Weren’t Here, was hailed “a compelling balancing act to watch” (Bookslut. ... LGBT rights Around the world By country History · Groups · Activists Declaration of Montreal Same-sex relationships Marriage · Adoption Opposition · Discrimination Violence This box:      Sergeant Elliott R. Blackstone (November 30, 1924 - October 25, 2006) of the San Francisco Police Department was an outstanding longtime advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgendered... Gay Blackstone is the widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr. ... Harry Blackstone (September 27, 1885 - November 16, 1965) was a famed magician. ... Harry Blackstone, Jr. ... Ian Blackstone (born August 7, 1964 in Harrogate, England) is an English former footballer. ... Jerry Blackstone is an American choral conductor. ... The Right Honourable Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC, is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... Timothy Beach Blackstone (March 28, 1829 – May 26, 1900) served as president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad from 1864 through 1899. ... William Blackstone as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. ... In criminal law, Blackstones formulation (also known as Blackstones ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. Named after the English jurist William Blackstone, the principle expressed in the formulation is much older, being... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Reverend William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone) (1595-1675) was an early British settler in New England, and the first European settler of modern day Boston and Rhode Island. ... William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841-November 7, 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist influenced by Dwight Lyman Moody, and author of the Zionist Blackstone Memorial of 1891. ... William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881) was an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Geography

• Blackstone, Queensland, Australia
• Blackstone, Western Australia, Australia
• Blackstone, Massachusetts, United States
• Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, a neighborhood
• Blackstone, Virginia, United States
• Blackstone Heights, Tasmania
• Blackstone Valley, a river valley, and National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, United States

Blackstone is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. ... Providence neighborhoods with Blackstone in red Blackstone is a predominantly residential neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Blackstone is a town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. ... This article, image, template or category should belong in one or more categories. ... The Blackstone Valley or Blackstone River Valley is a region of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. ...

Fiction

• Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th Century detective created by Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert)
• Blackstone Chronicles (novel series), a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul
• Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000
• Blackstone (Greyhawk), a fictional mining town in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game
• The Blackstones, a proposed spin-off of the Flintstones from the 1970s about a black family in the stone age.

Derek Lambert (10 October 1929 – 2001)[1] was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk,[2] and a journalist. ... Blackstone Chronicles is a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul. ... Blackstone Fortress In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the Blackstone Fortresses were originally created as weapons in the first war against the Ctan, and were known to the ancient Eldar as the Talismans of Vaul. ... The cover of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast. ... The Flintstones is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ...

Other

Blackstone may also refer to:

• Black Stone, a Muslim object of reverence,
• Blackstone Avenue, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA
• Blackstone Brewing Company, a brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
• Blackstone Edge, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England
• Blackstone Group, a private equity firm
• Blackstone Library, Chicago's 1st Public Library
• Blackstone Hotel, a famous Chicago Hotel
• Blackstone Hotel (Omaha), an Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center
• Blackstone Memorial, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone
• Blackstone Valley Rail
• Blackstone, a codename for ColdFusion 7.0 - Beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia
• Blackstone, in reference to the Black P. Stones
• Blackstone Society, the Law Students’ Society at the University of Western Australia
• Blackstone, the Magic Detective, a radio series which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1940s
• Operation Blackstone, part of Operation Torch, Allied landings in Africa during World War II

This article is about the Islamic holy relic. ... Blackstone Avenue is a major roadway arterial in Fresno, California, USA. This street is the location of a number of historic structures[1] and is also the locus of a considerable concentration of retail commercial land usage. ... Blackstone Edge in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom is an area of moorland at 472 metres (1323 ft) high, and is a spot often visted by walkers and amateur mountain climbers. ... Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) is a prominent private equity and investment management firm founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. ... Timothy B. Blackstone Bronze Plaque // The T. B. Blackstone Memorial Library is a Concord Granite building that is a part of the Chicago Public Library System. ... The Blackstone Hotel is located in Chicago at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Street. ... The Blackstone Hotel, currently known as the Blackstone Center, is located at 302 South 36th Street in the Gold Coast neighborhood of the Midtown area in Omaha, Nebraska. ... The Blackstone Memorial (1891) was a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone and presented to the President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews, and signed by a number of leading American citizens. ... Blackstone Valley Rail will eventually be a trail roughly following The Providence and Worcester Rail Road and the former Blackstone Canal between the two cities. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation (often abbreviated BPSN) is a Chicago-based street gang estimated to have almost 25,000,000 gang members. ... Marvels Blackstone the Magician Detective 3 (July 1948) Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a 15-minute radio series which aired Sunday afternoons at 2:45pm ET on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 3, 1948 until April 3, 1949. ... Operation Blackstone was a part of Operation Torch, Allied landings in Africa during World War II. Taking place on 8 November 1942 they were intended to capture the port of Safi as part of a larger operation to capture Casablanca in Morocco. ...

See also

• Blackstone Lake, Ontario
• Blackstone River (disambiguation)
• Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School

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