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Birkenhead Peak
Birkenhead Peak is a 2,506 m summit in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, northeast of Pemberton, an ultra-prominence peak with 1,781 m of prominence climbed via Microwave Ridge.
Birkenstock
Birkenstock is a German footwear company, headquartered in Linz am Rhein and tracing its shoemaking tradition to 1774, known for sandals built around a contoured cork-latex footbed.
Birket Israel
Birket Israel (Birkat Isra'il) was a large open reservoir abutting the north-eastern corner of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the city's largest pool, filled in during 1934.
Birkhall
Birkhall, also known as Birkhall House, is a royal residence on the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, now home to King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
Birkhoff (lunar crater)
Birkhoff is a 329.81 km IAU-named impact crater, effectively an ancient Pre-Nectarian basin, on the Moon's northern farside at 58.45°N, 145.65°W, with satellite craters Birkhoff K and R.
Birkhoff polytope
The Birkhoff polytope, also called the assignment polytope, is the convex polytope of n×n doubly stochastic matrices, whose vertices are the n! permutation matrices by the Birkhoff–von Neumann theorem.
Birkhoff's theorem
Birkhoff's theorem is a result in general relativity stating that every spherically symmetric vacuum solution of Einstein's equations is locally isometric to the static Schwarzschild metric.
Birkin bag
Birkin bag, Hermès Birkin, structured French luxury handbag created in 1984 for Jane Birkin with Jean-Louis Dumas; handmade by one artisan in 18+ hours, sells above retail on resale, prototype sold for $10.1 million in 2025.
Birkir Bjarnason
Birkir Bjarnason (Birkir Bjarnason), Icelandic midfielder born 1988 in Akureyri; 113 caps, 15 goals for Iceland, scored vs Portugal at EURO 2016, played for Basel, Aston Villa, Viking FK and Brescia; retired 2025.
Birkirkara
Birkirkara (B'Kara) is a large historic inland town in central Malta's Northern Harbour district, with about 25,800 residents, St Helen Basilica, the Old Railway Station museum, and a reputation for central location, traffic and flooding.
Birla family
The Birla family, also known as the Birlas, is a Marwari Indian business family from Pilani, Rajasthan, whose firm grew into one of India's largest industrial houses.
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT Mesra), a deemed university in Ranchi, Jharkhand, founded 1955 by B.M. Birla; engineering, pharmacy and science programs diploma to Ph.D., seven Indian and two offshore campuses.
Birla Mandir, Hyderabad
Birla Mandir, Hyderabad is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, built of white marble on a hillock near Hussain Sagar by the Birla Foundation and completed in 1976.
Birman
Birman (Sacred Cat of Burma): color-pointed semi-longhair cat with blue eyes and white gloves and laces on all four feet. Founded in France from a pair shipped from Burma around 1919; CFA registration 1967.
Birmingham
Birmingham, UK's second-largest city (population 1,176,960 in mid-2025), a West Midlands industrial hub founded as a Saxon settlement of Beorma, chartered 1166, historic metalworking and jewellery centre.
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham Airport is the main airport for the West Midlands of England, opened as Elmdon Airport in 1939 and the UK's seventh largest, with a record 13.7 million passengers in 2025.
Birmingham Barons
The Birmingham Barons are a Minor League Baseball team in Birmingham, Alabama, the Double-A Southern League affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, playing at Regions Field since 2013.
Birmingham Boys
The Birmingham Boys, also known as the Brummagem Boys, were an English street gang led by Billy Kimber that controlled bookmaking and protection rackets at Britain's racecourses until the 1930s.
Birmingham campaign
Birmingham campaign, or Project C, was the April-May 1963 SCLC-ACMHR nonviolent campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, led by King, Abernathy, and Shuttlesworth, whose Children's Crusade and police dogs-and-hoses imagery drove the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Birmingham City F.C.
Birmingham City F.C., founded 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, is an English football club at St Andrew's, Birmingham; League Cup winner 1963 and 2011, record 111-point League One champion 2024-25, owned by Shelby Companies/Knighthead since 2023.
Birmingham City Schools
Birmingham City Schools is the public school district of Birmingham, Alabama, founded in 1873, desegregated under court orders from 1963 to 1976, taken over by the state in 2012, and recently ranked first in Alabama math recovery.
Birmingham Corporation Water Department
Birmingham Corporation Water Department, also called Birmingham Corporation Waterworks, was the municipal body supplying water to Birmingham, England, from 1876 until 1974 through the Elan Valley scheme.
Birmingham Iron
Birmingham Iron, AAF (Alliance of American Football) team in Birmingham, Alabama, 2019 only. Played at Legion Field under Tim Lewis, went 5-3, second in Eastern Conference, league-best defense (133 points allowed), folded April 2, 2019.
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG), Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, England: municipal art museum opened 28 November 1885 by the Prince of Wales, holding the world's finest Pre-Raphaelite collection, distinct from the Alabama museum of similar name.
Birmingham pub bombings
The Birmingham pub bombings of 21 November 1974, IRA attacks on the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs, killed 21 and injured over 220; six innocent Irishmen, the Birmingham Six, were wrongly convicted in 1975 and freed in 1991.
Birmingham Quran manuscript
The Birmingham Quran manuscript is a four-page parchment manuscript of the Quran held at the University of Birmingham, radiocarbon dated in 2015 to between 568 and 645 CE.
Birmingham Six
The Birmingham Six were six Irish men wrongly convicted in 1975 of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings that killed 21 people; their convictions were quashed in 1991 after 16 years, prompting the CCRC's creation.
Birmingham Small Arms Company
The Birmingham Small Arms Company, known as BSA, was a British manufacturer founded in Birmingham in 1861 to make firearms, later a leading maker of bicycles and motorcycles.
Birmingham Stallions (2022)
Birmingham Stallions (2022): USFL revival franchise launched November 2021, coached by Skip Holtz; went 9-1 and won the 2022 USFL title, then 2023 USFL and 2024 UFL championships before 2026 disbanding.
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama: largest Alabama city regionally, founded 1871 as an iron and steel center, population about 200,000, major civil rights history site, UAB medical and banking hub.