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Bralessness
Bralessness is the practice of not wearing a brassiere, tied to 1960s feminist protest (the 1968 Miss America "Freedom Trash Can" and the bra-burning myth), Rudi Gernreich's transparent "no bra," workplace dress-code law, and recent survey and perception research.
Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen is an American programmer best known as the inventor of BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer protocol released in 2001, and later the founder of the Chia Network blockchain company.
Bram Fischer
Bram Fischer (Abram Fischer, 1908–1975), Afrikaner advocate, SACP chairman, and lead defence counsel at the Rivonia Trial; went underground in 1965 and died serving a life sentence.
Bram Lomans
Bram Lomans, born Abraham Robertus Lomans in 1975, is a Dutch field hockey player who won Olympic gold in 1996 and 2000 and the 1998 World Cup.
Bram Nauta
Bram Nauta (born 1964) is a Dutch electrical engineer at the University of Twente, known for the Nauta circuit and the 2023 NWO Stevin Prize.
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker, 1847-1912), Dublin-born Irish Protestant writer, barrister, and Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre manager, wrote eleven novels; his Gothic horror Dracula (1897) created the Transylvanian vampire count and defines vampire fiction today.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror-romance adaptation of Stoker's 1897 novel, starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves; three Academy Awards, practical effects, invented Dracula-Mina romance.
Bram van Ginneken
Bram van Ginneken is a Dutch medical image analysis researcher and professor at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for computer-aided diagnosis of chest radiographs and lung CT scans.
Bramah N. Singh
Bramah N. Singh (1938–2014) was a Fiji-born, New Zealand-trained cardiologist at UCLA who co-created the Singh-Vaughan Williams classification of antiarrhythmic drugs and led major amiodarone trials.
Bramall Lane
Bramall Lane, also known as Bramall Lane Stadium, is a football stadium in Sheffield, England, home of Sheffield United since 1889 and opened as a cricket ground in 1855.
Bramans
Bramans, former commune in Haute-Maurienne, Savoie, France (merged into Val-Cenis 2017), on the Arc river near Italy; known for the Roman road role and the medieval Colombière copper-lead-iron mine with 11th-century timbering.
Bramante (Mercurian crater)
Bramante crater, Mercury: 156 km IAU-approved impact crater at 47.23S, 61.55W, named 1976 for Italian architect Donato Bramante; part of the Bramante-Schubert basin, imaged by BepiColombo.
Bramayugam (ബ്രഹ്മയുഗം)
Bramayugam (ഭ്രമയുഗം), 2024 Malayalam black-and-white folk horror by Rahul Sadasivan, starring Mammootty as Kodumon Potti; 17th-century Kerala slavery tale, ₹85 crore grosser, National Film Award winner.
Brambles (Australian logistics company)
Brambles Limited is an Australian supply-chain logistics company that owns and rents reusable pallets, crates, and containers through its CHEP brand, operating some 352 million units across about 60 countries.
Brame Energy power station
Brame Energy power station, formerly the Rodemacher Power Station, is a baseload power plant operated by Cleco Power near Lena, Louisiana, with three units totaling roughly 1,600 MW.
Bramhall
Bramhall, Cheshire: suburban village in Stockport, Greater Manchester, known for timber-framed Bramall Hall, the Davenport manor sold in 1877, and growth after the 1845 railway; population about 22,000.
Brami (crater on Callisto)
Brami is a 19-km-wide impact crater on Callisto at 75.70°N, 28.80°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named after a Norse figure, Ottar's ancestor, under the Far North mythology naming theme.
Bramimond (crater on Iapetus)
Bramimond, 200 km crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 38.00°N, 178.00°W, IAU-approved August 5, 2008; named after the Queen of Saragossa, wife of Marsilion, in The Song of Roland.
Bramlette McClelland
Bramlette McClelland, born Thomas Bramlette McClelland, was an American geotechnical engineer in Houston who performed the first offshore site investigation in 1947, founded McClelland Engineers, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Brampton
Brampton is a city in the Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto; Canada's 7th largest city, it grew to 791,486 people in 2024.
Brampton Old Church
Brampton Old Church is the surviving chancel of the medieval Church of St Martin in Brampton, Cumbria, England, standing on a Roman fort beside the Stanegate.
Bramwell (TV series)
Bramwell is a British ITV medical drama (1995-1998, 27 episodes, four series) created by Lucy Gannon, Harriet Davison, and Tim Whitby, starring Jemma Redgrave as Dr Eleanor Bramwell, a woman doctor in 1890s London who founds the Thrift charity infirmary.
Bran
Bran is the outer layer of cereal grains (pericarp, seed coat, aleurone), separated in milling; wheat bran, ~14–19% of kernel weight, supplies up to 45 g fiber/100 g and approved EFSA gut-health claims.
Bran Castle
Bran Castle (Törcsvár) is a medieval fortress near Brașov in Transylvania, Romania, built in 1377 to guard the Bran Pass, now Romania's most visited attraction as "Dracula's Castle".
Bran Nue Dae
Bran Nue Dae is an Australian stage musical by Jimmy Chi and the Broome band Kuckles, recognized as Australia's first Aboriginal musical and premiered in 1990.
Bran Stark
Bran Stark is the second son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright. Paralyzed by Jaime Lannister in the first book, he becomes a warg and greenseer, succeeds the Three-Eyed Raven beyond the Wall, and is crowned Bran the Broken in the show's finale.
Bran Van 3000
Bran Van 3000 (BV3) is a Montreal, Quebec musical collective founded by DJ James Di Salvio, known for Glee (1997), the hit Drinking in L.A. (UK No. 3), the 1998 Juno-winning alternative album, and Discosis (2001) on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label.
Brancacci Chapel
The Brancacci Chapel (Cappella Brancacci) is a frescoed chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, decorated by Masolino and Masaccio in the 1420s with scenes from the Life of Saint Peter.
Branch (computer science)
A branch, or branch instruction, is a computer instruction that transfers control to a different point in a program instead of continuing sequentially, enabling loops, decisions, and function calls.
Branch and bound
Branch and bound is an algorithmic method for solving discrete and combinatorial optimization problems exactly, proposed by A. H. Land and A. G. Doig in 1960.