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Branković dynasty
The Branković dynasty was a Serbian noble family, the last ruling dynasty of medieval Serbia, governing the Serbian Despotate from 1427 until its fall to the Ottomans in 1459.
Brankovina
Brankovina (Бранковина), village near Valjevo, Serbia, home of the Nenadović family and burial place of poet Desanka Maksimović; protected cultural-historical complex with the 1830 Church of the Holy Archangels and Serbia's first state school (1836).
Brann Dailor
Brann Dailor, American drummer, co-vocalist and lyricist of Atlanta progressive metal band Mastodon, which he co-founded in 2000; Grammy winner for "Sultan's Curse," later led the band after Brent Hinds's 2025 death.
Brannin McBee
Brannin McBee is a co-founder and Chief Development Officer of CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure company he started in 2017 as an Ethereum mining operation and took public on Nasdaq in 2025.
Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga (born 1965, Bozeman, Montana) is an American TV writer, producer, and director, the most prolific writer in Star Trek history (TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, Generations, First Contact), later creator of Salem and producer-director of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
Branodunum
Branodunum (Brancaster Roman Fort), Norfolk: a Roman Saxon Shore fort listed in the Notitia Dignitatum, built c. 225-250 AD, 2.6 ha, guarding the Wash, garrisoned by Gaulish infantry then Dalmatian cavalry.
Branogenium
Branogenium, also recorded as Bravonium, was a Roman roadside settlement that grew from a vicus near Jay Lane fort and lies beneath the village of Leintwardine, Herefordshire.
Brans–Dicke theory
Brans–Dicke theory is a scalar-tensor modification of general relativity, proposed by Carl Brans and Robert Dicke in 1961, in which a scalar field replaces the gravitational constant.
Branscombe Richmond
Branscombe Richmond, born 1955 in Los Angeles, is an American actor, stuntman, producer, and singer of Native Hawaiian and Tahitian descent, known as Bobby Sixkiller in Renegade, the voice of Gibraltar in Apex Legends, and Kimo in Finding 'Ohana.
Bransfield Island
Bransfield Island: small island at the east entrance of Antarctic Sound, Antarctic Peninsula, at 63°11'S 56°38'W, separated from d'Urville Island by Burden Passage; named for explorer Edward Bransfield, identified as an island by FIDS survey in 1947.
Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait is a roughly 285-mile-long strait between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, named by James Weddell for explorer Edward Bransfield around 1825.
Branson Cross
Branson Cross is a 218-foot (66 m) plate-steel Christian cross monument in Walnut Shade, Missouri, near Branson on US-65. Built by Kerry Brown's nonprofit Images at the Cross (2018–2019), it is claimed the tallest cross in North America and fifth tallest worldwide, with FAA beacons.
Branson, Missouri
Branson, Missouri is an Ozark city 35 miles south of Springfield, incorporated in 1912, with about 12,900 residents and over 10 million annual visitors. Known for 25+ music theaters, Silver Dollar City, Table Rock Lake, and a $1.7 billion tourism economy.
Branson, MO Micro Area
Branson, MO Micro Area (CBSA 14700) is an OMB-defined micropolitan statistical area covering Taney and Stone counties in southwest Missouri, centered on Branson; about 56,500 residents, tourism-driven economy, part of the Springfield-Branson combined statistical area.
Branston (brand)
Branston (brand) covers two unrelated British food brands: Branston Pickle, a sweet brown vegetable relish first made by Crosse & Blackwell in 1922, now owned by Mizkan Euro, and Branston Ltd, the Lincolnshire potato supplier founded in 1968.
Branston Roman villa
Branston Roman villa is a probable villa site east of Folly Lane, Branston and Mere, Lincolnshire, near Lindum. Evidence: RIB 3179 inscription (Aurelia Concessa), 1967 excavation, tiles, tesserae, 2nd-4th century finds.
Brant Daugherty
Brant Daugherty (Brant David Daugherty), American actor born 1985 in Mason, Ohio; played Noel Kahn on Pretty Little Liars (2010–2016), Luke Sawyer in Fifty Shades Freed, and stars in and writes Hallmark movies with wife Kimberly Daugherty.
Brant M. Weinstein
Brant M. Weinstein is a biologist and NIH senior investigator in Bethesda, Maryland, known as a leading expert on zebrafish blood and lymphatic vessel development.
Brant von Hoffman
Brant von Hoffman (Brant Van Hoffmann) is an American actor known as Kyle Blankes in Police Academy (1984) and Sgt. Blanks in Police Academy 3 (1986), with film roles from 1984 to 1999 and TV guest spots including Arrested Development.
Branta
Branta is the genus of black geese in Anatidae, including Brant (Branta bernicla), Canada Goose, Barnacle Goose, Hawaiian Goose, and Red-breasted Goose; marine-feeding Brant, Arctic breeding, about 220,000 birds.
Branta bernicla
Branta bernicla, the Brent Goose or Brant, is a small dark migratory sea goose of Arctic coasts with three subspecies (bernicla, hrota, nigricans), feeding on eelgrass in coastal bays and estuaries; IUCN Least Concern, about 560,000-650,000 birds.
Brantford
Brantford, Ontario, "The Telephone City," a Grand River city of 104,690 (2021) where Alexander Graham Bell conceived the telephone in 1874 and made the first long-distance call in 1876.
Brantford—Brant South
Brantford—Brant South (Brantford—Brant-Sud), federal electoral district no. 35015 in Ontario, formerly Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations; covers Brantford, southern Brant County, and Six Nations reserve; Conservative-held, vacant 2026.
Brantley D. Starr
Brantley D. Starr, also known as Brantley David Starr, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas since 2019.
Brantley Gilbert
Brantley Gilbert, fully Brantley Keith Gilbert, is an American country rock singer and songwriter from Georgia, born in 1984, whose hits include the 7x Platinum "Bottoms Up."
Brantly International
Brantly International, also known as Brantly Helicopter Corporation, is an American light-helicopter maker founded in Philadelphia in 1945, known for the two-seat B-2 and five-seat 305.
Branwell Brontë
Branwell Brontë (Patrick Branwell Brontë, 1817–1848), English painter, poet, and only brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, known for the Pillar Portrait and Gun Group of his sisters, his failed careers, and his death at 31.
Branwen Corona
Branwen Corona, a 320-km-wide corona (quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 27.0°N, 35.0°E in eastern Eistla Regio; IAU-named 2000 for a British goddess of love.
BRAP
BRAP (BRCA1 associated protein; BRAP2, IMP, RNF52; HGNC:1099) is a human chromosome 12q24.12 gene encoding a cytoplasmic RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligase that brakes Ras-MAPK signaling via KSR1 and binds BRCA1's nuclear localization signal.
Bras d'honneur
Bras d'honneur, also called forearm jerk or gesto dell'ombrello, is an obscene arm-bent, biceps-slapping insult gesture of contempt, equivalent to the middle finger across Romance-language Europe and Latin America.