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Bras d'Or Lake
Bras d'Or Lake (Mi'kmaq: Pitu'paq) is a ~1,100 km² brackish estuarine inland sea in central Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, with three Atlantic connections, ~22 ppt average salinity, tiny tides, and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve watershed.
Brasenia schreberi
Brasenia schreberi (watershield, water shield, chun cai 莼菜, junsai) is the sole species of Cabombaceae genus Brasenia, a mucilage-coated floating-leaved aquatic plant of lakes and ponds across Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, eaten in East Asia and globally rated Least Concern.
Brashard Smith
Brashard Smith, Kansas City Chiefs running back (Miami WR converted to RB at SMU), set SMU's single-season all-purpose yards record (1,977) in 2024, earned All-American honors, and was drafted 228th overall in 2025.
Brashear (Martian crater)
Brashear is a 77.45-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 53.81°S, 240.97°E, named for John A. Brashear and approved by the IAU in 1973; its floor holds dark windblown dunes imaged by Mars Global Surveyor.
Brasília
Brasília, Brazil's planned federal capital inaugurated 21 April 1960, designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, built in 1,310 days, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
Brasilia family
Brasilia family: X-type main-belt asteroid family near the 5J:-2A resonance, from a 34 km parent body, age 50 ± 40 Myr, named for interloper 293 Brasilia; V-shape shows D⁻¹ ejection field.
Brasília International Airport
Brasília International Airport, officially Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília – Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek, is the airport serving Brasília, Brazil's federal capital. Opened in 1957, it is one of Brazil's busiest airports.
Brasília Time
Brasília Time (BRT; Portuguese, Hora de Brasília) is Brazil's reference time zone at UTC−03:00, covering the east coast, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and about 90% of Brazilians.
Brasilia Zoo
Brasilia Zoo (Jardim Zoológico de Brasília, FJZB), a zoological garden in Brasília, Brazil, inaugurated 6 December 1957, two years before the capital; first ecological institution in the Federal District, holding about 1,250 animals in 230 species and AZAB/ICMBio threatened-species programs.
Braskem
Braskem is a Brazilian petrochemical company headquartered in São Paulo, founded in 2002, and the largest thermoplastic resin producer in the Americas, with 40 industrial units in Brazil, the United States, and Mexico.
Brașov
Brașov (German: Kronstadt, "City of the Crown") is a major Romanian city in the Carpathian curvature, first recorded in 1235 as Corona, seat of Brașov County, home to the Black Church and medieval fortifications.
Brass
Brass is a family of copper-zinc alloys, made since Roman times and standard for accurate instruments; it is used for musical instruments, plumbing fixtures, cartridge cases, and easy-to-machine parts.
Brass band
Brass band: an ensemble of brass and percussion instruments, especially the British-style all-brass band with treble-clef scoring. Origins in 1810s regimental bands, 1851 Belle Vue contest, test-piece tradition, NABBA, folk and New Orleans variants.
Brass Creek-Forcados Oil Pipeline
The Brass Creek-Forcados Oil Pipeline is an operating crude oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta, running from Brass to Forcados and operated by Shell's Nigerian subsidiary.
Brass Eye
Brass Eye is a British Channel 4 satirical fake-news series by Chris Morris, six episodes in 1997 plus the 2001 Paedogeddon special on media paedophilia panic, which drew record complaints, regulatory censure and an apology order.
Brass instrument
Brass instrument (labrosone, lip-reed aerophone): wind instrument sounded by the player's vibrating lips against a mouthpiece, defined by sound production not material; includes trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba; pitch changed by valves or slide.
Brass knuckles
Brass knuckles (knuckle dusters): metal finger-ring weapons worn over the fist to increase punch injuries. Originally brass; 19th-century American origin; banned or restricted in many US states; Michigan 2025 Dummer ruling upheld ban.
Brass Monkey (cocktail)
Brass Monkey cocktail: an American drink of dark rum, vodka, and orange juice, also a 1970s-80s Heublein premix and the Beastie Boys' 1986 Licensed to Ill song subject; distinct from the malt-liquor-and-OJ version and the cold-weather slang.
Brassaï
Brassaï, the pseudonym of Gyula Halász, was a Hungarian-born French photographer famous for his dramatic photographs of Paris at night, collected in his 1932 book Paris de Nuit.
Brassavola nodosa
Brassavola nodosa, the lady-of-the-night orchid, is an epiphytic Cattleya-alliance orchid from Mexico to Venezuela with white, night-fragrant, moth-pollinated flowers; widely grown and used in hybrids like Little Stars.
Brassed Off
Brassed Off (1996) is Mark Herman's British comedy-drama about the fictional Grimley Colliery Band, based on Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, starring Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, and Ewan McGregor, with music by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
Brasserie
Brasserie: French word literally meaning brewery; since the 19th century also a large café-restaurant with continuous service, broad menu, and Art deco decor, born from Alsatian breweries in Paris.
Brasserie Les Halles
Brasserie Les Halles, a French brasserie at 411 Park Avenue South, Manhattan, founded 1990 by Jose de Meirelles, Philippe Lajaunie, and Jean-Michel Diot; Anthony Bourdain was executive chef from 1998 and wrote Kitchen Confidential there; Park Avenue location closed 2016, last location 2017, site reopened as La Brasserie in 2022.
Brassia caudata
Brassia caudata (L.) Lindl., the cricket orchid, is a spider-like epiphytic orchid from southern Florida, Mexico, the West Indies, and tropical South America, with long-tailed sepals, wasp-mimic pollination, and disputed species limits.
Brassic
Brassic is a British Sky comedy-drama (2019-2025, 7 series, 50 episodes) co-created by Joe Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst, following Vinnie, a Lancashire man with bipolar disorder, and his petty-criminal friends in the fictional town of Hawley.
Brassica
Brassica is a genus of about 40 Mediterranean-native herbs in Brassicaceae, the mustard family. Its six crop species (Triangle of U) include B. oleracea (cabbage, broccoli, kale) and B. napus (canola).
Brassica carinata
Brassica carinata, Ethiopian mustard or Abyssinian mustard, is an allotetraploid (BBCC, 2n=34) oilseed crop from the Ethiopian highlands, derived from B. nigra × B. oleracea, developed for jet fuel and industrial erucic oil.
Brassica juncea
Brassica juncea (Indian mustard, brown mustard, rai) is an AABB amphidiploid Brassicaceae species grown as condiment, oilseed, and vegetable, dominant in India, and bred since the 1980s as canola-quality juncea canola.
Brassica nigra
Brassica nigra, black mustard (Sinapis nigra), an erect annual Brassicaceae herb with BB genome 2n=16, grown since antiquity for pungent sinigrin-rich seeds used as condiment mustard and oil; parent of B. juncea and B. carinata.
Brassica oleracea
Brassica oleracea (wild cabbage) is a Brassicaceae species whose cultivars include cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, and Brussels sprouts; closest wild relative B. cretica, Eastern Mediterranean origin, C-genome n=9.