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Breaks Interstate Park
Breaks Interstate Park, the Breaks, is a bi-state Kentucky–Virginia park established 1954, one of only two US interstate parks, centered on the five-mile Breaks Canyon of the Russell Fork, the Grand Canyon of the South.
Breakthrough (2019 film)
Breakthrough (2019) is a 20th Century Fox faith-based drama directed by Roxann Dawson, starring Chrissy Metz, based on Joyce Smith's book about her son John's 2015 revival after drowning in Lake St. Louis.
Breakthrough (yacht)
Breakthrough is a 118.8-meter motor yacht built by the Dutch shipyard Feadship and delivered in 2025, the world's first superyacht with a working hydrogen fuel-cell system.
Breakthrough Energy
Breakthrough Energy is a network of investment funds, fellowships, and project-finance programs founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to develop technologies for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Breakthrough Listen
Breakthrough Listen is a privately funded ten-year astronomical program launched in 2015 with $100 million from Yuri Milner, using major radio telescopes to search for technosignatures from extraterrestrial technology.
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is an annual research award founded by Yuri Milner in 2012, carrying a $3 million cash prize, the largest in physics.
Breakthrough Starshot
Breakthrough Starshot, also known as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, is a program announced in 2016 to propel gram-scale light-sail probes to Alpha Centauri within a generation.
Breakthru
Breakthru is a 1965 abstract strategy board game by Alex Randolph, published by 3M in its Bookshelf series: an 11x11 asymmetric evasion-or-capture game descended from the tafl family, with a gold flagship and escorts against 20 silver destroyers.
Breakup Buddies (心花路放)
Breakup Buddies (心花路放), also known as Xin Hua Lu Fang, is a 2014 Chinese buddy road comedy directed by Ning Hao, starring Huang Bo and Xu Zheng; it grossed RMB 1.17 billion, 2014's top domestic Chinese film.
Breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate
The breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate (बहमनी सल्तनत का विघटन) began in 1490 when the governors of Ahmadnagar, Bijapur, and Berar declared independence, leaving five Deccan sultanates by 1527.
Breakup of the Bell System
The breakup of the Bell System, or AT&T divestiture, was the antitrust settlement agreed in 1982 that split AT&T into seven regional local phone companies, effective January 1, 1984.
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Breakup of Yugoslavia: 1991-1992 dissolution of the six-republic Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), followed by the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.
Breakup Season
Breakup Season is a 2024 American independent comedy-drama directed by H. Nelson Tracey, starring Chandler Riggs and Samantha Isler; a Christmas breakup strands a girlfriend with her ex's family in rural Oregon, released by Buffalo 8.
Breakwater (structure)
A breakwater is a fixed or floating structure built to protect a shore area, harbor, anchorage, or basin from waves, used for safe navigation, erosion control, and wave energy generation.
Bream Oil and Gas Field
Bream is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait, offshore Victoria, Australia, discovered in April 1969 and produced through the Bream A and Bream B platforms.
Brean Down
Brean Down: limestone promontory in Somerset, 97 m high, 1.5 miles long, extending into the Bristol Channel; National Trust site with Neolithic to WWII scheduled remains, Iron Age hillfort, Roman temple, and Palmerston Fort.
Breanna Stewart
Breanna Stewart (born 1994), also called Stewie, American WNBA forward for the New York Liberty; four-time UConn NCAA champion and only four-time Final Four MOP, 2016 No. 1 pick, 2x MVP, 3x WNBA champion, 3x Olympic gold medalist.
Breanna Yde
Breanna Yde (YDE), Australian-American actress and singer born 2003 in Sydney; starred as Frankie Hathaway, Tomika in School of Rock, voiced Ronnie Anne, and releases music as YDE on Warner Records.
Breast
The breast (mammary gland) is the chest glandular organ of lobes, ducts, and fat that develops under estrogen, GH, and IGF-1, produces milk via prolactin and oxytocin, and is the site of breast cancer.
Breast abscess
Breast abscess, also called mammary or puerperal abscess (ICD-11 GB21.0), is a localized pus collection in the breast, usually complicating mastitis; treated by aspiration or incision and drainage with antibiotics, nonlactational forms recur in 25-57%.
Breast augmentation
Breast augmentation, also called augmentation mammoplasty, enlarges the breasts with FDA-approved saline or silicone gel implants or fat transfer. Key facts: first silicone implant 1962, 1992 FDA moratorium, BIA-ALCL risk with textured implants, implants are not lifetime devices.
Breast binding
Breast (chest) binding compresses chest tissue for a flatter appearance, mainly via binders worn by transmasculine and nonbinary people. Key facts: 8-10 hour wear limits, documented risks (97.2% report some negative outcome) and mood benefits, and a history spanning China and West Africa.
Breast cancer
Breast cancer, cancer arising in breast duct or lobule cells, is the most common cancer in women and leading cause of female cancer death; 2.43 million new cases in 2024, five-year survival over 90% in high-income countries versus about 40% in South Africa.
Breast development
Breast development: lifelong mammary gland formation from hormone-independent prenatal ductal tree through pubertal thelarche (Tanner stages, ages ~8.5–13.5), estrogen/progesterone/GH-IGF-I control, pregnancy lactation, involution, gynecomastia, and congenital variants.
Breast disease
Breast disease is any condition affecting the breast, spanning malignant conditions, chiefly breast cancer, and benign inflammatory, fibroepithelial, and hormonal disorders; evaluation typically uses triple assessment.
Breast duct lavage
Breast duct lavage, also known as ductal lavage, is a diagnostic procedure that flushes fluid from the milk ducts through the nipple to collect epithelial cells for cytologic examination.
Breast fetishism
Breast fetishism is a sexual interest in which breasts become a predominant focus of arousal. A medical dictionary uses the term for an interest that excludes most other physical features, a narrower.
Breast hypertrophy
Breast hypertrophy (macromastia, gigantomastia) is excessive benign breast tissue growth in females, defined by over 5 pounds or 3% body weight excess, treated with medication or reduction surgery.
Breast implant
Breast implant: saline- or silicone gel-filled prosthetic device with a silicone shell for augmentation or reconstruction. FDA-approved types, generations, complications (capsular contracture, rupture), BIA-ALCL, and safety evidence.
Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma
Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), also called seroma-associated ALCL, is a rare CD30-positive, ALK-negative T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma arising in the capsule around textured breast implants, typically 7-10 years after placement, treated by en bloc resection.