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Breezy Bowl XX
Breezy Bowl XX is Chris Brown's 2025 20th-anniversary stadium world tour, promoted by Live Nation, running June 8 to October 16, 2025 across Europe and North America with Summer Walker, Bryson Tiller, and Jhené Aiko, grossing about $298 million and ranking No. 7 on Pollstar's 2025 year-end list.
Breezy Johnson
Breezy Johnson (Breanna Noble Johnson, born 1996), American alpine skier from Jackson Hole, Wyoming; 2026 Olympic and 2025 World downhill champion; missed Beijing 2022 with injury and served a 14-month whereabouts suspension.
Brefeldin A
Brefeldin A, also formerly named decumbin, is a fungal lactone that blocks protein transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus and reversibly inhibits secretion.
Brega-Benghazi Gas Pipeline
The Brega-Benghazi Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline owned by Libya's National Oil Corporation, running 396 km from Al Wahat to Benghazi with a capacity of 10.8 billion cubic meters per year.
Brega-Khoms Gas Pipeline
The Brega-Khoms Gas Pipeline is a 645 km natural gas pipeline in Libya, running from Marsa El Brega to Al Khoms and operated by Sirte Oil.
Bregal Partners
Bregal Partners is a New York middle-market private equity firm founded in 2012 by former Centre Partners executives, with $1.25 billion of committed capital after its second fund closed in 2019.
Bregal Sagemount
Bregal Sagemount is a growth-focused private capital firm in New York, founded in 2012, that has raised $11 billion for software, healthcare IT, and fintech investments.
Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival): annual summer opera festival in Bregenz, Austria, founded 1946, famed for its Seebühne floating stage on Lake Constance with about 7,000 seats, two-year production cycles, and its 80th-anniversary 2026 season of La traviata.
Bregman divergence
A Bregman divergence is a measure of difference between two points given by the gap between a convex function and its tangent approximation, named for Lev Bregman, who introduced it in 1967.
Bregowine
Bregowine, also spelled Bregwin or Bregowinus, was the twelfth Archbishop of Canterbury from 761 to 764, known from charters and later venerated as a saint.
Breguet (brand)
Breguet is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, credited with the tourbillon, the overcoil balance spring, and the first wristwatch.
Breguet Atlantic
The Breguet Atlantic (Br.1150) is a twin-turboprop maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft designed in France to a NATO specification and first flown at Toulouse in October 1961.
Breidablikk Oil Field
Breidablikk is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea with about 190 million barrels of recoverable oil, developed as a subsea tie-back to the Grane platform and producing since October 2023.
Breit–Wheeler process
The Breit–Wheeler process is the creation of an electron–positron pair from two colliding photons, calculated by Gregory Breit and John A. Wheeler in 1934 and first strongly evidenced at a heavy-ion collider in 2021.
Breit–Wigner formula
The Breit–Wigner formula, or Breit–Wigner resonance, gives the energy dependence of a reaction cross section near a resonance, introduced by Breit and Wigner in 1936.
Breitbart News
Breitbart News, also called Breitbart News Network, is a conservative American news and opinion website founded by Andrew Breitbart and Larry Solov, later led by Stephen Bannon, part-owned by the Mercer family, and rated Right with mixed factual reporting.
Breitling SA
Breitling SA is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer founded in 1884 by Léon Breitling in La Chaux-de-Fonds, known for aviation chronographs like the Navitimer, worn in space in 1962.
Breksi Cliff
Breksi Cliff (Tebing Breksi), a former stone quarry in Sambirejo, Sleman, Yogyakarta, turned geotourism site of volcanic tuff from the ancient Nglanggeran volcano, inaugurated May 30, 2015 by Sultan Hamengku Buwono X.
Breksta Linea
Breksta Linea, formerly Breksta Dorsa, is a roughly 500-km-long fracture belt of graben on Venus in the Lachesis Tessera V-18 quadrangle, centered at 35.9N, 304.0E, named for a Lithuanian night goddess.
Brembo
Brembo is an Italian manufacturer of braking systems for cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, and racing, founded in 1961 near Bergamo and listed in Milan since 1995.
Bremelanotide
Bremelanotide (Vyleesi, PT-141) is a melanocortin receptor agonist peptide approved by the FDA in 2019 for acquired, generalized HSDD in premenopausal women; self-injected 1.75 mg as needed, with nausea and transient blood pressure rises as main adverse effects.
Bremen
Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), Hanseatic city on the Weser in northwest Germany; with Bremerhaven it forms Germany's smallest two-city state. First recorded 782, Hanse member 1358, UNESCO Town Hall and Roland, major port and industrial hub.
Bremen (state)
Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), Germany's smallest federal state: a two-city state of Bremen and Bremerhaven (419.4 km², ~707,000 people), a former Hanseatic city re-established as a Land in 1947, port-based economy, highest per-capita state debt.
Bremen liga
Bremen-Liga (also Bremen liga), the top men's football league of the Bremer Fußball-Verband; a fifth-tier Oberliga since 2008, formerly Amateurliga and Verbandsliga Bremen, 16 clubs, promotion via NFV round to Regionalliga Nord.
Bremen-Verden
Bremen-Verden: the secularized Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Swedish imperial fiefs 1648-1719, governed from Stade, interrupted 1675-1680, sold to Hanover by the 1719 Treaty of Stockholm.
Bremenium
Bremenium (High Rochester) was a Roman auxiliary fort on Dere Street in Northumberland, about 24 miles north of Hadrian's Wall. Occupied from AD 78-85 to the mid-4th century, garrisoned by Cohors I Fida Vardullorum, destroyed mid-4th century.
Bremer Literaturpreis
The Bremer Literaturpreis is a renowned German literary award given annually since 1954 for a single published German-language work, presented in Bremen, with laureates including Paul Celan and Elfriede Jelinek.
Bremer Patera
Bremer Patera is a patera, an irregular volcanic depression with scalloped edges, on Venus's northern hemisphere, named in 1991 for the Swedish writer and feminist Frederika Bremer.
Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven, a North Sea port city at the Weser mouth, founded 1827 by Bremen under Mayor Johann Smidt; fourth-largest European container port, part of the two-city state of Bremen.
Bremerton, Washington
Bremerton, Washington, a Kitsap County city on Port Orchard Bay founded in 1891 by William Bremer around Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Population 43,505 (2020); ferry links to Seattle; shipyard undergoing a multi-billion-dollar Navy modernization.