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Brentford
Brentford is a west London town in Hounslow at the River Brent's confluence with the Thames, historically Middlesex's county town, known for its canal port past, the 1642 battle, Brentford FC, and riverside regeneration.
Brentford Community Stadium
Brentford Community Stadium, known as the Gtech Community Stadium since 2023, is a football and rugby stadium in Brentford, West London, home to Brentford FC since 2020.
Brentford F.C.
Brentford F.C. ("The Bees"), founded 10 October 1889 near Kew Bridge, is a Premier League club in west London. Formerly of Griffin Park (1904-2020), now at Gtech Community Stadium; promoted in 2021 under Matthew Benham's data-driven model.
Brentidae
Brentidae, straight-snouted or primitive weevils (Brenthidae synonym), a cosmopolitan family of Curculionoidea beetles with straight antennae, about 4,400 species in ~540 genera, sister to Curculionidae, including the oak timberworm and sweetpotato weevil pests.
Brenton Awa
Brenton Awa is an American Republican politician who has served in the Hawaii State Senate since 2022 and is the 2026 Republican nominee for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District, facing incumbent Jill Tokuda.
Brenton R. Graveley
Brenton R. Graveley is a molecular biologist and chair of Genetics and Genome Sciences at UConn Health, known for studies of alternative splicing and the Drosophila Dscam gene.
Brenton Rickard
Brenton Rickard (born 1983, Brisbane) is a retired Australian breaststroke swimmer, dual Olympian, 2008 double Olympic silver medallist, and 2009 world 100m breaststroke champion in a then world record 58.58.
Brenton Thwaites
Brenton Thwaites (born 1989, Cairns, Queensland) is an Australian actor known for Dick Grayson/Nightwing in Titans (2018–2023), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent, and The Giver, after Home and Away.
Brentuximab vedotin
Brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) is a CD30-directed antibody-drug conjugate carrying MMAE, approved from 2011 for Hodgkin lymphoma and CD30-positive T-cell lymphomas; ECHELON-1 showed better 5-year PFS than ABVD, with peripheral neuropathy as the key toxicity.
Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n
Brentwood Academy v. TSSAA, 531 U.S. 288 (2001): Supreme Court held the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association's recruiting-rule enforcement was state action due to pervasive entwinement of public school officials, 5-4, Souter majority.
Brentwood Associates Private Equity
Brentwood Associates is a Los Angeles private equity firm making control investments in North American middle-market companies with enterprise values of $50 million to $500 million.
Brentwood School (Los Angeles)
Brentwood School (Los Angeles) is an independent coed K-12 day school founded in 1972 on a former military academy site, with West and East campuses on Sunset Boulevard; tuition $49,685-$58,207 (2026-27), Head of School Tim Cottrell since July 2025.
Brentwood, California
Brentwood, California: a city in eastern Contra Costa County, 55 miles east of San Francisco, incorporated 1948; farm town turned suburb of 64,292 (2020) with u-pick cherry orchards and median household income of $142,494.
Brentwood, Essex
Brentwood, Essex: a town in southwest England's Essex county, east of London, named "burnt wood" and founded as a 12th-century pilgrim stop on the London–Colchester Roman road; borough since 1993, population about 77,000.
Brentwood, Los Angeles
Brentwood is an affluent residential Westside neighborhood of Los Angeles, about 7.8 square miles with roughly 33,000 residents, annexed in 1916, home to the Getty Center and San Vicente Boulevard's coral-tree median.
Brentwood, Tennessee
Brentwood, Tennessee is an affluent Williamson County suburb of Nashville, incorporated April 15, 1969 with 3,378 residents; 2020 population 45,373, median household income $182,088, median home value $1,031,300, 90 percent residential zoning.
Breogán
Breogán (Bregon, Breoghan) is the legendary Celtic chieftain of the Irish Lebor Gabála Érenn who founded Brigantia (A Coruña) and built the Tower of Breogán, from which his son Íth sighted Ireland; head of the Milesian origin myth and Galician Celtic identity.
Brep Asia
Brep Asia is the family of SEC-registered feeder vehicles that pool investor capital into Blackstone Real Estate Partners Asia, Blackstone's opportunistic real estate funds for Asia.
Brep Europe
BREP Europe, or Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe, is the series of European opportunistic real estate funds managed by Blackstone, whose Fund VI closed at €9.8 billion in 2020.
Brepocitinib
Brepocitinib (Lisraya, PF-06700841) is an oral dual TYK2/JAK1 inhibitor approved by FDA in August 2026 for dermatomyositis in adults, 30 mg once daily, based on the phase 3 VALOR trial.
Bresaola
Bresaola, or Bresaola della Valtellina IGP, is salt-cured, air-dried lean beef from Valtellina, Lombardy, protected since 1996, made only in Sondrio province, very high protein, low fat, high sodium, eaten raw in thin slices.
Brescia
Brescia (Latin Brixia) is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, capital of its province, with about 200,000 inhabitants. Known for Roman Brixia, the UNESCO Longobard San Salvatore–Santa Giulia site, the 1849 Ten Days, its 2013 metro, and lakes Garda, Iseo, and Idro.
Brescia Calcio
Brescia Calcio (le Rondinelle), Italian football club founded 17 July 1911 in Brescia; 23 Serie A seasons, record 12 B-to-A promotions, 1994 Anglo-Italian Cup winners with Baggio, Guardiola, Pirlo, Hagi, Toni. Declared bankrupt by the Court of Brescia on 28 July 2026 under owner Massimo Cellino, with about €20m debts.
BRESEK syndrome
BRESEK syndrome, also called BRESHECK syndrome (OMIM 308205), is an extremely rare X-linked multiple congenital malformation syndrome caused by MBTPS2 mutations, combining brain anomalies, severe intellectual disability, ectodermal dysplasia, skeletal, ear/eye, and kidney defects; all reported patients are male.
Bresenham's line algorithm
Bresenham's line algorithm, also called Bresenham's line drawing algorithm, is a method for drawing lines on pixel grids using only integer arithmetic, published by Jack Bresenham at IBM in 1965.
Bresha Webb
Bresha Webb (Breshae Renee Webb, born 1984) is an American actress and comedian from Baltimore, known for Marlon, Run the World, Hacks, Night School, and her Hulu stand-up debut LOL Live.
Breshad Perriman
Breshad Perriman, UCF wide receiver taken 26th overall by the Ravens in 2015; ran a 4.25-second 40, missed his rookie year with a knee injury, later had a 5-TD finish with Tampa Bay in 2019.
Breskvar v Wall
Breskvar v Wall ([1971] HCA 70, (1971) 126 CLR 376) is the High Court of Australia's leading Torrens-system case establishing immediate indefeasibility: registration vests title despite a void or fraudulent transfer instrument.
Bresse
Bresse: historic region of eastern France between the Jura and the Saône, spanning Ain, Saône-et-Loire, and Jura; Savoyard from 1272, French by the 1601 Treaty of Lyon; known for bocage, fish ponds, and Bresse poultry AOC.
Brest Fortress
Brest Fortress (Брестская крепость) is a 19th-century Russian imperial fortress in Brest, Belarus, known for its garrison's week-long defense against the German invasion of June 1941.