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Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship was a unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, created in the 1566 reform and ended when Russia annexed the region in 1795.
Brest Oblast
Brest Oblast (Брестская область), southwestern province of Belarus bordering Ukraine and Poland, capital Brest; formed 4 December 1939, area 32,300 sq km, 16 raions, agro-industrial economy with strong dairy exports.
BREST-OD-300
BREST-OD-300 is a 300 MW lead-cooled fast neutron reactor developed by NIKIET and under construction at Seversk, Russia; it is the main facility of the Pilot Demonstration Energy Complex, with launch scheduled for 2026.
Brest, Belarus
Horad Brest (Брэст), Belarus's sixth-largest city (about 347,000 people) and Brest Region capital on the Polish border; ranked No. 2 Belarusian city in 2026, home of the Brest Fortress memorial.
Brest, France
Brest, France: commune in Finistère, Brittany, at France's western tip; major naval port with Toulon, seat of the Atlantic maritime prefecture, 142,346 inhabitants (2023), home of the FOST submarine force.
Bret Baier
Bret Baier is Fox News' chief political anchor and executive editor of Special Report (weeknights 6 PM ET). Joined FNC in 1998 in Atlanta; Pentagon and White House correspondent; took over from Brit Hume in January 2009.
Bret Bielema
Bret Bielema (born 1970) is an American college football coach, head coach of Illinois since 2020, formerly head coach at Wisconsin (68-24, three straight Big Ten titles) and Arkansas (29-34), with NFL stints under Belichick.
Bret Boone
Bret Boone (born 1969) is a former MLB second baseman (1992-2005) with the Mariners, Reds, and others; first third-generation major leaguer, 2001 AL RBI leader, later Texas Rangers hitting coach.
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis, American novelist of Less Than Zero (1985), American Psycho (1991), and The Shards (2023); deadpan satirist of privileged, disaffected Los Angeles and Wall Street.
Bret Engemann
Bret Engemann (born 1977, Burbank, CA) is a former quarterback at BYU (1999-2002) and Oakland Raiders NFL free agent, later Utah Blaze; husband of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Demi Engemann.
Bret Freudenthal
Bret Freudenthal is an American structural biologist and biochemist, a professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center known for structural studies of DNA base excision repair.
Bret Harrison
Bret Harrison (born 1982, Portland, Oregon) is an American actor known for Grounded for Life, The Loop, Reaper, and Breaking In; not Brett Harrison of Red Knot or Patti Harrison.
Bret Hart
Bret "The Hitman" Hart (born 1957, Calgary) is a Canadian wrestler, five-time WWE champion, Hart Foundation member, and victim of the 1997 Montreal Screwjob; later two-time WCW champion.
Bret Lizundia
Bret Lizundia is an American structural engineer at Rutherford & Chekene in San Francisco, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for seismic design.
Bret McKenzie
Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician and comedian of Flight of the Conchords (with Jemaine Clement), Grammy 2008 winner, Oscar 2012 winner for "Man or Muppet", The Black Seeds founder, and Sub Pop solo artist (Songs Without Jokes, Freak Out City).
Bret Michaels
Bret Michaels (Bret Michael Sychak), American singer from Pennsylvania, lead singer of glam metal band Poison ("Every Rose Has Its Thorn"), later solo artist, Rock of Love and Celebrity Apprentice reality TV star, diabetic.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens, American conservative opinion columnist for The New York Times since April 2017; formerly Wall Street Journal Global View foreign-affairs columnist and Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief; won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor is an American technology executive and entrepreneur who co-created Google Maps, was Facebook's chief technology officer, and co-CEO of Salesforce before co-founding the AI company Sierra.
Bret Weinstein
Bret Weinstein is an American evolutionary biologist and podcaster who taught at The Evergreen State College until resigning in 2017; he now hosts the DarkHorse Podcast.
Bretagne Classic
Bretagne Classic (Grand Prix de Plouay, Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France/CIC): UCI WorldTour one-day race around Plouay, Brittany, first run 1904/1931, renamed 2016. 2025 winner Arnaud De Lie; 2026 winner Alex Aranburu.
Bretaña Norte Oil and Gas Field
Bretaña Norte is a heavy crude oil field in Block 95 of the Marañón Basin in northern Peru, operated by PetroTal since 2018 and Peru's largest producer.
Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards
Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards is a two-volume reference work collecting documented risks of explosion, fire, and toxic release, first published by Leslie Bretherick in 1975.
Brethren of the Coast
The Brethren of the Coast, or Frères de la Côte, were an informal association of Caribbean buccaneers in the 1600s, based at Tortuga and later Port Royal, Jamaica.
Breti Surfschool
Breti Surfschool (Bréti Surfschool), surf school founded 2016 at Plage des Dunes 1, Brétignolles-sur-Mer, Vendée, France; BPJEPS-certified instructor Olivier; lessons from age 6, video coaching, board and wetsuit rental.
Břetislav I
Břetislav I, son of Duke Oldřich, ruled Bohemia from 1034 or 1035 until 1055 and restored Czech state power after decades of strife and occupation.
Bretman Rock
Bretman Rock (Bretman Rock Sacayanan, born 1998) is a Filipino-American beauty and lifestyle creator from Hawaii who went viral in 2015 on YouTube and Vine, starred in MTV's Following: Bretman Rock, and was the first openly gay man on Playboy's cover.
Breton lai
The Breton lai is a short medieval narrative poem of love, adventure, or the supernatural, first recorded in French by Marie de France in twelfth-century England.
Breton language
Breton (brezhoneg) is a Brittonic Celtic language of Brittany, France, spoken by about 225,000 people, with 19,000+ pupils in bilingual schooling, four traditional dialects, and writing from the 8th century.
Bretons
Bretons (Brezhoned) are the Celtic-derived people of Brittany, northwest France, descended partly from Brittonic migrants of the 5th-6th centuries; most combine strong Breton and French identity, and their language is declining.
Brett A. Bryan
Brett A. Bryan, also published as Brett Bryan, is an Australian environmental scientist and Deakin Distinguished Professor known for his land-system sustainability research at Deakin University.