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Brevet (military)
Brevet (military): a nominal rank above an officer's paid rank, used in the US Army from 1776 to reward gallantry, abolished after the Spanish-American War, and revived by the FY19 NDAA as temporary promotion.
Brevibacillus
Brevibacillus (Bacillus brevis group) is a genus of Gram-positive endospore-forming rods in Paenibacillaceae, established by Shida et al. 1996; soil and marine bacteria known for antimicrobial peptides such as gramicidin and brevibacillin.
Brevibacterium
Brevibacterium, a genus of high G+C Gram-positive bacteria (type species B. linens), sole genus of Brevibacteriaceae; halotolerant cheese-surface bacteria producing methanethiol and carotenoid pigments in smear-ripened cheese.
Breviceps
Breviceps (rain frogs, blaasops, short-headed frogs), genus of fossorial African frogs in Brevicipitidae, 21 species from arid East and southern Africa; burrowing, underground foam-nest eggs, glue skin secretion.
Breviglieri
Breviglieri (Al Khadra, El Khadra), Libya: archaeological site near Tarhuna with a late antique gasr centenarium (I.R.T. 877, Latino-Libyan inscription) and a unique tri-apsidal paleochristian church with a Byzantine baptistery.
Breville Group
Breville Group is an Australian company, founded in Sydney in 1932, that designs and distributes premium small kitchen and coffee appliances under brands including Breville, Sage, and Kambrook.
Brevoortia tyrannus
Brevoortia tyrannus, Atlantic menhaden (bunker, pogie), a schooling clupeid filter feeder from Nova Scotia to Florida supporting the largest US Atlantic coast fishery by volume; managed by ASMFC with ecological reference points, not overfished as of 2025, 2026 TAC 186,840 mt.
BrewDog
BrewDog: Scottish craft beer brand founded 2007 in Fraserburgh by James Watt and Martin Dickie; funded by Equity for Punks crowdfunding (over 200,000 investors, £75m), once valued around £1-2bn, sold to Tilray Brands in 2026 for £33m.
Brewer Lane Ventures
Brewer Lane Ventures is a Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on fintech and insurtech, founded by John Kim and Martha Notaras, formerly of XL Innovate.
Brewer–Dobson circulation
The Brewer–Dobson circulation (BDC) is the stratosphere's global overturning circulation: air rises in the tropics, moves poleward, and descends in middle and high latitudes of each hemisphere, controlling ozone transport.
Brewers Association
The Brewers Association is a Boulder, Colorado trade association, formed by merger in 2005, that promotes and protects small and independent American craft brewers and runs the Great American Beer Festival.
Brewery
Brewery: a facility producing beer, from industrial plants to craft microbreweries. Covers the brewing process (mashing, boiling, fermenting), industrial versus craft brewing, history from 18th-century London to Prohibition, and the 2024-2025 U.S. craft contraction.
Brewing
Brewing is the production of beer from malted barley, hops, yeast, and water via mashing, boiling, fermentation, and maturation. Covers ale versus lager yeast, Neolithic origins, and current US, EU, and global industry volumes.
Brews Brothers
Brothers is a 2020 American comedy series on Netflix, created by Greg Schaffer. It follows two estranged brothers who run a craft brewery in Los Angeles.
Brewster F2A Buffalo
The Brewster F2A Buffalo was a U.S. Navy carrier-based fighter, the Navy's first monoplane fighter, which failed in combat in 1942 but excelled in Finnish service.
Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Internet Archive, a San Francisco nonprofit digital library, in 1996, and created the Wayback Machine.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is Robert Altman's 1970 MGM fantasy comedy, also known by the working title Brewster McCloud's (Sexy) Flying Machine, in which Bud Cort's recluse builds wings under the Houston Astrodome; Shelley Duvall's film debut.
Brewster's angle
Brewster's angle, also called the polarizing angle, is the incidence angle at which light reflects fully polarized, when reflected and refracted rays are perpendicular, found by David Brewster in 1812.
Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions: 1902 comedic novel by George Barr McCutcheon (as Richard Greaves) in which Monty Brewster must spend $1 million in a year to inherit $7 million; adapted into a 1906 Broadway play and many films, most famously the 1985 Richard Pryor comedy requiring $30 million spent in 30 days.
Brewster's Millions (1985 film)
Brewster's Millions is a 1985 American comedy directed by Walter Hill, in which Richard Pryor must spend $30 million in 30 days to inherit $300 million.
Brewster's Millions: Christmas
Brewster's Millions: Christmas is a 2024 BET+ holiday romance film directed by Patricia Cuffie-Jones, starring China Anne McClain as heiress Morgan Brewster, who must complete tasks from her late Uncle Monty's will by Christmas Eve; it reimagines the 1985 Richard Pryor comedy and features Pryor's children Rain and Richard Jr.
Brex
Brex is a San Francisco fintech company founded in 2017 by Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, offering corporate credit cards and spend management software to startups.
Brexit
Brexit is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union: the 23 June 2016 referendum (52–48 Leave), Article 50 in March 2017, EU exit on 31 January 2020, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland.
Brexit and the Irish border
Brexit and the Irish border, also called the Irish hard border question, concerns avoiding a hard border after Brexit via the Northern Ireland Protocol, revised by the 2023 Windsor Framework.
Brexit negotiations
The Brexit negotiations were the talks between the United Kingdom and the European Union after the 2016 referendum, producing the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Brexit withdrawal agreement
The Brexit withdrawal agreement is an international treaty between the EU and the UK setting terms for the UK's withdrawal under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Brexit: The Uncivil War is a 2019 Channel 4/HBO television drama, also titled Brexit, written by James Graham, directed by Toby Haynes, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Vote Leave strategist Dominic Cummings and Rory Kinnear as Craig Oliver.
Brexpiprazole
Brexpiprazole (Rexulti) is an Otsuka atypical antipsychotic, a D2 and 5-HT1A partial agonist, approved in the US in 2015 for schizophrenia and adjunctive MDD, in 2021 for adolescents, and in 2023 for Alzheimer's agitation.
Brexucabtagene autoleucel
Brexucabtagene autoleucel (Tecartus, KTE-X19) is Kite Pharma's autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy for adult relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma (FDA 2020) and B-cell precursor ALL (2021), dosed 1-2 × 10^6 CAR+ T cells/kg.
Breyers
Breyers is an American ice cream brand founded in Philadelphia in 1866 by William A. Breyer, known for Natural Vanilla and black-and-white tubs and now owned by The Magnum Ice Cream Company.