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Bribery
Bribery: offering or giving something of value to induce improper official or business conduct; a core form of corruption. Covered via FCPA 1977, OECD Anti-Bribery Convention 1997, UK Bribery Act 2010, and 2024-2025 U.S. enforcement changes.
Bribri oral literature
Bribri oral literature, called siwá, is the traditional verbal art transmitted orally among the Bribri people of Costa Rica, centered on stories of the god Sibö̀.
Bricard linkage
The Bricard linkage is a six-revolute-joint spatial mechanism with one degree of freedom, named after Raoul Bricard, who derived it from flexible octahedra in 1897.
Brice de Nice
Brice de Nice is a 2005 French comedy directed by James Huth, starring Jean Dujardin as a nearly thirty-year-old surfer who has never surfed a wave.
Brice Gayet
Brice Gayet is a French laparoscopic surgeon and professor of surgery who led the digestive pathology department at Institut Mutualiste Montsouris in Paris and co-founded the surgical-robotics company Moon Surgical.
Brice Guyart
Brice Guyart, born 1981 in Suresnes, is a French right-handed foil fencer, double Olympic champion (team Sydney 2000, individual Athens 2004) and three-time world team champion, later a Paris 2024 organizer and French Fencing Federation vice-president.
Brice Marden
Brice Marden (Nicholas Brice Marden Jr., 1938–2023) was an American painter known first for luminous monochrome panels and, from the 1980s, calligraphic abstractions inspired by Asian calligraphy.
Brice Nkengsa
Brice Nkengsa is a software engineer and University of Waterloo graduate who co-founded Andela in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014, serving as the company's Director of Engineering.
Brice Samba
Brice Samba (born 1994, Linzolo, Congo) is a French international goalkeeper at Stade Rennais, formerly of Nottingham Forest, Lens, Caen, and Marseille; 2022-23 Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Year.
Brick
A brick is a block of tempered clay or earth, dried in the sun or fired in a kiln, used as a building material laid in courses with mortar.
Brick (film)
Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir thriller directed and written by Rian Johnson, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a high school student investigating his ex-girlfriend's death.
Brick and mortar
Brick and mortar describes a firm with a traditional physical store serving customers face to face, a term used in contrast with e-commerce and clicks-and-mortar businesses.
Brick House (song)
"Brick House" is a 1977 funk song by the Commodores from their self-titled Motown album, written by all six members, sung by Walter "Clyde" Orange, driven by Ronald LaPread's bass line, reaching number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Brick Lane
Brick Lane, also called Banglatown, is an East End London street in Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, known for its Huguenot, Jewish and Bangladeshi heritage, Sunday market, curry houses, beigel shops and the Old Truman Brewery.
Brick Lane (2007 film)
Brick Lane (2007) is Sarah Gavron's feature debut drama, adapted from Monica Ali's Booker-shortlisted 2003 novel, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee as Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman in an arranged marriage in East London; filming was moved off Brick Lane after community protests.
Brick Mansions
Brick Mansions is a 2014 action film directed by Camille Delamarre, starring Paul Walker, David Belle, and RZA, set in a dystopian Detroit with a walled-off crime district.
Brick Schema
Brick Schema, commonly just Brick, is an open-source ontology-based metadata schema representing buildings and their subsystems in machine-readable form; introduced at BuildSys 2016, it is written in RDF and licensed under BSD 3-Clause.
Brickleberry
Brickleberry: American adult animated sitcom created by Roger Black and Waco O'Guin, executive produced by Daniel Tosh, on Comedy Central 2012-2015; three seasons, 36 episodes, about inept park rangers.
Bricklin SV-1
The Bricklin SV-1 was a two-seat gull-wing sports coupe built in New Brunswick, Canada, from 1974 to 1975 by the company founded by Malcolm Bricklin and financed by the provincial government.
BrickLink
BrickLink (bricklink.com) is the largest online marketplace and parts/sets catalog for adult LEGO fans, founded as BrickBay by Dan Jezek in 2000, renamed after an eBay trademark complaint, and owned by the LEGO Group since November 2019.
BrickLink Studio
BrickLink Studio, formerly known as Stud.io, is a free desktop application for designing LEGO models with virtual parts, developed by BrickLink, the LEGO Group's online marketplace.
BrickPi
BrickPi is an open-source robotics board by Dexter Industries that connects LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT and EV3 motors and sensors to a Raspberry Pi, replacing the Mindstorms control brick.
Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy
The Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy is a 2026 dispute between YouTuber Reckless Ben and the Utah-based LEGO resale chain over a consigned Star Wars collection.
Brickwork
Brickwork is construction made by laying bricks, typically fired clay units, in courses bound together with mortar; the bond pattern determines the wall's appearance, strength, and behavior.
Brickyard 400
Brickyard 400: NASCAR Cup Series race, 400 miles (160 laps) on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. First run August 6, 1994, won by Jeff Gordon before a 250,000 sellout; held on the road course 2021-2023.
Bricolage
Bricolage, from Claude Lévi-Strauss's La Pensée sauvage (1962), is the making of new things by adaptive reuse of materials and ideas at hand; the bricoleur concept spread to design, architecture, semiotics, and entrepreneurial management research.
BRICS
BRICS (originally BRIC) is an informal bloc of major emerging economies founded on Jim O'Neill's 2001 acronym; now 11 members including South Africa (2011) and 2024-25 joiners, with a New Development Bank and partner-country tier.
Bridal Mask (각시탈)
Bridal Mask (각시탈) is a 2012 KBS2 Korean drama adapted from Heo Young-man's manhwa, set in 1930s colonial Korea, 28 episodes starring Joo Won, finale rated 22.9%.
Bridal shower
A bridal shower, also called a wedding shower, is a pre-wedding party, mainly in the United States, at which guests give the bride or couple gifts for their future home.
Bride
Bride: a woman on her wedding day, from Teutonic bruths/bryd. Covers etymology, bride-cake origins, the white dress popularized by Queen Victoria, bridal music, and marriage payments like bridewealth and dowry.