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BridgeBio
BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2015, known for its hub-and-subsidiary structure and acoramidis, approved in 2024 for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.
BridgeData V2
BridgeData V2 is a large public dataset of real-world robot manipulation, with 60,096 trajectories on a WidowX 250 arm across 24 environments, released at CoRL 2023.
Bridgehead
Bridgehead: ground seized on the enemy's side of a river or linear obstacle to protect crossing sites and base further attack; related terms bridgehead force, beachhead; examples from the 1945 Rhine crossings and Ukraine's 2023 Dnipro crossing.
Bridgelux
Bridgelux Inc is a Delaware-incorporated LED lighting technology developer headquartered in Livermore, California, that agreed in 2015 to be acquired by a China Electronics Corporation-led group.
Bridgeman Island
Bridgeman Island: small 900 x 600 m volcanic island, 240 m high, east of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands; site of the first recorded Antarctic eruption, observed in 1821.
Bridgend
Bridgend (Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a town in south Wales and the administrative center of Bridgend County Borough, which developed around a bridge on the River Ogmore.
Bridgepoint Group plc
Bridgepoint Group plc is a London-headquartered private markets firm investing across private equity, private credit, and infrastructure; founded in 1984 as NatWest Equity Partners, it listed in London in 2021.
Bridgeport Islanders
Bridgeport Islanders, formerly Bridgeport Sound Tigers (2001-2021), AHL affiliate of the New York Islanders based in Bridgeport, Connecticut; renamed 2021, relocated to Hamilton, Ontario as the Hamilton Hammers for 2026-27.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut: the state's most populous city, on Long Island Sound in Fairfield County. First Connecticut borough (1800), industrial hub from 1840, 148,654 residents in 2020, governed by Mayor Joseph P. Ganim.
Bridger Management LLC
Bridger Management LLC is a New York-based hedge fund manager founded by Roberto Mignone in 2000 that runs long/short equity strategies with a healthcare emphasis.
Bridger Pipeline
Bridger Pipeline LLC is a Casper, Wyoming midstream company founded in 1957 that owns more than 4,000 miles of crude oil pipelines in the Rocky Mountain region.
Bridger Zadina
Bridger Zadina (full name Bridger Phillip Zadina) is an American actor and producer born 1994, in Duluth, Minnesota; known for Chad in Terri (2011), Sharkey on Bosch, Harvey on Better Things, Mordis on Inhumans, and voice roles in Spirit Riding Free and Max & Me.
Bridgerton
Bridgerton is a Shondaland Netflix historical romance series (2020–present) created by Chris Van Dusen from Julia Quinn's Regency novels, following the eight Bridgerton siblings' love stories each season, with colorblind casting, Lady Whistledown, four seasons released, and a 2027 Francesca–Michaela season five.
Bridgerton (novel series)
Bridgerton is a series of eight historical romance novels by Julia Quinn, published between 2000 and 2006, following the eight Bridgerton siblings in Regency-era London.
Bridgerton season 2
Bridgerton season 2 (2022) is the Netflix Shondaland Regency romance centering Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey), Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley), and Edwina (Charithra Chandran); based on The Viscount Who Loved Me, with 627.11 million hours viewed in 28 days and fewer sex scenes than season 1.
Bridges Act 1530
The Bridges Act 1530, also known as the Statute of Bridges, was the first English act of Parliament concerned solely with bridges, empowering justices to charge counties with repairing them.
Bridges and Tunnels (MTA)
Bridges and Tunnels, formally the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and part of the MTA, operates New York City's seven toll bridges, two tunnels, and the Battery Parking Garage.
Bridges over the Yangtze River
The bridges over the Yangtze River are its road and rail crossings, beginning with the Wuhan bridge of 1957; 162 were built in the following half century.
Bridges to Babylon
Bridges to Babylon is the Rolling Stones' 1997 Virgin studio album, successor to Voodoo Lounge, recorded at Ocean Way in Los Angeles with Don Was, the Dust Brothers, Danny Saber, and Rob Fraboni producing, and supported by the 1997-98 Bridges to Babylon Tour.
Bridges-2
Bridges-2 is the flagship supercomputer of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, operated jointly by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, funded by a $10-million National Science Foundation grant.
Bridgestone
Bridgestone Corporation, also known as Bridgestone-Firestone, is a Japanese tire and rubber manufacturer founded in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi and now one of the world's largest tire makers.
Bridgestone Arena
Bridgestone Arena, formerly the Nashville Arena and Sommet Center, is an indoor arena in downtown Nashville, opened in 1996 as the home of the NHL's Nashville Predators.
Bridgestone Rubbertuator
The Bridgestone Rubbertuator, a braided pneumatic artificial muscle of the McKibben type, was the first commercially available PAM, sold by Bridgestone of Tokyo in the mid-1980s and used in its RASC and Soft Arm robots.
Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd.
Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd. is a Japanese tire manufacturer founded by Shojiro Ishibashi in Kurume, Japan, in 1931, now one of the world's two largest tire makers.
Bridget (Guilty Gear)
Bridget (ブリジット) is a fictional character in Arc System Works' Guilty Gear fighting game series, a bounty hunter from England who fights with a yo-yo.
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop (1632–1692), first person tried and hanged in the 1692 Salem witch trials, convicted on June 2 and executed June 10, 1692, using spectral evidence; often confused with Sarah Bishop.
Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie (born 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Gloucester, wife of Stewart Lee. She won the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award for A Bic for Her, created Channel 4's The Change, and appears on Taskmaster Series 13.
Bridget Dowling
Bridget Dowling (Bridget Hitler, 1891-1969), Dublin-born Irishwoman who married Alois Hitler Jr., half-brother of Adolf Hitler, in London in 1910, lived in Toxteth, Liverpool, and wrote the disputed memoir 'My Brother-in-Law Adolf' claiming Hitler stayed there in 1912-13.
Bridget Everett
Bridget Everett (born 1972) is an American comedian, singer, and actor from Manhattan, Kansas, a Joe's Pub alt-cabaret mainstay with the Tender Moments, and the star, writer, and executive producer of HBO's Peabody-winning Somebody Somewhere (2022-2024).
Bridget Fonda
Bridget Fonda (Bridget Jane Fonda, born 1964) is a retired American actress of the Fonda acting family, known for Single White Female, Jackie Brown, and A Simple Plan; she retired after Snow Queen in 2002 and declined a return in 2023.