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Brigadier
Brigadier is a senior military officer rank at NATO grade OF-6, above colonel and below major general, typically commanding a brigade of 2,000 to 8,000 personnel.
Brigadier (United Kingdom)
Brigadier (Brig) is the British Army's OF-6 one-star-equivalent rank, above Colonel and below Major General. A field officer rank since the 1920s, formerly brigadier-general; insignia is a crown above three stars.
Brigadier general
Brigadier general: lowest U.S. general-officer rank, one star, paygrade O-7, NATO OF-6, equivalent to rear admiral (lower half); established by the Continental Congress in 1775.
Brigadier general (United States)
Brigadier general is the lowest US general officer rank, pay grade O-7 (NATO OF-6), marked by one silver star, used by the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force; Navy equivalent is rear admiral (lower half). Established by the Continental Congress in 1775.
Brigadier Jerry
Brigadier Jerry, also known as Briggy, is a Jamaican dancehall deejay born Robert Russell in Kingston in 1957, considered U-Roy's most accomplished pupil, known for cultural rub-a-dub toasting.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart) is a Doctor Who character created by Haisman and Lincoln, played by Nicholas Courtney, UNIT's UK commander and the Doctor's close friend, father of Kate.
Brigadny Podryad
Brigadny Podryad (Бригадный Подряд) is a Russian punk-rock band formed in May 1986 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and called one of the founders of Russian punk rock.
Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical about a Scottish village that reappears one day every hundred years. Opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre for 581 performances; 1954 MGM film with Gene Kelly; no major Broadway revival since 1980.
Brigadoon (film)
Brigadoon (film): 1954 MGM musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse, adapted by Alan Jay Lerner from the 1947 Broadway show about a Scottish village appearing one day every hundred years; shot on soundstages in CinemaScope.
Brigandine
Brigandine: European torso armor of small metal plates riveted inside a fabric or leather cover, also called brigantine or corazzina; used from the mid-14th to early 17th century, derived from the coat of plates.
Brigands & Breadknives
Brigands & Breadknives, also titled Brigands and Breadknives, is Travis Baldree's 2025 third Legends & Lattes novel, following rattkin bookseller Fern on a road adventure with elf bounty hunter Astryx One-Ear and goblin Zyll; it is more action-heavy and less cozy than its predecessors.
Brigantes
The Brigantes were a tribe or confederation of Roman-era Britain, the most populous by Tacitus's account, ruling northern England under Queen Cartimandua before Roman conquest in the 70s AD.
Brigantine
A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel, square rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the mainmast, widely used for trade, privateering, and naval scouting from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Brigantium
Brigantium: Latin name of several Roman-era Celtic settlements, chiefly Bregenz on Lake Constance (Austria) and Flavium Brigantium at A Coruña, Spain; also Briançon. Celtic root brigantī, 'high one'.
Brigatinib
Brigatinib (Alunbrig) is an oral second-generation ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor for ALK-positive metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, FDA accelerated-approved 28 April 2017 after crizotinib, dosed 90 mg for 7 days then 180 mg daily.
Brigetio
Brigetio, Roman legionary fortress and city at Komarom/Szony, Hungary, one of four Pannonian Danube bases; garrisoned by legio I Adiutrix from about 118-119 AD; site of Valentinian I's death on 17 November 375; excavated since 1992.
Briggflatts
Briggflatts is a five-part autobiographical long poem by the British poet Basil Bunting, published in 1966, celebrating the Northumbrian landscape and hailed as his masterpiece and a key text of British modernism.
Briggs & Stratton
Briggs & Stratton Corporation is an American manufacturer of small gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1908 and now owned by KPS Capital Partners.
Briggs–Rauscher reaction
The Briggs–Rauscher reaction, or BR reaction, is an oscillating chemical reaction first reported in 1973, in which a mixture cycles through colorless, amber, and blue-black states for several minutes.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Boston teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham founding member; formed 1980 from Peter Bent Brigham, Robert Breck Brigham, and Boston Hospital for Women; kidney transplant and Nurses' Health Study site.
Brigham Young
Brigham Young (1801–1877) was an American religious leader who succeeded Joseph Smith as president of the Latter-day Saint church, led the migration to Utah, and oversaw nearly 400 settlements.
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private university in Provo, Utah, founded in 1875 and owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with over 35,000 students.
Brighella
Brighella: commedia dell'arte stock character, the cunning first zanni and scheming servant from Bergamo, opposite Arlecchino; green-trimmed livery, bearded half mask, later reformed by Goldoni.
Bright (film)
Bright (2017) is a Netflix urban fantasy action film directed by David Ayer, written by Max Landis, starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as human and orc L.A. cops; made for a reported $90 million, panned by critics but popular with audiences, its sequel was canceled.
Bright Angel Lodge
Bright Angel Lodge: 1935 Mary Colter-designed historic hotel on the Grand Canyon South Rim, operated by Xanterra, with 90 units, the Buckey O'Neill Cabin, and the Geologic Fireplace.
Bright Angel Trail
Bright Angel Trail: Grand Canyon National Park's most popular South Rim hiking trail, 7.8 miles to the Colorado River, built 1890-1891 by Berry and the Camerons as a toll road, NPS-controlled since 1928.
Bright as Blasphemy
Bright as Blasphemy is Chevelle's tenth studio album, released August 15, 2025 on Alchemy Recordings/BMG. Self-produced by Pete and Sam Loeffler after leaving Epic Records, its nine 39-minute tracks critique government, religion, and technology.
Bright Dairy & Food Co., Ltd.
Bright Dairy & Food Co., Ltd. (光明乳业股份有限公司), also known as Bright Dairy, is a Shanghai-based state-controlled dairy company listed in Shanghai in 2002, leading China's fresh milk market.
Bright Data
Bright Data, formerly Luminati Networks, is an Israeli-founded web data company selling proxy networks, scraping tools, and datasets, with over 400 million IPs across 195 countries.
Bright Ede
Bright Ede, Polish centre-back born 2007 in Warsaw, left-footed, 1.93 m; ex-Motor Lublin (Ekstraklasa), joined Deportivo A Coruña in July 2026 on a contract to 2031; Poland U19 international.