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Brisbane
Brisbane, California: small general-law city in northern San Mateo County near San Bruno Mountain, incorporated 1961, population 4,851 (2020), known for the contested 680-acre Baylands redevelopment and 2026 housing element decertification.
Brisbane Airport
Brisbane Airport (IATA: BNE), formerly Eagle Farm Aerodrome, is the primary airport for Brisbane and South East Queensland, Australia, its third busiest, operating around the clock with no curfew.
Brisbane Broncos
Brisbane Broncos, Brisbane rugby league club in the NRL, founded 1988, based at Suncorp Stadium; seven premierships including the 2025 NRL and NRLW double, coached by Michael Maguire, captained by Adam Reynolds.
Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club formed in 1996 from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy, competing in the AFL.
Brisbane River
The Brisbane River (Maiwar) is a 309 km river in southeast Queensland rising near Kingaroy, flowing through Wivenhoe Dam to Moreton Bay at Brisbane, with major floods in 1841, 1893, 1974, and 2011.
Brisbane Roar FC
Brisbane Roar FC, also Queensland Roar and formerly Hollandia Inala and Queensland Lions, is a Brisbane football club founded 1957, playing in A-League Men and A-League Women; 2013-14 A-League Champions, home Suncorp Stadium.
Brisbane Stadium
Brisbane Stadium (Lang Park, commercially Suncorp Stadium) is a 52,500-seat rectangular stadium in Milton, Brisbane, home of the Broncos, Dolphins, Reds and Roar. It hosts football and rugby sevens at Brisbane 2032, while a new 63,000-seat Victoria Park stadium will host ceremonies and athletics.
Brisbane State High School
Brisbane State High School is a selective-entry coeducational government secondary school in South Brisbane, Queensland, founded in 1921 and, with over 3,500 students, Australia's largest state secondary school.
Brisbane Water National Park
Brisbane Water National Park: NSW national park near Gosford, north of Sydney, established 1 October 1967, about 11,588 ha of Hawkesbury sandstone with Aboriginal engraving sites, 270 native animal species, and Great North Walk sections.
Brisca
Brisca (La Brisca, Briscas) is Spain's trick-taking card game, the Spanish cousin of Italian Briscola, played with the 40-card Spanish deck; a face-up pinta sets trump, aces and threes carry the points, and more than 60 of 120 wins the hand.
Briscoe Cain
Briscoe Cain is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 128, an attorney, and a Texas State Guard captain who lost a 2026 congressional primary runoff.
Briscola
Briscola (Briškula), classic Italian trick-taking card game for 2-6 players with the 40-card deck; 120 points total, 61 wins, no follow-suit obligation; five-player Briscola Chiamata variant.
Briscola scoperta
Briscola scoperta (open Briscola) is a face-up variant of the Italian card game Briscola for two players: both hands, the stock's top card, and the trump are visible, leaving only buried stock cards unknown.
Briscolone
Briscolone ('large briscola') names both the five-player Italian card game Briscola Chiamata and a two-player no-trump Briscola variant with five cards each, follow suit, and 121 or 151-point targets.
Briseis (Βρισηΐς)
Briseis (Βρισηΐς), daughter of Brises, is Achilles' captive war prize in the Iliad, whose seizure by Agamemnon sparks the epic's quarrel; she speaks once, lamenting Patroclus in Book 19, and is later reimagined by Ovid, Barker, and Miller.
Brisingida
Brisingida (Fisher, 1928) is an order of exclusively deep-sea starfish with small discs and six to 20 long suspension-feeding arms, found 100–6000 m in all oceans except the Arctic; revised in 2023 to 5 families and 17 genera.
Brisingidae
Brisingidae (brisingid sea stars), family of deep-sea starfish in order Brisingida, type genus Brisinga. Small disk, 6–20 long spined arms, suspension feeding with pedicellariae; revised 2023 to 11 genera.
Brisket
Brisket is the beef cut from the breast or lower chest, two pectoral muscles (flat and point) per animal. Cooked low and slow for Texas barbecue, braised for Jewish holidays, or cured as corned beef; collagen converts to gelatin at 185-195°F.
Brislington Roman villa
Brislington Roman villa, Bristol, England: Romano-British villa found in 1899 building Winchester Road, excavated by the Clifton Antiquarian Club; built about AD 270, ten rooms, hypocausts, mosaics, pewter-filled well, destroyed about AD 367-370.
Brissago Islands
Brissago Islands (Isole di Brissago): two Swiss islands in Lake Maggiore, Ticino, forming the canton's botanical garden. Isola Grande holds about 1,700 subtropical species on 2.5 ha; founded 1885 by Baroness de Saint-Léger, opened to the public 1950.
Bristlebot
A bristlebot is a small vibration-driven robot that moves on angled bristles, typically made by attaching a vibrating motor and a battery to a toothbrush head.
Bristlecone pine
Bristlecone pines (Pinus aristata, P. longaeva, P. balfouriana), subsection Balfourianae, are high-elevation western North American pines; Great Basin bristlecone holds the oldest non-clonal tree record at about 4,850 to 5,000 years.
Bristol
Bristol (Brycgstow, "place at the bridge") is a city and port in South West England, 120 miles from London; founded 1155, county 1373, major Atlantic slave-trade port, population 495,300 (2025).
Bristol 188
The Bristol 188 was a British twin-engined supersonic research aircraft, nicknamed Flaming Pencil, built to study kinetic heating; it first flew in 1962, never reaching its design speed.
Bristol Airport
Bristol Airport, also known as Bristol International Airport, is an airport at Lulsgate in North Somerset, England, serving Bristol, the South West, and South Wales since 1957.
Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay, Alaska: bay and watershed of the eastern Bering Sea, home of the world's largest wild sockeye salmon fishery, 25 federally recognized tribes, and the site of the blocked Pebble mine proposal.
Bristol Bears
Bristol Bears, founded 1888 as Bristol Rugby, are an English Premiership rugby union club at Ashton Gate, renamed Bears in June 2018 under owner Steve Lansdown, directed by Pat Lam, known for ball-in-hand attack and a women's PWR side.
Bristol Beaufighter
The Bristol Beaufighter was a British twin-engine heavy fighter built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the RAF's first radar night fighter, with 5,562 built by 1945.
Bristol Beaufort
The Bristol Beaufort, also called the Beaufort bomber, was a British twin-engined torpedo bomber of the Second World War, standard with RAF Coastal Command from 1939 to 1943.
Bristol Blenheim
The Bristol Blenheim, also known as the Blenheim bomber, was a British three-seat twin-engine light bomber built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, serving with the RAF from 1937.