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Bristol Brabazon
The Bristol Brabazon was a large British propeller-driven transatlantic airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company; its sole prototype first flew in 1949, but it never entered airline service.
Bristol Brabazon railway station
Bristol Brabazon, formerly North Filton, is a new railway station under construction on the former Filton airfield in north Bristol, England, due to open in Autumn 2026.
Bristol Britannia
The Bristol Britannia (Bristol Type 175) was a British four-engine turboprop airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the first long-range turboprop airliner, nicknamed the "Whispering Giant."
Bristol Bulldog
The Bristol Bulldog was a British single-seat biplane fighter built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the Royal Air Force's standard fighter through the first half of the 1930s.
Bristol Cars
Bristol Cars, also known as Bristol Cars Limited, is a British manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars formed in 1945 and re-launched in 2026 with five final Fighters.
Bristol Channel
Bristol Channel: Atlantic inlet between south Wales and Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset, historically the Severn Sea; with the Severn Estuary it is about 250 km long and has the world's second-highest tidal range, about 12 m mean spring.
Bristol City F.C.
Bristol City F.C. (the Robins), Championship club founded 1894 in Bristol, based at 27,000-seat Ashton Gate. Division Two champions 1905-06, 1909 FA Cup finalists, three-time Football League Trophy winners; owned by Stephen Lansdown.
Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
Bristol County, Massachusetts: southeastern Massachusetts county incorporated June 2, 1685 as an original New Plymouth Colony county; seat Taunton; population 579,200 (2020), 593,640 (2025 estimate); distinct from Bristol County, Rhode Island.
Bristol F.2 Fighter
The Bristol F.2 Fighter, or Bristol F.2B, was a British two-seat biplane fighter of the First World War, first flown in 1916 and flown like a single-seat fighter.
Bristol Jupiter
The Bristol Jupiter, license-built as the Gnome-Rhône Jupiter and Soviet Shvetsov M-22, was a British nine-cylinder air-cooled radial aero-engine designed by Roy Fedden and powered over 262 aircraft types.
Bristol Mercury
The Bristol Mercury is a British nine-cylinder, air-cooled radial piston aero engine developed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1925, powering fighters including the Gloster Gladiator and Westland Lysander.
Bristol Motor Speedway
Bristol Motor Speedway, "The Last Great Colosseum," is a 0.533-mile high-banked concrete NASCAR oval in Bristol, Tennessee, opened 1961, hosting the Food City 500, Bass Pro Shops Night Race, the 2016 Battle at Bristol, and the 2025 MLB Speedway Classic.
Bristol Myers Squibb
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY), formed by the 1989 Bristol-Myers and Squibb merger, is a Princeton, New Jersey biopharmaceutical company with $48.2 billion 2025 revenues, led by Eliquis and Opdivo, and CEO Chris Boerner.
Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic, also known as Bristol Theatre Royal, is a theater company in Bristol, England, based at the Theatre Royal, the oldest continuously working theater in the English-speaking world, opened in 1766.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is a British drama school in Bristol, England, founded in 1946, known for alumni including Patrick Stewart, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Olivia Colman.
Bristol Palin
Bristol Palin (born 1990, Wasilla, Alaska) is Sarah Palin's eldest daughter, announced pregnant at 17 during the 2008 McCain campaign; later a Dancing with the Stars contestant, memoirist, and teen abstinence advocate.
Bristol Robotics Laboratory
Bristol Robotics Laboratory is a collaborative robotics research center in Bristol, England, run by the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol.
Bristol Rovers F.C.
Bristol Rovers F.C. (The Pirates, The Gas), English club founded 1883 as Black Arabs, playing at the Memorial Stadium in League Two; Bristol City's derby rival, owned by Hussain AlSaeed since 2023.
Bristol stool scale
Bristol stool scale (Bristol Stool Form Scale, BSFS): seven-type medical tool classifying human feces from type 1 hard lumps to type 7 watery diarrhea; types 3-5 normal; developed at Bristol Royal Infirmary, validated for transit time by Lewis and Heaton in 1997.
Bristol Sycamore
Built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the Bristol Sycamore (Bristol Type 171) is a piston-engine helicopter that served with the Royal Air Force and other nations.
Bristol-Myers Squibb acquires Celgene
Bristol-Myers Squibb acquired Celgene in a cash-and-stock deal announced January 3, 2019, valuing Celgene at about $74 billion, the largest pharmaceutical deal ever at the time.
Bristol, Connecticut
Bristol, Connecticut, is a city in central Connecticut, located 20 miles southwest of Hartford, and is known for ESPN's headquarters and Lake Compounce, the country's oldest continuously operating amusement park.
Bristol, Tennessee
Bristol, Tennessee is a Sullivan County city of about 28,000 (2025 estimate) forming a twin city with Bristol, Virginia along State Street. Founded 1852 by Joseph R. Anderson; incorporated 1856; Birthplace of Country Music and home of Bristol Motor Speedway.
Bristol, Virginia
Bristol, Virginia is an independent city paired with Bristol, Tennessee across a state line running down State Street. Founded as Goodson in 1856, renamed Bristol in 1890, it is the Birthplace of Country Music, site of the 1927 Bristol Sessions and the Smithsonian-affiliated museum.
Briston Maroney
Briston Maroney (Briston Lee Maroney), Knoxville-born American indie rock/folk singer-songwriter signed to Canvasback/Atlantic; albums Sunflower (2021), Ultrapure (2023), JIMMY (2025); known for "Freakin' Out On the Interstate."
Bristow Group
Bristow Group Inc. is a Houston-based provider of helicopter and fixed-wing aviation services, formed by the 2020 merger of Bristow and Era, best known for offshore energy transport and search and rescue.
Brit Awards
The BRIT Awards, the UK's annual recorded music awards since 1977, run by BRIT Awards Limited under the BPI; winners chosen by a ~1,200-member Voting Academy plus WhatsApp public votes for two song categories; 2026 held in Manchester.
Brit Awards 2024
The BRIT Awards 2024 with Mastercard, held 2 March 2024 at The O2 in London, was the 44th annual UK music awards. RAYE won a record six awards from seven nominations; Kylie Minogue took the Global Icon award.
Brit Awards 2025
Brit Awards 2025: UK music awards ceremony held 1 March 2025 at London's O2 Arena, hosted by Jack Whitehall, broadcast on ITV1/ITVX. Charli xcx won five awards including Album of the Year for Brat; Sabrina Carpenter took Global Success.
Brit Awards 2026
BRIT Awards 2026 with Mastercard: 28 February 2026 at Co-op Live, Manchester, first BRITs outside London since 1977. Olivia Dean won four awards including Artist of the Year; ROSÉ & Bruno Mars's 'APT.' earned K-pop's first BRIT win.