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Brocavum
Brocavum (Brougham Roman fort) was a Roman fort at Brougham, Cumbria, occupied from Agricola's governorship (AD 78-84) to the late 4th century, with a 3rd-century vicus, later overlain by Brougham Castle.
Broccoli
Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica), also called sprouting or Calabrese broccoli, is a cruciferous vegetable eaten for its immature flower-bud head; cool-season crop, rich in vitamins C and K, stored at 0°C, major US vegetable crop.
Broccoli City Festival
Broccoli City Festival is an annual hip hop and R&B music festival in Washington, D.C., founded in 2013 by Brandon McEachern and Marcus Allen and now part of Live Nation Urban.
Broccoli haircut
Broccoli haircut, also called Zoomer perm or bussin cut: textured fringe cut with curly, often permed top and faded sides, a Gen Z teen boys' trend spread via K-pop and TikTok from 2020.
Broccolini
Broccolini, also sold as baby broccoli, tenderstem, or bimi, is a trademarked hybrid of broccoli and gai lan (Chinese kale) bred by Japan's Sakata Seed, released in 1993, with long tender edible stems, mild sweet flavor, and multi-cut harvests.
Broch
Broch: Iron Age circular drystone tower unique to Scotland, also called Atlantic roundhouse; over 500 sites, double-skinned hollow walls with galleries and stairs, built from the mid first millennium BC, best preserved at Mousa.
Broch of Mousa
Broch of Mousa (Moseyarborg), an Iron Age drystone tower on Mousa, Shetland, built about 300 BC; the tallest and best-preserved broch in Scotland at 13.3 m, named in two Norse sagas and home to storm petrels.
Brochevarevarura (బ్రోచేవారెవరురా)
Brochevarevarura (బ్రోచేవారెవరురా), also Brochevarevaru Ra, is a 2019 Telugu crime comedy written and directed by Vivek Athreya, starring Sree Vishnu, Nivetha Thomas, Nivetha Pethuraj, and Satyadev, released 28 June 2019 with music by Vivek Sagar.
Brochure
A brochure is a folded single sheet or small, often stapled booklet presenting information about a product, service, or organization; the standard tri-fold has six panels.
Brock (Pokémon)
Brock (タケシ, Takeshi) is the Pewter Gym Leader of Kanto in Pokémon and Ash Ketchum's longest-serving anime companion, a Rock/Ground-type trainer aiming to be a Pokémon Breeder, known for Zubat's record-quick capture and his team's many evolution methods.
Brock Boeser
Brock Boeser, Vancouver Canucks right wing, 2015 first-round pick (23rd overall), Burnsville, Minnesota native; 227 career goals, 40-goal 2023-24 season, seven-year $50.75M deal signed July 1, 2025.
Brock Bowers
Brock Bowers, Las Vegas Raiders tight end drafted 13th overall in 2024 out of Georgia; two-time John Mackey Award winner; NFL rookie records of 112 receptions and 1,194 yards.
Brock Boyd
Brock Boyd is an American football wide receiver, number 11 for the Ohio State Buckeyes, a freshman in 2026 from Southlake Carroll High School in Texas, where he set the program's all-time receiving yards record before flipping from TCU to Ohio State.
Brock Chisholm
George Brock Chisholm (1896–1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, wartime chief of Canadian Army medicine, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization, serving from 1948 to 1953.
Brock Glenn
Brock Glenn (Auburn Brock Glenn), American college football quarterback from Covington, Tennessee; Lausanne Collegiate School star who started FSU's 2023 ACC Championship as a true freshman, played 2023-2025 at Florida State, then transferred to Western Kentucky in 2026.
Brock Holt
Brock Holt (Brock Wyatt Holt), MLB utility infielder-outfielder (2012-2021) for Pirates, Red Sox, Brewers, Nationals, Rangers; 2015 All-Star, 2018 World Series champion, first postseason cycle.
Brock Huard
Brock Huard, born 1976 in Seattle, is a former quarterback from the University of Washington drafted 77th overall by the Seahawks in 1999; he played sparingly for Seattle and Indianapolis and became a Seattle radio host and college football analyst.
Brock Island
Brock Island (île Brock) is an uninhabited 764 km2 Queen Elizabeth Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada, discovered and claimed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in June 1915 and named for R.W. Brock of the Geological Survey of Canada.
Brock Lampe
Brock Lampe (born 2003, Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an NFL fullback from Northern Illinois; signed by the Patriots as a 2025 undrafted free agent, later Seahawks and Bills practice squad.
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar, "The Beast Incarnate," American wrestler and fighter: 2000 NCAA heavyweight champion, youngest WWE Champion (2002), seven-time WWE Champion, and UFC heavyweight champion in his fourth MMA fight (5-3 record).
Brock Nelson
Brock Nelson (Brock Christian Nelson), American NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche, drafted 30th overall by the Islanders in 2010; won 2026 Olympic gold with Team USA, first American to reach 1,000 NHL games and win Olympic gold in one season.
Brock Osweiler
Brock Osweiler, NFL quarterback (2012-2018), Denver Broncos backup and Super Bowl 50 winner, Houston Texans' $72 million free-agent bust; 15-15 starter, 7,418 yards, 37 TD, 31 INT; later ESPN analyst.
Brock Peters
Brock Peters (George Fisher, 1927–2005), American actor and singer known for Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, Crown in Porgy and Bess, Admiral Cartwright in Star Trek IV and VI, Joseph Sisko on Deep Space Nine, and his 1990 SAG Life Achievement Award.
Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce is an American former child actor turned cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor, known as a co-founder of Tether and Block.one and a 2020 independent candidate for US President.
Brock Purdy
Brock Purdy, San Francisco 49ers quarterback, 2022 draft's final pick (Mr. Irrelevant, 262nd overall) from Iowa State; franchise-record 2023 season, Super Bowl run, five-year $265M extension through 2030.
Brock Rechsteiner
Brock Rechsteiner, wide receiver from Jacksonville State signed by the New Orleans Saints in 2026; son of WWE Hall of Famer Scott Steiner, cousin of Bron Breakker; suspended six games 2026 for PED policy violation, then waived.
Brock Rodden
Brock Rodden, born 2000 in Durant, Oklahoma, is a Seattle Mariners switch-hitting utility infielder, 2023 fifth-round pick from Wichita State, 2024 MiLB Gold Glove second baseman, PCL All-Star, MLB debut August 14, 2026.
Brocken spectre
A Brocken spectre is the observer's own shadow, apparently enormously magnified, cast onto fog or cloud when the observer stands above the cloud layer with a low sun behind them.
Brockhampton (band)
Brockhampton, also known as BROCKHAMPTON, was a Los Angeles hip-hop boy band founded by Kevin Abstract via the KanyeToThe forum. The 14-member collective released the 2017 Saturation trilogy, topped the Billboard 200 with Iridescence, and disbanded in 2022.
Brockmire
Brockmire is an IFC comedy series (2017-2020, four seasons) starring Hank Azaria as Jim Brockmire, a disgraced MLB announcer rebuilding his career with the minor league Morristown Frackers, co-starring Amanda Peet; it grew from a 2010 Funny or Die short.