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Broken noses in ancient Egyptian statues
Broken noses on ancient Egyptian statues result mainly from deliberate iconoclasm: Egyptians believed a statue's life force breathed through the nose, so breaking it disabled the image, as in Thutmose III's erasure of Hatshepsut.
Broken Obelisk
The Broken Obelisk, also known as the Obelisk of Ashur-bel-kala, is the upper part of a stone obelisk found at Nineveh in 1853 and now held in the British Museum.
Broken Rage
Broken Rage (2024) is a 62-minute Amazon MGM film by Takeshi Kitano, premiering at Venice 2024 and streaming on Prime Video from February 13, 2025, retelling one hitman undercover plot twice, first as a serious yakuza thriller, then as slapstick self-parody.
Broken Ridge
Broken Ridge is a submerged volcanic plateau in the southeastern Indian Ocean west of Australia, formed by the Kerguelen hotspot and separated from the Kerguelen Plateau about 43 million years ago.
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene: Canadian indie rock collective formed in Toronto in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, with over 20 rotating members, the Arts & Crafts label, albums You Forgot It in People (2002) and Remember the Humans (2026).
Broken Sword
Broken Sword is Revolution Software's point-and-click adventure series created by Charles Cecil, starting with The Shadow of the Templars (1996, Circle of Blood in the US), starring George Stobbart and Nico Collard, with the 2024 Reforged remaster and Parzival's Stone in development.
Broken Voices
Broken Voices (Sbormistr) is a 2025 Czech-Slovak drama by Ondřej Provazník about a 13-year-old girl in an elite choir, inspired by the Bambini di Praga abuse case; premiered at Karlovy Vary 2025.
Broken Window Serenade
Broken Window Serenade is a song by Whiskey Myers that tells the story of a woman who dies of crystal meth addiction. It was certified 2x Platinum by 2025.
Broken windows theory
Broken windows theory, from Wilson and Kelling's 1982 Atlantic essay, holds that visible neighborhood disorder signals absent social control and invites crime; it inspired NYC order-maintenance policing, but meta-analyses find mixed, design-dependent evidence.
Broken-symmetry ν = 0 quantum Hall state in graphene
The broken-symmetry ν = 0 quantum Hall state in graphene is the insulating state at charge neutrality where interactions lift the zeroth Landau level's fourfold degeneracy.
Broker
A broker, also known as a brokerage house, is an intermediary who buys or sells securities for clients rather than for its own account, unlike a dealer.
Broker (2022 film)
Broker (브로커) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2022 South Korean drama about baby-box brokers, starring Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, and IU; it competed at Cannes 2022, where Song won Best Actor.
Brokered convention
Brokered convention: a US presidential nominating convention failing to pick a nominee on the first ballot, forcing multiple ballots and deal-making; last occurred in 1952 (Stevenson, Eisenhower); distinct from a contested convention.
Broligarchy
Broligarchy, slang portmanteau of bro and oligarchy, names male tech-billionaire dominance of business and politics, coined by Carole Cadwalladr in 2024 and popularized by Brooke Harrington's Atlantic essay.
Brolucizumab
Brolucizumab (Beovu, codes ESBA1008/RTH258) is a single-chain antibody fragment anti-VEGF-A drug given by intravitreal injection for wet AMD (FDA-approved 2019) and diabetic macular edema (2022), with a distinct risk of intraocular inflammation and occlusive retinal vasculitis.
Broly (ブロリー)
Broly (ブロリー) is a Legendary Super Saiyan in Dragon Ball: a non-canon 1993 DBZ movie villain, and the canon 2018 Dragon Ball Super: Broly reinvention by Akira Toriyama, exiled to Planet Vampa, later trained by Whis.
Bromacil
Bromacil (5-bromo-3-sec-butyl-6-methyluracil, CAS 314-40-9) is a DuPont-developed uracil photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicide for noncropland, citrus, and pineapple, persistent and mobile in soil and detected in groundwater.
Bromadiolone
Bromadiolone (CAS 28772-56-7) is a second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide, a superwarfarin inhibiting vitamin K epoxide reductase; WHO Class IA extremely hazardous, vitamin K1 antidote, restricted to professional use in the US and EU biocides.
Bromance
Bromance: a close, emotionally intimate, nonsexual friendship between men; portmanteau of brother and romance. Popularized in the mid-2000s via films like Superbad; studied as a form of homosociality tied to declining homophobia.
Bromance (2025 film)
Bromance (ബ്രോമിൻസ്) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy directed by Arun D Jose, produced by Ashiq Usman, starring Mathew Thomas, Arjun Ashokan, and Mahima Nambiar; released 14 February 2025, streaming on SonyLIV from 1 May 2025.
Bromazepam
Bromazepam (Ro 5-3350; Lexotan, Lexotanil, Lexomil) is a long-acting pyridyl-benzodiazepine anxiolytic marketed by Roche since 1974, used for anxiety disorders outside the United States and internationally scheduled in Schedule IV from December 2025.
Brome mosaic virus
Brome mosaic virus (BMV), a tripartite positive-strand RNA virus of the genus Bromoviridae family Bromoviridae, infects cereal plants causing mosaic and stunting; a model virus for replication and packaging, and a nanomedicine and VIGS vector platform.
Bromelain
Bromelain is a concentrate of protein-digesting enzymes extracted from pineapple stems and fruit, approved in Europe for eschar removal and swelling, and used to tenderize meat and chillproof beer.
Bromelia
Bromelia is a genus of about 50 spiny terrestrial bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) native from Mexico and the West Indies to Argentina, with edible berry fruits, fiber leaves, and living-fence uses.
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae (bromeliad or pineapple family), Juss. 1789, monocot family of Poales with about 3,140-3,500 Neotropical species in 58-77 genera; tank rosettes, CAM photosynthesis, pineapple Ananas comosus, 81% possibly threatened.
Bromeliad cultivation
Bromeliad cultivation is the growing of pineapple-family plants, chiefly tank-forming rosettes like Aechmea and epiphytic air plants, as ornamentals that bloom once and produce offsets.
Bromeliad fibers and traditional uses
Bromeliad fibers are tough leaf fibers from plants like Aechmea and Bromelia, spun by Indigenous and campesino communities across Latin America into hammocks, bags, nets, ropes, and ceremonial textiles.
Bromeliad phytotelmata
Bromeliad phytotelmata are water bodies impounded in bromeliad leaf rosettes and axils, one of five phytotelm types. Tank formation evolved twice in about 1300 of 3600 Bromeliaceae species; tanks host discrete detritus-based aquatic food webs and serve as ecological model systems.
Bromelioideae
Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliad family, defined by fleshy berry fruits and inferior ovaries, and it contains the pineapple, the family's only agriculturally important member.
Bromethalin
Bromethalin is a neurotoxic, single-feed non-anticoagulant rodenticide developed in the 1970s that uncouples oxidative phosphorylation, causing cerebral edema; registered only in the USA, WHO Class IA, no antidote.