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Brooks Wheelan
Brooks Wheelan (born 1986) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster from Cedar Rapids, Iowa; an SNL season 39 featured player fired after one season, known for Alive in Alaska and the Entry Level podcast.
Brooks's law
Brooks's law, stated by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, holds that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Brookside (TV series)
Brookside, also called Brookie, was a Channel 4 soap opera (1982-2003) created by Phil Redmond, set in a real Liverpool cul-de-sac, known for issue-led storylines, the 1993 patio burial, and a 2023 STV Player relaunch.
Broom
A broom is a cleaning tool with stiff fibers attached to a handle, used to sweep dust from floors; a small handheld version is a whisk broom.
Broomball
Broomball, or ballon-balai, is a hockey-like ice sport played in shoes with broom-shaped sticks and a ball; teams of six, developed in Canada around 1900, governed by the IFBA with world championships.
Broome County
Broome County is a county in south-central New York's Southern Tier, formed in 1806 from Tioga County and named for Lt. Gov. John Broome. Seat Binghamton; 198,683 residents (2020); 715 sq mi; home to Binghamton University and IBM's manufacturing heritage.
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin was a Malay-based pidgin spoken in Broome, Western Australia, as the lingua franca of pearling crews from the late 1800s to the 1960s.
Broome, Western Australia
Broome (Rubibi) is a pearling-port town on a peninsula in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 2,200 km north of Perth; population 16,959 (2021), known for its multicultural pearling heritage, Japanese cemetery, Cable Beach, and tourism economy.
Broomfield, Colorado
Broomfield, also known as the City and County of Broomfield, is a consolidated city and county between Denver and Boulder, Colorado's newest county since 2001, with about 79,000 residents in 2025.
Broomholm
Broomholm, Roman fort SM2524: a Flavian Roman fort on Broomholm Knowe near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, overlying an Iron Age settlement, excavated by Charles Daniels in the 1960s and surveyed geophysically by Glasgow University.
Brophy College Preparatory
Brophy College Preparatory is an all-male Jesuit college-preparatory high school in Phoenix, Arizona, founded in 1928 and serving roughly 1,400 students in grades 6 through 12.
Broquéis
Broquéis is a book of poems in verse by the Brazilian poet João da Cruz e Sousa, published in August 1893, that inaugurated Symbolism in Brazilian literature alongside Missal.
Bror Fock
Bror Fock is a Swedish long-distance runner who won silver in the 3,000 m team race and briefly held the 3,000 m world record in 1912.
Bror Holmberg
Bror Holmberg (1881–1966) was a Swedish organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a pioneer of lignin chemistry.
Brora Rangers F.C.
Brora Rangers F.C. (the Cattachs) is a part-time football club from Brora, Sutherland, founded 1879, at Dudgeon Park since 1932. Highland League member since 1963; six league titles from 2014, four League Cups, and a 2021 Scottish Cup upset of Hearts.
Bros (British band)
Bros: English pop band formed 1986 by twins Matt and Luke Goss with Craig Logan; 'I Owe You Nothing' hit UK No. 1 in 1988, Push sold millions, split 1992, reunited 2017 without Logan.
Bros (film)
Bros is a 2022 American romantic comedy produced by Judd Apatow. It features an all-LGBTQ+ principal cast starring Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane.
Brosimum
Brosimum is a genus of 19 accepted Neotropical tree species in Moraceae, tribe Dorstenieae, described by Swartz in 1788; type species B. alicastrum (breadnut, ramón), with timber species B. guianense and B. rubescens.
Brosme brosme
Brosme brosme, the cusk or tusk (Norwegian brosme), is the sole species of the genus Brosme, a rocky-bottom gadid of the North Atlantic; slow-growing, late-maturing, fished commercially, a NOAA species of concern, COSEWIC Endangered, IUCN Not Evaluated.
Brossard
Brossard is a multicultural city on Montréal's South Shore in Montérégie, Québec, incorporated in 1958 with 3,400 residents, now about 91,525 (2021 census), served by three REM light-rail stations and home to Quartier DIX30.
Brostep
Brostep is the aggressive, drop-centric Americanized strand of dubstep that emerged around 2010, led by mid-range growl bass, first coined as an insult by purists, and made commercially dominant by Skrillex.
Broth microdilution
Broth microdilution is a laboratory method that determines the minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics by incubating bacteria in small wells of two-fold drug dilutions, serving as the reference method for antibacterial susceptibility testing for five decades.
Brotha Lynch Hung
Brotha Lynch Hung (Kevin Mann, born 1969) is a Sacramento horrorcore and gangsta rapper whose 1995 debut Season of da Siccness went gold; later albums include Loaded, the Strange Music trilogy, and 2024's Season of da Siccness 2: Kevlar.
Brothel
Brothel: premises where commercial sexual services are provided, often under a licensed operator. Legal status varies by country under four models: prohibition, Nordic end-demand laws, licensing legalization, and decriminalization.
Brothel creeper
Brothel creepers, also called creepers or beetle crushers, are suede shoes with thick crepe soles from WWII desert boots, adopted by Teddy Boys, revived by McLaren and Westwood's punk-era SEX shop, and still made by George Cox.
Brother (2000 film)
Brother (2000) is Takeshi Kitano's first English-language, first film shot outside Japan: a UK-France-Japan-USA yakuza crime film in which exiled gangster Yamamoto builds a Los Angeles drug empire with half-brother Ken and Denny, clashing with the Mafia; produced by Jeremy Thomas, scored by Joe Hisaishi.
Brother (Брат) (1997 film)
Brat (Брат, Brother), 1997 Russian crime drama by Aleksei Balabanov starring Sergei Bodrov Jr. as demobilized soldier Danila Bagrov, whose brother in St. Petersburg is a contract killer; Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere, Kinotavr Grand Prix, cult classic of 1990s Russia.
Brother 2 (Брат 2)
Brother 2 (Брат 2) is Aleksey Balabanov's 2000 Russian action-crime sequel to Brother, starring Sergei Bodrov as veteran Danila Bagrov, who travels to America to avenge a murdered Chechnya army friend; a cult, controversially anti-American hit.
Brother Ali
Brother Ali (Jason Douglas Newman, born 1977) is an American underground hip hop artist from Rhymesayers, known for Shadows on the Sun, Ant collaborations, Muslim faith, activism, and his 2025 album Satisfied Soul from Istanbul.
Brother Bear
Brother Bear, also known as Disney's Brother Bear, is a 2003 animated adventure film in which a young hunter named Kenai is transformed into a bear by the Great Spirits.