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Bruno Surace

Bruno Surace, "Brunello", French middleweight boxer from Marseille, 26-1-2 (5 KOs). Known for the 2024 Upset of the Year: a sixth-round one-punch KO of Jaime Munguia in Tijuana; lost the May 2025 Riyadh rematch on points.

Oct 10, 2026

Bruno Tacke

Bruno Tacke (1861–1942) was a German peatland researcher and soil scientist who led the Bremen moor research station for 38 years and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Bruno the Great

Bruno the Great, also known as Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne, was a German prince and brother of Emperor Otto I who served as chancellor and archbishop of Cologne.

Oct 22, 2026

Bruno Tolentino

Bruno Tolentino was the pseudonym of Bruno Lúcio de Carvalho Tolentino, a Brazilian poet and translator (1940–2007) who spent nearly 30 years in Europe, taught at Oxford, and won the Jabuti Prize twice.

Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli is an Italian choreographer, dancer, and television personality best known as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing from 2004 and on Dancing with the Stars since 2005.

Oct 10, 2026

Bruno Touschek

Bruno Touschek (1921–1978) was an Austrian physicist who conceived the first electron–positron storage ring, AdA, at Frascati in 1960, and identified the beam-lifetime limit known as the Touschek effect.

Bruno Venturini

Bruno Venturini (1911-1991), Italian goalkeeper, won football gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics playing all four matches, including the 2-1 final win over Austria; later Sampierdarenese and Liguria in Serie A.

Sep 21, 2026

Bruno Zumino

Bruno Zumino (1923–2014) was an Italian-born theoretical physicist who co-discovered four-dimensional supersymmetry with Julius Wess in 1974 and formulated supergravity with Stanley Deser, later teaching at UC Berkeley.

Brunost

Brunost (brown cheese, mysost, gjetost) is Norway's sweet caramel whey cheese, made by boiling whey with milk and cream; invented by Anne Hov in 1863, 35-40% lactose, sliced thin with an ostehøvel.

Brunp Recycling

Brunp Recycling, a Chinese battery recycling company founded in 2005 in Foshan, Guangdong, has been a subsidiary of battery maker CATL since 2015 and recycles lithium-ion batteries.

Brunsbüttel FSRU

The Brunsbüttel FSRU is a German LNG import terminal at the Elbehafen port of Brunsbüttel, built around the floating unit Höegh Gannet and commissioned in 2023.

Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant

Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Brunsbüttel) was a boiling water reactor on the Lower Elbe in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the state's first, which operated from 1977 until its 2007 shutdown and is now being dismantled.

Brunswick Corporation

Brunswick Corporation, formerly the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is an American manufacturer of recreational boats, marine engines, and marine parts and accessories, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1845 and headquartered in Mettawa, Illinois.

Brunswick County power station

The Brunswick County power station, usually called the Brunswick Nuclear Plant, is a two-unit nuclear power station near Southport, North Carolina, and the first built in the state.

Brunswick nuclear power plant

The Brunswick nuclear power plant near Southport, North Carolina, is Duke Energy's only boiling water reactor station, with two General Electric units in service since 1975 and 1977.

Brunswick stew

Brunswick stew: thick Southern American stew of meat (originally squirrel), corn, tomatoes, and lima beans. Virginia and Georgia both claim its origin; Georgia made it its official state stew in 2025.

Brunswick, GA Metro Area

Brunswick-St. Simons, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 15260), a three-county Georgia metro (Brantley, Glynn, McIntosh) anchored by Brunswick; about 116,000 residents, tourism-led economy, 3.0% unemployment.

Brunswick, Georgia

Brunswick, Georgia: coastal city and Glynn County seat, founded 1771, population 15,210 (2020). Home to the Port of Brunswick, the busiest U.S. automobile seaport in 2024 and 2025, and gateway to the Golden Isles.

Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome

Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, also known as Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground and formerly RAF Bruntingthorpe, is a former RAF station in Leicestershire, England, now a vehicle testing and storage site.

Bruny Surin

Bruny Surin is a Canadian sprinter born in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, in 1967 who won Olympic gold in the 4x100-meter relay at Atlanta 1996 and holds Canada's 100-meter record.

Brus (Brus)

Brus is a Danish trick-taking card game of the Karnöffel family with no fixed trump suit, where individual cards rank above all else, led by the Jack of clubs.

Brus (Iceland)

Brús is a four-player partnership trick-taking card game of the Karnöffel family, played in Svarfaðardalur, northern Iceland, with a 36-card pack, worthless lower cards, risking the King of hearts, and a five-rung comb score.

Bruschetta

Bruschetta is an Italian antipasto of thick rustic bread charred over live heat, rubbed with raw garlic and dressed with olive oil; known as fettunta in Tuscany, from bruscare, related to crostini.

Brushed DC electric motor

A brushed DC electric motor, also called a brushed DC motor, is a direct-current motor that reverses armature current mechanically via carbon brushes on a commutator.

Brushless DC electric motor

A brushless DC motor, also called an electronically commutated motor, replaces brushes with electronic switching, offering higher efficiency and longer lifetime in fans, tools, and vehicles.

Brushwood

Brushwood, also called scrub, is woody vegetation of shrubs and scrubby trees of no commercial value, typically growing after a disturbance; the cut branches also serve as a material.

Brushy Bill Roberts

Brushy Bill Roberts (Ollie P. Roberts, 1879–1950), a Hico, Texas man who claimed from 1949 to be Billy the Kid, sought a pardon via William V. Morrison, was rejected by Governor Mabry in 1950, and is rejected by historians.

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary (Brushy) was Tennessee's first maximum-security prison, built in 1896 at Petros, Morgan County, after the Coal Creek War; convict-mined coal, James Earl Ray's 1977 escape, closure June 11, 2009, and 2018 reopening as a distillery and tourist site.

Brusilov offensive

Brusilov offensive, Russian First World War attack (4 June–20 September 1916) led by Aleksei Brusilov against Austro-Hungarian forces in Galicia; broad-front shock tactics, 1.5 million Habsburg losses, Romania's entry, and Austria-Hungary's dependence on Germany.