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Bubastite Portal
The Bubastite Portal, also called the Bubastis Portal or Bubastite Gate, is a triumphal gateway at Karnak built by Shoshenq I around 925 BCE, bearing a list of over 150 conquered towns in Syro-Palestine.
Bubat incident
The Bubat incident (Peristiwa Bubat) was a 1357 clash in which Majapahit forces destroyed the Sunda royal party, escorting Princess Dyah Pitaloka for marriage to King Hayam Wuruk, at Bubat field near Trowulan, eastern Java.
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. (Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant & Market) is a Landry's-owned casual seafood chain themed on the 1994 film Forrest Gump, founded 1996 on Cannery Row, Monterey, with roughly 21-22 U.S. and 10-16 international locations.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Bubba Ho-Tep, also known as Bubba Ho-tep, is Don Coscarelli's 2002 cult horror-comedy adapted from Joe R. Lansdale's 1994 novella, starring Bruce Campbell as an elderly Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK fighting a soul-sucking mummy in a Texas nursing home.
Bubba Ray Dudley
Bubba Ray Dudley (Mark LoMonaco, born 1971), also Buh Buh Ray Dudley and Bully Ray, American wrestler; half of The Dudley Boyz/Team 3D with D-Von, 8x ECW and 8x WWF/WWE World Tag Team Champion, 2x TNA World Heavyweight Champion, 2018 WWE Hall of Famer.
Bubba Smith
Bubba Smith (Charles Aaron Smith, 1945-2011), Michigan State two-time All-American defensive end, first overall pick of the 1967 NFL Draft, Super Bowl V champion with the Colts, and actor as Moses Hightower in six Police Academy films.
Bubba Sparxxx
Bubba Sparxxx, the stage name of Warren Anderson Mathis (born 1977), is an American rapper from LaGrange, Georgia, known for the hit "Ms. New Booty".
Bubba the Love Sponge
Bubba the Love Sponge is the on-air name of Todd Clem, an American radio personality in Tampa, Florida, whose shock-jock morning show drew a record FCC indecency fine in 2004.
Bubba Wallace
Bubba Wallace (William Darrell Wallace Jr., born 1993) is an American NASCAR Cup Series driver of the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota; three Cup wins (Talladega 2021, Kansas 2022, Brickyard 400 2025) and six Truck wins, the first Black Cup winner since Wendell Scott.
Bubba Watson
Bubba Watson (Gerry Lester Watson Jr.), American left-handed golfer, two-time Masters champion (2012, 2014), 12 PGA Tour wins, self-taught long driver, former world No. 2, now RangeGoats GC captain on LIV Golf.
Bubble (2022 film)
Bubble (バブル) is a 2022 WIT Studio anime film directed by Tetsurō Araki, written by Gen Urobuchi, with music by Hiroyuki Sawano. Released on Netflix April 28, 2022 and in Japanese theaters May 13, 2022, it is a Little Mermaid-inspired parkour romance set in a gravity-broken Tokyo, scoring 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bubble & Squeak (film)
Bubble & Squeak (2025) is Evan Twohy's absurdist comedy debut, based on his play, starring Himesh Patel and Sarah Goldberg as newlyweds accused of smuggling 39 cabbages into a fictional country where they are banned; premiered in Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competition, filmed in Estonia, Metascore 38.
Bubble and squeak
Bubble and squeak is a traditional British dish of cold leftover mashed potatoes and cabbage, sometimes other roast vegetables, fried until crisp. Named for its cooking sounds, first recorded 1765–75, originally beef and cabbage; distinct from Irish colcannon and Scottish rumbledethumps.
Bubble Bobble (バブルボブル)
Bubble Bobble (バブルボブル) is Taito's 1986 arcade platform game by Fukio Mitsuji: bubble dragons Bub and Bob trap and pop monsters across 100 single-screen levels, with co-op required for the true ending; source code lost in 1996.
Bubble Boy (film)
Bubble Boy (2001) is a Touchstone road-trip comedy directed by Blair Hayes, written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as immune-deficient Jimmy Livingston; $5 million gross, 32% Tomatometer, later cult status and a 2008 stage musical.
Bubble chamber
A bubble chamber is a particle detector in which charged particles leave visible tracks of bubbles in a superheated liquid, invented by Donald Glaser in 1952.
Bubble column reactor
A bubble column reactor is a cylindrical multiphase reactor in which gas is sparged as bubbles into a liquid or slurry, used in chemical and biochemical industries.
Bubble dynamics
Bubble dynamics is the study of how gas or vapor bubbles in a liquid change size, shape, and position, and it underlies cavitation from propeller erosion to ultrasound drug delivery.
Bubble Gang
Bubble Gang is a Philippine sketch comedy show on GMA Network, first aired in October 1995 and the longest-running sketch comedy program on Philippine television.
Bubble gum
Bubble gum is chewing gum formulated with high-molecular-weight polymer gum base so it can be blown into bubbles. First commercialized as Dubble Bubble in 1928 by Walter Diemer at Fleer; typically pink, about 20% gum base.
Bubble Guppies
Bubble Guppies is an American CG-animated preschool series on Nickelodeon, created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull, in which fish-tailed preschoolers learn through songs in an underwater classroom.
Bubble memory
Bubble memory is a non-volatile computer storage that stores data as tiny magnetic bubbles in a garnet film, invented at Bell Labs and sold commercially from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.
Bubble nucleation
Bubble nucleation is the process by which a bubble of true vacuum forms by quantum tunneling from a false vacuum and expands, converting surrounding space.
Bubble plume
A bubble plume is a vertical, buoyancy-driven flow formed when gas is released through a diffuser at the bottom of a stratified lake, mixing water layers as it rises.
Bubble Pop!
"Bubble Pop!" (버블팝) is a 2011 song by South Korean singer HyunA, released by Cube Entertainment as the title track of her EP of the same name.
Bubble sort
Bubble sort, also known as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly compares adjacent elements and swaps them when they are out of order.
Bubble tea (珍珠奶茶)
Bubble tea (珍珠奶茶), also called pearl milk tea or boba, is a Taiwanese 1980s drink of tea, milk, sugar, and chewy tapioca pearls, now a global beverage sold by chains like Chatime and Gong Cha.
Bubble wrap
Bubble wrap, also called bubble pack, is a transparent plastic packaging material with trapped air bubbles that cushions fragile goods during shipping. It was invented in 1957.
Bubble-tip anemone
Bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor, bulb-tentacle sea anemone), an Actiniidae sea anemone of the Red Sea and Indo-Pacific, the most common clownfish host anemone, with bulbous tentacle tips in shallow-water juveniles and six cryptic species.
Bubblegrunge
Bubblegrunge is a music genre blending bubblegum pop catchiness with grunge's guitar fuzz, known as a derisive 1990s critics' term and a Spotify micro-genre since 2021.