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Bubblegum (film)
Bubblegum is a 2023 Telugu romantic drama directed by Ravikanth Perepu, starring debutants Roshan Kanakala and Maanasa Choudhary. Released 29 December 2023, rated A, 146 minutes, streamed on Aha from 9 February 2024.
Bubblegum Crisis
Bubblegum Crisis (バブルガムクライシス) is a 1987-1991 Japanese cyberpunk OVA series by Artmic, AIC, and Youmex: eight episodes about the Knight Sabers, four women in hardsuits fighting GENOM's rogue Boomers in 2032 MegaTokyo.
Bubblegum music
Bubblegum music (bubblegum pop) is a lightweight, producer-manufactured pop style of the late 1960s and early 1970s aimed at preteens, built on session musicians under fake band names, with hits like the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar."
Bubbles (chimpanzee)
Bubbles (born 1983) is Michael Jackson's former pet chimpanzee, bought as an infant from a Texas biomedical lab via trainer Bob Dunn. Since 2005 he lives at the Center for Great Apes sanctuary in Wauchula, Florida, funded by the Jackson Estate; rumors of a $2 million inheritance and his death are false.
Bubbles (The Wire)
Bubbles (Reginald Cousins) is a fictional heroin addict and police informant in HBO's The Wire (2002–2008), played by Andre Royo; based on real Baltimore informants, his five-season arc ends in recovery.
Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys)
Bubbles is a Trailer Park Boys character played by Mike Smith, a bespectacled Sunnyvale Trailer Park resident with a shopping-cart repair business, cats, and the song "Liquor and Whores." Not the Powerpuff Girl, Digital Circus Bubble, or The Wire's Bubbles.
Bubbly flow
Bubbly flow is a gas-liquid two-phase flow regime in which gas is dispersed as discrete bubbles within a continuous liquid, the first regime as gas is added.
Bubi people
The Bubi are the indigenous Bantu-speaking people of Bioko Island (Fernando Pó), Equatorial Guinea, settled about 2000 years ago, speaking basal Bantu language Bubi, organized in matrilineal clans, and politically marginalized by the Fang majority.
Bubonic plague
Bubonic plague, the most common form of plague (Yersinia pestis), causes fever and painful buboes after flea bites; untreated fatality 30-60%, treatable with antibiotics, behind the Black Death.
Bubsy
Bubsy: video game franchise starring Bubsy the Bobcat, a wisecracking mascot platformer begun by Accolade in 1993, notorious for one-hit deaths and the panned Bubsy 3D (1996), revived by Atari with Fabraz's Bubsy 4D (2026).
Bubsy 4D
Bubsy 4D is a 3D platformer by Fabraz, published by Atari, released May 22, 2026 for PC, PS4/PS5, Switch 1/2, and Xbox for $19.99; the best-received Bubsy game, with a Black Hole Update adding 15 levels.
Buc-ee's
Buc-ee's is a privately held American chain of giant travel centers, founded in Texas in 1982, known for barbecue, beaver merchandise, and the world's largest convenience store.
Buca di Beppo
Buca di Beppo: American family-style Italian-American casual-dining chain founded 1993 by Phil Roberts in a Minneapolis basement; peaked at 95 locations, filed Chapter 11 in August 2024, now owned by Main Street Capital with 40 restaurants in 13 states.
Bucaramanga
Bucaramanga, "La ciudad bonita", is the capital of Santander department, Colombia, founded 22 December 1622 as a pueblo de indios; about 620,000 inhabitants, metropolitan area 1.1 million, footwear industry hub.
Bucareli Treaty
The Bucareli Treaty, or Tratados de Bucareli, is the set of agreements negotiated between Mexico and the United States in Mexico City in 1923 that won US recognition of President Obregón's government.
Bucatini
Bucatini (perciatelli) is a thick hollow Italian pasta strand of semolina and water from Lazio and Abruzzo, 2.7-3 mm across, the classic shape for bucatini all'amatriciana and other rich Roman sauces.
Buccal Administration
Buccal administration: drug delivery against the cheek's buccal mucosa (oral transmucosal route). Bypasses hepatic first-pass metabolism; forms include tablets, films, sprays, mucoadhesives; limited by low permeability and saliva.
Buccal exostosis
Buccal exostosis, also called buccal alveolar exostosis, is a benign bony outgrowth on the facial alveolar bone of the jaws, usually bilateral in the premolar-molar region, multifactorial in cause, and removed surgically only when it interferes with function or aesthetics.
Buccaneer
A buccaneer, French boucanier, was a 17th-century Caribbean raider, originally a hunter on Hispaniola who smoked meat over a boucan, who later attacked Spanish shipping from havens like Tortuga and Port Royal.
Buccaneers of Tortuga
The Buccaneers of Tortuga were French and later English hunters and sea raiders who used Tortuga, off Hispaniola, as their base in the 17th century.
Bucchero
Bucchero is the shiny black-to-dark-grey pottery of the Etruscans, made from the 7th to 4th century BCE by oxygen-reduction firing, with fine (sottile), transitional, and heavy (pesante) phases, centered at Cerveteri and exported across the Mediterranean.
Buccinidae
Buccinidae, the true whelks (Rafinesque, 1815), are carnivorous Neogastropoda sea snails with conical coiled shells, a Cretaceous-to-Recent fossil record, revised polyphyletic limits, and the waved whelk Buccinum undatum as their main commercial species.
Buccinum undatum
Buccinum undatum, the common whelk or waved whelk, is a cold-water marine snail living on North Atlantic seabeds from Greenland and New Jersey to France.
Bucconis
Bucconis was a Roman road station (mutatio) in southwestern Gaul, attested in the Bordeaux Itinerary and tied to the Elusa–Tolosa road; tentatively placed near the Forêt de Bouconne at Isle-Jourdain, Gers, France.
Bucephala
Bucephala, the goldeneyes, is a genus of three diving duck species in Anatidae: Common Goldeneye (B. clangula), Barrow's Goldeneye (B. islandica), and Bufflehead (B. albeola), cavity-nesting boreal ducks.
Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula, the common goldeneye (German Schellente), is a Holarctic cavity-nesting diving duck of boreal forests; males have oval white face patches and yellow eyes, and the species is IUCN Least Concern globally but Red-listed in the UK.
Bucephalus
Bucephalus (Βουκέφαλος), Alexander the Great's famous black Thessalian war horse, tamed by the young prince after Philip declined the 13-talent purchase; ridden in every battle until his death after the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE, commemorated by the city Bucephala.
Bucetin
Bucetin (Betadin, N-(4-ethoxyphenyl)-3-hydroxybutanamide) is a withdrawn anilide analgesic and antipyretic, a phenacetin analogue approved in Germany and removed from the market in 1986 for renal toxicity.
Bucha massacre (Бучанська різанина)
Bucha massacre (Бучанська різанина): mass killing of civilians by Russian forces during the March 2022 occupation of Bucha, a Kyiv-region town; 358+ bodies found after the 2 April withdrawal, attributed largely to the 234th Air Assault Regiment and documented by OHCHR, HRW, and satellite imagery.
Buchach Raion
Buchach Raion (Бучацький район), a former district of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, created 1940 with center Buchach; 802 km², 64,974 people (2001); abolished in the 2020 reform, now part of Chortkiv Raion.